Skinny Love: A Zachary Abels Love Story

Chapter 1

"Nikki," I waved my hand in front of her face. Sighing, I snapped my fingers in front of her. Yet she still didn't pay any attention to me. The girl can really zone out. But of all places, she picked our party. It's a 'beginning of the summer' party, and it was just our close friends and the girls. Speaking of them. They can help me snap her out of her trance. "Callie! Katie, Dylan, guys, get over here." I called them, and even that didn't work. The rest of mine and Nikki's band mates hesitantly jogged over with the rest of our friends at the small party, Harry, Mikey, Louis, Bryan, Zayn, Jeremy, Niall, Jesse, Liam, and Zach. We all quietly decided what we were going to do. "1, 2, 3," and we all clapped at the same time, Niall's hand right in front of her face because his clap was is like a mini sonic boom.

"What were you thinking about?" Katie asked, bewildered. Nikki blushed.

"I was reminiscing nostalgically on the time we won a show," She said, purposefully trying to confuse everyone.

"What?" Zayn asked.

"I was thinking about how we won the show you lost," She stuck her tongue out at him.

"And before we performed on the show that day and met you, I thought you were the silent one," he muttered, looking at me. I shrugged at him.

"Dude, didn't you watch the video diaries?" Jesse argued.

"Did you?"

"Why didn't you?" Niall jumped in the conversation. "Everybody knew Nikki isn't the quiet one.

"Nope, that's Dylan," Bryan said matter-of-factly.

"No argument there," Jesse agreed. Dyl furrowed her eyebrows at him.

"Guys," I tried to interfere.

"There's nothing wrong with Dylan being quiet," Callie stated defensively.

"No one said there was," Louis sassed. I opened my mouth to say something but couldn't because I was interrupted again.

"You were definitely implying it," Nikki said.

"Guys!" Zach shouted, causing everyone to stop and turn to him. "Quinn has something to say." He finished, facing me. I shot him a grateful look before beginning.

"Okay. what I was going to ask everyone before your pointless little argument was.. everyone has this summer off, right? No touring or anything until fall?"

"Nope," Liam said, popping the p.

"No." Mikey spoke for his band.

"Well, actually, that's not true," Jeremy corrected him. "We have two shows this summer, but that's it."

"Okay, that's fine, but since none of us are doing anything this summer, I think we should all just hang out. Go on a trip or something, just us, as a group of friends." I paused. "We all cool?"

"that'd be pretty rad," Zach approved, earning a huge smile from me.

"Yeah, I think we could do that," Liam replied directly after.

After everyone agreed, the trip was definite. Viva la toure!