When Times get tough (One Direction Fan Fic)

Chapter Four

“Raine?” My mum waves her hand in front of my face. “Are you ok?”

“…YES MUM! I’M FAN-FRIKIN-TASTIC. BECAUSE I’M JUST OH SO HAPPY TO LEAVE MY AMAZING LIFE BEHIND TO GO LIVE IN SOME POSH, SNOBBY COUNTRY. YEAH, I’VE NEVER BEEN BETTER.”

My Mum winces at my out-burst, but I don’t care.

“Raine…Can we please just be sensible about this?”

“NO DAD. JUST NO. Don’t even talk to me!” And with that, I burst through the office doors and run to Layla.

“Hey Raine, what did they wa-OH MY GOD ARE YOU CRYING? What happened?!”

“I…T-they…They’re…making me MOVE…To London!” I manage in between sobs

Layla stops, and just looks blank.

“You mean… you have to move…to London?”

“YES, LAYLA! What the hell am I going to do?! I need you with me! I can’t leave you! You’re my best friend!”

“You don’t have to, Raine…”

“I have to go, I don’t have a choice!”

“No, what I meant was…You don’t have to leave me. I can come with you!”

“Your parents wouldn’t let you, Layla” I had calmed down a bit now

“To hell what they think! I’m eighteen, so I can legally choose where to live, and when to move out of my house! I can come with you, and my parents can’t stop me!” She was grinning from ear to ear

“You would really do that for me?”

“Of course I would Raine! We’ve been best friends since pre-school! I can’t let you go that easy”

“Oh my god, You have no idea how much I love you right now!” I scream, and engulf her in a massive hug.

“I love you too, Raine!” she laughs, but suddenly she freezes, and her face goes…sort of, blank.

“Layla? Layla, what’s wrong?”

“Did you say…we’re moving to London..?!”

“Yes…why?”

“Raine…ONE DIRECTION LIVE IN LONDON!” She starts screaming her head off “WE MIGHT GET TO MEET THEM! HECK, WE MIGHT EVEN LIVE NEAR THEM! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD! WE’RE GOING TO LONDON! OH MY GOD! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

And then my Dad comes running in to the room…

“What the hell is going on here?!”

“Layla’s coming to live with us in London, Dad”

“I don’t think so missy, her family is here and I doubt they would let her come and live with us so far away from them”

“With all due respect Sir, I’m eighteen and I can make my own decisions now. I can come and live in a different country without their permission. So I’m coming whether you want me to or not.” Layla says

My Dad froze for a second, but quickly recovered. “Fine, whatever. If it makes you happy Raine, then she can come. But Layla, you have to pay for your own ticket. And…I suppose you can share a bedroom with Raine once we get there” He sighed

“OH MY GOD THANK YOU DADDY” I give him a hug and then go back to fangirling over one direction. Did I mention Layla and I are huge Directioners?

“Oh and girls, we leave tomorrow. Layla, you need to call your parents and let them know. You can stay here tonight. We leave at 11am.” He explains to us

“Ok! Thanks again!” I grin broadly, and drag Layla up the stairs to my bedroom.

“Layla! Call your parents, I have a spare suitcase you can use…we have a lot”

“Alright! Calm down girl!” She laughs, but I can tell she’s just as excited as I am.

I look up at Layla and see she is already dialling her parents number. It’s a good thing that they don’t get along with each other, otherwise there would be a big fuss over her leaving without saying goodbye to them in person, but honestly? Layla couldn’t care less about them. They always put her older sibling before her, and they treated her like a slave which is why she is always staying at my house.

“Hey Dad, is Mum home?”…”Ok, well then I’ll just tell you.” I hear her sigh before she continues “Well, Dad, you see, Raine is moving to London…and I’m going with her. Sorry, but she’s too important for me to just let her go. You guys on the other hand, I don’t really give a shit about. Sorry, but it’s true. We leave tomorrow at 11am so I thought I’d call to say goodbye. And before you ask, most of my stuff is at Ranie’s place so I won’t need to pick anything up before I leave.”

Silence…

“Yes, but-…Yea I know, but I’m eighteen so I can leave when I want to, THANKS VERY MUCH.”

“You think you don’t have time for this? Well neither do I, so have a good life Dad, and say bye to the others for me.” And then she hung up…

“What did he say?”

“Who cares what he said? Certainly not me” Layla scowled

“Alrighty…Well we better start getting packed then…”

“Yea let’s g-OH CRAP!”

“what?!!” I ask, startled by her out burst.

“IT’S TOO LATE TO BUY A TICKET ISN’T IT. YOUR DAD SAID I HAD TO BUY A TICKET FOR MYSELF!’

She’s right…

“Let me go talk to him! Just start packing” And without another word I run down the stairs as fast as I can and crash into my Dad’s office again.

“What is it?’ he asks

“Layla’s ticket! She doesn’t have a ticket!” I gasp for air, that was a lot of running I had just done.

“Don’t worry about it Raine, I have it all sorted out”

“Oh thank god, we just had a miniature panic attack! I swear!”

And again, I ran out of the office and back to my room before I could hear what he was about to say.

I burst through my door to see a very baffled looking Layla.

“You quite right there Raine? I’ve never seen you run so fast in my life!” she laughs

“Yea!” I exclaim, though I’m still red in the face and tired as hell. “Dad says not to worry about it, and that he has it sorted!” I grin

“cool! Now let’s get packing! We’re gonna have to take all of our one direction stuff with us you know…”

“Hmm…hold on Layla, I’ll grab us another suitcase each…”

“Okay!” she grins

As I go get two more suitcases, I can’t help but think how lucky I am to be going on this trip with my best friend, I’m just overwhelmed with happiness. Also, this move will mean that I won’t have to see Jason, ever again...i thought to myself…but boy was I wrong.

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So here it is, Chapter Four!(: Now, someone told me I should try this…so I don’t know…4 votes for the next chapter? o; Thanks for reading!