I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way...

The Truth Isn't Always Bad News

Ariana POV

I felt so bad. No, bad wasn't the word. I felt terrible about what happened with Jai. It was now the 26th of May, almost three months after he last visited on Valentines day. Since then, the news that we'd broken up had gotten out and The Janoskians were getting bigger by the day. Of course, me and Jai still spoke I mean I promised him we'd stay friends right? And I never broke promises. I sighed and got up off the couch. It was a month until my birthday. A month until I was twenty whole years old. I was expected to start my tour in July due to the success of my Album which had just been released. Despite all, I was looking forward to the future.

Zayn POV

I was gonna do it. I switched on my laptop and logged into twitter. I was gonna apologise to Jai. I know it had taken me so long to do and it was gonna be hard but I had to do it. I started to type.

@jaibrooks1 hi mate, all I'm gonna say is I'm so sorry about what me and ariana did to u.

I tweeted it. Seconds later there was a reply.

@zaynmalik OMFG ZAYN TWEETED ME! And what you mean, what did you do?

I looked at the tweet weirdly. Was he joking?

@jaibrooks1 you know, the picture thing mate?

@zaynmalik I don't remember a picture thing? What was it of?

He was surely joking with me now.

@jaibrooks1 I'm sorry for making ariana cheat on you!

I tweeted it and put my head in my hands. Jesus Christ! Was that Jai Brooks' way of making a fool out of me? Making me admit it? Well tha-

@zaynmalik excuse me?

I read the reply about twenty times over.

@jaibrooks1 are u serious? U don't know?

@zaynmalik no I fucking didn't! What the hell Zayn!!

@jaibrooks1 ahah April fools!

I wrote then deleted it.

@jaibrooks1 just kiddin, she set me up to do this! Really she wants to marry u!

I deleted that piece of shit too.

@jaibrooks1 I'm sorry

I logged off. I clenched my fists.

"You idiot Zayn!" I screamed.

I did get set up. And the boys, Perrie and Jenna were behind it. Jenna didn't exist and I did recognise her. That picture wasn't on the internet... she got it from the museum herself. Louis and Eleanor didn't find out about 'The Zayn and Ariana cheating scandal' which means they were keeping something else secret. I was tricked into confessing that I was with Ariana by people who I thought I could trust.

I marched angrily down the stairs.

"YOU BASTARDS HAVE 5 SECONDS TO GET INTO THE LIVING ROOM!" I shouted so loud my ears hurt.

Ariana's POV

What the fuck was this? I was on twitter again and was reading down my timeline.

'Lmao well done Ariana! Zayn Malik is fucking sexy!'

'I actually can't believe Ari cheated on Jai with Zayn!' That was from one of my fans.

'I bet jai's heartbroken.'

'Wtf ariana u stupid bitch u hurt my baby!'

I had enough. I went onto Jai's profile and scrolled down until I saw a tweet which mentioned Zayn in it. I clicked on it to read the full conversation. I read it slowly. By the time I was finished I was shaking and sweating with fear like I was just about to get killed. Well, maybe I was. The media wants something like this because it ruins celebrities' lives..and guess what Ariana Grande-Butera...yours just got wrecked. I walked to my moms room and knocked on the door quietly but loud enough to be heard.

"Come in."

Tears were now running rapidly down my face and dripping onto the floor.

"Baby what's the matter?" My mom put her arm around me. "Shh. Come, sit."

"They know."

"What? Who knows what?"

"Check twitter."

My mom went through her phone and found twitter. Her eyes got big and she looked up.

"Oh."

I cried even harder this time.

"It's okay.."

"No.. It's not! For fuck sake it's not!"

"Aye, don't swear." She looked at me sternly. "And it is."

"How exactly?"

"Well..you've got Zayn."

"I-I-I never thought of that.."

Zayn's POV

Harry had Liam in a headlock, Louis was hiding behind a table which was too small, Niall was crying and I was sitting on the floor... absolutely raging.

"I'm s-so so sor-rr-y Zayn." Niall sniffled. Okay that was it, I couldn't bare to see him like that. I stood up.

"Hey!" Louis looked under the table and Harry let go of Liam. I helped Niall up. "I don't want to ever see you crying again Niall... understand?"

He nodded.

"And Liam, Harry.." They looked at the ground. "Don't fight."

"Okay." Liam mumbled.

"Lou..just get up." I said, making Niall giggle.

"Zayn. We're really sorry." Louis shrugged.

"I know you are."

"So what we gonna do?" Harry asked.

"Not sure." I admitted. "It's gonna be all over the news isn't it?"

"Zayn, don't think of it like that." Louis said softly.

"Yeah!" Niall said.

"Hmm..what should we actually do then?" I was still puzzled.

"I think you should take advantage of the situation." Harry said, so maturely you'd think he was being sarcastic.

"What's that mean?" Niall piped in.

"It means," Liam started. "Zayn should take the fact Ariana lives here in LA and get her to date him..for real."

"You should definitley do that Zayn." Niall nodded.

"Yeah." I said. "But how my gonna do that?"

"Go and speak to her duh!" Harry pointed to the door.

Liam pushed a piece of paper in my hands.

"Ariana's address." He whispered.

I put my black leather jacket on and went outside, hopefully she wants me.