I Would (Ziall)

Chapter 12

 "Is it true what they're saying?" Jake repeated.

"No of course not! Last night was a mistake!" Niall said trying to convince him. Zayn mumbled something incoherent under his breath. He pulled on his hair again. Niall swore that if Zayn kept doing that he'd have no hair left. He started to walk away.

"Zayn, where are you going?" Niall called out.

"You and your boyfriend clearly need to talk about stuff. So I'm going to let you's be," he replied, shaking his head. If he doesn't stop shaking his head he's going to have neck problems when he's older.

"What about breakfast?" Niall asked him.

"Maybe another time?" He suggested weakly, as if he was giving up on something.

"No, now," Niall told him. "Jake we'll talk later," Niall spoke and started walking towards the waiting Zayn. Suddenly, Jakes hand wrapped tightly around his wrist and pulled Niall back towards him.

"No. I'm your boyfriend and I say we talk now," Jake said sternly.

"No. I'm my own person and I say we talk later because I'm going to breakfast with Zayn now." Niall ripped my wrist from his grasp and once again began towards Zayn.

"Take your pick Niall. Me, your loving boyfriend who loves you very much. Or him, that messed up freak who you couldn't stand yesterday. You can only have one of us," Jake said. Niall's jaw dropped as he looked between the two boys. Jake was honestly going to make him choose?

"Niall go to your boyfriend," Zayn shook his head, pulling at his hair again. Niall wished he'd stop doing that! He'll be bald before he's 20!

"It's not like I'm not used to people leaving me," Zayn muttered under his breath quietly, thinking that Niall couldn't hear him. He continued staring at the floor, shaking his head. He looked like he honestly needed help. Niall looked over to Jake to see him standing there with a smug grin on his face, as if he just KNEW Niall was going to pick him. Niall, once again, looked over to the distressed boy who was nervously kicking his feet against the floor. Mr. Bad Boy isn't so bad anymore. Niall walked over to Zayn and raised his head with my finger. Niall stared into his eyes, to see that his eyes were full of tears.

"What did you mean by it's not like you're not used to people leaving?" Niall asked quietly.

"Nothing it's nothing," he whispered. Niall wiped the tears away from his eyes before walking away from him and towards Jake. Jake had a victory smirk on his face.

"Aww look at the little cry baby!" Jake taunted. "It upsets him to see Niall leave him the same way his mother did when he was 6." Jake sneered. Niall ignored Jake and kissed him on the cheek. "Goodbye," he whispered leaving him shell-shocked. "Oh and by the way," Niall reached my hand up and slapped him across the face. "Don't be such a jerk," he hissed at him. Jake quickly regained his composure before he continued taunting Zayn. By this time the boys came out to see what was going on.

"Only your mother didn't just leave you? Did she Zayn? She abandoned you. For a whole 2 years and then she came back. She took you in. She left you to go and have the precious little girls she always wanted, didn't she? Only she couldn't leave you behind. She came back. And your step-father didn't treat you too good either, did he? I'm sure what he did was meant to feel good but you resisted. And you know what he did when you resisted don't you?" By now Zayn was full of sobbing. He was sitting on the floor with his back against the wall, his head in his hands which he had buried in his knees. Niall turned back to see the other boys trying to comfort him. They really were the best friends.

"Shall we tell all this lovely people what your step-father did to you Zayn? Tell them how he made you feel unwanted? Unloved? How you became depressed? Suicidal? How you began self-harming? Shall we tell them how THE bad boy Zayn Malik isn't as bad and as tough as they all thought he was? Or maybe about how his sister has cancer? And how his mother shipped him off to boarding school because she couldn't stand looking at him because he looks so like his sister? Shall we tell them all?" Jake said, gesturing to Niall and his friends.

"Jake. Stop. You've took it too far," Niall said.

"Me? I took it too far?" He asked. "What about you? You chose that messed up freak over your own boyfriend."

"Ex-boyfriend," Niall corrected. "I thought you had changed Jake. But I was wrong. You're still that low life, self-centred dick that you were when we were back in Mullingar. You haven't changed in the slightest Jake. And honestly, I'm not that surprised," Niall said calmly. He walked over to the now shaking Zayn. He took one look between the two boys and knew he made the right decision.

"Oh and by the way Jake. Don't think I don't know about all the sluts that you've been sleeping around with," he said. "You were never honest from the start. I don't know why I expected you to change." Niall shook his head at him disappointed. He helped Zayn up and hugged him tightly. He broke down in younger boy's arms.

"Brilliant. Now everyone is going to think that I'm a messed-up freak and will be giving me pity looks for the rest of the year,' he mumbled.

"Sometimes pity helps,' Niall replied.

"I could do with the help, not the pity," he muttered.

"Come one let's go get that breakfast. My treat," Niall grinned at him. He wiped his eyes with his sleeves.

"No, I'm paying it was my idea in the first place," he countered. Darragh, Dylan, Seán, Justin, Josh, Dan and Phil all slapped £5 pound into our hands.

"We're paying. Now shut up and go," they said pushing the two boys.

'We can't take this," Zayn protested shakily. Instead of replying, they shoved them into the elevator and pressed the button, waving goodbye to them. Niall turned to Zayn and grinned.

"Now where is this cute little café you were telling me about?"

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I know what you're thinking! 2 updates in one day :O

This is short but only because I wanted to give you guys an insight into Zayn's home life. I'll explain in another chapter about how Jake found out everything and Zayn'll explain it all anyway. This will be the last I update for a while because I have  the J.C. this year so it's gonna be hard to fit in writing. It was hard enough as it was before all the extra studying. I hope I get to update soon! I love you all!

Love and Merry Christmas!
Bronwynne :)xx