I remember when...

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Friday 15th November, a day until Ellie's birthday.

Ellie's POV-

My 20th birthday is tomorrow, I'm going to London with my best friend Nicole, for as long as I can remember she has been my best friend, we've been through so much together and have stayed strong. I was getting ready to meet her in town for lunch when my phone began to vibrate, making a loud bell noise, telling me that it was my cousin, Rowan calling.

"Sup."

"Hey, you still doing tomorrow?"

"Yeah, why? It's been planned for months..."

"Yeah, yeah I know, I was just wondering if you'll be up for one more person tagging along?"

"You wanna come?"

"Yeah I'd love to!" She joked chuckling down the phone.

"Hahaha fine we're leaving tomorrow at lunch time, be ready and be at my house at 11."

"Alright, thank you! I don't wanna miss another birthday of yours."

"Yeah you better not! Bye see you tomorrow!"

"Alrighty!" Then she hung up.

I grabbed my bag and phone, put my Adidas on and walked downstairs from my flat to the lobby. I got my car keys from my bag and got into my car, on the way to town to meet Nicole. I decided to have some One Direction music from 2011 on, their very first album, it brings back so many memories and good times. When I was 14 my obsession began, seeing the boy band form on X-Factor changed my life and they were what I lived on. I say were, because now I am 20 and they are on a break, I don't obsess as much, but that doesn't mean that I don't love them still. My favourite was always Zayn, I supported all of his decisions to leave because he never felt right and you could see it. After the X-Factor my love for them all grew and before you know it I was begging for concert tickets for my birthday and for Christmas and trying to gather every last piece of merchandise from all kinds of stores I found because I wanted to prove that I was dedicated. The obsession had died down as I got to college, at the age of 17, but I still attended concerts. 2015. When Zayn left, hearts shattered, a lot of people cried. Especially me. But now I am sat here, 3 concert tickets in the post for Zayn's concert in London in December, and the excitement is unreal.

After singing along and tearing up to some of the old songs of the band that changed my life I pulled up to the town parking lot, top floor, far left, as always. I exited my car and walked to the escalator and went to the bottom floor, walking through town I walked past a group of girls I knew in college that made me regret a lot of life choices. I stood tall and kept walking, I walked until I got to the door of ASK Italian, where I would be meeting Nicole. I saw the small girl speeding through the crowd coming towards me with a wicked grin, she's 5' and it's hilarious because I'm 5'10". She got to my feet and shouted "HI!" Excitedly, did I mention, she loves ASK Italian... I laughed and walked into the restaurant. "Hi, reservation for 2 under Ellie" I told the guy at the small desk, "Yep, follow me" he said. We followed him to a table near the window at the back and sat down, staring at the menus I waited for Nicole to speak, knowing she'd burst out with anything anytime soon.

"OH MY GOD" She nearly screamed.

"WHAT?!" I asked back scared and panicked.

"TALK!!" She burst out laughing at how much she scared me.

"Shut up, tiny rat." I stated back glaring at her. She just laughed more.

After our filling meals and laughing so much we could've thrown up, we both walked back to my car and decided to go back to Nicole's soon to be old flat to get her suitcase and go to mine ready for tomorrow.

We got into my flat and she made her way to the kitchen, stocking up for winter by the looks of it, and I just sat at the table waiting for her to throw something at me, as always, so that I would eat it, because I am too lazy to get up and get food.

"Are you excited?" I asked.

"For what?" She asked, puzzled.

"Moving in here next month... Bell."

"Oh, right yeah! Loads!" She laughed.

"Idiot" I laughed loudly.

Next month about a week before Christmas Nicole will be moving into my flat, I have only owned it for 6 months and it is lonely, and we wanted to move in together ever since our friendship began, now it's actually going to happen. Most of her stuff is already here so that it doesn't take as long to settle in.

After hours of talking and messing around as always, we sit down on the sofa and begin to talk about everything, boys, friends, old friends, memories, films, music, and then we began our One Direction discussion.

"Remember when we were obsessed with One Direction and dressed as them that one time?" I recalled.

"Oh my god, yeah"

"I still think it would be amazing to meet them! Especially Zayn."

"I'd love to meet Niall.." She smiled gazing away, pretending to day dream about him.

"We will, lmao we're 20 years old and still fantasizing about meeting 2 famous boys that basically changed our lives but won't even know that."

"Yeah, well, it's normal, they took up such a huge part of our lives" she shrugged.

I nodded, "Let's go to sleep, it's nearly 2 A.M and we have to get up before 10," she nodded in agreement and both went to our rooms and slept.

Tomorrow is going to be exciting, I thought, before closing my eyes and drifting off to sleep.

  

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Updated version of the old book is here, enjoy, it's so different, but that's my aim, hope it's better. lol