I've Got you Ziam --> kid fic

Part 3

It’s practically a smack to Zayn’s face the day that Liam answers 'not' to another ever-so-popular question that had gotten thrown around quite a lot within their career. This one, concerning their relationship status: Single or not?

It had barely been a little over a month since their own hookup and suddenly Liam now had a girlfriend? Zayn has to admit that that would have explained all of the unanswered phone calls and texts, the strained smiles whenever Zayn would lean over to whisper a joke into Liam’s ear with the laugh never really reaching Liam’s eyes. Zayn had always tried to figure out what had been the matter but Liam wasted no time in telling Zayn he was just tired before excusing himself to God knows where.

But that still does not explain why it seems like Zayn’s the last to know any of this. A girlfriend? It doesn’t help at all that Liam won’t even so much as look in Zayn’s general direction as the interviewer presses on about who this lucky lady is and quite frankly, it’s pissing Zayn off far more than it’s breaking him apart.

Why couldn’t Liam have had told him? Why did Zayn have to be finding out now on television? Just—why in the fuck?  Zayn simply finds himself sitting on his own stool, trying to look as nonchalant about this entire fucking thing as possible. November 8th of the year 2011 becomes a day that haunts Zayn.

The interviewers laugh has Zayn focusing back (or at least attempting to) on the words being spoken between Liam and K..acey? Karly? Kelly,that’s it. It’s then that he notices Kelly watching him intently with the microphone practically shoved in his face. He’s lost and he needs a repeat and thankfully he gets it easily, the question on whether Zayn was seeing anyone in secret much like Liam had been.

Liam had been all grins and smiles towards the interviewer but that had immediately faltered at the question, skimming his eyes over Zayn.

Fucking ace. Zayn can’t help but think because that’s clearly a look of pity. But Zayn chuckles anyways, licking at his lips before the condescending grin is taking over his facial features.  

“You know, Kelly. I very well just might be. You never know what you can discover in interviews like these.” He’s being bitter, he knows. But fuck that. He thinks he quite well deserves to be.

He ignores Liam’s uncomfortable stares in his direction that time around because if that’s the game Liam wants to play, then so be it.

Game on.

~

Days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months. And all of a good four months is spent with Zayn and Liam promoting their album while simultaneously tip-toeing around one another. They experience new places of the world and get to meet the wonderful fans that come with it, opening up for a group called Boyce Avenue composed of three cool lads.

Zayn and Liam continue sharing their story of how they even came to be as they are undoubtedly leaving out important key-details that would put to rest the rumors of the two being anything but working partners. They ignore it, though.

Only Zayn and Liam know the truth at the end of the day as the avid promotion continues on. But it seems like it isn’t even needed, really, and that’s not even them being cocky, because the amount of positive reaction their debut album had gotten and continues to get is so unreal that they genuinely wouldn’t be able to wrap their minds around any further success.

However, that’s exactly what comes of it.

Their own tour that’s composed of dates in the UK, Ireland, Spain and France sells out within three hours! Weeks pass before word gets out that they’ll also be touring the United States and that leg of the tour sells out in record time. It’s so fucking overwhelming for the two, nineteen year old Zayn and eighteen year old Liam, and it’s moments like those that they’ll forget they’re not on speaking terms when the cameras are off because Liam will embrace Zayn into a hug and Zayn can’t help but go pliant to the touch.

He misses his best friend, is the thing. But Zayn’s ego is far too big to just—get over this. And it’s not like Liam’s been doing anything to fix the issue now, is it?

The reality of the matter is—they’re both a mess.

But somehow, their career still stays intact. Being nothing but professional when the time needs be.

But it's awful and as it seems, everything and everyone is against Zayn because it only gets worse.