Friend Zoned

*Zayn’s P.O.V.*


A few minutes after my interaction with Chelsea, the boys and I had left. Louis had texted us in the car telling us that we should come over and chill at his. We arrived at our apartment building and took our items to our rooms before heading to Louis’. I decided to take my time at my apartment unpacking my items before logging onto twitter, ignoring my mentions and heading to search. I typed in Chelsea’s name and her twitter account popped up before my eyes. I scrolled through her page a little, trying to learn a bit more about her before I hit her follow button and tweeted her. Deciding I had wasted enough time in my flat, I headed down to Louis. I knocked on the door before Harry let me in, soon realising I was last to arrive.

“Hey Zayn,” Niall perked up at me. “We were just about to let Louis know about our supermarket adventures, slightly to Harry’s disgust.” Liam and he chuckled as Louis nodded his head viciously.

“May I do the honours,” I say before laughing along with the two of them, Liam shrugged his shoulders giving me the I-guess-so look as Harry sat down next to him on the couch. “Well we were out getting some stuff as you know and we were all chatting away going down the isle’s in search for things we needed and we turned down this one row which was pretty deserted, there was only this one girl who looked around our age and she was pretty attractive and she was there looking at what I gather now to be soup. I know I saw her out of the corner of my eye when she turned to look at us with confusion and shock written on her features.

“Niall had stopped us getting god knows what off the shelf and we were all talking and laughing and stuff until some colourful cursing drew our attention to the girl standing in our isle. If I remember correctly it was ‘fucking shit you bastards of soups!’” We all chuckled at the memory. “She looked at us blushing and apologising quickly before lifting her iPhone up and taking pictures of us. For some reason a highly attractive girl taking photos of us threw Harry over the edge so he and I confronted her about it and he told her to delete it but she refused and just kept stirring him up, Harry’s face was so funny we were all trying not to laugh at the scene in front of us. And Harry being Harry decided to block her way when she wanted to leave, well that was until she called him a pompous, stuck up idiot of a musician and threatened to make a scene and post the photos on the internet, which is exactly the opposite of what Harry here wanted.” I said pointing at Harry as we all laughed. “So whilst we all cracked up laughin’ and Harry was scowling at us, she strolled past us like nothing had ever happened and turned into the next isle.”

“And then out of nowhere, Zayn here gets some brains and runs after her.” Niall so kindly interrupted me to point out.

“Oi, I’m the smartest one here so I’ll pretend you never said that. There was something about her that held my interest so yeah, I decided to go and talk to her and I got her number so we could hang out sometime.” The boys wiggled their eyebrows at me but I just rolled my eyes.

“She said she was sorry that she took the photos and didn’t delete them like you wanted, Harry, but she said she was serious that her friend would kill her if she didn’t take them and keep them. She also said she’d love to come stir the pot some more with you for our entertainment.” Harry cringed slightly making the rest of us chuckle.

“So are you gonna call her mate? And if so, what are you gonna ask her to do? Liam quipped up.

“I know I want to call her, definitely, I really want to get to know her better. I found her twitter before and tweeted her but she hasn’t seemed to have responded.”

“She’s probably still shopping.” Niall said encouragingly, I just shrugged. “What’s her twitter name?” he asked pulling his phone out of his pocket, the other boys mimicked his actions.

“Here, I’ll just put it in for you,” I said gesturing to him to hand me the phone and one-by-one filling in her twitter name in their search bars.”

“Chelsea, nice one man. She is hot. Harry you’re an idiot and a genius.” Louis said typing something on his iPhone.

“Yeah, I planned this all out.” Harry joked to the older boy. We chatted about it for a few minutes before I felt my phone buzz from my back pocket. It was a tweet from her.

@Chelsywhelsy_x: @zaynmalik, you better call me :p I’m glad I could provide some entertainment.

“Lads, she responded.” They all looked at me expectantly as one-by-one their phones buzzed as well. I quickly tweeted her back: @zaynmalik: You betcha @Chelsywhelsy_x ;), remembering what she had said before I left. I looked through what her and the boys had tweeted each other and I found myself grinning at her boldness. I scrolled down even further, my smile turning into a frown as I read through some of the hate she was already receiving because of us. “It’s started.” I told them, they looked at me confused before I turned my phones screen in their direction.

“Oh for fucks sake, can people get a life already?” Louis exclaimed as I showed him. I nodded my head in agreement.

“What am I gonna do lads? I really want to get to know her better but at the same time I don’t want her getting hurt because of me.”

“It’s already started, Zayn. We can’t do anything about it now but call her and tell her that and see if she minds getting dragged in even more.” Liam said, right as always. “And hey I was thinking, she said the girl she lives with is a big fan so you could invite them to the show tomorrow night and we could organise backstage passes if they’re interested.”

“Yeah, do that!” Niall was quick to agree.

“And no one can call dibs on them.” Louis added. I huffed lightly but agreed with him anyway praying that Harry wouldn’t make a move.

“So what are you waiting for mate, call her!”

*Chelsea's P.O.V*

Piper had gone to our newly renovated theatre room to pick out a whole bunch of movies and I quickly ducked to my room to get out of my jeans and sweatshirt and into something a bit more comfortable before grabbing my phone to call for food. I smiled at the responses I had gotten from the boys that popped up on the screen, ignoring the hate their fans were sending me. I quickly ordered the food, grabbed my wallet and headed to the theatre room. Thank god it was Friday and neither of us had to work tomorrow, that meant we could just relax and watch movies all night. Piper had picked a large variety of movies from horror to rom-coms. She put the Ugly Truth in as I settled on the couch, keeping an ear out for our delivery.

It was about halfway through the movie and we had finished of the last of our food when my phone interrupted the movie. “Oh for the love of god, please don’t be someone asking me to go into work tomorrow,” I prayed as an unknown number popped up on the screen. I answered it anyway.

“Hello?”

“Hey Chelsea, how are you?”

“Zayn?” I asked into the phone.

“Yep,” he popped the ‘p’. “Did you think I wasn’t gonna call?” his voice was tinged with a bit of sadness.

“Let’s just say I didn’t let myself get my hopes up, been there one too many times,” I sighed into the phone. “Can you hang on for just one second because I can barely hear you?”

“Sure, am I interrupting something?”

“Oh no, just watching a movie with Piper.” I lifted the phone away from my mouth slightly before turning to look at Piper who was sitting on the other couch. “Do you think that it would be possible to pause that for one second so I can have a proper conversation? For the love of god.” I heard Zayn chuckling on the other end of the phone.

She paused the movie before asking, “Is it Zayn?” I nodded my head as she jumped up from her position on the couch and came and plonked herself down on my legs that were draped across the sofa.

“Ow! Your sitting on my legs!” I exclaimed as she mouthed sorry and getting up quickly so I could move my legs, letting her sit back down. Zayn was laughing at me again. “I’m glad I entertain you, Mr Malik. So now that’s sorted, what did you want?”

“Well I was talking to the other guys and we have a concert tomorrow night at O2 and I was wondering whether you and your friend, Piper, who luckily hasn’t killed you yet, would like to come and afterwards we could all hang out?” He asked.

“Yeah, she kept me alive in case you called so thanks for saving me.”

“I’m glad I’m keeping you alive.” I turned to Piper and passed on the invitation to her, awaiting her obvious answer.

“Yes!” She shrieked, a hand flying over her mouth. “Oh my god, I can’t believe I just did that, how embarrassing.” I just laughed at her.

“Yeah we’re in,” I told Zayn

“Great, I’ll text you the details. Oh and before I let you get back to your movie, I am really sorry about the hate you’re receiving from our fans, just ignore it they are jealous of you. The majority of them will leave you alone eventually.But then again the majority of our fans are lovely.” He sighed and I smiled at his sweetness.

“Thanks for caring Zayn but I learnt long ago to ignore the hate that people send over the internet, like you said, they are jealous.”

“Well I shall see you tomorrow. And again I’m sorry about the fans.”

“Zayn stop worrying about me. I need to go and pray now that Piper won’t scream in your faces or try and jump you because they are both likely.” She stuck her tongue out at me and hit me on the arm. “Ow, don’t hit me for telling the truth Pipe’s.”

Zayn just laughed at us. “Tell Piper I say hi. See you tomorrow Chelsea.”

“Bye Zayn.” I smiled hanging up the phone and turning to Piper who was looking at me with wide eyes.

“I can’t believe you just said that to him Chels! Actually I can’t believe that you even spoke to Zayn Mailk, the Zayn Malik, on the phone! And that I get to meet them all tomorrow. Oh my god! What are we going to wear?” She look like she was about to burst she was so excited.
“Well how about we finish this movie and watch one more and then go to bed, have a good night’s sleep and go out shopping tomorrow morning. Now calm your tits and play the movie.”

She nodded her head in agreement. “This is so exciting!” she shrieked again before pressing play on the remote.

*****

We had had a successful shopping outing. I had purchased a red lace dress from H&M which I was pairing with some strappy black heels, black and gold clutch, ring, earrings and bangle, black nail polish and red lipstick. Piper on the other hand bought a light blue twill dress which she was wearing with white strappy wedges, white nail polish, pearl earrings, a gold necklace and a pearl and gold bangle. Zayn had texted me the details as promised and the excitement was building rapidly. We helped each other get ready. Piper’s hair was curled and pulled to the side whereas I had braided my hair into an up-do. Currently Piper was having a freak out.

“Omg what if they hate me Chelsea! What if I completely embarrass myself! What if I start crying when I meet them! What if I start screaming! Oh my, oh my god! Chelsea! This is bad, I look bad. Oh no this is horrible! Just kill me!”

“Babe seriously just calm down,” I said stopping her from pacing and holding her at arms distance. “You look amazing and you’ll be standing next to me so you’ll look even better. You won’t do anything wrong just control yourself.” I told her comfortingly.

“If I’m standing next to you I’ll look 100x worse you look drop dead gorgeous but I’ll be ok. I will be okay.” She said more to herself than me. I laughed at her, checking I had everything I needed in my bag.

“Ok, yes you’ll be fine but we need to go like now,” I said pushing her out the door.

Notes

Woo Chapter 2! I had a chance to update so I hope you like it but don't expect all my updates to be fast. Let me know what you think!
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