Chapter 5: Things that go bump in the night

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Chapter 5

Niall's Pov.
"Okay let's begin this shall we" I watched Grace sit across from me on our newly decorated bedroom as she placed notepads, her laptop and pens on the bed. Our bedroom choices we're quite easy to do, I chose a nice cream colour for the wall with a soft light brown bedspread and matching furniture, my guitar sat in one corner as well as Grace's little vanity table for her perfume and make up that I saw at a furniture shop and had to buy. Now since it was bedtime, we decided to start looking at our wedding preparations since well....we haven't planned anything.

"Okay let's start wedding theme?" I asked, she smiled writing it down
"I'm happy with a traditional wedding but I was hoping we could incorporate a little bit of your heritage into it. You know the Irish ways" she smiled, making me laugh.
"Yes I'm all for that" I replied, kissing her cheek as she wrote that down on the paper
"Now large or small wedding"
"Large, roses or mountain avens"
"Mountain avens, best man?"
"Greg, maid of honour?"
"Harmony, red velvet or vanilla?"
"Both, carriage or limo?"
"Carriage, traditional or written vows?"
"Written" I spoke watching her write it down
"I think that's enough for one night but we practically made a 20 questions game out of it" she smiled placing the paper on her nightstand and climbing under the covers next to me.

"I think if it's that easy to plan for a marriage, we should have no problems planning for a baby" I joked, she laughed
"Don't get too far ahead Horan" she smiled kissing my cheek, I whispered goodnight to her as I turned off the lamp, allowing the darkness to surround us

Let me be honest I don't know how long it was that I have been asleep but a noise was suddenly heard from downstairs that triggered both mine and Grace's attention.
Boom
Crash
Crap
Ow
Harry slipped into my room with a baseball bat in one hand and Sarah's hand in the other,
"There's someone downstairs" he whispered, I looked over at my alarm clock

1:31am

"No shit" I replied as I got out of bed, grabbing my golf club from it's bag and walked to the door , Sarah and Grace both walked softly behind us, despite our protests for them to stay upstairs.
We were soon met by Louis who was holding a toy firetruck, Luke who was holding a fire lighter, Calum who was holding a cricket bat and Liam who was holding a can of hairspray

We heard some further crashes as we guys looked at eachother scared to make that first move downstairs, it could be anyone.
"If anything happens, I leave Ketchup to you" Calum whispered to Zoe, she joking rolled her eyes as she turned us boys around to the direction of the stairs and we slowly walked down them, the darkness enveloping us until we realised that Luke had a lighter on him.
"Luke, flick the lighter"
"No way what if we see something we shouldn't"
"Lucas Robert Hemmings this is no time to be making assumptions now flick the damn lighter"
"Fine"

As Luke flicked the lighter, the flame making the dark dim with light, Harry stood over towards the wall where the room light switch was and without hesitating he suddenly flicked it on.
We held our weapons over our heads, the girls standing behind ready to counter attack as a shadow of a man stood in the back door
"Freeze where you are" Liam growled, the man walking towards us
"Okay okay sorry geez Liam" a Bradford accent replied, my mouth along with the boys dropped open as well as some of the girls when this guy finally came into the light
"Hey Lads"
"Zayn?"

Louis's Pov.
Okay if you could not already sense the tension in the room when our ex-bandmate stood in here, like I'm standing here with my sons toy truck that was gonna be used for defence against...Zayn.
After everything he has put us through taking a break, leaving, our twitter feud, breaking Zoe's heart. Let me be perfectly frank I'm feeling fury
Cause let's face it no one was happy when he left.
I looked over at the microwave to see the time
1:43am

"An we have to be woken up at 1am just for this?" Harry asked, Zayn shrugged
"Came from a party, heard you guys were in the area and I figured since hey one direction are never asleep at this time why not have a quick catch up" Zayn explained, I looked at the other lads to see nothing but blank and expressionless faces. They were less impressed as I was, it was only after a while I heard Zoe speak up since she just came down the stairs with Michael, seeing if the Coast was clear.
"Zayn?" Zoe asked her face pale with disbelief, he gave a small smile
"Hey babe"
"Hey babe?" Zoe asked with sarcasm, oh shit this won't be pretty
"I barley see you for a year, I wait for you for a year, I found out you're seeing another girl an broke up with me in a year, and you have the audacity to say 'hey babe'?" Venom pouring out with her bitter tone.
"Zoe I can-"

"No Zayn you can't, you know that and I know that, I hate you Zayn for the first time ever I actually really genuinely and throughly hate you" she screamed, she retreated back up the stairs, and Liam found himself holding Zayn back
"The girl has a point Zayn, you genuinely screwed up this time around with Zoe and I know of all people that she won't take you back, not now not ever" Diana calmly spoke, how she can keep up her calm demeanour I don't know but I need some pointers from her with that one. Cause ever since Zayn went on his "break" everything went down hill.

We had our twitter feuds, our fights, our threats. I can't remember who said what but I remember one tweet stuck to me

@Louis_Tomlinson remember when you had a life and stopped making bitchy comments about mine ?

That hurt like a bitch
Everything tore this band apart between Zayn and us, and Zayn was the one who left us like this, sure not everything was his fault but still know your roots mate, that's what got you as far as this in the first place.
"Zayn I think it's best if you just leave" Sarah spoke, trying to ease the tension
"Wait so I leave, I don't get to explain myself or say any-"
"You don't deserve to" I spoke,he glared hard at me, I didn't care
"Not after everything we have just gone through to deal with the pain of loosing you" Niall added, being on my side
"We thought the band meant something to you mate, an maybe if you told us you wanted to go solo maybe we would have understood" Liam added, Zayn was quick to interrupt

"I know"
"You don't, but we would have, but to find out the real reason of you leaving through the paps an the media was really shocking" Liam finished, Harry was quietly standing alone, wiping a few miss shed tears from his eyes
He couldn't even speak
Zayn nodded before moving to the entrance door
"But I'm gonna get Zoe back, you'll see" he spoke before the door closed, we just stood there in silence.

"I'm gonna find Zoe" Calum muttered going up the stairs to her bedroom, we just stood in the kitchen trying to adjust to the events that only occurred minutes ago.
"I can't believe he would just show up like that"Harry said bluntly, Sarah rubbed his arm in order to soothe him, only giving some comfort.
"Yeah I just feel more, I'm not sure relieved if that's the only word I can use" I reply, Grace nodded
"We got a little bit of closure an now all we can do lads is move on" Liam spoke, suddenly we heard Calum rush down the stairs
"Guys...I .... She... We" Calum was splattering out incoherent words, with the rest of us confused.

"Calum's what's wrong?" Diana asked, Calum managed to get the words out, it made my stomach do flips
"Zoe's gone"

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