Be Mine

Chapter Thirteen

"OH MY GOSH WHAT!" screamed Zara and Amber unison.

"Shhh! Guys, keep it low!" Grace said to them, as she felt herself flush. This was embarrassing.

"BUT ZAYN! Wait, has it been since that day he was staring at you during lunch break?" asked Amber, that girl remembered everything.

Grace just nodded sheepishly which immediately sent Amber into a fangirl mode.

That girl had already given them a ship name, "Zrace". Grace rolled her eyes at that while Zara just laughed.

"You have to tell us EVERYTHING."

Obviously Grace wasn't going to tell them everything since that was what Zayn had warned her about but she could definitely steer the conversation to another route without giving out much detail.

"And you have to tell me all about "Amblex"" replied Grace with a chuckle which quickly turned into a laugh as soon as they saw Amber's face become red.

"Haha, don't laugh much Zara, I wanna hear everything about your man too," replied Amber with a wicked grin.

"I-I have no one.."

"So Harry is no one now? Honey, I saw how you made a face to him and he immediately jumped in to stop the fight," said Grace.

"Uh.."

And both of the girls burst out laughing.

Grace was glad she wasn't getting the chance to think of what went down at Zayn's house.
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Grace was just talking with the girls in the hallway when she noticed Zayn enter.
"Excuse me girls," she said.

"Ooh, lover is here!" Amber whispered in a sing-song voice.

Zara started giggling and Grace just said with a smile, "Oh shut up," and went over to where he was standing, in front of his locker.

"Um, hey," she said, feeling a little uneasy after how it ended the night before.

BAM. Grace stood up straighter, a bit startled by the force with which Zayn shut the locker door.

"Uh, Za-"

Grace stopped mid-sentence when she saw him turning his back to her, completely ignoring her and walking away.

She stared at his back for a few more seconds, blinking rapidly as she tried to process what just happened.

The ringing of the bell pulled her out of her trance and she started for her class, the smile she had was now replaced by a frown as she wondered about him.

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"Oh my gosh, OH MY GOSH!" shouted Zara, pacing around the music as she constantly kept flailing her arms around.

'She's clearly not nervous,' thought Harry sarcastically. 'Good thing she won't even have to perform' was what went on at the back of his mind.

"Zara, calm down," said Harry with a laugh.

"How can I? The performance is TOMORROW!" Zara said, now starting to bite in her nails.

Harry grabbed hold her shoulders, "Look, stop worrying this much, you're going to lose an arm. What are you so terrified about?"

Zara gives him a dumb making Harry laugh a bit.

"-Okay, never mind. Look, you're going to bang the entire show. With that voice of yours, nothing can possibly go wrong!"

She sighed, "Oh, I hope we can do it. Now, back to rehearsals!"

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"Alex!"

Alex turned around to see Amber running towards him from the school gate.

As she caught up to him, she panted for a few moments before she started speaking, and from the shakiness of her voice and stuttering, Alex judged that she was nervous.

But nervous about what?

"Um, th-thanks for, uh, defending me yesterday. Uh, b-but you really d-didn't need to fight and uh, um, you're quite attractive, uh I mean-"

Alex broke into a smile as Amber immediately paused to smack herself on the forehead.

"Calm down idiot, tell me what it is" said Alex with a smirk.

"Okay, um, I was thinking if we could go home together.."

"Cause I'm attractive?" Alex said with a smirk.

"No! I mean yes! But like, I uh, also find you interesting.." Amber was turning as red as a tomato by now so Alex just decided to put her out the misery and replied while chuckling a little, "Sure Amber, let's go."

And their entire way home was filled with short, funny conversations as they got to know more about each other.

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"Here, have this! You'll feel more relaxed," said Harry with a smile as he handed Zara a drink with chocolate and caramel in it.

"Oh, thank you so much Harry," and without thinking, she hugged him.

Harry froze for a moment, not understanding what was happening and as he hugged her back with one hand, he started to feel a little guilty.

When she let go, Harry realized that she was to frazzled to actually care about anything else as she took her shoes off and started taking off parts of her makeup like the fake eye-lashes.

'She just needed some support for a few moments,' realized Harry and started feeling more guilty as he saw her sip on the drink, scrunch up her nose in confusion (which he really thought was cute but never admitted to himself) shaking her head, and just going back to drinking it.

The entire time after that, Harry's eyes just followed her movements, and when she kept pausing for short breaths in the middle of the performances, Harry gave out a hidden smirk.

It was 22 hours till the show and he couldn't wait for it.