Like Nobody Else ~One Direction

Songs mentioned in this chapter: I won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz, Moments by One Direction, Lucky Strike by Maroon 5, Domino by Jessie J, Good Life by OneRepublic, Invincible by The Wanted.

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To: Dinah

So you’re giving me a lift when? Danielle :)

I text Dinah, my best friend, who was sitting across the classroom to me, I had my iPhone under the desk so the teacher wouldn’t see. A new text popped up and I read it quickly.

From: Dinah

We’ll have to leave at 12:00noon okay? Dinah x

I looked at her and grinned, she smiled enthusiastically back. We were meant to be writing notes on whatever the Miss. Riddell was droning on about but we were both too excited for this afternoon to be busying ourselves with schoolwork.

We both went to a very posh private college because Dinah and I’s parents shared a business and we were brought up together and were never short on money. I wasn’t quite sure as to what the business was exactly but I knew it was to do with fancy electric equipment so I was never bothered enough to find out what exactly. I suppose now I’m getting older I should get to know the business but we had never been pressured to take the business over when we were older. We had always been told to do whatever we wanted to when we were older.

However, although we were rich and Dinah and I knew we beyond spoilt but we never took lightly to all that we had and we both decided we wanted steady jobs of our own so that we didn’t always have to always take money from out parents and could repay them for bringing us up in such a wealthy environment. Dinah and I were very close so we knew we really would want to work together so this afternoon we were auditioning for a concert at the O2 Arena in London it was about a sixty minute drive from our quaint village near the sea-side, Clacton-On-Sea. Our school was about a half an hour drive away from our house next to the coast but we didn’t mind the drive because we were just lucky to be going to such an expensive school.

We were going to London to audition as dancers on Take That’s latest tour in January 2012 since we grew up to love music and we have both had lessons since we could crawl, let alone walk. Since there weren’t any professional dance troupes around Clacton our parents had hired our own dance teacher who had been teaching us to dance our whole life but last year she retired after working with us for sixteen years and now Dinah and I self-teach and choreograph all our own dances. We didn’t specialise in a certain genre of dance but danced all types; tap, ballet, street dance, modern, jazz and lyrical are just a few. Although Dinah was better at choreographing up beat dancers and I was better at the slower ones.

Clacton-On-Sea is in Essex which is situated near the coast but wasn’t really a place that tourists from abroad came from, it was just people from the United Kingdom that really visited and for that reason it wasn’t ever really that busy. Also there were only certain parts of the beach that you could go in because majority of it was like clay and your foot sank in too above your ankles. Fortunately Dinah and I had a pool at our house so it didn’t bother us too much. When I say ‘our house’ it’s really my parents since we haven’t moved out yet but we had been looking around for houses in London that we could move into. Anyway, since our parents are workaholics they were rarely home. They did make time for us whenever we asked them too though and would come back for family dinners every now and then.

You may think our parents didn’t care much about us but it was quite the opposite, they were constantly worried about leaving us so often and Dinah and I always reassure them that were big girls and that we can look after ourselves but when we feel we’ve not seen the family in a while or if we have a school performance or a parents evening they can always take time out of there busy schedule to come and watch or see how were doing. Our fathers where very overprotective of us and had people looking out for us and definitely keeping an eye out to see if we got any boyfriends.