Crossed Lines

6.

I stand there staring at where he was standing just now, my heart hammering in my chest. Did that really just happen? Did I just kiss Zayn? My mind is swarming with unorganized thought and questions.

"Hey babe." Cate asks as she steps into the apartment. She opens her mouth to say something but ends up closing it as she takes in my disorientated state. I'm sure my hair looks like a mess, my blouse is untucked and has slightly risen from his hand "why do you look so uh- like that?"

I decide not to beat around the bush "I just kissed Zayn" I say distracted and she replies with the classic "what? When? how? You have to tell me everything NOW!" so that's what I do.

I tell her every single detail about what happened and during it all she just stares at me with a stunned expression. After talking about the kiss and eating its already late so we decide to go to sleep. I just know sleep won't come easy tonight.

It's the next day and thankfully, I only have one client before lunch, so after I finish with that client I decide to keep myself busy with paper work to try and forget about yesterday's kiss, until I get a text from an unknown number

Hey meet me at Joe's for lunch. We need to talk

-Zayn

How did he even get my number?

*yeah sure* I simply reply. It feels like I might get a heart attack soon. I glance at the clock and realize its 12:30. I only have thirty minutes to psych myself for what's to come. I swear time has never moved so fast as today. Before I know it, I'm standing in front of the café, Joe's- which is the same place where we saw each other for the first time.

I take a deep breath and step into the café. I look around and finally I spot him in a beautiful navy blue suit, sitting in a booth close to the window with his phone in his hands and I take a second to admire how beautiful he is, every part of him. Asif he can feel my presence he looks up and I walk over to him while keeping eye contact, but before I get there someone calls my name.

"Mel!" I turn around and he see Trevor walking over to me. We haven't really seen each other a lot because we're always busy. So it really is good to see him.

"Hi" He immediately wraps me up in tight hug, lifting my feet, which makes me giggle a little. He puts me down but still has his arm on my waist and he smiles broadly at me.

"You want to join us for coffee?" he asks gesturing with his thumb to a few people sitting at a table.

"No, sorry I'm meeting someone." and I glance sideways at Zayn who already has his eyes on us, or rather on Trevor. I don't know if I'm seeing right but it looks like he's glaring at where Trevor has his arm around me with a scowl on his handsome face.

Trevor's face falls when he turns to Zayn and realizes that it's him I'm meeting here "His sister is one of my clients." I further explain for some unknown reason to myself.

"Oh" and just like that his smile returns "well I'll see you later then?"

"Maybe." I smile and walk over to Zayn's table. He doesn't look happy at all.

"Is he your boyfriend?" Zayn asks with straight face, giving nothing away.

"Hi, my day was great, thanks for asking, and yours?" I say sarcastically.

"Fine, just answer the question." I resist the urge to roll my eyes and I sigh out loud.

"No Zayn, he's not. He's just a friend."

"Doesn't look like it." he snaps

"Well he is." I snap back "so what did you want to talk about?" and he just looks at me for a few seconds with furrowed eyebrows. He sighs then answers.