The day we met (Zayn Malik Fanfic)

Chapter 6 "Shall I ask?"

     I woke up the next morning with the biggest smile on my face, I jumped out of bed, got into the shower and took a quick warm one, wrapped the towel around my body and got back into my room going through the same boring thing I go through every single morning, WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR?

I put on my denim shorts, a white buttoned blouse, tucked into my shorts and some black beach sandals. I put my hair into a messy bun and went to make some breakfast for the three of us, My aunt is going back to Manchester tonight and Anna decided to go with her since she misses my parents and home, so I was going to drop her off at my aunt's after breakfast. While on my way down to the kitchen, I heared some fuss downstairs and I immediately assumed the Zayn is up, I look into the living room and there's him, sitting on the couch watching TV, he looked over at me, "Morning, sleeping beauty", he smiled. "Morning", I chuckle. "You really like 'Accidently' sleeping on my shoulder, don't you?", He said while raising his eyebrows up and down teasing me. I rolled my eyes at him, "Whatever, up for breakfast?", he nodded and follows me to the kitchen.

"Why didn't you wake me up last night? I would have gone home", He said while sitting on the bar stool in the kitchen.

I shruged and said, "Well, it was late so I just thought you, laying there on the couch wouldn't do any harm", We stayed silent for a while as I went through the fridge thinking what to make for breakfast? and then I just find out that I'm pretty lazy so I pull out two bowls and settle for the cereal and milk, put them on the table and we start eating. "What are you doing today?", he asks as he shoves cereal into his mouth. 

"I don't know", I shurg, "I'm gonna drop Anna off at my aunt's in a couple of hours then probably just come back home".

"Well, if you've got nothing to do, maybe I can take you to meet the guys".

I nod, "Sounds good, it's not like I have anything better to do", I then take the bowls and put them in the sink, "I'm gonna go wake Anna up and get her ready, you can stay in the living room if you want".

"No, it's ok", he shakes his head, "I'll leave you the adress here and you can drop by later", He takes a little paper off the counter, writes the adress on it and hangs it on the fridge. "I'll see you later then", I wave at him goodbye and he walks out the door.

About 2 hours later after getting Anna fed and ready, I take the address off of the fridge, take Anna over to my aunt's and say our goodbyes, I pull out the note from my purse and drive off to Zayn's house, I park in the driveway and go towards the door and knock, I hear a shuffle behind the door and then a minute later a cute guy with short brown hair, dark brown eyes and a very tall physic (just about as tall as Zayn but more muscled) opens the door. "Hello, I'm Liam", He smiles and gives me a hand for a shake. "Hi, Liam, I'm Ivy", I smile back and shake his hand. "Come on in, we've been waiting for you", he steps a side letting me in. He leads me to the living room where 4 other boys and a girl sitting around each other talking. Another cute guy yells out of nowhere, "IVY!" .. "That is me, yes", I laugh. He was a little shorter than Liam, longer brown hair but a different kind of shade, it almost looked like peanut buttery brown, blue eyes, and tanned skin. Zayn laughs at his silliness and interduces me to all of them, "That goof ball is Louis", he chuckles, "And this is Liam and Harry, I guess you know them already, and this is Niall", Pointing to a blonde guy, cute face feauters, very bright blue eyes and the cutest smile. I wave at each one and Harry comes over and gives me a hug, "Long time no see", I chuckle, "Yea, it's nice to see you again, Harry", I hug him back. 

Then the girl in the corner comes over with a smile on her face, "And I'm Ella", She shakes my hand. "My beautiful girlfriend", Louis yells from the back. She rolls her eyes and sits next to him. We all sit around the TV, watching a stupid show but more like talking and getting to know eachother. Zayn gets closer to me and whispers in my ear, "Wanna go to the backyard and talk a bit?", I nod, so he gets up, takes my hand and we go the backyard. I sit on the little wood swing and look up to the sky, it looks really beautiful today, very clear and barely no clouds at all, Zayn comes over and sits next to me, swinging us back and forth.

"Beautiful isn't it?", Zayn sighs. I look over at him to see what he's talking about, he looks back at me then back up, "The sky, such a beautiful day", I heavily sigh and nod, we both sit in silence, not awkward silence but a good one, he then stretches his arms and places them behind my neck, barely touching me, I lay my head back on his arm and I can see him smiling with the corner of my eyes.

It suddenly hits me, I really like that thing me and Zayn have, he's one of the most nicest people I've ever met in my life, I can talk to him about everything and anything, I feel safe when I'm around him, when he hugs me, it feels like the whole world is a blurr and all I could see is him, dozing off by smelling his familiar scent, laying on his chest, sleeping on his shoulders, and feel his muscled arms wrapped around me making me feel like nobody could do me any harm, the way he smiles at me and looks deep into my eyes with his perfect brown ones, just the way he touches me gives me chills up to my spine, all these things just flashed right before my eyes and I realized that I never wanna loose that, I want to always have him in my life, to be there for each other whenever one needs the other, Am I actually sending him the wrong signs? the 'Come on, buddy, ask me out' signs? What if it never worked out between us? I can't stand the idea of loosing him.

"I love having you in my life, Zayn", I suddenly sit up and whisper/yell. The words I've always feared the most just slipped out of my mouth, I had no control over it, the look on his face was priceless, like he just wanted to cut me off and kiss me. I shook my head and continued, "I mean, I love having a friend like you in my life", and all I could see was a little frown on his face followed by a quiet "oh".

"I love the thing that we have, you know. Being able to open up to you and feel comfortable around you, it's like you're my new best friend", I explained myself, even though I didn't mean any of what I'd just said, all I wanted to do was throw myself over him and kiss him like there's no tomorrow, "Well, I love being your new best friend then", he says back with what looks like a forced smile on his face. I layed my head back and slowly placed my head on his arm and couldn't help but hear the little sigh he made afterwards. Why did I do that? I didn't mean any of it, Do I love him? What am I saying, I'd gladly marry him tomorrow if I could. The feel of guilt was all that controlled my body at the time.

Zayn's P.O.V

     We were just chilling on the swing, her, laying her head on my arm, smelling her coconut scented hair and looking at the sky seemed like the perfect moment, I was too nervous to ask, what if she said no? are we going to stop hanging out? because I honestly wouldn't picture my life without her, we've only been hanging out for like 2 days but I can't imagine my life before I met her. Getting that text from her the other day telling me that she was just checking up on me was the best thing that ever happened to my life. I was waiting for that moment for over 2 weeks, since the day I met her at the airport to that perfect moment. As I was just about to open my mouth and ask her, she beat me to it, she suddenly lifted her head up, "I love having you in my life, Zayn", she mummbled. Ok, she just made it more perfect, this the best time for me to just throw my question at her. "I mean, I love having a friend like you in my life", she again cut me off and continued. A friend? she loves having me in her life as a friend? Was I just a friend to her? Everything else she said afterwards was just a blurr, and all I heard was "it's like you're my new best friend." I didn't want things to get awkward between us so I just forced a smile on my face and told her that I'd love being her best friend as well. Even though I didn't mean a word I just said. I didn't just wanna be her bestfriend, I wanted to be her boyfriend, her love, her everything, and make her mine in return, I would have given the world to her if she'd given me the chance but it looks like that's not what she wants.

I couldn't keep thinking about this anymore so I asked her if she wanted to get back inside and she agreed, I got up and waited for her, leading her back to the living room where everyone was looking at us awkwardy. I knew what they were thinking but obviously she didn't. Harry looked over at me, eybrows raised and shaking his head as in "So?", I shook my head in return and mouthing at him letting him know that I didn't ask, he groaned out loud which made everyone look over. "Sorry, I forgot something that I had to do this morning", nice save Harry. We spent the rest of the day, chatting, Ivy getting to know everyone else, eating and just doing normal thing with me faking a smile all day not wanting things to get obvious.