𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃 | z.m. #MissionDesi

Chapter 14.

After some time, Aisha woke up. She was better, but still afraid. By the time she was sleeping, El and Louis managed to get her clothes. We all were outside the hotel room, while Ash, Sophia and El were in. I couldn't keep calm, I still wanted to rip the head off of whoever did this to her. She was so scared, I don't even know how I kept calm in front of her. Suddenly, Sophia opened the door.

"Zayn, would you come in real quick?" She asked. I left the breath I'd been holding and nodded.

She took me in and locked the door again. Aisha was in the bathroom. I saw her top on the bed. I held it and took a look at it. It was dirty and half-ripped. My gripped on it increased as anger boiled my blood. How dare they lay their hands on her!

"Zayn.. It's not the right time to get angry. She's scared! And not ready to give her statement.." El said in almost a whisper. I sighed and dropped the top on the bed again. I nodded.

"You need to convince her Zayn.. that's why we called you. No one else can do it better than you.." Soph added. I nodded again. After a few seconds, Aisha came out of the bathroom. She constantly exchanged glances between us, nervously. I hate to see her like this..

"If you're here to convince me to give a statement, I'm not gonna listen." She said as she sat on the bed again. I knew it was not her who was saying this, it was her fear. I went and sat down on the bed next to her. I held her hands in mine. She tried taking them back, which almost broke my heart, but her gaze went to my hand.

"Zayn!! What happened to your hand?" She asked as she felt the bandage on my hand, she was caressing it with her thumb.

"Its-its nothing, but that's not important right now, we need to go to—"

Before I could speak any further, she spoke, "Please Zayn, I can't do this.." She looked at me with teary eyes.

"Listen, Aisha. I know you're scared. But I promise you, I'll never let anything like that happen to you again. I'll protect you, we all will!" I said and she looked at Sophia and Eleanor. She looked down.

I placed my fingers under her chin and made her look at me, in my eyes, "Do you trust me?" I asked. She remained silent for some seconds and then nodded. I hugged her, and I swear when I heard her sigh, a wave of relief washed over. After we pull apart, I cupped her face lightly, caressing her bruised cheek and kissed her forehead. "You'll be better, don't worry.. we all are here." She nodded.

Me, Sophia, Luke and Paul took her to the police station in a rental car. She gave her statement, I held her all the time. She was still shivering. Her grip grew on me as she told the incident, but I tried my best to console her, rather than flipping out with anger. What would've happened if these four hadn't found her? I shook my head silently, throwing that thought away. That will never happen again.. I won't let it happen. After we returned to the hotel, we decided to leave.

"We can't thank you enough for what you did today!!" Harry said to the boys. The boys nodded.

"Yea. Thank you so much. I don't know what would've happened if you didn't—" Aisha said but was cut off by Ashton.

"You don't need to.. we'd help anyone who needed it." He said. She hugged all of them and returned to us. We waved them as we made our way to our bus. The crowd wasn't there, so we were a bit relieved. We went in our bus and drove to our destination.

"I think you should rest, Aisha.". Niall said, cutting off the heavy silence.

"I think all of us are really tired, we should all rest, it's already late." I said. He nodded in agreement.