Claire's POV

"Why don't we just skip today?" I ask Cassidy as she hops into my car. Cold and rainy Friday mornings at school are just not my thing.

"You read my fucking mind." Cassidy giggles from the passenger seat. "Take me to a place that has coffee and muffins and isn't Starbucks!" She groans, curling up into a ball. I turn up the radio and I drive to Panera listening to the voice of Coldplay and the yawns of my best friend.

Inside of Panera we order the most unhealthy breakfast you could imagine and our coffees... Life is too good. We wait for our names to be called and when we hear the "Cass & Claire" We grab our food, sit down and have mindless best friend type conversations.



"So what's new with you? I feel like you've been avoiding me." Cassidy breaks our little chat we were having with a question that sticks out in my mind. Do I tell her about Zayn or do I lie?

"I've been really busy with school and stuff, these new teachers are driving me nuts." I groan, casually sipping my coffee. Nice one, Claire.

"Bullshit." She puts her cup down and stairs me in the eyes. Shit.

"What?" I squeak, my voice getting higher than usual. I suck at lying.

"I know you've been hooking up with someone Claire, I'm not an idiot!" She smiles and my insides twist.

"Cassidy, I've been meaning to tell you I swear." I decide right then and there that lying to my best friend will just make the situation messier. I know she isn't the type of friend to turn on me in a situation like this, we're above that kind of immature stuff.

"Yeah yeah yeah... Who is it? Craig? Adam from the lacrosse team? I heard a rumor about him but--"

"Neither of them." I cut her off, twisting my fingers around nervously. How the hell do I explain this? "I've sort of umm... Well on the first day of classes I..."

"It's a teacher, isn't it?" She smirks, folding her arms over her chest. My jaw drops my and cheeks turn a bright red. Busted.

"Yeah..." I drag the word out with a small twinge of excitement. Her smile grows even larger and she bounces around.

"Yes!" She shouts, standing up at dancing around like an idiot. "I knew you and Mr. Styles were hooking up! Gosh I'm so smar--"

"No!!! God Cassidy ew no!" I squeak, pulling her to sit back down and smiling apologetically at all the senior citizens and work people who are here enjoying their breakfasts.

"What?" She looks at me confused. Why the hell would I be getting with Mr. Styles? Where does that even come from?

"It's not Mr. Styles, It's Mr. Malik." I blush and her eyes go wide.

"Holy shit!" She gasps, dropping her head on the table. "I don't believe you. I seriously fucking don't." She gapes at me in pure shock.

"Why is it so shocking that I could get someone like Zayn?" I look at her sideways and she gives me a slight smile.

"It's not! It's just... wow. Like holy shit. When did it start?" She leans in closer as if I'm telling her a secret... Actually, I guess I am telling her a secret.

"He kissed me the night when he drove me home from the bar and the day after. And then we started meeting in the art closet and at the pep rally we did stuff and then last night he came by and--"

"He came over?!!!" She shrieks and again, I'm covering her mouth with my hand. She calms herself down and giggles when I pull away. "But didn't your mom see and freak out?" She gasps and I cringe inside. I wish my mom cared enough to see and freak out.

"She didn't care cause she's still... well you know." I sigh and close my eyes for a moment.

"So I take it your not getting much sleep still?" She asks and I nod slowly, eyes still closed. Cassidy is the only person I ever talk to about my insomnia or my parents because she really is the only person I can fully trust... Aside from Zayn, I clearly have a lot of faith in him.

"I promise it will get better, Clairebear." She coos and I stick my tongue out at her at that cheesy nickname. Only my father calls me that or Cassidy when she's trying to either cheer me up or annoy the piss out of me.

"Yup. So tell me about you and Mr. Payne!" I drag out his last name in a silly tone and her face turns a fifty shades of embarrassed as hell.

"Oh my gosh, he's so fucking dreamy Claire." She sighs, melting down into her chair. A second later, she pops up with her mouth wide open. "Oh my gosh! I have the best idea ever!" She squeals. There is no stopping this girl anymore.

"What?!" I chuckle, taking a bite of my breakfast.

"Tell Zayn to tell Mr. Payne I'm interested!" She explains and I shake my head immediately. "C'mon Claire, don't be selfish! Just do this one thing for me pretty pretty please!" She frowns, giving mer her best puppy dog face.

"No Cassidy, I'm not doing that!" I laugh and she kicks me under the table.

"Fucking do it Claire! C'mon imagine going on double dates with me, Zayn and Mr. Payne?" She bats her eyelashes and a sense of frustration rises inside of me.

"Cassidy, this isn't a joke. We can't just hangout with them out in the open outside of school, do you realize how much trouble we could get into?" I snarl and she settles down in her seat.

"Claire, I won't say anything to anyone, ok? I'm just excited and I thought that maybe you could help out with this one little thing, but I guess I was wrong." She pouts, her demeanor shifting and her eyes gazing into the distance. I know what she's trying to pull and I'm not gonna fall for it. She pulls out the sad eyes and glare and I mentally groan.



"Cassidy..." I try but she cuts me off my releasing a big, long sigh. "Oh for fucks sake fine! I'll see what I can do." I give up and her fake pouting turns into a massive smile as she climbs over the table to hug me.

"This is perfect and I know exactly how we're going to do this." She giggles and I knit my eyebrows together in confusion.

"How?" I ask, almost afraid of the answer. If there's one thing I know about Cassidy it's that she's a little bit crazy and in over her head at times so this should be interesting.

"You're 18th is next week, right?" She asks and I nod. "Have a fucking party, invite Zayn over and tell him to bring his friends! Tell him you wanna hangout with him for your birthday and since you can't bring your friends, he can bring his!" She smiles and I shift uncomfortably. Not a bad idea, but not a good one either.

"Cass, that's so weird... Like do you really want to hangout with Mr. Horan and Mr. Styles and all of them outside of school?" I whisper just in case anyone around us could here.

"Obviously not but if Liam was there and we were drinking... Who knows what could happen!" She smiles and I put my hands over my face.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." I sigh and she jumps up again, this time screaming at the top of our lungs.

"I fucking knew you would!" She screams, jumping on top of me and tackling me to the ground in the middle of Panera.

"You're absolutely insane." I laugh, clutching my stomach. I look behind me and the Panera worker is standing there, pointing towards the exit.

"Cass & Claire, please see yourselves out." He grumbles, heading back behind the counter. She fucking got us kicked out of Panera on a Friday morning. Who does that?!

"Damn it Cassidy!" I try to be angry but the look on her face makes my anger turn into laughter.

"This is the best day of my life!" She screams, running back to my car.

Shit, I didn't realize how much she actually had a thing for Mr. Payne... Let's fucking hope he has feelings for her to, for her sake at least.

Notes

You guys asked for more Cassidy... Here she is! :)

So my 14 year old sister is reading this now but I have to "shield" the dirty parts from her cause she doesn't want to read them lololol... but since she's reading she's been bothering me to update so I'm sure you can expect more coming your way and you have her to thank for that hahahahaha

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Will the boys go to Claire's bday party?
Will Liam even like Cassidy?
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