Zayn's p.o.v.

"Fuck!" I slam my phone onto the concrete, ignoring the sound of the screen cracking as I pull on my hair in anger.

"What did he say?" Ashton says in the background but I ignore his inconvenient question, Bella has seen him. She knows I did it. Shit! How the fuck am I going to get her to accept me as hers now.

"She's with him," I mumbled, sprinting back to the car.

"Wait, what?" I hear a distant shout and look back to see Ashton sprinting behind me, catching up.

"Get in, we need to go to his house, now" I spit, venom lacing my voice. Why the fuck did Callum let Bella in? Why didn't he hide him from her? What a fucking idiot-

"What's happened?" Ashton interrupts my thoughts as he starts speeding down the street, my fists clenching the leather seats in anger.

"Bella" I say breathless, "Bella found James, or what's left of him at least" the last part I say with a smirk, it's not as if he didn't get what was coming to him.

"For God sake Zayn, what have you done?" I look over at him aggressively at his accusing tone, is he forgetting who's in charge here. He seems to catch on to my annoyance and mumbles a quiet "sorry Sir".

The rest of the journey is silent but my mind is in a frenzy, Bella is mine, I don't understand why she's so against the thought of being with me; I'll protect her, love her, cherish her, give her what no other man can, especially James. I knew I should have just killed him, he's not worth her pity, all he does is cause us problems.

Ashton breaks my frustration with an awkward cough as he stops the car, "Urm, sir, we're here", I don't waste time and sprint out of the car, running up the stairs where I last left Callum with James' unconscious body.

As I'm about to step into the room where I hear Bella, Callum steps in front of me, blocking my path.

"If you knew what was best for you, you would get the hell out of my way right now" Callum doesn't seem to get the message and stays stationary.

"Zay-" I give him a shove to love him before he can finish but he comes straight back putting a hand on my chest to stop me from advancing to Bella.

"What the fuck man, get out of my way!" My anger starts to rise as I feel a burning heat travelling up inside me.

"She's really angry Zayn, and I mean really angry, if you go in you're just going to make it worse", he pushes harder on my chest as I take a step forward.

"You don't know what she wants, nobody does but me, now move aside before I move you myself." That was my last warning and he knew it, he made a sigh of defeat and stepped aside, giving me full view of Bella's mortified face soaked with tears. A pang hit me in the chest, my baby is crying, my attention suddenly moved back to Callum as I shoved him up against a wall.

"Do you see what you've done! She's fucking upset becasue you exposed her to this shit!" I slam his body back onto the wall as my eyes cloud over in rage-

A wimper halts me and I instantly whip my head back round to Bella, as her body collapses onto James' as she cups his face in her hands. My heavy steps make their way to her and I yank her up off of the ground and turn her face to look at me.

"You did this! Why? What has he ever done to you? Fuck you Zayn, I hate you!" Those words hit my like a bullet, this wasn't the plan, she was't suposed to hate me, by now she was meant to be wrapped in my arms lovingly. What have I done?

In that moment I knew that there was nothing that I could say or do to calm her down, but I also knew that she was mine. Not his. So she shouldn't be hovering over his body in worry for his health, but with me.

So in a moment of anger, possession and want, I pinned her against the wall, keeping her two arms up with just one of mine, halting all of her movements. I dipped my head slowly down to level hers, feeling her heavy breaths hit me as her eyes scrunch up in confusion and anger, everyone in the room has stopped talking, nobody moved, just staring at me waiting to see my next move. I moved my hand up to push back a stray hair behind her ear, lowering my mouth next to hers, purposely brushing my lips against hers as my heart races a mile a minute.

"He doesn't deserve you, nobody does" I can feel her soft lips against mine, practically tasting them.

"And you do?" Her head cocks to the side as she daringly places her lips even closer to mine than before. "You're crush on me needs to end here Zayn, I'm with Jay, and you cannot beat him just for that reason. Yes I'm grateful for your hospitality, but this" she turns to James on the floor beside us, "this ends here."

Her agressive attitude should have pissed me off, but her close proximity made me go wild, my breaths turned heavy as she quirked up her eyebrow, prompting me to answer her unasked question.

"Fine, I-I'm sorry. I got really angry, and I'll leave your love life alone okay." She looked up in both amazement and confusion, not sure what to make of my statement.

"Wait, are you serious?" She looks at me in disbelief.

"Yes Bella, I know my crush has gone too far and I need to take a step back, what I did was wrong and out of rage. I'm sorry." The words feel like grit coming out of my mouth but sound smooth, convincing.

She let out a breath of relief as I release her from my grip, giving me a small nod as if to say 'thank you' as she falls back down to James' side.

I walked back to Callum and Ashton who looked at me in shock, "what" I snapped at them both, but they both stood there in amazement.

"I-I just never thought you'd give up on her that easily" Callum finaly answered, and I looked at them both with a smirk dancing on my lips.

"Oh boys" I whisper, mindful that Bella is close to us, "I just needed her to think I had given up, it will make getting rid of him so much easier. She's mine, don't any of you think otherwise." And with that I walk out of the building, all anger of her affection to her pathetic boyfriend washed away at the thought of my next move.

Bella's p.o.v.

I cup Jay's head in my hands and carefully run my thumb over his cheek, thinking of Zayn' last proclaim.

"I'll leave your love life alone" does he really mean it? I've never met someone that goes to such extents to put their point across like he does, and then so quickly backtrack on it. I swear that boy gives me whiplash with his personalities.

I look at Jay as the living reminder that Zayn has issues, but after today I think progress was made. I will always hold anger over what he has done, but he seemed to have understood his mistake and even apologised for it, and that was a word I never heard escape his mouth. I think that we can all move on from this, I mean I see that them two will never be friends or even civil, but Zayn has shown that he can be a better man, and has finally understood his boundaries with me-

My thoughts are interrupted by breathy groans from Jay, and I look down at him to see his eyes slowly peaking open.

"Hey" I say lightly, "how are you feeling?" he looks partially confused and attempts to lift his head but instantly winces in pain.

"Don't sit up, you may have a concussion, we better ring the ambulance-" Jay lifts his arm up in protest.

"Don't, I'm fine, it's that psycho Bella, he came in and star-" I stop him as I can feel his anger rising as he explains what happened.

"I know Jay, I came here as soon as I thought something had happened. I've spoken to Zay-"

"What! You spoke to him, he should be behind bars right now!" I hush him softly as he begins to raise his voice and wipe some hair back from his eyes.

"I know, I know, but he said he's going to stay out of our relationship now okay, we don't need to worry about him anymore." He lets out a sarcastic laugh and rolls his eyes.

"You can't be that stupid Bella" I look at him in confusion and he scoffs.

"You can't be serious right now-" he looks at me in shock, "you seriously believed him! Bella he's obsessed with you! You need to get away from him, now!" He lifts himself up from my lap and rests against the wall behind him.

"Look I know that he is a bad person for doing this to you and I'm so sorry, but he has apologised and seemed to have learnt from this Jay!" My voice starts to raise along with his.

"Oh my god Bella..." he whispers more to himself than me.

"Jay I get that you should hate him for this, gosh, I still think he's crazy, but he can't be all bad. He offered me a place to stay when my own dad was abusing my for God's sake!" I know I shouldn't be defending him after everything, but it was true, he was the only person that ever saved me from that hell hole, and I think I hold some resentment for Jay for not doing the same.

"Oh well give him a fucking medal then, he saved a poor little princess from her daddy issues!" I hear the two boys in the back take in a sharp breath and I'm just glad that at some point thorough this argument Zayn had left.

"Daddy issues? That's all you think of what he did to me?" My voice has lowered as I practically feel the cracks within my words in my throat.

"Oh come on Bella, you cannot seriously be turning this on me after I just got beaten because of you!" I can't believe the words coming out of his mouth, Jay would never say things like this to me.

"I didn't ask for this either Jay! And yes, I am turning this on to you right now, because yes Zayn may be irrational and delusional, but at least he had the decency to actually save me from my daily life of hell, when you just idly sat there, knowing what would happen when I would get home and having no issue with it!" By now I am on my feet and all anger I felt previously towards Zayn is directed at Jay.

"You know what Bella, if you think he's such a saviour then go to him, why the fuck are you here with me!" His words ignited something within me and I tightened my hands into fists to refrain from crying.

"Fine, I'll go" I angrily storm out of the room and approach Ashton and Callum, "make sure he's okay please, I may think he's a dick right now but it doesn't mean he should be left in pain." They both nodded in understanding and I made my way downstairs to see Zayn leant up against his car, shocked to see me not with Jay.

"Take me home." He doesn't ask questions but simply opens the car door and start the silent journey back to his house.

Zayn's p.o.v.

Maybe this will be easier than I thought.