It Couldn't Be (A Zayn Malik Fanfiction)

Chapter 4

When I got home, which was around ten, I called Katie right away. This was real major news. I mean…. We were going to a One Direction concert for Pete’s sake!

I dialed her number and she answered the phone after one ring, which means she had been waiting by the phone.

“OMG Molly! I have been waiting all night to hear about the date! Where were you?” she said frantically.

“Um….well I just got home Katie,” I said rolling my eyes.

“Whatever, I want to hear about this date. Pronto.”

“Well, it was nice. He took me to dinner. Then to see World War Z-“

“With Brad Pitt?! OMG how was it?”

“It was really good, all about a zombie apocalypse. And you know Brad was looking smexy as ever-“

“Yeah, yeah, enough about that. What else did you guys do?” she asked getting irritated. Well she did ask me how I liked the movie.

“Oh, well we took a stroll in the park. Very relaxing and soothing-“

“Wait, so you guys took a stroll in the park?”

“You know, Katie, you have a very bad habit of interrupting when I’m trying to tell something. But yes we did take a stroll in the park like I said.”

“Oh, so you guys were alone?” she said. Now she sounded excited.

“No Katie, we were on a date and we decided that we should take a lot of people for a stroll in the park.”

“Don’t get smart with me Molly. You know where I’m going with this. Did he kiss you?”

“Yes. Yes he did.”

“And?”

“And what?”

“Was it good?”

“Was what good?”

By now she was agitated. “You know what I mean Molly! The kiss! How was the kiss?!”

“Oh, it was great Katie. Very great. But that isn’t what I called you about.”

“Oh? What is it then?”

“You will never guess what Jared gave me!”

“Oh my gawd, has he given you an engagement ring?! Has he proposed already?”

“No Katie! He gave me two VIP tickets to a One Direction concert!!!!!” I realized now that I was
screaming.

For a moment there was nothing but silence on the other end.

“Hello?” I said.

“I’m here. I just had to put the phone down and mute it because I had to scream very loud and take a deep breath. But before I give myself a heart attack, let me make sure I heard you clearly.

Did you say he gave you two VIP tickets to a One Direction concert?”

“Yes ma’am, I did.”

We then, both let out a very long scream.

“Okay, so who are you taking?” I already knew that she wanted to go. She wasn’t fooling me.

“Well, I might take Cara, and I could take Riley, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind,” I said. I was playing games with her mind.

“Oh, that’s cool.”

“Oh Katie, now you know I would not take anyone but you to this concert!”

“Are you serious? Yes!”

“Okay, the concert starts at seven. Meet me at the Jackson Coliseum at 6:00?”

“I’ll be there at 5:45.” Then we said goodbye and went to bed.

When I arrived at the Coliseum at six, Katie was already there. I decided to wear a blue dress with
another black leather jacket and my black Converse All-Stars I might actually end up meeting
them. In my dreams.

Katie had worn her favorite flower skinny jeans and her lacy black top. Nice choice, I thought. I loved that outfit.

“Nice!” We both said at the same time.

“You never know,” she said. “We might meet them!”

“Yeah we might! Let’s go in there and take our seats. We are on the front row!”

“This is gonna be a long night,” she said.

I agreed.
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One Direction sang a total of seven songs. Seven of my favorites. All of them were dressed to what seemed like to me, perfection.

Louis in his stripes, Liam in his T-shirt. Niall in his hoodie. Harry in a T-shirt too. And Zayn as his usual self. Looking smexy all the time.

Harry did sport a candy thong during the middle of the concert though, with Zayn biting off a piece of the candy. It was strangely, hot.

At the end of the concert, after vast quantities of scream, laughs, and cries, we actually got to go backstage. I don’ t know what we expected.

We were walking along backstage, not giving our hopes up, just hoping that maybe we might get a glimpse of the drummer, or their hair stylist, when we saw them walking our way.

I instantly froze.

Katie did too.

They came up to us.

I was thinking that I would probably die if they opened their mouths.

Surely enough Liam was the first one to speak.

“Hi, how are you guys?” he said. British accents make me get the feels for some reason. I don’t know what it is.

“Fine,” Katie said.

I was speechless. I just stared at them. Looked at them from left to right.
Niall, Liam, Louis, Harry, then Zayn.

I stopped on Louis and Harry though, remembering a fan-fiction of the Larry Stylinson ship called
Larry State. It was really good. I wonder when the next time she was gonna update the story…..

“Molly…” Katie woke me up. Daydreaming.

“Oh, yeah. Right.”

“You seem to be a little preoccupied there,” Zayn said. Him speaking completely made my stomach turn over. I felt like I was going to throw up.

Katie, though, nudged my back and made me come back to reality.

Niall just kept a goofy grin on his face.

“Are you okay?” Zayn asked. He actually seemed concerned.

“Yeah,” I said. “I’m fine. Could we have an autograph?”

“Oh sure!” Louis said. “Anything for fans!” Louis’s accent was my favorite.

They signed our little autograph books, and I actually touched every last one of them. I was so happy, I think I could’ve died.

We then left. We were happy. I couldn’t wait to tell Jared how I liked my night.
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I called Jared late that night, and surprisingly, he answered. We talked to about 12, me telling him how grateful I was and how much fun I had had.

He seemed to be happy for me, and asked me if I wanted to spend the day with him tomorrow.

Tomorrow was Saturday. I was expecting another lonely, boring Saturday. So I definitely did not mind.

Jared was only going to be here for another two weeks. I had to make the best of it.

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