Smile

extra; character answers

SMILE - ZIAM
EXTRA; CHARACTER ANSWERS

Liam walks in soon after Zayn does, filing into the interview room after Louis and Harry do. I take my own place on a soft blue sofa opposite the one the boys are sitting on. Liam is wearing a trench coat, presumably one that Zayn was wearing just a few seconds ago. Louis and Harry seem pre-occupied with each other, stealing glances within their own little world, so I clear my throat and scroll through my phone for the first question.

"These ones are for Liam, alright?" I say, catching the boys' attention. Before I can read out the comment, another two men barge through the door and sit in the armchairs after deciding that the sofa has about three centimetres of room left. "And who might you be?" I ask impatiently.

"Michael Clifford," a blue-haired boy with a familiar accent introduces himself and then points to the boy sitting in the other chair. "And that is my boyfriend Ashy."

"Ashton." The boy corrects him.

The amount of gay in this room, I think, and say, "This isn't marriage counselling. Are we all done with catching up, now?"

Everyone nods. Thank God.

I turn my phone on again and get the first question back up on the screen. "This is for Liam, from floathigher ; Liam, did you buy Zayn's book? And a similar one from @candyflossing: Liam, did you buy Zayn's book after you saw it?"

Zayn blushes beet red as Liam says proudly, "Of course I did! I wanted to know what Zayn writes about, like. What had happened, you know? It helped me through a lot of, um. Times. Because it was really good to look back on someone who loves you."

The room falls silent. Zayn turns to face Liam, and then looks back at his lap. God, I feel almost bad for reuniting these two. Could they be any cuter?

I clear my throat again. "If you could maybe not have so many Ziam moments? Thanks." Zayn and Liam swap a look. I might puke. "This question is from @hangingwithziam: Liam, do you think you could be Zayn's muse for his stories?"

Liam tears his eyes away from where they're inspecting a freckle on Zayn's nose. I probably should have interviewed them all individually.

"A muse? I mean, it isn't every day that you're locked in a café, I guess, so I would definitely use that as a muse, even though the last time I wrote something was a narrative about a caterpillar in third year." Liam laughs, "Yes? Zee, am I your muse?"

"It's actually your question -," I start but Zayn cuts me off. I am almost sure I made his character a fair bit more shy than this.

"Yeah, Liam. You're my muse." Zayn says and then giggles - is he some lovesick schoolgirl? He's acting like me.

"Are there any questions for me?" Louis blurts, stops whispering about whatever he was whispering to Harry.

"Yeah, there are, be patient." I scroll through the questions on my phone for a few seconds before saying, "No, Louis. There are actually none for you."

Louis pouts, reasonably deflated. Harry says, "What about me?"

"Yeah, there is one," I smile at him. "It's from candyflossing, are yOu in love with Louis?"

Harry looks puzzled for a second. "Why did you say 'you' like 'y-OOH-uh'?"

"It's just how it was written." I shrug.

"Well," Harry starts. Louis stares at him intently. "I'd say yes. I am in love with Louis."

I hear Ashton clap and Michael make an 'awww' sound at this new development. Louis, however, smirks with one side of his face like he has heard Harry say those words a hundred times before.