him & her.|| a zariel love story.

2.time together

narrator:
ariel and zach have been talking for a month and a half now. it is August 7. the day ariel and zach meet...
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zachs pov:
I'm so excited ! today I fly down to Florida to meet up with a few of my friends and ariel. I never have met her in person before and I am quite nervous but also excited out of my miiinnndd!! I really like her I just hope she feels the same. We call eachother cute names like babe and cutie and baby. But maybe she just plays along to be nice?
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ariels pov:
today zach and a few of his friends fly down to Florida to meet up. I have gotten bigger on musically now, and so has my bestfriend ariana. We have our first meet & greet today. I'm so excited to see zach. I'm really starting to like him more and more. Unfortunately my ex boyfriend , Geo (flamingeos) lives here (Florida) too and I really despise him now because he cheated on me with a girl named Karlee. But he might be coming down for the meet and greet and I really hope he doesn't because he was verbally abusive and physically abusive to me and always cheated. I just don't want him to try and hurt me again. Me and zach have been calling eachother pet names and stuff like babe,cutie, and baby. I just hope he feels the same as me.
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fast forward to meet & greet.
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ariels pov:
zach walks to through the meet & greet center doors. He runs up to me and I run up to him and he hugs me and I hug back. It lasts for about a minute. "Aww" I hear from the back. I blush really hard and so does he. He smells so good , I just don't want to let go. But I do. And we just walk with eachother the whole time and go to the meet & greet. Everyone says "awww #zariel!" And chant "zariel!". some of zachs fans call out the word "hoe." "Slut" "whore." I shook it off and kept going on with the meet and greet.
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zachs pov:
we are at the meet and greet and everyone says "aww zariel" and chants "zariel" me and ariel both blush. Maybe she likes me back? I hear the words "slut" "hoe" and "whore" come out from the audience. I look over to Ariel and she just keeps smiling. Hopefully she didn't hear it. After we meet the supporters and everyone and take pictures, Me,Ariel,Nick,Timmy,Edwin,Rudan, And Arii go to a bowling alley. I tweet about it and tweet some pictures , as does everyone else and I look over to Ariel and she has this devastated, worried look on her face. I walk over to ask her what's wrong,
"Ariel what's wrong?" I say.
"N-nothing I'm fine" she stuttered.
"You can tell me." I say.
"I. Am. Fine" she says pausing at each word, then she runs over to ari.
Does she not trust me?
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ariels pov:
after the m&g we go to the bowling alley and take a few pictures and tweet about it. Then I notice Geo has liked all the tweets we sent out and I remembered. He took me and him here on our first date. He works here. He works on weekends, it's Saturday. I get worried and zach walks over to me.
"Ariel what's wrong?" He asks
"N-nothing I'm fine" I stuttered out. Oh great I stuttered, he knows I always stutter when I'm nervous.
"You can tell me" he says
"I. Am. Fine" I say, kinda seeming cocky.
I hope he doesn't think I don't trust him. I run over to ari and tell her the situation and suggests we leave, so we tell everyone to leave and right before we turn around to leave I see Geo standing in front of me. Fuck. I run over to zach and hug his side because Geo had done underage drinking and drugs when we were together and was always abusive , which terrified me to be near him.
"Z-zach don't let me go" I say
"Of course" he says.
Timmy,Rudan,Nick,And ari had went to check us out and throw away our food, then went to the bathroom so it was just me and zach standing alone with Geo.
"Hello Ariel.." Geo says
"Geo please go away" I say.
"No babe, your mine don't you love me?" He says sounding high as fuck.
Zach looks at me confused and frowned because I had told him I'm single but never told him about Geo.
"Geo I broke up with you over 7 months ago!" I say.
"But you miss me babyy" he says.
"No the fuck I don't. I don't even r-" I get cut off by Geo saying,
"Who the fuck is this" he says getting all tough and looks zach up and down.
"I'm her boyfriend, who the hell are you?" Zach says and then whispers to me, "go with it".
"Not anymore, Ariel is mine" Geo says
"No the fuck I'm not." I say
Zach holds me closer. Geo then pulls me crazy hard and tries to walk away with me. Help. I mouth to zach. Zach runs up to us and pulls me away from Geo and punches Geo in his jaw. Timmy,Nick, Rudan, And ari walk back and see zach hit Geo multiple times. And Geo yells "Let's go then!"
"No zach" I say
"I'm not gonna fight you over her, you don't deserve her anyways you booze ass." He says. I get butterflies with zach protecting me. "Ard but next time I see you, we fighting." Geo says and surprisingly gives up easily.

Everyone else asks what happened, we explain and leave.
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zachs pov:
we walk out the bowling alley holding hands. We get into the mini van and me and ariel sit in the seats in the very back. I ask Ariel who that dude was and why he was so obsessed with her still. She explains to me how he was her old boyfriend whom abused her verbally and physically, and always did drugs and alcohol. I immediately hold her closely and snuggles up against my chest. I love her. After a 10 minutes ariel falls asleep on me. 5 minutes later we run out of gas and nick takes us to a gas station and it takes 15 more minutes since the gas station owner was being a bitch. We go to a mcdonalds and get food, with ariel still asleep I ask ari what she would want.
"A Big Mac, large fry and a chocolate milkshake." She says. "Ard" I say. I text nick the list since we can be loud since Ariel is dead asleep. He tells us we are going to a drive thru movie and me and ari text our moms since we are still only 15 and tell them we won't be home. And ari texts ariels mother. We go see some movie about habitats😂. We get our pillows and blankets since nick had some spares in his car because he had just moved into a new apartment and didnt get everything in yet. Me and Ariel share a blanket and everyone gets their own. Ariel wakes up a half hour thru the movie and I'm on my phone and she just smiles at me and cuddles more into me.
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ariels pov:
I wake up cuddled into zach, he's on his phone and looks at me from the corner of his eye and I just smile and cuddle more into him. God I love him. I want to make him mine but I know I can't. We haven't been talking that long.
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fast forward about an hour and they rent a room in a hotel.
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ariels pov: we all chill in the hotel. There is 2 rooms. One has 2 beds. Another has 3 beds. And there is a bathroom and a small kitchen. It's pretty nice but idk how much Timmy , Rudan, and Nick payed. Me, zach, and ari take the room with 2 beds. And the adults take the other one. We all need our pajamas, Ari had her joggers and slept in a hoodie. I didn't have anything so zach let me sleep in a Tshirt of his and he had sweatpants. Since Timmy,tyranny,nick,and zach were flying in from somewhere else they had clothes packed. But to be honest I don't know why ari had clothes.
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zachs pov:
me and Ariel decide to share a bed and ari get her own since me and Ariel are close now , and we cuddled in the car. We turn on the tv and watch spongebob like 5year olds because what else would 3 15 year olds do?😂 after about 2 hours later, it's 1:30 am. Ariel cuddles up into me again , like I'm a pillow and falls asleep. Ari was asleep too. I rest my chin on ariels head and fall asleep.

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End of chapter:
OK SO I KNOW THIS CHAPTER IS SO FLIPPING LONG BUT O WELL. ITS KINDA CHEESY & SHIT WHOOPS. But, Ariel and Zach are closer and have met & cuddledddddd! (I thought that was cute tbh lol) and what did y'all think of zach standing up for Ariel with Geo & pretending to be her boyfriend?! What do y'all think will happen next?? Comment pls :)
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welp^