Chapter 41

2 weeks later

Zayn POV

As I slowly wake up I’m still sore from night. I can’t remember anything that really happened after our performance. The performance was the Olympic closing ceremony and it was the best thing we’ve ever done but I was so nervous. There were so many amazing celebrities there and I just get shy and uncomfortable in those situations. Perrie, Katherine and Eleanor came to watch us and after our performance me and Louis went to watch the rest of the show with them. After the ceremony we went to an after party and I can’t really remember much after that.

“You ok sleepy head?” Perrie asks as she brings a glass of orange juice into my bedroom. I try to sit up but dizziness hits me as I sit up to quickly. I groan loudly, much to Perrie’s amusement.

“What happened last night?” I ask Perrie as I gulp down my orange juice.

“You don’t remember?” Perrie says while giggling.

“I remember going to the club for the after party but when did I get so drunk?” I ask.

“Well we were dancing and you were drinking. I think that’s cos there was a lot of celebrities there. Then you got upset and you started crying and drinking more and me and Niall carried you home. Niall’s in the spare room and you were snoring too loudly so I slept on the sofa,” Perrie tells me, giving an account of the part of the evening that I have no recollection of.

“Hang on, why was I crying?”

“Well, remember that hat I gave you to wear for the performance? My lucky one. Well you kind of lost it in the club and you thought I’d be angry so you got upset,” Perrie says.

“I lost your hat? Per, I’m so so sorry,” I tell her. She loves that hat and she only gave it to me because I was feeling nervous and she said it was lucky. Man, I feel so guilty.

“It’s ok. You were going crazy, looking for it everywhere and I think you asked every single person in the club. You asked Kate Moss at one point. It was quite funny,” Perrie says.

I groan in embarrassment and bury my head in a pillow.

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As me and Niall lie on the sofas in the lounge I get out my laptop to check twitter. Everyone always tells us not to look at what people say on twitter but it’s hard to resist sometimes and I want to know if people liked our performance last night. As I type in my name into the scroll panel I see loads of comments about my new hair and a few people have picked up that I was wearing Perrie’s hat. Then I come across one tweet from a One Direction update account that reads: ‘Last night Zayn asked for one of the dancers’ numbers when the boys were backstage.’

“What!” I say after reading this tweet. I didn’t mean to say it out loud but I did and Niall turns to look at me.

“What’s happened?” Niall asks.

“Why is there always some stupid girls who make shit up?” I say angrily. This always happens.

“What has she said?” Niall says and gets up to see what I’m looking at.

“There,” I say pointing at the screen. “It’s such bullshit. I was either with you boys or Perrie last night. I didn’t ask any girl for their number,” I tell him.

“What’s going on?” Perrie says as she enters the room.

“Just some idiotic girl making stuff up and saying I asked for her number yesterday,” I tell Perrie.

“What?” Perrie asks and walks over to look at the laptop screen. “Who’s saying that?” she asks.

“Some dancer. I don’t know who it is but I’ll find out,” I say and close the laptop so I don’t have to read anymore.

“Well did you speak to any dancers?” Perrie asks me.

“I spoke to a few but they were just ones who were hanging out with Danielle. I only spoke to them when Liam and Danielle were there as well. Why would they make it up about me when I’ve got a girlfriend?”

“I don’t know Zayn but it always seems to be you,” Perrie says, heading towards the door of the lounge.

“What are you saying?” I ask, accusing her of not trusting me.

“No, no, no. I don’t think you would do anything that these people are saying you do. They don’t know you. I trust you but it’s just annoying for me that it’s always you,” she says and walks back towards me and kisses my head.

I reopen my laptop in the hope of finding out which girl said all this. “Perrie, can you get me my phone? It’s on the bed,” I ask her. I know I need to call Liam and Danielle if I’m going to find out which dancer started these rumours.

Perrie returns with my phone and tells me, “You don’t have to fight every rumour, Zayn. I believe you and the boys believe you and your family will believe you so it doesn’t matter.”

“I know it doesn’t. I’m not going to post on twitter or anything. I just want to put this girl in her place if she is out there trying to ruin our relationship,” I tell her.

“She probably just said it as a joke or didn’t mean anything by it,” Perrie says. God it’s annoying when she only sees the good in people.

“Well we shall see,” I say and dial Liam’s number to call him.

“Hey bro,” I say into the phone as Liam picks up.

“Wow. Didn’t expect you to be awake today at all. Have a good night?”

“Yep. I did. Now there are some rumours going around so I was wondering if I could speak to Dani.”

“I’ll put you on speaker,” Liam says, “What rumours?”

“Well some dancer from yesterday is claiming that I asked for her number, which is ridiculous because I didn’t.”

“Oh, I know who it could be,” Danielle says, “You know that Sasha girl? Well she isn’t really my friend but she’s tried it on with Niall and Harry before. She’s desperate to be famous.”

“Oh really,” I say, looking over at Niall who couldn’t hear our conversation. “Well do you have her number? I’d quite like to have a word.”

“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Liam asks.

“Don’t worry. Perrie and Niall are here and they won’t let me get angry,” I reassure Liam.

“Ok, ok. I’ll text it to you but don’t do anything stupid Zayn,” Liam says.

“Thanks. I wont. Bye,” I tell him and hang up the phone.

I wait for the text message to come through and immediately call it. I’m not sure what to say. Do I act angry or do I trick her like she tricked me? Or do I just stay civil and ask her politely?

“Hello?” I hear a female voice at the other end of the line say.

“Hi, is this Sasha?” I ask innocently.

“Yes, who is this?”

“It’s Zayn. Oh would you look at that, I did ask for your number. I guess your little lie came true,” I tell her while Niall giggles on the sofa.

“Look, um. I can explain-“ she says before I break her off.

“Explain what? I called to tell you that I have a girlfriend, and before the next time you decide to make up a lie, you’ve gotta think that you may be hurting people,” I tell her, surprised at how calm I was being. I thought I’d be shouting at her by now.

“I didn’t mean for… I mean, I didn’t know that it was going to spread. I thought it’d be harmless,” Sarah says, actually sounding sorry.

“Well it did hurt people so I suggest you don’t do it again,” I tell her.

“I apologize to your girlfriend,” she says.

“Don’t bother,” I say and hang up the phone. I look up at Perrie to give her a reassuring smile before continuing to look at my laptop. 

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