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Chapter Eighteen // Sent

The night before Christmas Eve...

"When were you going to tell me?" Zayn asks showing me the threatening emails from the sender.

"I already know who it is! It's Sarah!"

"So? I know that too but she shouldn't be sending this shit!" He yells as I feel myself start to cry.

I honestly hate crying in front of him but it seems to be the only thing I do.

He pulls out his phone and yells into it. I can already hear Sarah sobbing in the background muttering a bunch of sorry's.

"Why didn't you tell me, dammit!"

"Zayn! I don't have to tell you everything!" I yell back.

"Yes but when there is a girl out there that has it out for you, I think I have a right to know!"

There are plenty of reasons why I wasn't going to tell him.

"You would go crazy! I didn't want you to get hurt..." I say softer as his eyes soften a bit.

"I'm sorry... I know I can be a little crazy at times but I just worry about you, Shaylen." He says hugging me.

There are knocks at the door breaking Zayn and I from our embrace and Zayn's dad is on his feet to answer it.

Out of nowhere, my mother is here shouting and yelling.

"Shaylen! What were you thinking? It is almosy Christmas, you need to come home right now! Well, poor Liam is waiting on you to arrive, come on!"

"What? Mom! I am obviously staying here." I say crossing my arms.

"You are not staying in this house. You are coming with me!"

"What's going on?" Zayn's mother asks emerging from the stairs.

"This sad excuse of a boy is sleeping and messing around with my daughter and I simply will not have it!" She yells.

"That 'sad excuse of a boy' is my son!" Zayn's father fires back.

"Well no wonder! You two live in a house like this! Come on, Shaylen. It will take 3 simple hours to get back to London."

"I told you I am staying here." I stand my ground.

"You have some nerve, Shaylen. Coming all the way here to Bradford not even thinking that Liam was going to tell me."

"I don't care about Liam anymore! We were friends until he split Louis, him, and I apart! That was a long time ago!" I spit.

With the fight Zayn and I just had to this fight now, it is all too much.

"How dare you come into my household and yell like this! You must have some gut, Mrs. Adams." Mrs. Malik sneers.

"And I assume you're okay with them sleeping together and living together?"

"They are not living together yet! And what they do together and with each other is none of my business."

"Well it is mine! My daughter is dating a hoodlum! Come home right now, Shaylen."

That's it.

"I am done being pushed around, mother! Honestly, if I was rebelling against you, don't you think I would have come home by now? I love him and he loves me, I know it! Can you just stop! You're embarrassing not only yourself but me included!"

"I don't even know who you are, Shaylen. What happened to the girl who I dropped off at College 2 years ago?"

"She's gone. She's much better than you could imagine." I say as Zayn digs his fingernails into my sides.

"You will regret everything, Shaylen. He is just playing you and you are too young and naïve to notice. You will come crawling back to me. I just know it."

With that, I realize my once loving mother is now replaced with some sort of control freak.

I honestly cannot believe that I once knew her as a sweet and loving woman but she is now replaced with bitter and anger.

"Are you alright, Shaylen?" Zayn's mother asks horrified by my mother's actions.

"I'm okay. Her words don't hurt me," I sigh sitting on the couch. "I am terribly sorry for her yelling and being rude a day before Christmas Eve."

"Don't be silly, Shaylen! It honestly is no big deal, she just wants to do what is best for you."

"What?!" Zayn spits at his mother.

"What, Zayn?"

"How could you say that?! Are you on her side all of a sudden?"

"No, you know I would never say anything like that. I am just saying that a mother's best interest is to be protective of their child, which is completely understandable."

"What the fuck does that mean?!"

"Zayn, don't use that tone with your mum." Zayn's dad sayings stepping out of his office.

"I don't understand what she means!" Zayn yells and trails off as I rush behind him.

In an attempt to calm him down, I run my hands through his short black hair.

"I can't believe them!" Zayn yells again swatting my hand away.

Well that went well.

He grabs pillows and throws them on the floor. He trashes the whole room in anger as I sit on the desk and watch him.

How he takes his anger out.

If this is what it takes.

Zayn turns to me with red eyes and he pushes me against a wall.

This is not how I thought this would go.

He raises his fist and I whimper, flinching away from him.

A flash of a mix between hurt and fear shine in his eyes and he moves away from me.

"Y-You thought I was going to hit you?"

"No but you were very angry..." I truthfully say.

"Well I would never... Shaylen."

"I know that now. I just thought that you might. I mean, look at this room." I say motioning to the whole room.

It is completely wrecked. The pillows are flung all over the place, the chair is upside down on the other side of the room. And there is a dent in the wall.

"Shay... Please baby come here." He says opening his arms.

"I didn't think you were actually going to hit me. It's just a reflex..."

He wraps his arms around my shoulders and holds me close.

"I-I know. I should have known not to do that. I'm sorry." He says kissing my forehead.

"I'm sorry too. But you might want to say sorry to your mom and dad."

"I will apologize to them later. I am sure they anticipated it at some point." He jokes.

"Yeah." I half-heartly laugh.

"So are you going to tell me what happened with you, Liam, and Louis?"

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