Look After You

Chapter Thirteen

"Those tabloids are wrong! How could I cheat if the damn relationship isn't even real in the first place?" I snapped, catching the attention from the girls.

"The world doesn't know it's fake. Tomorrow, you will address the rumours when you girls are on the radio show. I expect everything to be situated and properly handled, is that clear?" I could just imagine Susan pushing her glasses back up her nose with her pointer finger while raising an eyebrow at me.

"Yes ma'am," I rolled my eyes before hearing the click from the other end. I got up and walked out to the hotel room balcony, sighing as I leaned against the railing.

The whole situation is just stupid. Zayn and I "break up" due to everyone knowing every detail of out relationship, then I'm forced to pretend I'm happy with a guy who would prefer a model anyway, and now I'm being accused of cheating. What's next? A tabloid writes a whole magazine about how I dyed my hair or how I changed my nose ring?

I put my face in my hands and began to feel the tears full of irritation run down my cheeks.

Why does all of this have to happen?

Why can't I just have a break?

"Are you okay, Pez?" Jade asked, voice soft, shutting the balcony door behind her. She sat down on the bench next to me, watching as I followed suit and wrapped her arms around me. I heard her begin to hum the tune of 'Always Be Together' as I continued to sob into her shoulder. "What happened?" She asked, handing me the small travel packet of tissues. "And don't say nothing because I'm not going to take it."

"A pap caught me going to meet Zayn and there are already tabloids saying that I cheated on Jacob,"

She shook her head with a frown on her face. "What did Susan say?"

"She wants me to make the situation disappear tomorrow during the interview."

Jade shook her head once more before standing up and beginning to pace back and forth. "I just don't understand; if you were caught leaving Jacob to see a movie with Zayn, why wasn't he noticed? It doesn't make sense."

She had a point. If I was seen "cheating" on Jacob then Zayn would definitely be in those photos instead of me being splattered all over the front cover.

"I think I know why Zayn wasn't mentioned."

Jade looked over at me giving me the look that basically says "spill your guts".

"Walking out that office door I saw a woman who's in charge of One Direction's publicity and she overheard Zayn and my conversation, she's got to be trying to makes us look bad in some type of way."

"Is Zayn going to do anything about it?"

"What is there for him to do, Jade? We're powerful among our fans and followers. What do we have against the management?"

"Don't underestimate the power of that boyband, Pez. They've taken over the world's population of teenage girls, I'm sure they have someone higher than them wrapped around their fingers," she said, wiggling her fingers in front of my face, twisting hers in a goofy expression she'd been working on with Jesy.

"He did say he was going to look after me..."