Chapter 43

Zayn POV

“Perrie it’s time to wake up,” I say shaking her shoulder. “Come on Perrie, Jade’ll get angry,” I tell her. Jade’s just been on the phone to nag me to get Perrie ready. Jade thought Perrie should’ve stayed at their flat last night but I persuaded her to stay with me and now I’ll be in trouble if she’s late.

“Go away, Zayn,” Perrie says, shrugging off my hand. She’s always so grumpy in the morning but so am I.

“No. Come on, get out of bed, it’s a big day,” I encourage her. The girls have their first performance of Wings today at T4 on the beach but they have a long drive so have to wake up super early.

“Why are you even awake?” Perrie says as she muffles her voice in a pillow.

“To get you up. You know Jade will blame me if you’re late so just get up. The car will be here in half an hour for you,” I say and walk out the room to let her get ready.

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“Ok, I love you, bye,” Perrie says a she picks up her stuff to leave.

“Wait, can I come with you?” I ask, grabbing her arm.

“But, um, you can just watch on TV. It’s a long way,” she says, making excuses as they come to her head.

“It’s fine if you don’t want me to come then just say you don’t want me to,” I say, pouting and feeling a bit hurt that she doesn’t want me there, and embarrassed.

“Ok, ok. Come on then,” she says as she pecks my pouting lips.

“Yay!” I say and quickly take her bag and walk out the door. The minibus is waiting outside with Leigh-Anne leaning against it, looking impatient.

“Hi Zayn,” Leigh says as she sees me, “Are you coming?”

“If there’s any space,” I say in a hopeful voice as I craned my neck to see a couple of empty seats in the minibus.

“There is but no kissing. It’s a long journey and I already get car sick,” Leigh quips.

“Rude,” Perrie remarks as I let her get into the minibus ahead of me.

“Hey girls,” I say as I clamber into the car, already feeling a bit awkward. Maybe I shouldn’t have invited myself.

“Hey,” Jesy and Jade say in unison as well as the girls’ band. There’s an empty seat next to Perrie but I’ll feel bad if Leigh has to sit apart from the girls so I slide into the one next to another guy.

“Hey, I’m Zayn,” I say, putting my hand out to shake his hand, which he accepts.

“I’m Rene, I’m the guitarist,” Rene says.

“Zayn what are you doing over there?” Leigh asks me, interrupting our conversation.

“I don’t wanna take your seat. You sit with the girls,” I insist and Leigh sits down before we start on our 6 hour drive.

-

“Here we are,” the driver shouts as we arrive. I’ve been sleeping for the past 6 hours so I don’t know what’s going on. I undo my seatbelt and slowly get myself up and out of the minibus. I hold my hand out to help the girls one by one out of the minibus as they struggle in their heels.

“You know what time you’re on?” I ask as I swing Perrie’s bag over my shoulder.

“Soon and we need rehearse,” Perrie says as the girls get themselves into a bit of a panic. It is a big day for them.

“D’you want me to bugger off for a bit?” I ask, seeing that I might get in the way.

“Yeah ok, you’ll probably get bored,” Perrie says kindly.

“Ok, I’ll make sure I’m back for your performance ok?” I say, handing Perrie her bag.

“Ok, but put some sun block on ok?” Perrie asks as she pecks my cheek.

“Yes mum,” I joke before heading off to the backstage area, where the refreshments were.

“Boys!” I say as I see The Wanted. We’ve hung out in the past so I know them quite well.

“Y’alright Zayn,” Nathan says as I shake all of their hands.

“You performing today?” Siva asks.

“No, I’m watching my girlfriend,” I tell them, clocking that Max was looking around uncomfortably.

“Oh right that’s cool. She’s Perrie from Little Mix right?” Nathan asks.

“Yep,” I say grinning, “Anyway I’m gonna go get a drink so I’ll see you boys later.”

“Yeah, see you Zayn,” Jay says as I make my way to the refreshments stand. I grab a drink and see Richard from management.

“Zayn!” He calls out and as he spots me and I have no choice but to go over to him.

“Hi,” I say as he shakes my hand.

“Didn’t expect to see you here today,” he remarks with a look of confusion.

“I’m here to support my girlfriend on my day off,” I tell him, praying he wont be annoying about it.

“That’s fine Zayn,” Richard says, noticing I’m being defensive. “There are a lot of press people here today though so be careful who you talk to and what you say, okay?” Richard warns me and I look around to see lots of people with notepads who must be journalists.

“Ok will do,” I say before walking off to watch the girls.

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“That was so good!” I exclaim as the girls walk off the stage. They’ve just given an amazing performance of Wings and the crowd totally looked like they loved it.

“You think?” Perrie asks, giving me a big hug and burying her face in my shoulder.

“Per, what’s wrong?” I ask, looking at her as she looks downbeat.

“I didn’t get my top note. I cracked and I think I let them down,” she whispers, making sure the girls don’t hear.

“Really?” I say, rubbing her arms, “If you did then no one noticed. They were loving it and you sounded great.”

“Mmmm. Thank you,” she says as I let go of her arms.

“You wanna go get a drink?” I ask, as the next act is getting ready to go on stage and perform.

“Yeh, let’s go,” Perrie says taking my hand as we walk over to the refreshments area backstage.

“Ok, you wait here,” I say as I spot a free table, “I’ll get us drinks.”

I leave Perrie at the table and go and get some drinks for us. I can’t believe she thought she didn’t do well. I honestly saw nothing wrong with the performance at all. I know I’ve gotta get her confidence back up if she thinks she’s let the girls down.

As I pick up the drinks I make my way back over to Perrie and see my place taken by Max from The Wanted. I can’t hear what he’s saying but Perrie glances over at me as Max talks to her with his back to me.

As I get closer Max doesn’t know I’m behind him. I hear him say, “Why are you with Zayn? He’s a douche. You can do better.”

“What the fuck did you just say to my girlfriend?” I ask, putting the drinks down and squaring up to him, anger rising inside me.

“Nothing,” Max says with an arrogant look in his eyes.

“I heard you. If you want to say something you can say it to my face can’t you?” I growl as I grab the scruff of his jacket.

“Zayn don’t!” Perrie says in a panic as my head gets increasing closer to his and I become more and more angry. She wraps her arms around me and pulls me backwards and she’s surprisingly strong.

“You’re right,” I say, glaring at Max as Perrie pulls me away from the refreshments area where we’ve now created a bit of a seen.

“Watch out for your girl,” Max calls after us mockingly as we walk away.

“That’s it,” I say, shaking myself from Perrie’s grasp and launching myself at Max. As my fist makes contact with his chin he tries to strike back before Tom, his band member, restrains him.

Despite my hand throbbing I manage to lift it and point at him. “If you fucking talk to my girlfriend or utter a word about her ever again then you’ll have more than a bruised jaw,” I say before walking away from him and towards Perrie.

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