Malibami / 1d

chapter nineteen

"You sure I can not just drop you off?" Zayn asked me, handing the bottle of vodka. I nodded, taking a sip. "Why do you think I need this, I chuckled and took another sip. 

Tonight, Rob and my mother wanted another family dinner and they wanted to talk about the plans for the wedding. Apparently they had picked a date and it was coming up quicker than we were thinking. My mother wouldn't tell me the date over the phone though, I had to be there in flesh when she told me.

Rob and mum obviously had no idea Liam and I were in a fight, that I was dating Zayn and that I didn't live with Camilla anymore. This was going to be hard.

It caused me to have to sit in a car with Liam while driving to their house, we always got there together so it would be weird if we didn't do that this time. This was the first dinner after our fight, other times I had cancelled because I told them I had to study or was busy with midterms.

But since the wedding was a special thing for my mother I had to come this time.

Zayn and I were currently still in his bed, naked and under his duvet cover, taking sips from a bottle of vodka he had laying around. We were quite the couple. 

I had to drink so that this dinner would be even remotely exciting and manageable.

"You coming to shower?" I asked him, getting up out of the bed and slipping on a t-shirt that was laying around on the floor. Zayn replied with a nod and took one last sip. I got the bottle and took one last sip as well, then grabbing Zayn's hand and walking over to the door and across the hall to the bathroom.

We got in to the shower and just rinsed ourselves off, this had gotten a part of our 'getting ready together' routine and I adored it. I had just rinsed out all my hair shampoo when I turned around and was met with Zayn's stare.

"Sorry again for last night." He said, biting his bottom lip. "I forgive you, you were drunk and what not." I said, staring at my feet.

I had been staying at Zayn's for a few nights in a row now just because I was scared of being alone ever since what happened at the mall. Last night he got home late wasted out of his mind. I told him to calm down, sober up, he wasn't having it, again. 

We both had quite the relationship with alcohol if I was being honest. It had gotten to the point where we drank at least a little almost every night. I did that with Kelsey and Lou every now and then too.

Last night just was a little bit worse. Zayn had gotten home very late and I had already fallen asleep. I heard him come in to the room so I got up, trying to help him. When I tried to tell him to drink some water and sober up, he got so angry with me. He placed his hands on my upper arms and dug his nails in to my arm slightly, then he was about to hit me straight in the face.

I screamed 'Z' as loud as I could, then I got ahold of his wrist and he stopped, realising what he had almost done. Before I knew it he left and didn't return. The next morning he told me he slept on the couch downstairs and he apologized.

Zayn staring at my bruised arms caught my attention back to reality. "I forgive you, Z." I said, a small smile on my face.  Then we quickly wrapped up the shower and I had to get ready.

I was meeting my brother in less then an hour and because I wanted him to have no opportunity in being able to confront Zayn, I told him I'd walk over to his frat house, to which I haven't been in a long time.

Zayn left the bathroom and I started putting on makeup. When I was alone I checked out my arms again. You could see the nail dents he had made yesterday. On my right arm were a few more single bruises. Anybody who knew a little bit about this kind of stuff could see it was done by a human hand. Luckily he stopped before he hit me in the face.