Almost is Never Enough

Zayn Day

Ariana's POV

I woke up and felt fully energized.

I remember today is Monday so its Zayn Day. Wonder what he has planned, I want to get to know the boys more. I'm really nervous for Friday though, it'll be just Niall and I. After our little game yesterday, I've felt awkward around him. But I'm going to try and get my mind off it so I can focus on getting to know Zayn.

I look over to the clock, 10:30 am. I jump out of bed and race to my closet. All the boys should be up so that means Zayn's probably waiting. I grab whatever is the first thing I see and run into the bathroom.

I put on my makeup and outfit, which is a t-shirt and jeans with black heels. I curl my hair and leave it down being that I'm too lazy to do anything else to it. I race down the stairs as fast as I could with my heels and go into the kitchen seeing that the boys aren't there.

I look around wondering where the heck these boys are. They should know I'm up because my heels are really loud against the floor.

"Guys? Are you guys up!" I yell. No answer.

I huff and go upstairs to each of their rooms finding it all empty. Did they leave without me? I finally went to the final room which is Louis'.

I open the door and let me just say it's a mess in there. It's like there was a tornado in here. Shirts, socks, underwear and pants all over the floor and bed. I walk in and all of a sudden the door slams shut.

I jump not expecting that. I look around confused to how the door closed like that.

"If you guys are in here stop messing around," I roll my eyes thinking this is obviously a joke.

It's silent then I hear snickering coming from the bathroom. I roll my eyes and walk over to the bathroom door. I open it and there's nothing there. I open up the shower to see Louis, Zayn, Liam and Harry in the shower.

"Woah! Can't you see we're showering?" Harry jokes. I put my hand on my hip and look at him. Does he think I'm stupid?

"Really? You're showering with your clothes on?" I ask, trying to keep a straight face but I fail miserably.

"Okay you caught us," Zayn says stepping out of the shower.

"Where's Niall?" I ask.

"I don't know," Louis smirks.

"What are you up to?" I obviously know they are up to something.

All of a sudden I feel a pair of arms wrap around me and tackle me to the ground, I scream not knowing who it is. The boys just laugh at me, "Hello beautiful," Niall says from behind me.

"NIALL!" I yell.

He just laughs and I just roll my eyes and walk out.

"Ready for our day?" Zayn asks running to my side.

"Yeah, what do we have planned?" I ask curiously.

"That's for me to know and you to find out," Zayn smirks. I just groan because I hate surprises.

"Just tell me!" I impatiently yell.

"Nope, let's go before the others plan to prank you more," Zayn laughs and we leave.

He opens the passenger door for me and I go in. He shuts the door before running over to the drivers side. He turns on the radio and they're playing Best Song Ever. I start singing and jamming out and Zayn just looks at me like I'm crazy. I laugh and just continue to make a fool out of myself.

~

After my little jam out session and Zayn's criticism on my dancing, we arrive at a house.

"Who's house is this?" I ask confused.

"My girlfriend, I want you to meet her." Zayn says, I nod and we get out of the car and go to the door.

He knocks and a girl opens the door. She has lilac hair and blue eyes. She's literally perfect, I wish I could look like her.

"Hey Zayn! Who's your friend?" The girl asks referring to me.

"This is Ariana," He introduces me to her.

"Hello it's nice to meet you, I'm Perrie." She says giving me a hug which I wasn't expecting.

"You're so pretty!" I blurt out, I feel the heat rushing to my cheeks because I just embarrassed myself.

"Thank you, so are you!" Perrie cheers.

"So what do you girls want to do?" Zayn asks.

"How about we bake? I feel like making cookies," Perrie suggests.

"Sounds like fun," I reply. We all make our way to the kitchen and Perrie goes into her cabinets to take out the ingredients.

"Okay let's start!" Perrie cheers once she takes out all the ingredients.

We start putting the mix in the bowl and I start cracking the eggs.

All of a sudden I see powder all over me. I turn to see Perrie giggling with the bag of powder in her hand.

"Oh it's war!" I yell.

I grab the egg and run over to her. Her eyes widen and she immediately runs away.

"Zayn!" Perrie yells.

"Sorry babe," Zayn says taking an egg and cracking it on her head. I laugh her eyes widen and she takes the bag of powder and pours it all on Zayn's head.

"Not my hair!" Zayn yells.

Before we know it, the kitchen is coated in powder and Perrie, Zayn and I are covered in egg and powder.

"Well that was interesting," Zayn says.

"Tell me about it," I giggle.

We start cleaning and decide not to make the cookies because we are tired from our little war.

~

An hour later and we are finally done cleaning. We all plop on Perrie's couch and turn on the tv.

"How about we watch a movie?" Zayn suggests.

"Sounds good," I say with a yawn.

Perrie pops in The Notebook and she cuddles with Zayn.

My thoughts then wander to Niall. He called me beautiful. Does he like me? Well calling me beautiful is a big hint. But I don't think he would like someone like me.

I feel my eyes grow heavy and I fall asleep at the part where the mom gives her the letters.