treat you better | UNDER EDITING

chapter one

perrie smiled widely, making her way towards the front door of zayn's house. She rang the doorbell twice and took a step back, looking up as the door opened, revealing Zayn's mother.

"hello perrie, come in." zayn's mother moved out of the doorway, letting perrie in. perrie smiled at her, walking in and looked around the house before looking at trisha.

"thank you mrs. malik, Is zayn ready or do I need to go up and yell at him?"

trisha opened her mouth to say something but the two was interrupted by zayn as he came running down the stairs, tackling perrie to the ground.

perrie let out a soft scream, lifting her arms to push zayn away.

"zee! get off of me!"

"not until you say 'zayn malik is the sexiest man alive'" zayn smirked, looking down at perrie as he had her pinned down to the ground.

"but that'll be lying, zayn!" perrie laughed but shook her head, glaring up at zayn playfully. "okay okay, zayn malik is the sexiest man alive" she gave up, pouting slightly.

"that's more like it." zayn got up from perrie and helped perrie up, kissing her forehead. perrie narrowed her eyes, bringing her her hand up to hit zayn but groaned as zayn's mother interrupted them.

"okay you two, break it up."

"trisha! why? I was about to smack him"

trisha chuckled as zayn came running up to her, sticking his tongue out at perrie but gasped as trisha smacked the back of his head.

"ow mum!" zayn pouted, walking up to the coat hanger, grabbing his jacket, putting it on and playfully glares at perrie as she let's out a quiet laugh. He shook his head, smiling and turned to look at his mum.

"I'll text you when I'm coming back home. Love you" zayn kissed his mum's cheek, grabbing Perrie's hand and walked out of the house before perrie telling trisha her goodbyes.

perrie held onto zayn's hand, swinging it back and forth as they walked towards the park. zayn smiled, glancing at perrie.

the thing is, zayn likes perrie. he always had feelings for her since their freshman year and now that they're seniors it's harder to keep his feelings for her in. perrie would never love zayn the way he loves her, she only thinks of him as a brother.

zayn shook away the thoughts, he shouldn't really think so negative. he should have hope. Everyone needs a little hope in their lives, right?

"I can't wait until you meet him, he s-"

zayn raised an eyebrow, turning to look at perrie.

"who? sorry I wasn't listening.."

Perrie shook her head and giggled, walking up to the swings, sitting down, she looked up at zayn. "alex, my boyfriend"

zayn frozed, his heart shattering but he looked at perrie and gave her a fake smile. "oh."

He really didn't know what to say, the one person he truly loves was in a relationship. now he's in deep shit, he sighed quietly, sitting in the free swing, next to perrie.

"he's coming to our school, I'm so excited. You'll like him, trust me."

Zayn held in a scoff but gave her a nod and a fake grin. "I hope so"

Perrie started swinging faster, looking up at the sky as she does so, not noticing zayn's frown.

Perrie soon stopped swinging and stood up, smiling widely. "Why don't I call him and he could meet us now? I really want you to meet him, zee."

Zayn wanted to say no, he really did but seeing perrie all happy and excited he didn't want to make her upset so he agreed.

"sure, perrie! I would love to meet the man that's making my perrie winkle happy."

zayn made a gagging face look, as perrie turned around, calling her boyfriend.

As soon as she ended the call, she spun around, grinning from ear to ear.

"He doesn't live far so he'll be here in two minutes, we have to meet him at the ice cream parlor" perrie grabbed zayn's hand, pulling him up from the swing and dragged him to the ice cream parlor that was two blocks away from the park.

Perrie pushed the door open, smiling and walked up to the counter with say, looking down at the flavors. She looked up at the man, making her order and turned to zayn. "Want anything? My treat."

Zayn smiled, shaking her head. "no thanks, I'm good"

Perrie pouted but nodded, giving the man her change. She grabbed her ice cream cone, thanking the man and walked to the table, sitting down across from zayn. Zayn ran his fingers through his hair and held his breath as the door opened, letting the bell ring. He looked up to see a tall, dark man, very buff walking up to their table.

Zayn looked down at his body, feeling a bit tad insecure but shook it off, looking up at perrie as she had a large smile on her face, getting up and hugged the man, kissing his lips softly.

Zayn frowned, looking down at his hands before getting up, giving Perrie's boyfriend a smile, shaking his hand as he offered it to zayn.

"hey man, I'm Alex"

"zayn. nice to meet you"

"same here mate"

zayn sat back down, looking between perrie and alex, frowning as perrie kissed alex repeatedly on the lips.

'I wish that was me.." zayn thought as he let his head down on the table.