~Rumour Has It~

I heard a knock on my door at 11 in the morning.

"ZAYN! You''re back! Oh my god, I missed you so much!" I immediately hugged him so tight I think I could have choked him again.

"Hahaha, I miss you too my beautiful flower..you can let go of me now!"

After 3 days of not seeing him, it felt so good to be able to hug him. He was away on a camping trip with his family so I had been spending a lot of time with Niall. He's been a really great friend and I wondered why I didn't notice him before that Liam incident.

Speaking of Liam, I started distancing myself from him. But I still do talk to him and I listened to the song that he wanted to play for me that day. Turns out, the song was written for his girlfriend, and he wanted a girl's opinion about it. That day was their anniversary, and the song was his gift to her. I couldn't help but feel a little bit jealous but it definitely didn't hurt so much anymore. I quickly accepted the truth, and moved on. He was my first crush, and that was it.

"So..what's this about you and Niall?" he suddenly asked once he plunged himself onto the couch.

I lifted my eyebrow, confused. "What do you mean? You've been away, I've got no one to talk to and he was there, we talked, now we're friends."

"Oh really? That's not what I've heard.." He lifted his eyebrows back at me.

Okay, now I'm really confused. "You've been in the forest for 3 days, what can you hear? Birds chirping about us?"

"Ha ha, very funny" he said sarcastically. "There's proof you know. Of you and Niall. Cuddling each other at the studio. I was only gone for 3 days, and you decided to go back behind my back and flirt around with my friends huh?" He smiled cheekily.

"What picture? I know nothing of what you're talking about now dude"

So he showed me the picture and told me it was posted the day before.

"How did they get that picture? There was nobody at the studio!"

"So you admit to hugging him?"

"Yes, but he was comforting me because I was crying. I was crying on his shoulders. THAT..that is supposed to be private!" I was so furious.

"Wait, wait wait..you were crying? Why? What happened?" His face immediately changed to his panic mode.

I laughed and told him the story, this time I didn't bother hiding Liam out of the story. When I finished, he laughed so hard.

"You? You..hahaha..you were falling for Liam? That is so funny! Didn't I tell you before that he has a girlfriend already? They've been together since last year man! You seriously should do more research on my friends dude!" He continued laughing for the next minute or so while I feel embarrassed.

"Ok ok! Stop laughing at me already! Now tell me what the picture will mean once fans see it? I won't be like condemned or anything right?"

"Well, you don't have any social network accounts so you can definitely exclude personal death threats to you. Maybe some hurtful comments on those gossip sites, but you rarely visit them anyways. So that means, you don't have anything to worry about! I never thought not being good with technology would be a good thing!" Again, he gave me another cheeky smile.

Zayn and his jokes. I called Niall the next day to see what he thought of the picture.

"Oh it's a harmless picture really. My reps could easily deny it. The picture's not even clear. You don't have to worry about it." he said.

"Thank God! I was worried rumours would start popping up about us being together or something. That would be a disaster"

"Err..yeah..that would be a disaster.."he trailed off again. Somehow I sensed some insincerity in his voice, as if he actually thought that a rumour like that is actually not a bad idea.

I shook the feeling off, because the thought of it itself is kinda stupid. Why would he even want such a rumour to pop out?

A/N:

Hello! :D A very little Niall action going in there you see? Does he like Lila? If so, will Lila like him back? Or will someone else sweep her feet away first?
Just wanna thank you for reading this story. I don't get a lot of visitors, I do realise my story's kinda stupid haha.
Is it getting draggy? I don't know if I should hasten it up or continue with what I have going on here..
I do already know who Lila's going to end up with at the end of the story, and there will be some obstacles for her to face in the future, so..keep reading? Haha.
Again, thank you if you are following this story. It really does boost my ego up to know that actual people are interested in my writings:D