He's No Good - Zayn Malik

Chapter 55: Coffee

Chapter 34: Apartment search is back up! (to the ones of you who know it dissapeared)



Sorry it has been a while :/
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Friday at school during social studies we are called for assembling in the sports hall over the speakers, having most of the students in this class groan in annoyance.


As Niall explains to me, they have 3 assemblies a year, that almost fall every 3 months before summer - mainly for the principle to sort of talk about the school and students' ups and downs, and to try and keep us motivated and so on. 


I have been here for almost 3 months. It feels like more somehow - and yet.


Chairs have been lined up in the sports shall, facing a single microphone stand for the principle. Half of the seats already taken by the students who are streaming in through the doors, reminding me that this school is actually pretty big.


That said, I seem to have lost Niall. I don't spot his dirty blonde head anywhere in the crowd of students, but I spot another familiar and very handsome face instead.


Zayn has just entered, looking rather bored until we lock eyes, where his face lights up in a smile as he approaches me. He's wearing a beanie today, his soft dark hair sticking out under it in the most adorable yet sexy way, along with a red plaid shirt with his sleeves rolled up, on top of a white T-shirt.


I can't help but notice how good he looks in red.


- "Hey," he says into my ear as his hand finds mine, and he slowly laces his fingers through mine as we find a place to sit -  but being too focused on the fact that his skin is touching mine, I don't even realize that I have sat down next to Jade of all people.

How lovely.


Zayn awkwardly clears his throat from my left as I make eye contact with Jade, her icy eyes looking slightly amused yet also annoyed.


Her eyes flicker to Zayn for a split second, but he has his face turned straight forward towards the principle who is chatting to some of the teachers, obviously trying to ignore Jade's presence.


- "Excuse me?" Jade says, her voice bright and polite - and so fake. "That seat's taken. I'm sorry," she says, giving me a sweet,stiff smile.
It obviously wasn't taken.


I sigh and quickly glance at Zayn, who sucks in a deep breath, his jaw muscles flexing.


She turns her body towards me.
- "Did you not hear m-" she starts, but Zayn cuts her off.


- "Don't be so fucking immature Jade, it's a chair," Zayn spits, and I feel a slight sting of truimph when she cringe at his outburst, the skin around her eyes tightening as she gives me a death glare before she pops her lips and leans back cross-legged in her chair, crossing her arms in front of her chest.


Sitting in a slightly awkward silence, I realize that I have almost scooted as far away from Jade as I possibly can, all up on Zayn's leg.


Soo when is this thing gonna start?!


- "We could sneak out? If you want to? It's always boring as fuck anyway," Zayn says into my ear maybe a bit too loud, making a couple of heads turn. He cocks an eyebrow at me.


- "How long does these things last?" 
I whisper back, causing Jade to glance at us.


- "At least 30 minutes - we usually get lunch break right after," 
He whispers too this time, his breath hot and tingling against my ear.


I think about it for a moment, but I'm really too damn uncomfortable sitting next to Jade - especially since I have literally seen her having sex with my boyfriend on tape.
That and she's a bitch.


- "Okay," I reply and glance towards the still empty mic stand.


- "Yea?" 
I nod and Zayn takes my hand again, and I cling to it as we awkwardly leave the sports hall, most likely all eyes on us.


- "So what do you wanna do?" He asks, squeezing my hand tightly as we make our way down the completely empty hallway. "Besides snogging up against the lockers," he chuckles and lightly presses me against a random locker using his body, his mouth melting into mine. 


I giggle into the kiss, tugging at his beanie as he pulls back again, running his tongue across his bottom lip. 


I can't help but shoot a glance over his shoulder, having a nagging feeling that somebody could come by any second and tell us off for not attending assembly.


- "We could go grab a coffee? We can still make it back before lunch," He suggests, removing his body off of mine.
I nod.


- "Since when do you drink coffee?" I grin. I can't really picture Zayn drinking coffee to be honest, he seems more like someone who goes to the fridge and gulps down two redbulls instead or something. 


- "Occasionally - since I haven't invested in a coffeemaker yet," he says with a small smirk as we walk out of the building and get in his car. "I'm guessing we're headed to Starbucks, yeah?" he smirks teasingly, cocking an eyebrow while pulling out of the parking space. 
I nod. 


At Starbucks Zayn orders and pays for our hot drinks and we sit down by the windows as hands me my mug.


I have gone with my usual order - a latté along with two bags of sugar, and Zayn has gone with a regular Americano, saying that he likes it strong and all that milk and sugar is for girls. I sort of have to agree, I couldn't really imagine him ordering a latté either for some reason.


The café is almost empty, and only a couple of seats in the back are taken by a couple of girls about our age from another school. 


- "What's your favorite season?" Zayn randomly asks, looking out the big window facade at the brown leaves that has fallen from the big now very naked chestnut tree on the other side of the road, swirling in the autumn wind outside. 


- "Summer. I hate cold," Definitely summer. I say, giving him a slightly weird look. "Why? What about you?"


- "Just wondering," he takes a sip at his coffee. "I like summer too. Because holiday," he shrugs and I grin. "When's your birthday?" he asks again.


- "December 2nd," I answer. "So in like a month," 


- "So you're turning 18 yeah?" he gives me a smug smile, and I nod. "You gonna throw a party?" 


It's not like I've really thought about it, but turning 18 is a pretty big deal I guess. Why not?
- "Maybe," I say. "Did you?" Of course he did.


 His eye widen and he smirks.
- "Yeah. Don't even remember half of it to be honest - only the cleaning up part the day after,"
I grin and he chuckles, shaking his head and have a gulp of his black coffee.


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When we have finished our coffees and we get back to school to get lunch, Zayn gives me a brief kiss before we split up, and I head towards the cafeteria to find my friends. 

They are sitting around a round table, looking strangely concentrated as I approach them and pull out the single empty chair between Niall and Louis.


As Niall so very enthusiastically explains to me, the topic of conversation is that Harry and Louis are apparently hosting and planning the big annual Halloween party this year, which is taking place next Friday at Harry's house, as result to the fact that he got his parents to agree to leave town for that weekend so that he could host the party and have to time to clean up before they get home.  

- "Sooo. October  31 - Friday next week," Harry says, typing on his phone. "You can all come right?" he asks, looking up from his phone, as everybody at the table nods, me included. 


- "Good. Louis you got the list?" Harry averts his eyes from his phone and raise an eyebrow at Louis who rummages through his backpack before placing a rather crumbled piece of paper on the table in front of Harry, after smoothing it out with his hands. 


- "You're so organized, Lou," Tamara grins and he shoots her a dead glare, having Harry chuckle and shake his head before letting the names down the list full of names and phone numbers. 


- "We'll just invite them all right? - And Zoe of course," He asks, earning a nod from Liam and Niall, grabbing the short pencil Louis has also dug out of his bag.


He chews on his lip and briefly glances at me before quickly adding my name  to the list in a neat handwriting - and then Zayn's.

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I'll update very soon! But it's gonna be quite short maybe! - and then after that I'm gonna start writing the Halloween chapter that I am really excited to write haha - and it's gonna be long, so maybe there will be two chapters from Halloween like a double update idk :)