Animals, Leather Jackets And A Mysterious Mystery (Zarry)

Chapter 11

*Zayn' POV*

I called my boss saying I was sick that night and stayed in the zoo together with my sisters and the other boys. When we woke up the day after that the vortex had disappeared. None of us understood any of it, but we haven't let our guards down ever since. That was about two weeks ago.

I came by as much as I could with my sisters and helped out wherever we could. We also let the girls in on secret about the talking animals. They loved it and kept talking to them every time they saw them. We had to remind them often that they had to be careful because other people didn't know about them talking and we wanted to keep it that way.

It was odd though, in those two weeks literally nothing happened. As if those people wanted us to believe it was all a dream, as if none of it existed. No clues, no signs, no jittery animals nothing. It scared us like hell. Thank god all of us had seen the evidence and the notes we had found were still in a box under Louis bed.

Nobody understood any of it. We saw signs in everything. A bird flying by, maybe he had dropped a note. An angry animal, maybe he was jittery. A guy in a costume, maybe he was the dude trying to steal our zoo. We became paranoid, not just me, not just Harry or Louis or Liam or Niall, no all of us, my sisters and all the animals.

In a silent agreement we kept our eyes open. Doniya even got that far to ask mum and dad permission to take our youngest two sisters out when I couldn't make it because of work. To say that we were freaking out was an understatement. Besides all the drama we still had loads of fun.

The Disney movienights were still a daily thing. I loved watching them, but I was jealous of those characters. Sure some of them had hard lives, but at least at the end they had their happily ever after with the person they loved. Their problems lasted an hour and a half, mine lasted my entire life and now, because I wanted to take it slow, I still wasn't Harry's.

I hated myself for taking it slow, although I could never suspect something so huge keeping us apart. My heart and brain couldn't handle the lack of Harry's touches and our cuddles, but since that one night with the stupid vortex, our minds never left that moment. Now when we wanted to hug or hold hands something was stopping us, we were afraid to get back into our bubble and miss out on our surroundings. I wasn't good with the whole situation, I guess that's why I asked for more shifts at work. Normally you get about one or two nights off a week, but I told my boss I didn't need it. Fine, I lied to the boys and told the others were on a holiday or sick and I had to cover their shifts, but I just couldn't see Harry and not touch him. It drove me mental, it was so much easier to stay away.

Today was a week since I had been in the zoo. My every thought was filled with Harry and my heart whispered his name. Whenever I closed my eyes to rub away the sleep I was confronted with pink plumb lips and green eyes. No clue how long I could still ignore him, but I needed to stay awake no matter what. I couldn't get sacked and I couldn't handle seeing him all the time, but to make it all worse my phone buzzed and showed me I had a text from one curly haired lad.

From Harry

Hey Babe, how are you? I haven't seen or heard from you in about a week. Your sisters told me you had to cover shifts again, but I can't stop wondering if I did something wrong? It's like you disappeared on me. xxx Haz

To Harry

Nope, just covering shifts at night and sleeping at day. Nothing more than that. x Zayn

From Harry

I understand if you are afraid about the entire situation, but please don't shut me out. Please. xxx Haz