Speak |Zayn Malik|

Ch. 2

Turkey day is here! Hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving so here's an update. :)

P.S- Read until the end for important notes about this chapter + upcoming ones!!

Enjoy,

-M.

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For the next few days everything was slow and dragging on. Zayn couldn't wait until it was the weekend when the weather was meant to be cloudy with partial rain again, just the way he liked it.

He'd never admit it but, he secretly wanted it to be the weekend because of that girl who threw that ball at his head. Or was it her brother? Zayn doesn't remember anymore, if he ever sees her again he'd have to blame her for his memory loss. Except he knew he wasn't going to be on the lookout for her today.

It being Saturday morning,  he woke up a bit more willingly than usual. He got out his dark blue Jansport out from his closet, and packed up a sketchbook, some pencils, and his ipod. Swinging it over his shoulder, he walked out the door with chocolate milk in one hand and his house keys in the other. Zayn's never felt more relieved when he felt the wind breeze through his hair, and there was even a slight skip to his walk. He was heading down by the woods area, like he always has been since he arrived months back. Deep in the woods there was a clear opening with just one tree stump. Zayn instantely smiled and ran toward that stump, sitting down on it while talking his backpack and placing it beneath his feet. He knew he was going to hear from him soon, but for now he took out his sketchpad and began sketching the tall trees and skyline from his view.

It wasn't long until he heard him coming through one of the openings from the dark trees. 

"Zayn? Zayn you there?"

Zayn looked up from his drawing and smiled up at his friend.

"Hey Liam."

Liam's facial structure softened and relaxed while he smiled back at Zayn.

"I thought you weren't going to show up."

"Nonsense Liam! I'll always visit you. I promised you."

"That's great to hear, I don't want to be lonely."

"You won't have to worry about that poppet, so what have you been up to?"

"Well nothing really, everything is scary from my side of life now... It gets to be really lonely. I'm just glad you're here."

Zayn's throat tightened and he suddenly had the urge to hug his bestfriend, but he physically can't and never will again. He cleared his throat before speaking up again.

"Hey enough of that okay? You know I'll always visit you once a week when I can, you know that. Now come here Lee, lets draw something together."

Liam brightly smiled again and came closer, Zayn quickly making space on the stump for him to sit while Zayn adjusted and put the sketchbook on his lap.

"What are we drawing today, Zayn?"

"The scenery around us, it's beautiful isn't it?"

"Sure is,"

Zayn explained step by step the process to Liam, how you have to use different hand techniques and vision to make a perfect work of art.

Liam looked fondly at Zayn, smiling and paying attention to Zayn's mini art lecture. He always had a feeling that in the future Zayn would become an Art or English teacher or hey maybe even both. He  really hoped that he'd pursue it.

They kept talking about art and music all through the evening until Zayn was too tired and his eyes were half closing in. He said his goodbyes to Liam, promising him again that he'll visit him sometime soon before walking out of the clearing woods and back into the city.

If anyone were to walk in on Zayn and Liam that day, they wouldn't have seen that Liam has his head on Zayn's shoulder while smiling up at him and laughing along to Zayn's corny jokes. Instead, they would have seen only Zayn, laughing and talking to himself like a lunatic. They would think he's gone mad. Except Zayn is not crazy. Not crazy at all.

It's just that he's the only one who could see Liam is all.

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Notes:

Okaaay, this is basically how I wanted to spin off this story through it all. If you're a bit confused, here's a small summary. Zayn is slowly falling for Kate, but while he's still trying to keep (ghost) Liam close to him, and it's been happening for a while now where he thinks Liam is still with him/interacts and that's how they've been socializing. It's basically what's keeping him "sane" for now. It's based very loosely off a novel/film. If you ever saw the movie 'Charlie St. Cloud' you'd know exactly what I'm trying to do/talk about :) (If you don't it's fine, you'll still understand and maybe the whole story will come out as a surprise!). I really love that movie sosososo much you don't understand, it's such a great film and I recommend it for those romance/Zac Efron lovers! ;)

Thank you so much for reading, it means a lot to me. x