God Sent

8- What a Gentlemen

Sadly Nova and I began classes again and the boys left to Australia a couple of nights ago, its so lonely without them. I don't remember the last time we were apart for longer than two days, Nova misses Luke a bit more than she's letting on and Lincoln has been super busy at the recording studio so I barely get to see him around. 

Before leaving for class this morning I got a call from Lincoln asking me if I wanted to have lunch with him, I agreed, and he told me to stop by his new recording studio after my classes.

Yeah, HIS recording studio. He hasn't let me listen to any of his songs but I'm quite excited for him, this is all he's ever dreamed of. After my calc class I hauled myself to the trolley station, I did a bit of reading on the ride downtown and before I got off I spotted a man with my name on a sign.

Confused I go to call Lincoln and find a text message from him telling me he ordered me a car service, the driver would take me directly to him. Feeling a bit spoiled I hopped right in and once dropped off, I walked inside.

"Hello Miss. Mendoza" Andrew the desk receptionist greets as I smile.

"You can call me Zara, Andrew" I explain for the millionth time, he's an older guy around his late fifties, sweetest man on earth.

"Of course, Miss. Zara" he says leading me towards the back, where all the studios were at.

Walking in I see Niall at the control panel and Lincoln in the sound booth. Once he saw me he smiled and took off his earphones, my guess is that he still doesn't want me to hear his music. He keeps telling me he wants it to be perfect before I do. I give him a small wave as he makes his way out. Niall stands up to greet me, and give me a quick hug, he always seems to smell like mint.

"Hey Zara" my brother greets hugging me as well, "How was classes today?"

"The usual, boring" I say smiling.

"Okay I need twenty more minutes and then I'm finished for the day, mind waiting in the office?" he asks as I sigh.

"Link what are you afraid of? That I'll leak your album?" I ask trying to give him the puppy dog eyes.

"Shut up Z, you know I want it to be a surprise for you" he says as they both laugh.

"Fine" I agreed as Niall ushered me into the next room closing the door behind me.

"Fancy seeing you here" I hear someone say behind me, my head whips around as I place a hand on my chest.

"Oh God Harry you scared me" I say as I hear him chuckle, he sat on the opposite side of the desk, papers sprawled out in front of him.

"Sorry, didn't mean to..."

"Wait" I say dramatically pausing and pressing my back to the door, "You don't happen to have any sort of liquid around, do you?"

He throws his head back and laughs out loud, "You're never going to drop that are you Zara?"

I shake my head and sit across from him, he swallows quickly and clears his throat. "Mind if I do a bit of homework? I'm waiting on Lincoln to finish up."

"Not at all" he says giving me a small smile, the atmosphere in the room quickly changing, he seemed uncomfortable. 

Its quite odd, ever since my birthday he'd been a bit off but I brush it off. With Niall and him being practically being my brothers boss I'm terrified to make any sort of wrong move, costing Link his career. 

So, whenever he gets like this I tend to give him his space and reserve to myself.

"Wait you said you're waiting for your brother to finish up?" he asks pulling me out of my oh so interesting communications class textbook.