TAINTED | Zayn Malik

Chapter 24| stragety

Zayn closed the door behind me, walking around toward his desk and sitting down. I looked around the room for a moment, taking in the new furniture and shelves he replaced.

Everything seemed a bit more valuable than last time, it had a more antique effect towards everything. But this new set up was more modern, fitting the characteristics of his personality. The picture frames were empty this time around, not holding anything in them. I felt bad and wished I could talk to him on certain things, but I knew that wasn't happening. Realizing that most of the time when he didn't talk was because he was still trying to find words to say, he was still battling the troubled habit of being mute. Ironically I felt like an asshole, especially trying to get him to speak to me.

Everyone else seemed clueless to have me in the room, as if I wasn't someone that belong. The others tried to ignore that feeling, giving me weak smiles. N'dra just let her feelings show, not being worried if anyone saw she was unhappy with this decision.

I sat down beside Taylor as Zayn pulled out a large envelope, tossing it on the desk as he sat back in his chair. Lifting his feet and placing his shoes on top of the desk, Harry reached up and grabbed the paper and took out the documents.

He read for a few moments, flipping the paper over and wincing at the site. He shoved it into Michael's chest, getting up abruptly and walking out while slamming the door shut.

"Same." Zayn replied in a dull tone, playing with a rubix cube in his hand. Switching the colors back and forth, letting everyone take a turn at the papers he passed around.

Each person that took a look ended up regretting it, I felt a bit nervous being included on this particular thing. Feeling this will fuck me up more than what I am used too.

Taylor looked at everything, analyzing it before dropping her head into her palms. She took a few moments before passing it to me, I held the picture laying on my lap facing the opposite way before taking my turn.

Zayn watched me as I slowly controlled my breathing, preparing myself mentally. "Are you sure this is something you wanna see? You have two seconds to change your mind, cause once you're fully aware of this it's no going back." He said, being 100 percent honest and letting me know of the importance of this situation.

Oh shit...

I flipped over the paper and was thankful to be greeted by the text, rather than the visual and feeling a bit thankfully Taylor was well enough to change it for me.

Thursday October 16, 2016

A call was forwarded to the county's local police department at 3:41 p.m. alerting the chief of a armed robbery in Frankfurt Hospital cafeteria, sources close to the Detective McCBain has informed us of a brutal murder the town has ever seen in decades.  A while ago Elijah Townsed was reported missing after the mother of the alleged victim filed one saying that he was taken while attending an illegal fight party in downtown. We've recently caught ahold of McCbain to get the terrible news of this heartbreaking story. The body of the 24 year old victim was found along with many others who were killed on the scene. Elijah Townsed was a reported bartender, he was last seen leaving his apartment on Tuesday evening to attend an illegal underground fighting match, the next morning his mother received a call announcing that his whereabouts were unknown-