Don't Let Me Go

Chapter 15

"Good fucking morning." Naomi muttered as I walked in through the door to the store, right on time as usual. I placed my bag on the cash desk before pulling my chair out, taking sips of the coffee I brought from home in a travel cup.

"Had a bad morning?" I laughed at Naomi as she got closer to me, pulling the other chair out and snatched my coffee from me, taking huge sips of the steaming drink.

"To say the least." She shrugged, handing me the almost empty cup. 

"Wanna talk about it?" I spoke, watching a boy walk in through the door. He looked pretty good with the dark hair up in a quiff and his brown eyes met mine for a moment before his smile was replaced by a cheeky smirk. I smiled for myself, not looking at him anymore since I was with Harry.

"No, I don't like being reminded of that I'm an idiot."  Naomi shrugged before walking out on the floor, folding t-shirts and picking trash up from the floor. I opened my bag to collect my phone, opening my calender. The wedding was next week, on Thursday and the dresses would arrive tomorrow, giving us time to find new ones if these ones didn't fit. 

I was taken away from my thoughts when clothes got placed on the cash desk and the attractive dark boy looked at me. I walked away from my seat, bleeping the items to get the final bill. 

"That will be 35 pounds and two pence, please." I smiled. placing the clothes in the bag while he searched his pockets to find his wallet.

"I wanna take you for a drink later." The raspy voice of his spoke, handing over the money which I took before laughing a little at him. I gave him back his change before shaking my head towards him, watching  Naomi get closer to hear what he said and at the same time trying to make it look unintentionally. "Why not?" He spoke, while I sat back down on the chair. 

"Cause I can't." I explained. "I have a boyfriend." I chuckled at his reaction which was to look pretty upset but then his face lit up again, the brown eyes remarkably pretty. His whole face was actually fit to perfection with the large eyebrows and outstanding cheekbones. He could be a model, if he wasn't already. 

"Just a drink, I won't kiss you or anything like that. Bring you boyfriend if you don't believe me." He said with his eyes on mine. He had similar style to Harry, the black jeans together with a simple t-shirt. Though his was blue, not black or white. 

"Fine." I said, rolling my eyes. "But I'm warning you if you even try to think of this as a date I'll have to kill you." I joked and the guy nodded. "Be here at five." I mumbled and he nodded again before walking towards the door. 

"Wait," He said as he stood in the door. "I didn't get your name." He smiled again, that just as pretty as the rest of him. 

"Ruby." I yelled back. "Yours?" I smiled towards him as he opened his full lips to reveal his name for me.

"Zayn." He said and I nodded. He walked off, leaving me and Naomi alone and I knew that Naomi would jump me with questions which she did right away.

The day went on and just as I told him he stood outside the store at five sharp and waited for me. I gave Naomi a hug before walking out of the store and greeted him as he stood there alone. 

"Where are we going then?" I questioned as we strolled along the pavement. Zayn did answer me but just kept on walking until we arrived at a pub. It looked nice and cozy from the outside, bright colours placed on the walls and some people inside, drinking, dancing and talking. Zayn opened the door for me and I took a step inside, music was playing in the background. 

Zayn led me towards the bar, waving for the bartender to take our order. 

"I'll have a beer." His dark voice spoke before looking at me. 

"Just a coke." I smiled. "I'm driving home." I explained to Zayn looking at me with amusement in his eyes. He reminded me of Harry in a way, the style and the stubbornness. "I don't really get it, you know I have a boyfriend then why do you want to take me out?" I chuckled as the bartender placed my coke in front of me. I took a big sip,  I was pretty thirsty and hadn't had anything to drink since lunch. 

"Maybe we'll be good friends." He said, looking at me with his intense eyes. 

We kept on talking for a long time, he was pretty entertaining and easy to talk to. Though everything he did reminded me of Harry he was so different from him in ways. He wasn't obnoxious and oblivion, he was understanding and reasonable. Even though Harry was my boyfriend and I liked him so much he was still oblivion and I couldn't change that, though I could learn to like it. 

"What the fuck?" A raspy, oh so familiar voice spoke behind me, making me turn around on my chair. Harry was standing in the door with Louis next to him, they both looking at me and Zayn like they just caught us kissing. 

"Ruby, what are you doing with him?" Louis spoke and he sounded pretty concerned. I was taken aback by the fact that they knew him and didn't like that I spend time with him. I didn't know him but no one could tell me that he wasn't a nice guy, I had just been talking to him for several hours and he hadn't said anything bad at all. 

"Just talking."  I explained. Harry and Louis walked over to us and when I looked over at Zayn he looked pretty amused, I didn't understand why but when Harry dragged him up from his seat by grabbing his shirt I got scared. Harry dragged him outside and  I ran after them, Louis right beside me.

"Stay away from my girlfriend." Harry spat in Zayn face, pushing him against the brick wall. I stood still for a moment, watching them in shock. I pulled myself together before trying to run towards them to pull Harry away, but Louis stopped me by wrapping his arms around my waist, holding me still.

"Ruby, you will make this worse if you interrupt. He isn't going to hit him, believe me." Louis whispered in my ear as he pressed my back against his front so I couldn't run away. I nodded before relaxing my body, I trusted Louis.

"Jesus man, take it easy. I was just talking to her." Zayn chuckled at Harry's words. 

"I know you Zayn, just stay away." Harry warned before letting Zayn go and walked away from him and towards us. "Let's go." He said as he passed us. Louis released me from his grip but I remained standing on the same place. 

"Ruby, let's go." Louis said, making Harry turn around and stop a couple of feet away from me. He looked at me with expressionless eyes, he didn't show any sort of affection towards me and he just scared me right now. I turned around, seeing that Zayn was gone now and both Louis and Harry was getting impatient with me.

"I have my car at the store." I informed them as we walked towards Harry's car. Louis walked to my right and Harry to my left, like I would run away from them if they didn't keep me under supervision.

"Stay the night at my flat and I'll drive you in the morning. We can pick up your things on the way." Harry muttered as he opened the back seat door for me since Louis took the shotgun seat. I nodded even though Harry couldn't see me before I took my phone out from my purse and messaged Ariel to let her know I wouldn't be spending the night. 

I wasn't really in the mood of staying at Harry's flat but I needed to yell at him and my place wasn't the perfect place since Ariel was around most of the time and she would probably go mental again with this whole thing and I didn't like that. Why was everything so complicated?