Irresistible [A Zarry Fanfiction].

Chapter Fifty One

“Boys…you okay?” Zayn asked a little awkwardly, even though he was just met with silence still.

“He’s like, 30!” Niall suddenly burst out, and Zayn rolled his eyes.

“He’s turning 22 in February, Niall. What’s the big deal?!” Zayn asked them both, looking at them in anger.

“…well it’s illegal.” Liam started.

“He’s a teacher.” Niall added.

“Which makes it illegal.”

“He teaches you English.”

“Illegal.”

“He’s 21!”

“Still illegal.”

“Well…he’s kind of hot.” Niall admitted, before Liam looked at him unimpressed.

“You know what I’m like when it comes to curly haired men.” Niall replied, before looking at Liam’s hair and then back into his eyes.

“It doesn’t matter if he’s hot, this is illegal, Zayn!” Liam burst out once again, before Zayn looked up at them honestly.

“I love him, he loves me, and more importantly he has been there for me through so much shit and he has been non-judging and always caring, he absolutely adores my sisters and nearly beat up Alex Johnson for me. I don’t care if it’s illegal or not, I never knew how it was to feel like this for someone so you guys are just going to have to suck it because I am with him and I will be for a long time to come, got it?” Zayn suddenly burst out, and he didn’t know that he had stood up from his chair that that someone on the other side of the restaurant was applauding him. Niall burst out laughing at this and Zayn sank back into his chair in embarrassment. Liam was looking over him warily.

“Are you sure that this is what you want? You guys could get into so much trouble for this, Mr Styles, er, Harry, er, sir, urgh! He could go to prison!” Liam whispered, before Niall looked from both boys to the other.

“Hold on, so you are legitimately going out with your English teacher?” Niall asked, and Zayn nodded.

“Yes Niall! And we’ve been dating since like, October. Guys, you’re my best friends and I know that you’re looking out for me, but what you guys have is what me and Harry have, you don’t know how happy and safe I feel when I’m with him, he’s so perfect, teacher or no teacher, just please, keep this to yourself and accept this?” Zayn asked them both hopefully. Liam looked over him with such a serious facial expression.

“Zayn, listen,” Liam started.

“No, Liam, you listen,” Niall burst in, cutting off his boyfriend and looking at him, “Wouldn’t you rather accept that the fact that Zayn is in a relationship with his teacher then accept the fact that he’s back to his old self, working with drug dealers and stuff? He’s happy and Mr…Sir…the curly bloke obviously loves him as much else he wouldn’t do this. Zayn’s practically eighteen, we’ve all got like another few months of sixth before we leave anyway, I really can’t see much harm in this, think if it was us.” Niall told his boyfriend stubbornly, and Zayn watched as Liam’s facial expression softened.

“Yeah, Ni, that’s a hell of a good point you’ve got there. Sorry for being all Fatherly on you, Zayn, I know you hate it…but you have to understand where I’m coming from.” Liam spoke up, looking at Zayn looking for some sort of understanding.

“I know, Liam, you just want the best for me and I know that Harry being a teacher isn’t the best situation, but we know what we’re doing, just please, accept this?” Zayn was almost pleading his best friend. If Liam couldn’t accept this then Zayn would be devastated, he didn’t want to lose anyone now that he had only just managed to make everyone happy.

Liam looked from Niall to Zayn, before smiling a little and nodding.

“Okay, again, sorry for being all Fatherly but if you’re happy, then I’m happy. I know that you’ve got this under control, and Niall’s right, I’d rather know you’re…going out with your teacher than going out with some drug dealer or something like that.” Liam finished, before he patted Zayn’s hand. Zayn smiled happily at his two friends.

“Guys, I love you so much, thanks for accepting that, I honestly love you guys loads.” Zayn smiled, before he leaned across the table and hugged them both, causing Niall to let out a loud ‘aww’ equalling in both Liam and Zayn laughing at his antics.

When Zayn released them and they all sat back, Liam was about to open his mouth again but was once again interrupted by his boyfriend.

“Can I just ask…don’t you find it awkward? I mean, you see him all day and act like you hate each other then see each other at night? The whole class think you guys hate each other, I thought you hated his guts?” Liam asked, and Zayn laughed to himself.

“I couldn’t stand it at first, but I couldn’t stand him because he gave me all these weird feelings and then ended up treating me like he did. I wasn’t used to feeling all fluttery and girly so the fact he made me do that annoyed me, I guess.” Zayn shrugged, spinning his now empty coffee cup around on the table.

“How did you get together though?” Liam asked again, as if trying to understand it all before Niall let out a dreamy sigh, resting his chin in his hand.

“I bet he left little love notes on the bottom of his marked essays…” Niall sighed, which caused both Zayn and Liam to look at him with raised eyebrows. Niall quickly snapped out of it and cleared his throat.

“No, no, er, he did something cool and manly and…yeah.” Niall said making his voice go a little deeper, which only made Zayn and Liam looked at him unconvinced.

“Thanks for that Niall…no, we just kept like admitting little things and it just built up, we both kind of knew all along.” Zayn shrugged, thinking back to before he and Harry were together, it seemed so long ago even though it was all so new at the same time.

“That’s quite cute…but I seriously would have never known.” Liam said, obviously still quite in shock about it all.

“That’s the point, Li.” Zayn couldn’t help but chuckle, and Niall joined in as well and Liam simply rolled his eyes, before telling his two best friends to shut up.

So, Niall and Liam were fine about his and Harry’s relationship, the girls loved him, there was no more Alex…Zayn couldn’t help but repeat the same thought that had been rushing through his head over and over, that his life had honestly never been more perfect at the moment!