Once in a Lifetime (EDITING)

Ch. 5 Race to Home

Kelli's POV

"Ok, so when meeting One Direction, you need to be...sexy, confident, and classy!" Maddie lists off on each finger, as we head down to the door of the room where the after party is taking place. "But mainly sexy, if you want Mr. Styles attention that is." I chuckle at that. Like Harry would even look at me.

"Kelli, don't you dare sell yourself short." Maddie warns me sternly. I laugh, loud enough for them to hear. "Mads, don't you dare sell yourself short. You and Rose have a chance with your dream guys. Do it for me please?" I say flipping the subject around on them, as we are in the actual doorway of the room. The door is closed, so we can't witness how loud the party is, but we can definitely hear it. I can feel my skull vibrating. Maddie is going to fit right in.

They both nod as I put my hand on the doornob. "Yall ready?" I say nervously. "Hell yeah!" Maddie and Rosey squeal simultaneously. Here goes nothing...

The smell. That's the 1st thing that hit me when I opened the door, of course my friends didn't really seem bothered by it but, to say the least it was burning my nostrils.

"What do we do now?" I say uncertainly, glancing back at Rose. "Find the drinks," She says confidently, striding toward the nearest table.

I shrug and follow Rosey's lead, trying to seem as confident as she is. Madison follows in suit, glancing at someone in the corner of the room.

"Hey, I'll be right back guys ok?" She says, still focused on whoever is in the back of the room. "Alright, stay safe." I say grabbing a drink from the table.

"Woah," Rosey whispers, elbowing me in the side, "check out who Madison just landed." She says as I scan the crowd for my friend.

As soon as I spot her brunette head in the sea of people, I feel my own jaw drop. Madison is fine, she's having fun, laughing and talking with Niall Horan. Her favorite member of One Direction.

Niall Horan. I'm going to have her spill every detail as soon as we get home.

"Hey look!" Rosey squeals in my ear. And standing a few feet away from us is the one and only Liam Payne, walking towards Rosey. These boys are everywhere tonight...

"Oh my gosh, he's coming over here, is he walking towards me?! Kelli!" She whisper shouts in my ear, while a huge grin spreads across my face. "Be classy, confident, and sexy." I say slyly smirking while walking away. "So basically, just be yourself." I say before turning away and diving into the crowd before she can stop me.

Instead of being as smooth as a ninja, I run straight into the person standing in front of me. "I'm so sorry, I wasn't watching where-" I stop mid sentence, no amount of apologies will fix this, in my opinion. I open my mouth to keep going but nothing comes out except "You're Harry Styles" I say stupidly. Of course he already knows that.

He chuckles before answering "That's me. How was the concert?" He says in his British accent. Well how else is he suppose to sound? I mentally scold myself. But his accent... Oh my gosh. "It was amazing." I quickly say, finally realizing he's waiting for me to say something.

"Good." He says simply, his green eyes locking on me. This is so akward, I keep repeating in my head for a good 10 seconds before I start to stutter out the reason why I'm about to run away and puke, well not really but that's what I feel like doing, "Um sorry for bumping into you- I should go, I'll just...bye." I say flinching at the incoherent words falling from my lips. I begin to fast walk the hell out of there, towards where I last saw Maddie, hoping that she, at least had better luck than I did.

As I squeeze my way out of the back of the crowd, I instantly spot Maddie and Niall, intertwining his hand with hers and whispering something in her ear, making her blush.

Why can't I have that? I think longingly.

She immediately spots me, and gives me a questioning look. Probably wondering why I look like I'm about to be sick. Her expression immediately turns to shock as she looks behind me. Before I can turn around, I feel a strong hand grab my wrist. "You know I never got your name." Harry says, spinning me around to face him.

"It's um Kelli" I say, pretty shocked myself. Harry Styles is talking to me. Oh lord, just wait till I get home and- HOME! Shit! My sister is probably almost home! Dammit!

"You know," Harry says suddenly startling me from my thoughts, "the boys and I are staying in Houston for a while, and we don't really know the city that well, do you think that you could give us a tour? In your free time of course." He says as glances down at my shirt and smirks. Completely forgot I had my Team Styles shirt on! Huh, glad I do now. "Really? I'd love to." I say, purposely keeping my vision towards the ground, because I swear I'll start hyperventilating if I even look in his gorgeous sea-green eyes. I gotta get home. "Um, I really have to go" I say half-heartedly, really not wanting to leave at all. "Well," he says, sounding almost disappointed, "can I at least have your number?" He says as I finally give in and make eye contact with him. Here come the butterflies.

"Yeah." I answer him as I give him my number. "Kelli!" I hear someone yell, as I turn around to see a frantic Rosey running towards me, with Liam Payne, trailing behind. Another story that she will have to catch me up on. "I just saw your sister leave, some security guard kicked her out." I laugh at that. Darcy doesn't know the first thing when it comes to manners, she probably slapped the security guard or something. Really wouldn't surprise me. "Kelli, if you don't want to get caught, we need to leave right now." Rose says urgently as Liam and Harry share confused glances. "We need to find Madison." I say, standing on my toes to try and spot her in the raging party going on around us. I'm surprised I can even hear them. I say suddenly realizing how loud it is. "You mean that girl that Niall is with?" Liam asks.

"Do you know where they are?" I ask.

"I'm right here!" Maddie says proudly, as she and Niall stroll up behind us with Niall's arm draped casually over her shoulder.

She's going to have a lot of explaining to do.

"Mads, we need to leave. Darcy is on her way home and I'm dead if I'm not there when she gets home." I explain quickly. Her relaxed expression immediately turned to frantic. "Your sister is a psychotic bitch, we have to leave now." Maddie says as she ushers me and Rose towards the door.

As me and Rosey make a bee-line for the door, I turn around to find Mads just now catching up to us, and Niall's face is as red as a tomato.

I catch Harry's eye as I leave. That smirk from earlier is on his face, as he winks at me, making my heart flutter.
As we make it out to the car, we all scramble inside and speed out of the parking lot, while I'm praying that I have enough time to make it home.