Adopted by 1D [Completed]

Part 13 - "I Will Stay"

[Let’s go to Zayn’s POV]

I’m on my laptop now, checking my twitter. I don’t have any idea what I should do. Do I have to do a followspree? Or AskZayn? Or Twitcam? No, I can never do a twitcam because I think twitcam hates me. Ugh. I’m so bored. What time is it? It’s 2 a.m. already? I’m going to sleep all day tomorrow I think.

I decide to go to the kitchen. I suddenly remember the moment that I had with Elena in the kitchen yesterday. Oh, that girl. Honestly I still don’t like her existence to be here.

There, I’m right. I’m not really surprised that Elena is in the kitchen too.

“Elena?”

She jumps a bit as she turns around. She’s definitely surprised.

“Oh, Zayn.” She takes a deep breath as she holds her chest. “I thought you’re someone else.”

“What are you doing here? I thought that you should’ve slept?” I asked weirdly.

“Actually I’ve just woken up.” She sighs as she’s pouring milk to her glass.

I try not to care about her and just walk over to the fridge. Actually it’s really strange that we meet in the kitchen in the middle of the night again. Twice.

But something catches my eyes as I’m about to open the fridge. Elena’s hands are trembling. Like she’s hiding something. Just like yesterday. What happened to her?

“Are you okay?” I asked with a worried sound.

“What? I’m.. I’m okay.” She said, smiling. She’s like telling me that everything is fine. But what I see is not.

“Your hands are trembling.” I look at her, I’m worried. Really I’m not going to lie. “They’re trembling again.”

I bet she had no idea that I actually noticed.

“It’s uhh..” She stuttered. “It’s really nothing. Don’t worry! I.. I have to go.” She smiles forcedly at me and then left.

I really have no idea why I do this, but I grab her hand immediately to stop her. She’s looking into my eyes immediately and so am I. I think I know that I should ask more to her.

“What happened to you?”

I ask her as I look into her eyes, just so she knows that I’m really worried about her. There’s also a scare in her both eyes.

She takes a deep breath. “I.. I just had a nightmare.”

“You had nightmares every night?” I still look into her eyes.

She looks down, I can hear that her breath is uncontrolled. Looks like she doesn’t want to answer my question. I look at my hand that is still holding her hand. Her hands are still trembling. That makes me hold her hand more tight, I wish it can make her feel better.

She finally looks back into my eyes with a sad puppy face. “I’m afraid so.”

She must be feeling scared now. I can’t let her feel it alone. I hug her. She must be surprised that I do this to her. But then she hugs me back and whispers something to me, “I’m very scared, Zayn.”

I stroke her hair and I really wish that I can make her feel a lot better. I honestly can never not care about her if I know that she really needs someone at this moment.

“We have to go to bed now.” I said as I pull out the hug.

“Yeah.” She looks down.

I hold her hand. “Come on.”

So we walk over to her room and I accompany her to her bed. She lays on the bed and I pull up the cover over her. She still looks not sure.

“Don’t worry, I’ll stay with you.”

“You will?” Her eyes turn wide.

I nod. “Yes.”

“Thank you, Zayn.” She smiles at me and I can see a serenity  on her face.

“You’re welcome.” I can’t smile back to her yet. I don’t know why.

So Elena sleeps quicker than I thought. I still hold her hand and I think she holds it back even more tight. I understand why she doesn’t want to let go because she doesn’t want to wake up alone when she gets a nightmare again later. I have sisters in Bradford. That’s why I do understand.

[to be continued]