It Couldn't Be (A Zayn Malik Fanfiction)

Chapter 8
We lied down on the grass in my backyard for the rest of the day, just talking. And as the earth soaked up the last bit of sunlight, I soaked up every moment with Zayn. The sun had gone down, and we were silently listening to the crickets that began to chirp.
I felt the heat from his body radiating off of him. I was aversely waiting on him to say that he had to go. But that time never came. He just lay there, staring up at the sky, like his mind was on something, but he didn’t want to say it out loud.
Suddenly, I wanted to know what he was thinking. I wondered if he knew how much I really loved him, and how every minute without him would be heart breaking, almost too hard to endure.
And then I had the impression that maybe he could actually hear what I was saying, and that I could possibly be talking out loud.
“Am I talking out loud?” I asked, saying it before I could catch myself.
“You are now,” he said and smiled. “Tell me. What were thinking about just a few moments ago?”
Suddenly, my defense mode came on. “I’ll tell you what I was thinking about, if you tell me what you were thinking about,” I said. Wow, I really deserved a pat on the back for that one.
“Well, I asked you first.”
“So, I asked you second. What do numbers have to do with this?”
He laughed. “Okay then. Well…. Tell me something about you that I don’t know. Something that you’ve never told anyone.”
I had to think about this carefully because this could actually be a serious situation.
“Well…. I don’t know. I don’t really have any secrets.”
“There’s nothing?” he said, now puzzled.
“Well…. I hate my middle name.” I was praying to God that he didn’t ask what it was.
“What is it?” he seemed to be very interested in what I was saying now.
I took a deep breath. “Scylla.”
“Skylar?”
“No Scylla, with an ‘a’ at the end.”
“Oh…” he seemed relieved. “Well, what’s wrong with that name?”
“What’s wrong with that name? Scylla happens to be the name of the six headed monster in Greek mythology.”
“Oh. Well I wouldn’t have known if you wouldn’t have told me what it meant.”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right.”
“So your full name is-“
“Molly Scylla Mills.”
“Impressive.”
“And your name?”
“What do you mean?”
“What your full name?” I was trying to act like I didn’t already know what it was.
“Zayn Jawaad Malik.”
“I see…. And I suppose you have no problem with your name at all?”
“No, I don’t think so. I have a little Pakistani in my heritage so I didn’t really have a choice in the name I chose, if you know what I mean.”
“Yeah, I know what you mean,” I said.
“Yeah…. so anyway, how would you like to come with me tomorrow to hang out with the guys a little?”
“Um....” Hang out with One Direction for a day. Who the hell would turn that down?
“You won’t be the only girl there… I think Eleanor, Louis’s girlfriend, should be coming. We’re just going sightseeing. Maybe you could help us a little bit anyway since you’re from here.”
“Okay, sure,” I said. This was going to be a long day.
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A bus came to pick me up around 10 and immediately my hands started getting sweaty. I looked into my full view mirror and observed myself from head to toe, checking for boogers in my nose to corns on my toes. I didn’t have either, but I couldn’t be completely certain.
I walked out of my house, locked the door, and went to the bus. Someone opened the door and I got in the bus to see 10 heads with smiling faces. Five being the boys, 2 being the girlfriends, and 3 being obviously bodyguards.
It wasn’t only Eleanor; it was Danielle Peazer, Liam’s girlfriend.
“Hey everyone,” I said.
Everyone greeted me back and Zayn motioned for me to come sit next to him. I sat down next to him and he put his arm around me.
“You look beautiful this morning,” he whispered in my ear.
“You don’t look too bad yourself,” I whispered back.
“So Molly where do you recommend we go first?” I heard a voice behind me say. It was Harry, and he had a nice little smirk on his face.
“Um…well. I guess we can go to Dogwood first on Lakeland Drive. It’s like right around the corner from here.”
“Does it have nice stores?” Eleanor said.
I just looked at her for a moment, trying to decide whether or not she was a beard. I didn’t know whether or not I shipped Elounor or Larry, but from the looks of it right now, Louis seemed to be really ignoring her.
“Well I guess they’re okay for Mississippi, though it’s definitely not Los Angeles or London for that matter.”
That aroused laughs from everyone on the bus. It was the truth. The shops down here were ridiculously lame. I’d rather do all of my shopping online.
“Well, okay, that’s where we’ll go first,” the driver said.
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We all got off of the bus and went our separate ways, although I stayed with Zayn. The other two girlfriends went with each other and their boyfriends.
For some unknown reason, Harry came with us. Niall went shopping by himself. So Harry’s hanging with us surprised me.
We went into all the shops that were around us. Anything I even looked at, Zayn automatically picked it up and bought it. I didn’t ask for any of it, really didn’t want much of it, and had tried to talk him out of all of it. He didn’t listen.
So after we got done shopping, Zayn decided that he wanted to try Berry Berry Good’s frozen yogurt.
“Would you like a cup?”
“Yeah, don’t get me that much. But I want Strawberry flavor with blueberries and nuts.”
“Okay. Harry, are you staying out here with her?”
“Yeah, I guess I should watch her in case she tries to run off,” he said with a grin on his face.
I held out my arms that were overflowed with my bags that Zayn had given me so he could go in the building. “How could I?”
Zayn then walked over to Harry and whispered something in his ear, which caused Harry to chuckle. The only I thing made out was “beat” and “ass”.
Zayn then walked towards me and kissed me on my forehead and said, “I’ll be back.”
“Okay,” I said. Then he walked in BBG.
When I knew that Zayn was out of hearing distance I asked Harry what Zayn had told him.
“He told me not to flirt with you while he was gone.”
“Oh, I see. Well, I don’t think it would’ve affected me any.”
“Oh, you don’t think I have charisma?” he asked.
“I’m sure you do. But I care about Zayn.”
“Hahah, I see. I’m just messing with you. I wouldn’t dare try anything with you anyway. Not the way he talks about you.”
This caught my attention. “What do you mean?”
“I mean he talks about you almost 24/7. I swear I think the guy loves you more than life. He talks about you just like he used to talk about Skylar."
I pondered on what he’d just said. Then I remembered what had happened last night. He’d thought I’d said Skylar was my middle name, and when I’d told him otherwise, it seemed like he was relieved.
“Did you say Skylar?” I asked him. I looked inside BBG and saw Zayn. He was just now putting the yogurt in the cups.
“Um yeah. But forget about it, I wasn’t supposed to say anything.”
“Why, what happened?”
Harry then looked around nervously, like he was afraid anyone would hear.
“Skylar was his last girlfriend when we were on the last tour.”
I thought about it and couldn’t remember anyone named Skylar.
“You wouldn’t have heard about her. She was pretty much off the map,” he said reading my mind.
“Well, what happened?”
“What happened to what?” Zayn said taking the bags from me and putting some yogurt in my hand.
Harry then looked away. He seemed to get tense and that was my sign to take over.
"Oh, well Harry was just telling me about a show that was running in England. I used to watch it on Netflix all the time, but they haven't put up any new seasons in a while."
"What show is it?" Zayn asked inquisitively.
"Um...Sherlock." I said quickly.
"Oh yeah. I watch that show. You know they only do like three shows in one season. We waited two years for season 2. But I heard that it should be out in January."
"Oh! Okay! Well...thank you very much."
At this he laughed. "You're welcome, babe. Let's go back to the bus."
He grabbed my bags and started leading us to the bus. Harry was silent and I looked back to see if he was still there. He shot me a look that read "thank you."
He shouldn't thank me too much. Because I was definitely gonna ask him about it later.

Notes

Sorry, for the late update guys. Schoolwork ya know?