When I Look At You (A Zayn Malik Love Story)

Chapter 8 Gotcha!

Zayn's Point of View

At the parking lot after the school

"What a boring day!" Harry said as he stretched his arms as if he wasn't in a school but went to fight a war. Typical Harry.

"Harry I thought you enjoyed a lot here as girls were practically swooning to see you," Niall chuckled as he said. Harry glared at him. Liam and Niall fell down laughing at Harry's expressions. I remained silent. Penny, her song and our kiss was replaying in my mind like forever. I didn't intend to kiss her like that. I just wanted her to know that her song was very special and nice. Her voice was kind of intoxicating. She sang it with such intensity that for some moments I forgot who I was. I was just bound to the song. Just listening to her made me feel like kissing her. Her lips were damn soft and her vanilla flavoured lip gloss or something.....its still there in my mouth. Kissing her was like the worst plus the best thing ever.

"Zayn! Man! What happened?" Niall asked as he patted me on the back.

"Ah nothing. Lets go. I see all the buses have left," I said and got in the car.

"Yeah we should go now. I missed Louis a lot today," Harry said as he got into the front passenger seat. Surely we missed Louis a lot today. In all this school chaos we totally forgot about Louis.

"Well we are going to meet him now. So chill," Liam said and got inside the driver's seat. We all were seated and Liam started off the car.

"I just hope to finish off the homework this time and start writing some songs," Liam's seriousness again kicked in. 

The car just got out of the parking lot that I saw a girl kicking aimlessly on the road. Was it.....

"Hey that's Penny right?" Liam asked. Penny was walking down the bus area. Seeing her Liam stopped the car and pulled down the window.

"Don't be harsh on the road love," Liam said all sweetly to her. Why does he have to be so sweet to her? Can't he be normal? 

I saw Penny bending down to talk to Liam. She was smiling at him. Again! Why does she have to smile at him when I was the one who kissed her? 

Wait wait!! What am I thinking?? Why am I acting so jealous all of a sudden? Penny is just a regular teenger which no special looks. 

But she sang like no one else did. Her smile, her blushing nature.....

God!! Zayn! Snap it out! 

In all this day dreaming I forgot to listen to what Liam was actually talking to Penny. I saw her getting  inside the car. Yup! She missed her bus and we were giving her a lift.

What a hell of a ride this would be.

She sat right beside me. I felt my insides churn like anything. What does this girl do to make me feel like this?

I scratched my neck nervously. She was again blushing. I felt like .......

No no no Zayn! Control!

"Guys this is Penny," Liam said as he motioned to the rest of the guys. 

Harry turned over, took Penny's hand and kissed it. She blushed even more. I cluched my fists. Harry! Dude! Leave this girl atleast!

" A pleasure to meet you," Harry said.

"Its a pleasure to meet you Penny," Niall said and smiled at her. Thank god Niall didn't do what Harry did.

"So Penny where do you live?" Liam asked her.

"23, King'sDown town(imaginary road)," she said. 

And Liam started to drive. I was feeling quite uncomfortable sitting beside her while all others kept on asking her questions. I was silent all the time. She laughed at the questions asked but answered them eventually. I could see Harry, Liam and Niall, all were impressed by her. I knew how they felt. She wasn't those typical fan girl types that we saw in school. She was different. That made her very special.

"So boys what about your new album?" I heard her ask. I looked at her and saw her smiling. Her eyes twinkled when she asked the question.

Zayn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop checking her out! I reminded myself.

"We are going to record some songs in a couple of months," Liam's Daddy Directioner mode kicked in. Remembering of songs, I was writing a song but I was still stuck in the second stanza. I had to write a new song and now cope up school work. Thanks Liam. Thanks a lot to increase our pressure.

All the way in the ride mine and Penny's knees kept on brushing against each other. Whenever there was a speed breaker, her knees brushed against mine and a tinge of electricity passed through us. It felt great. 

Ahhhh!!! I am really becoming crazy. If I don't sort it out with her, I will probably die. 

Immediately I took out a paper from my bag and scribbled a note and my number on it when Penny wasn't looking. Quickly I slipped it into her back pack.

I hope she reads it and calls me.

"And here we are," Liam stopped a car infront of a lighted street. It was nearly five thirty. Penny got out and said thanks to all of us.

Everybody waved her back but I didn't. Thinking why I didn't? Because if I by chance looked at her face then the whole kiss incident will again start replaying in my mind.

Which I don't want.

She walked away and Liam drove us to Louis's place. All the way I was thinking about Penny.

At Louis's Place

"YOU WHAT???????????" It was Liam who was shouting at me.

Yeah I told them everything which happened today between me and Penny. Harry was grinning like an idiot, Louis looking at me patiently and Niall was staring at me with his mouth wide open.

"Liam I was just---" I wanted to say something on my behalf but I realised there actually wasn't anything. 

"Zayn you kissed a girl just like that when the girl didn't even want to. Are you realising that?" Liam said this a bit more patiently.

"Liam dude. Let Zayn speak atleast. Zayn when you heard her singing, by your over whelming emotions you kissed her right?" Louis asked. Louis was damn patient about all this stuff. Thank god that Louis is here otherwise I would have died trying Liam and others understand the situation.

"Yeah. Thats what happened.She sang damn well. Her voice----" Niall cut me off.

"OOOOoo somebody is in love." Niall said in a sing song voice. 

Love??????????????????? Where the hell did it come from????

"Shut up Niall its nothing like that." I said in a don't-make-me-angry voice. I was anyways quite pissed off. It has been like 4 hours that we left Penny at her place and still she didn't call. Maybe she didn't get the note, maybe she doesn't want to talk.....

"Penny is a very nice girl Zayn," Liam started off.

"She is hot!" Harry interrupted. I shooted a death glare at Harry. "What??? By wearing those glasses   makes her look even more hot. Haven't you noticed that Zayn?" Harry said and slapped my back.

"Maybe to you Hazza but to me she is a nice girl," I said.

"But still you kissed her," Harry laughed when he said that.

Yeah! I still kissed her and I liked it. I still want to kiss her. I wanted to say those things but all of a sudden somebody's phone started ringing. It was my phone.

I quicly grabbed it and saw an unknown number. My insides again churned in the anticipation that this might be Penny.

"Lover boy gets a call from lover girl," Niall kept on singing this line over and over again.

I went over to the balacony and picked up the call.

"Helloo?" I asked nervously.

"Helloo? Is this Zayn?" a female voice spoke through the phone. In that instant I knew who it was.

Penny called me afterall.