Crazy Little Thing Called Love

The Date Part One Or How We Listened To Christmas Songs

Hi everyone, I am very excited about this chapter which turned out so long, that I decided to split it in half. This is part one of how Claire and Louis finally go on a date. :) All the love, as always, Summer xxx

Today was my date with Louis and I was freaking out. I still had two hours until he would pick me up at 7pm, but I was already pacing the room on the search for something to wear. Lily came home from her internship at the hospital and popped her head through the door. "Hi!" She looked around my room and grinned. "Need some help with picking out some clothes for Louis?" She wiggled her eyebrows and I stuck out my tongue at her, but nodded nevertheless. She flopped down on my bed and got comfortable. "How was work?" I asked her and she shrugged. "Same old, same old. People still ask me about Niall, but it's getting a little bit less already which is great." Her eyes lit up at the mention of Niall and I chuckled.

"Have you been online since Sunday?" I asked her and she shook her head. "Nope, not really. I made my twitter and Instagram private prior to the show and no one knows what my tumblr is, thank God for that, so they have no way of finding me there. "That's good to hear. I would hate to see you getting any hate." I told her. She sat up and looked over to my closet. "He is worth receiving some mean messages from some girls who are just jealous and immature enough to do something like that. Anyway, did Louis mention where you'll be going tonight?" I shook my head. "Nope, nothing. When I asked him what to wear he told just to wear whatever I'm comfortable in."

Lily pulled her phone out of her pocket and started typing something, while I continued looking at my clothes, hoping that something would just scream "Pick me!" at me. A minute later her phone beeped and her face broke into a wide grin. "Alright, after swearing that I wouldn't tell you, Louis told me where you'll be going so that I can help you dress appropriately." She hopped off my bed and strolled over to my closet. "Hmmmmmm... her skilled eyes wandered over my clothes until she picked out a pretty dark green jumper and a black skinny jeans. "You can wear your black boots and your cute dark red scarf with the reindeers on it with this. Oh and Harry's beanie. Or maybe not, considering where you're going." She chuckled and gave me a look which made me blush. "Some other beanie then. And your long grey coat."

I was so grateful for her help that I could have cried. Instead I decided to just give her a hug and she laughed and then instructed me to go to the bathroom to take a shower, promising me to help me with my hair and makeup afterwards. I thanked her and skipped into the bathroom, washing my hair twice, before I returned to my room again where Lily was already waiting for me. "Sit." She ordered and I did what she said, grateful for her offer. She curled my hair and made it look very nice and wavy and then applied some light makeup to my face, just enough to enhance my features, as she put it. When she was finished we only had ten minutes left and I felt like throwing up.

"Why are you so nervous about this?" Lily asked me with an amused smile. "Because I am going on a date with Louis Tomlinson of all people! This usually only happens in fanfics! Not to normal girls like me." I sat down on one of our kitchen chairs and gulped down the glass of water Lily had handed me. "Claire, you're gonna be completely fine. I know it's been a while since you went on a date, but this is Louis we're talking about. You have nothing to be worried about, okay? And even if it turns out that you two are better off as friends after all then consider is as hanging out with a good friend, okay? But give yourself a chance to be happy because that's all I want for you. And I don't care if it's with Louis or Harry because they're both amazing guys." She winked at me and I blushed.

The doorbell rang and I jumped in my seat. "I'm not here." But Lily only laughed and walked out of the kitchen to let Louis in. "Hi, love." I heard Louis' voice from the hallway and my heart started beating really fast when I heard his voice. I didn't even understand why I was so nervous about this. I had spent plenty of time with Louis, just the two of us, why should this be so different tonight? "You know why." said the voice at the back of my head and I tried to ignore it and got up to greet him.

His eyes widened when he saw me and he let them wander up and down my body until they stopped on my eyes. "You look beautiful, Claire." I blushed and Louis smirked a bit, obviously pleased that he had made me blush again. "I mean, not that you usually don't look beautiful, you know. You just look even better tonight." He rambled and I chuckled. "It's fine, I got what you wanted to say." I assured him and he looked relieved. "You don't look so shabby yourself, Tomlinson." He grinned and Lily cleared her throat which made us both look at her.

"If you hurt her in any way, Tomlinson, I will come after you and you will wish that you were never born." Louis gulped and she grinned, satisfied with his reaction. She gave me a kiss on the cheek and whispered "Be safe." in my ear before she waved a bit and went back into her room, humming No Control. Louis and I exchanged a look and started laughing. "She's serious, isn't she?" He asked me with concern in his voice and I nodded and grinned. "I'm afraid so." He held out my coat for me and I gratefully accepted his help before grabbing a beanie and my scarf and gloves.

When we sat in the car, he turned on the radio which was playing 'Do They Know It's Christmas?', the version Louis and his bandmates had helped recording the year before. We laughed, but then sang along to it. Well, Louis was singing along, I was more humming quietly. "How was it to record that song?" I asked him when the song had ended. He smiled over at me. "Amazing, really. To be in a room with some many incredibly talented people was great. I think everyone had a great time and we raised a lot of money which supported the victims and their families of the Ebola crisis." I nodded and looked out of the window to get a clue where we could be going, but it was already very dark so I didn't really have a chance.

"What is your favourite Christmas song?" Louis asked me and I thought about it for a moment. "I think it's either this song, but the old version, sorry, or 'Merry Xmas Everybody' by Slade." He seemed surprised. "Really? Why the second one?" he asked me and I grinned. "Why not? It's amazing!" He smirked at my excitement and then handed me his phone. "Then let's put it on." I cheered and eagerly took his phone. "What's your pin?" I asked him and looked up from the phone.

"Please don't laugh." I raised an eyebrow at him. "Before I tell you, I have to explain it first, alright?" I nodded and send him a questioning look. "Okay, so we all love to play pranks on each other from time to time and Liam and I had a bit of a prank war while we were on tour and this idiot stole my phone and changed my pin to Niall's birthday. It took me hours to figure that out." He pulled a face and I burst out laughing. "That's amazing, I'll have to congratulate Liam on that whenever I see him again." Louis glared at me, but had to admit that it was a good prank.

"Did you get your revenge?" I asked him and he smirked, his eyes twinkling with mischief. "I did. Can't tell you what I did, though. Liam had us promise to never tell a soul." I chuckled. "Then it must have been bad." I typed in Niall's birthday and was met with a background photo of me and him which someone must have taken during the album release party. I was obviously very drunk and I couldn't remember anyone taking any photos of me, but I was holding onto Louis and looked very drunk, but very happy. At the left side of the photo I could see some of Harry's curls.

Looking up, I saw that Louis was blushing a bit and I started grinning. "Are there any other photos of me on here that I should know about?" I asked him with a smirk and he shook his head. "Not that I know of, but I'm sure that this wasn't the only photo taken that night." I shuddered at the thought and then looked through Louis' phone. I was feeling very powerful with his phone in my hands. I could tweet anything right now, but of course I'd never do that. It was just nice to know that he trusted me that much. I opened Spotify and searched for Slade and a few seconds later, the song started playing. I danced in my seat and barely noticed when the car came to a stop. Louis watched me with an amused grin on his face until the song had finished. "We're here, love."