Earned It [zarry]

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Half Past Five

When Harry moves to a new town to escape the bad in his life, he just wants to keep his head down and finish his senior year. His plans change drastically when he runs into Zayn Malik, and his rival Jackson Thompson. With new friends, old rivalries, and hidden pasts, Harry's senior year is destined to be filled with some drama

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Two adults eyed him from a corner warily, before returning to their cigarettes. Puffing out a cloud of smoke, one of them called him out. "Yo, Zayn."

The boy immediately stopped on his tracks and turned to them, balling his hands into fists beneath his jacket cautiously. "Yeah?"

"Your pop was in the news again. He got big investments or somethin'. You might wanna check it out."

Instantaneously, a scowl appeared across Zayn's face. The teen breathed out an irritated gust of air before he spoke through his teeth. "I don't want to check out anything that has to do with my father."

"You sure a'out that?"

"I'm positive." Zayn began shuffling back to his apartment, trying his best not to think about his biological father, who meant next to nothing to him.

"Why?" The other man taunted him, an eerie grin appearing across his face. "'Cause he's rich and you're poor? Or 'cause he knocked up your ma and then left the whore for dead?" The men both snorted, laughing.

Zayn snarled silently at the ground, fighting the urge to turn around and rip them to pieces. It wasn't the first time anyone had called his mother something insulting in front of him. The last time someone had, however, he had done his best to fight against them and had received three broken bones and a bloody jaw in the process, along with a devastated scolding....

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