You walked into your home, your head down and tears in your eyes representing your sadness.
Walking into the kitchen to grab some snacks and then be alone for the rest of the day, you saw Zayn at the counter biting into a delicious looking apple.

"Oh, hey (Y/N)!", he greeted you cheerfully. Zayn was always nice and like a brother to you, but you just didn't want any company at the moment.

"Is something wrong?", he asked raising an eyebrow and placing the half eaten apple aside. You shook your head and sniffled accidentally, letting him know that something was in fact wrong.

"What's the matter, (Y/N)?" He now sounded worried as he came closer to you.

"Where's Perrie?", you wondered, not wanting her to know what had happened.

"Upstairs, getting ready to go out. Now tell me what made you so upset." You could feel his eyes bore into your face and you knew that you could trust Zayn enough to tell him what bothered you.

"Alright, but please don't tell Perrie", you pleaded.

"I won't, I promise", he said firmly and you sighed.

"It's my boyfriend, well ex-boyfriend now. I caught him snogging another girl. And I don't want Perrie to find out, because you know that she always said that he was no good, but I never listened to her and now I don't want her to nag me full about what she told me", you explained as your voice cracked at the end of your speech and Zayn pulled you into a hug.

"It's okay, (Y/N), everything's okay. It doesn't matter. Perrie won't find out and him cheating just means that he isn't the one for you. Just don't worry about anything, I'll take care of it", he reassured making you pull away from him.

"What are you goin' to do?", you sniffled and he just smiled before replying.

"You'll see. Now wipe away those tears, he obviously isn't worth them", he said and you obeyed him.

"Hey, ya'll!" Perrie's voice, which was full of energy and life power, echoed slightly around the room as she entered the kitchen with a happy look on her face.

"Think I need to practice more on my American accent", she giggled, but you just tried to hide your reddened eyes and cheeks.

"I think it was great", Zayn smiled and planted a kiss on her cheek. Perrie returned the smile, then looked at you.

"Hi, (Y/N)! How was your day?", she asked while your back was turned towards her as you tried to look busy. Clearing your throat, you prayed that your voice wouldn't give away anything.

"Good", you replied shortly, before grabbing a bag of chips (crisps) before heading out of the room quickly.

~*~

The next morning you had like zero motivation to go to school, but you got up to get ready anyway.

As you entered school, you prayed that you wouldn't see your ex-boyfriend and especially not with that chick from yesterday.

As you walked through the corridors of the building, you saw something that shocked you. Yes, it was your ex. No, he wasn't with that chick. His face was bruised, but not like I-accidentally-hit-my-face-to-a-door. It was more like I-got-into-a-fight-and-the-dude-almost-killed-me. You couldn't suppress a giggle about this. You were still heartbroken, but you never wanted to see him again and seeing him like this was something that you liked.

As if seeing him like that wasn't enough, he walked straight towards you and apologized about everything and said that he wasn't good enough for you and that you deserved someone much better than him.

~*~

After school, you were laying on your bed and thinking the things that happened to you, over.
Especially how Zayn had told you that he would take care of it all and then how you saw your ex with a bruised face, who then also apologized to you. Suddenly it all made sense to you and you swiftly grabbed your phone to write Zayn a text message.

》You did it didn't you? 😱《

》Did what? 😊《

》Beat my ex up《

》Well, yeah he needed someone to slap some sense into him... literally 😆《

》Thank you Zayn, really. I owe you one.《

》You owe me nothing (Y/N). You're like a sister to me so of course I'm gonna take care of you 😊《

》😌《

In that moment you were thankful to have Zayn as your sister's fiancé and as some kind of a brother to you.

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Question: What's your OTP?

Mine was Zerrie. 😭😭😭