Thrown Together (Ziam)

Chapter four New Knowledge

July 4

Zayn's POV

Liam and I are sitting on the couch with Harry sitting on the middle of the living room watching the 'Wall-E' and Louis is using the couch as a back rest, showing no interest in the movie.

"Hey Buds." I tell Louis using 'Buds' as a nickname until I come up with a better one, "Yes Papa?" Louis asks, "What 'ya thinking 'bout?" I ask, "Nothing much." Louis said to me, "So what are you thinking about, saying 'nothing much' means that your thinking of something." I point out to him, "I realize that, just thinking of, nonsense." Louis tells me, "Buds?" I say in a warning tone, "Don't hurt me." Louis whimpers, just then Liam intervenes "Papa will never hurt you, neither will I. Okay Louis, Papa was just wondering." Louis looks down into his lap, "I was just wondering why you adopted me, like, I know your both boys and boys can't have kids, but it, was why'd you adopt me?" Louis questions, "Same reason we adopted Harry." I said.

"Why'd you adopt Harry?" Louis questions, not rudely or anything, just curious, "I just guess there was a feeling of knowing that Harry was the kid that God- I mean that fate had for us." Liam said, catching himself because he knows I don't believe in that kind of God.

"Oh, how'd you and Papa meet?" Louis questions, "Uh, its kinda a long story." I said, "We've got time, the movie started ten minutes ago, we have over an hour." Louis said, "Okay." Liam said.

Liam takes a big breath, knowing I won't say anything, "So one day when Papa and I were in grade eight (Eighth Grade for Americans) he was the new kid. These big bullies, you know what bullies are right?" Louis looks at Liam, "Yes, I do, I'm ten, not two." Louis sassed, "Right so, the bullies' names were Jeffery, and Samuel, so one day I was walking home and I saw Jeffery and Isaac being mean to Papa,-" Liam was cut off "Again, I'm ten, I have an IQ of nearly 200, I'm smarter than most twenty year old, please stop dumbing things down for me." Louis said, "Wait you have and IQ of nearly 200?" I question, Louis nods, "194." He said, "Dang it, your smart."

"Anyway I'll stop 'dumbing it down'." Liam said, (I'm doing this because I can't dumb stuff down to a ten year old level, I forgot how smart I was at ten, in my defence I'm thirteen) " So the boys were saying some cuss words and other things like that." Liam reached back and squeezed my hand, him knowing I hate this story.

"I was known as the scariest boy in the high-school, our school went from grades 5 through 12, and the boys that were picking on Papa were grade 8's also, I scared them away and then I started walking your Papa to class, and home, and the next day to school, then to classes, then home, and was like that 'til year eleven.

Then Papa asked why I was doing this for him, I didn't know what to say, I didn't know if I liked your Papa or not, and I already had a boyfriend, so I told him 'Because friends are there for friends.' one thing was I was really shy when I was younger, so I didn't talk to Papa, he told me 'We aren't friends, and that I never asked you to do it.' he said those words exactly, so I stopped taking him to classes.

A few days later I saw Papa getting picked on by Jeffery and Isaac, I didn't do anything, because Papa said we wern't friends.

The next day Jeffery and Isaac were picking on Papa again, I didn't go help again, same thing happened for nearly a month, then one day I saw Jeffery and Isaac getting pretty physical with Papa.

The next day Papa didn't come to school, or the next day, or the next, after Papa not coming for school for about a week I went to the grade five section where his sister was (I don't know the age gaps between Zayn and his sisters.)

She recognized me immediately as 'the nice boy that takes Zaynie- Poo to school' so when I asked her where Papa was she said that he was in the hospital.