Don't Get Hurt (Zayn Malik)

Chapter 9 - Dinner Date

AN - So it's been a while again, I started writing this chapter ages ago but I forgot about it and ended up doing other things like normal. Sorry about that. I hope you enjoy this chapter. The song on the side is Little Darling by Lewis Watson. 

It had been a few months since everything came spilling out. Obviously after Louis knew about it we got to spend more time together without having to hide it, that also meant the media finding out and things went crazy for a bit and both Louis and Zayn banned me from twitter, facebook and at other stuff on the internet knowing people were going to be a hell of a lot meaner seeing as people were horrible enough to me already just because I was Louis’ sister so this was just going to make it a hell of a lot worse. I tried ignoring most of it and it made me feel better that they were always there for me even if I just needed something to distract me from looking at stuff out of curiosity. People had mainly calmed down about it all now though and more people were beginning to say nice things about us being together which always made me smile. Of course that doesn’t mean there were still the horrible comments and people saying that I was stealing Zayn off them but I was trying not to care about them.

It was moments like now that made me realise that it didn’t matter what they said, when it was me laying with him after a day at school and he was playing with the ends of my hair in his fingers. It was me, not them, I hadn’t stolen him off them, he was never theirs.

“Do you feel like going out tonight?” He asked me randomly as I scrolled through twitter on my phone. I turned to look up at him.

“Any reason why?” I asked him and he shrugged.

“Just feel like taking you out,” He said wrapping his arms around my waist, forcing our bodies to be pushed together. “So what do you say?” He asked as he rested his chin on my shoulder with his mouth next to my ear. I couldn’t help smiling a little.

“Sure” I said and I caught the corners of his mouth turn up in a smile before he detached himself from me.

“Good, I’ll go book somewhere” He said walking off and I stayed laying there for a moment before his head popped back around the door frame “And you can go have a shower, I brought the shower gel you like with me” He told me causing me to smile and I pulled myself off the bed and walked to the bathroom.

I walked down the road from my house with my fingers laced with his and our arms swinging gently. He wouldn’t tell me where we were going but picked out a dress I wore to a party they had once when they released a new single.

“Please tell me where we’re going,” I said again as we walked along. I just saw him smirk out the corner of my eye and shake his head. I sighed and carried on walking with him.

“Be thankful I didn’t blindfold you because I truly was debating it,” He said jokily making us both laugh. He unwrapped his hand from mine and wrapped it around my shoulder, pulling me into his side.

We got to a hidden away restaurant, which was completely empty, the yellowy lights were dimmed and there were candles laid along the sides of the room with a trail of pale pink flower petals to a table in the middle of the room. I couldn’t stop the blush from creeping onto my cheeks from the feeling of how special he made me feel and I knew straight away that he’d secretly been planning all of this. I saw him looking at me hopefully from the corner of my eyes and I smiled and turned to him.

“Thank you” I said and pressed a kiss to his lips feeling the edges of his mouth turning up into a smile. Zayn pulled on my hand towards the table and pulled my chair out for me, grinning down at me as I sat down and he went and sat opposite me.

“I’m so glad you like it” He said smiling, “I’ve been worried you wouldn’t and Louis had to convince me to actually ask you about tonight because I was too nervous” He started rambling causing me to giggle a little making him stop and look at me and a smile crept onto his face again as his cheeks were tinted pink.

“It’s perfect” I told him, it was such a typical cheesy thing to say but it truly was.

The meal went by and it was so nice just to spend time with him, just us two and not having to worry about anything else in the world. By the end of the meal it was pitch black outside and the candles around the restaurant were burning out one by one. We were about to have a shared cake for dessert and were waiting for it to come out. I could tell something was on Zayn’s mind because he was looking down at the table and turning his glass every few seconds. I was about to ask him what was wrong when our cake got brought out. He sat up properly and they put it in front of me, I thanked them and they walked off. I looked down to cut a slice for me when I froze. The cake had ‘Prom?’ written on it (Like this https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSonntCikVh2a7-pQGb46HZqhLQWvZwk024zwbBp_CKI9QptDG8KA) and I couldn’t stop myself from smiling. I looked back up at Zayn and he was smiling at me.

“So… seeing as it’s your prom soon, I was um… wondering if you wanted to go with me?” He said sheepishly and my smiled widened and I nodded happily. I noticed the relief flash across his face and I got up and hugged him. “I’m so glad you said that” He whispered to me making me laugh and I leant up to kiss him gently.