Chapter 34

Zayn POV

I gently stroke Perrie’s cheek as we lie in the bed. I’ve just woken up but she is still asleep with her head resting on my chest. I watch her as her soft breathing slowly moves her body up and down. As her eyes flicker open I say, “Good morning beautiful.” I continue to watch her as she slowly wake up. I feel a bit bad for touching her cheek and waking her.

“Hi,” she says before extending her arm so it is around my waist. “I’ve missed you,” she says, kissing my chest, “What do you wanna do today?”

“I’ve got to go to the studio to do some recording,” I say and she groans in annoyance. “Hey, hey, you can come,” I tell her.

“Really? Won’t I be in the way?”

“Not at all. Come on. We’re only writing some songs today and Louis said that Eleanor was coming down so maybe you can keep her company as well.”

“Ok, I will then,” she says and she slowly sits up and kisses my cheek.

“Oh so you’ll come for Eleanor but not for me,” I say jokingly.

“Exactly,” she says and she slides out of bed and starts getting dressed.

“Woah, woah, woah. What ya doing there girlfriend? Get back in here,” I say and lift up the covers for her to get back in.

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“You ready Zayn?” Perrie shouts up the stairs.

“One minute,” I shout down, just finishing doing my hair. I run down the stairs to the front door.

“Nice hair,” Perrie says, smiling as we leave the house. I look over the road and see a kid waiting there with a camera. What is she doing? I take Perrie’s hand and walk to the car with my head down, trying to avoid the camera.

“That’s so weird. What was that girl doing there?” I ask and Perrie looks around out of the back window of the car.

“She’s still there, just drive Zayn.” I start driving down the street and look back to see the girl still standing there, weird.

“Are you recording all this week?” Perrie asks as we drive towards the recording studio.

“Pretty much. But on Friday we’ve got a signing in Germany, but it’s only for the day,” I tell her.

“So you’re back for the weekend?” she asks.

“Should be, why?” I ask.

“No reason,” she says slyly and smiles nervously. Something is definitely up.

Perrie POV

He’s forgotten my birthday is on Sunday. Well maybe I never told him. It’s too late to tell him now; he’ll wonder why I didn’t say straight away. I don’t really like celebrating my birthday anyway. I like the presents and stuff but it is so awkward when everyone is just watching you open them. I’ve had a few bad experiences with birthday parties anyway.

Zayn POV

As we pull up at the studio I open the car door for Perrie, who has stayed unusually quiet throughout the whole journey. “You alright?” I ask as I lead her by the hand into the recording studio and she smiles and nods in reply.

“Perrie!” Eleanor shouts as she comes running towards her. She hugs Perrie as I make my way over to the boys.

“Your late,” Liam points out.

“It was Perrie’s fault,” I lie.

“It was not!” Perrie shouts as she is pulled away somewhere with Eleanor.

“Where are they going?” I ask Louis.

“Apparently Ed Sheeran is here and Eleanor is desperate to meet him and I won’t go with her ‘cause we gotta get started man.”

“Ok, ok. Let’s go then,” I say and we walk into the studio. We recorded the first album in this studio so it brings back a lot of memories. I find a seat in the studio and watch Niall as he sings in the booth. Savan, who writes songs for us, is also in the studio and seems to be noting down some things.

“Louis, Liam and Zayn, how do you feel about doing a bit of writing today?” Savan asks us. We hardly wrote anything for the last album so this is a bit of a surprise. I mean, we had written before but none of it was all that good and only a couple made it onto the album.

“Ok, why not,” Louis says.

“Why not Harry and Niall?” Liam asks.

“Well we thought that maybe you could write some stuff about relationships and girlfriends. We’ve got the track and everything, we just need you to do some words for it.”

Me, Louis and Liam left Harry and Niall in the recording studio and went to another booth next door to try and think of something to write. This is like my worst nightmare. I’m not amazingly good at expressing my feelings when they’re not about Perrie. I don’t know how I’m supposed to write down my feelings about her with Liam and Louis here. It makes it even more nerve-wracking knowing that this track might get onto the album and then everyone will know my feelings. Louis and Liam were good at this stuff but I was not.

“Come on Zayn, help us out,” Liam says as him and Louis start brainstorming.

“I have an idea,” Louis says, “Lets all write a verse each and then share it ok?” he asks. The boys know me and know that I’m not very good at this stuff and they can see I’m uncomfortable. “Ok. Liam you write the verse, me and Zayn will have a go at the chorus together. But I want contribution from you Mr Malik,” Louis says strictly.

“Ok, ok. Sorry, yeah, I’ll do it,” I say and me and Louis get to work.

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We actually have come up with a pretty good song. It’s all about our first kiss with our girlfriends. I hope the other two like it. Liam has written some awesome verses and the chorus is really catchy as well.

“Should we see if Eleanor and Perrie like it?” Liam asks, standing up from his chair once we have decided that we like the lyrics we’ve written.

“Sure,” Louis says and Liam leaves the room to find the girls. Once Liam has left, Louis turns to me and says, “She’s gonna love it man. Stop being so nervous.” I couldn’t help it though. I think she’s gonna find it awkward as well though, a song being written about her.

The girls follow Liam into the room and I open my arms for Perrie to come and sit on my lap. “How did it go?” she asks.

“We want you to hear it. See if you two like it,” I say as Perrie puts her arm around me.

“Where have you two been?” Louis asks as he sits on the sofa next to Eleanor.

“Just talking,” Eleanor says, “Let’s hear it then.”

“Ok, ok,” Liam says, “It’s kind of about you two and Dani so don’t be mean ‘cause we tried hard.”

I lift Perrie off of my lap and stand up with Louis and Liam so we can sing the song.

"Baby I, I wanna know what you think when you're alone Is it me yeah? Are you thinking of me yeah? Oh We've been friends now for a while Wanna know that when you smile Is it me yeah? Are you thinking of me yeah? Oh oh Girl what would you do? Would you wanna stay if I were to say I wanna be last yeah Baby let me be your, let me be your last first kiss I wanna be first yeah Wanna be the first to take it all the way like this And if you only knew I wanna be last yeah Baby let me be your last, your last first kiss"“And then we’ve got another verse and then the chorus again but that isn’t one hundred percent ready yet,” Louis says as we stop singing. I’ve been watching Perrie this whole time and she’s been bopping around. When she catches me looking at her her cheeks turn a bright shade of red.

Before the girls can say anything, I say, “Um, I need the toilet,” and rush out of the room to go to the bathroom. I can’t believe I just wrote a song about Perrie and then sang it in front of her. That is so awkward and now I feel like a soppy idiot. I know she doesn’t like cheesy things and that was super cheesy.

“Hey Zayn! Wait!” Perrie calls as she runs after me out of the studio. “What’s wrong?” she asks.

“Did you not like it?” I ask her as she catches up with me but I continue to walk towards the bathroom.

“Stop Zayn,” she says, tugging my arm and bringing me to a halt. “Of course I liked it. It is such a good song and I never knew you were so talented at song writing.”

“But you don’t like cheesy things,” I remind her, fiddling with my sleeves.

“Yeah but I like you, you goof ball,” she says, clutching my hand so I’d stop fiddling.

Suddenly my phone starts ringing and I quickly get it out and answer it.

“Paul?” I say into the phone.

“Zayn? The alarm company has just called. Your house has been broken into. The windows are broken and everything. I’m on my way over now but get back as soon as you can.”

“Ok, we’ll come now,” I say and hang up the phone.

“What is it?” Perrie asks as I put the phone back into my pocket with a shocked expression on my face.

“That girl from this morning, taking pictures… I think she’s broken into my house.”

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Soooooooo. I guess quite a bit happens. :)

Last First Kiss was written by Zayn, Louis and Harry and I've heard rumours that either Back for You or Last First Kiss was about the girlfriends so yeh, I included that.

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