As I walked up the path I plugged my earphones into my phone, clicked on The Wanted playlist and clicked shuffle.
"You could hurt with the words,
You could change my life,
You could tell me the truth,
It would cut like a knife but I won't let go
But I won't let go, but I won't let go."
I sang along to the lyrics as I walked up to the bus stop, oblivious to the fact I was singing out loud, plus the fact that someone was walking straight at me, doing exactly what I was doing - head down, earphones in. I didn't know this until the moment I hit the floor, yes, we had walked straight into eachother, although he didn't fall down.
"Shit..." I mumbled under my breath. That hurt. I think my elbow was beginning to bleed.
"Shit, sorry" I said to him, hoping he would say it back because there was two of us in this situation. As I stood back up with his help, I took a glimpse of his face. Beautiful, round, green eyes, big eyebrows, a stubble...oh my god. It's...
"Shhh....ugar are you okay? Im sorry, I had my earphones in. And by the looks of it - you did too!" he said to me with a giggle, god his voice was so deep and croaky, probably because it was 8:30am.
"Oh my god, you're Nathan Sykes! Oh my god, oh my god." I had a little bit of a fangirl moment, but from the looks of it, that's not what he needed right now. I tried my best to stay calm.
"Last time I checked" he said, making me laugh. Partly because I was nervous, partly because he was Nathan Sykes - of course I was going to laugh at his jokes.
"What the hell are you doing in Manchester?" I asked him, still shaking but trying my hardest to keep still.
"Am I not allowed to be here?" he said sarcastically. Oh my god, I was so attracted to him now. He was wearing his trackies with a 'beatles' top that showed off his toned torsoe, with a hooded jacket. He was also wearing his black beanie, why? Why did he have to make me melt like this?
"No! Of course! I meant...erm...." I stumbled on my words, unsure of what to say.
"Im only kidding!" he said with a wink and pulled me into a hug. He caught me off balance, resulting in me dropping my school bag and my ear phones along with it.
"Oops, sorry!" he said, letting go of me and picking them up for me.
"Whats this?" he put my ear phones in his ears and started 'jamming out' on the street. If he wasn't Nathan Sykes, I'd be totally embarrasses, but to be honest, I didn't give a shit.
"Great song choice" he said, again with one of his famous winks. I could hear I Found You playing now, god I must have them loud.
"Well, I do have good taste." I said, playing along. He laughed and nodded, pleased that I was playing along and I wasn't too shy.
"So what's your name?"
"Emma, you?" I said with a wink. Two could play at that game.
He laughed, showing off his white teeth before saying, "Nathan....wait....wasn't that your bus?" I turned around to see the bus driving around the corner, leaving me. Shit.
"Fuck sake!" I screamed. I had forgotten he was there.
"Oh, sorry. It's just the next one doesn't come for another hour and I have shitty school." I moaned. My mum was going to leather me. Even if I told her my reason, she wouldn't care. She hates how The Wanted have taken over my life, spending her money and time.
"This is all my fault! Hey, I can ring up Martin or someone to see if they could give you a lift?" he said, apologetically.
"That would be amazing, thanks!" I said, going for another hug. I embraced him, he felt so nice! Why couldn't I be older? He hugged me back, after that I let go so he could make the call.
"Hello? Martin? Hey, erm, yes I've kinda made one of our amazing fans late for school by making her miss the bus, could you...I was talking to her. I know I know. Martin shut up! One sec then..." he placed the phone to his neck to talk to me.
"How old are you?" he said with an eyebrow raised. Honestly, I didn't want to answer.
"14"
"Oh." he looked quite disappointed. Oh my god, was he attracted to me?
"14." he said, back on the phone. "Martin, just do it! Why? Well what is she going to do then? She can't do that! No! Fine." and he hung up the phone.
"Emma, I'm sorry but they are all busy today." he said, again with the sorry flooding out of his face.
"It's okay, I guess I'll just have to go back home then and wait for the murdering to commence once my mum get's back Monday." I said, smiling.
"Wait! To make it up to you, how about me and you spend the day together?" he said, looking more positive.
"REALLY?!" I shouted. I didn't mean to shout that loud - it just came out.
"Sorry, but, are you serious?"
"Yeah! I only came out of the house for some exercise. You wanna come back to mine? We can just chill. Not too exciting but the reaction I got from you seeing me I guessed it would be decent enough for you." he said, prompting me to follow him.
"That's amazing! I'm gonna have to go home and get changed first. Ill meet you back here in one hour?" I said, with a gleaming smile on my face.
"Sure thing babe." he said, turning back round to head back. He. Called. Me. Babe.
"Bye!" I said with an even BIGGER grin plastered onto my face. He chuckled and began to walk in the opposite direction. I turned round and practically ran home, making sure he couldn't see me, obviously.
I was going to Nathan Sykes' home and 'chilling' with him.
Best schoolday ever.
