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"Just calm down babe, maybe you're looking too much into this?"
                          
Zayn was currently sitting on the couch at his best friend Lauren's house, telling her about his situation with Liam. He would've gone to his other best friend Louis first, but he was currently on vacation with his boyfriend and he didn't want to ruin his friend's trip with his problems. 
                          
He didn't want to tell Lauren because she and Liam quite didn't like each other as she was Zayn's girlfriend before he got with him. Liam always felt jealous anytime Zayn would hang out with her even though Zayn assured him he and Lauren only dated to cover up both their sexualities at the time.
                          
Lauren was a lesbian and had been with her girlfriend Normani as long as Zayn had been with Liam, so Zayn didn't understand Liam's jealousy at all. Lauren knew that Liam didn't like Zayn talking to her and that always bugged her. So they were never around each other.
                          
"Hey, earth to Zayn" Lauren snapped her fingers in front of his face.
                          
"Oh shit, sorry Lo I kinda zoned out. What'd you say?" Zayn said, rubbing his temples and taking a drink out of his coffee cup.
                          
Lauren rolled her eyes, "Anyways as I was saying, maybe you're reading too much into this? Like, this same thing happened to me with Mani. I literally thought she was cheating on me with her cousin's girlfriend Dinah because she was acting really shady like Liam's acting right now. But it turns out she was only planning my birthday party and was talking so much to Dinah because she's a party planner" Lauren said, taking out a compact mirror from her purse and checking to see if her makeup was still in tact.
                          
"Oh yeah I remember that" Zayn said with a small smile on his face, "But my birthday already passed and even then he'd never plan something like that for me" he said, smile slipping from his face.
                          
"Okay true" she said with a pout on her face that disappeared just as quickly as her face brightened up. "Didn't you tell him that you got signed already?"
                          
"Yeah, I did" Zayn said confused, he didn't see where Lauren was going with this.
                          
"What if he's planning a party for you? You know damn well he'd never come ask me for help and Louis is gone away on vacation. Andy is the closest person to you besides us and your family" Lauren said, raising an eyebrow at Zayn.
                          
"Yeah, yeah you've got a point" Zayn said, feeling lighter as the heavy uncertainty he had been feeling for weeks vanished away.
                          
"Just in case, I say you invite Liam to one of your sessions with Andy and see how they communicate. You'll be able to wash any doubt out of your mind if they don't act like how you think they do" Lauren said, simply shrugging. 
                          
"Honestly Lo you're a genius, thank you so much. Wish I could stay but I gotta get going now" Zayn said, getting up and extending his arm to Lauren, helping her stand up. "Tell Mani I said hey" he said and gave Lauren a hug and kiss on the cheek. She hugged him back tightly and patted his head when their embrace ended. "Tell me how it goes, yeah? I missed talking to you" Lauren said, giving him a sad smile. 
                          
"I promise to call and chill with you more often" he said, giving her another kiss on the cheek.  Zayn gave her a smile and then left her house. 
                          
He was definitely planning to do what Lauren had suggested and hoped everything would turn out fine.
                          
Zayn got into his car quickly and pulled out his phone to send a Liam a message.
                          
|To: My Darling 
| hey babe wanna come to the
| studio and watch how the 
| magic is done??? ;)
                          
| From: My Darling 
|  lol ur so dumb but sure babe
|  i'll go 😚
                          
He just hoped his plan wouldn't backfire on him...
                          
a/n: sorry this took a bit longer to update, i was contemplating on deleting this story but i really would love to finish it, plus the next chapters are going to be a bit more intense ;)