treat you better | UNDER EDITING

chapter three

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zayn groaned, rolling onto his side and turned his alarm off. he layed his head back down, not wanting to get up, he goes back to to sleep for three more minutes.

"zayn! you're going to be late for school if you don't get up." zayn heard his mother yell outside his bedroom door, he let out a sigh, slowly getting up. he stretched, letting out a loud yawn. he looked at the alarm clock, his eyes widening as he saw the time. shit, he's definitely going to be late.

He ran quickly to his closet, putting on a white shirt and took his sweats off, pulling on a pair of black jeans. He grabbed his shoes, putting them on. He walked quickly to the bathroom, grabbing his toothbrush and began brushing his teeth. Once he was done with that, he grabbed the comb, brushing his hair into a quiff.

"zayn, hurry up, you're going to miss homeroom!" one of his sisters calls out, reminding him how late he's already going to be. zayn groaned and walked out of the bathroom, going back to his room and grabbed his leather jacket and backpack.

"finally the sleeping beauty has woken up." his mother said as she saw zayn running quickly down the stairs. zayn rolled his eyes and walked up his mum, kissing her cheek and kisses his sisters heads as a goodbye.

"bye mum, bye my little bugs. have fun at school."

"bye zayn!" his mum and sisters yelled out once zayn had left the house. he walked two blocks and waited by the bus stop so Louis could pick him up. It's like a routine, zayn would walk all the way to the bus stop and wait for Louis to pick him up.

Zayn sat on the bench, taking his phone out and checked the time. zayn rubbed his eyes, putting his phone away.

"honk honk bitch, get in"

Zayn looked up, seeing louis smirking at him. zayn chuckled, getting up and walked to the car, getting in the passenger seat.

"at least be more polite about it, arse"

"honk honk bitch get in the car, please?" louis glanced at zayn, giving him a smug look before driving towards the school.

Zayn shook his head, putting on his jacket. he placed his backpack on his lap and looked at Louis.

"you don't have to be so rude, lewis"

" shut up zack milk"

"it's zayn malik"

"shut up zen"

zayn looked at Louis as he parked the car, giving him a look before the two of  them bursting out laughing. once they had calmed down, zayn had gotten out of the car, holding onto his backpack strap. he looked around, smiling slightly as he saw perrie but his smile faded once he saw alex standing next to her with his arm around her.

louis came up to him, looking at zayn with a sad smile. "come on, let's go."

Zayn nodded at Louis, walking inside the school's building and ignored Perrie's calls out for him. yes it was a dick move, but he couldn't bear to see her, not now at least. zayn walked to his locker after him and Louis parted their ways, considering Louis had to go find his boyfriend, Harry.

zayn opened up his locker, grabbing his history book and shut his locker door, jumping slightly as a pair of beautiful ocean blue eyes were staring at him.

"jesus perrie, you scared me"

"and you ignored me."

Zayn bit his lip  nervously. he opened his bag, putting his book inside before closing his bag again. "no I didn't."

"yes you did, I know you heard me too. you glanced at me before you walked into the building."

"sorry pez, I didn't know that was you really.."  zayn lied, he hated lying to her but he just can't help it.

"promise?"  she held up her pinky, making zayn chuckle.

"promise." he linked his pinky with hers and pulled it away as alex came up to them. he gave zayn a nod before turning to perrie.

"hey babe, can you show me where the attendance office is?"

Zayn could hear the jealously in Alex's voice, zayn shrugged it off. he turned to perrie and smiled.

"I'll see you later, pez. bye alex"

"bye zee!"

Zayn smiled, walking up to the third floor, heading to his first period class; english.

He loved English. He loved anything that had to do with writing. His most favorite thing to do is write, apart from drawing of course. he walked into class, going to the back  and sat on the last seat.

he loved the back row, nobody really talks to much. zayn set his bag down and sat down on the chair. He took his notebook and pencil out, opening the notebook to a new page, he began writing the prompt that was on the board.

' do happy ending exist?'

zayn stared down down at his paper. he always thought happy endings were stupid and were only on films.
He hated talking about happy endings or true love because he could never give anyone an true answer.

zayn sighed quietly, picking up his pencil he began writing what he felt about 'happy endings'.

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Zayn walked out of this fourth period class and heading to his locker quickly. he did his combination and opened it. he grabbed his lunch bag, putting his English and math book back in his locker and shut it closed. He held onto his lunch and walked towards the cafeteria.

He spotted his group of friends at their usual spot and started walking towards the table. He sat down next to Liam, one of his best friends since middle school. Liam had gotten bullied and zayn, one day came and stood up for him and ever since we then, Liam had joined zayn, Louis and Niall, who had been best friend with them since kindergarten, in their little group.

"sup guys."

"hey zayn." Liam smiled, taking a bite of his pizza.

"hi zaynie kins" niall chuckled at louis nickname for him and gave zayn a small nod, taking a bite of his burger.

"hey boo bear" he looked at Louis, smirking as he gave zayn a glare. zayn smiled as Harry whispered in louis' ear, making him blush.

"telling louis dirty shit, eh? keep your kinky things in the bedroom please?"

zayn put his hands up in defense as Louis went to punch him and chuckled, seeing Harry's red flushed face.

"hey guys!" zayn looked up and saw perrie sat next to niall.

"hi perrie." everyone said in unison, causing the boys to laugh. perrie giggled, putting her hair back in a ponytail.

"Where's alex?" zayn asked, taking his apple from niall, who had stolen it from his bag.

"he had to stay in, the teacher needed to speak to him."

The boys nodded and Louis looked at perrie. "how long have you and him been dating?" zayn looked up at Louis, but sighed as perrie smiled widely.

"Three months."

Zayn looked up at perrie quickly. "What? Why didn't you tell me?"

Perrie but her lip, shrugging."wasn't ready to tell anyone yet."

Zayn nodded slowly, feeling a bit  hurt that perrie didn't tell him. They told each other everything.

Zayn cleared his throat and looked at louis. "I'm going to take your advice and I'm going to ask out Gigi."

Louis grinned, "alright man, Gigi's really  cute, she's also pretty sweet."

Zayn chuckled, nodding and took a chip from niall's bag, eating it. he glanced at Gigi's table, smiling as he sees her in her cheerleading uniform only to miss perrie staring at him with a frown on her face.