Triple Dog Dare *A Zayn Malik Love Story*

Chapter 30

The song for this chapter is Glitter in the Air by P!nk(:  Such a great song.

*Camille's POV*

"Zayn Malik?" she repeated.  I nodded and she snorted.  "You're lying."  She waved me off and giggled to herself.  I stared at her in complete seriousness until she stopped laughing.  "Oh my god, you're not kidding are you?"  I shook my head and took an uncomfortable bite of my apple.  She stared at me with wide eyes.  "D-do you have a picture or something?  I don't believe you," she stuttered.

I nodded and pulled out my phone.  She hurried over behind me and watched over my shoulder as I pulled up my photos to find a picture of us together.  In fact, we had loads of pictures together and seeing them broke my heart.  He was so far away from me now– three and a half thousand miles away to be exact– and now that I was seeing how happy we were in these pictures, I really wanted to see him again.  I missed him.

"Oh my, God," she said quietly as I continued scrolling through more pictures of us two together, each one clenching my heart more and more.  Finally I felt like I had inflicted enough damage to myself that I shut off my phone and shoved it back in my purse.  Ella came back around and sat at the barstool across from me.

"You see?"

She grinned happily.  "That's amazing!  How long have you guys been dating?"

I tapped my chin.  "A little bit before Christmas last year is when he asked me to be his girlfriend."

She beamed.  "That's so freaking cute!  I haven't heard anything about you guys being together before!"

I shrugged.  "We kept it pretty much on the down low because neither of us really wanted to be attacked by the media, you know?"

She nodded vigorously.  "Yes!  I understand completely.  I just can't believe it, you know?  I think it's amazing, and you two seem really happy together."  I diverted my eyes to the floor.  “Is there something wrong?” she asked.

"We just had a falling out before I left that didn't really get resolved, so I'm not exactly sure how we stand right now.  It's kind of a complicated situation," I explained.

She tapped my chin, encouraging me to look at her, as her lips formed a reassuring smile.  "Hey, cheer up, girl.  Maybe things will turn up between you two."

I turned my eyes down, but smiled.  "Yeah, I hope so."  I slung my purse over my shoulder and stood up to stretch.  "Alright, are you ready to go to dinner?"

"Yeah, I think so."  She followed me over to the elevator and hit the down button.

"Any idea where we should go?" I wondered.

"How about Shake Shack?" Ella offered.  "It's right around here and it's super fun.  Whatcha say?"

"I say that sounds great."

*Zayn's POV*

Today was day two without my girlfriend.

Update:  I feel even shittier than yesterday.

I walked into my house after a grueling, all-day rehearsal with the boys.  Tour started in six days so our time spent at the studio had become more and more valuable.  In fact, after the little stunt Niall and I pulled yesterday, we got in pretty serious trouble.  I had been granted permission to miss the first hour or two of rehearsal to go see Camille off, but Niall wasn't which is what everyone was so upset over.  Plus, Niall and I were at the hospital for an hour or so for the doctor to put me in a cast, tacking extra time onto the time we weren't supposed to miss.