Safe & Sound (Zayn Malik Fan-fic)

Chapter 24: Flashbacks

A/n: so if you didn't read my message, or the title, this is a chapter of some important memories of events I skipped over. I just want this to clear up any curious readers who want to find out what happened And all. I hope you enjoy it.

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Flashback No. 1

"Zayn I want to tell you something" Zayinda said to Zayn as she walked into the door after talking with Niall and practicing telling him the sort about what really happened.

She was nervous and knew she had to tell him now before she chickened out. She stood in front of Zayn who was currently sitting on the floor putting a puzzle together. He looked up at her and took in her appearance. She was skittish, wringing her hands together and a panic look in her eye, she was biting her lip so hard it was already bleeding.

"Okay, but let me get you-"

"It'll be fine, I just- I have to tell you this now before I back out" she said as she pulled Zayn up off the floor and led him to the couch where she angled her body to face him.

"You've never asked me what happened and why I basically got jumped, and I'm so thankful for that, but I know you want to know what happened" she went on to say even chancing a look up into his eyes before looking back down at her hands in her lap. Taking a deep breath, she started.

"My parents were more focused on my older brother, I always did things I am not proud of. I met Tyler through my cousin and her boyfriend. I knew they were anything but good guys, but I wasn't a good girl either. I was reckless and dumb and just lost, so I slept around. Usually guys I grew up with who I knew liked me, but these guys were different, gang bangers and true to it too. I was drunk and lonely, that morning my parents were especially pissed off since I didn't get in until 6 that morning, but they hardly ever noticed. So it had me down and I just wanted all of it to go away. So 3 shots and five beers later my mind just blanked. I woke up next to him in he morning and ran out. But I didn't know how bad it was until I got home and saw my reflection in the mirror" she cut off to take a breath and tugged off her sweater.

She took a deep breath before turning around, her back to Zayn as she peeled off her tshirt and was left in nothing but her cami. Zayn didn't know what was going on but once his eyes landed on her back, he saw it.

'Outlaw Hoe'

Was on her skin, roughly carved into her skin, and the scar was horrible, they made it as bad as they possibly could.

"I was jumped into the gang. Bruises and cuts all over, but this stood out the most. My cousin did nothing to stop it and my initiation was sleeping with Tyler. He was too drunk to use any protection and he never wanted kids. He liked to sleep with all the girls and never be tied down. Every girl wanted him and ha him, they always fought over him and here I was panicked and pregnant with his kid. I was tying him down and I didn't want to. I talked to my cousins man, he was the one who created the gang, told me I could get out of it since I was drunk. He wasn't there to witness it, so that was my loop hole, he had to be present for it to be official. But I had other problems to worry about. Once I got the news at the clinic I was pregnant the news spread fast, a lot of the outlaw girls worked there, and he found me" she paused as the memories of how everything happened so fast, leaving her head spinning.

Zayn on the other hand was so horrified and livid at the images flashing in his mind as she described what happened. She still wasn't facing him and part of him was glad because he was so angry he was afraid she would see something that wasn't there with the emotions that crossed his mind and body as she kept going with her story.

"He caught me on my way home one night and pressed me up against a brick wall in an alley. He held me up by my neck, pressing at my wind pipe. Threatening me if I had the baby he'd kill it. Telling me if I didn't abort it he'd make sure to get rid of it. Then he dropped me and walked away. I knew and I was heading out of town that night they got me in the alley. He sent the girls after me. They'd do anything for him and since they hated me it was even more entertaining for them. I don't remembering of it. Just clutching my stomach, praying it would end soon" she finished. She finally found the courage to turn around to face Zayn after five long moments of silence, only to find him right behind her.