Abusive Love {Z.M} bxb

05

Edifice

"Hello my name is Niall Horan. I will be assisting both of you today." Niall smiles and sticks out his hand. Liam shakes his hand first with a serious face and Zayn shakes it with a wide smile upon his face. "Let's get started. As you may know this building will need some repairs correct?" Niall fishes out a key from his pocket and opens the door to the building."Yes Mr.Horan we know." Liam says with a dull tone. Niall ushers them inside when Zayn is all the way inside Niall points at the door. "That will need some fixing. Depending on what you want to do with this building. I suggest making it a double door just in case." Niall walks forward and looks around. Liam looks at Zayn with a smile and Zayn happily returns it. "This building is not that big but you could pull a few strings and this building can become a 5 story building if you like. Here is the main office." Zayn looks around the large room. He will definitely spend time in here whenever he can. He already has out what he wants in the room.  

"Are there any...things we need to know about?" Liam asks Mr.Horan.

"Ahh yes. I believe the bathroom needs some help with the plumbing and air conditioning. The lights needs to be replaced. The flooring has some mold and so the walls. Hopefully we can do somethings about those. Other than that the building is wonderful." Niall says with a smile and claps his hands together. "Anything you want to ask?"

"How much will this be?" Zayn asks with worried eyes. He just hopes Liam won't change his mind.

"Since the building is on the most busiest street it would cost more than it would have anywhere else. It will be about 700,000." Niall says with a huge grin. Zayn's eyes widens and slowly turns to look at Liam. He was surprised to see Liam smiling.

"We will gladly take this building." That was all Liam said. Niall excuses himself to go get the paper work. Zayn looks at Liam and smiles wide. He can finally start living his dream like he always wanted to since he couldn't go to Art School anymore. Niall comes back with papers in his hand and a big smile on his face. "I think this could work babe," Liam says with a small smile. He wrapped his arm around Zayn and Niall quickly looked away. "I thought the fixes would cost more on top of this price but honestly it's a good deal." Liam finishes signing the paperwork then passes it off to Zayn. Zayn looks at it and signs where Niall told him to. 

"Okay if you have any questions about anything just give me a call." Niall hands a card to Zayn. Zayn takes it with a small smile. "Here are the keys to the place and an extra key for you." He hands the first set of keys to Zayn and the extra key to Liam. "This lovely building is all yours. Thank you for purchasing it."

Zayn quickly interrupts him, "No,no thank you so much Mr.Horan." Niall nods and walks out the building. "Thank you so much Liam! I'm so glad that you went along with this." 

"Why wouldn't I? It's all for my baby." Liam pecks Zayn on the cheek. "Okay, love. I will drop you off at the flat and go to work." Zayn pouts and looks down. "What's wrong babe?"

Zayn looks up slowly. "I just wanted to stay here and start fixing this place up." Liam explains to him that they should start on it together and when they have already paid someone to fix the problems they couldn't fix. "Okay." 

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Zayn walks next door and knocks on the door. Jordan opens the door after two knocks and invites Zayn in. "Boyfriend gone already?" Zayn gives Jordan a look and Jordan slowly corrects himself. "Fiancé, my bad." Zayn shakes his head.

"You know Jordan I can stop coming over here painting things for you." Zayn says as he sets up his work area to start on the new painting Jordan wants for his mother. 

Jordan sits where he usually sits while Zayn finishes up setting up his things. " I can always find a new artist can't I?" Jordan passes Zayn a cup of water and Zayn mumbles a thanks. 

"I can always have a new client. Plus no other artist will understand what you want like I do." Zayn pauses before continuing to speak. "Since I have been painting for you since you moved here." Zayn sketches out the drawing on the canvas. Paying close attention to the picture he was hoping would stand out. It was a broken bottle on the corner where the boat was going to be placed. Jordan's mother loves small lakes and that's what Zayn was going to paint. A broken bottle on the grass while the boat goes the other way from where the bottle was pointing. "Should I draw a bridge?" 

Jordan looks at the sketch and nods his head. While doing so he notices a lightly drawn thing on the ground. "What's that?" He points to the lightly drawn sketch. Zayn looks at what Jordan was pointing at.

"Never question my work before it's done." Zayn teases and starts to sketch the bridge. Jordan sighs and lays back. He unlocks his phone and starts to play a game he recently downloaded. Zayn looks at the sketch and starts to wonder what colors would make the bottle pop yet stay hidden. Jordan puts down his phone and sighs. 

Jordan opens his mouth then closes it. He wanted to say something but didn't know how to word. The last thing he wanted was for Zayn to leave without finishing up the painting for his mom. It was her birthday in a week and he wanted this painting made for her. A painting made by an artist that will soon be discovered. Jordan decided to just wait for Zayn to finish painting. It usually takes about three hours to be done painting. "Hey Zayn...I'm going to take a quick nap wake me up when you're done." Zayn doesn't reply but instead nods his head. To afraid to get away from his zone. 

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Zayn looks at the half finished painting. He will have to continue it tomorrow because he needs the paint to dry. Zayn writes down a quick note for Jordan and walks out of the flat. Zayn unlocks the door slowly with tired arms. Who knew that painting would hurt his arms so much. Zayn started to hid the bottles of wine and beer. Liam didn't need these anym-

"Zayn I'm home!" Zayn freezes and straightens out his back. He looked at the clock to notice that he spent most of the day painting. It was already close to ten. "Are those my beers?" Zayn shakes his head and walks to the closet. He sets the bottles down gently and closes the door.  "Zayn....answer me." 

Zayn turns around slowly like he was caught doing something he wasn't suppose to be doing. "I-I-I think that it's time for you to quit drinking Liam." Liam looks at Zayn straight in the eye.

"Why would you think that? I'm perfectly fine drinking a couple of beers when I come home." Liam says stepping closer to Zayn. Zayn mumbles under his breath, yeah a couple. "What was that love?" Liam grabs Zayn's hand and moves him from the door. Liam opens the closet and turns to Zayn shaking his head. "Why?"

Zayn bites his lip and looks behind Liam. "Beer isn't good for you babe. I just want you to live a healthy life." Liam picks up a bottle and closes the door. "Babe, Liam please. Do this for me."

"Don't I always do everything for you Zayn? I would at least like to do something for myself." Liam says and walks to the living room. Zayn sighs and walks to where Liam is seated. "Look babe I know you only want what's good for me but I have a stressful job. Beer calms my nerves and you know that. It's not like I do stupid shit. I know how to hold my liquor."

Zayn gets up and grabs a blanket. "Don't come looking for me when you need me to drag your wasted ass up the stairs." Zayn quickly gets out the flat and knocks on Jordan's door. Jordan opens up and let's Zayn in.

Zayn didn't know where that attitude came from. All he wanted to do was to run back to Liam but he stayed.