I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way...

Promises

This chapter may be a bit depressing it surely was when I wrote it up. Just saying if anybody can relate to what happens in this just stay positive and strong and think of one direction and food and please don't ever do it again❤

Zayn's POV

"ARI!" I knocked on her front door one last time. "Ugh, it's no use." I mumbled angrily and kicked over a pot plant.

"You gonna pick that up, Temper Tantrum?" A voice came from a window above me.

"Liz?" I looked up.

"Yeah, so?"

"Uhm.. Nothing I just said Liz." Why was she so hard to speak to. "Look can you just let me in?"

"I would Zayn but.." She looked sympathetic. "It's not my house." She closed the window with a smirk.

"Damn it!" I walked away from the front door.

"Zayn, wait!" There was the sound of the front door unlocking.

"Frankie!" I smiled.

*

"So you still smoke?" He asked me. We were in the front yard.

"Yeah."

"Well, s'pose that's good for me to hear." He put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it.

"You smoke?"

"Yeah... tried to stop so many times though.." He sat down on the wall. "Guess my willpower isn't as strong as I'd hope."

I could relate to that.

"So, you erm... wouldn't mind me dating your sister?" I asked cautiously.

"I would love that!" He smiled. "I mean, it's all good her falling for these goody two shoes mamas-boy types but I suppose if I want her to be with someone I'd want to be brother in law with.." He looked up. "I'd want it to be with someone who I actually got along with."

I sat next to him.

"Same about my sisters." I smiled thinking about them and my mum. "Why doesn't she like me Frankie?"

"I think she loves you Zayn."

"Why say that?" I hung my head. "It's not true."

"She kept a relationship with you while kangaroo boy went home and I'm sure she would've kept it going."

"You call him 'kangaroo boy'?" I grinned.

"Between you and me." He smiled back. "Anyway.. Why'd you guys even break up?"

I sighed. "She thought I was gonna fuck her at a picnic." I said monotonously.

Frankie snickered. "Well sorry 'bout that."

I laughed.

"She's not the physical type is she?" Another voice came from behind us.

"Jordan!" Frankie hi-fived this guy stood behind us. He was tall, wearing a blue snapback, a white vest and baggy black shorts with purple hi-tops.

"Wait Jordan..Viscomi? You guys are friends? But I thought you were that guy Ariana hates because you cheated on her?" I was confused.

"Well, Ariana hates him." Frankie added.

"Yeah but not for the fact I cheated on her." He sat next to Frankie. "More for the fact she was talking to Kangaroo Boy whilst she was still with me." I flinched, that was exactly what she did to Jai but with me. "But..when I heard she'd been with Zayn Malik behind the back of that... that..."

"We get the point." Frankie chipped in, giggling.

"Well, for one I was happy he got it thrown in his face but second I realised that that's what she is.." He shrugged. "A cheat."

"Jordan what the fuck are you doing here?" Ariana and Liz both had their heads stuck out the window.

"Oh look!" Jordan pointed up. "She's onto her next victim." Meaning Liz. Jordan laughed, Frankie sat there awkwardly and me? I didn't take my eyes off Ariana Grande.

*

Ariana finally let me inside when her mom went to go shopping, Liz left and Jordan and Frankie had gone to rehearsals because apparently they are in this show thing together.

"So how you been."

"I listened to your whole conversation with my brother and Jordan, Zayn." She leant against a kitchen cupboard.

"Ok."

"We never broke up."

"Ok."

"So we're still dating."

"Ok."

"So I can still do this."

I was about to say Ok again but before I could her lips were against mine. The kiss was chaste but meaningful. She pulled away, looking embarrassed. I just looked at her in pure shock.

"Don't look at me like that Zayn.."

I cut her off with a more passionate kiss this time. She pulled away quickly.

"Zayn.." She was almost breathless. "C-can we sit down?" She motioned to her sitting room.

"Sure."

*

I smiled as she struggled to open the condom wrapper. We were lying on the couch, me in just my boxers and Ariana... well, in nothing. We had about an hour before her mom got back and we were gonna make the most of it. She edged my boxers off slowly gasping at the sight, he warm breath tickling....naw just kiddin'! Well, I was daydreaming about that but Ariana was in fact struggling with the wrapper of a Hershey's bar.

"Here gimme that." I opened it easily.

"Thanks Zayn." She giggled and went put her head in my lap.

"Oh.. Zayn." Of course she felt my boner..how couldn't she?

"Look okay?" I wasn't gonna tell her what was going through my mind but i also wasn't gonna do what I did at the picnic. "I'm a boy and I'm alone with a very pretty girl and.." I struggled for another excuse. "I'm a boy, Ariana."

She giggled. "I know. I'm not mad at you, you can't help that." She blushed.

"Ariana, was what Jordan said true?"

"I wasn't cheating on him.." She looked at me sadly. "I was just talking to Jai. Like he was my fan. But I cheated on Jai... With you."

"Why you making me feel bad?"

"No Zayn I'm not!" She was gonna cry I knew it. "I'm making myself feel bad." She bit her lip.

"No..no don't say you've.."

I pulled the sleeves of her oversized hoodie up.

"Baby.." My voice broke and tears fell from my eyes like a waterfall. "No." My voice was barely a whisper.

Ariana was staring at me. Wide eyed.

"Zayn, you're crying?" She leant into me so our foreheads touched.

"B-but Ariana you're so happy w-w-why you do..do that?" I looked at the scars on her wrists. "No, not you. Never do this again." My voice was shaking. I was shaking. I pulled her into my lap as my tears fell carelessly onto her wrists. I was sorta hoping that maybe my tears would heal her, like y'know at the end of Tangled? When Rapunzel's tears save Flynn?

"I don't get it, you were so happy!"

"I'm stressed and angry Zayn!" Now Ariana was crying.

"Your such a cute cryer.." I moved her head so she was looking at me.

"Uhm thanks?" We were both laughing now.

"Ariana, promise me you wont do this again."

"Oh yeah." She looked me up and down. "What's in it for me?"

"I'll stop smoking." That came out involuntarily.

"Deal."