Dark - Zayn Malik

chapter 1

Maya's P.O.V

And there we go again.. Another morning where my lovely mother and father are in a very stupid,probably very irrelevant argument. I let out a quiet groan as my alarm goes off, showing that it's already 10 AM.

"Joelle, just shut up. You're going to wake Maya up." My dad says sternly as my mom tries to come up with an excuse to yell harder.

"No you shut up! All you do is work but where is all the money going? Well not here is it?"

The arguments get really annoying after a while but I'm kind of used to it. They always talk about money issues and stuff like that.

It takes 10 minutes to get dressed and doing my make up. Way too lazy to do my hair, I let it down naturally.

Jessica already texted me, wanting to meet up and honestly that's all I need right now. I walk down the stairs and pretend like I haven't heard anything.

"Mom, dad? Goodmorning." I smile softly as I give them both a kiss on the cheek, hoping that it will brighten up the mood.

They fake a smile and my mom is going back at making breakfast. Parents always think that their children don't notice the tension but oh we do.

"Want some toast darling?" I smile softly and shake my head. "No thank you I will be eating at Jessica if that's okay. We'll be out late so please do not worry okay?"

My parents are honestly really chill, as long as I don't fuck around with boys and my grades are high, they'll be fine with everything I do and I really appreciate that to be honest.

I make my way to the door and yell out a goodbye before I make my way down to Jessica. Luckily it's just a five minute walk so my lazy self won't have to do much.

"Hey Jess!" I scream and laugh loudly when there are people looking at us weirdly. "Just shut up already and hug me babygirl." Jessica smiles brightly and wraps her arms around me tightly.

Nobody could separate Jessica and I. We were like Spongebob and Patrick. Like the moon and stars. We were the bestest friends.

"So what have you planned for us?" I wiggle my eyebrows and poke her sides, whispering mysteriously. "That's a surpise babe."

She lets out a huff and lets me drag her towards God knows where. It takes us ten minutes to go to the mall.
All I wanted to do was to treat ourselves with the Godly Starbucks and shopping.

"Hey Jess look!" I tap her and walk through the aisle with a sunglass and a weird looking dress. We both burst out laughing and she shakes her head. "Oh no you're doing it wrong Maya! Look. " She grabs a random shirt and throws it on, twirling around and licks her lip in a very non-sexy way.

I try to hold back a giggle and shake my head. "Let's just grab the things we need and get out of here. People are looking at us as if we're crazy."

Jessica gives me the look. This look said it all. It's the look that's telling me to shut up and not care about what everyone is thinking.

"I, Jessica Parker, do not give a shit about what these people think of me. So you shouldn't either!" She runs towards me and stops just a couple of inches infront of me, giving me the goofy grin and turns around, making her way to the changing rooms to get dressed in her normal clothes

We finally sit down at Starbucks with our shopping bags, both sipping our drinks. "Hey um Jess is it okay if I stay with you tonight?" I look at her and give her my best puppyeyes, knowing she cannot resist it.