The Boy Next Door (UNCONTINUED)

Chapter 23

Zayn’s POV;

Without Anna I wouldn’t be here, without her I wouldn’t have entered this competition. She got me to open up, not just to her but to the world and I had to tell her. As she sat down on the bed I grabbed her hand again and she looked shocked and nervous. ‘Just Anna..’ I started and she looked down and swollowed. I put my other hand on her chin and lifted her head up so I could look into her beautifull blue eyes. ‘Lately I’ve been thinking and I just uuuh.. I realized we wouldn’t be where we are today if we didn’t have eachother.’ She nodded. ‘I would’ve never entered this competition without you, you make me more confident, you open me up to the world.’ ‘You do the same for me Zayn.’ She said looking right back into my eyes. I could feel it, I could feel the moment building up, I could feel the bound between the two of us change. ‘Without you I would’ve been depressed, broken, maybe not even here anymore.’ She swollowed, her eyes teared up and she looked down again. She was referring to her difficult home situation. She had everything she wanted yet she wasn’t happy. She had a good bound with her mom but not that much with her dad. He got her everything she wanted but she had to hold up to quite high standards and it put a lot of pressure on her which she couldn’t always handle that well. ‘No, I don’t believe that, you belong here, on this world, with me’ I said and she gave a weak smile. Was she falling back into the depression she’d battled halfway through this year? Her dad was once again putting a lot of pressure on her about her finals but also the education of her choice. He wanted her to go after him, into the lawyer business but she choose to go after her dream and become a teacher. Back then she just cracked, in that moment she was ready to leave, step out of live but I got her out of it with a lot of emotional late night talks and music. ‘I’m not going back into it Zayn, don’t worry, I’m happy, we can finally leave that behind.’ She said obviously noticing me thinking back to that hard time. ‘Good, because I need you!’ I said and she smiled. ‘Ofcourse you do, without me you’d be nothing’ she said playfully trying to tease me. ‘Oh? And you’d be something without me?!’ I said back in the same tone she did and she just nodded smiling very widely. I pushed her over and started tickling her. ‘Zayn, stop, stop that! Nooooo! Zayn!’ but I kept going. ‘Seriously, Zayn, no, stop that!’ she said again really desperate and I stopped but kept on sitting on top of her, my head very close to hers. Kiss her, kiss, was going through my mind and so I did, I looked deeply into her blue eyes and gave her a small, sweet kiss on her lips. She answerred it. After that she became very awkward, got up and started scrolling through the movies. She started a comedy and we watched in silence. After the movie we went to bed and that was it, no talk about the kiss, just, nothing. As I layed in bed I looked over at Anna seeing she was already sleeping. My mind was doing overtime. Did I do something wrong? Did I ruin our friendship with that? But, she answerred. Or did I just not feel it right? No, she definitly answerred. What do I do now? Do I talk about it or do I wait till she does? Gosh, falling in love with your best friend was hard.