Broken // Zayn

Chapter Twenty Five

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"You're sure you're okay staying here alone?" Louis asked as I laid on the bed with an ice pack on my nose. It just recently stopped gushing blood and I had to ice it to make the swelling go down.

I nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine." I took the ice off of my face and sat up. "How does it look now?" I questioned, looking up at him.

He put his finger on my chin and tilted my head upwards to get a better look. He squinted, looking at my nose. "Uh...it looks better but still a little swollen. And red. I'd keep icing it if I were you." Louis pat my shoulder comfortingly as he exited. "Need anything, love?"

"No thanks, I'm good." I shook my head and he nodded. I laid back down and he left. Harry came in soon after.

"I really am sorry." Harry sat down in front of me as I peeled the ice pack off my face. He looked very genuine. I could tell he really felt bad about what happened because he and Zayn were the ones who let me go down a slightly tilted route. It was a small hill and Zayn thought I might've broken my nose. I didn't think so, though, just bruised.

I gave him a small smile, "It's okay. It was my fault, I wasn't looking where I was going." I blamed me and my uncoordinated self entirely for what happened. I got overexcited and turned away from what I was supposed to be looking at.

He smiled back. Liam called everyone to go so Harry leaned over and planted a tiny kiss on my forehead. "Bye, I'll see you later." he waved as he left our room.

"Bye!" I called after him and to everyone else.

They replied the same to me. I laid back down on my pillow and put the ice on my face while holding my phone up high to see Twitter. Some girl across the street was recording this whole One Direction experience as we were skating and got all of it on video, up until we went back to the hotel. It was mildly embarrassing to have like all of the world see how much of a fail you were but after watching it a few times, I understood how hilarious it was. It still hurt like heck, though.

Throughout my notifications, I just saw the words 'are you okay' and 'how's your face'. Earlier, I tweeted about how accident prone I was with a picture of myself covering my face with this massive ice pack.

I didn't know why this made the fans like me more or stop hating me at least. I usually got a lot of hate for absolutely no reason, but it died down since the rash incident. They probably just thought I was a total spaz. Well, I was a total spaz. Seemed like whenever I got hurt, they pitied me, and then a lot of them liked me because they feel bad for me.

I saw this one tweet that had a picture attached to it. I clicked on it and saw that it was an edit of Zayn and I. It was today when he was holding my hand while we were skating before I fell, but Harry was cut out of the photo. It was in black and white and Zayn was looking down at me while smiling widely and I was looking forwards, seeming slightly panicked. My helmet, I remembered, was too big on my small head and it slouched on one side, making me look even more inexperienced. It was taken with some sort of fancy camera, I could tell, the photo came out nice - like a paparazzi camera or something. That meant that more people were around and probably took pictures. It was still a cute picture.

Then I saw one of Harry and I. It was brightened up and there was a light leak in the corner. Once again, my helmet was sagging to the side and we were holding hands. I was not smiling but I looked like I was about to scream. Harry was slightly raising our hands in the air in a 'yay, woo' sort of way. Zayn was cut out of the picture.

There was this one tweet that said, 'fav for Harry, rt for Zayn' talking about my 'relationship' with the both of them and it had two hundred eight favorites and two hundred thirty one retweets. I didn't know that many people shipped me with Harry as well as Zayn. Zayn was with someone and some fans were telling us and Perrie that they shouldn't be together, but Zaylister should. That was kind of rude, honestly, to be saying that to Perrie.