I woke up by myself the next morning, with Zayn besides me. We had felt asleep cuddling in each other's arms. He had wrapped his arms around my waist and his chest was pressed against my back. His warm breath was tickling my skin. I attempted to get away from his grip, but instead he pulled me closer. He had now placed his chin on my shoulder. His touch felt ticklish, making me let out a small chuckle.

"Good morning Ash.." He said in his morning voice. He pressed his lips against the neck and slept again, not breaking the contact. I felt shivers down my spine.

I lifted my hand and placed it on his cheek. "Zayn.. get up.." I said, but he didn't move.

"Babe?" I asked again. 

"Hmm?" He replied this time, though eagerness waved in his voice.

"Get up.." I said.

"But, I wanna sleep..." He groaned. Finally opening his eyes and looking at me.

"Then let me get up..." I said again, turning my body to face him.

"You're such a mood-spoiler." He said with a frown.

"Maybe, I am..." I replied. He shook his head and I chuckled.

He pulled me closer, with a lazy smile on his face. I raised my hand and put it on his mouth. He stopped, furrowing his eyebrows at me. I shook my head and answered. "Morning breath.."

I removed my hand and got up, making him roll his eyes. He is such a baby..

"Are you feeling good today?" He asked me, brushing my hair back lightly with his fingers. I nodded.

"I would never be more better." I answered honestly, making him smile. "Now get your hands off my waist so I can actually get up.." I said, he whined, but finally let me go. I got up and he slept again. I looked for my phone.

It was 6:54 am right now... why am I waking up early? 

I sighed and looked around for the others. All the others were sleeping, while Harry and Louis were not in bed. I looked around, but found them nowhere. Then I realised, the bus was not moving. Maybe, they're taking some stuff... I shrugged. I took my stuff and went to take a shower.

I came after a good 20 minutes shower, it relaxed me. My head still pained. I looked in the mirror, I hadn't noticed yesterday, there was a bruise on my cheek, and finger marks on my neck, I carefully applied medicine on them. And came out of the bathroom.

Louis and Harry returned and came with a lot of stuff. Everyone was up by now. I moved towards the kitchen area that we had. There, I saw Harry mixing some batter, with some potatoes on the other side of the bowl.

"Good morning Hazza!" I said as I opened the bags to help myself with orange juice. He frowned a little but replaced it quickly with a smile. Maybe because of the bruises.

"Hey.. Morning Ash!" He replied.

"What are you making for breakfast today?" I ask pouring some juice in a separate glass.

"He's making you something special today.." El said as she took the bottle from my hand. I looked at her in surprise.

"Uh huh?" I take a sip from my glass.

"I'm making you aloo parathas!!" He exclaimed. I choked on my juice, while El rubbed my back. Before I could breath sufficiently, Harry hugged me.

"Aww.. You don't have to be overwhelmed.. we love you!" He said.

"Let her breathe, Harold!" El said and he pulled away. I mouthed 'thank you' to her.

"You know! The batter is ready.. I just have to cook it now." He said returning to his work.

"And what about those potatoes there?" I ask pointing towards them.

"Oh. They are for fries. I was just going to keep them away..." I choked again.

I chuckled at his determination, while both of them looked at me with confusion. I moved towards him and untied the apron he was wearing.

"What are you doing?" He asked me.

"You know.. just let me handle this!" I said taking his apron off and tied it around my waist. He rolled his eyes at me.

"I'll take a shower!" He frowned and moved towards his bunk. Eleanor and I laughed.

"Why didn't you let him work?" She asked me. I told her the recipe while adding more flour to the batter and boiling the potatoes. It was her time to choke now. I chuckled slightly.

"Wow! I thought it resembled to a pancake.." She said laughing. I laughed again. I was now filling the dough balls with mashed potatoes. She went to get ready.

After about half an hour, parathas were ready. I tried making them with least butter, cause it wasn't healthy. But, to be honest, I was craving to add more butter. I was making raita, when I felt two arms around my waist. I knew it was Zayn, by the way he held me. He placed his chin on my shoulder and watched me work.

"You're making parathas? How come?" He asked me.

"It's better than eating Harry's aloo parathas without potatoes.." He chuckled at my sentence. "Oh shush, he tried though.." I defended him, while Zayn nodded. It was really sweet of Harry making me Indian breakfast to enlighten my mood.

"You know... I can wake up to this everyday.." He said kissing my cheek.

"To what?" I asked.

"To you making breakfast for us." He whispered, his mouth quite close to my ear. I blushed.

"We're here too, guys!" Someone spoke from behind. We turned to find Liam and Soph. They were grinning at us. What's with everyone grinning at us?

"Come on guys.. we're together now." I whined, looking at them. But I heard Zayn chuckling. "What?" I looked at him and asked.

"I like the sound of that..." He said. I shook my head, the shade on my face got deeper.

"Come on... call everyone for breakfast!" I said.

After some time, everyone gathered in kitchen. Harry's face was still frowned. I shook my head in disbelief.

"Come on Harold! I'll tell you the recipe afterwards..." I said, making his face lit up.

"What's for breakfast?" Niall asked.

"Harry has encouraged me to make an Indian breakfast today.. its called aloo paratha." I answered.

They all took their plates and started eating. I looked at their faces, they were all satisfied. I mentally thanked Alia for encouraging me to learn cooking. We were talking and enjoying our breakfast. I explained Harry where he went wrong.

"So, it's not a batter.. it's a dough. And I forgot to add potatoes. That's it.." Harry said.

"You're lucky Alia isn't here." I said laughing. Ahh! I never thought I was going to miss that idiot.

"And why is that so..?" He asked.

"Because, this dish is like her lifeline, she loves it, and if she saw you doing it the wrong way, she'd punch you in the face non-hesitantly." He laughed. This may sound crazy, but that's true. She was a paratha freak. I missed her though.

Suddenly Harry's phone rang. A smile grew across his face.

"Hey Alia..." It was my time to smile now. "We're good!... you wanna talk to her?..okay!" He said and handed his phone to me.

"Hey Allu." I called her by her nick name after long.

"Aishu!! What the hell happened to your phone?" she asked. Oh no!

"I kinda.... lost it?" I answered, chuckling in nervousness. I can imagine her shaking her head in disbelief.

"Great... Whatcha doing?" She changed the topic. Thank God!

"I made parathas for breakfast.." I smiled, I knew she'd go crazy.

"God!! I miss your parathas! Mom never makes them like you do!!" She yelled. "By the way.. I'm skyping you, open your laptop." My face frowned.

"Umm.. yea, just wait for 5 minutes, I'll skype you." I said hesitantly.

I ended the call and gave it to Harry. If I skyped her right now, she would see my bruises. What if Mom and Dad are there with her too?

"Ash.. what happened?" Zayn asked. I looked at him and shook my head.

"Alia wants to skype me.." I replied.

"So that's a good thing." Niall spoke. I nodded.

"It's good, obviously. I just don't want to tell them about yesterday.." I trailed off. They nodded in understanding.

"Don't worry Ash.. No one will speak about it." Soph said, gently squeezing my shoulder in reassurance. All of them nodded too.

"And.. cover that up with some foundation." She added gesturing towards my cheek and neck.

I covered the bruises and skyped Alia and Muskaan. We spoke for some minutes, all of us, they didn't notice my bruises, which was good. Mom and Dad were off to work, which was a good thing too. I spoke hesitantly, I was bad at lying. On some topic, they started laughing. I was just smiling, and Muskaan's expression mirrored me.

"Aisha.. what's wrong?" Suddenly Muskaan asked. Oh shit! I tried to keep my smile on.

"No nothing.." I answered.

"You know you can hide stuff from your sister, but not me!" She spoke again, crossing her arms. She always sensed the wrong with me, I didn't know how.. We had been friends for years, she knew about me more than my own sister did.

"I think you should tell them." Zayn whispered to me.

"Are you sure?" I whispered back. He held my hand and caressed my knuckles with his thumb. I took a deep breath. First, I went to the bathroom and washed the foundation. After seeing the marks, both of them remained silent. Then I started explaining them and warned them not to tell anyone else, not even Mom and Dad. Alia was in tears, which I never expected.

"Alia, I'm fine now, don't worry!" I said and she rubbed her eyes. She shook her head.

"I'd never cry for you! My eyes are sweating..." She said sniffing. All of us started laughing. 

I guess I was stronger than yesterday. Yesterday I couldn't even speak about the incident, my body was shivering. And today I was speaking about it, without any fear. This was Zayn's effect. I didn't know how, but he had made me strong.. I had to tell them about us too!!

"And, Zayn and I are dating." I said. Their faces were unchanged. I became confused.

"You can't expect us to freak out, Ash.. you were already a couple. Just didn't accept it." Muskaan rolled her eyes and everyone laughed, while I just huffed in annoyance.

We chatted for some more minutes and then hanged up. I was relieved. 

We reached our hotel in Dublin and checked in our rooms. After freshening up, we gathered in Soph and Liam's room, they had ordered pizza for lunch.

Some time later, someone knocked on the door. I approached the door and unlocked it, and I was shocked. I found Luke, Calum, Ashton and Micheal standing in front of me. They hugged me and went in. I was still confused.

I went to the room, they were settled down and enjoying the pizza. Louis noticed my confusion and chuckled.

"Relax Aisha! They're a band. They are going to be our opening act.." Louis said.

"You're a band?" I asked, totally amused. I took a seat besides Zayn.

"You didn't recognise us? Not yesterday, but not even today?" Ashton asked me.

"Umm..no." Their faces frowned as I replied.

"Don't worry! She didn't knew us too." Niall laughed. Their faces relaxed. Don't blame me! I was a Bollywood lover.

"Then it's fine! We are 5 Second of Summer!!" Calum said shoving a slice of pizza in his mouth. "We didn't get introduced properly yesterday." He added again.

"Oo! Yea.. I'm Aisha Mehra. 1d's costume stylist." I said smiling.

"And.. my girlfriend!" Zayn added, wrapping his arm around my waist and pulling me closer, heat crept up to my cheek.

"You don't need to tell this.. we saw you yesterday. You were devastated seeing her in that state." Luke said and I looked at Zayn. He avoided my gaze.

"No that's not true." He said silently.

"His hand gives you the answer.." Liam said. The bandage!

"Gosh!! Zayn... Were you gone mad? You didn't even let me look yesterday!" I yelled and made him look at me.

"I—I couldn't bear seeing you like that.." He said in a low voice. I hugged him tight. He lightly kissed my temple. We earned a round of whistles and cheers from the lads.

"Shut your mouths!"! I said sarcastically. They laughed.

"Ok then.." Louis said. He pulled his phone out and played 'All of me'. I rolled my eyes. Here we go again...

Me and Zayn chuckled. This was the song they played when we had our moments. I loved it... I loved him.

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