Moments of Happiness

8

LIAM

I tried not to think up too many crazy reasons that Louis was taking us up to the roof. With Louis sometimes he wants to talk about something serious like life and the future, and other times he just wants to show you a cool bug he found. So I did my best to clear my expectations as he pushed open the door to the roof. When I get out of the stair well I see Harry sitting at a table and Lauren pacing talking to someone on the phone. Louis led us over to Harry and we all sat down.

"What are we doing up here Lou?" Niall asks the question running circles in my head. I nod and watch him. He smiles and leans back in his chair. He turns to look at Harry, who suddenly is very interested in the table. Lou smirks and looks back at us.

"Well, last night, when we left suddenly when Lauren and Joanne were backstage with us, we went to meet with some management reps. Harry here had the idea to invite these two lovely girls to join us for this next week on our tour." He says. Joanne gasps next to me, I turn and glance at her and she is frozen. "Lauren is currently talking to your parents. If they say yes-" He starts to say but cuts off when Joanne leaps up and runs over to where Lauren is. She grabs the phone out of Lauren's hand and starts talking a mile a minuet to the person on the other end. Lauren is grinning as she comes back over. She takes Joanne's abandoned seat as she tells us, "Joey is so busy trying to explain why we HAVE to accept the offer that she isn't giving them time to tell her that they already said yes!" She cheers. Harry looks up with a grin and Louis smiles. I turn back around and see Joanne freeze. After a few seconds she shakes herself out of it and starts screaming and dancing around. The forgotten phone falls into my lap when she runs over and pulls Lauren up to shake her and dance around some more.

"Hello? Joey? Joanne? Lauren? Anybody?" I hear from the phone in my lap. I pick it up and put it up to my ear.

"Hi, this is Liam Payne. Sorry, Lauren and Joanne are celebrating through dancing and screaming." I say smiling as I watch them.

"Hello Mr.Payne, this is their father. I only said yes because this is a once in a life time opportunity and I would NEVER hear the end of it if I didn't let them go." He says. "Now, if either of my girls is hurt in any way while in your care, I don't know what I'll do to you, but it won't be pretty." He says. I gulp and then smile nervously.

"Sir, there is nothing to worry about. They will be treated with the utter most respect and care. Anything they need will be provided. You can trust that I won't let anything happen to your girls." I say trying to think of anything that would reassure him. He seems pleased with my response. "Here, talk to Lauren." I say and hand the phone back to her. She tells him a few more random things then hangs up. After a while they calmed down enough to rejoin us at the table. Joanne kept bouncing around in her seat.

"Now, not to burst your happy bubble, but there is a ton of things that have to be negotiated and taken care of now that you have decided to accept our invitation. That will be followed by a ton of paperwork and rules." Louis says. "We should have the meeting now. As soon as possible."

"Today? Now?" Harry asks. I look over and see that he has paled. I feel bad, he hates meetings. They stress him out.

"Yeah, the sooner we get this over with the less we have to worry about it. If we do it tomorrow, we are all gonna be distracted during the show tonight." I say and he nods, he doesn't look happy about it, but understands that its for the best.

"But first, LUNCH!" Niall says. "I saw a cool looking restaurant on our way here this morning." We all nod and I pull the menu for the place up on my phone. We pass it around with a note pad and we write down our orders. Normally we sent someone from our crew to go get it, but Lauren and Joanne volunteer to go, we agree and send Paddy with them to pay. Once they are gone I turn on Harry and Louis.

"What were you thinking. You didn't say a word to us about this. Inviting them should have been a band decision. This is massive. We have never invited fans to come with us. I cant believe you didn't say anything." I shout. Harry flinches and Louis sits up, no longer relaxed.

"Don't yell at us. Sorry that we didn't tell you last night, you were so tired you couldn't even remember your own names." Louis says.

"Why. Why are we doing this. Its not that I don't like them. I do, they are both nice beautiful smart girls, but why. We've never done something like this before." I ask, Harry becomes interested in the table again.

"Like I said. It was Harry's idea. Remember that rule we made a few years back? No falling for a fan the first time you meet. Well, if you remember, we agreed on a week of knowing them before we could start thinking about liking them. Now, that week is impossible while on tour, so here we are. Inviting them to join us." He says. I turn and stare at Harry. He won't meet my eyes.

"Lauren?" Niall asks. He nods and starts picking at his jeans. I turn back to Louis.

"Where do you fit into all of this?" I ask. He shrugs.

"Just trying to help my best mate." Louis says. Then he decides that the conversation is over, pulls out his phone, and starts playing Flow Free. (That game is so addictive.) Niall gets up and starts walking around, Harry pulls his phone out as well and gets on Twitter. After a few minuets I get up and go over to where Niall is standing near the edge. We don't talk as we look out at the buildings around us. I took out my phone and took a couple of pictures and then sat and waited for the girls and Paddy to come back. We didn't have to wait long before the door was opening and Paddy came out with the bags. Lauren and Joanne followed him, each carrying a bag as well. Niall jogged over and took the bags from them and I made my way back over to the table.

Once Paddy had put the food down I pulled him aside. "Can you set the meeting for in an hour, it can be here for simplicity of not having to move us around. An hour will give me enough time to make a list of what needs to be adjusted." I say and he nods. He grabs his container and walks over to the far side of the roof to make the calls. I sat back down in my chair and pulled out my phone.

~Hotel rooms

~Cars & Bus

~Clothes

~Putting their names on the admit lists

~Confidentiality

I typed out as I picked at my food. I looked up when Paddy came back and nodded at me. The others were chatting about random things as I made my list. Paddy tapped my shoulder and signaled 20 minuets. I nodded and turned back to the group.

"20 minuets till the meeting." I say and Harry pales again. The others nods. I show Paddy the list and he nods and adds ~Security to the list. I nod and then save the list to my notes. With 10 minuets left we made put all the garbage in the bags and made our way back downstairs. Paddy radioed someone and then led us to a hallway to conference rooms. He opened the door to one and we went in.

I wasn't surprised when I saw the group of 10 management officials and reps gathered on the far side of the room. This was a pretty big deal. They came over and a couple of them pulled out computers. Paddy shut the door and joined us at the table. We all sat down and it seemed like both sides were waiting for the other to start talking first.

"Lets get this over with shall we?" I say, finally breaking the silence.

N/A hello all you wonderful people! Ally here. First, thank you for reading my story. Second, happy birthday Lauren! Okay, bye.