As It Seems

Ch. 8- Earthquakes Won't Wait

A/N: SO I'm gonna dedicate this chapter to the super awesome @MarryMe1Dxo cuz she got last weeks song correct (: so everyone go follow cuzzzzzzzzzzzz you just should. K(:

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I sat in a comfortable chair in the recording studio, bored out of my mind. I’d already checked twitter and Instagram 4 times, replying to a bunch of fans and what not. I really shouldn’t have come. I only went because Alainey asked me to, she didn’t want to be in a recording studio alone. Well… not alone but… without me, anyways. I was hesitant, because I knew I had no real need to be there, but I said yes, cuz I was told Niall was gonna come by. He still hadn’t yet.

“Harry, can you do that line again? Add a little more emotion into it this time” One of the studio workers said. I decided to watch them, maybe even get a few tips from watching a pro sing his heart out.

Harry nodded, looking down at the microphone. I assumed the music started playing in his headphones, because he started belting the words out from his heart.

“Seems like these days I watch you from afar,” When he sang these words, he sang them to me. No, I don’t just mean I heard them and I imagined what it’d be like for him to sing them to me. I mean he literally looked me in the eyes as he sang that. And it caused the weirdest, butterfly filled, rollercoaster dropping feeling in my stomach. I had no idea what was going on in his mind when he sang that line, or why he looked me in the eyes, but I made sure to hold eye contact with him, as he started singing the next line. “Just trying to make you understand”.

The butterfly feeling was still there, and I was starting to think it’d never leave.

“I’ll keep my eyes wide open” he sang the final line of the verse, making the funniest face, popping his eyes as wide open as he could.  Those bright green orbs. Yes, I did read fan fictions before, and yes, I did just say green orbs. Yes, I was slightly making fun of other fan fictions.

Harry and I busted out laughing, along with Alainey and a few of the other people in the small studio room.

“Harry, be serious please. We need to get this done so we can start editing.” One of the men said. They had already been working on this song for nearly a week, recording bits and pieces whenever they both had a bit of free time. Apparently, it needed to be finished by today.

Alainey and Harry finished the song about an hour later, and of course I was bored the whole time, mainly cuz NIALL NEVER SHOWED UP. I reminded myself to yell at him later. He was gonna be my source of entertainment for the evening.

As we were wrapping up and collecting our things to leave, one of the people from the 1D management team came over to Harry and Alainey. The three were talking for a good 10 minutes. I stood outside of the room, waiting, not wanting to interrupt. I really shouldn’t have come. I definitely felt like a third wheel.

“What was that about?” I curiously asked Alainey when she finally walked out of the room.

“Oh, you know… just business stuff.”

“Business stuff?” I shot her a confused look.

“I’ll tell you later.”

We got to the arena and went straight to our dressing room, knowing we were later than usual and needed to get ready for sound check ASAP.

“So uh… that thing from earlier?” Alainey said.

“Yeah?”

“They want me to… you know, hang out with Harry more. Publically.”

“Oh…” I said, trying not to show my jealousy. “Do they want you two to like… ‘date’?”

“No, no. They just want us to hang out as friends. Publically. They don’t want us to date cuz the songs a breakup song and they don’t want fans thinking there’s negative energy on the tour. But… they want us to seem more… close. Like there COULD be something we’re hiding.”

“Oh…” I said again. “Well that makes sense.” I was actually kind of relieved that they didn’t have to fake date. Cuz that wouldn’t be fun to watch. The guy that I’m drooling over… fake drooling over my best friend.

“Look, I’m sorry, I didn’t know I’d have to hang out with him and make people kind of think there was something between us. I don’t wanna ruin it for the two of you… I can go and tell them that I no longer want to do the song and that they should switch it to you… I’m sure you can record quickly, my parts weren’t that big anyways and…” Alainey rambled on.

“Lain,” I spoke, cutting her off with a little giggle. “It’s ok. I completely understand. It’s all for publicity, it’s not real. You don’t even like him, and he likes… well, I’m not quite sure.” I said, with a little smile, as Alainey shot me back a ‘you know it’s you he likes’ look. “But seriously. You’ve worked really hard and you deserve to get to duet with him. I’m not gonna take that away from you! Plus, the fans will LOVE it. And really, it doesn’t matter who ships Harrainey, as long as it’s not you and Harry that ship it… as anything more than a friendship, anyways.”

Alainey pulled me into a huge hug. “Thanks, Cayley. You’re the best and I’ll never forget it.”

We finished getting ready and ran to sound check, and then got fully dressed, hair and makeup done, and went out and killed our performance, like always.

“Cayley? Alainey?” I heard Harry’s voice quietly say as he softly knocked on the door of our dressing room. “You girls in here?”

“Yeah, come in” Alainey yelled back.

“Oh, hey,” he said as he entered our room, turning to face Alainey. “Marissa thinks it’d be a good idea for us to go to dinner tonight. You and me.”

“Oh, um, ok” she said, turning to me to see how I would react.

“Yeah. But she said we can bring people with us. Cayley, you can come if you want too. Just make sure to bring someone so it doesn’t look like you’re a third wheel to our fake-not-date.” Harry laughed.

“Cool!” I said and he smiled back as he left the room, adding a “Meet by the busses in 20.”

“Who should I bring?” I turned my attention back to my blonde best friend.

“I have an idea…” She smirked. This should be good. I shot her a look and she continued.

“Why don’t you ask Ashton?”

That wasn’t what I was expecting.

“Uhm…. May I ask why?”

“So I can hang out with MY crush while YOU get to hang out with YOURS! It’ll be just like the double date we always wanted!” She giggled, clearly really excited.

“One problem… Everyone thinks you and HARRY are on a… ‘date’. And they’ll assume Ashton and I are on a ‘date’.”

“So? Remember what you said? It doesn’t matter who ships what, as long as YOU don’t ship it,” She smirked again as she mocked my words from earlier.

“True…” I sighed. He WAS becoming one of my good friends, so it wouldn’t be awkward. I grabbed my phone to shoot Ashton a text.

Dinner tonight. Me, Alainey, and Harry. You down?

Within 10 seconds, I saw that he was typing, and within 30 I got a reply. Man, he’s quick.

Sure. Sounds lovely. Details?

I smiled back at my phone. This dinner would be… weird. I was kind of nervous to see how it would turn out, and how the fans would react. It would be interesting, to say the least.

Meet in 20 by the busses.

I hit send and then locked my phone. Realizing that all my clothes were in my suitcase, which was on the bus, I quickly took off my stage clothes and threw on my clothes from earlier, and then grabbed Alainey as we ran to the bus to get changed and ready for our…. ‘double date’.

This should be good.