Cold Comfort »Z.M.« ✔️

28."She promised to come back..."

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   It has been another month. The closer the summer gets the more excited I get, because I know Liam will be happy to see me again. I promised him and nothing's going to be any different. I'll spend my whole summer with him. Auntie already booked me a ticket to Manchester. There I will have a taxi to go to Wolverhampton. The funniest thing is that I'll get there a bit faster, I'll go to the school to meet him. I'll go alone, without Chris or Zack or anyone else. I feel happy about it, because I know it's less than a month until I see Liam again.

"Babe? Are you sleeping again?" Chris whispers poking my side. I jump a bit, but then sleepily look up at him.

"Yeah? You're comfortable." I smile at him. He chuckles placing a kiss on my lips.

"Kids, watch the movie!" teacher scolds us. I place my head on his shoulder once again and watch the movie. It feels so cliché. Reminds me of my past.

   When the school is done for today, I go to the park. The air is warm and I love to take walks out here. It's my favourite spot. I come here every day. Zack and Chris has two more hours. They're a class higher, but today we had literature together and we watched a movie. I breathe in the fresh air. Feels so familiar. I smile to myself. Take my phone. Ugh Zayn sent a dm again. I open it.

Zayn- i miss u :(

   I reread the message at least ten times before I block him and close Instagram. I wipe a tear away that slid down my cheek. I miss him too and that's the worst part. I place my phone in the pocket and look around. Smaller kids are running around. I've been learning Turkish every day and now I can talk with people in Turkish when needed, but I use English in general. A girl approaches me.

"Hey, do you know Zayn Malik?" she asks in English. I raise one eyebrow. He sends others to me now? I nod.

"He just sent this necklace and said it was for Kayla Payne. Are you Kayla Payne?" she asks again and shows me a little box with a little paper. I take the paper. Begin to read it. I'm really sorry, please come back. I miss you and I get more exhausted every day when I wake up and know that you're not here.. I miss calling you little, I miss hugging you and damn I miss your lips on mine.. I close my eyes. Sigh.

"Send it back to him. I don't need his gifts." I answer placing the paper back in her hand and storm away. Home. I can't believe he actually does this. Then he calls me a hoe, then he loves me and misses me... He's torturing me. When I get home I freeze at the gates. Seriously? A bunch of roses?

"Hey? Uh... What are those?" I hear Chris behind me.

"Ex. He's trying to send me gifts and messages. Says he misses me." I quietly answer as I check who sent the roses. Of course, Zayn. I take them and carry them to the bonfire.

"Guess we'll have a fun night." Zack chuckles. I nod. Lets wait until it gets dark.

   In the evening we call our friends to have a night out. I unblock Zayn. When everyone gets here we lighten up the bonfire. I make a video in Instagram of how the roses burn. Before I post it in my story I tag Zayn. Get rekt, bitch. At least we can celebrate this with friends.

*Liam's POV*

   After all this time I and Zayn started to be friends again. Now we're sitting in his porch with a few friends. His phone vibrates. I look at it.

"Kayla tagged me in her story?" he quietly asks unlocking his phone. He opens her story. Everyone else checks too. Holy shit.

"She burned them..." he breathes out. I knew something like this would happen. I hug him. No one laughs, no one even dares to say anything. He hugs me back. But I can tell that he needs to hug Kayla and not me. She'll probably spend her summer with her other cousins and her new boyfriend. Even that hurts my feelings. I want her to be here and I want Zayn to be her boyfriend. Yes, he broke her a lot, he had these mood swings, but he loves her. He's never been broken like this. Never. She left us so suddenly. I let him go when he pulled away.

"I have to get over her, but I don't know how." he mumbles wiping his tears away. I nod. He takes a bottle of beer and opens it. Great, again. I join him since I have nothing to do anyway. But for real, she just broke him just like he did her. When he got arrested. She wouldn't have had any big problems, but he chose to leave for two years. Yeah, he got less time to be in the prison, but he still left. Just like she did now.

"She's changed, I can tell." he quietly comments. I look at him.

"Isn't this cliché? You left her broken. She did the same to you. You changed after that. She does too. But you came back after almost a year. What if she comes back too?" Daniel curiously asks. He looks at him.

"Yes, I changed. But I didn't find another girl. I thought about her every day. I missed her. I worked my ass off just so they'd let me go faster. But she... She found another guy, she doesn't miss me, she didn't even keep the roses. And she probably rejected the necklace as well." he answers. I sigh. True.

"She probably doesn't even remember that she promised to come back." I quietly say. Everyone looks at me.

"She did?" Zayn confusingly asks. I nod.

"She promised to come back for summer, but then she posted that picture where she said she can't decide where to spend summer with her cousins. With Zack and Marielle." I explain. He looks less sad. Maybe because he now knows he isn't the only one who she bailed on.

"Yeah, she left you, guys, so messed up." Katy sighs. I shrug and take another bottle of beer.

"Let's get drunk and forget about people who already has forgotten us." I loudly say. Everyone cheers up and begins to drink. We're allowed to drink so no one can stop us from drinking. I look in my phone. Ten pm. Tomorrow's school. Can't get too drunk.

*Kayla's POV*

"Kay, just forget him. He does no good for you. Does he?" Chris asks. I shake my head.

"But I can't forget him when I think of Liam. And besides that, I'm going to Wolverhampton next month." I finally say it to him. He frowns.

"What? Alone? You're going to see them?" he shockingly asks. Everyone looks at me.

"When and who?" Zack fastly questions. I look at him. Why can't he be like Liam, understands and doesn't judge.

"Next month. I'm going to Wolverhampton. To see Liam." I answer, "Diana already booked me a ticket." I say. He shrugs.

"Well, I'm going with you then." Chris says smiling. No... That's not what I wanted!

"No, you don't understand. I want to go alone. I'm not a little kid who needs to be looked after." I answer. He looks confused, but then nods.