GUNSHOT ➪ Zayn

Sixty fifth

Chapter 65 Milan

Selena didn't dare to look up at James. She was afraid to suffer again.
Alyssa had felt this strange tension, so while they were all watching the spoon recap video, she gently tapped Zayn's leg to talk to him.
'We can't have sex presently; we are on a plane!' He whispered-laughed
'You're hilarious!' she falsely laughed.
'What's going on?' He asked, seriously this time.
'get your bestie out of there. I want to talk to Leena. She is not well.'
'He ain't well too.' Zayn replied.
'We'll find a solution. Talk to him, ill talk to her.'
Zayn nodded.

He waited 10 minutes before speaking:
'I'm sick of it.'
'What are you doing?' Alyssa clenched her jaw.
'Selena, turn that off. We are all aware of the plan. I'm getting bored.'
Alyssa sighed in relief. He didn't mess up... Yet.
'Who wants to play poker in the odds room?' The young man asked enthusiastically.
'it's a no for me.' Aly said.
'No.' Selena added.
'Okay, James, it'll be the two of us.' Zayn smiled.
'Bro, I'm not in the mood.' James replied.
'I don't give a fuck. I'm bored you're, my friend, you entertain me. period.' He insisted.
'I think you should accept before he breaks everyone's balls.'
James sighed before standing up and walking towards his mate.
'We will watch the rest of the video later.' Aly said as the two men left.

When they were out of the zone, Alyssa grabbed the remote control as quickly as possible under the surprised look of her friend.
'What the hell are you doing?' Selena claimed.
Aly proudly pressed one of the buttons, and a metal curtain closed on the room door where the boys were.
'Now you can tell me what's wrong.' Aly ordered.
'Alyssa, you already know what's wrong!'
'There's something else.'
'No!' Selena yelled
'You're lying.' Alyssa replied in the same tone.
Her eyes started watering. How was she supposed to explain that she felt like the pain was never going to leave her? She could not look him in the eye without feeling her heartbreak a little more than before.
Everything was so hard, but she loved him so much.
She felt guilty about her father's behavior, but at the same time, she was happy that for a fraction of a minute, he suffered.
How could she put words to her pain and explain how everything was so paradoxical?
'Selena, I know that he messed up and everything, but you should talk... We don't see how this is going to go on... And if it ends up in the wrong way, you'll regret spending your last moment like that.' Alyssa advised, pressing her friend's hands.

On the other side of the plane, the two boys were not playing poker.
'When are you gonna talk to her, huh?' Zayn grumbled.
'Talk to her after she lied again? No.'
'James, are you fucking dumb?' zayn screamed. 'She never fucking lied? Her name is Selena, mother fucking Dallas! It's just that you didn't assimilate the news but damn! Dallas, in the world of espionage, isn't that common! she didn't show up directly as JD's daughter! but maybe that's because she's more than JD's daughter, and if she did, you would never look at her the way you did!'
Zayn stopped his speech from looking into his friend's eyes.
'You see, you don't even contradict me!'
'What do you want me to say?!' James claimed in the same tone.
'I want you to tell me that you're gonna move your ass up and apologize!'
'That would not change a thing.' James gave up.
'Did you try?'
'No.'
'Then what are you waiting for?' Zayn smiled.
'Screw you, Zed.' James sighed.

Zayn pressed the button on the other remote, and the metal curtain disappeared on the ceiling.
'Aly, do you have a cigarette?' Zayn asked as they both returned to the principal room.
'Yeah, it's all in the bedroom.' she said.
'Thank you, babe. The bedroom is full of things.'
'I'll come with you.' She sighed.
The couple left the "living room" and let their two friends have the discussions they needed to have.

'That was a pretext....' James shyly joked.
'Yeah... they're far from discreet.' she smiled.
'Selena, I'm sorry.' He said in one breath.
'You already told me that.' She stood up in her seat.
'And I'll keep saying it and re saying it until you believe me!' James sighed.
'I believe that you're sorry.' she said.
'Then why are you so cold?!' He asked.
'Because I hurt, James.' she stated. 'and the most hurting is not even the fact that you cheated. It's that you cheated to hurt me, not because you suddenly had love at first sight!'
'Selena...'
'But.' She stopped him. 'but we're probably going to die during this mission, and for that ill pretend that nothing happened. And I'm sorry for my dad. He's quite fucked up.'
James looked at her, confused.
'What?'
'I want to pretend that nothing happened just during the mission so that if one of us stays there, we will have lived our last happy days instead of beating each other up.'
'Creepy. But I like that.' He chuckled before hugging her. 'i missed you.'
She smiled at him without replying. She wasn't ready for this yet.