Chapter 20 ~ Mila
Chapter 20 ― Mila
I walked next to Harry until we were at the bottom of the stairs. He turned to face me and I sighed deeply. I stayed in my room the whole afternoon trying to figure things out, and calm down, but mostly avoiding Zayn and regretting having yelled at Harry like that. I only came out of the room when I was sure about what to do, and the first thing was to apologise to Harry. The second was to ignore all what was happening with Zayn and not even think of him as something else than a possible friend, if we could get along. I was going to do this until I was sure he was over Alex, and probably by then I was going to be over all this so problem solved.
Ha! And my therapist said that avoiding wasn’t the solution.
“Look, Harry, I’m really sorry for yelling at you before. It had nothing to do with you, I shouldn’t have done it,” I told him really uncomfortable. Despite that I had my pride, I always apologised when I recognised it was my fault, even though saying sorry was always awkward, plus I was sure Harry was going to ask why I was so mad.
“It’s okay. I know it wasn’t my fault and probably you were mat at something else,” he replied with a smile. Such a good boy.
“More mad at myself, I would say. But that’s okay now. I just felt bad for yelling at you, after all you’re my favourite one,” I said winking and he chuckled.
“I know, the curls always get the girl.” He winked back and it was my turn to chuckle. “Now come here and give me a hug or I won’t forgive you.”
Laughing, I hugged him, my face was literally buried in his chest as he was so tall and my arms could almost surround him completely. He was so slim yet all his muscles were defined. I liked to hug him, it felt like being home, like being hugged by my little brother, or something like that. Harry was, without a doubt, my favourite of the whole group and I knew we were going to be really good friends. I loved him that way already, like a best friend.
“Now, it’s your duty as my favourite band member to protect me tonight. Moni can be so mean when we watch horror movies,” I told him looking up to meet his green eyes.
“Don’t worry, I’ll be the knight in shinny armour for you tonight. If you get too scared at night, you can come to sleep with me. I’ll use boxers just for you,” he promised with a cheeky smile and I just giggled. I was conscious about his habit to sleep naked, so I knew this was such a big gesture coming from him.
“Blimey! I appreciate that, Mr Styles,” I told him still giggling. “Okay, let’s go help and let’s hope Phebs is right about that movie. At least I’ll get to see Daniel,” I mused still in Harry’s arms and both were laughing.
We didn’t have the time to turn around when we saw Zayn and Moni coming out of the kitchen. I should’ve laughed at Moni’s expression, but I was shocked by Zayn’s. I heard his laugh before, but when I met his gaze, I saw no sign of happiness in his eyes and there was definitely something dark and bitter. Even Harry saw that because his arms tensed around to me.
“Are we interrupting something?” Zayn asked, his eyes still locked on me.
“Stop trying to steal my best friend, Styles!” Moni yelled before walking towards us to separate us, his eyes glaring daggers at the youngest boy of One Direction. “I have my eyes on you,” she threated pointing to her eyeballs and then to Harry with two fingers. I would’ve laughed at that, but I was still impressed by Zayn’s intense reaction.
“Mila, go with Zayn to help Liam and Phebs. I’ll stay here, watching this best-friend-thief,” Moni spoke up and I heard Harry’s laugh. I wasn’t sure if my best friend was doing all that show because she really thought Harry was trying to steal me from her, or because she wanted to light up the mood. Knowing her as much as I did, it was probably the latter.
I sighed knowing that my stubborn friend wasn’t going to let me refuse to that, so I walked towards Zayn who was still staring at us so intently. I felt awkward immediately and I kept walking to avoid any kind of chat. But that plan didn’t go well.
“Harry and you get along really great, uh?” He commented but he sounded so bitter it startled me.
“Yeah, we’ve become really good friends,” I commented still walking to the living room.
“Just friends, right?” He still sounded resentful and I hated that because it made me feel like he really cared about that, like he was jealous of my friendship with Harry.
“Yup. He reminds me of my brother a bit and we get along almost the same way,” I explained though I didn’t know why I was trying to do that.
“Oh,” was all what he said and I turned a bit to steal a glimpse of him and I saw him smiling at the ground. Wow! That was indeed possible after all, the song didn’t lie. For some reason, I smiled, too.
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I sat as far away from Moni as possible as she was probably going to laugh the whole movie and ruin it for me… even more. She was probably going to scare me and shit like that, so she ended up sitting on a loveseat alone with a cushion and lot of popcorn. Not as many as Niall and Alex had, though. Louis and Eleanor were in another loveseat, Liam and Harry were on the floor and I —I didn’t know how this happened— ended up between Phebs and Zayn.
So here was the thing: the movie was scary as fuck. At least for many of us, Alex and Moni were containing their laughter whilst we tried to not scream too loud. Phebs had one of my hands and I grabbed Zayn’s as I cuddled against him. Fuck everything that was happening to me with him, I was scared! I needed a shield. I was going to care about all the other emotions I was feeling in that moment later. I just needed to survive that night.
I jumped all the time and hid my face in Zayn’s chest. That was the only place where I felt protected and the way he kept his arm around me helped a lot. I noticed that Moni and Alex looked at us a few times, probably going crazy with the whole OTP thing, but I didn’t care. I was literally shaking, their behaviour could fuck itself.
Probably Phebs regretted the movie selection, as she was so scared that Liam had to take her down with him and Harry leaving me alone in the big sofa with Zayn. I was strangling him, but the boy didn’t complain and he just hugged me tighter. I was damn grateful at him in that moment for helping me to make it through the movie.
I screamed so loud at the end and jumped almost as a cat in cartoons. Even Moni screamed but she didn’t do it because of she got scared, just because the ending of the movie was unfair. I, on the other hand, was breathing heavily still tightly cuddled into Zayn, my eyes shut and my face hidden in his chest. His arms wrapped around me in a comfortable way, rubbing lightly my back trying to clam me down.
“Mila, it’s okay. I’m with you, the movie is over,” he whispered into my ear, his hands still giving me soft caresses on my back.
“Stupid woman!” I whispered refusing to unbury my face from his chest.
“Mila, stop being a pussy. That movie was absolutely boring. Massive fail,” Moni spoke up and I shivered. I was going to die that night. If the woman from the movie didn’t come for me, Moni was going to give me a heart attack.
“Why do you have to be so abnormal and don’t get scared? You monster!” I yelled at her still holding onto Zayn for dear life.
“The movie was just crap!” She yelled back. “Right, Alex?” Moni looked for support.
“Alex doesn’t count as she’s as abnormal as you. Go the two of you to a cemetery to have fun and let us here shaking and with all the lights on!” Phebs cried out surprising us all for a couple of seconds before everyone burst out laughing, I even looked up to see the blonde girl holding onto Liam like I was holding onto Zayn.
“Not a bad idea, but you’ll be left alone if the electricity goes down, you know,” Alex reasoned and I saw Niall hugging her tighter.
“Evil!” Phebs cried out again making the two evil girls laugh at us all. Zayn was laughing too, I felt his chest vibrating.
“I only know I won’t sleep tonight,” I whispered and I heard a few statement of agreement coming from Niall, Liam, Louis, Eleanor and Phebs.
But at the end we had to go to our rooms and I had to let go of Zayn. I felt immediately so unprotected and even if it wasn’t a good idea, I grabbed Moni’s hand whilst we were in our bed. “Please, don’t scare me tonight,” I begged her and she nodded but I could still see her mischievous smile.
I tried to fall asleep, but it was impossible. For some reason, every sound was magnified that night. The wind screaming outside hitting the branch trees like crazy, the cats fighting, dogs barking so loud… or maybe I just developed a super sensible ear.
By when I heard scratches under the bed I started shaking and got closer to Moni who was sleeping. Oh my God, it wasn’t her making those sounds! I hugged her so tight and she didn’t wake up. Maybe someone already killed her!
I started hyperventilating in the bed, my eyes wide opened looking in every direction trying to find the woman in black, ready to do something. There wasn’t any kid in the house, so maybe she was going to take us all instead!
“Moni, wake up!” I begged but she didn’t move and the scratches started to become louder. I was shaking and my heart was beating so hard, and Moni seemed to be dead. Why? Oh God, why? She promised to protect me.
There was a knock at the window and I just screamed so loud that probably I woke up all the people in the house. I didn’t care. I jumped off the bed and ran away. Harry told me he was going to protect me and as Moni didn’t react, I needed him!
I ran until I was in front of his door and knocked it frantically. “Harry, please, open the door!” I begged with a shaky voice.
I’m never ever gonna watch another horror movie, I swore to myself. Never!
Soon, the door slammed open and I jumped forward to be caught by a couple of strong arms that quickly wrapped around me. “I’m scared and Moni doesn’t wake up!” I cried out hugging tightly the bare chest of Harry. “Are you wearing boxers?” I asked with my eyes still shut tightly. I heard him chuckle.
“Yes, I am. Come here, Zayn and I will protect you,” he replied and I tensed up.
“Zayn?” I asked cocking my head to one side to look at the bed. In fact, there he was, starting to wake up. “I—I didn’t know you two shared room,” I mumbled.
“Yeah, but you’ll be better protected with two men,” he commented and he was damn right about that.
Right after that and before I could say something else, we heard a loud knock in the hall and more scratches on the walls. Harry and I jumped up and screamed at the same time “Zayn!” as we both ran towards the bed and jumped over him.
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The gif is Mila at the end of the chapter, don't you think? Hehee I hope you all like it. If you vote a lot, I might update earlier this Sunday.
Earlier update because last chapter got more than 200 votes. Mila and I love this chapter, so I hope you do to. Dedication for @Dance_with_me_1D because she's so funny and amazing and I just had a lot of fun talking to her the other day over twitter.
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