When the Boys are away, The girls come out to play.

The scandal died down, Zayn’s mum was satisfied by the way Liam calmed it all down, she stayed for another week, she approved of Ashley, which I still have no idea why, the pair of them took her to all over Hollywood, she was impressed by our glamorous lives, Lou seemed to be back to his chipper self, which made me happy, it was extremely emotional when Zayn said goodbye to the woman who gave him life, when she got on that plane to return to his old life, we were there for him when he was moping around our house , when Ashley was away with her job, he soon turned back into the Zayn we know and love.

The boys were heading out on a tour of America in my 18^th week of pregnancy, Lou was upset about missing out on my ultrasounds, and begged me to come with them on the tour, I did not think that would be a wise idea, I didn’t want to burden them. Lila was moving in with me for the three weeks I had without them, it was going to be just like old times before she moved out of our old apartment.

“Jay!” Lila squealed when I opened the door to my apartment.

“My ears!” Louis complained, rubbing his ears, Harry and Louis were finishing packing for their trip, our living room was filled with suitcases, and their clothes were everywhere.

“You guys pack so much for men” Lila said staring at all their things, she pulled her suitcase behind her, and she was right, her case was half the size of Harry’s and a third of the size of Lou’s and that is saying alot because Lila’s bag was not small.

“You’re going to turn our place into a chick’s flat aren’t you?” Harry asked us, packing the final touches into his case.

“I promise we won’t” I trudged over to help Louis pack his last minute items, he wouldn’t let me touch his clothes though, he insisted that it was his responsibility.

“I’m going to miss you both” I told the boys, helping Lila settle in, they were finished packing by then, and started to eat instead.

“We’ll miss you too” Harry told me with a mouthful.

“I’ll skype you whenever I can” Lou promised, he’s really wasn’t looking forward to leaving me here for three weeks, and I felt the same way. Lila came back into the kitchen.

“What are we going to do today missy” she ruffled my hair in a playful way; she’s my best friend so I let her get away with messing up my hair.

“Who knows, maybe we should have a party” I winked at her; we began to tease the boys about messing up their precious apartment, until they had to leave. I cried when their taxi drove them away, I stayed out on the street until I could no longer see the car. Lila took me inside, and tried to cheer me up and it worked.

***

“So what’s it like, having a growing person inside of you?” she asked me, while we sun bathed on the roof, just because my tummy wasn’t tiny anymore, did not mean I had to go around looking like a bed sheet.

“It’s strange, it’s like I’m a house, but a person at the same time” I giggled

“I can’t believe you’re gunna be a mom!” she exclaimed excitedly, there is one thing you should know about my best friend, she a squealer.

“Me too babe, It’s so unbelievable, a few months ago we were filming on the show, i was skinny and we had it all. Now I’m not so skinny, but I have it all and more” I looked over at her, I couldn’t tell her reaction as her face was covered by her sunnies.

“That’s really beautiful babe” she smiled back at me, and it was beautiful, I had a beautiful baby inside of me, and a beautiful boyfriend to look after me.

*** 

“What did you two scoundrels get up to today?” my lover asked us on skype that night, he looked really tired, his voice wasn’t at its best, but his face gave me great comfort.

“Wouldn’t you like to know” Lila said cheekily, Louis laughed.

“We just did some talking, and soaked up some rays.” I told him

“Did you use sun lotion?” he asked protectively.

“Yes Dad” Lila smirked, making fun of his protectiveness.

“I’m not quite a dad yet, thanks Lila” he said through clenched teeth, offended by her sarcasm.

“How was the show?” I asked him trying to change the topic.

“It was great, the fans in Nevada are amazing, Harry got a few phone numbers, and Liam was kissed out on the street, it was alot of fun, wish you came but at least i get to see you now.”

“Don’t forget you can see Lila too” Lila piped up speaking about herself in third person, which was cute.

We talked to him for another half hour, before Liam came to ruin our conversation.

“Hey ladies, sorry to break up the party but Lou has to go to sleep now” he said into the camera.

“Bye, bye, Lou”   Lila yelled at him.

“Talk to you tomorrow” I said to him, blowing him a kiss.

“Bye girls, and by baby” he blew us all a kiss and logged off, it was great to see him again, even though he only left not long ago, I was already missing him.

*** 

“Ok, so you’re either going to love me or hate me when I tell you what we’re doing today” Lila greeted me the next morning, her hair was already perfectly done, and as always she looked stunning, I looked down at my pregnant belly and sighed, why did my best friend have to always look a million bucks?

“What is it?” I asked her, pulling the covers off of me, I was still in bed when she came in all excited.

“We’re going to have a best friend’s photo shoot.” I groaned, of course we were. I had to have my picture taken with my gorgeous skinny best friend, while I looked like a balloon.

“Fine, we’ll do it” I told her, getting out of bed.

“YAY” she squealed, I had to shield my ears from the piercing sound.

I went off to have a shower, I checked my phone for messages just before I got into the shower, one new message from Louis appeared in my inbox, a smile crept over my face. He’s so sweet!

*** 

“Lila darling!” the gay old man kissed both of my friend’s cheeks, I wasn’t excited to find out what he would do to my baby stomach. He seemed like the touchy feely type.

“And you must be the Jay, my Lila always talks about” the man kissed me on both of mine, and completely ignored my baby bump, I silently prayed to God, thanking Him for sparing me from the old man’s hands.

He had us posing in positions I’d never thought a pregnant lady would ever have to be in, luckily I was only 4 months along, and not let’s say.....about to pop.

“You’re a hot mama” Lila purred at me, when we were taking a look at some of the shots we’d just posed in, and I must say she wasn’t far off the truth, I’m not saying I looked hot, no I mean I wasn’t as ugly as I’d been feel for the past few months, for once I could almost see what Lou had been hinting at the entire time. I felt beautiful for once, and not because a magazine told me I was either.

*** 

We stopped for a snack at our favourite coffee shop that we always used to go to when we had a break from work, it was like old times, we laughed about the silliest things, we filled each other in about our current relationships and we even gossiped a bit.

“Do you remember that time we were pegging pegs on everyone without them noticing? You were so good at that game Jay, next season we’ve got to do it again” I remembered that game as well as many other pranks we used to get up to on the set.

“I own at that game” I agreed, I really miss working on the show, it was always loads of fun, we’d muck around, play games, perform pranks on each other, have dance battles and everything else you could imagine. We were like a great big happy family, we’d been working together for almost 6 years, and they were like my third family, third to my One Direction family and my actual family.

“Lila, Jay look over here” a paparazzi, shoved a camera in our faces, which was against the rules of this cafe, the main reason we liked coming here is that the owners of this shop didn’t allow any photography inside but obviously this joker didn’t follow the rules.

“Come on let’s leave” Lila grabbed onto my hand and we ran down the street, we couldn’t run as far as we used to because I got way too tired now days, I couldn’t keep up with her, she’s as fit as anything always has been.

“Lila wait up” I called to her; she stopped and came back to me and waiting for my breath to come back to a steady pace.

“Promise me Tomlinson, that we will be friends forever.” She said to me as we started walking again.

“What did you just call me?” I asked confused, but I couldn’t contain the smile that insisted on crawling onto my face.

“Tomlinson? What? Don’t give me that look Jay, you mightn’t officially be a Tommo yet, but trust me you will be one day.” She had this knowing look on her face, she always had that look on her face when she knew what she was talking about, although I couldn’t help doubting what she had said, if he wanted me to be his wife he would have asked or at least mentioned it, which he never has so there’s no point holding onto worthless hopes.

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Reviews

[AK]

Amazing! Keep writing!

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Have you been listening to their new song?

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No:P

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OMG it's awesome!!

[AK]

Er..what's it called? (I had no idea what so ever that they had a new album up-_-)
:)

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Live While We're Young :)

[AK]

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*does a happy dance*

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I KNOWWW!!! I LOVE IT!!!

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It's been replaying in my mind all night...:)

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