The Strange One ↠ Z.M

chapter 12

A few days passed and I still haven't found my parents. Zayn has been distant while he's looking for them, Zayn for some reason seems to like being distant with me. It upsets me when Zayn and I aren't talking, I like talking to Zayn. He makes me feel as if I'm not some crazy teenage girl but as if I'm becoming a mature women.

Being with Zayn is different than being with anyone else. Call me cliché but that's just how I feel. Zayn is different, and I like his kind of different.

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I was waiting for Zayn at lunch, sitting at our lunch table alone. I could tell my "friends" were watching me, I didn't look over at them though. I kept my head down while looking at my phone.

I heard someone pull out a chair and sit down next to me. I figured it was Zayn but as I looked up I noticed it was Liam.

I scooted away a little, "What do you want?"

"Can we talk?" we locked eyes, it looked like he had been crying.

"About what?"

Liam sniffled, "About how I've been acting since we broke up."

"Liam, I hate to tell you this but you've acted like that for a long time." I stated, trying not to hurt his feelings.

"Whatever, can we talk about it?" Liam asked me, I simply nodded and he continued. "I've been an ass obviously, and I'm not really sure why. I think it's because I still like you, I didn't want to break up but you did so I acted like I did. I just want you to know I'm sorry for the things I've done."

I gave him a small smile, putting a hand on his shoulder, "It's okay, Liam."

Liam was about to add something else when Zayn came up, "Is there a problem here?"

"N-No," Liam flinched, "I was just leaving." And with that, Liam stood up and left.

Zayn took Liam's spot and set his lunch on the table.

"Vampires eat human food?" I questioned.

Zayn sighed, "We've been over this before, Violet." he said my name as if he was irritated with me.

I nodded, "Right, Right. You can eat it as lunch as you have a healthy blood diet, I got it."

"Great." Zayn smiled before kissing my cheek softly. I don't know why he did this, he kissed my cheek a lot since the other night. It's not like him and I are dating, "So, what did Liam want?"

"He was apologizing, for everything" I told him. I was about to ask Zayn why he hasn't been talking to me very much lately but I decided against it.

Before Zayn could continue the conversation Harry came over to us. He pulled out a chair forcefully and sat down, "Guys, we have a problem."

Zayn and I looked at each other, that's when we hear someone shouting, telling us to all be quiet.

Everyone's heads turned towards the front of the lunch room. There was our quarter back, James Tomsick, and some new kid I've never seen before. He had dark brown hair, and piercing brown eyes that I could see from here.

I looked over at Zayn and his jaw locked, then I looked back up at the front of the lunch room to hear James speak.

"We have a new student joining us today!" he patted the new kids back. I wasn't sure why he was being so friendly to him, maybe because he joined the football team. "His name is Arron Black!"