Changes

Chapter 8

He sat there as I packed up all my stuff. We were telling each other funny stories of our childhood and other experiences. Zayn was just so easy to talk to. I usually wasn’t as open and carefree around people. My guard is almost always up, but not around Zayn.

He was in the middle of a story when Louis poked his head in the room “We need to leave soonish. Stan just texted me saying he has something going on tonight so he needs to drop all the stuff off a little earlier”

“He didn’t tell me that! Typical. Okay well im almost ready. Give me like 20 minutes?”

“Okay sounds good” he said leaving.

I hated when Stan did that. He always had something coming up last minute, and this time he didn’t even bother to tell me.

“I didn’t know you were friends with Stan, I’ve meet him a bunch of times” Zayn said

I bit my lip and said “We’re not friends, at least not anymore. Stan and I have a long history.” I said kind of vaguely wanting to change the subject.

I think Zayn sensed it because he didn’t push any farther. Although by the wondering look in his eyes I could tell he wanted to know more.

…

I was zippering the last bag with help from Zayn when the door bursts open. Danielle and Alyssa walked in. “Zayn um Liam is looking for you” Danielle said.

Zayn then finished zippering the bag and left the room.

Danielle walked up to the door and closed it then turned to me “So I heard you went out to lunch!  I want deets!” she said plooping down on the bed next to Alyssa.

“Well he told me he liked me!” I said with a huge smile

“aww yay!” Alyssa said cheerfully

“Then I told him I liked him”

“See you were worrying for nothing! Look at you, you are smiling so much” Danielle said

“I know. It sucks I’m leaving today, but he told me he’ll take me on a second date soon. I’m planning on trying to come back down here within the next few weeks” I told them

“I’m happy for you! Zayn looks happy too. Louis was telling everyone that when you guys came home Zayn was very cheeky!” Alyssa said

“Well I want to tell him that I want to take this slow, very slow. But I don’t know how to tell him before I leave. Which is in like 15 minutes”

Alyssa, Danielle and I discussed some more before I realized I really needed to get ready to leave. We exchanged numbers so we could talk and so when I came back down we could all hangout. I was happy I met them. I knew that they knew the boys well enough and they were so easy to talk to.

We all walked out of the room and saw all the boys sitting on the couches.

“Well boys! I will see you later in the week” Louis said standing up.

All the boys pretended to cry as they said bye to each other.

I said bye to Niall, Harry, and Liam.

When I got to Zayn he grabbed my hand and told me he would walk me out.

“Alright mates. Talk to you later. Leah I’m gonna go put all the stuff in the car. I’ll meet you down there” Louis said walking out the door with some of his bags and some of mine.

Zayn took me by the hand and lead me into the hallway outside Louis and Harry’s flat.

“So I was thinking, I’m going to go home for a few days. And Bradford is only like an hour away fromDoncaster. Maybe we could meet up one day, if your not to busy” he said

“That would be great. Just let me know okay? We can talk about what day and where” I said giving him a hug.

We started to walk down the stairs but I stopped Zayn before we got to them.

“Can we take this slow” I blurted out.

Zayn looked at me with a very confused look “Huh? The stairs? I mean there is an elevator but it’s the other way”

I chuckled a bit and said “No I don’t mean walking. I mean like us. I know we are not in a relationship or anything. But like I like you and you like me. And we went on one date and we are gonna go on a second date soon, but I just wanted to let you know that I can’t rush into anything. This needs to go slow, at least for right now. I think that-”

He cut me off “Yes, of course. I didn’t mean to scare you when I asked you go out next week. If you don’t want to go that fine. You could have told me” he said understandingly but he sounded a little hurt.

“No I want to go. I really do. I just didn;t want to lead you on if you thought I wanted to move fast. I’m just not ready.”

“That’s fine. We’ll see how the second date goes and go from there. There is no pressure” he said.

He sounded calmer now, not as upset.

“Sorry if I sounded rude. I just don’t want to lead you on that I’m ready to rush into something if everything goes great next week.” I apologized

“It fine. Don’t worry about it. I don really want to rush into something right away either. I mean who really does. We will take time. Get to know each other more and go from there”

“Thank you!” I said giving him a big hug.

I was happy he understood. I just wasn’t ready to jump into a relationship like most girl love to. The truth was that I hadn’t been in a real relationship for a while. And the last on ended so badly.

He walked me to the doors of the complex and saw some paparazzi outside. Louis came down with the last of the bags and said good bye to Zayn. “Alright mate. I’ll be seeing you!” Then he turned to me. “Leah I expect you in the car in 1 minute or I am leaving with out you” he said in a drill sergeant voice

“Okay Louis”

“That’s Captain Louis to you!” he said laughing while taking all the bags out to the car.

Zayn and I decided to say our goodbye inside so we wouldn’t have to face all the cameras.

Zayn turned to me and said “I’ll probably talk to you everyday, but ill defiantly call you about going out”

“I’m looking forward to it” I said looking up at him

He put his arm around my back and pulled me closer to him. I took in his embrace for the last time. He placed his lips on my forehead and gave me a small kiss.

“Not to fast right?” he asked when I looked back up at him.

“Nope just perfect!”