Mute - Niall Horan

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"I'm really scared" I said, I was in the car with the boys and we were going to the track. Things had all worked out. Today was the day of the Grand Prix and we needed entertainment, therefore I offered One Direction. Trevor accepted them so before the races tonight they were going to be singing Best Song Ever and Little White Lies and Midnight Memories.

"you'll be fine" Niall reassured me.

"Other countries have like 4 riders riding for them and we have two" I said.

"Just enjoy it" Louis smiled as we pulled into the car park.

"Okay I'll see you later" I said and kissed Niall before getting out the car. I walked round the back and into the pits. I saw Dan setting my bike up next to Jonathan which meant Tai was obviously here somewhere.

"Guess who?" Someone said and put their hands over my eyes.

"Tai!" I smiled and turned to hug him.

"Ready to do this?" He asked. I nodded confidently, even if I wasn't feeling it.

"PLEASE WELCOME TO THE CENTRE ONE DIRECTION" Kevin the commentator said. And then all you could hear was 'if this room was burning I wouldn't even notice' I smiled and walked to the side of the track to watch them. When I got their Liam had just started his bit. Then Louis sang his bit. Niall's bit was next before the chorus and they all looked like they were enjoying it.

"I'm going to change." I said. Tai nodded and I went to the changing rooms. I changed into my speedway gear and went back out to Dan.

"Ready to go?" Dan asked. I nodded and smiled. I sat on the bench and plugged my headphones in. I did this every time before I raced. It was to get me into the zone, be in the correct mind set for racing and to banish away any irrelevant thoughts.

After a few minutes I packed up my headphones and began to warm up. I then went back over to the track where One Direction were just finishing.

"Nellie! Tai!" Jonathan called. Tai and I walked back over to our bikes.

"Its time" He said. I sat on my bike and Dan pushed it to get it going. Tai and I rode out to do our lap of the track, they were doing it in countries so this time there was only two of us on the track.

"And representing Great Britain we have Tai Woffinden and Nellie Tomlinson!" Kevin said. We did our slow lap round the track before going back into the pits.

"Who's in race one?" Tai asked me.

"Emil, Simon, Cameron and me" I said.

"Good luck" He said. I nodded and when it was time went out onto the track.

I lined up and when everyone was ready I stared at the tapes, waiting for them to rise. The tapes shot up and we were off. I ignored everything else and just raced, ending up in second behind Simon. I then went back to the pits and jumped off my bike. I was definitely happy with second.

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It was currently race 11 and time for my fourth race. I was currently fifth in the overall table. Tai was second. I got on my bike and went out onto the track. I lined up and stared at the tapes like usual. When they went up in set off. It was me from UK, Cameron for Australia, Greg for America and Johanasson from Poland.

I raced round the first lap, coming out in first, preparing to go into my second lap. As i went round the first bend one of the riders behind me hit my bike wheel and i crashed into Cameron, he went down on the floor and i hit the air fence, it bounced me in the air and over the fence into the metal wired fence before falling on the floor. I clenched my eyes shut as pain erupted through my body.

I heard the sirens go off which meant that the race had been stopped because of safety risks. I saw someone jump the safety fence and crouch beside me. It was one of the paramedics.

"Hold still" she said and took my helmet off, passing it to someone, i think it was Dan.

"I'm just going to put an oxygen mask on you" She said and stapped one round me head.

"Does anywhere hurt badly?" she then asked.

"Around my torso and i have a massive headache" I said.

"Can you get up?" She asked.

"Not really, it hurts to move" I said.

"Okay" She said and stood up, doing the wave of the arm movement which meant ambulance. I knew that this would worry Niall and the others but i tried not to think about that.

"I would put her on a stretcher and take her to the nearest hospital" the woman said. Two men nodded and took the stretcher out of the ambulance. They layed it on the floor beside me and lifted me onto it. I tensed up when pain shot through me. They then lifted the stretcher and passed it over the top of the fence and put me on a wheelie bed the other side. They put me into the ambulance, shut the back doors and we were off. Blue flashing sirens to hospital...