She Will Be Loved

Chapter 3: Singing and Awkwaaard

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Paige's POV:

It was about 6 am when I woke up. I know most people like to sleep in and would think I was completely insane to be up so early. In truth it was my me-time. Hadley was asleep as was most of the outside world. The sky was a pale pink, right before the sun came out. I spent my morning as I always did, seated on a corner of my bed, holding a scrapbook in my hands. I gently ran my finger over the frayed cover, it was a picture of myself and a boy. I still remember when it was taken, we were both 13 at the time. We were laughing uncontrollably, leaning on each other for support. His hair was the same color as mine, a light brown. We could have been identical except for the different hairstyles and the splatter of freckles across his cheeks.

"Hey Cartie," I whispered, seemingly to the air but I knew he could hear me,"I went on a date yesterday. He was sweet and funny. I think you would have liked him. "

I flipped the page, now a new set of pictures was layed out on my lap. This time we were 8, and my arm was in a cast. He was grinning proudly, a large gap where his two front teeth should have been. We had just finished our first kick boxing class together.

"Is it ok?" I asked, looking out the window into the sky,"Would it be ok if I loved someone? Im just scared to let anyone close, you were always a better judge of character then me. You would have known. You always trusted Hadley, I remember when you had a crush on her. Now look, me and her are practically sisters."

A few stray tears had fallen onto the pictures. I quickly wiped them away and gently closed the book. Setting it back into it's place under my pillow.

"I miss you Cartie, so much. I think about you every single day." Paint splattered tear drops fell onto my shirt now, "I haven't forgotten. It's in 8 days. June 17th, at 6:48 am. Don't worry I'll never forget. I'm making sure of that, I have a surprise for you." I sniffled a bit, smiling sadley.

"Well another day, time to go. Ill talk to you later, love you Carter." With that I got up, walking to the bathroom to take an early shower.

I was lucky, my room was pretty big. A giant king bed faced a hanging flat screen. It was messy by most standards, but I was fine with the occasional shirt on the floor or whatever. It had different decorations, posters on the walls, MMA trophies filled one shelf. Plus it had a big closet and a bathroom.

"Paige?" I heard Hadley call from down the hall, "The band is performing today, were going to go surprise Liam and Niall. So get ready and we can pick up some food."

Without waiting for a reply she shut the door, probably getting herself ready. I choose some shorts with a floral tank top and some sandals. I left my hair down, it was stick straight and a few inches below my shoulders. A few minutes later Hadley was ready to go, she grabbed the just and we jumped into the car.

"Why do you alway get to drive Had?" I whined, sitting in the passengers seat as always.

"Because, it's MY car." She replied with a smile,"Well mostly mine, I'm almost done with the payments."

Without another word she started the car, driving us to wherever the X-Factor was held this time.

We stopped at a nearby coffee shop, a cute local one run by a woman named Chelsea. After eating,we arrived at the auditorium, if that's what you called this thing. It was huge! Not to mention the hundreds if not thousands of people. We got to skip past all of them and go backstage to a dressing room labeled 'One Direction.'