A Thousand Ships (A Niall Horan Fanfiction)

Chapter One: Morning Surprises

　

(Isabella's P.O.V.)

"And I'm like OW! You're giving me a heart attack..."

"Ughhhh...." I groaned into my pillow as my ringtone played obnoxiously loud next to my bed. The clock said it was only 7:00 a.m. On a Saturday. Who would call this early?

I really loved One Direction, especially Niall's part in that song, but I didn't need to wake up this early. I reluctantly reached across to grab the blaring device. It might be important. Maybe spam, I got a lot from all the 1D stuff I signed up for.

My eyes scrunched as I looked at the bright screen. When my eyes adjusted I decided I did not recognize the number, but I pressed accept anyway.

"Hello?"

"Is this a miss Isabella Pearson?" A voice boomed into my ear like those reality show hosts'.

"Um, yes, this is. Who are you?"

"Did you happen to enter the local radio contest to maybe see One Direction live at the theatre? And gain backstage access?"

I shot straight up.

"Yes?"

"WELL CONGRATULATIONS MY DEAR BECAUSE YOU WON!"

"I-I did?"

"You and three friends get to go see One Direction in person! You're live on the radio right now!"

"Oh... Oh my god! Thank you so so much! This is insane."

Mentally, I was freaking out, but I was trying not to scream or cry out loud.

"Who will you be taking with you?"

"My three best friends, of course!"

The radio announcer gave me more details off air and after I had to call my best friends back. I already had missed their calls, about a million times. I thought back to when we entered that contest.

"Izz! Izz we gotta enter this contest!"

Zoey was jumping up and down in front of me.

"Hey! Zo, I'm trying to watch this!" I pointed to the television.

"We could meet One Direction!"

I sighed and turned off the TV.

"What is it now?"

Zo always made us enter 1D contests that never got us anywhere.

"It's local this time! We just have to keep putting our email into a raffle type thing online for the radio and then when the guys come this Summer we get front row seats and a chance to run around backstage!"

"What is this now?" Lily came wandering into the room with a large bowl of popcorn.

"Gimme gimme!" I squealed. She laughed and passed me the food.

"It's another contest Zo is gonna make us do," Vi explained from her isolated armchair across the room.

"Another one! Zo, we haven't won anything and our parents said they'd get us tickets if they go on sale." Lil tried explaining to the overexcited girl.

"Well they haven't gone on sale and even if they did and we managed to get them, we wouldn't have good seats. Trust me on this! The contest guarantees four tickets and backstage passes! Four! Did you know we're a group of four best friends!"

"Sounds perfect for us," I smiled at her. I was trying to be encouraging, but Lil and Vi were kind of losing hope of meeting the boys.

"Great! Can we use yours, Izz, since my parents, ya know..."