I AM IN LOVE WITH ZAYN'S GIRLFRIEND

Stockholm syndrome

Nia's POV

I spend the entire week trying to immerse myself in work. The boutique has been doing well so thankfully l had no other choice but to work.

I still didn't like the way Zayn had left..something was wrong.. I could sense a chaotic future ahead.. Near or distant l could not tell.
I shook the feeling off most of the time but needed a distraction now that it was a weekend. I could not ruin my Saturday whining and pining over Zayn. I had to get out of my daily routine.

So Saturday morning when I went to the nearby starbucks I secretly wished l could meet Nathan there again.

After my usual order of cappuccino and any good sandwich according to my mood, l decided to call Nathan. What is the worst thing that could happen? He could say no.. Big deal it's not like l will have to face him in this big city.

I take a deep breath and dial his number.

Nathan's POV
I am about to get out of my car to get my daily dose of starbucks when l get a call. It's Nia! I wasnt expecting this.

"Hey! I hope l didn't catch you at a bad time?", she says as soon as l take the call.
Her voice! Sigh.. Can l ever get used to it?

"No no.. What's up?", l reply not sure what to anticipate.
"Well I am sitting in the starbucks we met in and so l started reminiscing about the time we met even though it was just a week or so ago.." She was rambling.. She wanted to ask something she wasn't comfortable asking.
"Is everything alright with you Nia?", I ask concerned. Again that protective side of me taking over. What is with this girl?!
I turn around and see her through the glass wall sitting alone in the cafe chewing on the inside of her cheeks. Ahh she is nervous.

"Umm.. Actually I wanted to ask if you are free tonight to go out to a pub or something. My friends are busy in something or the other and l really wanted to get out. Zayn is also not in town and l wanted a break from a lot of things.
I get it if you aren't free like you probably have a lot of work to do so it's ok and..."

"Nia! Nia!", l intervene her rambling, smiling to myself.

"Yea?"
"First of all shut up! Secondly what time should l pick you up?"

Nia's POV

We decide to go to the same pub we had met in.
I have no clue why l told him all my friends were busy because they really were not. Probably l just wanted to see a new face.. Someone who wasn't that aware of my life.. My behaviour..my habits. Someone who could allow me an escape from my monotonous life. I could not handle it right now specially with the way things were going with Zayn. I wanted to get away, l needed to get away, from the worrying, prying eyes of the people surrounding me, who even though had my best interests in mind, were suffocating me.