The Abandoned Hallway (Larry Stylinson)

Chapter 3

                               ~~~Previously in 'The Abandoned Hallway'~~~

His face looks surprised. "Really?! You actually mean that?" I smile. "Yeah mate, you don't have to tell me if you feel that strongly about it." His eyes instantly light up and he smiles. "Thank you so much Zayn. I don't know what I would do without you!" "No problem Liam. After all what are best mates for?"

~ The next day ~

~ Zayn's POV ~

Bang! Bang! Bang!

I jolt up out of my bed. "HOW MANY TIMES TO I HAVE TO SAY IT ZAYN?! GET UP NOW!!!" My eyes instantly widen. "I'm up dad!" I hear him storm down the stairs. Well.. time to get up I thought to myself. After I am all ready, I go downstairs. "Morning Mum." I smile and kiss her on the cheek. "Morning Zayn. Make sure you have something to eat!" She says after I walk out the door. "I will Mum!" I yell back and close the door. I get in my car and head towards Liam's. Me and Liam always go in my car because Liam is such a clean freak with his. "Liam I'm here." I say into my phone. Liam hangs up and is out the door in a second.

"Hey man, how are you today?" I say. Liam looks at me and smiles. "I'm doing great. Wait a second.." Liam looks at me with his eyebrows furrowed. I wonder what he's looking at? "Liam what are you looking at?" "You look different today for some reason Zayn." I immediately look in my mirror. My eyes widen. "Zayn calm down man, everyone forgets to do their hair every once in a while!" I look at him. "But Liam, It's me! I never forget to do my hair!" He looks at me. "Come here" He says. I listen to him. "Good thing I never forget to bring your gel just incase!" I look at him weirdly. "What? It's better than having your hair look like that, which is fine! But since I knew you would one day, I always bring some with me!" Liam then grabs a bottle of hair gel out of his bag. It's the exact same kind I get. I smile. "Thanks Liam, Don't know what I would do without you."

He just hands me the bottle and looks away. What's wrong with him today? I shrug and drive away. "What about your hair?" Liam looks at me like I have grown another head. "I don't want to get gel on the steering wheel. It could cause an accident. Geez Liam, what happened to you being the clean and safety freak?" He just smiles and shakes his head. "I let it slip my mind" He looks away after that. We pull up to the school. On our way here, we got something to eat and I forgot all about my hair. "Uh Zayn?" Liam says when we're in school. "Yeah?" "You forgot again..." I stop and my eyes widen. I look around and see everyone staring at me, but their stares are different than before. They look almost... happy?

"Liam, why are they looking at me like that?" He responds with, "It's cause it looks really nice without the gel.." I look at him now. His eyes look sincere, his voice sounded honest and I look at the people around us who heard and they nodded. "I guess one day without it wouldn't hurt." I say smiling. He smiles this breathtaking smile. Whoa...what? We start walking again and everyone seems to not be afraid of me. I actually like the feeling of them not being afraid. The only reason I made them scared was because of my dad. He always told me 'in order to accomplish something, you need to be strong and feared'. I always thought it was wrong.

When I mentioned this to my dad he would beat me. That's why I have a reputation. That's why people are afraid of me. That's why I can't accomplish anything. "Zayn, you alright? We need to get to class." I shook the thoughts away and started walking to class with Liam. On our way there, girls were giggling and whispering to each other when I looked at them, guys smiled and said hi to me and Liam reassured me every time I thought about fixing my hair. He would rub my back in order to calm me down. People still moved out of the way, but in a kind and polite way. Not a scared and he's going to kill me if I don't move way.

By the time it was lunch, I wanted to fix my hair. It kept on falling in front of my eyes and was annoying. After I fixed my hair I found Liam and he looked...disappointed? I shrugged it off and sat down with him. I looked around and when I did I noticed everyone didn't look at me anymore. My eyebrows furrowed. "Why don't they want to look at me anymore Liam?" He looked at me and sighed. "It's because you look too intimidating instead of adorable." he slams his hand on his mouth and looks at me wide eyed. My eyes are wide too. What do I say? Uhh, think of something Malik. "Liam.." He stands up and starts to walk away.

"Liam! We could really talk it through!" Liam looks back at me. "This is what I couldn't tell you." He whispers and runs out of lunch. "Hey! Everyone listen up!" I yell. All the conversations stop and everyone is looking at me. "Now I need all your help to find Liam. We need to talk about something he said on accident and he thinks it bothers me. It doesn't though and I need to tell him that!" One kid stands up and walks towards me. "If you don't mind but, what exactly did Liam say?" He asks. I sigh. "He said that none of you will look at me with my hair like this is because I look too intimidating instead of adorable. Then he ran off. I just need to talk to him." I say. By the last sentence my voice wavers and I look at the ground.

"Don't worry Zayn, we'll help you find him!" He says and claps a hand on my shoulder. About a quarter of students were finished with lunch and went looking for Liam. "Zayn! We found him, but he won't come out!" The same kid from earlier says. I immediately start running behind him as he leads me to one of the bathrooms. "No, I can't go talk to him! He probably hates me by now!" I hear Liam say. I run in and see another kid trying to get him out of here. Liam looks at me. I run full force and koala hug him. "Don't you ever scare me like that again Liam." I whisper in his ears and the tears stream down my face. Not caring there were two other guys watching.

"Liam I don't hate you. I could never ever hate you!" We get up and I look in the mirror. I now notice how intimidating I look. I look like my father. Everyone knows him and is scared of him. I mess up my hair to how it was when I woke up. Liam smiled at me and pulled me into a hug. "I'm glad your not mad Zayn." "How come you were afraid to tell me this Liam?" He looks down. "Because if you knew I was gay, you would beat me up like the others.." I look at him. He's crying and it all clicks. I lift his chin up with my index finger and looked him in the eyes.

"Liam, my father made me do those things to them. If I didn't listen, I would be beat until I was unconscious." I then wiped his cheeks. "I have a secret for you too Liam." He gives me a questionable look. I lean to his ear and whisper, "I'm gay too." I lean back and smile. He looks so shocked. Guess it's time to shock him more. I think evilly to myself. 

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What? Any who, what do you think is going to happen? Is Zayn really gay or is he playing with Liam's mind? Guess you should wait and find out! ^-^

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I might update again tonight. I'm in an updatey mood! xD

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~ Carly ♥♥