Crazy Little Thing Called Love

The Friendship Deal Or How I Got One Direction's Numbers

When my shift had ended the boys still hadn't left the restaurant and I quickly changed out of my work clothes into a pair a black skinny jeans and a light grey jumper with a pair of black boots. I didn't really look where I was going on my way out as I was trying to squeeze my uniform into my bag which seemed to have shrunken to at least half its size so I bumped straight into someone. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! I didn't watch were I was going." I apologised quickly until I heard a chuckle and looked up to find Louis smirking down at me.

"You really need to stop running into me like that all the time. If you wanna feel me up, all you have to do is ask", he said with a cheeky wink in my direction. I laughed. "Wow, if I had known that it was SO easy to get closer to the famous Louis Tomlinson I wouldn't have made such a big effort in the first place." I sighed dramatically and threw my hands in the air. "Oh well, now that I know that I only have to ask you to get all touchy with you, my life's gonna be so much easier!" I gave him a big smile, took a step backwards and swung my bag over my shoulder.

"Anyway, as nice as it is to talk to you and especially to bump into you again, I gotta go now because I promised my best friend that I'd be home by nine and I still gotta take the tube and the bus there." Louis looked a bit disappointed but recovered quickly and immediately offered me to drop me off. "We're leaving anyway and I'm sure none of the boys would mind if you rode with us." He gave me his best puppy eyes, but as much as I wanted to give in and say yes (I mean it's Louis Tomlinson who can say no to THAT?), there were a million reasons why I couldn't.

"I am sorry, Louis, I can't. I'd love to ride with you but I there are so many reasons why I should walk out of the hotel right now and act as if I have never met you before." Louis was obviously disappointed and the hurt was clearly written all over his face but he still demanded to know my reasons. "Well, for starters what do you think would happen if I walked out of the hotel with you guys. The media would just LOVE that now, wouldn't they? I'd probably date at least one of you, maybe even two by tomorrow morning, and I'd probably also try to break up Liam and Sophia at the same time, so no thank you. As much as I'm sure that you're all amazing guys –and as much as my inner fangirl is screaming at me to say yes-, I don't think that I'd fit into your world, Louis. I'm just a girl from Norfolk who's living her dream in London and you are a worldwide known popstar who gets followed by paps and fans wherever he goes. As much as I'd like it for us to work out, I don't think it will, I'm sorry."

I gave him a sad smile and turned around to walk out of the back door of the hotel as the entrance was still occupied by One Direction fans, but Louis stopped me once again. "Do you really just wanna walk out on me like that?" he asked me with a pained expression on his face. I shrugged. "I do understand where you're coming from but it's not all bad in my world. Of course we get a lot of media attention and it sometimes really annoys the hell out of me especially all this Larry Stylinson shit, but we get so much love and support and have so many great things in our lives that have only happened because of our singing career. And most importantly, just like you, we're living our dream. We, I, will do everything that I can to protect you from the media and the fans. We can work this out, Claire. So, please, please give us a chance, give me a chance! I'm sure we'd be the bestest of friends." He said in a pleading voice, with a cheeky smile in the end.

The other three guys chose that exact moment to come up to us. "Everything okay here? Paul said we're about to leave." Niall said with a smile in my direction. "Yeah, we're fine. I was just about to leave." I said in the exact moment that Louis said. "No, she doesn't want to be our friend and doesn't want to ride back with us." Harry looked a bit confused just like the other two. "You don't want to be friends with us?" Niall asked and looked at me as if I had just told him that I hate food or something like that. I opened my mouth to explain myself, but Louis was faster than me.

"She's scared of all the media attention that comes along with our job, but I told her that we'd all protect her if she decided to try being our friend because I'm sure we'd all get along perfectly, right boys?" The other three nodded and Liam said "I understand why you don't want to associate with us, but my girlfriend Sophia is also a very private person and she simply deleted all of her social media accounts or at least made them private and she doesn't receive too much hate. If you want to talk to her about this I could give you her phone number. I'm sure she wouldn't mind." He said with a kind smile in my direction. Harry nodded. "I know that the media attention can be hard, especially when they make up stupid rumours but you learn how to deal with them and for every hate tweet you get one hundred tweets from people who tell you how much they love and admire you." He told me and gave me a reassuring smile.

I couldn't take it anymore. "Alright, alright I'll think about it okay? But I still really need to leave right now." After they had all saved their phone numbers in my phone (Liam also gave the number of Sophia), I gave them one last smile and turned around but for the third time this day I was stopped by Louis who pulled me into a hug and held me close. It felt so good to be held by him and he smelled really good. "It was great to meet you, Claire", he said and gave me a light squeeze before he let me go off me just to pass me on to Harry. Now I knew why everyone made such a big fuss about how Harry hugged people. I was in fangirl heaven and I wanted to stay there as long as I could. He whispered a "Goodbye, Claire." Into my ear which send a shiver down my spine. After I got to enjoy a famous Horan hug and a quick, warm hug from Liam I was finally released and ready to go.

I was still in a bit of a daze after just being hugged by all four members of One Direction and felt like I was floating out of the hotel on a bubbly wonderful fangirl cloud in fangirl heaven. They all smelled so f***cking good. And they all were SO fit. I envied everyone who had the pleasure of being hugged by One Direction on a regular basis because it was better than everything I had ever dreamed about. With a bit more pep in my step than usually, I made my way over to the tube station and smiled widely at passers-by who probably thought that I was some crazy person. Happily whistling "Girl Almighty", I got onto the tube to Hackney where Lily and I lived, super excited to tell Lily all about my eventful evening.

Thanks for reading my fourth chapter, I really appreciate it! Ideas and comments are always welcome! :)