Once

Chapter Nine

Clara

I walked through the park alone. There weren't many people around, and no body with a single camera. There was the occasional fan who would come up and want to chat with me a bit, and some even tried to take photos on their phones and stuff, but I didn't mind our fans at all, they were all lovely. They seemed to know I wasn't in the mood for socialising, and a majority of them simply got their photos and left, or gave me a slip of paper with their Twitter username and didn't talk much, and some just smiled and waved, and didn't approach me at all. I'd managed to find a fairly isolated part of the park, near a little lake or something. There was a family feeding ducks, but they left just a few minutes after I got there. I sat down in front of a bare tree, it's orange-golden leaves crunching on the ground. I pulled my jacket around me a little tighter; it was much cooler in London during the cold seasons than Australia. Smiling to myself at the memory of home, I fiddled with a leaf in my hand, slowly tearing it and breaking parts off it.

"Wow, your concentrating so hard I can see steam coming out of your ears." A cocky voice said from directly in front of me. I looked up, and regretted when I did.

"Hi, Josh." I say, directing my attention back to my leaf.

"May I take a seat beside you?" He asked, mocking me, faking politeness.

"No." I say, doing my best to imagine him just vanishing. I heard a crunch of leaves, and felt someone sit beside me.

"How are you today, miss Clara?"

"Worse since you showed up." I say, getting more and more annoyed by Josh being here by the second.

"I was just enjoying my stroll in the park when I came across you, what a bundle of joy." Josh smirked, and I crushed what was left of the leaf in the palm of my hand.

"Would you just leave me alone, please?!" I say as loud as I could, not wanting to yell, as I didn't want to attract attention to us, mainly myself. Thinking this, I imagined myself calling out to everyone that Josh Devine was here, and millions of fans run over screaming and chasing him miles away while I hid and watched from the safety of a little hidey-hole, laughing.

"Nah, I'm happy here." Josh said, pulling me from my amusing imagination.

"Fine." I stood up and began walking away. I heard a quick, frantic scuffle amongst the leaves before they were being crushed by not only my own feet, but my an accomplices'. I ignored him, making my way to the parking lot and getting into my car.

"Hey, where are you going?" Josh asked, frowning.

"Away from you, as promised." I say, turning the key in the ignition. He yelled a few things after me, but I ignored him, turned the heat right up and the radio on louder than I should have it. I just wanted a distraction from my mind. I pulled over about five minutes to get out and get a coffee, and was back in my car within another two minutes. Changing the station when Diana by One Direction came through my speakers, I sat back and relaxed a little more. The song playing was just ending as I changed stations, so a little celebrity gossip thing was on next. I tuned out a little, up until I hear my name.

"The Silence's band member Clara has been spotted with One Direction's drummer, Josh Devine in Spencer Park today." Not meaning to, I spat out my coffees, slammed down on the brakes, and spilt hot coffee all over myself, and a line was already growing behind me, but I turned my radio up to drown out the sound of car horns. "It seems as if the quality time between the two was ruined when Clara became an absolute diva and jumped into her car while Josh ran after her car, begging her to come back. Has a secret relationship we didn't know about just ended?" I quickly changed the station and began driving before I could become more annoyed than I already was. Just a few minutes from the hotel, I got a call from someone at management. Tapping the 'answer' button on my phone, the voice of the person on the phone came out through the car speakers.

"Hello." I greeted.

"Clara, we want you at HQ within ten minutes. We have already called the other two." And just like that, the person hung up. Letting out a sigh, I did a very illegal u-turn and began to make my way to managements office building. I hoped I wasn't in to much trouble.

A/N;

I'm just going to say; yes, Clara is a bit of an airhead :3

I haven't done a Clara POV for a while... Well, I have, but I find Clara's chapters are never as eventful or long as Courtney's or my own, and they don't happen as often, either. I try to balance us three girls' POVs equally, and now and then throw in one of the boys' POVs, maybe an unknown POV, ect, but I haven't been too good with that for poor Clara. So, I'm sorry Clary, I will have two chapters in a row, just for you, and I will make them as long as I possibly can!! Love you, Allie(: More Josh on the side!! x