I Don't Wanna Live Forever (A Zaylena fanfic)

Chapter 40 - Happy Friendships & That One Phone Call

A few days since that hot shower happened between them, Zayn and Selena's love has blossomed. They were inseparable, keeping each other safe and helping his security guard Taylor's team and Louie with house safety.

For a while, it seemed as if their trouble was going away and they would be back to normal and Zayn and Selena even got some new music done in the recording studios when they were at work. And Louie, he was quite happy that his two besties were together, he was quite the shipper. One day, after getting some work done and it was almost time to head home, Zayn decided to give his girlfriend and best friend a taste of musical medicine he's been working on. As Louie and Selena joined him, they stood behind with some of the executive producers from the label in the recording studio watching him as Zayn stood tall and confident, belting those high notes. 

As he closed his eyes, forgot his troubles and belt those notes, he could feel his spirit soar and his heart strengthen, even more with two of some of the most important people in his life right now watching him. Louie listened and nodded attentively. Selena listened, and she felt freer in some way. Usually she's troubled and on edge but since she's been with him, she's been able to feel more calm and protected. After the recording went well, Zayn looked over at the recording studio glass window and asked them "How was that?". Selena was one of the first to answer. "That was amazing!", she cheered, smiling at him. Zayn felt warm on the inside and happy, just looking at her. Louie was the second to speak first. "Dude, I could feels the emotions! I mean, even I got emotional just listening to it." Louie said. Zayn chuckles a little. "Any questions?" He asks them. The executive producers chimed in all at once, but Selena and Louie's voices spoke clear: 

Executive producers ask: "What's your musical genre so far?"

Zayn said, "Right now, I like a lit of R&B. All the emotions that one can get out, you know, get something off their chest."

Louie asks him, "What's been your favorite positive influences?"

Zayn reveals, "A lot of things...Friends, family, home...."

Selena asks him, "What has been your biggest dream so far?"

All Zayn could say was... "You." And she blushed at that answer he gave her.

Zayn smiled at them. After that, they both came in and her gave them both a big hug, his hugging Selena lasting the longest. Then the three left to catch a movie along with bodyguard Taylor's protective company. Things seemed to be shaping up.

Meanwhile, after the whole moving out fiasco between him and his ex, Justin stayed cooped up in his apartment -- now half empty of the memories contained of him and Selena. He collapsed onto the hardwood floor, cold, hard, empty. He pounded his fists and weeped. His messy blonde hair. His face covered in tears streaming from his blood-shot eyes. After a minute of pounding and weeping, he took one look up, saw the bloody broken mirror and decided...it was time to take action. Moving from the living room to his bedroom, which they manage to clear of Selena's belongings but somehow how managed to overlook his 2nd secret scary alter of Selena, Justin reached out taking one of the photographs off of the mirror. He studied it, looking amorously at her and then looking at.... 

One day, Selena had left to get some work done and then she was heading to the gym afterwards. Before she left, she hugged Louie and Zayn goodbye. There, she driven in a black car with the company of bodyguard Taylor. Until then, him and Louie hanged out watching TV, shooting pool & playing videogames. As the hours passed, Louie had left to go help pick up Selena after work so she'd be safe while Zayn got snacks ready. It was fun...until...the phone rang. Zayn naturally froze due to the prank calls from the months before weren't so good. His instincts were telling him somethings not right. So he tried to resist picking up but the phone kept ringing so eventually he picked up. The first time, no answers. The second time.

"Hello"? 

"Hehehehehe..." A deep laugh that Zayn's spine had chills sent down that made him shutter. He didn't like that laugh. "Alright, enough with the drama. Quit playing games. Who is this?" Zayn demanded. Once he said that, Louie came bursting in along with Taylor & his men -- but no Selena? "ZAYN!! SELENA's GONE! SOME MANIAC KIDNAPPED & TOOK HER!"

Zayn was now panicking. And that voice kept chuckling. "Who is this? Who is this?" He asked. "Think you're pretty funny, don't ya? Stealing another man's girl?", the voice said. Zayn's eyes widened. He knows. How does he know? "What is this, some kind of prank? Where are you, so we'll settle this." Zayn asked. Then the voice said..."Does Selena's new boyfriend wanna play?"

He cackled evilly. Zayn said angrily and silently so his anger was clear: "Where is she?"

Back at Justin's desolate house, he looks onto a photo of Selena with another person, studied it and said..."Well, Selena, how about I pay your guest a visit?", he muttered evilly.

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