Channel Surfing

Chapter One - How It All Began

Chapter One - How It All Began

It was a beautiful sunny day in LA.  There was a huge crowd of excited bubbly girls gathered around at the entrance of a large television studio.  Why you ask, because today was the day One Direction was filming an episode of a hit T.V. sitcom that they were guest starring in.  

They didn't have a large role, so it only took them one day to film their parts.  They played the roles of one of the lead character's five younger brothers.  The boys were excellent at fulfilling the quirkiness and silliness of their characters.  The whole day went splendid and the boys, as well as everyone else were extremely pleased with their performance and their characters.

"That's a wrap boys!"  The director announced.

It was well into evening now, the sun beginning to set leaving the sky shades of pink, orange, and yellow.  After a bunch of small talk and chit chat with the crew and cast of the show, the boys made their way to the cafeteria that was located in the building.  They had worked a long day and didn't get much time for a food break, so they were all very hungry.

"I could eat a whole elephant right now."  Niall exclaimed with a loud rumble of his stomach.

The boys giggled and Zayn added "I could too."

"I have an idea!"  Louis said with a wide grin.  "Last one to the cafeteria is a rotten egg!!"  He started sprinting down the halls leading there.

The other boys didn't want to be the last one to arrive and be called a 'rotten egg' for the rest of the night so they all started running and trying to beat one another to the cafeteria.

Louis, still in the lead, came to an abrupt halt at a doorway.  The others who still racing and trying to beat each other all stumbled into Louis as they tried to slow down and regain composure.

"Why'd you stop?"  Harry asked while still breathing hard.  

"Look."  Louis pointed to the room in front of him.  

The room was packed full of stuff.  All different kinds of props and clothing and even monster masks.  

"Cool!"  Niall blurted out.

They all walked in, looking around at everything.

"Take a look at this!"  Harry said pointing to a chest which looked like one that would hold pirate treasure.

"That's neat, but you gotta see this!"  Liam exclaimed leading them to a life size realistic looking velociraptor.

There was so much different extraordinary things to look at.  The boys were having the time of their life looking through and pointing out everything.

Harry felt someone tap his shoulder.  He turned around to be met by a horrific looking zombie face only mere inches by his own face.  It let out a loud growl.

He jumped.  "Ahh!  Oh my god"  He yelled startled.  

Niall hysterically started laughing as he took off the mask.  "Gotcha!"

Harry made a pouty face and responded by pelting a rubber ball he saw on a nearby shelf at him.

"Owww.." Niall whined as the ball made contact with his shoulder.

Now it was Harry's turn to laugh.

"Oh this is so cool!"  Louis's voice echoed, interrupting the boys from whatever else they were currently occupied with.

"What is it?"  Liam asked as they all curiously walked towards him.

They all saw a bright gold genie lamp.  Louis picked it up gently.  

"Isn't that supposed to grant you wishes?"  Niall asked.

"Yeah."  Zayn replied.  "Louis make a wish."

Louis stared at the lamp and rubbed his hands over it.  

"Okay.  I wish that we could be in more T.V. shows."  He closed his eyes tightly for a second after that thinking that a genie would pop out or a loud bang or explosion would happen after a wish was made.  

Silence, nothing happened.  

The boys all stared at it for a moment until they got bored and turned their attention to other items.  Louis put it back on the shelf.  "What a crock."  He murmured to himself.

Liam looked at his watch.  It was much later than he thought.  They had been here for over a half hour.

"Guys we really should go get something to eat.  It's late already and we have an early flight back tomorrow."

"And I'm STARVING!"  Niall yelled out.

"Alright then let's go before Niall 'starves'"  Louis said sarcastically while putting air quotations around the word 'starves'.

They made there way over to the cafeteria.  Niall ran ahead of them because he was so excited about finally getting some food.

They all sat down at a table once they all got their food. 

"By the way."  Niall said with a huge smirk on his face.  "You guys are all rotten eggs!"  

"No, no!"  Louis swiftly protested.  "We weren't doing that anymore."

"Rotten eggs, rotten eggs!"  Niall sang out as he started chewing on his sandwich.

Louis keep shaking his head and repeating "no".  The others just laughed.

"Niall eat with your mouth closed."  Liam ordered.  "Yeah!"  Louis yelled.

After they devoured their food they went back to the hotel to get a good nights rest since they were leaving early the next morning to head back to the U.K.

 All of the shared a suite at a hotel close by.  They were all exhausted by the time they arrived and after exchanging brief 'goodnights' went straight to bed.

With smiles on their faces, they all felt good about how well today went as they drifted off to sleep in dreamland.