Gold Forever

Chapter 26: What the fuck are you wearing?

Louis’ POV

                “Thanks mum that was so good.” I said, pushing in my chair and bringing my plate to the sink. After my heart to heart with Lydia yesterday I decided to spend the day with my family. Now that dinner was over I assumed the twins would be in bed soon and I was hoping I could hop over to Lydia’s for a movie.

                “No problem babe,”

                “Look I think I’m gonna head over to the Miller’s”

                “Okay bring your key because I should be turning in soon.” She said. I hummed a response and grabbed my phone and my key before making my way into Lydia’s backyard. Its an understatement to say I was surprised by what I saw.

                “Lydia what the fuck are you doing?!” I hissed into the night, you could see my breath. Lydia, who had been slowly descending the tree house ladder whipped her head around to see me.

                “Louis?!” She asked, startled before falling the remaining four feet to the ground.

                “Shit” I cursed under my breath before sprinting over and helping her up.

                “Louis what the hell are you doing out here?” She asked

                “I should be asking you the same question.”

                “I asked first.” She sneered.

                “I thought it was painfully obvious I was going to yours.” I pointed out. I couldn’t be sure with the lack of light, the fact that her mouth was partially open, and the temperature but I think Lydia blushed at this. I took the opportunity to take in her entire appearance. That’s how I knew she was not on her way to my house.

                “LYDIA WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WEARING?”

                “Will you shut your mouth my mom will hear!” She hissed at me.

                “Not if you don’t tell me why your out- without a jacket – in a —this!” I gestured towards her outfit. She straightened up a bit in defense.

                “I’m going out.” She stated obtusely.

                “Like hell you are.” I spat grabbing her arm. I couldn’t help but wonder if this was a dream. I’ve never seen Lyd looking skanky and now what? Sneaking out late behind her moms back?

                “I am.” She yanked her arm away. “I don’t have time for this right now Louis, they’re waiting. You’re not my father. Just be my best friend and cover for me or something okay? I’ll text you or something.” She waved her phone at me before trying to dash away.

                “Lydia where are you going?” I whispered seriously.

                “I’ll explain tomorrow.” And then she was gone.

Lyd’s POV 

(Weeks earlier- A couple days after Lydia left London and Louis went to Harry’s house. Two days after Janice invited her to sleep over and she told herself to ‘get a life’.)

                “Its October 3^rd.” Katy told Aaron in a hushed voice.

                “GOD AARON SHOULDN’T YOU KNOW THAT ALREADY?” I yelled at the screen mean girls was playing on while shoving a spoon full of chocolate ice cream into my mouth. This had been me since I told Janice I couldn’t go to the sleepover. Party. I must really look like hell right now. My baggy sweater is almost completely off my  left shoulder and I’m 76 percent sure I’m positioned so you can see a strip of my granny panties under my ugly ass Sofie shorts. Holla at me boys. My phone is currently lighting up with all the messages I’m receiving. If only they could see me now, I thought. Hating myself for it, I turned my head away from the movie for a moment to peek at myself in the mirror. I look like a fucking zombie. Mascara and shit all over my face. Urgh whatever. Oh did I forget to mention its nine in the morning.

                “Lydia Miller what on earth is wrong with you?! I can hear you screeching from my bedroom! You are not eating that stuff in the morning young lady.” She said sternly, snatching the ice cream out of my hand causing me to look dumb with an empty spoon stuck in my mouth. “Now, I just got off the phone with Marie” Eleanor’s Mom. “Whats this about a sleepover you passed up on?”

                “Eleanor’s mother snitched on me?” I asked almost comically.

                “Don’t be childish she just said that El missed you there and I was curious why I heard nothing of it.” I only shrugged the issue seemed minimal to me. “Aww has my poor baby finally realized she’s in love with Louis Tomlinson and is sinking into a depression.” I groaned in anger.

                “Mom this is how normal teenagers act you’re lucky I have a best friend like Louis so I don’t always act like this.” I rolled my eyes. Not the brightest thing anyones ever done. The TV screen went  black as my mom ripped each plug out of the outlet.

                “Mum!!”

                “Go out with your friends today your gonna have school soon and you don’t want to seem like an unsocial person. Go out have fun.” My Mom looked at me lovingly before leaving the room. Little did she know she just gave me the worst advice possible.

Words Meet Heartbeats

Chapter 37: 3 hours

Louis’ POV

                “So you lot are gonna mess about in the water on the shore, then once we get a couple shots of that your gonna come over here” The manager of our video, Marcus, pointed to a part of the map. “Sing a bit. We’ll get the girls in, run about. Then we shoot Harry’s sunset scene, the bonfire scene and that’s it. Any questions?” We all stared blankly at him and the diagram of the beach where we’d shoot our video. Couldn’t he just shoot us an email or something? We really had to wake up at six and have a meeting about this crap?

                “I think we got it,” Liam said graciously.

                “Great,” Marcus said, checking his watch. “Then you should be free to go.” We all stood up and gave him a firm handshake and a ‘see you Wednesday’. 

                We got out on the side walk and started for the hotel. Zayn yawned and then I yawned, stupid yawning. Honestly, if theres no school I should be sleeping in till eleven everyday. Just joking, love my job.

                “Monday morning.” Harry said cheerily, the only one with pep in his step. He seemed to always see a better side of things. Zayn, who was not so optimistic looked around grumpily.

                “Guys can we hurry it up were going to draw attention,” He said. We all followed his gaze to an anxious looking group of girls across the street, staring at us and waiting for the light to change. We automatically quickened. We aren’t actually allowed to take pictures on this trip and you don’t want to have an unpleasant encounter with a fan. We walked for a bit longer, only a few short blocks from the hotel when I decided to take a peek behind us to find at least triple the amount of girls trying to stay a discreet amount of space behind us, waiting to pounce. I whipped my head back.

                “We’ve got company,” I mumbled.

                “Ahh damn” Niall said, “We were supposed to be like invisible on this trip.” I glanced back again.

                “Getting closer..”

                “Alright guys we have to bolt back to the hotel,” Liam instructed. “No one slow or fall behind they can’t know where we’re staying.” There was a silent agreement. “Now.” He hissed . We ran so fast it was ridiculous. Liam had a major lead on us all and I can’t say the girls did that bad either but they were no match for us. We were at the hotel in no time and we didn’t wait around long enough to see the confused look on their faces. We ran all the way to our suite and collapsed on the sofas trying to catch or breath.

                “That…. was…. Crazy….” Harry put in between gasps we all nodded.

                “WHERE IS MY MAKEUP?!?!” A murderous looking Nat appeared in the room running around frantically picking up papers and cushions that could never hide anything .

`               “Ermm.. Nat? isn’t that your makeup bag right there?” Zayn pointed to the middle of the room where Natalie’s pink juicy pouch was sitting in plain sight. She leaped over the couch,  snaching it and jogging out of the room.

                “Thanks Z!” She called before slamming the door and immediately shutting on the obnoxiously loud blow drier.

                “What’s got her knickers in a knot?” Niall wondered aloud.

                “She’s got Kellin today,” Zayn told us rubbing his eyes, “Talked about it all night. I would of told her to can it if she didn’t sound so freaked out. Almost insecure.” We all thought about that for a moment.

                “.. Our Nat insecure,” I said allowed chuckling for a moment at the end.

                “She’s perfect it’ll pass,” Harry said nonchalantly. We all smiled at this. I glanced at the digital clock on the table.

                “She’s got hours until that.” I said. “Girls.” The tv flicked on and Liam browsed through the channels.

                Three hours later the bathroom door opened to no ones notice and Natalie walked out. My lips curved into a smirk at the sight of her. She looked amazing, I mean she always looks good but with three hours of prep she was smokinnn.

            “Bloody hell.” Zayn put it frankly causing all the boys to look up.

            “Awww Natty! Don’t you look just perf for your first date” I cheered doing my best valley girl impression. She rolled her eyes.

            “Its not a date we’re only hanging out.” She said, plopping down on Harry’s lap seeing as there was no other room on the couch.

            “That why you’ve been getting ready for three hours?” He grinned up at her.

            “Hes… important. I need to be worth it.” She said. “And this is when I leave you!” She hopped up and skipped to the door flashing us the peace sign before she was gone. And for a while after that we all turned our attention back to the cartoon.

            “I have a bad feeling about this.”

Words Meet Heartbeats

Chapter 35: Fan Girl Mode

Natalie’s POV

              After the meeting I was pretty much shaking but I forced myself to stay out and about in town. I didn’t want to collapse from fan girling but I was pretty sure if I went home I would sew my hands to a carton of ice cream and then I’d be to fat to text Kellin. I went into some American stores I’d never heard of and some store we have back home. I spent a lot of money but I was therapy shopping? Is there even a budget for that? At six o’clock I was tired of shopping and went to Starbucks again, I never got to drink my thingy earlier and it made me sad. Bite me. 

              To Mandy: You will never guess who I met today! 

            From Mandy: Who! I don’t see who it could be since you already live with one direction -___-

              To Mandy: Shh I had to sign something to keep that a secret so stop talking about it! Anyway no it obvi wasn’t them, guess again

              From Mandy: Katy Perry?

              To Mandy: EW NO! ok whatever you’re a loser so I’ll just tell you.. KELLIN QUINN

              From Mandy: Oh… him

              To Mandy: love you too mands but fo reals -> my dream come true. HE GAVE ME HIS NUMBER

              From Mandy: Ahh have you texted him?!

              To Mandy: Im waiting long enough so I seem interested but not desperate

              From Mandy: Ahh I’ve taught you well! I have to go keep me posted! Make out with Zayn for me and take pictures of america you lard. xx

              To Mandy: You’re vulgar. I will, love you! xx

              Suddenly my phone exited temple run and shut off. I sighed, my phone always dies! I don’t even know if I brought my charger… Oh Well, I’ll steal Liam’s. I disposed of my starbuck’s cup and left the store. The sun was only just beginning to go down, casting shadows all over the city. It was humid and sticky so I found myself quickening my pace to get into the hotel. When I finally got to my room I took out my key card and stuck it in before pulling it out. The red light blinked. I tried again. I did this seven times before finally kicking the door. Right before I was about to turn around and get a new key from the lobby the door swung open. 

              “Natalie?” Louis asked.

              “No its santa” I replied, shoving past him into the room.

             “Did you lose your key?” Zayn asked from the couch where the rest of the boys were.

              “Nahh it wasn’t working… weird.”  I said. Liam chuckled and I raised my eyebrows.

              “We thought you were a crazy fan who figured out what room we were in,” He admitted. “Niall was hiding behind the couch.” Niall blushed pink and I laughed, and then sighed. I walked over to the couch and slumped down next to Liam who moved to sling his arm around my shoulders. Across from us Louis sat down next to Harry who didn’t seem to notice. He was staring at Liam. They seemed to be having a sect conversation telepathically. Suddenly I felt bored, I sprang up feeling light and carefree, I just wanted to go where the wind took me today. I skipped over to the window.

              “You sure bought a lot of clothes,” Harry said.

              “Mhmm..” I agreed, watching the cars on the street below. I heard a rustle of bags behind me. 

              “Hey Nat!” Harry called. I heard silent laughter behind me. I turned to see Harry wearing my new black lace bra over his tee shirt. I laughed so hard, I mean, too hard. When I finally stopped and wiped the tears out of my eyes the boys were looking at me funny.

              “You okay Nat?” Harry asked me, I respond with a loud laugh, I just couldn’t take I’m seriously with that bra on. “.. You usually yell at me for this kinda thing,” He said, grinning while unhooking my bra and throwing it back in the striped pink bag. I shrugged with a huge smile.

              “Nothing can bother me today!” I said. “Today is perfect” I began leaping around the room. I did a round off handstand and flipped my hair dramatically as if I were in a spy movie, which made Niall laugh. I plopped on Louis lap and he laughed.

              “Natalie you are so weird!” He said shaking his head.

              “Im not weird!” I said, he raised his eyebrows. “This would make me weird,”  I leaned in close and cupped his ear before whispering something very inappropriate.

             “NATALIE JANE!” He shouted, shoving me roughly off his lap so I landed on the floor.

             “What?! What did she say!?” Harry asked eagerly. I shook wildly with laughter, hugging myself on the floor. Louis shook his head at me and stood up walking to the kitchen. I sprang up after him, circling him in an inappropriate dance.

            “DON’T BE SO QUICK TA WALK AWAYY!” I sang/shouted, thrusting into his side. “I WANNA ROCK YOUR BODY, PLEASE STAY.” This time he couldn’t hold his laughter but he kept walking. “YOU DON’T HAVE TO ADMIT YA WANNA PLAY,” I sand that part like a pedophile just for the heck of it. I jumped on Louis, he squirmed but I had too good a hold on him. Thats when I started dry humping his back. “JUST LET ME ROCK YOU ‘TIL THE BREAK A DAY!” At this point the other four boys were pissing themselves. Louis fell sideways into the couch, knocking me off permanently but I didn’t care. I got back up and started dancing on a random chair.

              “Got time but I don’t mind

              just wanna rock you uhh

              I’ll have whatevaa you havee

              cummoonnlet’s give it a whirl

              See I’ve been-”

             Suddenly a pair of arms wrapped around me dragging me off the char, knocking the wind out of me.

              “WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH NATALIE?!” Zayn yelled at me. The boys laughed more and I only grinned and started circling the couch while dancing, like I was in the sound of music.

              “Oh boys, I had the most magical day!” I said in a posh accent. I went to sit on Lou’s lap again but he gave me a threatening look so I plopped down on the ground indian style. I bit my lip.

              “Well go on, tell us.” Harry spat impatiently.

              “I meet a sex god who gave me his number!” I sang. The boys all grinned except for Harry who looked at Liam through narrow eyes. I looked at Liam too, to see what was wrong but her was only smiling as well. I smiled back.

              “Really, Natalie your acting like this, just because of some boy you met?” Zayn chuckled, raising his eye brows.

             “Oh no, Zayn not ‘some boy’ not even ‘Some american boy’ I met-” I leaned in with a foolish smile as if to tell them a secret. “Kellin Quinn.” I whispered.

Words Meet Heartbeats

Chapter 31: Thats What Makes You Beautiful

Natalie’s POV

    I sat in the back of the radio studio as the boys all stood fidgety around a table. Some J-lo song came to an end.

   “Now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for,” The host said in a very announce-y voice. “We’ve got One Direction here at the studio and we’re going to release their new single. Would you like to tell us something about it boys?”

    “Its our first single and its called What Makes You Beautiful,” Harry explained.

    “And We cant wait for you to hear it!” Louis finished. All the boys cheered funnily.

    “Well there you have it and now for the first time anywhere, this is What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction.” I felt an explosion of butterflies as the song started. It was the first time i was going to hear it, along with the rest of the world. Well.. Maybe just Great Britain. It came in with an awesome beat. I felt my grin become very wide with anticipation. The boys became anxious, watching my face to take away from the fact that all the girls in the country were tuning in to hear their music. Liam’s voice was the first, instantly recognizable and make my heart melt with its smooth, deep sound. I have to admit with all the excitement in the room it was hard to actually process the words being sung, but I tried hard and picked up the general message.

   So basically Liam’s bitching about how this chick thinks she isn’t cute and wears bunches of make up which he doesn’t like. Then Harbear comes in talking about how everyone else thinks she’s pretty so basically she’s fucking stupid. Then they all come in kissing ass about how she’s their god or something like that. God, light, same diff. And how she doesn’t know she’s beautiful so she should probably buy a mirror. Then they all talk about how much they like want her which I thought was kinda sexual, I giggled. Then Zayn’s talking about how he made a whole song so she could see that she’s not ugly but then she doesn’t even look in his eye ‘cause she can’t give a lesser shit. Then they sing about how she’s their sun again. Holla. Then there’s the typical boyband ‘na na’ part. Standard. Then Harry starts doing this solo shit that sounds like noises from heaven. I shoved his shoulder happily at this part and he turned to me and blushed at my smile. Then the chorus came again which gave me time to listen to Niall and Lou’s voices under all of the layers of auto-tune. It ended with a short and sweet ‘That what makes you beautiful’ which kinda answers the title, clever. 

    My smile had grown so wide now that my cheeks hurt. “Ladies and Gentleman you heard it here! That was One Direction’s Debut single What Makes You Beautiful!” He cheered and the studio workers applauded which I joined in on. The boys blushed lightly. “And now the guys have an extra special treat for us, don’t ya lads?” He turned it over to the boys who were repositioning themselves around a microphone bar Niall who pulled his guitar out of it’s case and sat on the stool. 

   “This is What Makes You Beautiful live, hope you like it.” Harry’s deep, slow voice said. On cue Niall began a rhythmic strumming. The performance was amazing. The slight auto-tune that had been in the recorded version, layering the boys voices, was no comparison to how they went together live. Suddenly I felt really lucky to be here.

    “Go Online or to the store to pick up your copy of our first single What Makes You Beautiful!” Liam cheered, he sounded like a commercial. They played some Rihanna song then. The rest of the day was a bit of a blur. The boys and they’re families and I all went out for a celebratory dinner, me sitting in between Liam and Anne. It was quite lovely and when we went home we were all to excited to sleep but too worn down to do anything. We sat in the living room with the tv on watching some random show about men who fish during storms. I was practically in a food coma from dinner. I had a huge veggie salad and a desert of like 50 million fruits.

     “Holy shit, I feel like a house,” I moaned, stretching lazily before cradling my bloated belly in my hands.

     “Shut up,” 5 voices said in unison. “You can’t even get fat off what you eat.” Zayn added.

     “Whereas we spend everyday in the gym.” Harry added.

     “Harry, 97 percent of the time I’m in the gym with you,” I said, giggling.

     “Yeah well… you’re weird.” He said with a grin.

     “I resent that..” I stated lazily. It remained quite but I was bored so, “You guys excited for America?” 

      “Ecstatic,” “Pumped” “Yeah buddy” “Whoop Whoop” “Of course” They chorused. I chuckled at their monotone voices. It was ten more minutes of quiet.

     “Its only a couple days until you go.. It’ll be so boring without you,” I sighed. “I’ll have to go out and actually meet new people in london,” I shuddered at the idea.

     “No you won’t,” Harry said sternly, as if warning me not to go out alone.

     “Why would you?” Zayn asked.

     “Uhmm so I don’t have to spend half the summer alone” I chuckled.

     “Oh..” Harry mumbled. Everyone was quite again for a long while. I had to have played with Niall’s blonde locks for thirty minutes. I almost thought I was the only one awake..

     “Wait a minute!” Louis said, springing up from his lying position. “Come to America with us!” Everyone slowly sat up as well.

     “Wh-what?” I asked, surprised.

     “UHH-” Louis used a fake stupid person accent, “Get- on- the- plane- to- america- so- you- won’t- be- alone- here.”

     “Brilliant!” Harry exclaimed giving his best friend a high five. I looked around to the other boys who were all thinking into the idea, grins on their faces.

     “What about school?” I asked.

     “Like you said Nat, It doesn’t start till we get back,” Liam stated, looking at me.

     “But I haven’t finished my summer work!” I said. “I would have to finish it in the next two days!” I exclaimed, that would literally be impossible I was relying on the rest of the summer to do it. I would never be able to focus in America. I began to shake my head. “If I did go I’d have to bring my work and that would make it less fun for all of us. Come on guys this is your time.” I said. I laid back, feeling slightly let down. I had gotten my hopes up for a moment.

     “So the homework is your main issue?” Louis challenged. I nodded, sighing. “.. And if you didn’t have it would you go?” He asked. My eyebrows furrowed and I sat back up to look at him, he had a mischievous look in his eye.

      “… probably .. yes?” I said, questioningly. He hopped up and fast-walked into my bedroom. 

     “LOUIS I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU THROW MY ASSIGNMENTS OUT THE WINDOW I WILL START WEARING STRIPES!” I yelled, receiving chuckles from the boys and a booming laugh from Lou in the other room. Her returned with his arms full of everything that had previously sat on my table. “Lou come off it!” I said. He placed everything on the coffee table before pushing Niall’s feet off it and sitting criss cross on the edge and picking up a novel. We all stared for a full minute but he ignored us.

    “Come on lads get with it if we have to finish all this in two days.” He said. My jaw fell open. I had yet to read the majority of three books and 10 math assessments and we were going to do it in TWO DAYS!?! Harry, Niall, and Liam grinned but Zayn was on the same page as me.

    “Lou are you mad?!?! We-” He was cut off by Louis’ hand.

    “Do you want Nat to come with us?” He looked up at Zayn. They stared at each other for a moment before Zayn sighed, grabbed Pride and Prejudice and went to his room, closing the door grumpily. Niall grabbed a book as well which left Harry, Liam, and Myself with the math in the kitchen. We could only manage working for an hour or so before it was time to go to bed. But that night I stayed up only thinking about two things. That we were going to America, and that I had the best friends in the world.

Outfit: http://www.polyvore.com/what_makes_you_beautiful/set?id=55613278

(Author’s Note: Sorry for the delay, Im really focusing on school right now, posting will probs get more regular once i get back i the groove of things ya kno? Well, i hope this is worth your while, enjoy!)

Gold Forever

Chapter 25: Speechless

Lyd’s POV

    I rubbed my eyes groggily because it was very early and my whole house was up.

    “Bye Maria I’ll see you on Monday.” I kissed the hispanic nurse on the cheek before she closed the truck and got in the drivers seat. 

    “Bye Mom try to enjoy yourself in Scotland.” I told my Mom as she came up behind me and i pulled her into an embrace. She rolled her eyes at my farewell.

   “Bye honey,” Was all she could respond. She looked me up and down. “Nice outfit.” she said dryly.

    “Uhhh!” I scoffed in mock offense.

   “You should try to better your appearance,” She said lightly before making her voice dark and wiggling her eyebrows, “Maybe Louis will come over.” I rolled my eyes and shoved her in the direction of the car. She laughed and I stifled a giggle before going into the house and calling bye over my shoulder.

Louis’ POV

    I was only a bit hung over, promise. But as I slammed the front door closed I did aquired a slight headache. I ignored it however, nothing could put me in a bad mood after last night’s party. I ran through the back yard and past Lydia’s house to her front yard where I saw her Mom about to step into a white van.

   “Amy!” I called. She turned around, smiling when she saw me.

   “Lou, darling, what a surprise.” I sensed some friendly sarcasm in her greeting but ignored it.

   “Off to scotland?” I asked, knowingly. She nodded solemnly but smiled again.

   “Keep Lydia out of trouble while I’m away, yes?” She asked. 

   “I was just coming to see her! Did you know about last nights party?” I asked in fake accusation. She grinned in response.

   “I heard it was a real success!” She said, enthusiastic.

    “It really was, amazing. Thank you!” I cheered. She put her hands up as if in defense.

    “Don’t thank me!” She grinned. I nodded again and kissed her on the cheek with a half hug.

    “Goodbye!”

    “Bye Lou,”

    I heard the car start behind me as I walked up the path to the front door and use the knocker. ‘Mom?!’ I heard a faint voice call. This made me chuckle. Lyd would assume her mom was back, forgotten something, no doubt. Amy was amazing.. maybe not organized.

    “What have you-” Lydia cut off opening the door. “Louis!” She exclaimed with a smile so wide it it reached her ears. I loved when she smiled so. It made her eyes light up and she looked beautiful.

    “Thats my name, don’t wear it out.” I said in a funny accent. She rolled her eyes and I walked inside. I looked her up and down. “Thats more like it.” I stated. She raised her eyebrows.

   “Excuse me?” She asked with a chuckle.

   “It isn’t natural when you dress up.” I said shortly, knowing full well that I was being a pest. I braced myself for a clever comeback. She made a noise of disapproval.

   “I’m not even going to go there with you right now, Louis.” She said, collapsing onto the couch next to me. I felt my eyes widen a bit.

   “What is this?! Lydia Jean Miller passing up an argument?!” I asked in shock. Purposely using her full name to arouse some sort of anger.  “It can’t be.” I said. Banter was like our thing without it we’re nothing. He thought dramatically.. And then Lydia did something completely un-Lydia-ish. She put her head on my shoulder, rubbing it affectionately, before falling asleep..

   “Lydie” I whispered. I waited a couple seconds and she didn’t stir. “Lydia,” I hissed. Her body sprang up, her eyes wide as the moon.

   “What?! Who’s in the house?!” She asked frantically. 

   “Whats got you so tired, babe?” I asked. She sighed, tired, and leaned against the arm of the couch.

   “Nothing I can think of” She laughed nervously. “How long was I asleep?” She asked.

   “5 hours.” I told her. She gasped and I chuckled at her.

    “Wow .. that so strange I-I” She stuttered.

   “Calm down Lyd we have all weekend to talk” I grinned at her happily but her eyes turned sad instead.

    “Yeah all weekend until you begin to ignore me..” She grumbled. I looked at her, amused then grabbed her chin and turned her to face me

    “How could I ever ignore you!” I cheered with a smile that *ahem, if I may say so myself* would make anyone feel better. But her face remained sulky.

    “Whatever..” She mumbled, upset. I was still amused until I caught a glimpse of her eyes that were watery with tears that threatened to spill.

    “Hey!” I called to her, trying to hold her face again but she turned her head sharply so I grabbed onto her shoulders instead. “hey.. Lydia,” Her eyes grudgingly looked into mine before looking away. “Whats wrong Lydie..” I mumbled, desperately trying to catch her eye. That really got her because she released a loud sob before full on crying into my shirt. Pain stabbed at my heart. When me and Lyd were together things were always light hearted and funny due to our matching carefree, mischievous personalities. “Lydia please,” My voice broke. “Tell me whats wrong..” I sat there and held her as she cried it out. It was thirty minutes before it eased up. “Lyd.. You have to tell me.” I said gentle, but with added force.

    “I’m just so s-scared Louis,” She sobbed.

    “Scared?! Why did someone hurt you!? Tell me because if-” I started, mind racing.

    “No, no.. I’m scared that.. if you.. i mean.. you’re already getting close to the boys.. please don’t.. just selfish—”

    “LYDIA!” I stopped her. “You’re not making sense.” 

    “Ever since you auditioned for xfactor I’ve been scared- Happy of course that you’re finally doing it, i know you’ve always wanted this.. but scared because..” She struggled trying to find the words to say. “We’ve always talked about being in each other’s past, present, and future..” I nodded, knowing what she was talking about. “Just what if.. you aren’t in my future?” I opened my mouth quickly to protest but she covered it lightly with her hand. “I have this bittersweet feeling in the back of my heart that say you’re going to go so far Louis… I just can’t help but wonder if part of that is going to include.. leaving me behind?” She was crying again this time strong, silent tears. I hugged her to myself again not sure what to say. Speechless.

   I had so many feelings going through me. And strangely.. the most prominent was relief. I felt good. Now don’t go judging me. That probably sounds bad coming from the kid who’s holding his tearful best friend in his arms but it was true. Its only that Lydia had just told me that she was afraid to lose me… and that made me feel good because it was always me. Always me, jealous of her other best friends. Always me, who wondered if one day Lyd would be to busy for me. And now I knew one thing for sure, and I hadn’t known it till this moment.

    “That will never happen.”

(Outfit: http://www.polyvore.com/ohhh_whatever/set?id=55210189)

Words Meet Heartbeats

Chapter 30: Who’s out?

Liam’s POV

     “Hello,” I answered, side glancing at my computer to see questions pouring in about who it was and things like that.

    “Hello, Liam” Danielle’s surprisingly cold voice rang through the speaker, sending a chill down my spine. And not in a good way.

    “Danielle, Hey!” Her name caused Natalie to look over at me, worried. Like I had said before Natalie had witnessed too many phone fights between my girlfriend and I.

    “Don’t ‘Hey’ me Liam. What are you doing?” She asked and it was quite apparent that she was angry. I slid off Natalie’s bed and spoke in hushed tones, leaving the room and the twitcam with Natalie.

    “Baby, calm down. What-” I started but was cut off.

    “Whats wrong Liam?! Whats wrong is that I wake up to a phone buzzing non-stop and see that you’re doing a twitcam and then I log on to twitter and tumblr and my eyes are filled with her.” She spits.

    “We were only hanging out babe,”

    “only hanging out Liam? Have you seen the trends? The mentions I’ve been getting? Your fans think you’re cheating on me! They tell me about a slut flirting with you!” She shrieked. My heart sank, she couldn’t be right. Why would The girls think Nats a slut? What had she ever done?

    “Fans are going to say whatever they want to say Danielle! I can’t control them!” I stressed truthfully.

    “You could help by not looking at Natalie like she’s the stars in the sky! Or maybe not flirting with her like you’re fucking Harry!” She said, I winced at her fowl language. Had the flirting been bad? Had there been flirting?

   “I didn’t do anything!” I said, getting a bit frustrated now. I didn’t understand why it was in one ear and out the other with Danielle. 

   “I want her out. Out of the house. Out of your twitcam. Out of your life.” She said. Making her voice eerily calm.

    “Danielle I don’t even have the power- I don’t even know if I can- She isn’t-”

    “She isn’t your girlfriend Liam.” Danielle finished for me, as if that was what I was going to say.

    “Danielle,”

    “No Liam, Either she’s out… Or I am.” She awaited my answer and I took a deep breath and tried to make my self strong, building confidence.

    “Danielle, Natalie is a part of my life now. I like her a lot and thats something you’re going to have to accept. She isn’t going anywhere.”

Natalie’s POV

    “Baby, calm down. What-” Liam reasoned as his voice faded, then disappeared from the room. I frowned and looked back to my computer where comments continued to pour in.

@stephjeff: NOOO WHERE’D LIAM GO

@janbam18: You are honestly such a whore

@Love1d123: AWW was that Danielle?!!? He called her baby! xx

@kendra99: Liam come back, my love

@Itsarianabittccchh: where’d you get your outfit ajhhhh!

@Erin224: God you’re a homewrecker.

    My heart sank from the comments and I continued to frown. They thought I was ruining Liam’s relationship. Im a strong girl, I don’t listen to what other people think of me but I’m not gonna lie, this got to me. And you know why it got to me? Because I thought it too.

    “Err well I think thats the end of the twitcam..” I said. Objections poured in. “uh .. I’ll try to get Li to log on later.” I realized how awkward I was being and pulled on a convincing smile. “Thanks for tuning in! This was the best first twitcam ever! Bye!” I made a funny face before ending the live chat and shutting Liam’s computer. Then my own. I slid off my bed and crept through my room and into the hallway then stopped. I listened for Liam’s voice but I didn’t hear it. I heard another sound. Worse than the noise of Liam and Danielle fighting. It was a broken kind of noise. Soft and low but sharp and disturbing. And it was coming form Liam’s room..

    “Liam?” I asked gently, lightly tapping his already open door causing it to move forward slowly. I was face with Liam’s shaking back. He was crying. I tiptoed towards him and slid down beside him on the ground. Each sad noise he made ripped at my heart and my eye caught sight of his cell phone thrown roughly, a few feet away. I felt a dull anger burn under my skin at Danielle. How could she hurt someone like Liam? The anger melted into sadness as I was brought back to reality by the sound of Liam’s sobbing. I wrapped my arm around him lightly, not wanting to over step my boundaries. But I had to do something to comfort him. Apparently it was appreciated because he shifted his shoulders, burying his face in my neck. 

   “Shhh…” I soothed. I had only caught a glimpse of his face but for long enough to take in its blotchy red color, coated with glossy wet tears. I always thought it appeared slightly unnatural for a boy to cry. It bothered me a lot to see Liam crying, to be honest. A lot like watching your dad cry. “Shhhh” His body’s wracking movement shook mine as well. It wasn’t all that hard to piece together what happened. It was probably a whole half hour before his tears slowed and the noises stopped. He pulled away from my tears stained shirt. He looked at me, his eyes slightly bloodshot from crying, as if waiting for me to ask what happened. I knew a bit better than that though. There is nothing worse then people asking you whats wrong especially when you’re really gutted on something. He needed space and I was going to give him some.

   “Want to go have some tea?” I asked. His forehead creased with light confusion but I smiled reassuringly before standing up and offering him my hand, which he took. He sat in the kitchen as I put on the kettle. I hopped on the counter to face him and he looked down at his hands. We were quiet for a while before he looked back up at me again. I squinted my eyes, not sure what to do. Would he like to talk about it? Or would he get upset? 

   “Uhh.. ernmm.” I said, uncomfortable. I looked down. “Would you like to talk about it?” I asked.

   “Danielle broke up with me.” He cut to the chase, staring into my eyes before letting his dart to the ground. I felt my mouth make an ‘O’ but quickly closed it.

   “Ohh Liam I’m so sorry.” I said gently. He only shook his head. “Tell me what happened?” I offered. It was clear he needed to vent to someone.

    “Shes just been so paranoid lately about.. things. Its not normal! How she acts and I don’t understand how she could hate,” He cut off, looking away with watery eyes.

    “.. Me?” I finished for him. Guilt flushed his features but he nodded, yes.

    “She wanted me to kick you out of the house, or end our relationship.” This time I didn’t cover my mouth as it fell open. Where would I go? Why would she do that? What if Liam had picked her? Why did Liam pick me? Oh My God. Liam picked me.

    “And you picked..” I said.

    “I told her I wouldn’t make a poor girl homeless just because she’s loony.” He said quickly. Oh that made more sense.. he just didn’t want me to be on the street. Besides.. what would the boys think of him if he kicked me out? And he was probably looking for an excuse to get out of that relationship. It had nothing to do with him liking me.. Because he doesn’t. I kept a calm face and ignored the disappointment that poked at my heart. I poured out the tea and we drank it in silence. Once I was done I put it in the sink and walked over to Liam, giving him a kiss on the cheek.

   “Thank you,” I whispered. Then before he could retort, I disappeared into my room.

(Author’s note: Nat’s Outfit: http://www.polyvore.com/twitcam_time/set?id=55119852 Poor Liam! and Poor Natalie as well .. kinda :/ and then theres Danielle :P Sorry for the delay I thought i posted this hours ago and when i opened my comp it was still here cause I’m 2/3s retard! read & like & message)

Gold Forever

Chapter 24: D’awwwww

Louis’ POV

   “Way to be punctual Louis” She pronounced my name ‘lew-is’ in fake annoyance. “I expected you for tea and hear you are hours later than expected.”

   “Well what would you like to do now?” I asked her an amused grin on my face.

   “I have a previous engagement to attend to ..” She said. We were in her bedroom now and I sat on her couch as she made her way to the closet, 

   “Oh I’m sorry Lydia I’ll get out of your hair.” I said.

   “Nonsense,” she snorted, rolling her eyes “I asked you to tea to see if you’d come with me and now you’re here just in time. I was hoping to get a chat with you in between but I guess we’ll just have to wait.” She sighed, disappointed. “I just haven’t had anyone to talk to, ya know? I mean just mindless talking like we usually do but real things as well.” She said, pulling out a full made outfit to wear. She began to peel off her shirt and I turned away out of courtesy.

    “I know I feel the same way except I do have the boys,” I said grinning to myself. I know its bad to say but it felt good to know Lydia missed me because I had definitely missed her.

   “Well lucky you I only had Eleanor.” She grumbled.

   “I thought you loved Eleanor?!” I asked.

   “I do! but you know how she is with Janice.” She said, I groaned a bit. Janice was a nice, heavy set, friend of Eleanor and Lydia’s, the thing was she was too nice, clingy even. She was always on your back, complimenting you, breathing down your neck. This was all second hand information I had gotten from Lydia of course, and Lydia is very strict about her personal space. Anyway, Eleanor is very sweet about Janice. Janice has a very hard time making friends so naturally Eleanor is too kind about her clingyness. Thats just Eleanor’s way. Lydia looks at things a bit differently.

   “Yea by the sounds of it Janice is a bit much,” I agreed with my best friend, understandingly. I had dealt with the annoying type before.

   “I’m decent.” Lyd informed me. I turned back to see Lydia looking cute in a sweetheart cream and flower dress, which was different. Lyd was the hair up, sports shorts and a sweatshirt type of girl.

   “Well you look beautiful!” I said in a joking voice though what I was saying was from the heart. She blushed and giggled. 

    “Well we are going out!” She said, lacing up a pair of flats. I looked down and approved of my standard outfit. I word tan chinos and a red half-sleeve sweater. 

    “Where are we going?” I asked.

   “You shall see..” She said, trying to sound mysterious as she pulled on a washed out jean jacket. She really did look good. She released her hair from where it has been set in a bun and it fell into full bouncy, red curls. She shoved the band in her bag before picking it up and setting it in front of her vanity mirror and checking her reflection. She groaned lightly, letting her hand delicately run over the left side of her face.

   “Whats up?” I asked her. She frowned.

    “I ate chocolate yesterday” She said.

    “Did you wash?” I asked. She shook her head and I allowed myself to chuckle. She shook her head at me but chuckled a bit as well.

   “I hate you,” She muttered under her breath. It was exchanges like this that i enjoyed because it showed how well we knew each other. I was her only friend who knew she broke out from eating chocolate. I also know chocolate was her favorite candy. “Ick,” she muttered one last time before slinging her arm through her bag and shutting off the light to her room, expecting me to follow her.

    “Mom! We’re leaving and will be back for dinner! Make sure the Parsnips and Carrots aren’t to chunky! Or to mushy for that matter!” She called. Her mom ignored her control issues.

   “Take the volvo!” She shouted back, but Lyd was already out the door.

    “Roger that! Thanks Amy!” I shouted to her, hearing her chuckle a bit. I closed the front door behind me. “Your mom loves me you know,” I told Lyd who was already halfway down the path taking her keys out of her bag. “You know you shouldn’t be fishing through your bag while walking.” I told her in an annoying voice. She grunted something annoyedly but I was unbothered since it wasn’t actual english. “Your mom wanted you to take the volvo.” I relayed, as she finally dug the jingling keys from the bag and began walking again. I slipped in the passenger seat of the midnight blue car, still not able to drive and watched as Lyd got in her own side. 

   “Urgh.. this car doesn’t like me.” She groaned, turning the key in the ignition and putting the car in drive.

   “Just because you hit the garbage cans that one time doesn’t mean it doesn’t like you.” I said, grinning. She shook her head. 

   “I much prefer the Camry.” She said propping her arm on the back of my chair and twisting her neck as she began to back out of the driveway.

   “Too bad this is your car, you should be happy to have one.” I said. She only rolled her eyes, keeping them on the road. She put her palm in my direction. 

   “Talk to the hand.” She said in a funny accent. I pretended to be a girly type of mad a her. She used the hand that was in the air to turn on the radio. The Wanted came on and she cheered rather enthusiastically. I groaned.

   “THE SUN GOES DOWN

THE STARS COME OUT 

AND ALL THAT COUNTS IS HERE AND NOW

MY UNIVERSE WITH NEVER BE THE SAME 

IM GLAD YOU CAME,” She belted exaggeratedly along to the song, rolling down the windows as the car shook to the beat. A woman jogging with a strolled turned to glare at us, thats how loud it was. I turned it down and Lyd began banging her back against the drivers seat, dancing.

   “The Wanted is a bunch of tools.” I muttered. She gasped in playful offense. 

   “And by the end of xfactor that will be you and your ‘boys’” She said funnily. “Just five ‘tools’ in a boyband.” She said. I rolled my eyes.

    “As if..” I said. She continued to sing and then I thought to myself a bit about what our band would be percepted as.. I mean.. everyone thought The Wanted were a pack of tools. What would One Direction be? Jerks? Fake? Gay? I was jerked to my senses when the radio shut off and Lydia’s keys jingled in her hand. We were outside a common lunch place. It was a bar and grill type place and we’re eighteen.. so basically… beer.

    “We’re heeerrree!” She sang.

    “Really Lydia?” I asked, earning a glare for the name. “We’re gonna have lunch out before your mom’s dinner?” I asked, it seemed a little stupid.

   “Really, Really!” She answered brightly. I sighed and followed her to the entrance. I was hit with the air conditioning. And a lot of familiar faces.

   “SURPRISE!” They called. A grin spread across my face as I looked around. I saw some old mates, my crew from ‘Grease’, Stan, Eleanor, a girl who must be Janice, and My football team. Two generic drug store made banners hung from the ceiling. One said ‘Welcome Home’ and the other said ‘congrats!’. 

   Then I was swarmed. First I was hit with a flirty, sweet hug from Eleanor. Then an Awkward spur of the moment hug from Janice, who obviously didn’t want to be left out. A bro Hug with stan and half of the football team, and some from familiar girls. An outsider would have assumed I had been gone for months.

   Each face came with a greeting, Each greeting similar to the last. ‘Missed you, bro’; ‘seems like forever’; ‘saw your audition, you were great’; ‘congrats’; ‘cheers mate’. Everyone blended and I was dragged to our table which was basically all the tables in the place pushed together to fit basically everyone I know. Hours passed like minutes and you couldn’t drag the smile off my face. And all of a sudden I looked out the window and it was dark, nine o’clock. The crowd hadn’t thinned though. I looked around to see everyone with a beer in hand chatting happily to whoever was near them. It was quite the get together. Stan, my best mate noticed me looking around and grinned as well. 

   “This was a right good time, yeah mate?” He asked, I gave him an enthusiastic nod.

   “Yeah all my friends are here!” I said, emphasizing the all. I looked from the football team to my neighborhood friends back to the people I knew from school, all different groups.

   “Yeah that Lydia really is a people person. Had me come over and list everyone you like,” Stan told me. My smile widened.

   “Lydia?” I asked.

   “Yeah,” Wow, She really is the best. How did I ever find a girl like her to be my best friend? I looked around the room for bright hair or the sound of her contagious laugh but I didn’t find it. 

   “Do you know where she is mate?” I asked Stan. He shook his head and swallowed what beer was in her mouth.

   “Left some hours ago mate, she looked for you but told me to make sure you had a good time and got home. ‘said something about being home for dinner.” He said. I cursed under my breath, remembering our conversation with Amy and the parsnips…

   It was eleven forty five when I pushed through the fence, up into Lyd’s treehouse, and through her bedroom window. The sound of Lydia’s even breathing and my own un even panting filled the room. I crept over to her until I was right next to her bed. She stirred, Lydia was a light sleeper.

   “Louis..” She mumbled questioningly.

   “Hey Lyd.” I whispered.

   “What are you doing here?” She asked, squinting, her sleepy voice was adorable. 

   “I came to say thank you,” I said, bending down close to kiss her cheek. She giggled lightly.

   “Lou you smell of beer..” she sighed. I opened my mouth wide and breathed heavily into her face. It scrunched at the heat in discomfort and we both giggled before she began dozing off again.

   “Lyd are you awake?” I asked, being a pest.

   “…mmm” She moaned.

   “Lyd, I love you.”

   “eh- huvee- wu-tuuh” She mumbled. And with that I climbed back out the window.

(Author’s Note: Wow this took really long to write and edit and I have no clue why, I didn’t even procrastinate :( I made this chapter extra long to make up for neglecting gf lately. Here is Lydia’s Party outfit: http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=55110122)

Words Meet Heartbeats

Chapter 29:

Liam’s POV

Worldwide trends:

#Natiam

#Daniam

Liam Twitcam

1D’s single

The Celebrity Apprentice

Spoons

Miley is our princess

Natalie

#1Droomate

virtual hugs

    I felt the body next to me stiffen and my mind raced at the speed of light. Natiam? That can’t be good. What do I do arghhdkss.

    “Sooo you guys have been trending haa?” I laughed nervously, “Me and Natalie are just friends guys shes my roommate!” 

@Foreveryoungw_1d: Are you still with danielle????

     “Danielle is my girlfriend guys.” I smiled convincingly and felt Nat relax next to me. She saw her own question on her screen. 

     “No I’ve never met Danielle but Liam never shuts up about her!” She said brightly. I suddenly felt guilt in me as I realized Natalie was lying for me. I don’t talk about Danielle much at all anymore. “She seems so sweet!” Another lie, Natalie hadn’t even met the sweet side of Danielle she had only witnessed the harsh one sided phone conversations I’ve had with her. “And of course she’s stunning! And an amazing dancer.”

@Spooningwliam: I am so excited for the new single!! can you tell us more about it!?

    “Oh Ok Sonia wants to know more about the single. Well, at the moment all I can tell you is its called What Makes You Beautiful.” I couldn’t stop smiling when I thought about our music and my cheeks began to hurt. “Honestly guys, I could not be more excited to release it next week. Its just like we’ve been waiting so long and you’ve been so patient and loyal and it just seems like whenever I log onto twitter theres more of you which is just insane! We haven’t even given you anything yet and now that we’re going to be able to!” I took a deep sigh. “It just feels so good.”

   “Whats this about a single?” Natalie chimed in next to me, bringing me back to reality. I realized she had watched me intently throughout the rant. I don’t see how she didn’t know about the single. I let my jaw fall slightly waiting for her to say ‘just kidding’ but she didn’t, honestly, this girl.

   “You’re kidding me right?” I asked, eyebrows raised.

   “No?” She asked, obvious confusion written on her features with a slightly amused smile playing on her lips.

   “We’ve been working on a single for months now, you live with us. How did you not know? Of all the times we’ve left for work!” Natalie cut my rant short by shrugging.

   “I tune you out most of the time!” She giggled. I was about to shove her when she grabbed my hands gently and placed them at my sides. I couldn’t help but grin. “I honestly think thats the coolest thing ever. I do know how hard you work and I can’t wait to hear the song!” She turned back to the camera and smiled warmly. “Its me and you guys! On our toes!” She giggled, as if fan girling. I shook my head at her silliness and looked back on the computer. 

    It was a bit quiet for a few moments, a slight awkwardness in the air as comments poured in on how cute we were together and how we would be the perfect couple, things like ‘Natalie’s Lucky’ or ‘Liam’s Lucky’ and a whole lot of ‘OMG HOW DID GOD MAKE UP A COUPLE AS CUTE AS THEM? ASJLK’. I read these comments with slight discomfort a tiny upset feeling at them not picking up on the fact I was with Dani. Another small feeling of longing tugged at my heart I wondered if we really were a cute couple. I wondered if Nat and I could have this relationship still if we got together. I wondered if she wanted us to get together…. I wondered if I wanted us to get together… No! I’m just plain mind-cheating now. I don’t want to be with Nat because I can fix this with Dani! We can be happy like we used to. 

    “Erm.. any questions guys?” I prodded hoping they would soon ease up on the gushing and actually interact with me. I also wanted to push the awkwardness out of the room, knowing full well that Nat was reading the comments on her own screen. I felt a vague burning in my cheeks.

@SarahQ201: Will what makes you beautiful have a video?!

    “Sarah wants to know about the music video!” I said, happy to have a question. “Yes, so the song is next week, press the week after that and then the video the next week so in roughly two and a half weeks we’ll film the video and you should have it in one or two months!” I said, smiling. “I’m not sure I can tell you much else … Oh wait! Its going to be shot in America!” I felt Nat’s head snap in my direction but I paid no mind, wrapped up in my own career-related excitement. 

@Jules41d: Have you been there before?? xx

   “Uh Jules wants to know if I’ve been there before, I have for a couple vacations.. I love it there” I smiled at some fond memories of the far off country. “I hope to have a house there one day… Have you ever been Natalie?”

     “only once, I went to see my favorite band because they don’t have a world tour but it doesn’t really count because I got on a plane home straight after” She said. I threw my head back and laughed loudly.

    “I remember your brother told us something about that! you didn’t even get to see the concert because your friend was scared!” I laughed some more at Natalie’s most likely disappointed face as she had to leave her concert filled with screaming and knives… ok maybe not knives.

@IK1D: How long have you been living with one direction Natalie!?! 

   “Urhh… hm…” She counted in her head. “its been one whole month and a half! I feel like i’ve lived here for years!”

   “Really? I think it feels as though you’ve only just moved in!” I exclaimed. She narrowed her eyes at me.

   “Think about everything thats happened.” She said. I thought about when she visited, when I met her dad, getting to know her, meeting her brother, the entire football/food incident, the hospital, eating lots of fruit, watching lots of movies, going out on runs..

   “Wow maybe it does seem like you’ve been here a while. You came at the every start of summer and now its halfway gone!” I said, surprised.

   “And you’ll be gone the second half of it.” I thought about that and frowned to myself. 

   “You’re right we’ll only just make it home before you’re in school.” I said slowly. She grinned and nodded but I still had a small frown. Then my phone began to ring.

Gold Forever

Chapter 23: One Direction

Lou’s POV

    My phone continued to buzz in my hand as I poured my now lukewarm tea down the drain and began to walk upstairs.

Nialler: It has nice sound

LiamPAIN: oh gosh just say it a couple times..

Bradford bad boi: it deffinitly has a ring to it x

Swagmastaa of doncastaa: Boys.. do we have our name?

   A rush of excitement flew threw me as I realized we had picked an official band name. We had been texting ideas to each other all day since we left the bungalow but nothing fit. We had a name. This was really happening. I imagined standing on the stage we had been on at boot camp, the crowd cheering ‘One Direction’ as we sang our hearts out.. I sang my heart out. I looked out my window and saw that Lydia’s bedroom light was off. Oh well, I would just wait until tomorrow to tell her. I knew she would be excited for me. I locked my phone and put it on my nightstand before crawling underneath the covers I had been separated with for the past few weeks. I felt at home. It took a while for me to get to sleep that night. My mind raced though my body was more relaxed then ever. I thought about xfactor, I thought about Liam and the boys, I even thought a bit about my first and only girlfriend Eleanor, randomly wondering if Lyd still talked to her. I though a lot about Lydie as well.. I wondered what she had gotten up to in our time apart and if she had missed me. I also thought a bit about pizza as well…. and wondered why I felt a slight tingling sensation on my cheek..

    I woke up and the first thing I noticed was that the morning light wasn’t shining through my window as usual. I check my  phone and it was already two in the afternoon, which is way past tea time. I hopped out of bed and dressed quickly. I threw on shorts, I wanted to wear them as much as I could now that summer was almost over. I jogged lightly down the stairs and went to the kitchen where I found my Mom and the twins watching tv.

    “Good morning sweetie” My mom said, smiling warmly at me.

    “morning?! its 2! why didnt you wake me?” I asked.

    “You looked exhausted and I wanted you to catch up on your sleep,” She said, that was very nice of her.

    “Oh, thanks mum but I was supposed to be at lydie’s for tea.” I told her. 

    “Oh, I’m sorry hun! Its a bit late for tea now though..” She said.

    “I know” I pointed out, a bit bratily. Well I’ll probably go hang out for a bit, we didn’t talk much yesterday.” I said.

    “Ok Lou, just text me if you stay over.”

    “Will do,” I said, walking out of the kitchen. I stopped and tumbled back a bit. “Oh! And mom! We picked a name!!” I said, remembering excitedly. Her face lit up.

   “What is it!?” 

    “One Direction.” She was delighted and we talked quickly about it for a moment before I insisted I had to go to Lydia’s. I walked around the block instead of across the back yard, I needed some fresh air. It was about ten minutes until I got to her house which I declared a ten minutes wasted because it could have taken twenty seconds. I knocked on the door. I tried to think of the last time I had done this. I usually let myself in or climb through Lydia’s window. Amy opened the door and her face lit up when she saw me. She pulled me into a warm hag that I returned. Amy was truly like my second mother.

      “Louis!” She greeted. “I missed you dear! Did you have a good holiday with your new band?” She wiggled her eyebrows at the word and I laughed.

      “Yea it was amazing. I missed you and Lydia and my family though,” I admitted. She nodded.

      “Yea jay was over for our usual movie nights on friday! Lydia definitely didn’t have as much fun without you there though.” She winked and I laughed but felt a little saddened at the idea that I had missed one of our traditional friday nights.

      “Oh goodness, I hope you didn’t watch and scary films without me!” I said, those were always the best because Lydia’s reactions were priceless. They alone kept mum, Amy and I entertained. Amy laughed, knowing what I was talking about. “Is Lydia around?” I asked. Amy smiled at me sweetly. 

      “Shes with her dad right now, babe. She probably won’t be too long you could go up with her if you’d like, or we could chat while you wait its up to you.” She said.

      “Oh I’ll stay with you and give Lyd some time.” I said.

      “We watched the titanic, actually.” She told me.

     “Oh really Lydia must have enjoyed that.” I smirked, knowing for fact that she didn’t. Amy knew too and laughed.

       “Enough about this nothingness! What have you been up to, babe?” She asked. I grinned at her. 

       “Well I was in Holmes Chapel at my bandmate Harry’s house and basically we just hung out a bunch and practiced a bit too and then last night we picked a name!” I couldn’t help but become visibly excited which made Amy smile.

       “Whats this name you speak of?” A new voice asked. I stood and walked over to Lyd giving her a hug.

        “Whats this for?” She laughed.

        “Nothing I just missed you” I told her.

        “I saw you last night.”

        “Well I just missed you.. ya know.. in general!” I chuckled.

        “God Lou.. you need a hair cut.” She said, touching my hair lightly. This caused her mum to laugh. I chuckled. “So really whats the name! go on spit it out!” She urged.

        “One Direction.” I said, almost expecting cheers when it left my mouth, none came of course but Lyd smiled wider.

         “Its perfect!” she exclaimed! I chuckled a bit and nodded.

         “its really nice dear.” Amy said.

         “Thanks,” I grinned sheepishly. “I’m excited.”

         “Hey mom I think we’re gonna hang out in my room for a bit, yeah?” Lyd told her mom.

         “Okay sweetie what do you want for dinner?” 

         “Oooh chicken and parsnips and carrots!” She said. Amy nodded and we walked up the stairs.

          “I love parsnips” I said.

          “I love carrots” She said. 

         “Trust me Lydia, I know.” I chuckled before rufling her hair. “How else would your hair get so orange.” She grinned. “I still remember when all you ate was carrots. Your mom hated it.” I said, chuckling.

       “Whatever I probably have better eyesight than anyone you know.” She said.

      “I know but what kind of girl likes carrots?” I asked.

       “Your favorite kind.