Lacey

“This one,” Tamzyn said holding up a baby blue dress for me. I smiled at it and took it out of her hands and gave it to the worker to put with the rest of my clothes waiting in the changing rooms.

“You have to try on this one.” I told her placing a white dress into her waiting hand. She nodded in approval before passing it along to the lady as well.

“Don’t you need a ball gown for your parents event?” She asked me casually. I nodded at her.

“Yeah but that’s a fair bit away. I was actually going to see if your mum would make me a dress.” I smiled at her hopefully. She chuckled and nodded at me.

“You know she would love to. She’s making mine. Also she wants to talk about your wedding dress.” Tam told me. I sighed and focused on the dresses surrounding me.

“I don’t really care what it looks like.” I told her honestly. I heard her sigh from next to me.

“I know this isn’t exactly how you wanted to get married but you are getting married Lace. You should at least have some input about your dress.” I sighed knowing that she was right. I may as well look as best as possible in my own wedding.

“I’ll come around soon,” I promised her before heading into the changing rooms to try on the pile of dresses I had in there.

As I tried on the baby blue dress I heard Tamzyn’s voice talking with someone whose voice was muffled. I poked my head out of the changing room to see Tate, Niall and Zayn.

“Hey,” I smiled at them. They welcomes me back.

“Can someone help me?” I asked them looking towards Tam and Tate. They both walked towards the changing room.

“I just need you to zip me up.” I told them, spinning around and pulling my hair to the side. I waited patiently as Tam did up the dress easily and I turned to face the mirror letting my wavy hair full wildly around my shoulders. I scrutinised my appearance in the mirror and tugged on the dress slightly.

“What do you think?” I asked them both. Tate shrugged.

“I think it looks amazing but I’m not really good with that stuff so don’t take my advice.” She said. Tam and I laughed.

“I think it looks hot.” Tam told me. I smiled at her.

“This one it is then.” I decided not bothering to try on the other I had put in there. I let Tam unzip me before I quickly changed back into my clothes.

“So what are you all doing here?” I asked Tate, Niall and Zayn as Tamzyn tried on her outfits.

“On the way to lunch and we saw Tamzyn so we thought we would stop and talk to her.” Niall smiled at me. I smiled back, he was just too adorable for his own good.

“You two want to join us?” Tate asked me.

“Sure.” I said happily knowing that I was getting hungry anyway. I headed to the register to pay for my dress as Tate followed.

“So how is Skye and Harry?” I asked Tate.

“There good. They called before to let us know they landed. Harry seems to think it will be really healing for Skye being in Australia. Especially with Casey and Paige with her.” She told me. I handed my credit card to the cashier.

“I’ve never met Casey and Paige.” I told her.

“They’re awesome people. A lot like Skye, just as crazy and fiery. They’re so close though, I think Harry’s right. Being with them should help her a lot. They’re a real family nothing could ever break that.” She told me seriously. I glanced towards her as I grabbed the bag containing my dress.

“That’s good, her and Harry deserve this time.” I said as she eagerly agreed with me.

“Oh by the way we got followed in by the paps so they’re probably still waiting.” Tate told me. I groaned.

“Thanks a lot,” I joked with her. She smirked and linked her arm with mine as we arrived back at Niall, Zayn and Tamzyn.

“I’m good to go. I don’t want anything.” Tam told me. I laughed at her and nodded as we headed towards the doors.

Sure enough there was a small crowd of paparazzi standing there waiting for us. I rolled my eyes and kept my head down as we moved through them all.

“Lacey are you excited about the wedding?” One person asked pushing their camera right into my face. Zayn growled and pushed the camera away. I shot him a thankful look before we quickly arrived at a small restaurant not far away. We walked inside and were instantly seated. I eyed the paps that were waiting outside for us, still taking photos through the window.

“I’m never coming out into public with any of you ever again.” I told them.

“Don’t you get paps?” Niall asked confused.

“Sure, both Tam and I do but there never that eager or that many. Our parents have us protected.” I told them.

“Unfortunately our paps don’t understand boundaries.” Tate grumbled, picking up her menu. I watched as Niall glanced at his girlfriend worried about her annoyed tone. He reached over and pressed a small kiss to her cheek. I watched as a small smile spread across her face as she continued to read her menu. Satisfied with the smile, Niall turned back to his own menu, eyebrows furrowed figuring out what he was after.

I felt Zayn’s leg rub softly against mine. I shot him a look which he ignored and decided to hook his foot around mine. I pulled away and glared at him. I didn’t care if it was under the table, we were still in a public place and if anyone happened to get a photo of that, I would be screwed.

Tamzyn cleared her throat pulling my attention back to her. I continued to ignore Zayn. My eyes widened as we got our food and Tate received a plate of various kinds of seafood.

“What?” She asked worriedly. I shook my head.

“She’s extremely allergic to seafood.” Tamzyn let her know.

“Oh crap, I’m sorry.” Tate said.

“It’s fine Tate. You didn’t know. I just can’t touch the stuff without getting rashes and well I don’t really want to find out what happens if I try to eat it.” I tried to joke with her. She looked at me worriedly and pulled her plate as closer to herself as possible and as far away from me.

“Being near it and able to smell it won’t affect me Tate.” I smiled at her. She chuckled lightly. I watched amused as her laughter gained the attention of her boyfriend as he glanced at her happily, looking away from his food for a moment to watch the laughter spread through her face. I couldn’t help but smile at the cuteness of them both.

I excused myself to the toilet not long later. As I finished I walked out into the hallway to see Zayn standing there waiting. I looked at him confused.

He looked up the moment I walked out. A smirk slipped across his face as he moved forward. I back up slightly until my back hit a wall.

“What are you doing?” I asked him confused. He didn’t answer as he continued to move forward closing the distance between our lips. Before I could do anything to stop him, his lips were pressed against mine.

I stayed frozen for a moment as I let my body register the fact that he was kissing me. He moved his lips against mine softly as I began to move my own back. After a moment realisation dawned and I quickly pushed against his chest. I glanced around the hallway paranoid, to see it deserted.

“You can’t just do that,” I hissed at him. His eyes twinkled as he stayed standing close to me.

“Why not?” He asked me.

“Because I’m engaged Zayn, that’s why.” I spat out to him. I watched his face fall slightly before he quickly covered it. I couldn’t read his emotions at all. He shrugged and leant forward again. I pushed him back harder.

“Enough,” I warned him before stalking past him and back out to the table.

“I have to go.” I told the others. Tamzyn eyed me worriedly before standing up and saying goodbye to Niall and Tate. I barely waved before practically storming out of the restaurant and back towards my car. Tamzyn followed after me as quick as she could. Before I could climb into the driver’s side, Tamzyn beat me to it.

“You are not driving home in such an angry state.” She told me.

“I’m fine,” I hissed at her before heading to the passenger side none the less.

“Want to talk about it?” She asked me. I shook my head at her.

I sat there for the rest of the car ride fuming. I was so angry at Zayn, he knew the risk of doing that in public. He knew that he could destroy everything I had achieved by making me out to be a cheater. The tears built up in my eyes as I realised that is what I was, a cheater.

I hated the fact that I was cheating on my fiancé even if I didn’t know or love him.

Worst of all was the fact that Zayn had actually kissed me. He had kissed just for the sake of it. He hadn’t done it in a sexually way. Instead this kiss was soft and sweet and instead of enjoying it, I had to push him away. I was so angry at myself knowing that I wanted to enjoy it. For the few seconds that we did kiss I enjoyed it.

The tingling of my lips still hadn’t left and I was so annoyed because I had to marry Edmund and therefore I couldn’t have Zayn.

I finally admitted to myself that I wanted Zayn a lot more than I should.

Notes

I really wasn't sure how many of you would know what a bogan means, but it's a really popular term used in Australian and New Zealand slang :P Ever_wanted_to used a good word for it which is nitwit... Otherwise it's actually kind of hard to explain. I could point one out to you all if we ever met :P But I guess it's kind of something we use for people who aren't the most brightest or the people who walk around without shirts on(thinking its cool). It used to be for people with mullets that listened to rock music back in the 90s but now it's kind of changed. We use it generally now like you would playfully call your friend a bitch we call our friends bogans as a joke sometimes :)
So yeah kind of hard to explain but if you ever come to Australia expect to hear it alot!! :D