I remember when...

5

"I don't ever wanna go home." Nicole whined. Neither. It's amazing here...

I ran around the place checking that we were all packed, this is seriously déjà vu of before we came here. I'll be back down here in London in 2 weeks, for my internship. I'm quite excited, the girls and I were leaving the room when I realised I had left something in my shower room, so I went back in to grab the shower gel and sponge that I loved from there. I had given the girls the key to my car to let themselves in and out their bags in the back, on the way back out of the hotel room there were security guards in the hall again, this time none of them said anything. I walked through to the elevator and pressed the button, when the door opened and I walked in, the door began to close until a large masculine hand stopped them,
And in walked Zayn
The Zayn
Zayn Malik
My entire body stiffened. I wanted to just throw myself at him, but I am 20 now, that wouldn't be cool, surprisingly no security followed him and we were alone for the 20 floor ride down, a good 5 minutes.
I just stood there, wide eyed, looking at the wall. I hadn't even pressed the button to the lobby, I felt like just leaning on all of the buttons and having to stop on all of the floors just to be in this moment for longer, but that's just stupid.
"I saw you last week, right?" I heard him say.
"Me?" I stupidly asked. No idiot the suitcase, I'm such a moron.
"Yes, you." He replied chuckling, THAT LAUGH, THE SMILE, I'm melting. I made him do that.
"Uhm, yeah, I think you did..." I mumbled, great now I'm an awkward freak. Anything else you want to ruin Ellie?
"What's your name, I'm Zayn." He smiled.
"Ellie and I know aha." I smiled, obviously I know you, you're not famous or anything. Stop it Ellie.
"Ellie... Nice name, got a last name with that?" He asked leaning against the wall, he is so hot.
"Awh thanks, um yeah it's Dolley, Ellie Dolley." I smiled blushing, he's affecting me so much.
"Dolley.." He looked off to the side of the lift, is it just me or is this lift not even moving...
Crap the button, I'm an utter moron now, "Uhm are you going to the lobby?" I asked moving towards the buttons.
"Yeah, whoops I forgot to do that, security always does it." He said looking shy now, ha good your turn. I pressed the button to the lobby and we began moving down, "You came here with friends didn't you? I saw them leaving with you the other night." He said.
"Yeah, my cousin and my best friend, where did you see us? You never came out of your room. Not that I stalked you. That must sound super bad, I'm not some crazed fan, honestly, like yeah I used to be but I'm not anymore and I haven't even got any posters of you anymore and I totally support you leaving the band and doing what you love, but I don't obsess over you... Anymore... Crap." I said covering my face with my hands from going so red, stupid nervousness babbling. He just laughed in return and said that its ok, he rubbed my back, I felt sparks, his hands were so big and warm, like seriously do it again, maybe it's because he's famous or maybe it's because it's ZAYN MALIK, but that was amazing.
The doors to the elevator opened too soon, "See you around, Ellie Dolley..." He said smiling and walking towards the doors of the hotel.
"See you around, Zayn..." I whispered.
I walked out of the doors, dragging my bag behind me, as soon as I walked out I was swarmed with paparazzi, asking so many strange questions that were so loud over each other that I couldn't hear any of them clearly, I just kept walking and shoved through until I got to the parking lot, where the girls were stood beside the car looking annoyed, "What took you so long?" Rowan asked, do I lie? Yes.
"The elevator stopped working and I had to wait for someone to fix it..." I said, shoving my bag in the back and getting in the drivers seat.
"Well next time take the stairs," Nicole warned, hahahaha no. I shook my head and began to turn around and start driving towards the motorway.

The weekend and the 2 weeks away had flown by, and before you know it I'm helping Nicole move her stuff into our new apartment. She has a lot of stuff.
"Why is it so heavy?!" I asked dragging some random box up the stairs. She laughed carrying 2 lighter ones. The sofa next, I don't know why she needed a sofa, mines good enough, we ran back downstairs and picked up an end of the sofa each, this feels like a scene from Friends, so I decided to reenact it, "PIVOT, PIVOT, PIVOT!" I shouted as it got stuck on the stairs. We began laughing and decided to put it down and retry, mostly failing because we laughed so much. This time we managed and entered the apartment/flat door.
"Where's it going?" Nicole asked, I had somewhere in mind...
"We'll figure that out once we've got everything up, just 6 more boxes and then the left over random bits at yours still." I said and ran back out the door and down the stairs.
Carrying the final box into the flat I placed it on the kitchen counter and we made our way back down stairs and towards my car, "Are you excited for the internship next week?" Nicole asked, I nodded smiling and driving down the road to her street.
"I really am, and I can't wait to have all of this sorted out so we can just sit down and talk really late. It's already Wednesday." I said, we had spent Monday buying paint and then painting Nicole's room, we then went on to buy curtains and room decorations, which I hadn't brought anything until then because I was waiting for Nicole.
We got matching cups and plates and bowls, some fancy cutlery and all sorts of other kitchen and living and bathroom things. This was all so cool.
We gathered the last of Nicole's belongings and made our way back to our flat, taking it all upstairs and leaving it in the hall/living room.
"Right lets start moving stuff." I said, picking up  box and holding it under my arm. I walked into Nicole's soon to be room and placed the box down, I looked at the label, 'clothes' so I began to unpack the clothes from the bag and hang them and fold them into the built in wardrobe. Nicole came in a little while later with a ton of pillows and a duvet, she threw them all down onto her bed and then helped me put up her curtains, we leaned the mirror in the corner against the wall, it was a full length one, we dragged the sofa that she brought with her into her bedroom and put her desk next to it.
After about 4 hours of tidying, cleaning and moving things around multiple times we had the flat clean and ready to live in properly.
"Oh my god, I am so tired!" Nicole said, and lay on one of the sofas in the living room, I finished making our coffee and placed it on the table and sat on the other sofa, turning on the TV to a random music channel.
"So, I have something to tell you..." I said, leaning on the arm of the sofa.
"What is it?" She said sitting up and leaning facing me.
"When I said in London that the elevator was stuck so I took longer, it wasn't stuck." I said.
"So what happened?" She asked me raising her eyebrows in confusion.
"I was in there with Zayn." I started, "I went back and got the things that I said I was getting, on my way back all the security was out  and just let me through into the elevator and then as the doors started closing Zayn came running in... At first I had forgotten to even press the button to the lobby so we spoke for a little while, and then after I remembered he started asking me things about myself." I said and looked up, she looked so surprised.

Before the night was over I had told Nicole about my panic and babbling to Zayn and confessing my old love for him, and we shared so many laughs, that entire night and the snacks we had consumed had taken us up until 4A.M when we had both fallen asleep in my room spread out on the bed.