Chapter Forty- Three: Excitable People




{Perrie's POV}


I tear open the letter I received in the letterbox today. I pass Zayn's to him and he opens his too. Once I see what mine is I look at Zayn smiling. He's smiling back and we high five each other, knowing what they both are.


"Well done Boo." He presses his lips against my forehead. I congratulate him as well and look down at my driver's licence. I cannot believe it's already September. It seems like yesterday I was starting my driver's licence.


"We might need to go shopping." Zayn mentions. "You know, no point in having this with nothing to drive." He shrugs. I laugh and rush off to get changed.


Once we're both ready, Zayn wearing a white tee, hoodie and black jeans with his black Converses. I have on black leggings, one of the white tees I got from Zayn for my birthday, a denim jacket with wool on the inside and my all black high top Converses. Zayn originally has his hair in a very unusual hair syle for him, surprise surprise it's a QUIFF! Woah! So much change- NOT. I just leave my blonde hair out. No need to tackle it today, a simple brush through will do.


"Let's go!" He grabs my hand and we head into town. I have no clue what sort of car to get? Zayn will probably go for a Range Rover, like the other boys but the girls all have different cars. Leigh- Anne has a an Audi, Jade has a Volvo and Jesy has a Jeep. So...


"What sort of car do you want?" I ask Zayn as we walk along the street that coincidentally has all the car dealers in it.


"Um, Range Rover maybe." He suggests. I try not to laugh. Oh so predictable Zayn! Instead I just nod and we head into Land Rover. After talking to the assistant Zayn ends up buying a black Range Rover that costs around 94,236 pounds. We have to come back and pick it up tomorrow, which is a bit annoying due to the fact we're both in the studio. Zayn said he'll just get it on the way home.


"So, what are you after?" Zayn asks me as we head back onto the street, like a normal couple, except most of the people who we pass nearly run into poles because they're staring at us, jaws open and eyes bulging out of their sockets.


"Something small but high, if that makes sense?" I ask him. He chuckles and nods. We pass a window and both look at the same car.


"Something like that?" Zayn points at the car in the Volkswagen window. I nod my head and he drags me inside.


"Hello! How can I help?" A guy in his forties possibly comes over, dressed in a suit, all cheeful, making the pristine room happier.


"We'd like to look at that car over there." Zayn points at it. The assistant looks at it and nods smiling.


"The Tiguan?" He asks. How the heck do you get tig- one out of that spelling? German I think. We head over and look at the car. It isn't a huge car, which is good. It's high, it has car seat attatchments and the extras are endless.


"So, what do you think?" Brian, the assistant asks us. I actually really like this car. Not sure about Zayn but he has his own really expensive car back at Land Rover.


"What's the saftey like?" Zayn asks. Saftey. Something that's always important. If this car ends up having shitty saftey options I wont be happy. Brian explains all the stop motion technology, breaking system, where all the airbags are and to be honest, this car is SUPER safe.


"Okay, um what do you think Pep?" Zayn asks me. What do I think? I really like this car! I think it will do perfectly fine.


"I like it." I nod in reply.


"Do you want to come fill out a form?" Brian asks. We agree and go and fill out the forms. It just so happens the ideal car for us is actually in stock. Black car, tinted windows for obvious reasons, park assist and a rear view camera.


We provide our licences and Brian fills out all the forms.


"Now, how would you like to do the payments?" Brian asks. I grab my purse from my bag and open it. Only to see Zayn shoot his credit card at Brian.


"Um, no." I take it out of Zayn's hand and give Brian mine. Zayn gives me a confused look at I just smirk. I can pay for my own car. As lovely as it is that he wants to buy it, I think I can do that myself.


"So, would you like to do a deposit and then seperate payments?" Brian asks. Exactly what the previous dealer in Land Rover asked. Is it scary that two twenty- five year olds don't need to do a deposit? We can just pay straight up.


"Um no. There should be enough for the whole payment." I reply. Brian gives me a confused look but proceeds to swipe the card and the transaction goes through. Brian looks a little shocked at the machine and then hands me the receipt to sign.


I sign it and he checks the signature before handing back my card. I see him look at the name as he hands it back.


"You're the singer!" He exclaims. "In that girl group." He adds. I nod and smile. "And you're from One Direction." He looks at Zayn. Zayn nods, chuckling a little. "My daughters love you guys. Should've known considering you're all I hear about." He says. We laugh and Brian shows us out to the car.


"Here you go!" He unlocks a shiny black car, surrounded by other cars. Funny! This one only cost 28,076 pounds, unlike Zayn's car. Brian hands me the keys, we thank him and I chuck the keys to Zayn.


"Want to drive?" I ask as he catches them. He smiles and I get into the passenger seat. These seats are so comfortable!


We drive out of the dealer and I muck around with the radio. Why are some things so complicated.


"So, do you want to get the main baby shopping out of the way now?" Zayn asks me. I look up at him and he's concentrating on the road. "Seeing as though we're already in town?" Zayn turns to look at me for a second and then goes back to the road.


"Um, sure." I reply. I have absolutely no clue what the heck to buy and I doubt Zayn does either. There better be a helpful shop assistant who will put up with us then.


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"So do you know what you're after?" Ronnie, the shop assistant who I have a feeling might be gay, asks us as we walk through the isles of this mega shop.


"Um no. We have no clue what to buy?" Zayn replies in a question sort of way. Surely you only need jumpsuits, dummies, baby monitors, a capsule and all that stuff but I have a feeling there's going to be a hell of a lot more considering it's 2018 and there's something for everything.


"That's okay! I can direct you!" Ronnie smiles cheerfully, clasping his hands together. "Follow me!" He strides away and we follow after him.


"So, first thing is first, do you know what gender you're having?" He asks us. We shake our heads and he continues to walk into an isle stuffed with baby clothes. "Got any clothes yet?" He asks us. We are going to sound like crappy disinterred parents.


"One jumpsuit." I reply. Ronnie nods and shows us the huge range.


"I suggest you get the clothes later considering you can get them anywhere," Ronnie smiles. "But, you're probably going to want a couple of swaddles." He shows us these things you zip babies up in. There are so many!!!


We grab a couple, we get blankets, nappies, dummies, things to change the baby with and a nappy bag. Until we get to the prams. Holy cow there's so many!


"Um, how do you chose?" Zayn asks Ronnie. Ronnie chuckles and leads us over to a certain brand called Bugaboo. There's all different styles of prams and they have cool coloured hoods.


"Right, the idea with these prams are that you can use them in multiple different ways." Ronnie says. "Considering you two have no clue what you're looking for, one of these prams will be convenient." Ronnie smiles.


We both nod and look at them. I pray he shows us how they work because they look kind of confusing. We need a pram but I'm not sure how these are different to any other ones?


"Which one do you suggest?" Zayn asks Ronnie. He walks over to one and grabs it down.


"The Bee." Ronnie smiles. The what? They actually have names like that? Oh my goodness. When I was a baby you just got one pram that moved and used that. None of this can swap in nine thousand directions and has a actual name stuff.


"What does it do?" Zayn asks, probably as confused as I am.


"Okay, so it's lightweight, compactable and easy to change into different styles as the baby gets older." Ronnie flips it into a different way. Yeah! Easy for you lad, not for me. "And one of the great things is, you can buy the attachment so it becomes a capsule for the first few months of your baby's life!" Ronnie claps.


"He's mental." Zayn whispers in my ear as Ronnie changes it back. I laugh a little and Ronnie places the pram back.


"So, what do you think?" He asks excitedly.


"What colours do you have?" Zayn asks him with fake enthusiasm. I try not to laugh and Ronnie runs over to the shelf to check.
"Yellow or Royal Blue." Ronnie replies. I look at the yellow and the royal blue on other prams. Zayn and I agree on blue and Ronnie grabs us one down. Oh wow! The box isn't very big at all. Ronnie also gets us a car attachment.


"Now! A car seat!" He leads us away, walking like a model. I look at Zayn who gives me a bewildered look. I just nod my head in agreement and we follow after Ronnie.


Once we've got a car seat he leads us to the feeding area.


"So you're going to breast feed?" Ronnie asks me right away. I nod my head and he smiles. "And do you ever want to feed bub?" Ronnie asks Zayn. He kind of doesn't have the equipment to do that lad.


"Um, with a bottle do you mean?" Zayn asks Ronnie. Ronnie nods in reply. "Uh, yeah." Zayn mumbles.


"Right!" Ronnie clasps his hands together. I jump a little at the sudden movement. Ronnie literally leaps over to the shelf. "This is a breast pump." He shows Zayn and I. Okay, Zayn was right! It is a contraption thingy. "How it works, is when you pull the handle, it acts like when the baby is suckling." Ronnie explains. I'm not sure that he should know this much about breast pumps.


Ronnie rambles on and I gather there's instructions in the box. Ronnie places one into the trolley he decided to grab us and then shows us the bottles. We grab four of them and then continue our shopping.


At the end we pay and Ronnie helps us take the stuff out to the car.


"Thanks again for your help lad." Zayn smiles at him. I thank Ronnie as well. As weird as he is, he was actually a big help.


"No worries! Good luck guys!" Ronnie calls and skips back off into the store. We get into the car an drive home, talking about how much babies cost this day and age.


We arrive at our home and drive down towards the house. When we come to the opening we notice all of our friends cars.


"Looks like we're going to have more excitable people this afternoon." Zayn says. I nod and we park the car in the garage, that's barely ever been used.


We decide to leave the stuff and get it later. I follow Zayn down the little hallway and out into the opening that brings us to the living area.


"Where have you guys been?" I hear Leigh's voice. When I look up they're all here. Niall, Ella, Asha, Leigh, Jesy, Jordan, Jade, Harry, Louis, Eleanor, Dani, Zuri, Indie, Liam and people I was hoping not to see for a while. Five Seconds of Summer.

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