If you forget | Zariel/Meston

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My insides felt like they were twisting inside out and my heart throbbed. He's never yelled at me before- about us especially.

The rest of our journey was silent. Loren had a hand over her mouth, the other clutching Mario's arm. His mouth was hanging wide open, along with Nick. Weston had both arms behind his head, with wide eyes. Brennen had his hands in his pockets, staring down at his feet.

All you could hear from where we were was the fans chanting, and even that was quieting down. Zach was staring at me, as if he was waiting for my reaction, but at the same time, trying to figure out how he affected me.

I finally broke, and now you could hear my soft cries. Zach's expression changed. He attempted to pull me into a hug, but I didn't hug back. I couldn't. I was hiding my running mascara with my face in my hands.

"Ariel, I'm so sorry, I didn't-" I pushed him away, and started walking backwards.

"No. It's fine. I get it. You don't want an us. It's not that hard to see. That's why I've kept it from you. For the past ten months. It was pointless, though. I knew you didn't feel the same way." I was crying extremely hard at this point, almost sobbing.

"No, Ariel-"

"Well uh, not to make things any more awkward, we're gonna go," Weston interrupted. "Good luck explaining yourself this time, bud. You screwed up, my dude."

As they passed Zach while leaving him with me, Brennen patted him on the shoulder. "You surprised me. I didn't think that's the way you felt, from what you told me..." Then, he was gone.

Zach was still looking at me, and he opened his mouth to say something, but I turned and ran before he could speak.

I ran full speed out of the building, drowning out Zach yelling my name from behind me, until I was out the door and caught up with the rest of the gang heading to the two golf carts waiting on us.

Mario was the first to notice, and turned to hug me as soon as he was close enough. I cried on his shoulder and he kept me held tight. It became a group hug, first Loren joined, followed by Weston, then Brennen, then Nick.

"You're gonna be okay, this'll all blow over, that definitely can't be how Zach actually feels. Take it from us." they comforted me.

We eventually all piled into the golf carts and went back to the hotel. As we were just about to walk in, Brennen tells us all something.

"Hey guys, I just realized; My house is literally just like 5 minutes away. You wanna grab our chargers and stuff and head over there? We can hang out there for a while and maybe get a pizza or something." Everyone agreed that we would make the quick trip inside for chargers, then head out. We were in, then out of there like a couple of ninjas, in less than 5 minutes.

We decided to carpool with Brennen for obvious reasons. He's like the only one with his actual licence and not a permit other than Zach and I, and Zach wasn't here and I definitely was not in the mood for driving.

We got to Brennen's place and as soon as we got inside, I plugged in my phone. Everyone else's phones were dead. Mine was at 1% the entire way there, so I had it on airplane mode. I turned off airplane mode and my phone flooded with notifications.

Zach (5) missed calls

iMessage: Zach Ariel where are you I can't find anyone anywhere??

iMessage: Zach Ariel I'm so so so so sorry I screwed up really bad please call me

Bruhitszach tweeted:opening my mouth was a mistake, especially when the words didn't come out right

YouNow: Bruhitszach says-"guys I'm freaking out right now"

Instagram direct: Bruhitszach-"Ariel where are you I'm super worried and I need to talk to you"

Snapchat: Snapchat from Bruhitszach

Snapchat: Bruhitszach is typing...

Just then, my phone started to vibrate again.

Incoming call: Zach

I slid my finger to the right across the screen.

"H-hello?"

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Zach's POV

I looked in everyone's hotel rooms. They're all gone. Their stuff is still there, but they aren't. I've texted and called everyone other than Ariel at least once. They didn't deliver and each went straight to voicemail. Ariel's calls did the same thing, but her messages finally sent. I've tried everything: YouNow, instagram, snapchat, Twitter, imessage. Nothing has worked.

I decided to try to call her again. I can't lose her.

It actually rung this time. I froze and clutched the phone with every inch of hope left in me and ran to the TV stand. I grabbed my keys, slammed open the door, and bolted to the lobby, outside, and to my car.

The line stopped ringing. I was still walking. A weary and familiar voice answered the line on the other side. "H-hello?"

It's Ariel.

"Ariel oh my god where are you? Where is everyone, as a matter of fact?" I asked, all in one breath. I jumped in my car and turned on the ignition, slamming the door shut behind me and doing a "U" turn out of the parking lot.

"We-we're all at Brennens." She answered. "W-why? what's up?" She asked, as if nothing was wrong.

"Ariel, you know what's up." I replied hoarsly, as my eyes began to water having flashbacks of the horrified and hurt look on her face earlier when I snapped at her. "Ariel, I'm so so so sorry. I don't know what I was doing at all. It wasn't your fault I was mad in any way shape or form. I have no idea what came over me and I-I...I'm just an idiot. Will you ever forgive me??" I pressed the gas since there was no traffic, and Brennen's house was about two minutes away by now.

I was going 70 MPH now. I swerved a little, having one hand on the steering wheel, of course, but I still stated on track.

"Zach.." Ariel paused, and there was a shifting noise in the background. She probably put me on speaker phone or something. "It's okay. I forgive you.. it just really hurt."

"Yeah, about that...I've actually have a crush on you for a long time now, and I-"

A car horn blares in the distance, so I slam on the breaks and clutch the wheel with my life. Ariel must've heard it.

"Oh my god, Zach?? What's happening, are you okay?? Zach please answer me!"

The car skidded across the street and flipped into a ditch. I stirred and hit my head off the dashboard.

"Ariel..."

"Zach? Zach oh my god what happened? Zach please," Her voice cracked, so I could tell she was about to cry.

"Help."

The last thing I remember hearing was Ariel's voice. Then, everything went black.

"Zach? Somebody call 911!"

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Okay so

Extremely sorry for the short chapter I mean

Like I know it's not actually that short but it's the shortest I've written in this book so I consider it short

Books take so much work to write so if I'm off schedule updating at least twice a week then I'm extremely sorry I probably have writers block because that comes and goes as it pleases

Plus eventually the chapters might get dry and It'll be boring because I'll just be trying to write a chapter for the hell of it because I'm expected to update bUT LETS HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN HAhA

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