Saving Grace

Chapter 5: Interviews and Dinners

Zayn made breakfast for the two of us, and by made I really mean he put bread in a toaster and poured cereal into a bowl, and then took me home before heading off to get ready for his interview.  When I walked in my house Lacey was in the living room eating a bowl of cereal and watching the TV.

"Where have you been?" she mumbled with her mouth full.

"I had a date last night and I ended up spending the night at his house."

"Yeah 'cause a guy would totally want to spend the night with you" she muttered under her breath, but I still heard it.  I did my best to just shrug it off.  "So is it getting serious with this guy?" she asked trying to sound interested.

"I mean I think so, he asked me to be his girlfriend." she nearly choked on her cereal.

"After two dates!?" she practically screamed.

"Actually he asked me after our first date." I smiled and walked away triumphantly.  As I was walking into our room, my phone vibrated.  I checked caller ID and saw that it was El.

"Hey what’s up?" I answered.

"You spent the night with Zayn!?" she practically screamed through the phone.

"Yeah.....but how do you know that..." I asked cautiously.

"Zayn told Louis and Louis told me! But why didn’t you tell me?" I sat on the bed to continue the conversation with her and Lacey walked in to get her laptop.

"Well let's see, probably because I just got home and before that I was kind of busy with him." I said not wanting to mention Zayn's name.  

"Well that's no excuse! Tell me everything!"

"Well there isn’t much to tell."

"What do you mean there isn’t much to tell? You spent the night with Zayn! In his apartment! Alone! Spill!"

"NO!"

"Do the walls have ears or something?"

"Or something"

"Well then get your ass over here so you can speak freely."

"OK OK let me just change first, I’ve already done the walk of shame once this morning."

"OK see you in a bit."

Lacey had left the room by now but I still wanted to hang out with El so I changed quickly into a zebra tank top, some black leggings and some white ballet flats before heading downstairs.  Lacey stopped me as I was reaching the door.

"You just got home and you're already going out again?" she asked dumbfounded.

"Yeah, that’s what friends do, they hang out." I replied sassily as I walked out the door.  Ten minutes later I was walking into El's flat.

"So how did you end up spending the night together? What did you do? Did you have sex?" she squealed excitedly.

"OK well first of all no we didn’t have sex; I’ve been on two dates with the man! All we did was cuddle."

"Aww. How cute! But how did you end up there like was it his idea or yours?"

"I think we kind of both thought of it.  He said that he should get me home and I complained and then he made a joke about me sleeping over and was like well...actually....and then somehow we kind of just decided that I was going home with him."

"That’s it?"

"Yeah that's it."

"And you didn’t have sex?"