Not So Ordinary~ A One Direction Fan Fiction

Chapter 7: It's A Mystery

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TOP TRENDS: "#ZaynsMysteryGirl"

Some tweets included:

"I was there! I could see them kissing through the kitchen window!"

"I swear, if this girl is actually dating Zayn, I'll kill her."

"He doesn't even fancy her, she's beastly anyway."

"Apparently, her name is Cora." 

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Oh. My God.  What did I just do? 

Zayn's face dropped and he held himself up with his hand, balanced on the counter top, not so steadily. His other hand combed through the top of his hair, shaky and unsure. I could see Harry's eyes widen slightly and Louis had his hand held up to his chin, forcing himself not to laugh. Niall had fled the scene. 

I'm not exactly sure what my face looked like right now, but a good guess would be that it resembled a frightened mouse. I suddenly felt shy and unknown to the boys, especially Zayn. I had only moved here last night and already I was supposedly secretly dating Zayn Malik. Great. 

My hands got really sweaty. Pulling on the sleeve of my jacket and adjusting the ridiculous sunglasses to the top of my head, I looked towards the boys. 

"I'm absolutely brassed off with this twitter nonsense!" Zayn exclaimed, shoving a finger towards the phone's screen.

"Look! Look! " Zayn tapped the screen again, obviously very frustrated.

"It's just a stupid rumour, Zayn. It'll all blow over in no time." Liam tried to comfort him.

"I... I don't even know what to say," I added in. 

What have I seriously just gotten myself into? Pulling out my phone, I scrolled through some of the tweets. Tons of pictures of me in that stupid black jacket had already been uploaded. Thankfully, my face was unclear and hazy.

"Well! Stop faffing around and do something!" Zayn screeched to no one in particular.

I could still hear the girls outside, shouting and banging on the door.

Everyone went quiet and still. It seemed as if no one knew what to do. So, Zayn definitely pulled out his own phone and started to type quickly and aggressively, muttering the words as he typed... 

"...heard there was quite the commotion... back at Harry's place... so sorry, we're not there... we hope to return soon... TWEET." Zayn pressed enter and let out a long breath.

Harry rubbed the back of his neck, sighing. Louis was quite cheery, taking the situation lightly and Liam put a hand on Zayn's shoulder.

"Well, since you guys are now a mystery couple, shouldn't you start to get to know each other a bit, hm?" Louis said, laughing.

Zayn glared at him, furrowing his brows. 

"Wooah, okay, whatever, forget it." Louis held up his hands defensively.

I snuck a glance at Zayn, he looked up just in time to lock eyes with me. And for a second, I thought he would lighten up a bit, but instead, he rolled his eyes, huffed and walked down the hall.

 "Zayn's on his period." Louis called in a sing-song voice.

"Shut it, Lou." 

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Finally the girls had left. Out side it was pouring rain, crashes of thunder and strobe-light like streaks of lightning sliced the gray sky, the air chilly. But I was safe inside.It was getting close to 7 o'clock and I was seated comfortably on Harry's couch, cozy and warm by the fire.