Confusion

I pulled myself back a little and slowly looked at Louis who was sitting alone at a table, he was awake but his head was on the table as if he was trying to free his mind, in the noises of the busy cafeteria. I could feel his sadness without any effort...

"Do you feel it too? I feel SO bad!"

Calum whispered sadly, and I glanced at him, who was bending towards me, so I could hear him. I pointed at where Zayn was sitting with my eyes and glared at him, but it did not affect him because he was still staring at Louis with a pout! When I saw that he wasn't listening to me, I kicked him hard in the leg, which caused him to jump a little in pain but in the end made him take his eyes off Louis! Why was he so reckless?

"Guys... Are you ok?"

Hearing Zayn's voice, we quickly turned to him, who was looking at us with a questioning look ... Damn! I was so concerned with Calum's stupidity that I completely forgot that Zayn was sitting right next to us!

"Yeah, we're good. Why do you ask?"

He turned his gaze between me and Calum and leaned back in his chair with a grin and stared at us with a suspicious look on his face! What the...

"It seems that you're having a lot going on in your mind that I couldn't get your attention the first time, I said I'm throwing a party at my place, you're in, right?"

I knew that if I gave Calum a chance to speak, he wouldn't doubt reject his request because of his guilty conscience, so I quickly nodded in agreement before he could say anything stupid! We couldn't miss such an opportunity, I also had a very bad feeling about myself but we had no choice but to move forward!

"Absolutely! We haven't been to any party since we moved in, in New York!"

Zayn nodded in approval, and his cousin Daniel, added our name to their guest list, a private party then!

"The list of our guests became bigger than we thought, I think it's better to have the party in your father's ..." Before Daniel could complete his offer, Zayn interrupted him with a serious tone and a thick frown.

"No. My place, end of the discussion!"

It was obvious that Daniel wanted to insist more, but when he saw Zayn's serious eyes and the look on his face, he took his phone out of his pocket without saying anything else and started working with his phone.

AHA! I knew it! I knew from the first that he didn't have a good relationship with his family. This proves that the lack of intimacy in the family causes violent behaviors in the child!

"Your boyfriend finally left you huh?"

With Zayn's loud voice and his sarcastic remark, I turned around and looked at Louis...who was responding to Zayn's sarcasm, with his middle finger, up in the air! I bit my cheek from inside to prevent my loud laughter when Zayn laughed out loud, which meant that everyone is allowed to laugh, so I and Calum laughed loudly with the others who were sitting near us! I always loved Louis's relaxed response to Zayn's teasing! How could he be so calm? How could he do it after what happened yesterday?

"My sweet dumpling!"

Hearing Zayn's whisper between the loud laughers, my eyes widened a little, and quickly looked at Calum, who was still laughing without any reaction...Did he really call Louis his sweet dumpling or did I mishear it? I bent towards Calum and opened my mouth to ask him in code if he had heard the same thing or not when someone caught everyone's attention with a loud whistle that made me and Calum cringe! Our superior ability in the hearing wasn't always good!

"My cousin just aced his final project and wants to treat all the lucky people in the cafeteria. Who wants ice cream?!"

The happy noise of everyone in the cafeteria was raised and Simon, who was kind of the group's lackey, happily went to pick up everyone's orders.

When I saw that the cafeteria was still crowded and noisy, I quickly leaned over towards Calum and pretended to be joking with him with a smile. I had to make sure ... I was going crazy!

"Did you hear Zayn say something after Louis flipped him the bird?"

"No, he just laughed!"

I nodded slowly and leaned back in my chair...so I did mishear him! After a few minutes, Simon returned with ice creams and everyone grabbed the flavor they wanted.

"Do you want some?"

I thought about Calum's offer for a few seconds, then nodded my head. I have never loved ice cream that much, but at that moment it didn't seem like a bad offer!

"Take just one, because I won't eat more than a few spoons...and take a vanilla so we could share it without a fight!"

"Good point!"

I laughed when Calum picked up a paper cup and immediately dug in! I wasn't a fan of ice creams, but Calum on the other hand...was an animal when it came to anything sweet!

"Why aren't you eating? You know it's free, right?"

With Zayn's confused question, I rubbed my neck with a smile and chuckled. He looked so lost! I used to love Ice cream when I was a child, but one day I ate a lot of ice cream at once and got sick. I hated that sweet bastard for years, and it was only a year or two that I started eating it again but I didn't like to tell people that I don't like Ice cream just because I had a bad memory of constantly vomiting it, so I always stick with the safer choice!

"I'm lactose intolerant, I love ice cream but I can't have more than a spoon or two!"

"What a shame...it has to be the cruelest disease in the world! You are really unlucky...but not me!" He said vilely and with a wink started devouring his ice cream! I just laughed ... After seeing Zayn, I could say that there is someone in the world who loves ice cream as much as Mikey!

"I don't want it anymore...you can have the rest!"

When Mikey pushed the paper cup towards me, I looked at him shocked...what was wrong with him?

"Don't look at me like that! It's not like it's my fault, ice creams in this cafeteria sucks!"

It was really rare for Mikey to dislike something with vanilla flavor but I just shrugged and ate a spoonful of his ice cream, but I immediately frowned when I tasted it...something was wrong!

"See? I told you that it doesn't taste good!"

Filled with concern, I ate another spoon, and my heartbeat increased with alarm when my throat started to burn...I put the ice cream aside with big and scared eyes and tasted my saliva some more... that couldn't be it...

"Luke? What's wrong?"

When I realized why the ice cream tastes like that, I looked at Callum in horror and got up quickly to tell Zayn to put the ice cream aside, When I saw Zayn started coughing and unfortunately it didn't seem that his cough was normal, and when he began vomiting blood on the palm of his hand, my guess was confirmed... Wolf's bane!

Wolf's bane was normally a medicinal plant for ordinary people, but it also was one of the natural tools for torturing and poisoning the werewolves! Boss Ashford have been punishing us with it for years now, so it has a lesser effect on us and we can notice its weak taste much sooner than the other werewolves, so we can save ourselves before we get hurt badly, but Zayn's and Daniel's weren't like us and their condition weren't good!

"Damn it, it was a trap! Convince Zayn and Daniel to come with us at any cost! If some of their friends say they want to come with us, don't oppose them, this way you only attract unwanted attention, we'll ditch them later. I have to find Louis!"

He nodded and went towards them and I went towards the table where Louis was sitting...I heard his friend was telling him that he got his favorite flavor...Our only chance was that Louis hadn't eaten his ice cream just yet, Otherwise, his condition will be worse than Zayn's because just like his physical strength, Louis's immune system undoubtedly was weaker than Zayn's, and that was terrible...we were badly trapped!

I was forcibly pushing aside a boy, when I saw Louis rushing towards our table a few steps away from me, so I quickly changed my path and grabbed his arm from behind, and he turned to me in shock and panic...

"Louis?"

"Zayn...what's happening to him?"

He asked in horror, even before I could ask him how he was, so I quickly checked him myself, and when I saw that he had no symptoms other than panic, I slowly took a deep breath. Thank God, he was fine, but I had to ask him everything, to make sure he was completely fine, the situation was so bad that I had no room for error and negligence!

"Did you eat from that ice cream too?"

It was clear that he was shocked by my questions, but he didn't say anything and just nodded his head in approval!

"I did... what is wrong with Zayn?"

When he said that he ate that ice cream too, I looked at him confounded...He looked completely normal and all the equations in my mind collapsed ... He had eaten that damn ice cream too, but he wasn't vomiting blood, like Zayn, and this meant that...

When I saw that there was no connection between the evidence and theories in my mind, I tried to calm down and not think about anything ... I just had to focus on keeping Zayn away from the university ... Just that!

"Don't worry and stay here ... Calum and I are going to take him to the hospital right now!"

"I'm coming too!"

He looked very worried and it was clear that he wanted to be close to Zayn but I couldn't disobey Captain Ashton's order! The captain said he would take care of Louis himself ... I just had to focus on Zayn!

"Where do you want to come in this situation? He is not feeling well now, and I'm absolutely sure there will be a fight if you come with us! I'm begging you Louis...stay here! I promise you I'll update you about how he's doing, we got to go now... please stay close to your friends!"

Without giving him a chance to protest or saying anything else, I went back towards Calum who was helping Zayn walk towards the exit, which meant he managed to convince him to come with us ... Good! I walked as fast as I could in the crowded cafeteria and finally reached them. Calum and one of Zayn's friends were taking Zayn with them and two other boys were helping Daniel.

So many people knew Zayn and Daniel and asked us a lot of questions about their bad condition and wanted to come with us, and we hardly convinced them that we didn't need more help. I always wondered why Zayn was so popular, he was really mean!

When we neared the parking lot and my car, I felt that someone was following us and I knew for sure that I wasn't wrong!

"Hey, Brian! You should get some water, and Tony, you should go get the nurse so we can her with us, maybe their condition gets worse on our way!"

I ordered two of Daniel's friends who were helping him and they looked at each other hesitantly for a moment. We were running out of time and I couldn't allow them to waste our time even more, by asking questions, so I frowned and shouted at them angrily!

"Go! Are you trying to get them killed?"

I went forward and wrapped my arm around Daniel's waist, and they finally ran towards the nurse's office. As soon as they exited the parking lot, I pointed to the boy who was holding Zayn's other hand with my eyes, and Calum punched him in the temple with his free hand hard enough, that poor guy fainted immediately! Zayn wanted to resist, but he was so weak that he couldn't move a muscle...

"They are fainting. It wasn't just Wolf's bane.... pick him up, we have no time left!"

He picked up Zayn bridal style and ran with me towards our car, which was parked a few steps away. I could feel vultures following us...I could almost smell them!

We put Zayn and Daniel in the back seat and Calum stayed with them to look after them and do the basic care. I sat behind the wheel and took my phone out of my pocket to inform Captain Ashton of the situation when I saw that I had a message from him...

"Take them to my house, I got Louis."

I smiled a little and put my phone on the dashboard and hurried towards the house that I always wanted to see inside of it! His house!