Third Person POV:
Sophia had tried to be upset with Zayn, which she was, of course. But for some reason, she didn't feel the heartbreak that she had mere days before. She was numb to it, maybe. She had other things to worry about now. She felt a lot like a mother. Yes she was aching, but there was a fiery adrenaline coursing through her veins. There were other people she needed to take care of and her teenage heartbreak was NOT on that list.

So she just tried to think back to when her and Zayn were just friends, banter and rude remarks included. And shockingly enough, it worked. They talked about music for awhile, and their families, and even Louis. It was normal, for the both of them.

Zayn's heard would race everytime she spoke, he wasn't over it. But he took her kindness (and lack there of) as a sign that they could be friends and maybe, just maybe, he had made the right decision letting her go. Everyone could win, right? So he played along. Until his word-vomit took over at the first not-even-really-awkward, awkward pause in the conversation. Which was more like Sophie taking a breath from the monologue she had just given on Liam's sex life.

"You do love, Lou. Right?" Zayn asked, partially hoping she would say yes, but mostly hoping she would brush it off and talk more about the elusive girl she wants Liam to have five hundred babies with.

She took her extra headphone out, giving her full attention to the conversation. She hadn't expected that question, but she knew this would be important in some way. So she was honest.

"I'll always love him. He was pretty much my first real love, you know?"

He nodded, trying to not seem caught off guard. Of course she loved him, she had almost married him for Christ's sake!

"Do you ever think you two would get back together?" He pried.

He really didn't mean to ask any of this, but it was already out in the open so he figured he'd run with it.

She just shrugged, as if he hadn't just asked the most intimidating question in existence. But OH was she caught off guard.

"I dunno really."

He sighed. To him it was relief, but to her, it sounded like he was frustrated with her. So she left it at that, hoping he would stop with these questions that pried into her brain information she wasn't ready to face.

But thankfully, the air hostess walked by and stopped at their first class seats that Zayn had insisted on getting for them. Saying that if he was going to fly somewhere he didn't want to go, and drag her sorry but with him (or the other way around, he wasn't really sure), they would need some extra leg room.

"Can I get you two anything?" She asked, batting her eyelashes at Zayn.

Zayn was waiting for Sophia's normally protective (and somewhat jealous) side to come out, possibly snapping at her to do her job or blatently telling her to fuck off, but she didn't. She just shook her head, not even looking up from her book.

"No thank you," she said politely.

A small ounce of fury burned in Zayn's stomach. Who was this girl?

"I'll have a beer, please," he stated, annoyed.

The air hostess nodded nervously and walked away. Sophia's eyes shot up at his in confusion.

"What was that about?"

He shrugged, trying to play it off, "What'ya mean?"

Sophia was dumbfounded. Zayn just snapped at the poor woman when she was being nice as could be to him. If anything, she was even being a tad flirty! Since when did Zayn Malik snap at people? That was more Louis' forte.

"You just- nevermind," she huffed.

They were having nice conversation just minutes ago and she didn't want to start fighting now, when they were an hour away from the states. They had almost made it fifteen hours with eachother with not a single argument (important argument at least), she wasn't going to let one snarky comment, not even directed at her, get in the way of that record.

Zayn saw that Sophia was letting it go, which he couldn't decide if he liked or not. It was like he was happy they weren't arguing, but really, Sophia would have scratched that girls eyes out two months ago and now she didn't seem to mind at all. It was baffling!

"Attention passengers, we are now landing in Washington DC. Please make sure to retrieve all of your bags from the overhead compartments and thank you for flying with us," the peppy voice announced over the PA system.

Both Zayn and Sophia let out a shaky breath. There nerves that didn't exist before, we're now very noticeable. They were definitely on the same page with this. It was as if they were walking into the pit filled with hungry animals who hadn't eaten in three days. Animals who didn't like the idea of SOPH being the one to drag Zayn back home.




Harry was going insane. That he was sure of. Brielle wasn't answering any of his phone calls or texts and he was hoping he could use the interview today as an excuse to talk to her. But because of Niall's breakdown, the interview was cancelled and Brielle had the day off. She wasn't in her room either.

He begged Paul for information until he finally gave in, considering he had much bigger things to worry about than a whiney Harry Styles. He told him that she was going shopping then to pick up Sophia and Zayn at the airport.

This made Harry much much happier and much more relaxed. Sophia knew everything and she was level headed enough to explain to Brielle how much he had changed. He was a different person all together! He just needed her to forget his transgression and then they could work it all out.

Really, Brielle was kind of over reacting and this wasn't something they couldn't work through today! All he had to do was swoon her. So that was the plan.





Louis paced around the room nervously. He was trying to take this whole 'give her space' thing as seriously as he could, but it was just so hard. He had never been told what to do before, or how to feel. So the fact that his love and admiration was a weakness in this situation was hard for him to comprehend. But obviously smothering her with love and attention wasn't working, so he had to stop caring. Or at least have her THINK he had stopped caring.

And to be honest, it was getting a little easier everyday. He didn't break his phones when she ignored his texts. He didn't have heart palpitations when he found out Zayn and her were flying to DC together. He didn't even freak out on Niall when he got sassy about her. He was damn proud of himself too, and so was everyone else.

Zayn and Sophia could fly back together, he didn't mind. Zayn had already ruined it. And he was still going to kill him (he wasn't totally over caring), but he at least had a plan to not do it in front of Sophia. He didn't wanna upset her. I mean, he wasn't a monster! They were landing soon and Louis was preparing himself by listening to Eminem and pacing his room like a mad man.

He heard a knock at his door and immediately perked up. He pranced over and opened it to see a tired looking Liam, frowning more than he had ever seen before.

"Y'alright mate?" he asked in confusion.

Liam just brushed passed him and flopped face-down onto his bed. He was just so tired and he couldn't figure out why! Everyone else had something ridiculously dramatic going on and he was as cool as a cucumber, but he was completely drained. Physically and emotionally.

"Mmmm," was his only response, muffling his groaning into the fluffy hotel pillow that smelled a lot like Lou.

Louis chuckled and curled up next to him, allowing Liam to drape his man hands over his chest and pull him snuggly against his stomach, as if Louis were his token body pillow. But Louis didn't mind. He needed a snuggle and Liam did too, so snuggling was what was going to happen.

"Nearly forgot how comfortable you were," Louis said in between comfortable giggles.

He could feel Liam grinning into his back, "That's 'cause with Soph you're always the big spoon."

Louis laughed and realized how accurate that was. He should start making Sophie be the big spoon every once and a while, you know, when they start snuggling again.

"Don't ever tell Soph I told you this, but you're a much better cuddler," Louis whispered, as if Soph would actually hear it.

Liam laughed, "Yes but am I a better cuddler than Harry? 'Cause I mean, that's all that really matters in this life, yeah?"

They both started laughing uncontrollably. Harry prided himself on being the most comfortable person to cuddle with, ever. He would put it on a job application if they let him. Or if he ever had to apply for a job, that is. There was one time that Liam and Niall were cuddled and Zayn and Louis were snuggling and Harry walked in and had a full on strop about having no one to cuddle with. He got so upset that he refused to snuggle with ANYONE for an entire week until he finally gave in and slept with Lou in his bunk.

They both just laid there for awhile, absentmindedly thinking about those days. When it was just the five of them. No girlfriends, no drama, no nothing.

And while Liam was okay with all of the changes (because he adored Sophia and Brielle), Louis found himself getting annoyed. He was close to being resentful, even. He was fine before Sophia. He didn't have a care in the world. Yeah he was considering leaving the band. But like, he would have totally gone back after like, a week. Until Sophia. She not only changed him, but left him heartbroken soon after. To then RUIN his relationship with Zayn! I mean, Zayn lost his bird and Sophia just so happened to swoop in and save the day? Unlikely.

She probably had this all planned out from the beginning! Well, that's not really possible, but Louis was quite convinced she had this master plan, a hidden agenda if you will, about ruining Louis' life.

Well that was definitely over. Sophia George no longer held any power over Louis Tomlinson. He was finished with that.

"I'm ready to be the old Louis again," he stated.

Liam snorted in response, "Okay? And what does 'Old Louis' want to do?"

"Apologize to Zayn."

Liam's heart skipped a beat. Was a good cuddle really all he needed to fix this mess? Had Louis cracked? Had Louis EVER apologized in his entire life? Not that Liam was aware of! But when Liam looked over at Louis' face, he knew he was quite serious.

And for some reason, that really freaked Liam out.

Notes

let's get one thing straight right now, I hope to god this never makes it to the popular page. The fact that these girls (not all of them) are having legitement FIGHTS in the comments about who did what to who about lying about who did what is absolutely bizarre. I don't write this for the view count, I don't write it for the subscriber count, and I certainly don't write it for the popular page. It's fucking insane that people are honestly so worked up about it and that the authors would even publish a chapter BASHING another author and name dropping who did what. I don't understand what they think would happen other than people taking sides and hurting eachothers feelings and getting upset. These are supposed to be the TOP writers on this site and some of them are acting like children.

And there's nothing I can't stand more than people threatening to take down their stories. YES TWG and INWILL are my babies, but I would never take them down if someone asked me not to because I know what it's like for someone to remove a story you loved and have no way of retrieving it. So my advice is if you really love a story, save it onto your desktop in a file so that way you can read it forever and ever and ever :) And no matter what happens or who says/does what, I'm not taking this fucking story down lol. I've put WAY too much time/love/attention into this and I'm so emotionally attached that if someone thinks I should erase it forever then they can kiss my ass.

I love you guys so much and I'm so happy that we all get along and don't argue about my stupid fanfic and everyone is so nice and supportive and amazing. the fact that there's even drama on here is BAFFLING to me and I just wanted to take the time to tell you how much i love you guys and how you all are so pretty and perfect and amazing and yeah so here's an update in third person bc i'm trying something new and yea ily

Here's some LiLo love bc LiLo love is ze best love