Chapter One

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"Alexa, hurry up!!" my brother James shouted from the bottom of the stairs. 

We're going down to London for New Years Eve to his friends party, well I wasn't really invited but I had nothing else better to do. My brother has become good friends with some stylist while he has been working in London so we're heading there.

"I'm coming, I'm coming!!" I shouted back as I dragged my bag down the stairs.

"Make sure that you look after her, James" My mum said worringly. Bless her, I'm 19 but she still thinks I'm 12.

After reasurring my mum that I will be fine and will make sure to keep my phone with me at all times, we set off on out journey to London. It was a four hour drive to London from where I live, which to me basically meant a four hour sleep however my brother had other ideas.

"Seen as I got you invited to this party, how about I'll drive the first two hours and you drive the second two hours?" James said, knowing that I couldn't say no.

"Er, yeah sure" I relunctantly said.

I'm not really too fussed about driving, it's like a take it or leave it kind of thing to me. However, my brother drives a black mini cooper so I can't deny saying that I love driving around in that thing.

"So, who's party is it that we are going to again?" I asked my brother, as I was driving down the motorway.

"She's called Lou, known her for a while now - haven't seen her since I was last in working in London though" James replied, as he scrolled through his pictures to try and find one of her.

"Whats her last name? Will I have heard of her?" I responded, as he showed me picture of them two and another guy. "I don't recognise her."

"Lou Teasdale. She's a hair stylist and mark up artist, she used to work behind the scenes on the xfactor" James said. "That's her fiance Tom next to her in the picture."

After what was the busiest drive ever into London, we finally made it to Lou's house. There wasn't many cars parked up outside, probably because it was 2pm and we were definitely the first ones there. We both walked up to the door and James confidently rang the doorbell, immediately a tall guy with blonde hair answered the door.

"James, so good to see you man!" Tom said, as he wrapped one arm around my brother and patted his back.

"You too, it's been ages!" James replied, as he stepped through the door. "This is my little sister, Alexa."

"Hi, nice to meet you!" Tom said looking down at me, okay 'looking down' might be slight exaggeration but I am only 5ft2 so techinally he did have to look down.

"You too, wow I love your house" I said, as I wandered down the hallway peering into the living room.

"Lou is just upstairs, she's doing a bit of work so you're welcome to have a seat if you don't mind Lux chatting away to herself in there" Tom said, gesturing towards the little blonde girl who looked about two sat playing with dolls on the sofa. "Can I get either of you anything to drink?"

"I'm fine thanks" I politely said, sitting on the sofa next to Lux. "Wow, she is a pretty doll."

"Yeah, I'm alright for now thanks" My brother stated, sitting on the sofa opposite us.

Lux was just about the cutest little girl I have ever seen. She just sat there carelessly playing with her dolls and chatting nonsense to herself. We sat in the living room for around 30 minutes whilst my brother and Tom caught up on eachothers lives until Lou came downstairs.

"James!" The slim blonde woman shouted as she stood in the doorway with her arms in the air. "Aw, its so good to see you and you brought your sister too, I'm Lou!" She excitedly said, as she wrapped her arms around me.

"Has Tom showed you to your rooms yet?" Lou asked. "Judging by the silence, I guess not! Here Alexa, I will help you take your stuff up to yours."

"Oh, thank you." I replied, following her out the living room and grabbing my bag. 

"Sorry about the mess up here by the way, turns out that my job just never ends." She said, whilst chuckling to herself. "Ok, this will be your room for the weekened..."

I followed her into a room which was simply decorated with white walls and it had a huge black framed bed with fluffy white sheets. I placed my bags onto the chesnut wooden floor.

"Thank you, it's lovely." I honestly said, turning around and smiling at her.

"I'm glad you like it, I gave you the best one don't worry." She laughed.

"LOUUU" A male voice shouted from out in the hallway. "Louuuuuuuuuu."

"Sorry, Alexa" Lou said, rolling her eyes and smiling to herself. "I feel like a mother of six sometimes!"

I didn't know what she was referring to but I guessed that she had friends or clients round. I'm only staying here until the 2nd but the room is so nice that I feel like I want to move in, so I started unpacking some of my things. Now that we've arrived and sort of settled, I should probably text my mum before she starts to worry. 

Got here safe and sound, Mum. X

That should keep her happy for a good few hours. I could hear people talking outside my door but I didn't recognise any of the voice so I decided to wait until they had gone to leave the room and go back downstairs.

"Your suit is in the cupboard in that room, but remember to knock because..." I heard Lou shout, as the door to my room opened. "HARRY!"

"Oops, sorry! Erm, I'm Harry... and I just need to grab a suit." he said, as he awkwardly walked into the rooms and grabbed the suit from the cupboard. 

What on earth is going on and why is Harry Styles 5 steps away from me.

"Are you okay?" He laughed, analysing my confused facial expression.

"Erm, yeah sorry I'm fine... It's just" I stumbled across my words and thankfully Lou walked in.

"Oh god I should have warned you! Alexa this is Harry... Harry this is Alexa." Lou said, as Harry and I exchanged glances. "Harry... Don't even think about it, come on boy." 

"Bye Alexa!" Harry shouted, as he was dragged out of the room.

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