The Boy In The Basement// h.s AU✅

TBITB|| LIX

Chapter fifty-nine of 'The Boy In The Basement':

"Good morning, how'd you sleep?" Waking up in the morning was always a horrible thing. Because sleeping is the time where you can forget about all your troubles in life, and just dream about what makes you happy.

Dad gave me a knowing look before smiling and reading the newspaper. No matter how many times Harry and I have told him to not read the newspaper because it's so outdated, he doesn't really listen. Though, he's using his phone more so it's all good.

"Good, I really don't remember falling asleep though." I yawned, swiping my frizzy bangs out of my face. Speaking of hair, I need to take a shower soon.

"That's good. Zayn stopped by since he left last night,"

"Why'd he stop by?" But the question that was bugging me the most was: why did he leave in the first place? Wasn't he suppose to be a guardian or something?

"I don't know, he just knocked on the door, asked if you were awake then left and asked me to give you this," On que he handed me a folded up lined paper. I grabbed it and looked at him. He shrugged as if he was saying he didn't read it.

"Thanks." I said, smiling at him. He nodded then got up.

"I have to go to work. If you are leavin the house at all, please text me so I don't freak out, okay? Love you." He kissed the top of my head before I had time to answer, then slung his coat over his shoulders and walked out the door.

Sighing to myself, I now realised that I was alone in my gigantic home. Being alone doesn't really scare me, but when I know Miles is out there and Zayn isn't with me, it's quite scary. You'd feel the same way. Or, I could take advantage of this and be a couch potato watching re-runs of the Walking Dead on Netflix. But I'd rather stay in shape.

I opened the letter and it was filled with Zayn's neat-looking cursive hand writing. And it said:

Dear, Alice

        Don't freak out that I'm not there with you. Liam called me up and needed me to go to Wolverhampton to help him with the Miles situation. I hope your Dad told you that I stopped by. But you were sleeping, and I believe that I could hear you from the front door. I'm just playing, love. Anyways, I stopped by to see if you wanted to come with me, but I figured that answer out. So, I went back out to my car and wrote this sloppy letter real quick to give to your father. If it's around 11 when you read this, I should be back soon.

                                        Love, Zayn x

Well, this explains a lot. I wish someone would've woken me up so I could go with Zayn. Though I just have to wait for him to come home. Speakiing of which, what time is it? I looked over at the oven's clock since I'm sitting in one of the kitchen chairs. The clock read that it was 11:21 am. How long did I even sleep?

Since Zayn siad he'd be here anytime basically, I decided to go ahead and grab something to eat then get ready. Doing all of that pushed the clock to 11:47 and Zayn still hasn't made an appearence. And they say girls are not on time, pssh.

To pass even more time, I sat down in the living room with a few cookies, watching The Grinch. It's not even Christmas yet, but it's playing on ABC Family. But anyone can get into the spirit of Christmas even if it's Halloween! Or I may just be crazy.

"Why is The Grinch on when it's not even Christmas?" I heard Zayn ask from behind me.

"Thanks for knocking," I rolled my eyes.

"Well, you know," Zayn walked around the couch and plopped himself down next to me. "since I'm your babysitter, your Dad gave me a key to the house." He winked then reached over to take an Oreo from my stash. I glared at him and he laughed.

"Why are you glaring?" he asked me with a mouthful.

"Not only did you take a cookie of mine, but you also basically said that I'm a kid that's too young to watch over herself." I hid the cookies away from him, putting them down on the couch on the side of the leg, now he can't reach them!

"You know I'm just playing. But yeah your Dad gave me an extra key. Thank him." I smiled then, and faced the tv, listening to people in WhoVille.

"So, why'd Liam need you to go up there?" I asked, never once taking my eyes off from the tv.

"He just wanted to make sure everyone was ready for anything that could happen. Because, you never know what the future holds for us." Zayn is so intellegent, I swear. Good for him.

"Whatever that means. I'm sorry that I wasn't up when you came over,"

"It's all good. You sounded tired." We both laughed.

"Yeah, yeah. But what do we do now?" I asked, looking at him. He was running thumb across his jawline where light stubble was starting to appear. In the last couple weeks, his hair has gotton longer so where he can pully it back with a hair tie, and do an amazing quiff. I love his hair, who wouldn't?

Also in the past couple weeks, I've found out that Zayn has such an amazing singing voice. Let's just say when I'm in my room trying to sleep, he's downstairs singing at the top of his lungs. Or, when he's taking a shower, he also sings a lot of Sam Smith at the top of his lungs. I got a video of a time he was in the shower singing "I Know I'm Not The Only One" by Sam Smith. You should know that I sent it to both Louis and Niall. They loved it.

"Want to go out to the movies?" he asked. I shrugged.

"Depends on what's out." Zayn took out his phone and began looking through it. Maybe he's looking to see what's on, so I'll finish these cookies while my hair gets dry.

Minutes later he was reading off things that were playing at the theater, "Uh theres Ouiji Board, Bih Hero 9, Mockingjay Part 1, Annie, If I Stay--still-- and that's all their showing but it says there are more."

"They're just doing that so people go to the movies to see what all is on," I laughed and he agreed with me.

"It's sad that it's true."

"Yup, but how about lets watch Mockingjay. It looks really good." I just saw the preview for it this morning before The Grinch came on, and oh my gosh I need to see it! Jennifer Lawrence is amazing, and such an amazing actress. Who can diss on her?

"What an excellent choice! Alright, coome on lets go." Zayn said, standing up.

Heyoo I have another chapter up, yay! Hope you guys are liking the story! I have to go back and reread some chapters to remember what I wanted to happen, you know? So, some chapters for now might be just fillers before anything too major happens.

I'm so glad you all understand how busy I have been. You guys rock, I have the best fans ever!

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