Our Secret-A Zerrie Fanfic

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

I was awoken by the sound of newspaper ruffling. I looked around my surroundings and my eyes landed on Zayn. I recalled that I had fallen asleep in the hospital last night after accompanying Zayn.

Louis and Liam had brought Eleanor and Danielle home after ensuring that Zayn was alright. I couldn't recall Niall and Harry leaving, I must have fallen asleep when they did.

"Morning Perrie." Zayn said as he flipped the page of his newspaper. "Hold up!" I snatched the newspaper from Zayn and the headlines stared at me "Niall Horan from One Direction and Perrie Edwards from Little Mix dating?" "What!" I exclaimed. Along with it was a picture of me sleeping on Niall's shoulders while waiting for Zayn to be out from his surgery. A fan had spotted us and snapped a picture. I felt so infuriated! This was totally untrue!

"Zayn, this.." I started to explain.

"It's ok Perrie, Niall called me first thing this morning to explain. Anyways if you were really dating him you wouldn't have spent the night with me will you? And you wouldn't have kissed me in front of him last night, would you?" Zayn cut me off while smirking, probably thinking of our kiss last night.

"Of course not!" I said with relief, a wide smile broke across my face. At least Zayn didn't get the wrong idea.

"This is a clear example of what I meant about rumours popping out. You aren't even dating me and this happened. This is crazy."

I knew I was prepared for things like this, I knew I was ready to be more than friends with Zayn. I just didn't know how to put it across and most importantly, I didn't know if he was already taken.

"Perrie?" Zayn called, interrupting my thoughts.

"Hmm?" I looked up at him.

"Be my girlfriend."

"What?"

"I said, be my girlfriend." Zayn emphasized each word slowly.

"Yeah yeah I heard you the first time round, I just didn't expect..." My voice trailed off, thinking about what Zayn said before the car accident.

"Didn't you have a date before your accident?"

Zayn started chuckling. "Oh Perrie."

"What!"

"You remember once you asked me if I have any girlfriend and I said I had none. Then I said that the boys would occasionally 'date' me with a game of FIFA."

"Oh my goodness! Zayn Malik! You could have made yourself clearer! Now I feel like a fool!" I confessed.

"Don't. I was at fault, I don't know why I even said those mean things a

to you, I'm sorry Perrie. You mean the whole world to me. I told myself that if I survived the car accident I had to make you mine. Now, Miss Perrie Edwards, will you be my girlfriend?"

"It's my pleasure, Mr Zayn Malik."

"I love you Perrie." Zayn whispered looking into my eyes, pulling me towards him for a kiss.

"Woah woah woah. Aren't y'all a little too eager for some action?" I heard Louis' voice just as our lips were about to come into contact. Fantastic timing.

I sighed and quickly pulled away. I turned around to see all of Zayn's band mates at the door. I looked down shyly and stood up from the bed to let the boys talk to Zayn.

Zayn grabbed my hand and forcefully pulled me back onto the bed. He moved closer to me and wrapped his arms around my arms and waist tightly. "Morning boys." He greeted, putting his chin on my shoulders.

"Zayn, how are you feeling?" Harry walked opposite side of where I was sitting and put his hand on Zayn's shoulders.

"I'm good mate, never been better." He turned to his right towards Harry and lightly rubbed his left ear against my shoulder. "Thanks mate, if you hadn't lied to me I wouldn't have gone for the rehearsals and I wouldn't have wanted to strangle you and then get flung into the windscreen. Most importantly, this lovely woman here wouldn't be in my arms right now." Zayn looked into my eyes and hugged me tighter.

"Aww, Zayn's so mushy!" Louis teased, making me drop my gaze to look down on the floor, embarrassed.

"Hey Perrie, hey Zayn, I'm so sorry about the newspaper article. I'm glad it hasn't affected the both of you." Niall pushed past the rest of the boys and apologized as he scratched his head awkwardly.

"Don't be sorry Niall, I was the one who fell asleep on your shoulders. It wasn't your fault." I said matter-of-factly.

"Yeah man, in fact I have to thank you for taking care of Perrie last night!" Zayn added.

"You're welcome Zayn! By the way, Harry and I went to your house to get your clothes because the doctor came 'round last night and said you could be discharged today."

Niall smiled care freely, glad that everything was back to normal. Liam informed Zayn that their management had given him three days off to recuperate so he could be discharged and rest at home.

"But I'm fine! I wanna go perform with you boys! Y'all will miss me too much if I aren't there!" Zayn complained.

"Oh we won't miss you Zayn, you can put your mind at ease." Louis taunted, giving Niall a high 5.

"Zayn, you need to rest. That's that. Do not argue." Liam ordered authoritatively. Zayn sulked and looked at me as if pleading for me to persuade Liam.

I shrugged and apologized, "sorry babe, you really do have to rest. Let's get you discharged and send you home."

Just then, I heard my phone beeping.

From: Jesy

Hey Per, we have rehearsals today, are you coming? How's Zayn?:)

My face fell as I remembered that we have rehearsals in an hour and I couldn't spend anymore time with Zayn. I quickly typed in a reply.

To: Jesy

He's ok. Yeah, I'll be there on time x

"Is there something wrong?" Zayn must have noticed my change in expression.

"Sorry Zayn. I can't keep you company today, I forgot that I have rehearsals." I lightly pecked his lips.

I felt his lips pouting, I pulled away and he took my face into his hands.

"Alright then love, you better get going. I'm gonna be all alone and I'm miss you." Zayn said as he embraced me with a tight hug.

I couldn't bear to part with Zayn either. All I wanted to do was just be with him. Then, an idea struck my mind.

"Zayn, how would you like to come to rehearsals with me?" I proposed.