Keeping secrets

Six

Zayn pov

I was watching Liam who was laying awake next to me drenched in sweat. Despite the warmth in my room he was still shivering. I knew I woke him from a nightmare.

"Liam what's wrong," I asked as I watches him with concern.

He curled next to me and put his head on my chest, still not saying anything. I wrapped my arms around his shaking body. We sat like that until Liam calmed down and I tried to talk to him again.

"Liam, please talk to me."

"I h-had a bad d-d-dream," he started nervously.

"About what?"

Liam shook his head indicating he didn't want to talk about it. He sat silently and began to shake. I let him calm down as we sat silently. I knew he would tell me when he was ready, though I hated seeing him upset.

After a few moments of silence Liam began to talk, "I dreamt that people found out something about me and told you and Simon and he took me away from you."

"Liam there is nothing you could say that would make me hate you, and you know I wouldn't let Simon do anything to."

He hugged me and whispered, "promise," and I nodded in assurance.

We sat in a comfortable silence until curiosity got the best of me.

"What was it that people found out?"

"I don't want to tell you," he said, "you can say you won't get mad but you will."

I sighed, "Liam no I won't, I love you too much to ever be mad at you." I blushed a little after I realized what I said, and so did Liam.

"Really," he asked, his cheeks flushed with color.

I nodded, "now are you going to tell me?"

He took a deep breath, "I dreamt that you found out I liked you and you didn't feel the same and you hated me."

"I already knew you like me, I kinda thought we were together," I said quietly.

"Really?"

I nodded and asked, "are we?"

He nodded and smiled. I wrapped my arms around him. We sat like that smiling, though my smiles quickly faded when I thought about telling the others.