My Life With Payne

Girl Crazy

I turned the key in my own car's ignition. It felt funny to be sitting in the driver's seat of my own car, alone. I hit the play button on my stereo, my advanced copy of the guy's album began blaring through the speakers. I shifted around in my seat until I found a comfortable position and then put the car into reverse as I backed up the driveway. I flipped though the songs, finally settling one after going through all of them about five times. It was an unusually sunny morning, the brightness of the sun causing me to dig out my sunglasses. "Give you this, give you that..."I could hear Harry's pitch perfect voice, with the riff I just couldn't get enough of sometimes. "I want, I want, but that's crazy..." I sang along, not really caring how I sounded, no one else was in the car with me.

I pulled into the parking lot earlier than usual, even after I stopped to get hot chocolate, since I hated coffee. I got a coffee forLiam, he would throw a fit if I didn't get him something. I expected to see Liam's Camero in his parking space, but instead I saw Zayn's truck a few spaces down. He was just getting out of his seat, putting his phone in the front pocket of his bag. He looked up to see me parking, and he stopped to wait for me. "Where are you going?" I asked. He looked distraught, I felt like he was mad at me. "Uh, nowhere, just, I don't know." he dropped his stuff on the ground, causing papers to fly out all over the parking lot.

"I'm so sorry!" I was grabbing papers as they floated through the air. "Sure you are." he rolled his eyes, thinking I was being sarcastic. He went to pick his stuff up off of the ground. "Zayn, talk to me." I grabbed his arm, jerking him backwards. "What do you want Char?" Zayn shoved my hand off of him. I didn't know why he would be mad at me, I didn't do anything, or at least I didn't think so. Now that I think of it, I did absolutely nothing to him. "Why are you so pissed off? I didn't do anything!?" I was totally pissed off by now. "Of course you didn't, you never do anything. Ever!" he was practically in my face, yelling. It was attracting attention, but I didn't give a crap.

"Why are you telling me this now? You're so stupid!" I didn't even know how to respond, I didn't exactly know what we were fighting about. I could hear a car door slam behind me. It was Harry and Louis. "What the hell is going on here?" Louis was tired, he didn't really wanna deal with drama right now. Harry tried to come between me and Zayn, but it as no use, I just pushed right through him. "What the hell is wrong with you? I didn't do anything wrong!" I still was worked up about this. "Char, let it go, it's not worth it." Louis grabbed my shoulders and looked me in the eyes. "You're right it's not worth it. He's not worth it." I smirked at Zayn, his face scrunching up.

The next few seconds happened so fast. I saw a hand come in contact with my face. Harry and Louis didn't know what to do. Louis started yelling, I guess it was Zayn, he just had hit me in the face. My right cheek stung, as I placed it on Harry's shoulder, letting all the tears fall down my face. People were horrified. Louis and Zayn were still arguing, I kept hearing my name coming out of Louis' mouth. "Liam's here." Harry whispered into my ear. I picked my head up, wiping away most of tears, along with most of my make up. I put my arm in Harry's as we walked to Liam, who had already been caught up to speed by a few bystanders.

"Char, are you okay? I can't believe Zayn out of all people would do that." he was trying to stay out of this, he was already beat up enough. His question got quickly answered as he saw my face, covered in tears and my bright red cheek. Harry dropped my arm and went over to Louis and Zayn, who were still in each other's faces. Liam jerked my body forward into a hug. "Everything will be fine, Zayn will get over whatever's wrong. Just know that we're all here for you." his tone made the tears go away. I turned around to Zayn walking away. I had to talk to him. "Zayn!" I shouted, but he just kept walking.  "Char, let him cool off." Harry tried holding me back, but I just shook him off and kept walking.  "Zayn!  Wait up!" I was pushing through people on my way in the front door.  He kept walking.