Strangers In A Bookstore (One Direction Fanfic)

Chapter 2

I unlocked my flat, ready to crash out on the couch with How I Met Your Mother Season 9 and my Ben & Jerry's ice cream that I bought.

"Cookie dough, cookie dough..." I muttered rummaging through the groceries. Weird, I don't remember buying red bull...or carrots...Ooh! Or a shitload amount of Nando's but I can deal with that. Okay this is getting weird...I don't need any hair gel or a shaver or guy's deodorant...fuck.

I got stranger's groceries.

Yup, that's what I'm calling him now. Better than guy-who-I-met-at-the-bookstore-who-I-might-be-slightly-infatuated-with-and-who-loves-the-same-stuff-as-I-do-including-HP/Sherlock/DW/Shingeki No Kyojin/etc etc.

Damn, I really was hoping for some Ben & Jerry's...eh I've got peri-peri chicken. I hope I didn't leave anything important....or embarrassing. Crap, what if I bought tampons?!

Stranger's POV:

I unlocked my flat and walked into the living room where the rest of the boys were playing FIFA.

"Oi Zayn! Where've ya been mate? You've been gone for hours?" Niall greeted me, abandoning his game controller to look through the food I just bought.

"Niall!!!! What the hell?! You were supposed to take that shot?" Harry whined. "I was so close to winning!"

I scoffed at the thought "Keep dreaming mate"

"But going back to Niall, where have you been?" Liam asked concerned, standing up to help in returning the groceries. "Did you get mobbed?"

"Uh...no...I got stuck in a bookstore cos of the rain." I smiled remembering Jamie. "I even met someone..."

"Is she hot?" Louis asked bluntly.

"Back off man, I saw her first. Besides she's a human being...with an actual personality and feelings. She's not just someone to conquer just cos of her looks...but yeah she's hot man. Like not one of those too skinny girls who look like they have never eaten food, or those overweight chicks. She's absolutely fit, she plays sport. And her legs! Oh god they go on for days. Plus her face, her eyes espe-"

"Whoah there, down boy. We don't need a full description of her anatomy. Do you even know if she's single?" Niall asked.

"...."

Fuck, I could be going over this girl for days and she might have someone else the whole time. And just cos of how her personality and looks, she probably does have someone else.

"Thanks Niall, really helped me I raising my hopes. What happened to the carefree mofo?" But he wasn't even listening. He was too busy eating the packet of pop tarts. Pop tarts? I didn't buy pop tarts...

"Uh...Zayn...why would you buy girl's deodorant...and perfume...?" Liam asked incredulously.

"What's this?" Niall asked...holding up a packet of...oh my god.

"N-Niall you might want to drop that now. Like...Right. Now." Harry replied, backing away slowly in horror as Niall opened the packet.

"Niall, mate" Louis said, gulping nervously. "Those are...tampons."

"Oh my god oh my god oh my god..." After dropping the packet and squealing like a girl and prancing around the room, he ran off it the kitchen sink still screaming.

To any girl, this would have been hilarious if not offending. But to us guys, this was an absolute nightmare. I looked back at Harry, who was pale as a sheet. He was still obviously traumatised, back at high school he had played a prank at Gemma...basically paying a clown & a Chucky lookalike to follow her around during her prom. But the following week Gemma had her revenge, she had placed tampons everywhere that Harry would be. Not used but also not in their packets, but the worst was when Harry had opened his locker and was then met with an avalanche of tampons. Right. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Hallway.

I got to give credit to Gemma though, she was not someone to mess with. When we first met her, we stayed at least a 5 feet distance away from her.

After 5 minutes of just staring at the spilled tampons on the floor, just looking at the horror *shudder*. Niall entered the room, back to being a careless mofo. "So why did you get all this stuff?" He asked, bending down to retrieve his pop tarts.

"Uh.. Ni, you alri-" Liam asked but Niall interrupted "Let's not talk about it, Kay? Pretend that didn't happen."

"Er...anyways....I think I got Jamie's groceries accidentally." Oh god that means that the tam- yea really don't want to think about that.

"Hey, what's this?" Harry asked, pulling out a dark brown leather book. "It's a sketchbook...woah."

I walked up to Harry watching him flip through the drawings. She didn't mention that she could draw. This was absolutely brilliant. Not only did she have realistic portrait and landscape sketches, but she also had random doodles of spaceships, robots, super heroes and dancing food.

"Hey it's the TARDIS! And Daleks." Louis exclaimed, stopping at a Doctor Who filled page.

"And 9th, 10th & 11th, also a couple of Ood and cyber men." I added.

Liam flipped the page and immediately grabbed the sketchbook and fanboyed. Is that even right? It was a page full of Disney characters. Everyone from Woody to Simba. "Wait a minute, there are no Disney Princesses. I mean not that I like them just..." Correcting myself, looking at their weirded out faces.

"Can I meet her?!" Liam asked, completely oblivious to my Disney princess outburst. "Please?!! Please?!" He begged even adding a puppy face.

Okay, I'll be honest. I was starting the get really jealous cos come on, I saw her first. She's absolutely perfect...and I don't need the other boys to notice that too. I love being in a band and all, and the boys of course. We're closer than brothers. But sometimes I just need some thing of my own, well someone.

"Boo, what are you doing?" Harry asked, resting his head on Louis' shoulder as Louis used the MacBook.

"Just searching up Jamie Sparrow."

"Woah, woah, hold up. Why are YOU searching her up?" This is getting out of hand, she's my friend.

"Hey, she's single!"

"What? She's single?" I hurried over and grabbed the laptop.

"Oi! I was stalking her!" Louis whined, grabbing my arm and making me topple over him.

"Whoah there Louis, I didn't know you liked bottoming." Harry snickered.

"Nah, I'm good mate. You're better in being submissive." Louis sassed back cheekily.

"Oi, we don't need to know what happens in the bedroom...please tell me that's the only place in the house where you guys fu-"

"Zayn, there are children here." Liam reprimanded as he covered Ni's ears.

"Sorry...um...where you guys make babies if one of you was a girl." I corrected.

This is a normal, innuendo filled conversation in the 1D family. We're all straight though! This is not actual flirting! I glanced back at Louis and Harry who were poking each other. Where was the laptop?

"She works in Laser Zone!" Niall exclaimed. "Hey lads...how do you feel about some laser tag?"

"B-but...er...we have radio interviews tomorrow." I didn't know if we had, but I'm pretty sure we had something...hopefully. I really didn't want the boys to meet her, well not while she's single.

"We don't have anything actually." Liam said, looking at his phone. "Uncle Si gave us a couple days off."

"So it's settled, we'll head over there tomorrow. What Laser Zone branch?"

This is going to be just great.