The Wanted Girl

Sophia's POV:
I looked around for a moment, trying to find an escape. I've never been great at making decisions, especially huge ones like this. I've now had to make two in one day. I took a deep breath, looking up at Zayn who was still holding me protectively. I knew exactly what I had to do, for the good of everyone.

"I think it's time for me to go home." I said sternly.

"No. You're staying. With me." Zayn said fiercely, tightening his grip as if I was going to disappear.

I patted his chest and tried to smile, "It's alright. I think it's good for everyone if I leave anyway."

Paul nodded, "Alright. Well we'll keep you until tomorrow when your replacement arrives."

Zayn's mouth was wide open in shock. He looked hurt. What was I supposed to do. He shook his head, unable to find words.

I caressed his cheek and smiled,"Hey, this is good. I might not be here every day but that doesn't mean I can't still see you. Take care of the boys and we can figure all of this out soon."

He shook his head, "I don't want you to leave me."

I awed and let out a frustrated laugh, "Hey, I'm not leaving you. I've been needing my boys a lot lately and maybe this is for the best. It's time for me to go home Zayn."

He nodded numbly, "I know. I'm being selfish. We'll figure this out, yeah?"

I smiled brightly and kissed his cheek, "Of course we will. Now I'm going to find Brielle and see if she's ready to kill her boyfriend. You okay?"

He grinned, "Yeah. I'll go brief Haz on the right thing to say to not get his head ripped off."

I giggled and ran back to the elevator, "Hey Zayn?"

He looked up at me and raised his eyebrows, "Yeah?"

"We're having 'Zayn time' later. But we won't be smoking." I winked and bit my lip seductively.

His mouth fell open and the doors shut, leaving the rest to his imagination.


I found my way up to Brielle's room and knocked repeatedly until I heard her start cursing, stumbling towards the door. When she opened it she had a carton of Ben and Jerry's ice cream and she was shoving it into her mouth. I heard her ipod playing 'Half A Heart' and I groaned. Oh no, I was not allowing my perfectly kept together bestfriend turn into a hot mess before my own eyes. I ripped the ice cream out of her hands and she glared at me, pissed.

"Give it back." She said harshly.

I ignored her and walked over to her ipod, changing it to Eminem and 50 Cent.

"Get dressed bitch, we're going out."

She looked at me like I was insane and let out a psychotic laugh, "I am NOT going out anywhere."

I pointed at her and smiled, "I'm leaving tomorrow, for London, for good. This is my last night with you guys and I want to spend it with the people I care about. AKA you. So get your ass showered and I'll pick out your outfit."

Her mouth fell open, "They fired you? Oh my God Sophie I'm so sorry.."

I shook my head, "No, I technically quit. But you're not the only one who's had a shitty day so we're going to get trashed and tear LA apart. Got it?"

A slow smile appeared on her face, "I'll be out in 20."

I grinned, "Perfect."

I slid open my phone to read the message Connor had sent me.

From: Connor Archibald
To: Sophia George
Is it cool if I go out with Liam tonight? He offered to take me 'somewhere chill to meet girls' and I figured why not. I know it's my last night here so I wanted to check with you first. You can come if you want?

I grinned, and typed back my reply.

To: Connor Archibald
From: Sophia George
Bri and I are coming with. I don't trust either of you when it comes to your taste in girls. We'll be ready in an hour

From: Connor Archibald
To: Sophia George
Your sentiments warm my heart..... bitch.

I giggled and replied,

To: Connor Archibald
From: Sophia George
Quit whining and get your hot asses ready. Haven't you ever heard that the best wing man is a woman?

From: Connor Archibald
To: Sophia George
Touché. We'll come to Brielles room in an hour. WEAR SOMETHING TIGHT.

To: Connor Archibald
From: Sophia George
You're foul.

I completely neglected to let Zayn know that I had made plans with Brielle. I would have invited him but I felt like if Zayn and Liam came, then Niall would definitely want to go. Then what would we tell Louis and Harry? Shit would get awkward really fast.

To: Zayn Malik
From: Sophia George
Hi... Brielle was eating ice cream and listening to half a heart when I walked in. Worse than I expected lol. Rain check on tonight?

I sent the message and my heart sank at the realization that there really wasn't a time for a rain check. I was leaving tomorrow night.

From: Zayn Malik
To: Sophia George
Oh God, that song is backfiring!! Sure, hanging with her and Archibald I assume?

To: Zayn Malik
From: Sophia George
Yup, and Liam apparently. We're going to take time off from our fucked up love lives to try and set them up with someone lol.

From: Zayn Malik
To: Sophia George
Niall said to stay away from the whiskey in regards to what happened last time :) Have a good time.. I'll send Liam with my extra room key incase you want to stay here later. And make sure they take good care of you xx

I smiled at how easy and still caring he was. He didn't get upset about it, he just trusted me. I WISH Louis would have been like that. But that wasn't a fair thing to say. It wasn't fair to say I wish Louis was more like Zayn. Or that I wish Zayn was more like Louis. It wasn't fair to compare them at all. I had to separate the two and look at them as two amazing, and totally different guys. The deciding factor was, Zayn was already making me happy. Whereas Louis acted like he needed to be trained. I didn't want to change him, I just wasn't the one he made perfectly happy.

To: Zayn Malik
From: Sophia George
Tell Niall he can kiss my ass and thank you :) I'll text you later x

From: Zayn Malik
To: Sophia George
Except he might just take you up on that.. and then I'd have to kill him :) xx

I giggled and shut my phone, satisfied with everything. I looked up to see Brielle looking absolutely perfect. It was depressing that the first thing I thought was that Harry would die if he saw how amazing she looked. But right now, Bri needed to be angry. She knew he didn't do anything with Kendall, but she needed to feel jealous and upset. I, as her bestfriend, had to allow that. She needed a release and if going out with her friends for a night is what it took, then so be it. Harry would live. We settled into our outfits and walked out of the room.

"Fuck!" She mumbled.

I laughed at her sudden frustration, "What?!"

"I left my ID in Louis' room earlier when I was tanning him. He's with Harry and I don't wanna go and get it!" She whined, pouting.

I sighed and smiled, "I'll get it. Come on, no more moping. PLEASE!"

She smiled and took my hand as we skipped to the boys rooms. She went into Liam's room with him and Connor and I continued down to Louis'. I knocked on Louis' door four or five times receiving no answer. Niall peaked his head out and smiled.

"Need help?" He asked.

I nodded, "Open his door! I gotta get Brielle's ID for her. She's avoiding Haz."

He laughed, "Harry's with Zayn?"

I took a double take of Zayn and I's conversation.

"I thought you were with Zayn?"

"I was. They're on their way to some bar. I just came to grab a jacket and I'm gonna meet them there."

Stop being paranoid Sophia.

I smiled, "Gotcha. Well I gotta get her ID anyway."

He shrugged and entered his key card, following in behind me. The entire hotel room was lit up, which was odd for Louis. When he left a room, he was a psycho about the lights. Every single one had to be off. I heard muffled laughs coming from his bedroom and chose to ignore it, looking around for Brielle's ID.

"Found it!" Niall said, holding it up like a trophy.

I snatched it out of his hand and grinned, "Thank ya honey."

"Niall?! That you mate?" Louis yelled from the bedroom.

I heard more giggling and Niall gave me a confused look.

"Yeah it's me! Who's in there?" He asked.

"Holly! But don't come in here!"

My heart flipped with annoyance. I couldn't stand her. I thought she went home!?

"Uh... wasn't planning on it. Me and Sophia just came to get Brielle's ID."

I shot Niall a glare for saying I was here. There was a couple moments of shuffling before Louis came out of the bedroom with CLEAR sex hair.

"Sophia.." He began.

I held my hand up, trying to keep him from walking any further towards me, "It's fine. Just please don't touch me."

"Sophie PLEASE! I was pissed at you. Come on, I love you!"

He was drunk. Not just drunk, TRASHED.

I scoffed, "I'm not mad Louis. But you gave up the right to love me when you had sex with the one person I can't stand. But you have a tendency to do that, right? Have sex with people I can't stand."

Holly stood in his doorway, smirking ever so slightly so that only I noticed.

I smiled and shook my head dismissively, "I may not be marriage material, but neither is she. Find a nice girl, Lou. Stop playing with girls who are only gonna break your heart."

His face dropped and I felt Niall tug on my hand, "Don't do this Sophia. Let him be tonight. It's been a long day for everyone."

I nodded and followed him out, leaving Louis to wallow in self pity.


We walked into the club and over to a VIP table. Liam was glowing with excitement at all of the girls asking him to dance. Brielle and I pointed out a particularly pretty girl in the corner. She was stunning, but looked very simple. We hadn't even spoken to her, but we already liked her. NOT ONLY did we like her, but we had named her 'future mrs. Payne', or FMP, in hopes of sending the message out to the universe. Connor was chatting up a blonde named Aly. She seemed nice but Connor wasn't letting us talk to her really at all. So much for being a wingman.

"Let's go look for more girls!" Brielle squealed, dragging me over to the bar.

Somehow looking for girls for your friends is a hundred times better than looking for a guy for yourself. You can be more critical and it's less biased. You never have to worry about picking the same one, because if you did with a girl, you could squeal and get all excited. No one had surpassed FMP just yet. But we were hopeful for perfection. Or just a fun new friend.

Brielle squeezed my hand and whispered, "Sophie..."

I looked down at her, "What?! What's wrong?!"

She pointed over to the bar where two very familiar figures were sitting. Zayn and Harry. Not only was it Zayn and Harry, but there were two girls with them. Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Kylie was obnoxiously flipping her hair leaning into whatever uninteresting thing Zayn was saying and Kendall was so close to Harry's crotch if he sneezed they would legally be having sex.

I wasn't sure what the right thing to do was but Brielle seemed to have a plan long before I did. She dragged me over to the other end of the bar, in clear eye shot of the boys and called for the bartender.

"What would you like miss?" He asked, checking her out.

"Six shots of tequila. The other four go to those couples over there." She winked and bit her lip seductively.

He handed us our two and walked over to the boys, handing them the four then pointing over to us. We knew exactly what to do. We smirked and raised our shot glasses at Harry's shocked expression, and downed it.

Zayn didn't waste anytime walking over to me and holding my face protectively, "I didn't know you were going out out."

I smiled sarcastically, "Yeah well.. here we are. Wanna introduce me to your girlfriend?"

He rolled his eyes and dragged me over to Kendall and Kylie.

"Kylie, Kendall, this is Sophia George. My bird."

They both shook my hand kindly and Kylie grinned, "Zayn was just telling me about you, lucky guy!"

I kissed Zayn and cuddled to his chest, "Mhm, he suuure is."

I felt my heart ease up and directed my attention over to Kendall, who was now public enemy number one.

"So you and Harry huh? Two dates in a week now! Am I invited to the wedding?" Zayn pinched my arm, clearly hearing the sarcasm and disdain in my voice.

She laughed hysterically, "I thought he was gay? No! Kylie and I want to try and expand our line into boys clothes as well. Harry's a fashion icon for men and he's young. We want to go into BUSINESS with him, not fuck him!"

Zayn chuckled and leaned down near my ear, "Hear that? She thought he was gay."

I felt my face blush as I saw Brielle screaming relentlessly at Harry. I looked over to Kendall and smiled sheepishly, "Well then, I should probably go tell his girlfriend that."

Notes

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