Chapter 8

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     I wake up, with my hand still in Louis's. Everything is going great. Loving Louis is way easier now. Niall has a girlfriend, and I don't have to feel bad. "Good morning, love." Louis opens his eyes. "Good morning." I say. We both get up and wake everyone up. Louis and I sit on one couch with Zayn and Laura. Harry and Mya sit on the other couch. Liam and Niall sit in different chairs. "OH MY GOSH, I HAD THE WEIRDEST DREAM." Laura says. "What about?" I ask. "Well you and Louis said you were dating. Crazy." Laura says. "I HAD THAT DREAM TOO." Mya jumps up. Laura stands up and grabs Mya's shoulders. Mya grabs Laura's shoulders. "You know what that means?" Laura asks. "It can't be. Is it?" Mya asks. Their heads turn towards me and Louis. Louis and I nod, and smile at each other. Laura and Mya start shaking each other and screaming. I get up and put my left hand on Laura's shoulder, and my right hand on Mya's shoulder. "Calm yourselves, children." I say.

     "Private conversation." Laura says. Mya, Laura, and I walk outside. "You're serious." Mya says. I nod. "Why would we lie about-" I begin, but am interrupted by Laura's and Mya's screaming. Laura and Mya jump up and down. They keep screaming and jumping. "Hey!" I shout. They stop screaming and jumping. They stare at me. "Breathe." I say. They take a deep breath. "Now we will go inside, without screaming." I say. "Okay, follow." I say. They take a deep breath again and follow me inside. We all sit down. "Screaming contest?" Liam laughs. "We couldn't help it. IT'S ARI." Laura hugs me. I laugh. We all eat breakfast. "Can we go shopping? FOR FUN THINGS." Mya asks. "Sure, what do you guys think?" I ask. The rest of them nod. "Get ready." I say. We all get ready. Then we walk to some stores we haven't been to yet.

     We all go our separate ways. I even think Mya and Harry went different ways. I go to the music section to look for One Direction and Demi Lovato CDs. A person comes up next to me and picks up a CD of a really cool band I used to listen to, and have that CD of. "Oh cool, I love that band." I say, not looking at who it is. "Yeah, they're awesome." A British voice says. I look up and find Liam looking at different CDs. He looks at me. "Oh, it's you Aria." He smiles. "You listen to that band?" I ask. "Yeah, they really are awesome." He says. "I know right, but I never found anyone that liked them too." I say. "Well, I guess you just did." He smiles. I get a Demi Lovato CD and a One Direction CD. The CDs are cheap here. "Wanna walk with me?" I ask. "Sure." He smiles. We walk around looking at things we both like. We have a lot of things in common. Right now I think Liam is my greatest best friend besides Louis, Laura, and Mya. "You are awesome." Liam laughs. "You too." I smile.

    We walk around laughing at random things. We go to the garden section, looking at plants. The teen guy that is controlling the section is blaring music. A new song comes on. "Oh, I love this song!" We both say. We both start dancing next to a shelves full of flowers. The song goes off and we stop dancing. We look at the people staring at us. "What you've never seen two best friends dancing next to flowers before?" Liam asks. They shake their head no, like he was wanting an answer. "Well, you have now." I say. Liam and I go to the toy aisles. I get on a bike with a red streak on the side of it, that's up against the wall with a couple other ones- hooked to the fish tank. "Aria, what are you doing?" He asks. "Riding a bike. Liam, these people are family. This is my bike. Get on one. It's okay, it's for my friends." I say. I unhook mine, and then unhook another one. "Can you ride?" I ask. "Yeah." He says. "Then get on." I say. He gets on and I say, "Follow me." I say.

     He follows me into a big room where I can ride my bike. Barely anything is in it. I stop my bike to lock the door so people can't spy on us. "See, what I do is ride around things and hope I don't hit them." I say. I get off my bike and pull out chairs and tables and different things. "Ride around and hope for the best." I say. "Wouldn't it be easy to go around them?" He asks. "I never said they were good bikes." I say. "What?" Liam asks. "Kidding... mostly." I say. He smiles at me and we start riding around the room, talking. "You're the only one who knows about this room except for my family that owns this place. So, shh." I say. "Really?" He asks. "Yeah, I mean you're like my greatest best friend now- along with Laura, Mya, and Louis." I say. "But they don't know." Liam says. "Nope." I say. He laughs. We fall off our bikes a lot. After a while of riding our bikes we go out, I lock the door, and then I hook the bikes back up to the fish tank.

     We walk around for a while talking and laughing. I never knew Liam could be my best friend. "So, I can tell that you and Louis are in love." Liam says. "Yeah.." I say. "Everyone wanted it to happen that first day you two met. You two are perfect for each other." Liam says. "So what about you, got a special girl?" I ask. "No, I have a special best friend." He pushes me a bit. I smile. "So, my biggest question is are you really afraid of spoons?" I ask. "You don't know where they've been." He says. I laugh, "Guess not." Soon Liam and I finally find the rest of the group. "We've been here all day." Mya says. "Don't you like being at the store?" I ask. "I know! It's a good thing. I found so many clothes. DISCOUNTS." She says, pulling a buggy full of clothes out from behind her. "Where'd you two meet up?" Laura asks. "Music section." I say. "Cool." Laura says. "Can we get pizza?" Niall asks. "Sure." I laugh.

     We pay for our stuff. Then we go to a pizza place. We get our pizza and walk home. When we get home it's supper time. We all sit around my living room and eat pizza. I sit on a couch with Louis on my left and Liam on my right. Niall is laying in a chair, focused on his pizza. Zayn and Laura sit on the other couch while Mya's in Harry's lap in the other chair. We talk about our day. "People kept staring at us in the garden section." Liam says. "What were you doing, then?" Laura asks. "Dancing." I say. Mya laughs. "Think about it. Liam and Aria dancing like idiots next to the flowers." Mya laughs again. "Our dancing was awesome, thank-you very much." I say, then Liam and I start laughing. When we all finish eating, we really just talk. We take turns taking showers.

     After we all take showers, we lay down in the living room again. Louis and I get a pillow for Niall. "Do you like Liam?" Louis asks me, quietly as we get the pillow. "No, Louis. He's my best friend. I love you." I say. I kiss him. He smiles. "I love you too." He says. We give Niall the pillow. "Thanks." He says. "No problem." I say. Louis and I sleep closer to everyone tonight. We hold hands as we go to sleep. Everyone closes their eyes. We all say good-night. Then I go to sleep, dreaming about what tomorrow will be like.

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