|just tell me that you love me z.m.|

2.2

Bella and Zayn awoke early, said their temporary goodbyes, then drove to Florida State Hospital where Waliyha was lying in perilous conditions. She had gotten into a car accident, and fractured her ribs. She had black and blue bruises dotted along her body and a big white cast to match.

"Oh, my Zayn! God I've missed you." Trisha, Zayn's mother, runs to him and hugs him. This was their first time seeing one another in six years. Zayn was exceptionally angry, and no matter how many hugs and apologizes he received, he felt they were never enough.

He lost his big sister, all because his parents thought he was playing the boy who cried wolf. Zayn wheeled himself into the white room. Waliyha was awake, and she cried once she saw her brother. She put her hands up, waiting to hug him. Bella and Trisha watched their interaction from the seats directly outside Waliyha's temporary room.

"I'm not sure if you remember me.. we met in the therapist's office about.. eight years ago? I'm Bella, Zayn's girlfriend."

Her warm brown eyes grew almost as wide as her welcoming smile. She gave Bella a hug and thanked her for caring for her son, who she knew was a handful.

"He's my soulmate and I love him. You don't need to thank me." Bella said, watching Zayn through the window. He was sat beside his little sister, holding her hand and saying sweet things to her.

"He doesn't tell me anything anymore. He's so..angry and it's all my fault."

"It isn't anyone's fault but Jeremy's. What happened to Doniya.. if you had known you would have stopped it."

"What-what happened to my son? Why is he in that chair?"

"Zayn's office was burning and we-we were inside. The firemen tried to help but it was useless, we were on the seventh floor and there were so many windows. I knew if we didn't jump we would've died. Zayn and I jumped and landed but Zayn's body hit the concrete and it sent his body into frenzy. His spinal cord was injured and his brain can no longer send nor receive instructions to his legs. I was in a coma the entire time and he didn't-he told the doctors not to contact any of his family."

"My son could've died and he didn't want us to know?"

"I know it's a lot to process but.. don't cry, Mrs. Malik."

"I'm a horrible mother. All my babies are sick or angry and I can't do anything.."

"You are not a horrible mother. You're a mother, do you know how much time and work and dedication it takes to even raise children? Nevertheless to raise them in a way that they become so wonderful.."

"Thank you Bella. Zayn is so lucky to have you."

"As am I to have him." Bella smiles lightly, allowing her soon to be mother-in-law to rest her tired head on her shoulder.