Out of the Blue

"Do you even like Zayn?"

Lea’s POV

I woke up and stroked my hair with my hand. The sunlight was going in my windows. The door was already open; the boys were sitting on the floor surrounding my bed.

“Hi Lea – you’ve been asleep for three days – you’ve been moaning Nathan’s name and screaming his name every night”

“Where’s Zayn?”

Liam looked at me and sat down beside me on my bed.

“He’s also asleep – it’s been three days. Fans have already been looking for him since he fell asleep that night”

Nathan’s POV

Why did I let Lea stay with those five boys in Wolverhampton? This was the question fluttering around my head while we were performing on stage. My phone vibrated from my pocket while our song ‘Glad You Came’ was ending.

“Nate”

Jay approached me before the lights went out. I ran to my dressing room and read all the text on my phone.

“Nate – there’s something wrong with your girlfriend”

Tom read out loud.

“Type in – what’s wrong?”

I smacked the back of his head and replied on Liam’s text message. I looked at the photo of me and Lea. Siva and Max stormed in my dressing room and pulled out my phone from my hand before dialing Lea’s number. After one minute they looked over to me.

“Nate – Lea doesn’t answer her phone”

“Max – everything makes sense. We broke up”

They looked at me wide-eyed.

“Are you serious, Nate?”

I nodded and buried my face on the pillow.

“That’ll remind you more of Lea if you bury your face on the pillow”

Lea’s POV

I walked out Liam’s house and let my hair fall off the bun. Louis went out the house and sat down on the grass. He looked at me awkwardly and smiled.

Louis was the one I was close to in the band. But I missed the TW boys. I wouldn’t be spending time with them anymore – I didn’t have any connection with them. I wasn’t a Parker anymore. I wasn’t Nathan’s girlfriend.

“Maybe you should go back to Abbeydale and talk to Nathan before you leave. I mean you only have eight days with them – why would you destroy them?”

He had a point. A car parked in the parking lot. A girl with blonde hair went out and approached Liam.

“Payne, where’s Zayn?”

“He’s inside”

Louis gave her a smile before rolling his eyes.

“Who’s her?”

“That is the Perrie Edwards I was talking about”

I raised my eyebrow and looked at the door before hearing a pounding door upstairs.

“She doesn’t sound sweet at all”

“Perrie was sweet, and she still is – but when she heard about the ‘you-and-Zayn-being-close thing’. She just started being that way. It’s stupid we know”

“Totally”

Perrie went out the house giving me a glare - Her hair flipping on the air and her bracelets dangling on her wrist.

“Weird, you think?”

I nodded and looked back at the car that was going too fast.

“Freak”

Nathan was already leaving me with voicemails. All he was saying were apologies and explanation.

Zayn went in my room wearing a beret. His bangs were out in front.

“You’re going on a date?”

 He snorted and gave me a small smile.

“No”

“Then why are you so dressed nicely? And what did Perrie tell you when she stomped into your room?”

He let out a sharp breath and looked down on the duvet.

“She just came back for another chance”

“She apologized in a jerky way? I don’t get it Zayn, why is she like this? I’ve known Little Mix since then but I’ve known that Perrie was the sweetest one now she’s the jerkiest one”

He nodded and looked at me softly. Silence filled the air. I stood up and fixed up my hair – I sat back down and looked at him. Our faces inches apart. He leaned in closer making us closer. Our foreheads were sticking together until he leaned closer. His lips touched mine. I didn’t really kiss back – I just pushed him away and grabbed my jacket.

I stormed out the room and into my car. Harry ran after me and tapped on my window.

“What’s going on?”

He opened the door and sat down on the passenger seat.

“What happened? Why are you crying?”

He pulled me close to him letting me cry on his shoulder.

“Zayn did something, did he?”

I gave him a death glare before wiping off my tears.

“So you’ve heard about Perrie being a bit too jerky for Zayn? Do you even like Zayn?”

I let out a sharp breath before raising my knees to my chest and resting my head on them. He looked at himself in the mirror and fluffed his curls a little bit before turning towards me.

“I like Zayn – as a friend but somehow I’m still in love with Nathan”

“You’re leaving for college soon right? Maybe we should throw a pool party. We’ve been planning for it for a very long time. So what do you think?”

“I think it’s great”

“Okay – I’m gonna have to call everyone in my contact list so they can arrive this Saturday”

I enveloped him in a hug before taking out my phone and handing it to him so he can call those who aren’t in his contact list.

“I am leaving for college next week”

“We’re the best”