Choices.

Chapter Fourteen

I don't know why our group kept meeting in our room. It was pretty small, and we all had to squeeze to fit onto the beds. It would've made more sense to meet in one of the boys' suites, but no one seemed to mind.

After far too many "I don't know, what do you want to do?"s, we decided to go to the Mall of America.

The eight of us squeezed into the same cars from the night before. This time, I sat in the back with Liam and Louis, who were having a slap fight, despite the fact that I was sitting between them. Niall was in the front, laughing at them and my unamused expression.

I don't know how I got stuck with ¾ of 1D, while Harry was in the other car with the girls, but I was not enjoying it. Okay, maybe I was a little bit, but the slap fight was getting really old really fast.

After about 5 minutes, I had had enough.

"Hey!" I shouted, smacking Liam and Louis on the back of the head. "Knock it off!"

All 3 of the boys stared at me with wide eyes for a second. Then, Niall broke the silence with his signature laugh. Louis gave me a smirk and Liam saluted me and said "yes ma'am."

"Thank God," Henry, our driver, laughed. "They never sit still. They're the reason I'm going bald."

We both laughed, while Liam rolled his eyes and Niall mumbled "rude."

"So Jen, what do you do for a living?" Henry asked sweetly, which caused the boys to turn and look at me.

"I'm a high school math teacher."

"Eww, math!" Louis gagged.

"What? Math is fun!" I laughed.

They all looked at me like I had grown a third eye

"Nerd!" Niall fake coughed, causing us all to snicker.

"Well, it looks like we both have jobs trying to keep a bunch of idiots in order," Henry said, giving me a wink.

"Oi!" Louis exclaimed.

"Sounds about right," I smiled.

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The eight of us spent most of the day just walking around the mall. We all split up to go to different stores, and I somehow wound up with Kallie.

Kallie dragged me from store to store, buying makeup and hair products that I had never heard of. Lou had sent a list of things for her to buy so she got those and some for her personal stockpile. She bought so much that I ended up being her pack camel. She was trying to teach me what each thing was, but I just shamelessly zoned her out and started daydreaming.

After about two hours of makeup shopping, we met up with the rest of the gang to get something to eat. Having all eight of us together was chaos because we were so loud. There were at least three conversations going at a time, and Niall was always laughing very loudly at something someone (usually Louis) said.

Harry spent the whole time making fun of my waffle addiction and asking me why I didn't get a waffle. It got even worse when he realized I was eating ice cream from a waffle cone.

After we finished eating, we split up into groups again. I didn't want to be stuck with Kallie again, so I quickly grabbed Kat and begged he to go on the roller coaster with me. Liam decided to tag along with us, making me the awkward third wheel and leaving Niall to be dragged around by Kallie, who was already making him carry her bags.

We started to make our way over to the rides, with me trailing behind Kat and Liam, who were flirting like crazy.

"Hey! Wait up!" someone shouted.

We turned around to see Harry jogging up to us. Harry fell into step next to me, and Kat and Liam went back to flirting.

"I thought you didn't like roller coasters?" I asked Harry.

"I don't, but I didn't want you to be stuck with those lovebirds," he whispered, nodding towards Kat and Liam, who were in their own little world.

With that, I grabbed his hand and dragged him towards the entrance to the roller coaster.