How Did We Get Here // Luke Hemmings & Zayn Malik

Chapter 62: Peppermint!?

Zayn and I got dressed for church. I was combing my hair when Natalie walked into my room "Hey Em's, I'm not feeling good. I'll just stay home and you guys go without me." I sigh "Do you have a cold?" she nods no "No I have cramps. Besides Michael's coming over." She grins, waves at Zayn and leaves.

I cry "Do I look fat?!" Zayn laughs "No, it's just a small bump. Your sweater covers it." I sigh and look at the mirror in different angles. Then Niall stumbles into my room, half asleep "Where you guys going?" I click my tongue "Niall do I look fat?" he looks at me and shrugs "No, not with the sweater on." Zayn sighs "See, now come on." Niall groans "Where you guys going without me?" Zayn laughs "You want to tag along with us to church?" Niall shrugs "I guess. I'll be down in a bit." He runs out. I groan "Niall got kicked out of church a couple of times." Zayn laughs "What? Why?" I roll my eyes "he laughs a lot." Zayn chuckles, kissing me "I'm sure he's not that bad."

Zayn looks over at me, blushing "I take it back, he's bad." I roll my eyes and smile at everyone who looks back at us, watching Niall lose his mind laughing. Apparently when the pastor said his ice breaker in the beginning, making holy water by boiling hell out of it, it killed Niall. Though he did calm down right away.

After church, we Liam and Arlene agreed we should take Niall to our ice cream shop hang out since he was part of us now.

We sit down and Arlene jokes with him "You know Niall; you can't just join this gang so fast." Niall chuckles "Gang?" I smile. Arlene laughs "before you join our brotherhood, you need to do something." He turns pale and chokes on his salvia "Like.... Like what?" Arlene smirks, leaning closer to him, whispering "At night, when we all get together, were gonna drive around a block. There, our rivals are having a party. We want you to take our gun and shoot them." Niall completely froze. His face was blank. Then we all break in laughter and Niall looks at us in confusion. Liam gets his shoulder "She's kidding." Niall just smirks and remains quiet for the rest of the time.

During the night, Niall and Zayn were cooking while Michael and Natalie try sabotaging it. I just sat back and looked at everything go horribly wrong. Nat switched the salt with sugar, Michael would put turmeric inside the soup when no one was looking. They were just acting stupid.

Then Niall sighs "There, finally, we get to eat." I cross my legs and bite down on my sweater. Zayn serves the bowls and we all sit down. Michael sneers "I'll say the prayer... Dear lord, please don't let us die. Amen." Niall scoffs "I'm the best cook there is." Mike, Nat and I get our spoons and watch Zayn and Niall take a sip of it. Suddenly they both get red and cough wildly. We all laugh of enjoyment. Zayn runs to the fridge and swallows the entire carton of juice. But Niall drops to the floor and keeps coughing. Zayn calmed down but Niall didn't.

Suddenly he starts throwing up and becomes purple. I scream and kneel beside him. I lift his head up, and see he started to get swollen around his neck. I yell "What did you guys put in it!?" Nat and Michael stutter. I yell again "Guys!" Nat stands up and cries "Um... uh we put sugar and um turmeric and rosemary and basil and uh um, uh oregano and uh peppermint and uh..." I scream, cutting her off "He's allergic to peppermint! He's... He's... call an ambulance!" Michael jumps across the table into the living room. I soothe his hair "Niall, just breathe, just try please." Michael comes back running "They're coming." I yell "Nat! Go up stairs and get a bed sheet! GO NOW!" she cries and leaves in a hurry. I grab Zayn by the shirt, pulling him down to the floor "Here, hold his head like this."

I get on top of him and start CPR. Niall can still breathe but I didn't want to take the chance. Then Natalie comes rushing back "I got it!" I get up from my position "Nat lay down the sheet, Michael and Zayn get him and place him on top of the sheet." Zayn gets his arms and Michael grabs his thighs, they carefully get him and put him on top. I get on top again and continue CPR. Then I yell "Call dad Nat!" she sobs "But he doesn't answer." I scream "NAT! Just DO IT!" she runs.

She comes back "I left him a message." Suddenly we hear the ambulance sirens. I get off and yell "someone help me and open the front door!" Nat runs to the front and opens it wide. We rush Niall outside. By then, the first responder had the bed out. We put him over it.

We get in Zayn's car and follow the ambulance all the way to the hospital. Nat just looked scared to death.

The nurse told us he had a minor allergic reaction, his throat got swollen but his airways didn't. The only reason why he turned purple was because Niall was scared and kept holding his breath.

After an hour, Niall looked way better. Though he really didn't want to talk to anyone. So I told everyone to leave and go back home. I was going to stay with him until they discharged him. Zayn was reluctant at first but I told him I was in the safest place in anything happened.

I crawled into bed with Niall, holding his hand softly "I'm sorry Niall." He laughs; his voice sounded sore "Nah, its fine. It wasn't anyone's fault. No one did it on purpose." I sigh and fall asleep with him.

The next morning they discharged him and we took a taxi home. Everyone was at school or work so I didn't want to bother them.

I felt really bad. I was looking at what they were putting. I guess it didn't catch my eye or something but I defiantly need to make it up to him somehow.