“Perrie, you first. Tell us why you’re here,” Harry says, acting like the judge in a courtroom.
                          
“Well,” Perrie starts, trying to catch Zayn’s eye contact but he wont look at her. “Yesterday, in the club, you were drunk –“
                          
“-So you thought you’d get with my best friend?” Zayn interrupts.
                          
“Shut up, Zayn. Let her speak,” Harry says and nods at me.
                          
“So, Harry was drunk as well. And I was speaking to Niall when Harry came over. He said, um, he said Niall liked me,” she says, “Harry and Niall left and I couldn’t sleep last night, thinking about what Harry said. So I texted Niall and I asked if we could meat because I needed to speak to him. But, Zayn, I swear nothing happened. Nothing at all. We just spoke, that’s it.”
                          
“Why didn’t you tell me this morning?” Zayn says and my heart twinges a bit, just knowing that they spent last night together while I thought about Perrie all night, like I had done for the past few months.
                          
“I didn’t even know if it was true. I didn’t want to hurt him or hurt your friendship. I’m sorry Zayn,” Perrie says. She’s usually so smiley and happy but now there are tears coming from her eyes.
                          
“Well you lied to me so you’ve hurt me, my friendship and our relationship,” Zayn says, twiddling with his sleeve as Perrie wipes her tears with the back of her hand.
                          
“Niall?” Harry says, signaling for me to tell my story.
                          
“I don’t know what to say, Zayn. I’m sorry, I really am. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do about it. I didn’t mean for anyone to find out. But I told Harry when I was drunk about a month ago. I’m honestly sorry, Zayn,” I say as I look at Zayn and Perrie. They both look so upset and I know it’s all my doing. I never meant to hurt anyone.
                          
“Why can’t you just move on? What are you doing holding onto a crush when I’m with her? I’m in love with her Niall. Why can’t you just let her go,” Zayn says, hurting me a little with every word.
                          
“I’m in love with her too,” I mutter under my breath. 
                          
“Speak up,” Zayn says. I didn’t realize he’d hear that.
                          
“I said I’m in love with her too,” I finally blurt out. Regretting it the second it comes out of my mouth.
                          
“What?” Perrie says, in shock.
                          
“What?” Zayn says and I look to Harry for support.
                          
After blurting out my secret I quickly get up to go and shut myself in the bathroom.
                          
Perrie POV
                          
“If he loved her you should’ve told us Harry. That’s something we need to know. He should’ve told us,” Zayn says as Niall slams the bathroom door shut.
                          
“You don’t know how hard this has been for him, Zayn,” Harry says, looking over to the bathroom door, aware that Niall may be listening. “You’ve never been through what he’s going through. Imagine being in love with someone, not being able to tell them, knowing you’ll never ever be with them. Not even if you guys broke up, he still wouldn’t go for her and you know that. You know he wouldn’t do that to you. Nearly every day he has to listen to you talk about her. He has to listen to you saying you’re in love with her and to you describing your dates. When he’s with both of you he has to watch you kissing and watch you all loved up. You have no idea how hard that is Zayn. Just give him a break.”
                          
“He should be able to talk about this with me. I knew he had a crush but I thought he’d gotten over it,” Zayn says and my attention turns fully to him.
                          
“You knew?” I ask, “And you didn’t say anything to me? So I was expected to tell you but you weren’t expected to say anything to me?”
                          
“I didn’t think it was a big deal. He said he’d get over it. I thought he would,” Zayn tells me and I guess he’s right. I shouldn’t make a fuss about it when other things are going on.
                          
“I’m gonna go and talk to him,” I say, standing up.
                          
“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Zayn advises but there’s no stopping me as I walk down the corridor to the bathroom and knock on the door.
                          
“It’s Perrie,” I say and I slowly push the door open to see Niall slumped on the floor leaning against the wall. I walk in, shut the door behind me, and sit down next to him.
                          
“I’m sorry,” he says, “I’m sorry that I’ve caused loads of problems.”
                          
“You haven’t. Honestly, you are like the nicest boy ever and you’ve always been so lovely to me and to my friends. You’ve always been really supportive and I really appreciate it. I really love having you around as a friend but if you need to not see me for a while then that’s fine, I completely understand,” I say as I look down at his lap where he’s playing with his sleeve.
                          
“I don’t want it to have to be like that,” Niall says.
                          
“Only for a little while. Then when everything is fine again we can hang out all the time and I’ll find you a nice girl,” I say, smiling at him and a smile starts to spread across his face.
                          
“But I don’t know how long it’ll take to get over you,” Niall admits.
                          
“It’ll be easier if I’m not around you all the time. It can’t be easy seeing me every day,” I say, “The last thing I ever want to do is come between you and Zayn. I’d never forgive myself, so it’s worth it for me if I just spend some time away.”
                          
“What do you mean time away?” Niall asks, confused.
                          
“Time away from you boys. I’ll focus on Little Mix more. I’m seeing them less and less and me and Zayn are probably moving to quickly anyway. I need to focus on my career for a bit,” I say. What I’m saying is hurting me, but I know it needs to be done.
                          
“Wait what? Time apart from Zayn?” Niall asks.
                          
“Well I’ll just have to speak to him about it.”
                          
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