An hour and a half later, all of the boys were in the 2nd floor waiting room, waiting for the doctor. Louis was next to Harry, holding hands; and Liam and Niall were also next to each other.
“Liam Payne? Please follow me,” the same doctor said. “Anybody else with Zayn Malik, please follow me.” All four boys followed the doctor down a lot of hallways and into a room. “Liam, would you please come in first? That is, unless you boys want to see us giving some shots.”
The other 3 boys quickly shook their heads and took a seat outside the room.
“Thanks for understanding lads. I’ll come get you in a little bit,” Liam said, following the doctor inside. Zayn was in the bed, thrashing around, obviously uncomfortable. 4 nurses were trying to hold him down.
“We have had to pin him down because he was trying to pull out his stitches. I need you to clam him down a bit while we give him a sedation shot to keep him under control. We are also going to inject the painkilling medicine through a shot because he still can’t swallow or eat anything. Would it be Ok if you helped us again?”
“Sure. Just two shots?”
“Yes. Thank you so much Liam.” They went over to Zayn’s bed and Liam took his hand. Zayn calmed down a little and looked at Liam in pure panic.
“I’m here buddy. You’re going to be alright. Just stay calm. Listen to my voice. Look at me, look at me. Take deep breaths and stay calm.” The doctor got the first shot ready. He raised it over Zayn and Zayn realized what was happening and started trying to get out of the grip of Liam and the nurse’s grip too.
“Z. Z, are you in a lot of pain, buddy?” Zayn nodded. “Ok, so this shot will help get rid of all of that pain. It will make you feel a lot better and help you sing soon. Don’t you want that?” Zayn calmed down all the way and Liam worked his hand through the dark hair. “There we go. It’s alright. Don’t even worry. I am going to stay with you the rest of the time. The doctors are very nice and they wouldn’t do anything that won’t help you. I p-r-o-m-i-s-e Z I do.”
The doctors finished with the first one and Zayn’s eyes filled with tears. The doctor pulled Liam aside to say something, but not so far that Liam couldn’t hold Zayn’s hand. “Liam; that one would have really hurt. He is already in a lot of pain, so that probably just put him over the top. We are going to wait a second for him to calm down before giving him the next shot. Since the next one is a painkilling shot. It will hurt so much more than that one.”
“Zayn will be able to sing again soon, right? I don’t want to lie to him.”
“He will be able to sing again soon, yes.”
Liam went back to Zayn and the doctor filled the next shot. He took both of his hands and blocked the doctor from view. “Shh, Z, you’re alright.” He wiped away the other boy’s tears with his thumb. “It’s going to be fine. When you are done here, we can go home and watch Freedom Writers. Would you like that?”
“Actually, he can watch it here if you want. We have the telly right there and there is a film player. If one of you wants to go home to get the film, we can play it for him.”
