Songs for this Chapter:
Suicide - James Arthur
Come & Go - Jessy
I Can't Breathe - Bea Miller
Back to You - Louis Tomlinson, Bebe Rexha, Digital Farm Animals
Consequences - Camila Cabello :'(
After All These Years- Camila Cabello :'(
Never Be the Same - Camila Cabello :'(
Sweet Dreams - Børns
Getting over You - Lauv
Naked - James Arthur
Chapter 22
I blink one time, two times, three times but he is still there. It can not be possible. My eyes move away from him to look at my surroundings. Everything feels like it is moving in fast motion while I sit there motionless in the middle of it all. I feel my breath caught in my throat as my eyes return to him again. He stares back at her with a soft smile. I try to breath again as I press the heels of my hands against my eyes, until all there is flashing colors. All I hear around me is a blur of voices cheering and clapping but on top of it, standing out is his voice. It plays over and over again like a broken record.
"Blaise. Look at me. What's going on? Hey, look at me", Elvis says sitting next to me but he sounds so far away.
I feel his hands take mine gently, removing them from my face and I look at him.
"That is him. That is- That is Malik", I say slowly as I turn to look at the ground. My mouth feels strange, saying his name once again out loud.
"Are you being serious? Fuck, Blaise, I am so sorry. I did not know it was him", he whispers to me with regret and i nod.
"It's okay, it's okay", I answer. I will be okay I tell myself while Elvis holds my hand tightly, unsure of what to do.
I look up again at the stage, back at him. The woman is still talking to him, to us. I breath in, out, in, out; my breathing slowing down again. I let out a shaky breath before I fix my posture but my heart is still racing against my chest.
"Zayn, thank you so much for finally accepting our invitation. Believe it or not, we sent him over five invitations but finally he accepted this one!", she says to the audience with a short laugh and I want to laugh with her, too because I can't believe my luck right now. Of all the invitations he received, he rejected all of them except this one. The one that I would be attending. Out of all the people in New York that could had been the owner of the property next door, it is him.
"Thank you, Josie. It is a pleasure to be here today. I truly appreciated all the invitations but well I am constantly busy", he explains leaving me paralyze at the sound of his voice again. He turns away from her and his eyes start scanning the audience. They move slowly across the room, getting nearer and nearer to us and it feels like I'm about to faint as I wish that his eyes skip me.. "I'm really amazed at the large crowd, you know I-", he says stopping abruptly as his eyes move past mine before they come back to me. I breath hard as I watch his eyes full of surprise and I don't blame him.
"You were saying?", Josie asks him and he looks away down at the ground as he clears his throat and when he looks up again at nothing in particular, his eyes are hard. I feel like I'm being punched by a baseball bat repeatedly as his eyes meet mine again, sending involuntary shivers down my body.
"Zayn?", Josie says.
He clears his throat again and turns to look at her with a smile on his face, his cold expression gone.
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Sinful (Zayn Malik AU)
Fanfic"Damn, you're so boring", he says as smoke from his cigarette rolls out of his mouth in swirls. "I don't need drugs to live, considering they do the opposite", I counter, trailing off a little due to how mesmerizing the smoke and his lips were. "Who...
