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“Hang on. I thought only women could be witches?”

Zayn stopped dead in his tracks upon registering the ridiculousness of the words that had just left his husbands admittedly gorgeous lips.

Turning on his heals, Zayn spun around with a fanciful flourish, before offering Liam what he was sure would have been a withering stare as he fought to contain the immediate chagrin that question always induced in him. “Excuse me?” Zayn asked with as much civility as he could muster in the moment, albeit through gritted teeth.

“Witches. I thought they were only girls. Aren’t lads usually referred to as warlocks or something?”

After the Yolanda b’day outing followed by Zayn’s bday dinner the next night—which were both fairly low key by the Hadid’s standards, especially social media wise, and with it being all quiet since then, I think I had somewhat fooled myself into thinking that it was just a couple of pr outings to drum up interest for any upcoming projects and wasn’t leading to an official zigi 4.0.

But with the latest sappy, lovey dovey ig story from she who will not be named, it looks like I well and truly played myself and it’s full steam ahead 😔😡

So the question now is do I want to do this for a fourth time? Do any of us Ziams have the energy to go through this absolute bs yet again?

So the idea is to post the favourite line that you’ve written in the last day, and as usual I’ve decided to cheat a bit and post a few of my favourites from part two of my wip Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime.

Thanks 🙏🏻 oh and FYI it’s a tiny bit nsfw 😉

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Encouraged by the apparent upturn in Liam’s mood, Zayn not so subtly climbed into his lap in hopes of getting things moving again. “Not sure if you’ve noticed, but we’re both still very much naked and I was just wondering if you were planning on doing anything about that?”

Liam grabbed possessively at Zayn’s waist drawing him in closer as his lips hovered ever so closely to Zayn’s. “Oh I noticed. And I’d love to do something about it. But I guess the next question is, what exactly?”

“Well I can think of a million things I’d like us to do. But ... if I’m being completely honest, I’ve kinda been fantasising about what it would be like to fuck you ever since I first laid eyes on all this,” Zayn confided, making a show of skimming his hands lightly over Liam’s chest, much like he’d done when they first met.

“R—really?” Liam stuttered, clearly not expecting Zayn to be quite so bold despite their current situation—although that didn’t stop him sliding his hands down and grabbing hungrily at Zayn’s bum.

Hey, I saw someone post this idea for a challenge and I thought it looked good :)

So the idea is to post the favourite line that you’ve written in the last day, and as usual I’ve decided to cheat a bit and post a few of my favourites from part two of my wip Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime.

Thanks 🙏🏻 oh and FYI it’s a tiny bit nsfw 😉

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Encouraged by the apparent upturn in Liam’s mood, Zayn not so subtly climbed into his lap in hopes of getting things moving again. “Not sure if you’ve noticed but we’re both still very much naked and I was just wondering if you were planning on doing anything about that?”

Liam grabbed possessively at Zayn’s waist drawing him in closer as his lips hovered ever so closely to Zayn’s. “Oh I noticed. And I’d love to do something about it. But I guess the next question is, what exactly?”

“Well I can think of a million things I’d like us to do. But ... if I’m being completely honest, I’ve kinda been fantasising about what it would be like to fuck you ever since I first laid eyes on all this,” Zayn confided, making a show of skimming his hands lightly over Liam’s chest, much like he’d done when they first met.

“R—really?” Liam stuttered, clearly not expecting Zayn to be quite so bold despite their current situation—although that didn’t stop him sliding his hands down over Zayn’s bum and hungrily kneading at it.

Hey, I saw someone post this idea for a challenge and I thought it looked good :)

So the idea is to post the favourite line that you’ve written in the last day, and as usual I’ve decided to cheat a bit and post a few of my favourites.

Thanks 🙏🏻 oh and FYI it’s a tiny bit nsfw 😉

Encouraged by the apparent upturn in Liam’s mood, Zayn not so subtly climbed into his lap in hopes of getting things moving again. “Not sure if you’ve noticed but we’re both still very much naked and I was just wondering if you were planning on doing anything about that?”

Liam grabbed possessively at Zayn’s waist drawing him in closer as his lips hovered ever so closely to Zayn’s. “Oh I noticed. And I’d love to do something about it. But I guess the next question is, what exactly?”

“Well I can think of a million things I’d like us to do. But ... if I’m being completely honest, I’ve kinda been fantasizing about what it would be like to fuck you ever since I first laid eyes on all this,” Zayn confided, making a show of skimming his hands ever so lightly down Liam’s chest, much like he’d done when they first met.

“R—really?” Liam stuttered, clearly not expecting Zayn to be quite so bold despite their current situation—although that didn’t stop him sliding his hands down and grabbing hungrily at Zayn’s bum.

By way of a bit of background, this snippet is from part two of my fic Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime (I posted part one ages ago, it’s here if you haven’t read it or if you’re interested, but it’s ok either way ☺️). Zayn, a very famous and very jaded pop star and Liam, an up and coming singer, have met up in Zayn’s suite for a rendezvous after meeting for the first time that afternoon at their label’s Coachella party. This scene starts when things are just starting to get interesting, so to speak, but then something happens to derail it a bit!

My concern with this part of the story is that it’s too wordy and a bit too soppy or overly sentimental? Like it seemed like a good idea at the time but when I started to write it I began to wonder if it was unnecessary for the story and didn’t really add anything (or even worse detracted from it?). I feel like I tend to ramble in my writing and just start writing stuff for the sake of it, and I’m also really bad at editing myself which doesn’t help 🤦🏻‍♀️. So yeah, if you wouldn’t mind reading this and giving me some feedback in regards to the above concerns; also if it all makes sense and isn’t too confusing? or anything really, that would be great :) Thanks and thanks again for responding to my initial post—I really appreciate it 🙏🏻  

p.s. I’ve put some under the cut because the post was getting a bit long! 

p.p.s Just to warn you there’s a little bit of nsfw content (fairly tame, but still 🤷🏻‍♀️)

p.p.p.s If anyone else sees this post and wants to offer some feedback that would be great too!

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Liam trailed his eyes over Zayn’s hair, before hesitantly bringing a hand up to brush a few stray strands away from his face. “Yeah, you’re right. It is wet. And somehow it makes you look even more beautiful than you did when I first met you.”

Zayn swallowed around nothing, suddenly feeling the need to take in a big gulp of air (not unlike the way he’d felt when Liam first turned around at the party). Liam was looking at him like he wanted to devour him and it left Zayn feeling a rare sense of vulnerability, even in the face of his earlier bravado.

“Yeah?” Zayn squeaked out, not able to think of an even remotely witty reply.

“Yeah,” Liam confirmed, his eyes falling to Zayn’s lips. “Fuck, I want to kiss you so bad. Can I?”

“Thought you’d never ask,” Zayn purred, hoping to betray an air of confidence in his voice that would belie just how nervous he was feeling in that moment. And as he leant forward it began to feel like his heart was going to beat right out of his chest, a feeling that was only magnified as Liam brought a hand up to slowly trace the sharp of his jaw, before leaning forward himself and grazing his lips ever so gently against Zayn’s.

The kiss definitely didn’t disappoint. Liam’s lips were as glorious as Zayn had expected (and hoped)—gorgeously rose pink in colour, soft and pillowy, yet still unmistakably those of a man, firm and self-assured. Zayn suspected no words could truly do them justice, but one thing he did know for sure was that it was shaping up to be one of the best first kisses he’d ever shared with someone.

Liam brought a hand up to cup the back of his neck, his tongue flicking against Zayn’s bottom lip before cocking his head to the side and deepening the kiss. Zayn was more than happy to reciprocate as he parted his lips; Liam not needing a second invitation as he licked into his mouth, surprising in his boldness.

I’m just going to choose to ignore it for now and hope it’s not leading to anything too full on 🤞🏻but, as I’ve seen others say, it’s really crappy timing (but I guess that’s the point—wanting maximum impact pr wise 🤬)

I’m pretty sure I’ve said it before and have definitely thought it many times, but it really seems like the only way to have a stress free, enjoyable and uplifting experience in the 1D fandom is too follow Niall and only Niall (sorry Liam and Zayn, but it’s so hard when being your fan means having to put up with a plus one constantly shoved in your face).

Like I just checked my word count and I’m already up to over 7000 words and Zayn and Liam have only just taken their clothes off!

Why am I like this? Why does everything have to be so involved? Why do I always have so much dialogue? Why is writing smut so nerve wracking? Arrrrrghhhh!!

Although I shouldn’t really be that surprised by all this, given that the only other smut I’ve ever written (part two of my abandoned wip, Murder on the Dance Floor, ‘This feels a little like love’) ended up at nearly 6000 words (and that was only a blow job!).