Oops? ? Zouis Talik

Chapter Twenty-Six

"Spare me your star-crossed lovers story and get to where you decided to break up with me the same way Louis did, please." it wasn't a question and Zayn knew Alex could tell from the gulp he took.

"I had been trying to find a way to say it and each time I did, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I knew what had happened to you before and I didn't want to do the same..." Alex sighed reaching out to run his fingers over Zayns knuckles. 

"You did it anyway though and my kids found you Alex. I would've been okay with you just breaking up with me but they way you did it...was heartless."

"I came home from the Ghana trip after Devin told me he was pregnant." Alex started ignoring what Zayn had said "I was sitting there thinking of how exactly to tell you I got someone else pregnant or how to get everything out before you got home so it would be like I never existed.

I called Devin to come and help me grab some things and then later when you came home and found my stuff gone I would've explained but things happened and well, yeah. We lost track time and you came home. We heard you in the boys room and we tried to get dressed quickly because the only thing that was going through my mind was what Louis did and how I didn't want to recreate that for you. Then Damian and Elijah came in and everything was fucked." Alex stopped to take a much needed breath and looked at Zayn seeing tears making their way down his cheeks.

"I never meant to hurt you but you have to know how I feel if only just a little bit. I heard about you and him being together again, to forgive him for what he did to you... you never stopped loving him and I always knew that. I guess we were both just passing time and it sucks we bo- it sucks that you got hurt but in a way I wouldn't change a thing. You're with the person you love and I with the person I love. I don't think I would have even been able to tell you..."

Zayn wasn't sure how exactly to react. Should he scream and yell about how big of an arse Alex? He probably could but part of him had to agree with what he said, he never stopped loving Louis the way Alex never stopped caring about Devin. They just somehow managed to find one another and be what the other needed at the point in time. 

 Zayn was wrong when he said this wasn't going to make him feel any better because he could feel the anger he had towards Alex fade away and instead was looking at...himself. Alex had used him to fill a void, he tried to be happy with him but in the end his heart never really left the one he truly wanted. 

"I'm... I guess I'm not made anymore, I understand how you felt. It doesn't make it hurt any less but I understand." Zayn exhaled as he slid to exit the booth

 Alex followed his movements standing and holding out his hand to help Zayn up "What about us being friends? I still care about you an I at least want to be friends Zayn." 

"I care about you as well but I don't think being friends would work for us there's too much history Louis hates you and Devin hates me, not to mention they probably wouldn't get along. We should just leave it here, say goodbye and move on." He replied calmly offering Alex a small smile before dropping a few quid on the table and heading towards the exit.

Once they made it out to their cars Alex pulled on Zayn's arm to get him to stop and face him. "This is it then yeah?"

He nodded shrugging his arm out off his grip "Yeah. Thanks for this but this is it. I'll see you around someday." and then just like that he walked around to the drivers side of his SUV and got it not even sparing a glance at Alex as he drove away.

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"So it's done then yeah? You won't have to talk to him again?"

Zayn laughed switching the phone from his left ear to his right "Unless I'm somehow six months pregnant and don't know it no, I won't have to talk to him again."