14: An Easy Life Is Impossible

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I need air. 

I flew off the duvet off of me and the cold air hit my face. I groaned and covered myself up again and attempted to sleep again but I couldn't bring myself to sleep again. I fished my phone out of my jeans pocket and checked the time.

1:47am. I slept for more than ten hours without waking up? Now that was a record. I wiped my eyes, noticing that I still had a few tears. I sat up and noticed three messages from Chase, Zayn and Harry. I opened Harry's text first.

Dork! Where are you? This film is was too boring without you :( When are you coming back? Miss you :'( xx -Harry I chuckled and shook my head at the goof. I opened Chase's text next.

Hey babe you ok? Anyway, I was wondering whether you'd like to go on our second official date this Sunday? See you soon :) xx -Chase 

Did he just say official date? Did that mean that we were sort of date-together-ish? I decided to reply to his message.

Hey, I just had a couple family issues and had to come back to Leeds for a couple of days but I'm supposed to be back tomorrow late night, so I think I'd be free on Sunday night :) xx -Hazel

I pressed send. I didn't want to tell him that I had just lost my grandmother. Not yet. I didn't even know him, let alone pour my heart out to a stranger. I tapped on Zayn's message.

Are you ok? I heard what happened, my dad told us and we're really sorry, I know you were really close with her, Haze :( I didn't tell the rest, so don't worry about it :) Need anything just call me even if it's at two in the morning xxxx -Zayn'

I faintly smiled at the text and a tear slipped off my cheek and slightly splashed against the screen. I wiped the screen but didn't bother to wipe my eyes. I stood up and opened the door and walked through the eerily quiet corridor. I could hear my father and uncle snoring from their bedrooms. When I passed Seth's room, he was snoring too but barely. I went downstairs and walked into the kitchen and straight towards the freezer, grabbing the Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough big ice cream tub. I grabbed a spoon and plopped myself down on the kitchen counter and took a spoonfull of the ice cream. I looked at my phone on the kitchen counter. I chewed down on the cookie dough and decided to reply to Harry and Zayn.

Hey Haz :) Haha we could have thrown popcorn at the stupid teenagers! Tomorrow late night I will be back cuddled in my own bed :) Miss you too midget xx -Hazel I pressed send and waited and started writing the next message to Zayn.

Can I call? -Hazel I debated on whether or not to send the message. After three more spoonfulls of the ice cream and a mental argument with myself, I built up the courage and tapped the send button. Right now, I didn't care if he was an enemy of the family. Though there's a 50% chance that his family is actually friends of ours and that they weren't our enemies anymore. The rivalry between the Anderson's and Malik's was sort of ridiculous and I didn't want to say that I partially agreed with the Malik's decision at those times and that the Anderson's where a bit selfish but apparently at those times, involving the police and legal authorities, it was a major sin and embarrassment for the person or family being reported to the the police.

I wiped my nose and noticed that I wasn't crying anymore. I dug the spoon in the tub and forced it downwards and scooped up a large portion and shoved it in my mouth. I chewed down the dough and ice cream and swallowed slowly. My phone started to vibrate and rotating furiously on the kitchen counter. I peered over and read the caller ID.

Zayn the Bradford Bad Boi (;

I rolled my eyes at the name Louis had changed Zayn's name to. I swallowed the ice cream quickly and winced at the sudden brain freeze due to swallowing the ice cream way too quickly. I grabbed my phone and hit the green button.

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