The Demons Inside. [ZM AU]

Ch: 17 || Dreams.

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[Siva]

We're back in Bradford now to check on Patricia and Lucy for the last time before Jay's and my trip to my home town in Ireland-and it has never been more painful. We drove from down south Cornwall to up north Bradford in just one night, which took such a long time-but we're here now. It's a completely different scenery from the beaches that we were staying near in Cornwall. We're back in a rough city now-a city we like to call home.

Jay and I are both laying low, hoping not to catch any eyes of local police-and we're also wearing disguises too, just to be on the safe side. Jay's messy curls are straighten jet black right now from a weekly dye that he brought from a market stall, while I've got strawberry blonde messy hair. I have the urge to style it into the normal sleek quiff it is usually, but that would blow our cover. We're both wearing contacts; me blue and Jay has green. We do look rather strange.

As Jay goes to ring the doorbell of Malik's old home, I stay back to make sure there is nobody lurking about-just in case. Nikki opens the door, looking confused as ever.

"Hi. Can we come in?" I ask quite timidly, hoping she would figure out it was Jay and I... and she clearly didn't-which meant our disguises are working-and she was just about to slaw the door in our faces before Patrica comes running down the stairs, smiling widely. Unlike Nikki, she reacts differently.

"Come-come in boys! It's lovely to see you both!"

Once we were safely inside, we were embraced by this small bubbly woman, who's features may resemblance to her sons but her personality certainly doesn't. She wears a smile that Zayn sometimes forgets to put on. If only he did smile a bit more, maybe he wouldn't be as heartless... Well, ever since Sophia came into his life, he's changed for the better.

"How have you been, Patricia?" I ask her after she has led us into the familiar kitchen-Nikki was trailing behind still confused, and I really don't blame her.

"I've been okay, yeah... and you guys? Have you been keeping well?" Patricia asks as if our lives were interesting-not without the other guys, it isn't.

"Yeah. I guess you can say that... so you told Harry then, did you?" Jay leaned back crossing his arms against his chest as he stared at Patricia's small character. She sighed but nodded slowly. Wow, so she did it? Wow.

"I did actually. He took it... surprisingly well-"

"-why are you talking about Harry to some strangers, Patricia?" Nikki gasped looking at us both in alarm and I couldn't help but chuckle along with Jay.

"They're not strangers-they're people you know. Jay McGuiness and Siva Kaneswaran." Patricia shakes her head at probably how oblivious Nikki is. Nikki gasps once again looking at us both intensly then she gasps another time. She comes ahead and reaches upwards to touch Jay's hair, and her green eyes are now wide with shock.

"What the heck happened to you both?!" she gapes at us, looking like a goldfish to be honest.

"Well love, since we're criminals to the police's eyes in all of the United Kingdom-it would seem best to be in disguises, like we are in now." Jay was losing patience with her too and that was for own personal reasons.

It was because Nathan's heart was torn apart by this chic-and Nathan has always been closer to Jay... for no apparent reason. Jay and I are best friends, max and Tom-ish. Tom and Zayn-ish. Nathan and well, no-one? I don't know-our relationships are very confusing at times! We wouldn't turn on one of our friends though, that's a fact.