Battle of the bands

chapter 21

@real_liam_payne - Sunday market with @jadekoutsis @natdiv4

Liam's POV:

"Ah, look, jam donuts" Jade said, practically jumped when she saw the crowded van at the end of the aisle. I decided to take a photo of them in front of me, quickly, before Jade ran towards the van. I posted it on Twitter, tagging them.

Jade, Natalie and I had been at the Sunday market in the outer part of London for about an hour now. We had decided we were bored and could use some 'exercise'.

The movie day ended with all of us falling asleep, except for I think, Alyssa and Niall because half way through the night I woke to laughing and a space between Zayn and I. The TV was still on and their blonde hair stood out in the light, I guessed they were going to do crap to one of us, so I covered myself with my blanket, attempting to protect myself from whatever they did.

Turns out they did nothing and we all woke up with sore backs.

The following days we were all free so we used that time to bond, I guess 'bond' is the right word. We couldn't go out really anywhere so we mostly stayed in. Natalie, Jade and I figured that an outdoor market wouldn't have many teenage girls there, especially ones that would recognise us. So on Sunday, we woke up early and drove all the way out here for some fun, whilst everyone else stayed in their own houses.

"Yeah let's get some donuts" I agreed, as the van came into a better view and the smell of fresh donuts wafted into the air. Currently we had been on the crappy side of the market, Jade's idea to start on the left side and make our way to the right. All that we passed seemed mostly like a 'Trash and Treasure market' and we were disappointed to say the least, not that we didn't like the trash and treasure, there was just nothing interesting, a jam donut would definitely lift our spirits.

"The line is so long!" Natalie whined, I agreed with her, the line was very long.

"You guys have no patience!" Jade shook her head at us, jokingly, "You guys go and I'll stay here, when I get the donuts I'll find you wherever you are" Jade decided.

"Sounds like a plan, let's go" I said pulling Natalie with me to the next row. These stalls were much better and we looked at a few things and talked. We were passing a table with rope string bracelets all over it.

"Stop here" Natalie gestures towards the table, "I need to get Alyssa some of these, five to be exact".

"She already has five on her arm?" I questioned Natalie's statement. I had noticed Alyssa having five different string bracelets, they were all dark, natural tones, I liked them.

"Well Alyssa has this thing she does", Natalie began to explain, "She has a bracelet for everyone who she loves and is close with, she has 3 for us, with like our initials scratched in on the one bead she always makes sure is there, and then she has two for her parents". That sounded really deep, for a thirteen year old to have thought of that, anyway. I walked over to the table and began to look through the bracelets.

"So, are these five for" I began to ask but was interrupted by Natalie, "You guys of course" she smiles cheerfully. I laughed along with her when she explained that Alyssa had told her exactly what type of colours she wanted for each of us, and that each had to have a bead on them that she could scratch an initial on.

"She's going to have heaps now" I laughed at the small pile we had bought, each a different shade of brown- again, "She only likes browns, doesn't she?" I asks Natalie when we were making our way down the rest of the aisle. "Yeah, she thinks it's more fashionable" she giggled. We came across a table with wooden baboons and started laughing at them.

"Well, I think Alyssa was really sweet to do that" I mentioned as we picked out one. "Yeah she's a sweetie" Natalie replied.

"We need this one" she laughed, it was a black baboon with a rainbow face and bum. "Yes definitely" I agreed.

After we had finished the aisle Jade came running to us with the donuts, we finished them off fast and decided we were going to head back as nothing else really interested us. We picked up a punnet of strawberries on the way out, deciding we were going to eat them in the car on the way back.

We decided to go back to the girls house. I was going to drop them off anyways and I saw Louis' car there. We entered the house loudly, singing along to Rather Be.

"No place I'd rather be!" We shouted into the house as we went into the kitchen. Turns out everyone was in the backyard and we burst out laughing. "Fail. Life" Jade grinned. Natalie put the bag of bracelets and then baboon on the table, "let's bring the speaker outside". She suggested.

Natalie grabbed the speaker from upstairs and took its outside. Niall and Louis were over, playing soccer with the girls, who they were smashing to say the least. Everyone greeted us as we walked out.

"Okay change of plans", Alyssa shouted, picking up the soccer ball, "Obviously you guys are better at us than soccer, but have you seen Jade play?".

"No Alyssa, stop" Jade argued, giggling. "Fine" Alyssa answered, putting a disgusted look on her face, "We'll play something Jade always used to make us play".

"Nooo!" Charlie and Natalie whined. I had no idea what was going on, and neither did the guys.

"We are going to play, keep it up".

"Yes!" Louis and Niall high fived, thinking they had this one in the bag. "Hold on!" Alyssa interrupted, "It's every man for themselves, the winner, gets nothing though". We all laughed and agreed to play.

But the end of it, I think Louis and Niall were just as surprised as we were. None of the girls dropped or missed the ball once. But the winner, the person who did the most juggles in one shot, turned out to be Jade, who as Alyssa said, got nothing.

Afterwards we all came inside. Alyssa freaked out over the bracelets and the baboon, and immediately spilt all of them into the floor to 'investigate them'.

"Oh. My. Gosh. These are perfect!" Alyssa squealed just as Zayn and Harry walked through the door. Why the hell everyone was here, I don't know.

"What are they?" Zayn asked kneeling down next to Alyssa, looking at the bracelets.

"They're friendship bracelet, basically, for everyone I love and I have them on my arm, to remind me of my best friends" she smiled. Zayn nodded, "So who's is who's?" He asked.

Alyssa explained who's each bracelet was on her arm, then she got to the ones we and bought.

"Okay, this one is Louis', Liam's, Your's, Harry's and Niall's, and-" Alyssa stopped, "Natalie! Why did you get six?" Alyssa asked holding up a dark brown one with burgundy beads. "I only bought five". Natalie shouted from the kitchen. Oops.

"You stole it!" Alyssa shouted back to her, dropping the bracelet and looking at with disgust. She then looked up at Zayn, smiling innocently, "Here" Alyssa murmured, her face looking quite evil, "You can have this one" Alyssa gave the bracelet to Zayn, smiling now. She tied it around Zayn's arm who was laughing quite hard, going on about how he had illegal bracelet on his arm. He tied the other five around hers. The bracelets went half way up her fore arm only, so it looked okay. Alyssa ran into the kitchen came back out with her right arm, hidden in her jacket side. She pulled at a knife, wiggling her eyebrows.

"Alyssa what the hell are you doing with that?" Harry asked, looking concerned.

"She's going to carve your guys initials in her love bracelets" Natalie laughed.

"The are not love bracelets they are best friend bracelets, well and parents" Alyssa defended, Natalie raised her eyebrows at her, "Okay fine 'love bracelets' then" Alyssa giggled slightly scratching everyone's initials onto the bracelets with the massive knife.

"I don't think that's a good idea" Harry argued trying to pry the knife out of her hand, "Don't worry Harry I do this all the time!" Alyssa argued. She eventually finished dangerously carving the initials and Harry took the knife out of her hand and murmured that he was hiding it in the kitchen.

"Okay, what movie are we watching!" Jade screamed jumping onto the couch, holding the baboon in her hand.