Drunk In Love (Ziam, Larry, Nosh)

Part 2

Zayn couldn't find a single decent bar in his mission to find tranquility and it was already around 12:45, but still he was looking out of the car window in order to find one. And then suddenly, he finds this bar with a huge hoarding that says "Boozer's Paradise". But looking at how the bar and its hoarding was decorated with cheap lighting and stuffs like that, he very soon realizes that the bar was way out the realm of his standard. But since he has no other choice, he parks his car and makes his way inside the bar.

The bar as he expected, was nowhere matching his standards. In fact, it was even worse than he was expecting it to be. The lights and the atmosphere inside was very dark, the ambience was not very overwhelming, the bar was filled with all sorts of indecent people who were legitimately inebriated, and creating all kind of hooliganism. Fortunately, Zayn finds a quiet place in the front corner, and he makes his way towards that seat after ordering a glass of whiskey for himself.

Zayn was only halfway through his glass of whiskey when the stage right in front of him is all of a sudden illuminated, and he hears someone testing their mic. Minutes later, the starting tune of his song "More than this" is being played by a band that consists of a blonde boy stringing a guitar, a brunette behind those drum set and a curly haired lad wearing bandana behind a keyboard.

That’s all Zayn requires to get pissed off. All that, what Zayn was trying to escape was finding its way on its own, back to him. It was strangling Zayn metaphorically and making him suffocate more than anything. So therefore, he gets up from his seat, turns around and is about to dart out of the bar, but then he hears

"I'm broken, do you hear me....."

He had sung this song more times than he might have inhaled and exhaled air. But still this feels different, so different that it makes his knees weak. This voice was somehow speaking to his soul. And a smile made its way to his face.

He turns around and strides back to the seat he had left. This time when he looks back up to the stage, the figure standing in the centre stage, holding the mic stand was none other than the owner of a broken mobile (all thanks to Zayn). Singing with his eyes closed and a sad expression.

The king of dramatics, who has apparently also got an incredible voice, was so much engrossed in what he was doing, that even when some boozers where throwing money at him or while some others were booing him, he wasn't distracted a bit.

A moment later when the puppy human opens his eyes and looks at all the money thrown at him and the booing that was happening he looks down and then looks at the boy playing keyboard, who in return smiles at him sympathetically and makes a hand gesture asking him to continue. The boy continues singing as he is cheered by everyone in his band. Singing and smiling so hard that it makes his eyes crinkle at the side, he reaches to the end chorus of the song when his gaze meets Zayn’s, and all of a sudden the curve of his lips goes upside down and he quickly sings the last line and scurries backstage, he is then soon followed by his band members. The lights of the stage slowly starts dimming and then the bar goes all dark, back again.

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Zayn bribes one of the waiter of the bar to allow him to go to the backstage. And now when he is here, standing near the entrance of the musician's room, backstage. He peeps in and sees each member of the band placing their musical instrument respectively in the place that might have been allotted to them, to keep those instruments. Except for the one, the one who is now sprawled across the couch in that room, examining his mobile and snivelling.