My Brothers Friend || Zach Herron

Just Seeing Things

It's been three weeks of cutting. Three weeks of pain, three weeks of faking. Faking being ok and faking being happy. Nobody knows what's happening with me, everyone just thinks I'm perfect, ok and healthy.
I have had many interviews and concerts, I have even joined the boys for a few songs at their concerts everything was going great in the public eye, but when my door closed at night I was a complete mess.
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"So y/n how is your relationship going with zach?" The interview asked me.
"Its" I smiled really big " it's going really great, I'm really happy with him, I really really do love him and I'm glad we found each other" I heard the boys back stage aww and I turned and saw Zach wipe away a fake tear and blow a kiss. I felt heat rise in my cheeks as I turned back to the nice lady. "How did you guys meet, I don't think we have ever heard that story"
"Um, so we went to the same school but different middle schools, so our first day of high school was the first time we saw each other. I was running late to class and when I turned around I ran straight into Zach and fell flat on my butt. I didn't know who he was, all I knew was that I was really embarrassed and needed to get out of there" I giggled "when I saw him I was immediately interested in him, his eyes, his smile and the way he talked to me, even for those short two minutes I just knew that he was something special." Another chorus of aww's came from the crowd "well later that night I was lounging on the couch in spandex and a old sweatshirt Corbyn gave me and I walked into the kitchen and there he was, standing in my kitchen. I was beyond humiliated. But um that was the night the boys told me they were moving, when I found out I wasn't to happy and Zach was the one that followed me out of the room to comfort me" I looked at my hands and smiled "after a while I started dating jack and we all know how that went, but I am really happy with Zach  and I'm glad that things ended up the way they did" this time I looked over an saw Zach wipe away real tears. I could help but just smile. My cheeks were hurting from all the smiling. He was the only thing that brought a real smile to my face.
***
After a few more question we took some pictures, some with me and the lady, a few of just me and then me and they guys just messed around and got a ton of shots.
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We all piled out of the car and ran in the house yelling for food. I felt a hand grab my arm and pull me upstairs, when I look I see Zach push me into our room and lock the door. Pinning me against the bed and smashing his lips on mine.
"Zach I'm hungry" I wined as I pulled from the kiss.
"So am I but it can wait" he responded and I just nodded and smiled into the kiss.
After a few minutes Zach pulled away and I could feel my lips begin to swell.
"I love you" when he looked at me I could see it in his eyes, that he meant it.
"I love you to, can I go eat now" I giggled and pulled myself off the bed and following the scent of grilled cheese.
"Hey come back!" 
Running down the stairs and through the kitchen I jumped on Jonah's back, seeing he was the closest person in the room
"Ahh what th-" Jonah yelled
"Help he is trying to get me!" I pointed at an out of breath Zach that just entered the kitchen.
"Give her back" Zach laughed as he lunged for Jonah, but Jonah being the bigger person he just moved himself out of the way and Zach ran right into the wall.
We all laughed as Zach slowly got up and made another lunge at Jonah, again being unsuccessful. After three more times of watching Zach miss and me getting dizzy from all the jerking around, I jumped off of Jonah's back and ran into the living room where I laid on the couch.
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I counted in my head and just as i thought, in came Zach.
"Wait for me!!" Zach yelled as he jumped on me.
As he landed in me I let out a loud gasp when his body weight sunk into mine.
"I love you" he giggled
"Love you to" I smiled and played with his hair
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Zachs Pov

After a episode of Riverdale y/n went upstairs to shower and I turned on the channel showing the interview y/n just had. Smiling like crazy as I watched her straight on tell the story instead of from the side, seeing the look in her eyes just made me fall for her more. God I love her.
After the interview ended they started rolling a few photos from the end. What I saw in one photo made me pause the tv.
"Hey corbyn!" I yelled
"Yeah!"
"Come here for a second" I got closer to the tv to see if that would help.
"What's up" Corbyn came next to me, I pointed to y/n's arm.
The picture was of me and her hugging, my back was to the camera and you could see her face on my shoulder and her arms around my neck, except her sleeves were being pulled back by the angle they were at.
"Are those-" Corbyn started to say
"They can't be"
"She wouldn't" we looked at each other with scared expressions "would she?"
But there is was, plain as day. Little pink lines across her arms.
"Y/n is....cutting?" I whispered, as if saying it was gonna make it less real.
I looked at Corbyn and saw his eyes gloss over
"Maybe it's not true, maybe we are just seeing things" his voice choked.
"Its right there Corbyn, we arnt seeing thing" I stood up and walked out the door.
Why. What happened, she seemed so happy.
What.
The.
Hell.