Chapter 7

Perrie POV

I can’t believe it is the X Factor final tonight! We have come some so far and I know we wont win but wow! We’re still here and performing at the o2!!!

Also Zayn is coming down for the show tonight because he and the boys are performing with JLS. I love watching them perform and I’m looking forward to seeing him.

“Perrie get out of the bathroom,” Jade screams.

“I’m nearly finished… wait!”

“You better not be texting Zayn again,” Jade says through the bathroom door.

“I’m not,” I say opening the door. I actually wasn’t that time, although we have been texting everyday since we saw each other two weeks ago. Whenever I’m down because of hate on twitter he always cheers me up and makes me smile. I don’t know what I’d do without him right now. Jesy keeps getting loads of hate online and we try and cheer her up, sometimes we manage to, but I feel sorry for her because she doesn’t have someone to cheer her up the way Zayn cheers me up.

“Come on girls,” Leigh shouts from downstairs. It is time to go to the X Factor studios for the live final. We find out who wins tomorrow but we’re doing 2 performances tonight.

As we make our way to the studios I’m looking out the window daydreaming when Jade starts poking me, teasing, “Perrie, you’re thinking about Zayn aren’t you? God you’re always thinking about him.”

“I’m not actually.”

“Then why are you going red?”

“I’m not. Shut up Jade.”

“There’s no shame in thinking about your booyyyyfrieeeeend.”

“Jade shut up he’s not my boyfriend. I told you. Little Mix is my number 1 priority. I don’t have time for a boyfriend.”

Jesy turns around at smiles. She doesn’t want me to be distracted by Zayn.

As we pull up to the studios there is hundreds of screaming girls. “They’re obviously here for the boys,” I tell the girls.

We get out the car and here shouts of “aahhh it’s Little Mix” and they are all shouting are names. There are some girls with ‘I love Little Mix’ t-shirts on. We go over to them and sign all their tops and take pictures with them, then we make our way inside.

When we get inside I say to the girls, “Wow that was crazy.”

“You better get used to it,” I hear a familiar voice say behind me. I turn around and it’s Zayn.

“Zayn!” I say, obviously excited as he gives me a big head and kisses the top of my head.

“How are you?” he says as he lets go and I see all the other boys there aswell.

“Yeah we’re good. Hey guys,” I say, acknowledging the other boys.

“Hi,” they all say in unison.

Jesy walks forward so she is next to me and says, “Hey guys I wanted to say sorry for what I said the other week. It wasn’t fair.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Harry says, “um Jade, can I have a word.” Harry pulls Jade over to one side. The rest of us make it look like we’re not listening but we all are.

“Look, um… I’m sorry about the last few months,” Harry says, looking at Jade.

“I’m sorry too,” Jade says. Harry opens his arms and hugs Jade tightly for a good 30 seconds. I look over to the rest of the boys and they’re all smiling and giggling cutely.

“Anyway we’ve got to go get ready,” I say to the boys.

“Okay, good luck for tonight girls,” Louis says.

“Thanks you too.”

“Hey Perrie I’ll come past you’re dressing room before you go on,” Zayn says.

“Okay cool,” I say smiling and we turn away to go get ready for the show. It’s a big night.

When we get into our dressing room, Jesy turns to me and says, “be careful Perrie.” I don’t need to ask what she’s talking about because I know. And she’s right. I probably shouldn’t get too close to Zayn. It wont be fair on him if my main focus is Little Mix. And it wont be fair on me if his main focus is One Direction, so we can’t do this now.

Me and the girls all get dressed for our first performance. We’re singing ‘You’ve got the Love’ by Florence and the Machine and we’re going to be on motorbikes. Hopefully it’ll be awesome. As we make our way out of the dressing room Zayn is waiting, leaned against the wall. He looks up when we walk out and says, “Wow you girls look amazing.”

“Thank you,” we all say in unison.

The girls all walk to the side of the stage and Zayn puts his arm around my shoulder and we walk behind the girls.

“You’re nervous aren’t you?” Zayn asks.

“Yeah,” I say, my hand shaking a bit.

“It’s normal but you shouldn’t be. You’re gonna smash it like you do every week,” Zayn says, taking his arm off my shoulder and taking my hands, rubbing them together.

“But there’s so many people,” I say.

“You know what they say, picture them all naked,” he says, chuckling.

“I don’t really want to picture Louis Walsh naked,” I say and he smiles.

“I don’t want you to picture him naked either.”

When we get to the stage the stage manager says, “Little Mix, you’ll be on in 5.”

“Ok well I’ll go now,” Zayn says.

“Can’t you wait here for when we come off?” I ask.

“Of course,” he says, “and good luck out there, try to enjoy it.” He kisses the side of my face and walks over to a place backstage where he can see the stage.

“You ready Perrie,” Jesy asks.

“Yeah I’m good,” I reply.

“Well, lets go then.”

We walk onto the stage and all the lights are off except the lights backstage. I look over to see Zayn smiling. When he sees me looking he gives me a thumbs up. 

When our performance finishes I run off the stage and Zayn is there, I give him a massive hug. He whispers in my ear, “I told you that you’d be amazing!”

“Thank you. Sorry I’m all gross and sweaty,” I say, releasing him from my hug.

“Don’t be silly, you look beautiful.”

“Thank you,” I say and I kiss him on the cheek and turn around to give the girls a group hug.

When we part from our group hug I turn back around to Zayn and say, “Sorry I’ve got to go get ready for the next performance now.”

“It’s okay I need to go see the boys and get ready for ours.”

“Okay. I’ll come back here before your performance,” I say and we head back to our changing rooms.

After our third and last performance of the night it was time for One Direction to perform. I run backstage from our changing room to the try and catch Zayn before he goes on. When I get there I see Zayn looking around.

“Zayn!” I shout and he turns around. “Good luck!”

“Ha thank you,” he says nervously.

“What’s wrong?” I ask.

“Nothing, I just get really nervous.” I take his hand and rub them together like he did to mine earlier.

“You’ll be great. You’ve got so many fans here,” I say, trying to reassure him.

“Okay we’re on. Lets do this boys,” Liam says.

“Thanks Perrie,” Zayn says as I let go of his hands.

“Perrie, we need you in make up,” Shelley, the make up artist says.

“Okay, I’m coming. Don’t worry Zayn you’ll be great,” I say as Zayn goes on stage.

I make sure I get my make up done super quickly so I can see as much of One Direction and JLS’ performance as I can. When I’m finished I run to the backstage area and luckily the boys are still performing. They are running around the stage doing a mash up of a JLS song and WMYB and it is amazing! The boys are so good at performing! I hope next year we’ll be performing as well as them, the crowd is loving it and so am I.

As the boys come off stage I run over to Zayn and hug him.

“Hey I thought you were getting your make up done,” he says.

“Yeah when they finished I ran over. You guys are really good,” I say, directed at all the boys.

“Aww thank you little Perrie,” Niall says ruffling my hair.

“You’re welcome little Nialler,” I say, ruffling his hair back.

“Amelia Lily, Marcus and Little Mix on stage in 3 minutes,” the stage manager says.

“Oh I better run and get the girls,” I say and start walking back to the dressing room.

“Wait Perrie,” Zayn says, “We’ve got to go and do some interviews now but good luck in the results and I’ll see you tomorrow.”

After the results

I can not believe we got through! I am literally on cloud 9 right now. This is the best feeling ever! On the way home I go onto twitter to thank the fans for voting and a couple of tweets catch my eye.

“ @zaynmalik: YES GUYS!!! Keep voting LITTLE MIX!!! Thank you!!! Xx”

“ @louis_tomlinson: vote little mix”

“ @niallofficial: Little Mix had the best performance ! remember to vote !”

They are so cute.

I tweeted from the group account:

“ @littlemixoffic: how great were 1D tonight? We hope we’re that good next year! P Xx”

When we get back to the house I check my phone again and there is a text from Zayn saying, “Well done we knew you’d do it. Now don’t rub it in that you got further than us Xx”. I text back saying, “I would never! See you tomorrow Xx” and I turn off my phone to get some sleep before the most important day of my life.

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So this chapter is more Little Mix based than 1D based and the next chapter will be aswell because obviously X Factor is important!! But then it will be more balanced.

Also let me know what you think I should do with Jarry!

Hope you like that this chapter is a bit longer! please keep voting and commenting :)