Louis POV
“So, Lou, you gonna try to hook up with Kayleigh this time?” Harry smirked at me. I punched him on the arm.
“Shut up, mate.” I tried not to laugh while Liam shot Harry a look dirtier than Bella’s.
“Have you guys even started packing?” Niall asked.
“Nope” we all simultaneously said.
“I’m planning on letting Bella do that for me.” I grinned.
“As if Bella of all people would pack your suitcase for the lake house.” Liam rolled his eyes at the thought.
“Shit, you’re probably right…” I thought over how long it would take me to pack and got depressed. “UGH.”
“Don’t be so dramatic, Tomlinson.” Harry shook his hair and put his phone down.
“You guys ready to go in ten?” Marco poked his head out the door of the recording studio. Considering we were leaving for the lake house tomorrow, we had a considerable amount of work to do before leaving for a week. We all nodded and agreed.
“Hey, what’s up with you?” Niall nudged Zayn’s arm. He’d been sulking on the couch more than usual today.
“Yeah, you’re weird, what’s up?”
“Sadie and I broke up.” he said, under his breath, just loud enough for us to hear.
“Shit, man.” Harry ran a hand through his hair.
“We had a fight last night and she slept in the girl’s dorm at uni. I thought it would all blow over, I mean we fight all the time.” He shook his head. “She called me this morning and said she was sorry for overreacting, but once we really got talking about it more in depth, we decided we wanted different things…” we all waited silently, for him to continue. “She would marry me tomorrow if I asked, but… I just don’t want that right now. Not that I don’t want it with her, I mean, I love her. I’ve never loved a girl as much as I love her, but god, I’m 21!” he raised his voice a bit.
“Zayn, it’s going to be okay.” Liam put a comforting hand on his shoulder. “You know Sadie is practically obsessed with you. She’ll come back. I mean, you guys break up like once a month anyway, you fight all the time…it’s your thing.”
“I don’t know, mate.” Zayn rubbed the stubble on his chin. “This time seamed different. She’s the rational one. She was speaking calmly. I was the one fighting back tears and yelling through the phone. It’s all different this time. We’ve never fought this way.” I’d never seen Zayn like this before. Don’t get me wrong here; we’ve all seen more than enough of ‘moody-Zayn’ but this was totally different.
“I agree, Zayn.” Niall said quietly. “We’re really young, but you know how Sadie is. She wants all of your attention all of the time. She’ll come around. She can’t be without you for long.”
“I’m just tired of the bullshit with her. SHE is the one who left me two years ago, I should be insecure, I should be scared she’ll leave me again. Like what the fuck?” we all stayed quiet to let him vent.
“Clearly, we’re all too young for marriage, Zayn.” I stated. A smile cracked on his face.
“I don’t know; I just hope this is a phase or something.” Zayn said, standing up from the couch and following the rest of the boys into the booth.
“Be right there” I said. I pulled out my phone and hit Bella’s number… “Hey babe, what’s up?”
“Nothing, really, just got out of the shower. How’s recording going?” she asked.
“Just about to go in actually, um hey I just wanted to let you know that I really love you, okay?”
“Mhm, love you too, is everything okay?”
“Yeah, everything is perfect, it’s just…hearing about Zayn and Sadie fighting makes me so happy I have you and we’re all good.” I smiled through the phone.
“Yeah that’s right, Tommo. You’re stuck with me, so get used to it.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah…talk to you later, love you”
“Love you too, Lou.” I hung up and waltzed into the booth.
