Melanie's P.O.V:

"When is he going to wake up?" I asked the doctor, as Zayn was still unconscious, lying on the stretcher, while I and Liam were standing by his sides.

"Miss. Phillips, he'll be fine. He might take some time to wake up. Would you guys excuse us for a while? We want to check if he broke any thing." The doctor asked us, motioning for us to leave.

"Sure, let's go Melanie." Liam said, looking at me.

"But Zayn?" I asked Liam, my eyes never leaving Zayn. I didn't feel like leaving him in this condition.

Liam sighed and placed his hands on my shoulders, comforting me.

"Doctors are here. He's gonna be fine, I promise. You trust me?" He asked me, and I nodded.

"Great, now let's go," He said, giving me a assuring smile. I sighed and left the hospital room with Liam and we sat next to each other in the lobby, waiting for the doctors to check up Zayn.

"Thank you for coming, Liam." I thanked him, fiddling with my fingers nervously.

"You don't have to thank me. You guys are my friends and I'm always there for my friends." He said, smiling and I gave him a small smile back. He placed his hand on top of my hands, stopping me from breaking my fingers.

"You're going to need these to slap Zayn. Don't break them now," he said, laughing and trying to enlighten the mood and I again just gave him a small smile.

"Hey, your Mr.Know It All is going to be fine, stop worrying now and smile," he said, smiling at me and I nodded, giving him a smile which was forced. I hope what he says is true.

"Uhh... Liam?" I called out for him after a while, and he looked at me.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone what happened tonight." He said, again smiling. How does he know about that? Am I that readable?

"How did you know that I was going to say that?" I asked him, squinting my eyes.

"I know you, you worry on each and every thing. " He chuckled and I smacked his arm playfully.

"I hope Zayn gets better," I said after a while.

"He will, now stop worrying and tell me what happened actually, why did he go to Nolan's house?" He asked me, shifting in the small seat beside me.

"Uh..."

Hesitantly I told Liam everything from the start, he said he already knew about the fight between them since Zayn is suspended but didn't know what happened after that. After explaining him everything, I saw him getting angry. Liam usually doesn't get angry but right now he seemed really angry.

"Why didn't you tell anyone about him, Melanie?"

"I told you I was scared." I muttered, looking down, ashamed.

"But this is not how it works. If I knew the real reason before, then I would've beaten him up too. You're my friend and I won't like to see you in any problems."

Only if you knew that it wasn't that easy.

"Thanks, Li." I slightly smiled at him, and he calmed down a little, sighing.

"If he tries to do something else, inform us immediately, yeah?"

"Hmmm.." I just nodded.

"Everything is fine. He's still unconscious, but will wake up soon. Nurse is dressing his wounds, you guys can go inside if you want." The doctor informed us, coming out of the room.

"Thank you doctor," Liam thanked him and we went inside the room where Zayn was.

He was lying there, with his eyes closed and sleeping like a baby. He had so many bruises on his face, which made my eyes get watery. He is in this condition because of me. He had nothing to do with it, but still for me, he did it. I walked closer to his stretcher and stood next to it. I was watching the nurse dress his wounds and I have to admit that she was kind of doing it harshly.

"Could you be more gentle please?" I asked her politely, which made Liam chuckle beside me and she gave me a cold glare.

"I am as gentle as possible," She spat.

Why does everyone has to be so rude?

"More gentle would be better." I said, still in a calm tone.

"Why don't you do it yourself huh?" She snapped at me.

"Excuse me Ma'am, you can't talk to her like this." Liam said to her, which made her divert her attention to Liam and glared at him. If looks can kill, Liam and I would be collapsing on the floor by now.

"Yeah, I'll do it myself. You can go," I said, walking close to her.

"Mel, it's her job, she's getting paid for it. Let her do it," Liam told me.

"But Liam she's not doing it in the rig-"

"Melanie you need to calm down okay? Let's go out for a walk, for a while. So that you can calm down a bit." He suggested but I refused, shaking my head.

"No, I'm staying here, with him." I answered him.

"We will come back, now let's go. C'mon," he said, pulling me out of the room and I heard the nurse mumble 'Thank God'.

"But Liam,"

"No buts, let's go and get some fresh air," he said and I sighed. I guess I have nothing else rather than agreeing.

"Shouldn't we call aunt Trisha and his dad? I mean their son is in the hospital, we need to inform them," I said, as Liam and I were walking in the park near by.

"No not yet, they'll get worried. Let him wake up first, then we'll see what we can do." He suggested and I nodded.

"Are you hungry?" He asked me.

"No," I answered.

"Why? Have you eaten your dinner?" He asked, walking next to me.

"No,"

"It's getting late, you might be hungry. Go back to your home and get some rest. I'm here with him," he said and I shook my head.

"No, I'm staying." I refused.

"Why are you so stubborn?" He asked me, sighing.

"I don't know," I shrugged my shoulders, chuckling and so did he.

"Go back home and eat something, when he wakes up, I'll inform you." He suggested.

"Li, I'm fine."

In the mean time, my phone began to ring and I took it out from my pocket.

Harreh is calling.

"Hey Mel, what's up?" I heard him say as soon as I answered his call.

"Hey Harry, nothing. What about you?" I answered, taking a deep breath.

"I wanted to talk to you about something, if you're free right now?"

"Yeah sure. Is everything fine?"

"Yeah it is. Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah,"

"Don't take it in a wrong way, but I wanted to ask that, do you um.. like Louis?"

Why is he asking me that? Did Louis say something to him?

"As a friend right?" I asked him.

"More than a friend." He said.

"Uh.. why are you asking me that?"

I don't know the reason why he is asking me that, but I'm not comfortable talking about this with him. I don't talk about these things with anyone except my sister who keeps on eating my brain to tell her such things, besides her no one understands me.

"Because Melanie I know he asked you out and it took him three years to do that. He had a crush on you since the day you joined our school. He had been an idiot not telling you about it. But I'm glad he did now. I just wanna ask you, that do you like him more than a friend or not?"

Louis had a crush on me since a long time and why didn't I know about that? He's such a sweet guy, I think what I'm doing is wrong. I should at least answer him. I'm going to answer him tomorrow.

"Liam, I'll be back in two minutes." I said to Liam, and walked away from him.

"He had a crush on me for three years?" I asked Harry, strolling around.

"You're with Liam right now? Yeah, he did and please don't tell Louis that I told you about it, otherwise Hazel will be sobbing at my funeral."

"Liam uh.. he.. uh wanted my biology assignment." I lied.

"And I won't tell Louis that you told me that." I added.

"Do you like him?" He asked again.

"Umm... I uh do." I answered after a while. Yes, I do like him.

"Really?"

"Hmm.."

"Then why didn't you say 'Yes' for your date?"

"I am confused, to be honest."

"About what? You like him, he likes you, GO GET MARRIED AND MAKE ME AN-"

"Marriage already?" I cut him off, chuckling a bit.

"Yeah, but jokes apart, what are you confused about?" He asked me.

"I don't know." I said, sighing.

"Eh? You're weird, Melanie."

"I know I'm an Idiot." I said, kicking the pebble in front of me.

"Mel, he's waiting for your answer. If you don't want to go on a date with him then refuse him, but just don't make him wait." He's right, I have to answer him. I can't make him wait forever. It's just a date, he didn't propose me to marry him.

"Mhmm." I said.

"Just make up your mind, and give him an answer. Think about it, yeah?"

"I will. Thanks Harry."

"Anytime, love."

"I'll see you tomorrow at school?"

"Yeah, Goodnight."

"Good night, Harry." I said, hanging up the call.

I walked back to Liam and saw him using his phone.

"I told Harry that you wanted my biology assignment that's why I was with you." I said, as he looked up from his phone and nodded.

"Yeah okay."

"He woke up for a while and was asking for someone named as Melanie." The nurse, who was in Zayn's room, informed us.

"I'm Melanie," I answered, stepping forward.

"He was calling out your name, he's asleep now." She said, rolling her eyes at me.

"Melanie, I'm getting a call from mum. You go and check on Zayn, I'll be back in five minutes. Okay?" Liam informed me.

"Yeah okay," I said, going inside the room in which Zayn was.

I slowly closed the door behind me and walked towards the end of the bed. Bandages were all over his face and hand. I sat on the stool, next to his bed, watching him sleep.

"I'm Sorry," I whispered, although he was sleeping. I wiped the tear off my cheek and lowered my head, still crying.

"I'm so sorry," I whispered again, as another tear streamed down my face.

"It's not your fault," I heard him say, which made me rise up my face, to look at him.

"You're up." I smiled at him. Never have I ever thought that I would be so happy to see him and would give him a genuine smile. I can't even describe how relieved I am to see him, up.

"Nope, my ghost." He chuckled, slowly.

"Shut up," I said, as I laughed slightly and wiped the tears off my cheeks.

"Why are you crying?" He asked as his smile began to fade and so did mine.

"How are you feeling?" I said, ignoring his question. He knows why I am crying, I don't want to answer his question.

"I'm good," he said, sighing.

"Liar."

"No, I'm actually fine now." He said and suddenly there was a silence in the room for a while when he broke it.

"Are you okay?" He asked me.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Nothing happened to me." I answered, looking down.

"Not physically," He said, making my head rise up.

"I'm fine, Zayn. You're the one who's lying on a stretcher in the hospital." I said, motioning towards him and he sighed.

"I hope my family doesn't know about it?" He asked and I shook my head.

"No they don't yet. Do you want me to call them?"

"No, don't. I don't want mum to get worried." He said, playing with corner of the bed sheet.

"She'll get worried when you go back to your home in this condition." I said, motioning towards his bandages.

"I'll ask Liam to let me stay at his place tonight. Is Liam still here?" He asked, his eyes searching for Liam.

"Yeah, he's outside. He's on his phone right now." I answered.

"Okay, by the way, how did he come there?" He asked, and began to get up to sit, but couldn't because of the pain.

"Umm... I called him, now don't get angry at me, I didn't know what else to do," I quickly got up from the stool, and helped him to get up.

"Can you pass me the glass of water?" He asked, pointing towards the glass, beside me and ignoring what I said.

"Yeah sure, so you're not angry at me?" I asked, handing him the glass.

Since when did you start getting worried about him being angry at you? Why do you care? My subconscious added.

"I am," he muttered.

"Why? Because I called Liam?" I asked.

Why do you care? My subconscious again reminded me and I shrugged my thoughts.

"No, because you didn't tell me about Nolan. Anyways, you can go back to your home, nerdy." He said.

"When you get discharged, I will, and even now you're gonna call me Nerdy?" I said, chuckling.

"I can call you nerdy, whenever I want and you don't have to stay. " He said, laughing a bit.

"I want to," I said.

Why?

"But it's getting late." He argued, and motioned towards the wall clock.

"I don't care." I said.

"You're really stubborn." He chuckled, shaking his head at me.

"I'm sorry, Zayn." I suddenly apologized.

"How many times do I have to tell you that it's not your fault? Stop apologizing." He said, pulling a serious face and sighed.

"But you're in this condition because of me."

"At least he won't disturb you now and I'm not in this condition because of you. Promise me one thing?"

"What?" I asked.

"Promise me that you'll inform someone if he tries to do something?"

"Hmm," I nodded, looking down.

"Promise?" He asked.

"Yeah, promise." I said, in a playful annoyed voice.

"Good. Now when am I discharging from here?" He asked me, and we heard someone entering the room.

"Zayn, you've been discharged. Let's go." Liam said, as soon as he came in.

"Great, by the way, Liam I'll be staying at your place tonight. I don't wanna make my family worried by seeing me like this. Okay?" Zayn asked Liam and Liam walked towards him.

"Yeah sure," he said, helping Zayn get up from the bed.

"Mr. Malik, take care of yourself and do take the medicines at time." The doctor said, as he entered the room.

"Thanks Doctor, yes I will." He thanked him. He groaned in pain, as he began to get up from the bed.

Trust me, it was really hurting me to see him like that. I walked near him, and placed his arm around my shoulder, while Liam placed Zayn's other arm around his shoulder.

Zayn turned his face in my direction, totally surprised by my actions, even I was surprised by what I was doing. He stared directly in my eyes, making me nervously shift my gaze towards the ground which made him also quickly shift his gaze towards the doctor.

We began to walk out of the room, when the doctor's words stopped us.

"Melanie, say 'Hi' to your boyfriend from me." He said, making us stop in our tracks.

"My boyfriend?" I asked him with a confused look. Who is he talking about?

"Yeah, I forgot his name..um... it started from 'L'. Lo-"

"Louis?" I asked, squinting my eyes and I could feel Liam and Zayn's faces snap in my direction.

"Yes, Louis." He said, smiling. He still thinks that Louis is my boyfriend.

"Uh..yeah I will," I said, walking out with Liam and Zayn. I could feel their gazes burning through me.

"Okay, Stop staring at me like that, guys!"

"Since when did Louis become your boyfriend?" Zayn asked me.

"Well, Malik, even if he became my boyfriend, what's with you?" I asked him, raising my eyebrow at him.

"Uh..no. What I meant was that I don't want my best friend to get in trouble." He said, chuckling.

"What do you mean by th-" I was cut off by Liam protesting.

"Even I don't know about it." Liam protested with a shocked expression.

"Louis is not my boyfriend," I chuckled at them and they looked mire confused than ever.

"Then who is?" Zayn asked. What is wrong with him?

"Don't you think you're getting way more curious?" I asked him.

"I-I'm not curious. Well, Liam is curious too." He said, looking over at Liam and Liam stared at Zayn, clueless.

"I am?" Liam asked him.

"Of-Of course, I am." Liam said, after receiving a death glare from Zayn.

"But Liam doesn't seem to ask so many questions." I said, stopping, making them also stop.

"Liam why are you not speaking, man?" Zayn smacked Liam on his arm.

"What am I suppose to say? I'm shocked, I-I mean surprised. Are you and Louis really dating?" Liam asked me and I shook my head.

"No we aren't,"

"Then why did the doctor say that?"

"Because the last time when I came here with Louis and Zayn, the doctor assumed that Louis is my boyfriend. That is the reason he was calling Louis my boyfriend, earlier." I explained them.

"Oh, I would've killed Tommo if he didn't tell us about it." Liam said, laughing.

"Can we go now?" I asked them, and they nodded.

"SHIT! WAIT! My car," I suddenly squealed, when realization hit me that my car was still parked in front of Nolan's house.

"You don't have a car," Zayn said, adding a chuckle along with it, which made me glare at him.

"Thanks for reminding me that. I meant my sister's car." I replied, rolling my eyes.

"What happened to it?" Liam asked me.

"It's still parked in Nolan's parking area." I told him.

"What?! Why didn't you bring the car back?" Zayn scolded me, making me look at him.

"It's not my fault." I defended myself.

"You shouldn't have come there in the first place." He said, getting angry.

"I didn't want you to do what you did, that is the reason I came there," I fought back.

"You almost gave yourself to him. How can you do that?!" He raised his voice at me.

"Because he was beating the shit out of you!" I replied with the same tone.

"Can you both-"

"Shut up Liam, when you're suppose to talk, you don't say anything. So stay quiet now!" Zayn cut off Liam, angrily and his mouth hung open.

"Even if anyone beats the shit out of me, what's with you, huh?!" He asked me, still raising his voice.

"If that is the matter than tell me why did you go to fight with him? If anyone threatens me, says rubbish about me and abuses me, what's with you huh? Why did you go there?!" I fought back.

"Because you didn't tell anyone about it!" He said, grinding his teeth.

"It shouldn't bother you!" I replied.

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A.n:

I've entered HSB in the 1D spring awards. I don't know what I was thinking before doing that. I still think to drop out but if I do so, then my three idiots TayStyle18 uniguin13 curlyxhes are going to kill me. Go follow my loves and checkout their books.

If you want HSB to win the the award of best 1D fanfic of Spring, then go comment on that book. If you don't know about it, PM me, I'll send you the link. Voting is unlimited, means you can comment as much as you want. If you like HSB then go comment for it as much as you want and can. Voting lines are going to close in May28 I guess, till then u can vote as much as u want. #FingersCrossed.

Questions:

1.How did you become a directioner?

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Stay safe and keep smilin' cuz it looks best on you. :)

Love y'all and Zayn a lot.

Thanks xx

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