Loved You Anyway [Zayn Malik]

29: Boyfriend? Not.

Chapter 29:

Hazel POV:

I gritted my teeth together and narrowed my eyes at him coldly. He smirked as he noticed my reaction towards him. His eyes flitted towards Zayn, then back to me.

"Found someone to fuck with?" he asked, every syllable perfectly pronounced. I flinched but gritted my teeth.

"He's a friend."

"Oh, so you finally found a friend to hang out with?"

"At least I found real friends, Jace," I replied coldly and attempted to walk around him but his hand shot out and grabbed me from my waist and pushed me towards him.

I pushed him away and felt Zayn's strong hands pulling me backwards. I stumbled backwards and hit Zayn in his chest.

"Move Jace, unlike you I have things to do and places to get to," I said coldly. 

His eyes slightly narrowed and I could feel eyes on us. His lips rose upwards and I noticed his famous smirk playing on his lips. I knew that smirk and it only meant one thing. Trouble. I stiffened and took a step backwards.

"Now, don't you get all big headed just because you moved and found a fuck buddy you little s-"

"Excuse me sir! But there are little children in this restaurant! If you want to say bad words, say them elsewhere!" a middle aged man told Jace. Jace gave him a cold look, his eyes narrowed and without another word he turned around and left the restaurant, his gang following him. 

I let out a shaky breath and turned back to look at Zayn. He was looking at me curiously. 

"Let's just go. I'll explain everything on the way back home but we have to go," I replied and without one word, he followed me out of the restaurant and we started walking towards the train station since it wasn't far away.

We exited McDonalds and I nervously looked around before walking on the pavement. I breathed out heavily and rubbed my neck. I was walking fast and Zayn was casually walking in pace with me since his steps were bigger.

"So what's the deal with Jace?" he asked after five minutes of making distance of having the chance of Jace finding us.

"He was a friend of Seth's," I replied and trailed my tongue across my teeth. "He's such an asshole."

"I know right."

I spun around and my eyes widened when I noticed Jace and another guy that I didn't recognise.

"I'm such an asshole, aren't I Kyle?" he asked in sarcasm, turning to look at the guy next to him.

Kyle smirked and raised one eyebrow, then shot me a dirty look that made me shiver.

"What do you think, pretty boy?" Jace asked turning his attention on Zayn. "Do you think I'm an asshole?"

For a second I looked at Zayn and noticed his jaw tighten, either in anger or he was getting scared of Jace which I doubt. 

"Yeah, I do," he replied and Jace's eyes blazed with fire.

"Oh, really?" 

"Yep."

"Huh," Jace said and trailed his tongue across his teeth.

My heart literally stopped when his balled fist made contact with Zayn's nose. I gasped and automatically I covered my mouth from shock. Zayn stumbled backwards, holding his nose and wincing in pain while Jace took a step backwards, massaging his hand. Kyle looked shocked and amused and I just wanted to rip both of their heads off and feed them to dogs. Zayn was heaving in deep breaths in anger.