~Through the wire, through the wire, through the wire,

I'm watching you like this, imagining you're mine~

"This symbol, the 1D, has been spotted on three separate occasions. The first time was in a bank in Vegas. That was robbed. The second was in London - at All Star Securities. Files were stolen  and such. Coincidentally, several days later, the company was sued using the evidence from those files. We all wondered if 1D were secretly the good guys. But just a couple days ago, they broke out one of the people that the lawsuit and evidence on the files put away - Perrie Edwards. Some are saying that she is a necessary part of what comes -" Zayn picked up the remote and turned off the channel, then went back to intently focusing on running on the treadmill.

"Hello, Zaynie boy." Harry said, walking in with his cup of tea.

"Can't you see that I'm busy?" Zayn sighed, easing himself into a walk after adjusting the controls.

"I thought now would be the time to talk. Catch up." Zayn didn't respond, and Harry desperately wanted the lowdown on everything that was going on. "When we break Luke out, are you going back to him?"

"What the heck, Harry? No. I mean, probably not. I know I'm an idiot." He was panting heavily; Harry handed him a water bottle.

"Well, do you want to try a relationship with Liam?" Harry sipped his tea, swirling it slightly.

"Liam doesn't even like me. Never has, never will."

"Okay, honey." Harry sipped, eyes wide.

"He likes me?" Zayn looked at Harry. His heart was beating faster now, but for a different reason. "He can't. He's not gay."

"Doesn't have to be." Harry smiled. "But you didn't hear it from me. He tries to deny it, but he has a major crush on you. As do you on him."

"No I don't." Zayn said, blushing. Harry started at him. "Let's talk about your life then, Mr. How's the bakery going?"

"Really well. Business is booming. I have an accountant I trust, good employees, everyone loves us."

"Your relationship with Louis?"

"Going good, I think. We fight a lot over dumb stuff. But honestly want to spend the rest of my life with him." Zayn was mad that Harry had a perfect life.

"How's the whole being a dad thing going?"

"Amazing! I love babies!" Then Harry started gushing about Fin and Zayn tuned out, chugging the water. Not that he didn't want to hear it, but Harry went on rants about babies and kids a lot. Especially on how cute their fingers were. "Ah, I miss -" Harry was quiet, and Zayn knew why.

He sighed. "It's not your fault."

Harry looked into his empty mug and then spoke in a quiet voice. "If we were more careful..."

"Ask me more questions before you cry or something." Zayn said, turning the treadmill off. He laid down in front of the air conditioning, waiting for his friend to gather his thoughts. The cool air blew onto his back, making him feel refreshed. This was one of the reasons that he liked fall so much - the air. Too bad it was the height of summer.

"I know that Liam did bad stuff to you. He talked to Louis about it. The pushing you into the shelf thing."

"I've gotten over it." Zayn said, curling himself into a ball. He was definitely not over it. "Maybe I'd give him another chance."

"GUYS!" Came Liam's excited shout from down the hall. He bounced into the room, a smile from ear to ear. He stood on his tiptoes, commanding attention. Their focus was drawn to the napkin in his hands. "I haven't caught you up in a real one, Zayn, but life is so much easier when you just let yourself like whoever you like and guys there was a really cute boy at Starbucks and he gave me his number!"

"And you didn't even get coffee." Louis said from behind him, coming into the room and slinging himself over Harry.

Zayn's face, which was serious a minute before when Harry and him were talking, crumbled at the news. Harry felt guilty - this was his plan to get the two of them together. He had come up with the plan, had got Liam involved - who was ever so excited to try to get Zayn's attention.

Just a minute ago, Zayn was excited by the idea of trying to fix things with Liam. But he was devastated by the news. And now Harry looked like the bad guy, since he had just said that Liam liked Zayn. Wow. This had gone great.

Zayn picked his body up off the ground, grabbed the water bottle, patted Liam's back. "That's great." He said.

And then he just left.