Loved You Anyway [Zayn Malik]

36: He Knows.

Chapter 36:

Zayn POV:

*3 days later

"Fuck! What was the line again?" Harry asked, removing his headphones to hear the answer.

I rolled my eyes and continued fiddling around with my phone. Niall was passed out on the sofa, Louis was sat down next to Zel and another producer on the table that had all the controls on it and Liam was talking on the phone outside.

"Don't promise that you're gonna write, don't promise that you'll call, just promise that you won't forget we had it all," Zel replied while rubbing her forehead.

I wouldn't blame her if she wanted to strangle the life out of him. We had been trying to record those three stanzas for almost an hour now and I was getting hungry. 

"Right," Harry replied and put back on the headphones and tried the stanzas once again and finally remembered them.

The producer that was in the studio with us wanted another recording of the stanzas. After four more tries, Harry got out of the recording booth and laid down on Niall. 

"What the fuck, mate?" Niall grumbled and tried getting him off of him. 

"Language, young man!" he scolded him and I chuckled, smirking at the two in front of me. 

Liam entered the studio and sat down on one of the chairs present in the room, frowning to himself while Zel, Louis and the producer chatted about something. I heard my name being mentioned once, which quickly caught my attention. Louis was rolling his eyes and smiling, Zel shook her head while the producer looked at the two, confused. He raised his eyebrows and closed his eyes for a moment, turned around the chair and looked at me.

"Zayn you're up next," he said while Lou and Zel turned around to look at him in shock. 

I raised my eyebrows and with a sigh, got off the couch. I rubbed my eyes and tried to shake myself awake but the tiredness didn't go away. I yawned and closed the door behind me, walking towards the mic stand.

"Which line?" I asked, turning to look at the window waiting for a reply.

"Um, your last solo," the producer replied, adjusting the buttons on the control panel. He gave me the thumbs up and I put the headphones on.

The music started playing and I waited for my line to start.

"So please don't make this any harder, we can't take this any further! And I know there's nothing that I wanna change, change."

The lyrics left my mouth naturally and the harmony sounded almost perfect. I scrunched my nose and looked at the others. 

Mike, the producer, was arranging the buttons and re-listening the audio, Louis was smiling like an idiot and Zel wasn't even there anymore. I furrowed my eyebrows and looked around the room behind the window. Harry and Niall weren't there either and instead of Niall sprawled out on the couch was Liam sat down on the couch yawning and giving me a thumbs up when he noticed me looking.

"Where are Haz, Niall and Zel?" I asked curiously. 

Louis shrugged and I bit the inside of my cheek, feeling as though I was missing something.

"From the top and try and do the chorus, Zayn," Mike instructed and without a second thought, I turned back around and waited for the music to start playing through the headphones. 

The song hit home hard and I wanted to reverse time back to five years to try and arrange things back with Hazel. Maybe there would have been a possibility of a chance of 'us' if I had pushed and tried more. She tried to keep contact and I did too but after some time it got hard and I stopped contacting her, relying on Niall to call Jesy and then I talk to Hazel but that never happened. Jesy and Niall were over a week later and I didn't bother picking up the phone and calling her.