Living Next Door to 1D

Chapter 17

After our emotional encounter with the 1D figures, we decided to head to a different cafe for a while and chat. So that's where we are now.

"Liv, is there anything specific you want?" Harry asks.

"You choose, what's something I absolutely need to try while I'm here?" I need to stop eating always donuts and croissants when I go to cafes...

"Hmm... have you ever tried chocolate chip and soy sauce cookies?"

"The what? Did you say soy sauce?" I don't really like Chinese food, but I guess I'll try these out.

"You have to try them, I think you'll like them!" As he asks for a cookie for each of us, I turn to Diana.

"You did get his reaction on video, right?" She nods excitedly and opens her phone to show me.

I see Harry running to the figures and me coming up behind him, and I also hear Steve whispering behind Diana, although I can't understand exactly what he says.

In the video, I hand Harry a tissue and then I start taking photos. The video stops and I look back up to Diana with a smile.

"Thank you! I know the boys will all love to see it. Speaking of which, you obviously can't tell anyone about this, they're trying to keep it under wraps until after his tour finishes."

"Don't worry about that, we'll stay quiet until you say we can say anything," Steve joins in.

Harry comes back with the cookies and we all sit down at a table. After some time of chatting, we've discovered that Steve and Di live in Spain, and after I checked, they're only 30 minutes away from my house! They're twins, 16 years old, and their parents are sadly divorced. Their dad isn't much in their lives, only for birthdays and Christmas, but their mom has actually remarried and they have two stepsiblings, who they love as if they were full blood. Di adds that they have a very good relationship with their stepdad, which I'm very glad of. I've read of so many people who carried so much trauma from their parents being divorced and not being able to have a good relationship with them, so I'm glad it's sort of worked out, at least.

I tell them about my family as well, and that I'm staying with my aunt and uncle in London for a month, then heading back home, and Diana tells me that they're also staying in London for a couple of weeks, and then they're going to Ireland for the rest of the month (an: it's currently july! sorry i forgot to set the scene), then returning home for September.

We leave the cafe around 3pm and part ways after exchanging numbers, and I tell them they'll definitely have to come over to my house someday and meet the rest. Their faces light up and then we, unfortunately, have to go our separate ways. Harry and I head over to some of the 1D recording locations, and he even takes me to some I didn't know existed! I take a lot of photos for the boys later, and we have a lot of fun in general.

I finally get home around 6pm, and my cousin Ada is waiting right there for me.

"Liv, hey! How was your day?" She greets me.

"Hi Ada! It was great, we went to the London Eye and the wax museum. How about you?" I don't go into too much detail because she's already chatty enough on her own. Takes after her mother!

"It was good, we took Dave to the hospital again and the doctor said he's okay, but he can't walk around, of course, and he needs to stay on bed rest for the next, like, 6 weeks, and he's really disappointed about that. My mom also went shopping for food and we got some typical British things you need to try, we got things to do fish and chips, but we know you don't like fish so we got chicken in the shape of fish and also some fish for us and in case you want to try it." Finally she stops to take a breath and I jump in.