Accidentally in Love // z.m

Six

"I am so sorry I'm late, lost track of time and traffic didn't help," I rambled on apologies after bursting into the conference meeting we had scheduled, everyone greased me off and I felt like absolute shit. 

"Sit down Sahara. We didn't send you there to have lunch dates with the boys, we sent you there on business. If it were India, she would have been back on time." Grace snapped. Like I said, she was great but when it came to work, she was super strict. However she pushed my buttons when it came to India, because it was always me who fucked up and India was the angel so I snapped back at her. "Last time I checked, my name's behind the label and I can do what I want with it." I said way too confidently and India's eye balls widened in shock. 

"Oh really? So you think you could run this place without me huh? Don't forget I was the one who discovered you Sahara, get back into your place." I bit down on my lip, knowing I had gone too far. I shook my head, annoyed with myself. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. It won't happen again." I said quietly. She huffed but accepted it. 

"Now update us." She asked, returning to her usual self. So I pulled out the stack of papers Janet had given me and repeated everything she had said, emphasizing the ‘no relationships’ bit and watching India's face turn white. She kept quiet. "Sounds great. I want you to focus on that paperwork for now whilst India and I work on New York." I nodded though a part of me felt as though she was punishing me by preventing me from working on New York things. It did reduce some of my work load so I guess it benefited me. We finished discussing the plans for New York as well as Anna Wintour's Vogue cover and left an hour later. India came over to mine and we decided to have a chill stress free night where we talked about life.

"Tell me everything!" I squealed as we sat on my lounge in our PJ's with Friends playing in the background. 

"Ahh Saz he is so so cute! He made me laugh so much and he was so sweet and we talked about everything and he told me about his family and his life before 1D and he wants to see me again, as in go on another date but now with this contract I don't know, I knew this wasn't a good idea." She had said it all so quickly I didn't know what to respond to first.

"Hmmm." I thought, taking another scoop from my pint. "Firstly, you guys would be a perf couple, I totally ship Nidia even though the name sounds terrible." She laughed, splurting some ice cream out of her mouth, attractive. "And you know, I think you should go on this date anyway. Obviously he knows about the relationship rule and he is willing to go against it to see you, he must really like you if he's doing that. Niall doesn't seem like the 'bad boy' type if you get me and I don't think he has even had a relationship whilst being in 1D yet. I think you guys are smart enough to do this behind managements back, once it’s over you can go public. It's only until March." I reasoned.

"April, actually." She corrected me and sighed into her pint of ben and jerry's. "It's just, I have the worst conscience. Like I already feel guilty about considering it, can you imagine how much shit we would get into if we got caught?" Worry washed over her face as she looked at me desperately trying to find closure on this. 

"Don't worry, I'll cover for you. And I'm sure the other boys will too. No one else will find out, don't stress yourself out over nothing!" That seemed enough to settle her. 

"So tell me, why exactly were you late today?" She said, looking at me suspiciously. I rolled my eyes knowing she thought there was some juicy gossip behind this but there wasn’t. Well sort of.

"I had lunch with Harry and got distracted." I admitted.

"I knew it! Distracted by what exactly?" She asked slyly and my eyes widened at what she was suggesting.