vlog // ziam

i. cake batter.

Zayn and Liam walked down the busy LA sidewalk. The sun shone bright, and the palm trees gently swayed due to the mildly strong winds. They were stopped multiple times to take pictures, making the time it took to get to the cafe twice as long.

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Once they arrived, they sat down at the small table in the back of the cafe. It smelled of coffee, writers block, and pastries. The cafe was nice and quiet- just the way Zayn and Liam liked it. They ordered coffee and contemplated video ideas for hours and hours on end. Zayn desperately wanted to move his chair next to Liam's, and even hold his hand - but no one knew.

No one knew that Zayn loved Liam, or that Liam loved Zayn back, well, besides Zayn and Liam of course. To their subscribers, friends, and family, they were just the best of friends.

Ah, but it was more than that,

It was love.

A love so strong, yet with one wrong move it could be broken.

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"There'sss nothinggg to watchhhhhh," Zayn groaned as he browsed through the channels. Liam sat next to him on the small couch at Zayn's flat waiting for something good to pop up.

"Stop!!" Liam exclaimed. Zayn stopped clicking through the channels. "Now go back a channel," Liam ordered.

"This one?" Zayn asked, looking to Liam for assurance.

"Yes!" Liam assured him. It was Cake Boss, one of Liam's all time favorite shows.

"Cake Boss is pretty cool, like, the cakes they make and stuff,"

"Shhhhhhhhhhhh," Liam held a finger against his mouth, signaling for Zayn to shut up.

They watched four straight episodes of Cake Boss, and afterwards decided that they wanted to bake something at 10 o'clock at night.

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"This looks like mud," Liam said as he took a peek at the brown batter forming in the bowl.

"I'm sure it tastes delicious though," Zayn said scooping up some batter with his finger. "Want to taste?"

"Sure," Zayn stuck his batter covered finger in Liam's mouth and took it out once Liam had licked all the batter off of it. "That's really good!" Liam exclaimed.

"Great! Now all we need to do is find a pan to bake it in!" Zayn started to look through his cupboards to find a pan. Liam dipped his hand in the bowl, covering it in the cake batter. "Hey, Zayn," Liam smirked.

"What?" Zayn asked, his eyes widening as he realized what was about to happen. Liam had him cornered- it was no use trying to escape. Liam took the hand covered in batter and gave Zayn a noogie. Liam laughed, but Zayn just stood there in shock. He dipped both of his hands in the batter. Liam ran around the house, with Zayn chasing after him. After cornering Liam in the living room, he placed his hands on Liam's chest, making two brown handprints on his shirt.

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They stayed up until 4 a.m. chasing eachother around the house, only to wipe more batter on eachother. There was none left to even make a cupcake by the time they were finished, and both Zayn and Liam looked like they had rolled around in a mud puddle. Long story short, they needed to take showers. But there was only one full bathroom in their small LA house, so, Liam hopped in the shower first. Zayn threw Liam's dirty clothes in the hamper, threw his own clothes in the hamper, and then wrapped a towel around his lower half. It was about 10 minutes until Liam got out of the shower. Zayn prayed to himself that there would be hot water left. But when Liam came out of the shower, hot water wasn't his concern- the boy who stood in front of him was. Liam was perfect in every way; at least to Zayn,and maybe an additional few million people.

They both took a second just to stare at eachother. Liam loved staring at Zayn, because he could examine the small but beautiful details of Zayn's face; like his jawline and the sparkle in his eyes that never went away. Zayn smiled while admiring the way Liam's wet curls hung from his head, and his cheeky little smile; which was almost the equivalent to a drug. The situation was extremely awkward yet romantic at the same time. They examinined every last bit of eachother, but just stood there and didn't speak at all. "Did you save me hot water?" Zayn asked.

"Yup!" Liam replied, grinning again.

"Warm up the bed for me, Leeyum!"

"Okay." Liam walked into the bedroom and hopped into bed. Zayn took a shower.

After he was done, he went to bed and curled up next to Liam.

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They slept so close to eachother. Close enough so that they could hear eachothers' heartbeat.

{A/N}

Hi so this is kind of a short story/ one shot kind of thing it moves EXTREMELY fast and it sucks and sometimes things don't make sense so if you continue reading you're a cool kid. I'll probably delete this if people don't like it because my writing has improved since the summer lmao. Also if you like it please give it a vote it would make my day!