Catch Me If You Can (One Direction Fan Fiction)

Chapter 18

DING DONG!

I wake up to the sound of the doorbell.  “Zayn,” I mumble as I shove at him to wake up.  Zayn doesn’t respond as he lies on top of my blankets.  I sigh and decide to kiss him.

I press my lips against his soft ones for a few seconds and soon he responds with his lips moving against mine slowly.  I pull away from him and he furrows his eyebrows in a questioning look.

“What,” Zayn asks me confused.

“Ariana and Jayla are here, you dork.”  I playfully shove at him and he climbs on top of me with a playful glint in his eyes.  He kiss my lips gently and pulls away slowly while climbing off of me.  He grabs my hand and pulls me off my bed.

We walk to the door and Zayn answers the door while I smooth out my hair.  “Oh, was I interrupting something,” Jayla looks between Zayn and I as she walks in; Zayn and I look at each other and I scan his body.

Zayn is shirtless and I am in a cami and shorts.  “No,” I reply slowly.  Ariana laughs along with Jayla at our embarrassment.

“Anyways. . . “  Jayla and Ariana tackle me in a bear hug.

Zayn looks over at us amused as I am mouthing ‘help!’

After five minutes, Jayla and Ariana let me go.

“So, why the long time no talk, hoe?”  Zayn spits out his water he’s drinking and looks over at us.  “What, did I say something wrong,” Jayla asks Zayn.

“Oh, no, no.”  I roll my eyes at Zayn and give him the, ‘we’ll talk later’ look.

“I get busy and just wanted to be alone but this idiot,” I gesture toward Zayn, ”forced me to talk and then made me come here.  I just got here a couple days ago.”

“So, how are things between you and Louis,” Ariana asks me oblivious to all that has happened.

“Um, well a lot.  We aren’t friends at all now and I just can’t even stand the sight of him anymore.  Just, a lot has happened.”

“Is something going on between you and Zayn,” Ariana asks.  Jayla and Zayn both look at me questioningly.

“Well we are –“  I start but am cut-off from Zayn.

“We are just friends.  We have become close and that’s why she lives with me now,” Zayn answered smoothly.  I looked over at him hurt.  Zayn averted his gaze from me and looked back over at them.  “I swear, nothing is going on between us.  She is like a sister to me.”

In that moment, I walked away and slammed my room door, loudly.  I can’t believe Zayn would lie to my friends like that and in front of me.

Someone knocks on my door and I go to open it.  As soon as I open the door, I see the eyes of a liar.

“Zayn, don’t talk to me right now.”

“Rae, please listen,” Zayn practically said begging for my attention.  I sigh and open my door to let him in.  Zayn slides into my room and shuts the door behind him.  Zayn steps closer to me and grabs my hands in his.  “Rae, baby, what I did, I had to do that.”

“No, you didn’t have to do that.”

“I can’t trust them yet.  I hardly know them.  They could tell people and then news would get out to the world and then you would get a lot of hate.  You are too precious and fragile to me.  You mean too much to me for that to happen to you.  I only want to protect you.  I love you.”

Tears well up in my eyes and nod my head in understanding.

“So, are we good, love?”

“Yes, we are.”