Falling Apart (Ziall Horlik)AU

Chapter 14

Zayn's POV

My phone started to ring loudly, waking me up from my peaceful dreams I was having. Niall woke up too, but not fully because he just moved off of where he was laying on my chest to a pillow so I could go get my phone.

I got out of bed and walked over to where I left my jeans last night and got my phone out. It had just stopped ringing when I got it out, letting me see I had over a hundred texts messages, thousands of mentions on twitter, and over fifty calls from management, Perrie, my mum, and my sisters.

I got freaked out because I knew something happened, but my mind was still half asleep so it couldn't think of what could have happened. The next call from my mum I got made me answer my phone immediately.

"He-"

"How could you?! You're father and I raised you do much better than this! Perrie is here just crying her eyes out because she didn't think you could even do something so heartless!" My mum screamed on the phone. Niall sat up and reached his arms out for me. I went over to the bed and let him wrap around my body, while I thought of what I did so wrong that my mum found out.

"Perrie and I had an argument and kind of broke up, if that's what you're talking about." I offered thinking that's what was so bad. She just huffed on the phone and took a minute.

"She told me you two fought, but she didn't think you were being that serious on ending an engagement over the phone, then getting some new girl the same day." The minute my mum told me that about the girl, I knew the paparazzi saw me last night and took the story the wrong way with that girl dragging me by the hand to go get a drink with her and the way I was forced to stand with her in the picture.

"Mum, those are all lies. I haven't seen any of them or heard it, but I can tell you those are lies and this isn't true. I've thought about being engaged and it not looking like we're even doing that well as a couple so I don't think we can do it anymore. I'm not happy with her, and I can't pretend that I don't have feelings for someone else..." I trailed off, hoping my mum would be a good mum and listen to my side instead of whatever twisted story people came up with. I got my laptop from the side drawer and opened it to the main Internet while my mum spoke.

"You could have made things more clear to Perrie or come home and did this. You can't do something like that over the phone. Also, who is this someone else? Is it that girl?" I heard what my mum said, but looking at the hundreds of articles that were written about me cheating and the pictures of me looking close and cuddly to that girl preoccupied my mind into not answering. Niall sat up and moved beside me as he looked at the same thing I was.

"I have to go..." I mumbled to my mum, then hung up. I couldn't stop reading over the pathetic things each and every article was saying about me. I got to one and saw how photo shopped it was because I knew in my heart that was a picture of me kissing Niall's cheek, not that girl. Niall gasped as well, then leaned in to look closer.

"That's us, not you and that girl. It's blured, but that's us." He gasped then sat back on the bed. I went to my twitter to see what everyone was saying, but I really regreted that after I did it.

Everyone was calling my a man hoe or a cheater. There was the occasional person that would throw in an explanation of the truth, but that got shot down by people that I guess wanted me to suffer. I went to my mentions and saw how much hate I was getting. People were just telling me that I deserved to die or that Perrie deserved better than me.

I felt my hands started to shake as I scrolled through more and more messages of hate, until Niall reached over and closed my laptop. It took two of my pounding heart beats before I was in tears.