Animals, Leather Jackets And A Mysterious Mystery (Zarry)

Chapter 2

*Zayn POV*

Today it was my first day out with my sisters in quite a while. My job didn't leave me much chances to see my girls much. They never complained but it was hard on them, me working at night and sleeping when they were awake. Sure, mostly they were at school, but by the time they got home I woke up, took a shower, made dinner and left. I came back home when they had just left for school. So I had a week off now and decided to treat the girls to a day out.

Safaa wanted to go to the zoo, Whaliya wanted to go to an amusement park and Doniya just wanted to go to the movies to see an animated movie. Nobody could resist Safaa's pouting face though, so we all took our bags and left to see some animals.

We took our first picture at home. Just to show mum that we actually left pretty early but wide awake and on a good note. To be honest, I don't know how long the girls can last without fighting. They can be the best friends one minute and the next they are arch enemies. Especially when it comes to me. Whenever I am awake they want my undivided attention and I just can't give them that. It's all of them or no one. I want to spend as much time with them as I can, because before I know it I'm out of the house and they are married or something. Being 23 and still living with my parents is not the way I want to live my life. The girls know I want to move as fast as I can, that's where my job comes in handy. It get's paid a lot because nobody wants to work as a night guard. The girls already made promise to visit them as much as I can or take them out on family dates.  

We took the underground to the London Zoo and were already greeted by a loud man at the gates. Safaa loved it though, she didn't even notice that we had to wait in line to get in. Whaliya wasn't sure whether she liked it or not and Doniya just mumbled that she was too old for balloon animals before rolling her eyes. The amount of sass that girl has... Djeez.

Walking into the zoo, Safaa ran off to the monkeys. She pretended to be a monkey herself hoping that they would understand her. She was so funny and cute that I just had to act along with her. We talked monkey language to each other for about half an hour until Doniya told us we were being ridiculous and that she was ashamed of us. Safaa didn't care though and just went to the next couple of animals. When we arrived at the tigers not much later she jumped up and down, clapping in her hands. I took a picture of a bright smiling young girl and a tiger. It was the cutest thing ever.

Whaliya just followed the entire day in silence, mostly taking pictures once I handed the camera to her. She never really minded the animals or me being weird. She loved seeing me carefree and not tired. Whaliya had told me that so much before and I was happy to know that she didn't had to worry about me today. I challenged her during the day to take the silliest pictures she could muster. So when I started hugging a tree, because I told the girls that trees grow faster when they get a lot of cuddles, she quickly snapped a photo and chuckled.

The only thing Whaliya really wanted to see were the penguins, so we made sure that we would see them. We would keep it as the last bit of the day, so we could end our day in beauty.

Doniya was excited about seeing the meerkats. We all are really big Lion King fans, so it was worth a family picture with Timon. Our next challenge was finding Pumbaa, because of course we had found Nala and Simba already.

When Safaa asked us why Santa's reindeers aren't in Lapland, we were looking at each other, brain working as fast as it could to give her a proper explanation. So we came up with the story that Lapland is too cold for the animals and that Santa can leave them here for an entire year. He can visit them as often as he wants and cuddle with them, but he has to do it at night because otherwise Santa won't have the time to make presents with his elves. It was the most rubbish story ever told, but for some reason she believed it.