Not Over ➝ a.i.

8

"Zen!" Lexi shouted running up to him, Zayn picked her up and kissed her on the cheek.

"What's new cutie?" He asked as he made weird noises in Lexi's ear causing her to giggle.

"Uncle Wuke is taking me to Disney World!" She said and Zayn's looked over at Luke and nodded.

"Is he now?" Zayn asked suspiciously looking at Luke who kicked his feet at the ground. "Interesting, I hope you have fun." Zayn said giving her another kiss on her cheek.

"Hey Zayn can I talk to you?" I asked, he nodded setting Lexi down while her and Luke went into the living room while Zayn and I went into the kitchen.

"What's up?" Zayn asked waiting for me to start up the conversation.

"Do you have something to tell me that you're hiding?" I asked referring to when Harry asked if Zayn told me yet.

"Why would you think I'm hiding something?" He asked crossing his arms and arching his eyebrows.

"Well Harry asked if you had told me something without being very specific and he acted all weird and jittery when I asked him what it was about." I explained to him and Zayn looked nervous, his eyes got wide and he started to shake his leg.

"That's just Harry being Harry, he never knows what he's talking about." Zayn chuckled and I could tell he was lying since he wasn't looking at me.

"Zayn.." I pushed and he sighed heavily before pinching the bridge of his nose.

"I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want you to worry." Zayn said running his fingers through his hair and that made me nervous.

"Well I'm worrying now." I said starting to bite my nails.

"It'll be alright you've got us so nothing will happen." Zayn said still not telling me what this was all about.

"Zayn tell me." I said nervously.

"Liam and Nick are back." He said and my eyes widened feeling like I was about to get sick or fall over. I started to breath heavily as I slowly went to the ground trying to breath but I was panicking. "Addie, shhh, it's okay Addie , it'll be alright just breath." Zayn said trying to help me as he rubbed my back.

"What about Lexi? I can't let them get to her, Zayn I- I just-" I gripped onto his shoulder still not able to breath and he began to fan me with his hand or do anything to calm me down.

"We won't let them get to her or you, we're all here to protect the two of you. I'm not sure if Ashton knows but we'll make sure he does." Zayn said reassuring me. I've never had a panic attack this bad before, or in a long time. I use to get nightmares and everything but I finally concurred those throughout the years.

"I'm scared Zayn." I admitted still shaking. I felt like crying because I thought this was all over, that we could all for once have nothing to worry about or runaway from. But now, it's starting all over again.

"It's okay to be scared Addie, I am too. All I care about right now is you and Lexi. Ashton told me to take care of you and do whatever it takes to keep you safe, and that's what I'm going to do. I always keep my word." Zayn said pulling me in for a hug as he kissed the top of my head. I always felt like Zayn was like a big brother to me, even Niall and Harry too, they're just so fun to be around.

"We should tell Ashton." I told Zayn looking up at him.

"When?" He asked.

"Soon, maybe later today. He needs to know." I said running my fingers through my hair.

"That sounds good, maybe in a couple of hours." Zayn said and I nodded. He helped me up and walked with me to where Luke and Lexi were.

"Everything okay?" Luke asked and I nodded to reassure him even though I'm sure he could see right through me.

"Yeah." I said tucking a piece of my hair behind my hair.

"I think we should play hide and seek." Luke suggested and Lexi started to jump up and down.

"Yeah, you hide and I'll count!" Lexi said as we all ran to find a hiding spot to play hide and seek.

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An hour or two passed since we've played hide and seek, Zayn and I were just about to head out to go talk to Ashton. I grabbed a hoodie from my room and slid it over my head, walking over to Zayn who had his hands in his pockets.

"Ready?" Zayn asked and I nodded before giving Lexi a kiss on her head.

"I'll be back, behave for Luke." I told her and I looked at Luke and pointed at him, "You behave too." I smiled and he rolled his eyes.

"We'll be fine Addie." Luke reassured me.

"I'll be back soon." I said waving them goodbye as I followed Zayn to his car.

Getting into the car with him I began to shake my leg nervously and twiddle my thumbs around. I'm sure Ashton didn't want to see me but this was important and I wanted him to know about it, he may not care anyways but we're still telling him.

"Don't worry if he acts like an ass I'll set him straight." Zayn smiled reassuring me, I smiled back as he started up the car and drove down the road to go talk to Ashton.

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this was short, sorry :/

nicole xx