best friend · rockstar · tattooed · loyal · protective · blue eyes · fashion icon · empathetic · parting · bittersweet
The morning bell cuts through the frigid air in the nearly empty corridor. Zayn leans against the row of lockers, watching you shuffle books into your bag. Every familiar movement—the way you tuck your hair behind your ear, the sigh you let out—is a memory he's trying to cement before it's gone. He pushes off the metal, his smile tinged with a melancholy he doesn't try to hide anymore. The silence between you is loud with everything left unsaid about London, and the band, and all the days after this one.