DISCLAIMER: Um...there will be a lot of shit about having best friends and stuff for awhile, so brace yourself. This may get...childish :)

And these are little tidbits of their childhood for awhile so they're going to be short sections. 

I'M LISTENING TO THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE FOR LIKE THE HUNDREDTH TIME.

"Niall! Zayn's here!" 

The three year old blond boy ran down the steps to greet his new best friend.

"Hi Zaynie!" Niall squealed happily. The tan boy smiled returning the gesture.

"Hi NiNi!" he said. The boys had given each other nicknames the day they met.

"Wanna play dinosaur?" Niall asked.

"Yes!" Zayn giggled.

"Let's go!" Niall said stampeding up the steps.

That day both of the boys played dinosaurs for hours, and ate a massive plate of chicken nuggets which Niall had three-fourths of. He was a big eater even when he was little.

When Zayn's mom came to pick him up later in the night it took a long time for Zayn to finally leave.

"But mommy I don't wanna go!" Zayn cried.

"Come on Zayn you've been here for hours sweetie! You can come back another day!" his mum said.

"Okay..." Zayn sniffed, "Bye bye Ni..."

"Bye Zaynie!" Niall said hugging his friend goodbye.

"I'll see you soon Maura..." Zayn's mum said.

"You too Patricia." Niall's mum said.

Zayn and his mum walked out of the door and Niall's mum's attention turned to her son.

"So what did you and Zayn do love?" she asked.

"Zayn dropped a dinosaur in the toilet!" Niall giggled.

"What?!" Niall's mom exclaimed, "Niall you know better!"

"I'm sorry mummy, it was Zaynie's idea..." Niall said.

Niall's mum sighed and headed upstairs to unclog the toilet.

No one knew that was just the beginning of Niall's family's dislike for Zayn.

Not even Zayn.

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Two years later Zayn had caused many accidentals and Niall's mum was not happy. She recently told Zayn's mum that she couldn't let him in her house again because she didn't want Niall near him. She only let Niall talk on the phone with him.

"Mommy Zayn said he's not busy! Why can't he come?!" Niall cried on the night before his first day of kindergarten.

"Um...Ni, Zayn's...ignoring you." Niall's mum lied.

"What...?" Niall asked tears filling his eyes.

"Yes, Niall baby I'm so sorry..." his mum said.

"But mommy, Zayn said we'd be best friends forever! He promised!" Niall cried.

"Honey, forever doesn't last, you should know that..." Niall's mum said.

Niall sulked and dragged himself upstairs into his bed. He didn't know why Zayn was "ignoring him" but he was destined to figure out.

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"Nialler!" Zayn screamed for the nineteenth time. They were at recess and Zayn couldn't get his best friend's attention. Niall turned and walked away again.

"Why are you not talking to me?" Zayn asked again.

"Because you are not talking to me. You do not want to see me." Niall said lifting his chin up.

"Why do you think that?" Zayn said.

"My mommy said so!" Niall said. The teacher called all the students in but Zayn stayed and so did Niall.

"Why do you think your mommy is right?" Zayn said.

"She's my mommy..." Niall said, "Mommy's don't lie."

"Mommy's mess up!" Zayn said, "I want to talk to you NiNi!"

"You do Zee?" Niall asked.

"Yes."

"Zayn! Niall! Come on inside please!" their teacher called out. Niall and Zayn giggled and ran inside their hands intertwined together.

~~

The two boys were inseparable. They did everything together, and never with anyone else. Since they were so excluded from their classmates no one really cared about them. 

That would hurt them later on.

But anyway...

"Alright kids! Today we're going to draw our families today!" their teacher, Mrs. Darabi said, "You're going to draw with one person that I choose."

"Hey we can work together!" Zayn said tapping Niall's shoulder multiple times.

"Yeah.." Niall said yawning. His mom was up all night trying to cut Niall's hair, and Niall didn't want it  cut. Now his hair had a little spike on the end.

"You okay Nialler?" Zayn asked.

"Yeah..." he said yawning again.

"Okay, how about...Olivia with Isabella, Matt with Ryan, Ethan with Sophie, Emma with Chloe, Hayden with Mia, Niall with Louis, and Harry with Zayn." the teacher said reading off of the class list.

"Zee who's Louis?" Niall asked.

"I dunno." Zayn shrugged.

"Zayn...go over to Harry please." the teacher said leading over to the green-eyed boy.

"Niall, Louis is over there." the teacher said pointing to another boy sitting alone in a chair. Niall made his way towards him.

"Hi." Niall said.

"Hi." the shorter boy said.

"I'm Niall." Niall said holding out his hand, "Are you Louis?"

"Yes." Louis pouted.

"What's wrong?" Niall said.

"I want to color with Hawee." Louis said crossing his arms.

"Well I want to color with Zaynie." Niall said following Louis' action.

"Boys?" the teacher said walking up to them, "Why aren't you working?"

"I want too work with Hawee and he wants to work with Zaynie." Louis said.

"Who is Zaynie?" Mrs. Darabi asked.

"Him." Niall said pointing to Zayn, who was getting along quite well with Harry.

"Well, Zayn and Harry are getting along, so I suppose you two should too." Mrs. Darabi said walking over to another group.

"What do we draw?" Louis asked uncrossing his arms and looking at the blond-haired boy.

"I dunno..." Niall mumbled, "Wanna draw dinosaurs?"

"With lasers!" Louis squealed.

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"Okay how about we share our pictures with the class?" Mrs. Darabi asked, "How about...Niall and Louis first?"

"Okay." Niall giggled running up to the front of the classroom.

"We drew dinosaurs with lasers!" Louis shouted showing everyone their picture. Everyone in the class laughed at them except for Zayn and Harry.

"Boys you were supposed to draw people in your family." the teacher said, "I'm going to have to tell you to sit down."

"I thought we were supposed to draw lasers with dinosaurs..." Louis smirked.

"No. Now please go sit." she said.

"She's mean..." Niall whispered.

"Hey can I tell you a secret?" Louis said.

"Sure..." Niall said.

"...hi." Louis giggled.

"Hi!" Niall giggled with him. Then Zayn and Harry came over.

"Zaynie!" Niall squealed.

"Hi Ni!" Zayn said.

"Hi I'm Hawee." Harry said holding his small hand out.

"I'm Niall." Niall said high-fiving it.

"Hi new friend." Louis said to Zayn.

"Hi..." Zayn smiled.

Niall seemed to get really jealous seeing Louis talking to Zayn and Harry. Later when the boys were on the bus Niall decided to talk to him.

"Zaynie you're still my friend right?" Niall asked.

"Yeah Nialler...why?"

"I dunno.." Niall said looking at his lap.

"When we're big people, we'll be the only people in the world..." Zayn said imagining what would happen in the future.

"Yeah with dinosaurs, and no mean ladies." Niall said.

"In a big palace..." Zayn mumbled.

"What color?" Niall asked.

"Red." Zayn smiled, "Red is our color okay?"

"Okay!" Niall smiled.

"And...it'll be huge..." Zayn said.

"You already said that!" Niall laughed.

"I know!" Zayn smirked.

The boys spent the rest of the day planning their future...

~3 YEARS LATER~

*Um...well Zayn's going to know a lot of stuff about homosexuality...so, I don't want to hear anything like 'HE'S TOO YOUNG TO KNOW IF HE IS OR NOT!' or 'HE CAN'T KNOW ABOUT SEX YET!' or anything like that. He's not positive if he's homosexual or not, he just likes the feeling of  it KAY?*

"Niall!" Zayn called from the window.

The boys were now both eight years old. Niall was old enough to walk to school on his own. Plus, he could jump out of his window.

Now Niall's mom would not let him have any contact with Zayn. She though that Niall was old enough to find new friends.

But she didn't understand that Zayn was his friend.

Zayn's parents on the other hand, were tired of Zayn's constant antics, and sadly began to abuse him, while becoming drug addicts. They couldn't take anymore from him, and Zayn's mum and dad basically hated their son. They went out to get some beer, and that's when it all begun. Zayn had been dealing with it for about a year, not telling Niall.

"Hi Zayn." Niall said smiling. Zayn smiled back and tried to mask the pain he was feeling from last night.

"Zayn you have another black eye..." Niall said pointing to it, "What did you do this time?"

"It's alright Ni..." Zayn said, "It'll go away."

Niall nodded and began to walk alongside Zayn. Niall knew something was awry about Zayn. He was really upset most of the time, and they barely talked on their walks. Even Harry and Louis noticed. Niall took Zayn's hand as a sign of comfort.

"Hey! GAY BOYS!"

Zayn cringed at the words. Those were the words his parents said to him.

Gay...

It shocked him what 3rd graders knew about this. Zayn knew everything that a typical teenager would know because his parents would yell mean and rude things to him while hitting him.

"Zayn what does that mean?" Niall asked his best friend.

"Don't pay attention..." Zayn said standing in front of Niall, "Stay away. Leave us alone."

"Make me!" the boy whose name was Ian, chuckled. He was absolutely rude to Niall and Zayn because they were best friends, and a bit too close for comfort. They still held hands every once in awhile, for protection. 

But, Zayn liked it...it had a nice feeling to it. Zayn felt like he needed to keep Niall pure, and safe. And make sure he doesn't turn into what he has become, due to his parents. Those were a lot of thoughts for an 8-year old but Zayn couldn't help it.

And when Ian called Niall gay, he was just done.

Of course, he could understand why Ian called him gay.

But anything aimed to Niall was not okay with him.

"Stay AWAY!" Zayn screamed pushing Ian down to the floor. He hit his head and began to cry.

"I'm telling on you!" Ian screamed running away.

"Zee?!" Niall said getting worried, "What's going on?!"

"Go to school Niall." Zayn said, "I think I have to stay."

"Okay..." Niall said. He let go of Zayn's hand, "Bye Zayn."

~~ FIVE MORE YEARS LATER~~

Zayn did get in trouble that day, but he was in for more when he got home to his parents. That was the day Zayn finally cracked, and he believed them.

"You're worthless..."

"You're a piece of shit..."

"No one will ever love you..."

"Go kill yourself..."

"You're an homosexual you retard! People like you don't belong here!"

Those words scarred Zayn deeply. Once he turned nine, he found a couple razors in his bathroom cabinet. Every day he uses them, and hides the cuts. From everyone; Harry, Louis, even his best friend.

Niall was absolutely clueless that his best friend needed him.

Desperately.

But, of course Niall didn't have enough time.

Some one else had fulfilled the job of fixing Zayn.

On Zayn's 13th birthday he spent the entire day with Niall. They went to Niall's favorite restaurant, Nandos, and then to the shopping mall. Niall got Zayn one of those little key-chains with names on them. There was only one 'Zayn' keychain, and he was so happy because his own unusual name was in there. After the annual run-in with Ian Zayn walked home with Niall, and then went to his own house climbing through the window.

When he went inside he found a note on his unmade bed.

It said;

'We heard about your issue...

We can help you.

Come to St. Patrick's Boulevard.

Tonight

Alone.'

That was the night Zayn was reported missing.

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Wooah...well, that was interesting. What do you think? Good? Bad? TERRIBLE? (I hope I don't get any terrible's...or bad's)

~_imperfectx