Vanessa and Zayn. Not Mature

Vanessa walked into the local cafe bookstore, a place she spent many Friday evenings, listening to the live music, and flipping through the pages of her very worn out version of He's With Me. The love story spoke to her, being a hopeless romantic and all.

"Hey Vanessa!" she turned to lock eyes with her close friend Jake, who worked at the cafe, "Do you want your usual today?"

"Yes please, thank you! You know where to find me." she smiled and walked to the back corner of the cafe, about 10 feet from the small stage. Vanessa sat in her usual chair. Cozying down and opening her book, flipping to the page that had been doggy-eared.

Jake came back and put the cup down next to her, hot chocolate with just the right amount of whip cream. "Here ya go Vanessa, hey did you hear we have a new guy playing tonight? I've heard he's really good."

Vanessa furrowed her brows, she was so used to reading while listening to a young girl named Natalie play the piano, god knows what the new guy is going to play.

"Any clue what his set is?" she asked curiously.

"Well, apparently he's from the UK, so nothing to awful hopefully, maybe some of that music by that one guy you like, oh what's his name..." Jake said, scrambling his brain for the Artist.

"Ed Sheeran?" Vanessa said.

"Yeah! Thats him! Boss told him not to play anything too loud, keep things chill, ya know?"

She nodded, agreeing with him. Vanessa was quite shy, being around loud things, and loud people put her on edge.

They spoke for a few minutes, until Jake's watch alarm went off, "Well that's my cue, the kid should be here, gotta go help him set up." he trotted towards the stage, and out the side door.

She was neck deep in her book when she heard someone tap on the microphone, the sound ringing loudly through all the speakers.

Vanessa's head snapped up, she saw Jake awkwardly standing there, with a slip of paper in his hand.

"Well erm, tonight's live music is preformed by Zayn Malik on vocals, and Niall Horan on guitar and backing vocals" the small cafe crowd clapped as a short blonde boy with an acoustic guitar almost skipped out onto stage, flashing a set of bright, straight teeth at the crowd, right after him slipped a taller boy, black hair that rested just above his eyes. Chocolate brown eyes, dark skin and a few visible tattoos.

Vanessa was immediately captivated by him, everything about him, then he spoke,

"Hello, I'm Zayn, and this is my best mate Niall. We really hope you enjoy." his clear British accent was smooth, and the words flowed seamlessly.

"one, two, three four.." Niall counted the beat, and began strumming. A song Vanessa immediately recognized, Wake Me Up by Ed Sheeran.

"I should ink my skin, with your name. Take my passport out again, and just replace it..."

Vanessa closed her book, and leaned forward, sipping on her hot chocolate.

When Zayn finished the first song, Vanessa began clapping, possibly a little too loud. Zayn turned his head and made eye contact with her, and winked. Her heart fluttered a bit, and she smiled.

As the night went on, Zayn's voice began to sound more and more amazing. Singing the music of Boyce Avenue, Parachute, Mat Kearney, and He is We. Everything slow, everything very intimate. He really sang his heart out,

As his set was done, he went around, table to table and got congratulations and tips from the café goers. The last table he stopped at was Vanessa's.

"Wow, you're absolutely amazing. That was.. Wow." Vanessa said, throwing a $10 in the tip jar.

Zayn smiled and thanked her, "Do you mind if I sit for a bit and chat?" Vanessa shook her head and motioned to the empty chair next to her.

For the next two hours, Zayn and Vanessa talked about everything, their childhood, life in America, life in England, favorite sports, activities, books, music, vacations, past loves... The list goes on.

"Ahem, Nessa?" Jake said, standing a few feet in front of her.

"Yeah, Whatsup?" she said.

"Its 11:30. We closed an hour and a half ago. Can you take this somewhere else? I have classes tomorrow."

Zayn and Vanessa started laughing, realizing how much time had passed. Niall had skipped out right after the gig, saying he had pubs to visit.

"Do you need a ride home? I didn't mean to keep you so long.." Zayn said, looking a Vanessa.

"Yeah sure!" Vanessa said smiling, she collected her things, hugged Jake and headed outside with Zayn to his car. He drove a large, black Range Rover. "It's a friends." he said, noticing Vanessa's reaction to the expensive car.

She hopped in the passenger seat and told Zayn where to go.

He drove slowly, every now and then glancing over at Vanessa, taking in her beauty, the lights on the dash illuminating her face. Vanessa noticed him looking and blushed a deep shade of scarlet.

Zayn pulled up into the driveway of Vanessa's apartment, "Well, this is it." she said, looking at Zayn.

He leaned over and gently grabbed her chin, pulling her close to him, Zayn softly placed his lips on Vanessa's.

Vanessa pulled away and smiled, grabbing Zayn's phone and punching in her number, "Call me and we can make plans to hang out soon, alright?"

Zayn winked, "Sounds great, love." he grabbed her hand and squeezed, "I'll see you soon."

Vanessa nodded and stepped out of the car, closing the door behind her, and walking up to the stairs of her Apartment, no sooner had she gotten inside her phone went off

"One New Message."

She opened it,

"Are you free tomorrow? I miss you already, aha. :) -Z x"

The next night, was the beginning of life long happiness for both Zayn and Vanessa.