Friend Zoned

Yelling. The sound of names being called woke me. My head was resting on a shirtless, toned chest that obviously belonged to a guy. My head was struggling to register where I was with the slight throbbing my hang over was producing. Thank god for the water Zayn had given me before we went to bed. Zayn. That explains the guy and the room. Memories from last night flooded back into my mind as the yelling continued the sound of soft knocking echoing down the hallway.

“For fuck sake, just let yourself in!” I heard Zayn mumble loudly in his deep morning voice. I started to sit up and move away from Zayn but he pulled me back even closer than before. “Morning sleepy head.”

“Morning Zayn,” I mumbled sleepily through a yawn and moved my leg slightly, feeling his, um, member hardened slightly. “Sorry,” I said moving my head to look at him, smiling shyly.

“S’okay, was to be expected,” he winked and I could feel myself blushing so I buried my head back in the crook of his neck. He laughed at me and began to twirl my long hair around his fingers. I smiled to myself as I heard the door crash open.

“Well, well, well, what do we have here?” I heard Harry ask.

“Piss of Harry,” I grumbled back and Zayn chuckled.

“No, we’re starving so get your lazy butt out of bed and let’s go get some fooood.” I rolled my eyes at his exaggeration on the word food.

“We have nothing to wear Harry, what will people think if we’re seen in last night’s clothing?” I heard Piper ask and I groaned before remembering.

“There’s the stuff we always carry in the boot of my car Pipe’s,” I said moving out of bed, suddenly feeling very self-conscious in just Zayn’s shirt.

“What did you two get up too last night?” Harry asked mischievously.

“Fuck you, Harry. We just slept. Now can you go get the stuff from the car please,” they nodded. Harry winked at me before pulling Piper, who was dressed in similar attire to me, out the door behind him. I sighed. I was standing at the end of Zayn’s bed in just his shirt, as he lay shirtless behind me with an erection. Wow, how great does that look? I felt hands on my hips out of nowhere tearing me out of the zone I had entered pulling me back onto the bed. I let out a shriek.

“Zayn!” I gasped at him as he looked at me innocently, his already short shirt riding higher than I would have liked.

“What?”

“You gave me a fright, don’t do that!”

“Sorry, do you have a headache because I know I do?” I nodded my head. “Ok, I’ll be back in a second.”

I took time to examine his room in the morning light. It felt fairly masculine and it looked like someone had designed it for him and it was pretty awesome I must admit, much like the rest of the apartment. Zayn re-entered the room holding two glasses of water and paracetamol, he handed half to me, joining me on the bed.

“Where are we going for breakfast?” I asked after finishing off my water.

“Probably this whole-in-the-wall café about a block or so away, it has some of the best hang over food.”

“Perfect, what time is it?”

“10am,” I heard Piper’s voice behind me and I turned around to see her. “Catch,” she told me chucking me the bag, “and hurry up, I’m starving. Be at Harry’s in 10 minutes please.” I nodded my head in acknowledgement as she left the room.

“Is your door always open for anyone?” I asked Zayn after I heard it slam shut, my eyebrow raised.

“Only one, wait two seeing as Harry must have shown Piper, people apart from the boys know where my spare key is. The boys all have one spare key and they all know where the spare is in case of emergencies but they all have a key to the games room. My door isn’t normally locked if I’m home though; our doorman keeps everyone out who isn’t supposed to be here.”

“Right, I was going to say.” He chuckled.

“We should probably get ready, you can take the bathroom and shower again if you want, I know I will be in the ensuite, as long as you are back here before the 10 minutes is up, we don’t want to cause any mayhem.” I nodded my head, smiling, before grabbing my bag and leaving the room. I re-did my bun, not bothering to shower again, got dressed and swiped some mascara on before returning to his room. He had just left his walk in wardrobe in just a towel, still dripping wet from his shower and I struggled to take my eyes of him. I was swooning over him. Oh dear god, brain where are you when I need you? He looked up realising I had come back into the room, his eyes travelled over my body, mine doing the same. Our eyes met again, his appeared to be darker than before but I just shrugged it off and tried to stay focussed on his eyes and not the exposed skin of his torso and his delicious v-lines and I was losing it.

“I’m just going to go and get changed,” he smirked and jerked his thumb over towards the ensuite, I nodded and he disappeared again leaving me to my own thoughts. I collated everything from last night and shoved everything but my phone into the overnight bag. I had a few missed calls and texts from family members and friends and my twitter and Facebook had gone wild. I shook my head deciding that it would be best to leave it for later before pushing the phone into my pocket. I had been too caught up in my actions that I hadn’t realised Zayn had returned.

“Ready? Our 10 minutes is almost up so we have about 60 seconds till all hell breaks loose.” I nodded my head in an attempt to fasten the process whilst grabbing my bag and throwing it over my shoulder. “Good, let’s go,” Zayn said wrapping his arm around my waist and leading me to the elevator. We made it to Harry’s just in time.

“Finally, I’m starving, let’s move,” Niall appeared in the doorway, pushing us back towards the elevator we had just left. The doors slid open and we entered, the others close on our heels.

We walked to the café in silence, the boys probably relishing the fact that they were not being stalked by paparazzi or screaming girls for one second of their life. We arrived at the café, I sat between Niall and Zayn, Louis was across from us in the booth.

“Did you guys sleep well?” I asked Louis and Niall yawning after the waiter left to get my much-needed coffee.

“Yep, thanks. But the real question here is, did you sleep well?” Louis winked. I hummed in response causing him to raise his eyebrows at me.

“Louis! Not like that! I’m not that kind of girl!” I exclaimed, probably blushing. The boys around all laughed at my response so I hid my head in Zayn’s neck. He wrapped his arm around my pulling me into him. I looked up at him and he smiled.

“Are you sure, Chels? You guys seem pretty close,” Niall pointed out. I thought about what it must look like to them and he was right. Yes, Zayn and I were only friends but we were getting to close too soon for my liking, well I liked it but I wasn’t so comfortable with how he so easily broke down the walls I had built up over time. it was a new and weird experience that I wasn’t quite sure how to get my head around. I sat back up properly and straightened myself out.

“Yes Niall, I’m sure.”

“Whatever you say, Chelster,” he hit me lightly on the arm.

“Chelster?”

“Yeah, I think it suits you.” I stuck my tongue out at him as the waiter place my dish in front of me, along with my coffee. I thanked him before tucking in. The boys looked at me in shock.

“You’re hungry, aren’t you?” Zayn asked, a lopsided grin playing on his lips. I nodded my head, yes. The others shook their heads before following my previous actions. I looked around the rest of the table and saw Piper, Liam and Harry in an animated conversation, also eating their meals. Piper and Harry seemed to be getting on nicely, I’d have to grill her about that later but I wasn’t sure whether I really wanted to know.

“Chelsea,” Niall was snapping his fingers in front of my face.

“What?” I asked, he gestured to Zayn.

“I asked whether you girls were busy next weekend.”

“Oh right, no I’m not but who knows about Piper,” he nodded and grabbed his phone, excusing himself from the table. Weird. He came back a few minutes later after I had finished my meal and he whispered something into Harry’s ear to which he nodded in response turning to Piper.

“Where’d ya go?” I asked him as he resumed his seat next to me.

“I had to call my mum.” I nodded. “So next weekend, do you want to come to lunch with the boys and I?”

“Sure, as I said I am free so just text me the details.” He nodded turning to talk to Harry as he finished of his meal.

“Did you have fun last night?” Liam asked me from across the table.

“Yea, you guys really know how to party.” He chuckled.

“So people say.” He winked. “Did Zayn treat you well?”

“Well if you mean letting her sleep in just his shirt, basically on top of him while he was shirtless, than yes.” Harry joined in as I buried my head in my hands. I heard Zayn chuckle beside me.

“So was that fun for you?” Liam asked chuckling. I looked up and glared at him and Harry. “I take that as a yes by the colour your cheeks have turned.

“What did you two get up to Chels?” Piper asked also joining in the conversation.

“You know the answer to that question, the question is though, what did you,” I gestured between her and Harry, “get up to?”

“Nothing interesting,” she tried to lie but her face was telling a different story.

“Harry Edward Styles, what did you do to her?” I asked him in an accusing tone, looking between the two of them.

“Nothing!” he exclaimed.

“Bullshit.”

“Fine, we kissed once but we went to sleep without any other contact,” Piper told me.

“See that wasn’t so hard, right.” She poked her tongue out.

“I hate to rush us out of here but we have a signing at 12 so we need to be ready,” Liam said, I nodded my head as he gestured for the bill. I looked around for my bag before remembering I had put it in the backseat of my car.

“Shit.”

“What? Is something wrong?” Zayn asked.

“I left my wallet in the car.”

“Why is that a problem? Did you really think we would let you pat when we have so much money?” Zayn looked amused, much like the other boys.

“Yes, I can pay my way through life.” He just laughed at me.

Louis pulled out his wallet paid and we all left. We were walking up the street when we were bombarded with pap’s.

“Keep your head down and keep walking,” Zayn whispered into my ear as he pulled me into him. I did as he instructed.

“Has Perrie been replaced already?”
“Is she the girl you cheated on Perrie with?
“Is that your new girlfriend?”
“New slut aye Zayn?”

The last question from the pap’s stung more than it should have. I frowned and noticed that Zayn’s hand kept fisting and un-fisting at his side. Zayn pulled me even closer and Liam came to my other side. The paparazzi laid off as we kept walking, quickly nearing the flats.

“I’m so sorry, they will lay off eventually they are just trying to get a response. Please promise me you’ll ignore them.” Zayn almost begged. I just nodded so he pulled me into a hug. “I am so sorry Chelsea.”

“No it’s fine, I shouldn’t listen its just things have happened in the past and them saying that bring things back,” I told him, resting my head on his shoulder. He pulled my even closer resting his head on top of mine.

“I hate to break this up but we need to leave soon for the signing,” I heard Niall say. I reluctantly pulled away, smiling at Zayn, before turning to the others.

“S’okay, we need to get going too, but I had fun. Thank you for everything,” I smiled at them and Piper nodded at what I had said.

“The pleasures ours, well Zayns,” Louis winked at us. I chuckled shaking my head at him.

“You’ll be needing these,” Liam said, holding my keys out for me to take. I nodded and took them from him.

“Thanks Liam.”

“So I’ll be in touch with the details and I’ll see you next weekend,” Zayn said before pulling me into another hug. We said the rest of our goodbyes and soon found ourselves back in the driveway of our cottage.

“Well that was fun,” Piper said breaking the comfortable silence that had settled around us after leaving the boys. She unlocked the door for us and headed inside.

“That it was indeed,” I agreed with her. “So I want all the details missy.”

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