Chapter 24 (Zayn’s P.O.V.)

“Oh Zayn, isn’t it just adorable?” Perrie exclaimed as she darted toward yet another shop window, dragging me along in the process. I was slightly regretting saying that I would go shopping with her today. I should have known better. Perrie could shop for hours and not get tired. Me on the other hand, I was tired and I wanted to go home and take a nap. I thought about how I could do that once I took Perrie back to the place that her and Eleanor were sharing.

“Yeah,” I agreed with her.

“Do you think I should get it?” she looked up at me with a smile.

“It’s up to you.” I knew I would regret those words as soon as they left my mouth, because she turn and began to drag me into the store. She let go of my arm once we were inside and began to walk around the store. I sighed, sticking my hands in my pockets and watched as she moved from display to display. I knew that she was going to look at everything little thing in the store before leaving.

‘Why me?’ I wondered as I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. I’m sure I would have fallen asleep if it weren’t for my phone going off. I didn’t even bother to open my eyes as I answered it.

“Hello?”

“Hey Zayn, we need you back here ASAP.”

I opened my eyes, “Louis? What’s up?”

“We need to have that meeting I was talking about.”

“Oh god,” I said. Louis had been going on and on to me about something that Tracey and he had been planning for a few weeks. Niall and I had been talking about it. We were both worried about what the two of them could be plotting. I mean, you could see that it was bad by how Louis would get this devilish grin on his face while he was talking on the phone with her.

“When do you want me there?”

“Now would be ideal.” He answered.

“Okay,” I replied, “I just have to round up Perrie and take her home.”

“Alright,” Louis said, “oh watch out for Eleanor. She just left here and she isn’t a happy camper.”

“Okay,” I said before we hung up. I was a little worried about Eleanor. She was crazy when she was mad. I decided to push that aside as I scanned the store for Perrie. I needed to take her home before I headed back. I finally managed to find her near the back of the store.

“Hey Per,” I said as I walked over to her, “I need to be heading back.”

“Oh,” she said as she face fell.

“Yeah sorry,” I started to explain, “Louis called and said I needed to head back.”

“Okay.” She set down the stuff animal that she had been looking at. She looped her arm in mine again, before pulling me back out on to the street. I wished that she wouldn’t pull me around all the time, I felt like her own personal doll sometimes.

“We should hang out like this again.” Perrie smiled up at me. I smiled back. I didn’t want to disappoint her.

“Sure.”

“Yay.” She let go of me for a moment, so she could dance around. I watched as she spun. She looked like Sabrina when she did that. Actually, she was acting like a goofy version of Sabrina right now. I shook my head, pulling myself from my thoughts. That was when I noticed where we were.

“Well, here we are.” I said as I stopped.

“Aw,” Perrie frowned for a moment. “Oh well, I’ll see you later baby.” She walked over and hugged me, giving me a quick kiss. “I had fun.”

“Good,” I smiled as she turned and walked inside. She waved at me one more time before turning to leave. I waved back, turning to head back. That was when I saw her. The terror Eleanor herself. I decided it would be in my best interest to act as if I saw nothing.

“Hey Eleanor.” I waved at her.

She looked up at me and grumbled, “Hi.”

I sighed once I was sure that I had passed her. I hurried back after that. I wanted to know what was going on, because whatever it was had Eleanor pretty mad. I mean, Tracey herself got Eleanor pretty mad. I didn’t know what it was about Tracey that got her blood boiling, but I could tell that she didn’t like her at all. I was kind of worried what would happen if Eleanor met Tracey. I decided it was best not to think about it and continued my trek back.

Notes

Here you all go. Hope you enjoy! Later, Kiki