Chapter 5 - Save you tonight

Liam woke up, found himself sleeping in Zayn’s bed. He slowly opened his eyes and rolled them all over the room to scan for Zayn. He just wanted to see the black-haired boy so badly this morning. But what an ashamed! Zayn was nowhere to be found. When his eyes came across the clock pointing 10 o’clock on the wall, he realized how stupid he was when he was looking for Zayn in the room this late in the morning. Yes, the boy usually take hours to do his hair, but it wouldn’t be this long. Zayn must be downstairs. It was weird of Liam when the first person he thought about in the morning was not Alisa, but his so-called-brother.

Liam got dressed, still felt a little headache. Well, forcing the tears in wasn’t such a good idea for him after all. He looked into the mirror of himself and suddenly felt hot in his lips. He put his hands on his lips to stop himself from any further thought. His head was messed up as he recalled the incident the other night, which he leaned on Zayn’s broad shoulders and warmth spread through his body, or the dream, which was so real that it couldn’t be just a dream. So weird, wasn’t it? And weirder when it was Zayn who kissed him in the dream. And the weirdest is that he felt so good and so intense and so passionate and so on…. Liam wanted more than that. Zayn used to kiss him in the public for something called bromance, actually not only Zayn but every boy in One Direction had had with him at least one kiss, except Niall who would only kiss his food. (A/N: Ahhh!! A shoutout for those who ship Ziam: Niam is not real). But this time, to Liam, the kiss was something different. It was not like those at all, not even close to Alisa’s. It just felt so… right. It was hard to think that a single kiss from Zayn would affect him so badly. Liam has been very weird lately thinking about Zayn. DROP IT, LI! He shook his head in order to drop what he was thinking, it was not-so-good stuff for your information.

Liam got downstairs and the sight of the man smoking silently on the couch caught his eyes. He was thinking about something, he looked very sad – apparently lonely too. Liam felt his heart beating faster than usual. He didn’t like Zayn to smoke. He never does. It was harmful to Zayn’s health. He didn’t want the boy to get sick because of it. He was such a motherlike person, Liam laughed at himself.

“Where are the others Zayn?” – Liam picked up his voice as he tried to get Zayn’s notice.

Zayn was startled. He was somewhere with his thought and didn’t see the boy coming. He saw Liam walking down towards him and, immediately, smiled at him. Liam must admit that that smile of Zayn was to die for.

“Well, they hadn’t woken up just yet. They went out and got home late in the morning last night” – Zayn put off his cigarette. He knew Liam wouldn’t be happy with a smoking Zayn, even if he didn’t show it.

“Last night… y-you didn’t go?” – Liam’s curiosity arose. He frowned. “I mean after I slept.”

It was just weird that Zayn would quit something such as hanging out to just sit there for Liam to lean on. It was getting weirder and weirder. Liam was in a daze.

“Well I… No, I didn’t. Thanks to that someone.” Zayn smirked as he noticed Liam’s face turning into slight red. Not very often when you saw a guy (Liam, for example) blushed. “I suppose you owe me one. You must pay it back later dear. I still feel regret that I didn’t go.”

“Oh… right…” Liam spoke with a tiny tone. Somehow, he was hurt by Zayn’s words. But the he gained back his consciousness as he used all his courage to state “ I had a dream last night.”

Liam paused. He noticed sorrow filled Zayn’s eyes that he swore it meant something. “So… What did you dream about?” He covered himself quite well. Such Bradford bad boi!

“... Some girl kissed me, I suppose.” I didn’t remember it clearly. Liam must admit defeat. He can’t just say it was Zayn who he dreamt about.

“Oh…” For a second, Zayn sounded like he was surprised, and hurt. “Nice!!! You just broke up and you’ve already… Oh I’m sorry, man” Zayn noticed Liam's face turned pale.

“No it’s nothing. There’s something in my eyes, that’s all.” Liam painfully wiped his eyes. It was hard to stop thinking about the old days you had when they used to be so good. He couldn feel a rock on his chest when he heard someone mention his ex. Liam was sensitive by all means.

Zayn was looking at him straight in his face. His eyes were beautiful the way he looked at Liam. But Liam couldn’t look back. He knew if he did, he may burst out.

“It’s ok… It’s just… Dan and I’ve been through so much… And…” – Liam stopped. Again, pain filled his chest. It wasn’t because of the feeling of being deprive from your love, it was because of all the time together but couldn’t understand each other. Maybe it was his fault, maybe not. He still regreted the time passed. If only…

Liam felt tears in the corner of his eyes flowing back into his heart. Liam calmed himself down. Cry, cry, cry. All you can do is cry, Liam Payne! Zayn, whatsoever, placed his hand on Liam’s face. He was, until then, shown as a dependable person. If there was a paparazzi, he would thought they were lovers and were seducing one another. And who knows, maybe they were, maybe they will

“You know that you can always, ALWAYS cry on my shoulders, Liam.” – Liam was drowning in Zayn’s warm voice, in his warm gesture. Everything that used to be in his mind perished.

Liam turned to face Zayn, who was moving his hand down to Liam’s neck. Well that was scary at first, but it really turned Liam on. The boy wanted to dig his head into deeper into Zayn’s reliable hand. He wanted Zayn to hold his whole body, not just his face.

“You’ll always be my best friend, Zayn.” Liam was forced to say this as he didn't want things to get further. He didn't want Zayn to be weak before Zayn. That was a normal reaction of almost every man... wasn't it?

Zayn hesitantly pulled his hand back to himself. “You too, Li man…. And oh, there’s food in the fridge. Serve yourself.” (A/N: I bet Zayn would be a better fridge - say-er than Louis! LOL)

Then Zayn walked upstairs. Before he entered his room, he could hear Liam’s voice reached out for him. ”Zayn, don’t forget to call the other boys. We have an interview this evening.” Zayn paid Liam a half-smiled! The guy would never stop being Daddy Direction!