ABSTRACT • Zayn Malik F.F *EDITING****

Seven.

It was early in the morning, I was barely awake when the door slammed making me quickly jump out of bed. I slowly crept down the stairs because the house went silent after the sudden noise.

"Keegan?" I called out. 

The house remained silent which triggered a sense of paranoia, should I grab an object just in case? 

"Dad?" I called.

Nobody answered my calls, oh god, someone is in the house. 

"Who's there?" I called out again. 

I sound like a typical horror movie yelling out, this is exactly how people get murdered. I make my way to the kitchen and grab a knife, I tip-toe through the living room. I've now gone all around the main floor and upstairs and there is nobody here. Then just like that the toilet flushes in the powder room and my heart begins to race. I slowly walked behind the door where it would open, this way whoever it is will get attacked. 

The door opens and I scream.

"Jesus! What the fuck are you doing?" Keegan yells at me, I drop the knife onto the floor and hug him tightly. He pushes away from me and looks at me in disgust.

"You're fucking insane, get away from me." he says walking towards the stairs.

"I didn't mean to scare you but I called your name out and you didn't answer. I thought someone broke in and was going to hurt me!" I explained.

"Calm down Rambo, I didn't answer because I had to piss." he said walking up the stairs to his bedroom.

I rolled my eyes and ignored his sarcastic comment, he was being ignorant. He gets like this sometimes, he explodes and ignores people for days. Keegan is independent but he fails to recognize how distant it makes him.

I didn't bother him for the afternoon, he would just become more angry. Maybe he needed time to recover from yesterday, I'd be embarrassed if it were me being caught in the act. So I did just that, I left him be for the day and decided that he would reach out if he really needed me.

***

I went to art class later in the day and as soon as I pulled into the parking lot Jane ran towards me. She looked different today, a little more done up than usual.

"Hey Stel! How has things with Zayn been going?" she asked me. I thought about it for a minute trying to figure out some random things I could tell her about him, I decided to just explain the situation to her, I'm sure she'd understand.

"Things have been good, just trying to find out more for him for you. We haven't really done a lot of the project if I'm honest, life's been crazy." I explained.

"It must be nice to be getting to know him..." she sighed, her body language changed and she became distant. 

"We've just been working on the project Jane, don't worry." I explained.

She nodded her and tapped her foot a bit, I could see she was a bit anxious. 

"He likes R&B and enjoys spray painting." I told her.

"That's all you know? You've hung out twice." she expression flipped to eagerness just by hearing the slightest bit of information about Zayn. 

"I really like him Stella." she says.

"I get that, you know you should just hold off on getting feelings because you barely know him Jane." I don't mean to be rude to her but she is living in a fantasy; what if he is actually in a relationship? I never even asked...

"I think he's sexy and mysterious Stel, I'm going off my intuition." she explained.

"Are you insane? What if he wasn't something you imagined." 

Jane laughed, "Well clearly he isn't because you've hung out with him twice and you're still alive to tell the tale! The very daft, non-descriptive, boring tale." she continued to laugh.

"Look can you at least get me a date soon?" she pleaded. I wanted to help her, but for some reason I felt bad for Zayn, she was really clingy and sort of creepy about it. I saw the way Zayn looked at her yesterday and he looked unimpressed.

I coughed out the awkward silence that happened after she asked me that. I didn't want to give her the answer I wanted to, but I said I'll try. She proceeded to give me a huge hug and was ridiculously enthusiastic the rest of class. 

Zayn might say yes to a date with Jane, that would be great! If they went on one date she might realize she doesn't like him, or she'll realize she does...