11: The Date and Continuing To Fall

I have so much sad ideas for this fanfic :(

Chapter 11:

Hazel POV:

"Chase!" I whined and he chuckled while he skated back towards me swiftly. "For the millionth time today! I can barely even move an inch in these skates!"

"But they're your size," he said and I hit him and he chuckled. "C'mon, I'll help you."

He twirled his fingers with mine and tugged me forwards, keeping me steady. He kept eye contact and then turned me around swiftly, then pressed my back against his front and placed his hands on both sides of my waist and slowly started skating forwards with ease. I smiled as I felt him rest his chin on my shoulder while he skated around the huge ice rink with ease. We had a normal conversation and I forgot that we were even on a date.

When our time on the ice rink was out, he grabbed my hand and helped me skate back towads the edge and we took off our skates and handed them back to the girl behind the desk and she handed us back our shoes. I easily slipped into my black Uggs and waited for him to lace up his laces and get out. When he was ready we walked out towards his car. When he started the ignition he turned to look at me.

"Where do you want to go?" he asked and I shrugged.

"How about Starbucks?" I suggested. He bit his lip, then nodded and started driving towards Starbucks. Chase parked the car a few shops away from Starbucks and when we arrived, warmth enveloped me and I smiled.

"Why don't you go get a table and I'll buy the drinks?" he suggested and I nodded. "What do you want?"

"Hot chocolate," I replied before walking towards the back and found an empty table. I sat down on one of the chairs and checked my phone noticing two texts, one from my mother and another from Seth, I opened Seth's first but didn't see it because Chase came and sat down, handing me my warm drink. I smiled and thanked him.

"So, tell me a bit about yourself," he started and I smiled a tiny smile.

"What do you want to know?"

"Hmm," he replied making his thinking face, which I had to say was probably the third sexy think ever except for the boyish smirk which was in second place and a boy's morning and sleepy voice which was in first place. "Favourite colour?"

"Purple," I replied with a smirk.

He chuckled. "Now you ask me."

I chewed my lip. "When's your birthday?"

"23rd of November," he replied and took a sip out of his drink. "Yours?"

"1st of June."

We continued asking questions, long after we finished both of our drinks. Then he drove me back to my house and it was already around seven in the afternoon. He got out of the car and opened the car door for me, he walked me till the gate and I turned around to tell him bye.

"Thanks for today, Chase. I really had fun," I said and he smiled.

"I'm glad you did," he said and I suddenly noticed how close he was. My smile faltered a bit and my heart started beating into a quick pace and I was scared that he was going to hear it, my stomach filled with butterflies and I tried to gulp down but I couldn't.

He moved his face closer so that our lips slightly brushed against each others. Then he grabbed one side of my face and met my lips fully and after a few seconds, I kissed him back and our lips moved in sync. His hand that was on my face was softly caressing my cheek while the other one was on one of my hips, pulling me closer to him. My arms automatically draped around his neck and I had to tilt my head a bit upwards and stand on my tiptoes since he was probably half a foot taller than I was. We both pulled back and I opened my eyes when he opened his. He smiled down at me and I returned it. I turned around, not bothering to say goodbye because we both knew we didn't have to.

When I closed the front door behind me, I could hear my mother talking to someone on the phone in the kitchen and my father's study room had the door slightly opened and the light was on inside. They knew that I had a date with a guy but I didn't go into any detail when my mother heard me arriving. She asked how it went but I knew that she was actually forcing herself to ask me, probably because my father had told her to try and make a conversation with me. Then I remembered something and walked towards my father's study. When I entered he looked up from his work and smiled.

"How'd it go?"

"Great, we went skating then went to get something to drink from a coffee shop," I answered and he nodded. "Hey Dad?"

"Mm?"

"Did you search for any dancing schools around here?"

He looked at me with a huge grin on his face, then he nodded and I grinned. He handed me a paper and I took it from his hands. It was a 'Sign Up' sheet for this dance school and it cost around 100 euros per lesson and it was one of the best dancing schools in town called, 'Break It and Dance'

"It's the best in town and they're all professionals," he said when I didn't say anything.

I nodded and he handed me a pen and I filled in the details, then handed it back to him. "Thanks Daddy."

I kissed him on the cheek and headed upstairs into my room. I took off my jacket and dumped it onto the chair, then pulled my hair into a pony tail. I walked over to my bed and sat down, thinking. Did I even do the right thing by going out with Chase? I mean I only knew him for around 3 days. I knew Zayn for around two weeks or maybe even more now. Why am I even comparing Chase with Zayn? Khloe Kardashian only knew her husband for what, 4 months? And they're still happily married for four years!

Then what happened this night and Sophia's naked body made me cringe. Then the fact that Zayn noticed me looking at four in the morning! What if he thought that I was listening to them having sex? What if he thought I was a creep? Or a stalker even? I shook my head and decided to have a warm bath and lay in there for hours. I crossed towards my desk and grabbed my jacket, looking for my phone. When I finally found it and turned around, I ended up coming face to face with a pair of curious brown eyes. I did the mistake of turning around towards the window and not towards the door. He was only wearing a pair of black sweatpants, shirtless and his hands casually stuck inside his sweatpants side pockets.

I hate it when he gives me that look! It's like, he's reading my mind. From what I could read from his face expression, he looked sort of hurt? Why would he be hurt? He just fucked his girlfriend!

I looked away and left my bedroom and entering the bathroom. I opened the hot water tap in the bath and left it to fill the bath. I stripped out of my clothes and pulled my hair in a bun. I opened one of the cupboards and looked around for the bath salts and tiny, soft balls that contained the bubble baths from The Body Shop. I scattered them inside the bath tub and stuck my hand inside and mixed it a bit before some white bubble foam was starting to appear. I smiled and slipped inside the bath tub, careful not to spill any water. I grabbed one of the towels and set it beneath my head then lifted my legs and rested them onto the bath railing. I breathed out a long breath and relaxed. I closed my eyes and the warmth from the water made me feel extremely tired and I ended up finding myself slowly dozing off.

I heard a knock on the door and my eyes flew open. The water had gone a bit cold and I silently groaned. Another knock.

"Coming!"

No one responded. I got out of the bath and shivered, then wrapped a towel around me which was small since it showed a lot from my thighs. I opened the door a bit and peeped my head but my parents weren't looking back at me. It was Jesy and Niall. My eyes widened and I hid a bit better behind the door.

"What are you doing in my house!?" I asked the both of them. Niall tilted his head to the side and grinned.

"Hi!" he said, sounding excited.

"What are you doing in my house?" I repeated.

"Your Dad let us in, he said you're upstairs and let us in," Jesy replied and I rolled my eyes. "We're hanging out at Zayn's house."

"So?"

"You're not coming?" she asked sadly and I shrugged.

"Not really in the mood."

"Please, please come! You can sleep on the couch if you want! Just don't leave me alone with these five idiotic boys! Lenni's on a date and I don't want to be alone!" she replied pouting.

Niall gasped and she looked at me and gave him a tiny peck on his lips, he rolled his eyes and I cleared my throat.

"If you want me to come you have to go downstairs because I'm currently only wearing a towel," I replied and her eyes widened and she grinned.

"Omg! Thank you!" she said and with that dragged Niall downstairs. I breathed out heavily and quietly crossed towards my bedroom and locket it shut. I walked inside my closet and grabbed a pair of grey sweatpants, white top with a black moustache printed in the middle that my cousin, Seth had bought for me when he went on a holiday in America and slipped into a pair of plain white high tops. I brushed my hair and pulled it into a ponytail, applied some foundation and mascara, grabbed my phone and headed downstairs where I found Niall stuffing his face in the kitchen and Jesy trying to stop him.

"Feel free to empty the fridge, Niall," I commented with a smirk. He stopped and put on a guilty look on his face. "I'm joking! Continue eating, keep on growing!"

He grinned and I rolled my eyes. "Hey Jes, can I talk to you?" I asked her and she nodded. We left Niall eating and walked towards the sitting room. We both sat down and I told her what I saw this morning and she cringed and asked me why I even wanted to see that. "I didn't! It just sort of happened while I happened to look out of my window! It's their fault they left the curtain open!"

She rolled her eyes and sighed. "That's just gross Haze, I feel extremely sorry you had to see that."

I chuckled and continued, telling her about my date with Chase and she squealed. She pinched my cheeks and I swatted her hands away. "Did you kiss!?"

I opened my mouth to respond but decided to not to, I looked away and she smacked my arm and she squealed again. "You did, didn't you? Oh my God that's so cute!"

I rolled my eyes and chuckled. "So are you two a thing now?" I shrugged.

I hadn't exactly thought about that and it made my heart sink a bit thinking about it. Did I want to even be with him or just friends?

When I stayed silent she sighed and stood up. "Come on, let's go. NIALL!"

Niall walked towards us with a smirk on his face. I looked at him and noticed the cookie packet in his hands. My eyes widened and I stood up and ran towards him.

"Niall! Those are mine!" I whined. His eyes widened and he held his hands upwards, out of reach for me since I was a bit shorter than he was. "Niall!"

"They're mine now! I'll buy you a new whatever!" he said and I frowned. He smiled triumphantly and skipped towards the door and soon disappeared outside.

I told my father that I was just going to be at Zayn's house and his eyebrows shot up curiously. I rolled my eyes and shook my head, signalling that I still saw them as my family enemies but he gave me one of his knowing smiles. Jesy and I left the house and walked towards Zayn's house. Niall had already left apparently. Zayn opened the door, looking a bit nervous when he looked at me. I had to act like everything was normal, right? So that's what I did. Instead of giving him an awkward smile, I gave him a normal-ish smile and he looked at me curiously but then quickly returned it when he noticed that it wasn't an awkward one.

It was the five of them, Jesy and I since Lenni had a date. I never figured out why they never invited Sophia and Amber. They always stayed with us during lunch time and even during class time but I once saw Amber out with another group of friends which looked ... sort of her style? Sophia wasn't with her.

We decided to watch a movie and I found out that the Malik's had a cinema room downstairs. It was a reasonably sized room with a huge white screen, a projector stuck to the ceiling, a huge DVD selection on one side and a huge sofa in the middle which could be opened and become a huge, comfy sofa bed.

Harry and Louis opened the sofa bed while Liam and Niall were fighting on which film we were going to watch. Jesy was bringing out the pillows and cushions and blankets from the tiny box room on one side, I was going to walk over to help her but a hand on my waist stopped me.

"Can we talk?" he whispered and I nodded. "Hey guys, we're going to get the food and drinks from upstairs! Don't break anything!"

We walked back upstairs in silence, then we walked inside the kitchen and I leaned on the counter while he took out some snacks and drinks from the cupboards. He turned around and put the things he took out in front of me.

"If this is about what happened early this morning, don't bother talking about it," I cut him off and his cheeks slightly turned red. "I don't care what you do with her, Zayn. It's your business, okay?"

"I just wanted to apologize," he replied quietly.

"For what? For seeing her-" I stopped and shivered. "Anyway, the point is that you can do whatever you want to do as long as you close the curtains and try to keep it a bit silent?" I suggested and he chuckled.

"Sorry about that," he said and I smirked.

I breathed out heavily and grabbed a few stuff and walked back downstairs. They were already laying down on the huge sofa bed, covered in a few blankets. Louis and Harry were picking on each other, Niall had his arms around Jesy and Liam was talking to the both of them. I placed the things I had in my hands in front of the sofa bed on the floor, took off my shoes and climbed in the middle, since that was the only space left. Zayn walked in and placed the drinks down next to where I put the things I brought from upstairs. He walked towards the DVD player and put in the DVD that Niall and Liam had chosen.

"Paranormal Activity Marathon? Really lads?" Zayn asked as he sat down next to me and I ended up being squashed between him and Louis.

"Paranormal what!?" I asked, my eyes wide.

"I'm really curious! Everyone says that it's creepy and I want to see it, Louis and Harry want to, too!" Niall defended and I groaned.

Half way through the first one, I was covering my head beneath the blankets. Jesy had fallen asleep but Niall was wide awake, watching the film. Louis and Harry were the same as Niall was and Liam was casually stuffing his mouth with popcorn. He didn't even flinch at the scary parts, just continued eating. Zayn was shaking with laughter at 'how stupid they were', like he phrased it.

"Can we just watch another movie!?" I protested but they only shook their heads and I groaned. "This is not fair," I mumbled. I sat down and stared at the wall opposite me with the film going on. I winced at the scene in front of me and, without realising, I covered my face into Zayn's shoulder. He stiffened slightly but quickly brushed it off. I uncovered my face and continued watching the film.

By the time the second film had begun, I was tired and I was too tired to even bother getting up and walking back towards my house so I turned on my left, which was Zayn's side. He was sitting down so I wasn't face to face with him. I closed my eyes and sleep quickly enveloped me. I didn't try to fight it, I just let the darkness envelope me. I was too damn tired to care and besides, tomorrow we don't have school since the year below us have to prepare for the Winter Dance. I didn't stay caring that I was practically in the same 'bed' with five other boys. I sort of ... trusted them. Even Zayn, even though he was a family enemy but that was starting to slip out of my mind. I started to get to know him and his family, too. They were nice people and they were nothing what my grandparents described a Malik family to be.

I felt Louis shift and he turned and sort of squashed me a bit more into Zayn. Then I felt Zayn shift and put his arm around my shoulder and pull me a bit upwards, then he let go of my shoulder but I could still sense his arm above me. I stopped myself from smiling.

Then I remembered about Chase and my heart started beating into a faster pace. Chase was ... he was something, I just didn't know what he was but it was something amazing and if I would let him into my life, I knew that I wouldn't regret it ... or would I? Who knew what he could do? With if what he was this afternoon was only a façade? What if he had a personality I didn't want to be introduced to?

My brain told me to stay away whereas my heart told me to give it a go and that I couldn't be afraid of every guy just because one guy messed me up, doesn't mean every guy will.