Can This Be True? { A Zalfie Fanfic }

Alfie

I was so glad that everything had finally worked out with me and Zoe. It had finally worked and I could help but smile. I was with my best friend and my girl friend and I could tell that the weekend was going to be great. Marcus and I had had planned on going shopping in Brighton and visiting the beach and I was so glad that Zoe could now tag along. 

Zoe was resting her head on my chest and I stroked her hair, still smiling like a fool. I could feel her start to get heavier as she slowly faded off to sleep. That was when her phone buzzed, and then started to ring. She was shaken awake and answered the phone. I could hear Louise's voice on the other end. That is how I ended up on a train, again. We were going to Northampton. 

I always found train rides quite boring, which was very unfortunate since my job required oh so many of them. At least I was with Zoe. I was also glad that I was going to Northampton, as I wanted to make sure that Darcy was okay. I wanted to be there for Louise, since she was such an awesome friend. 

On the train, Zoe crawled into my lap and rested her head on my chest again, I continued to stroke her hair. I could tell that she was worried about our little 'gremlin.' Zoe always blew things way out of proportion, and if I was worried, I knew that she was at least ten times more worried than I was. 

We had just settled in for the two hour train ride when Zoe's phone started blowing up with texts. Then mine slowly started to as well. I checked my Twitter to see if anything had happened and that was when I saw them. There were about a billion Zalfie comments... "Oh no," I said slowly. 

I glanced at Zoe and saw that she was scrolling through her Twitter feed as well. Her eyes widened at all of the comments and she slowly slid off of my lap. "I'm sorry, we just can't show it in public yet..." she said slowly. She looked away from me and typed a quick tweet. I glanced down at my feed and saw it. 'Off to Northampton with my good friend Alfie, (nothing more guys)' 

I sighed, when could we just admit to everyone that we were dating? Keeping our relationship a secret in public was probably going to be the hardest thing I would ever do. I was about to say something to Zoe, about how we could show our affectionship once we had gotten off of the train, but she had her headphones in and was obviously trying to ignore me, for the sake of looks obviously. 

Still, I felt slightly offended. But, Zoe had always been very defensive about all of the Zalfie business. I bet she just felt weird now that we were an actual couple. I slipped my headphones in as well and waited away the train ride. I just wanted to be close to Zoe again. Now that she was mine, I never wanted her to leave my side. 

______________________

The train pulled into the station right around dark. I pulled my headphones out of my ears and started to gather up mine and Zoe's luggage. I wanted so badly to slip my hand into hers as we walked to the street to find a cab but I knew she wouldn't want us to be spotted. 

We got a cab fairly quickly and were soon headed the hospital. I placed my hand on Zoe's thigh in a lovingly manner. She smiled weakly at me. "Alfie, I don't want any viewers to know..." her voice faded away and she looked outside of the cab with a hazy look in her eyes. I could tell that she was anxious to see Darcy. 

When the cab pulled up to the hospital she ran out and into the hospital. I stayed behind and grabed all of our luaggage, regretting telling Marcus to ask Zoe to pack for a week. Girls needed so much stuff! I walked in a talked to the receptionist who told me where Darcy and Louise, and now Zoe were. 

I climbed the stairs and made my way to fourth floor where all of the kids were. Once I had spotted Louise inside a room at the end I walked in and set down all of our stuff with a sigh of relief. "You brought so much stuff Zo," I said with a laugh. Then I turned to Louise. "Hello!" I said cheerfully. That was when I saw the tears in her eyes. "What's wrong?" I said softly. 

"Darcy has the worst flu, and you know it's bad with tots, and well the doctors say she could be in the hospital for weeks and it is really serious." She reached a hand up to wipe away her tears and collapsed heavily onto a chair. Zoe walked over to her and started to comfort her. 

"Me and Zoe are officially a couple now," I said dully. That was not the way I wanted to tell her, but I had no other option. "I'll go get some takeaway then I guess," I said very awkwardly, reembering how Zoe had mentioned that she was hungry on the cab. I slowly walked out of the hospital room leaving the two friends alone.