Say What Now?!

Chapter 7: Five Directions

Chapter 7: Five Directions

"Yeah, we'll keep doing what we do.

Just pretending that we're cool so tonight." - Live While We're Young

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Somebody actually threw their knickers on the stage. I mean what the actual fuck? They’re only kids for god’s sake, both the singers and the audience. This was just too weird. Five guys stood on the stage, grinning and casting their eyes over the crowd.

Lily snivelled next to me. Lines of black mascara had drawn down her face from a mixture of tears and rain. I lifted my aviators to give her a look.

“This is the best moment of my life,” she whispered.

Her eyes were fixated on the stage with a look of adoration and amazement.

“This is actually happening to me. Thank you! Thank you!”

I looked away from her to look at these five people she so adamantly adored. What made them so special? Could they really sing?

“Niall is the cute one, Zayn is the quiet and mysterious one, Liam is the sensible one, Harry is the charming one and Louis is the funny one,” Lily recited, eyes glazed.

“And who’s who?”

She pointed to the first boy on the right. He had blond hair.

“That’s Niall. He’s from Ireland.”

The next one looked to be of Asian origins. He had black hair and brown skin.

“That one- yeah him. That’s Zayn Malik. He has Pakistani parents.”

The third looked like the oldest in the group. He had his hair cropped short and a tattoo of four arrows on his right arm.

“Liam Payne,” she sighed. “He’s gorgeous isn’t he?”

“And the next two?”

“Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles.”

Louis had brown hair in this kind of fuzzy Justin Bieber style and Harry... Well he had loads of hair. A big curly mop of brown fluff looked stuck to his head. Apart from the terrible hair, he wasn’t by any means ugly. Nice but I wouldn’t stretch it to handsome.

Panda started screaming and clapping her hands as did the other hundreds of fan.

“We love 1D! We love 1D!” she bellowed.

I glared up at the sky and pushed my aviators further over my eyes. This was terrible. I didn’t care how good this band was. All I cared about was the fact I was standing in a sea of bodies in an ocean of mud whilst rain poured down on us.

“I want to go home!” I announced.

But Lily didn’t even hear for at that moment the band began to sing.

“You’re insecure, don’t know what for. You’re turning heads when you walk through the door! Don’t need makeup to cover up. Being the way that you are is enough.”

Lily began screaming the lyrics, bouncing on her heels.

“Everyone else in the r-room can see itttt! Everyone else but youuuuuu!”

“Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed, but when you smile at the ground it ain’t hard to tell... You don’t know. Oh Oh. You don’t know you’re beautiful!”

Okay I officially want to kill myself.