The Accident// N.H

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  I woke up the next morning to my little brother jumping on my bed. I tried to shove him off my but my mom and dad jumped on top of me as well.

  "What are you two doing in here so early I'm the morning?" I asked them.

  "We came to wake you up so that we can go out to breakfast for your birthday. But first you brother is a little excited to give you his present." My mom said. My brother walked over to his bag and pulled out a little box that was wrapped up. He sat it on the bed beside me.

  "Aww James you didn't have to get me anything for my birthday." I told him as I grabbed the box. I start to unwrap it. Inside there was a box in it with a neckless. It was half of a heart that said big sister.

  "Look they match. I have a bracelet that is the other half of it that says little brother." He told me. I grabbed him and I pulled him into a tight hug.

  "Can't breath." James said. I just hugged his tighter.

  "Sarah let your brother go his face is starting to turn blue." My dad said laughing. I loosened my grip on him but I didn't let him go fully.

  "Thank you so much." I told him.

  "Now you two get dressed before we leave. We are going to IHOP." Our mom told us. James and I jumped off the bed and raced to the bathroom. I beat him in there. I got a quick shower and threw my hair up in a French braid after I was done. I came out of the bathroom and James pushed past me to get in there. I picked out a pair of black ripped skinnies and a navy blue shirt with a.pair of black convers. I got dressed and walked to our parents room.

  "Are you two done changing yet?" Our dad asked.

  "I am but James is still getting changed." I tell him and I go to lay on the bed with my mom.

  "Can you believe that you are already 19?" My mom asked.

  "No I can't." I tell her when my phone goes off.

  "Ooh who is texting you?" She asked me as I pulled it out. I already had like ten messages from my friends telling me happy birthday. I answered them until I came across one from Harry.

  "Oh who is Harry?" Dad asked.

  "It is some guy that she met at the pool yesterday. He was cute." James said when he entered the room.

  "Oh tell us about this Harry kid." Mom said.

  "He had here eyes and brown hair that was curly. Oh and he has dimples when he smiles. " James explained to them.

  "Hey I think they were asking me." I playfully pushed him over on the bed.

  "I was asking who ever would answer me. Anyways come on let's go get some food. Afterwards we are going to rent a car and we are going to go explore Ireland for a little bit." Mom said as she walked to the door. I followed her and we waited outside for the cab to come. While we waited I was texting Harry back. Soon the car came and took us to IHOP.

  "What do you two want from here?" Dad asked.

  "I want the chocolate chip pancakes with bananas." I said.

  "I want the same but with strawberries." James said.

  "Well since it is Sarah's birthday you two are allowed to have that. If it were any other day I would not let you two get that." Mom said. The waiter came by and took our order.

  "So what all are we going to do today?" I asked them.

  "Well we were going to go to the popular shopping centers and then we were going to watch a soccer game or as they call it here futbol." Dad said.

  "Yes I definitely want to watch the game. I love watching soccer back home." I say.

  "We know. You are also on the team back home. Are you going to continue playing in college?" James asked.

  "Yeah if I can make the team then I will play on the college team. If not then I will try out fort he dance team." I tell them.

  "Well I am sure that you will make the soccer team in college. You are the best player at your school." Mom tells me.

  "That is not true. Stacy is so much better than me." I tell her.

  "That is not true. In one game alone you scored more points for your team than Stacy did." Dad told me.

  "Yeah but coach put her in the game more than he would put me in."

  "That is only because she was his daughter." Mom said.

  "Your right. Well I am trying out two weeks after we get back home. I am so excited and I can't wait for it." I tell them as our food arrives. We all ate our food in silence because we were all enjoying our food once we were done we had a cab take us to the car rental place. We got our car and we headed to the shopping center.

  "Since it is your birthday you can pick out what ever you want. Just don't go too crazy." Mom and dad told me. I grabbed James hand and we started walking through the store. We came across one store that had a lot of one direction merchandise. James grabbed a shirt and handed it to me.

  "Isn't this the band that you like listening to?" He asked me.

  "Yeah it is. I have never seen them in person though. I just listen to the music." I tell him. I look at the shirt and I realized that one of them looks like Harry.

  "Hey Sarah isn't this the guy that you met at the pool yesterday?" He asked me.

  "Yeah I was just thinking that." I told him. I put the shirt back down and I started looking around again when my phone went off.

  "Maybe you should ask him about it. Maybe he is the Harry from the band. That would be so cool if he was." He told me. I pulled out my phone and it was a text from Harry.

  "I am not going to ask him. If he was and he wanted to he would have told me. Maybe he didn't want me to know." I told him while I was reading the text.

  Harry: I wanted to tell you happy birthday Sarah. I hope you are having a great day.

  Me: Thanks. I am having fun today my parents took us to IHOP for breakfast now my brother and I are going shopping. Afterwards we are going to go to a soccer game

  Harry: That sounds like fun. Have you found anything at the shopping center that you want

  Me: No but my brother tried to get me to get a shirt from a boy band that is from here

  Harry: Oh cool what boy band is that?

  Me: The band One Direction. Have you ever heard of them

  Harry: Actually I think I have

  Me: Okay well I have to go I will talk to you later

  Harry: Well I will talk to you later. I have to go anyways

  After I put my phone away we continued looking around until we were done. We met mom and dad back up by the front if the store. We left and we started heading to the soccer game but what I didn't know is that this ride would change my life forever.