Zouis Strep Throat

Ch.3 Dont Fuss Over Us

Niall's POV

This week has been a very busy one. Louis and Zayn have been in their bed almost the entire week because they were on voice rest and bed rest. And no one was doing better. Yesterday Zayn nearly fainted because management pushed him too hard and he had a fever in rehearsals but I told him to have a seat before he fell directly on the floor.

I hated seeing him that way. But at least for today we all got a day off everything. Management must've felt super guilty. That's probably why they cut back our practices for an extra day. And said we could come into rehearsals at 1:00 PM tomorrow. I wasn't the sick one here, but I must say, this was the life i've wanted to live for the last few weeks.

Me Liam and Harry went into Zayn and Louis' room a couple of hours ago to see how they were doing. We alway took some airborne before interacting with them. We couldn't afford to get sick with them. Then again, it was a very busy week.

We walked in, and the sight of tissues overwhelmed us. Louis was asleep at that time, but Zayn was awake just looking up into the ceiling. He looked like his eyes were watering. Zayn could obviously hear that the door open but it seemed that he thought that we were Mary. Mary was their medic taking care of them.

But I told Paul that we would take care of them for now. We missed our boys a lot.

"Hey Zayn. Hows it going?" I asked standing beside his bunk.

He just nodded his head.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Lost my voice." he whispered to the best of his ability going into a massive coughing spell after. I told Liam to go get some water while Harry patted his back.

"I'm guessing not doing so well." Harry said looking at Zayn with sympathy.

"Heres your water." Liam said when he got back holding the glass in his hands walking through the door.

"Oh sorry about that Liam. No water allowed for these boys. It will worsen their throat." Mary our medic said walking in through the door.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"It makes the throat more dry. And especially with Zayns case, we can't use water." Mary said.

"How bad is it?" Liam asked worriedly.

"Don't worry boys. They will not die. It's not like that. But the pain will increase by a lot. And judging by your look Zayn im guessing it hurts really badly." Mary said gently touching Zayns nodes in his neck.

Zayn just winced. He looked like he was tearing up and that he couldn't handle the pain he was experiencing.

"Zayn dear do you mind letting me examine your throat?" Mary asked kindly.

Zayn sat up and opened his mouth widely with tears forming in his eyes as he opened it wider.

"Oh I forgot. hard to open right?" Mary asked.

Zayn just nodded in response. I remember in high school before I auditioned before the x factor, one day I had a really bad sore throat and every time I opened my mouth my throat would feel the effects and it would just hurt so, fucking, bad. I was actually surprised. Zayn was tough.

I remembered what that pain felt like for me and the fact that Zayn was experiencing it right now made me want to cry. Imagining one of my brothers in so much pain. But Zayn opened it anyways. She took a picture of his throat with flash and asked Zayn if she could show us his throat.

Zayn just nodded yes and we looked at the picture. His throat as red and had white dots. Now that is strep throat.

"As you can see, singing yesterday didn't help your situation." Mary said.