One Twist of Fate: One Direction

Chapter One: Big News.

Chapter One

I rushed forward, then back as the swing held my full weight, which somehow made me feel weightless. I threw my head back as I pumped my legs and smiled to myself. I could feel small strands of hair falling out of the tight messy bun that I had pulled my long brown hair into before I decided to walk to the park. The strands of hair brushed up against my face along with the early summer breeze. In the summer, the sun can be set but it could still be bright out. I never understood why but, that’s how it is now. The hot air began to turn cool and that’s when I decided to walk back home.

My feet scraped against the ground to slow down the swing. I finally came to a complete stop and took my headphones out of my ears. I looked around, nobody was around and the only things I could hear were distant birds chirping and the faint sound of ‘I Would’ by One Direction playing from my headphones. Just as I was about to get up to walk home my phone vibrated and it said I had a text message from my mom: “Ariana, hurry home. It’s important.” I replied; “I was just on my way home, anyway.” I stood up from the swing, the cuff of my blue jean shorts got stuck on the swing, so I shook the swing off and began walking.

On my way home I couldn’t help but wonder what could be so important. My mom never uses correct grammar in text messages. I came around the corner onto my street and I saw a car parked in front of my house. ‘Who would be here?’ I wondered to myself. If I didn’t know any better I would say it looked like my best friends Jake and Rob’s mom’s car but, it couldn’t be. I knew that it couldn’t be because they live in Connecticut and I live in Massachusetts and they definitely wouldn’t stop by without me knowing. After all, we always hangout with May and she wasn’t here.

I walked up the concrete steps onto my porch and I opened my door and as I entered my house I asked, “Mom, what is so impor-” I was cut off in mid-sentence when I was caught completely off guard by my best friend, Jake, “ARIANA!” he yelled, running from the living room to the door and hugging me. I was so confused. So, I just hugged him back with an utterly baffled expression on my face. Before I got the chance to ask any questions, two One Direction tickets and backstage passes were thrown at me. I grabbed them and stared at them, jaw dropped and all. I slowly lifted my head up and looked at Jake. “Yeah! I won a radio contest! Ariana, we’re meETING ONE DIRECTION TOMORROW!” Jake yelled, his voice growing louder with every word he spoke. Yes, my best friend is a boy Directioner. Jake recently came out of the closet and it turns out he finds Louis to be some sort of god and he loves the boys; so basically we just like to fangirl/boy together.

Tears began to swell in my eyes. This was a dream come true for me and I knew it was for him too. I started jumping up and down, “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for taking me with you!!” I yelled as I pulled Jake into a hug. “What else are best friends for?” he said with a smile. Once I got a chance to calm down, Jake’s mom and my mom sat us down in the living room and made sure we knew the plan. I knew the plan like the back of my hand by the time it was fully explained to us. This is how it was going to go; we catch a train from here to our hotel in Boston at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, we arrive at the hotel around noon and the people from the radio station check us in, we get settled in our room, go out to lunch for 1 o’clock, go back to the hotel and chill until about 5 o’clock when we get picked up from the hotel in a limo to drive to the arena, we go in for meet and greets, watch sound check where the boys will do a Q&A then, we get to watch the show from our front row seats.

I was so beyond excited. Jake’s mom ran through the plan one last time, then said goodbye to him. Once she left I dragged Jake upstairs to my room and flung open my closet, “What the hell am I gunna wear?!”