Reality [zayn a.u.]

12.

*Zayn's POV*

Just like last time, Bristol's family arranged for us to get picked up. I helped with getting the bags into the back. Bristol was already in the car with sunglasses over her eyes and texting on her phone. I groaned as I got in and sat next to her.

She was so cute whenever she was just waking up even though it was after one in the afternoon. She scooted closer to me and put her head on my shoulder. I know that I shouldn't be falling for her like this. I know that we had a set plan, and I do what I had to do, but it was hard. She was completely irresistible and she did anything she could to remind me that she was.

Once we got to the airport, the private jet was waiting for us. Bristol was the first to walk out and get on the plane. Her family was already there waiting for her which seemed to happen all of the time because she was always late. She hugged every single one of them including the two people I haven't met, but she introduced me to them and I learned that Lilly was a girl that Brett was seeing, and Scott was Brynlee's fiancé.

The jet soon took off and Bristol was already fast asleep before the plane even lifted off. Her head was on my lap and I could feel a little patched of drool on my sweats, but I smiled as I ran my hand through her hair, but then I stopped.

I checked my phone to see that I got a text from McKenna. I swallowed the bile that was rising up and looked at the text.

From McKenna Lane:

***Why are you still with her? You got what you wanted.

My hand began to shake as I typed out my reply.

From Zayn Malik:

***Don't do this right now. I don't want to do this anymore.

From McKenna Lane:

***Zayn, you have already done it. It's too late now.

My heart began to beat out of my chest, so I just put my phone away as I tried to go to sleep as well. I needed to block out any thoughts of the scheme that McKenna and I started. I thought Bristol would be something that I could resist, but she wasn't. I just did it so I could get my foot into the music industry door.

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The cabin was bigger than I imagined it to be, but I learned from this family was that they were very extravagant. As usual, Bristol gave me a tour of the house and then we landed on her room. She laid across the bed and coughed slightly. She buried herself under the covers and sighed.

I hope she wasn't getting sick.

"Are you getting sick?" I asked Bristol. "You literally slept all day and you are about to go to sleep again."

"I'm fine, Zayn, I swear." She said a little hoarsely.

I just left the room and went down the where everyone else was. They were talking to the cook about what to make for dinner and once they heard me coming they turned around and eyed me. I noticed the cameras immediately, so I knew that I had to talk. I hated that there were cameras everywhere.

"Where's Bristol?" Brielle asked.

"She's sleeping. I think she's sick, but she doesn't want to admit it." I replied.

"She never admits it when she's sick." Brennan said before she left the group and went up the stairs to check on Bristol I assume.

"Come here, Zayn. I want to talk to you." Louis said snapping me out of my thoughts.

I nodded my head and followed him into another room that looked like an office. He sat at the desk and he gestured for me to sit in a chair across from his.

"This is a lovely home, sir." I complimented.

"Thank you." He smiled at the compliment. "I want to talk to you about offering you a job. I am well aware that you are still in school for another semester, but I still want you to perhaps come down to the studio whenever you can. What time are you done with your classes?"

I cleared my throat, "Um, around 1:00."

He smiled widely, "Excellent! You just come down to the studio every day once you finish your classes. Once we get back, I'm going to set everything up for you and you can start the week after."

A smile was etched on my face as I continuously told him thank you.

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Bristol didn't have much food at dinner and she just went straight back to bed. It was pretty late by the time I finally got into the room. But when I walked in, Bristol wasn't even in the bed, but she walked out of the bathroom and put her head into a bun.

"Hey, do you want to go somewhere?" Bristol asked.

I looked at her as if she was crazy.

"Are you sure?" I asked. "You don't look too good."

She just nodded her head and put on her shoes.

"I need to get out for a while. Come on there's this place not too far from the cabin that I love to go to." She explained as she put on her jacket.

I slipped my shoes and jacket on as she put a scarf around her neck. We were soon out of the house and started to walk down an empty path that led to nothing in particular. Bristol finally stopped in front of a gate that say "No trespassing" and climbed over it. I just stood there awestruck.

"You aren't serious." I said.

"I'm dead serious. I do this all of the time come on." Bristol said sounding like she was going to get annoyed.

I sighed and defeat and climbed over the fence. Shortly after, we stopped at this opening in the woods with a large rock in the center and tea lights wrapped around the tree. Bristol turned on a generator before she skipped to the rock and sat on it. She patted the space beside her for me to sit next to her.

It was so hard not to fall in for her. I shouldn't have been with her in the first place.

"My dad had the contractors do this for me." She said softly.

I looked at her and waited for her to continue.

"I set up the tea lights so I could be able to come here at night and play with my guitar and write. It's always so peaceful. I never take anyone out here, not even my siblings." She looked over at me as I watched her the whole time. "You're the first that I brought here because I don't know. I know we are kind of going a little too fast and we should be going this fast, but you mean something to me. You always make me smile and laugh. Just... these past few months with you have been amazing."

I could actually feel my heart begin to break at her words because this didn't start with pure intentions of being with her. I wasn't supposed to be falling for her too. This wasn't supposed to last this long.

"Bristol, you mean a whole lot to me. You're the first girl that I have ever really cared about." True. "And I don't know, I hope our feelings are still there no matter what."

She looked at me quizzically. I wanted to tell her what my attentions were with her at first, but I knew that she would just lash out and break up with me. Hell, I expected her to break up with me.

"Yeah... me too." She answered.

It was silent between us for a while. So silent that it was as if she wasn't even sitting next to me.

"Zayn, don't break my heart, please." She whispered.

"Don't go breaking mine, either." I whispered.

I meant every word. My mind and heart were itching to tell her the truth, but I couldn't. I could stand to break her heart because I already broke mine by lying to her.

zayn's pov is going to start happening now because he has some secrets that he has been hiding.