Lauren Imagines

2. Meeting Her

Your POV

Today has literally been the worst day ever. I'm basically dying, my sister snapped one of my Bowie vinyls by stepping on it, I got fired from my job and now on my way back home and back to my comfortable bed I'm stuck in traffic outside of Manchester Arena at 11 at night because of some stupid concert going on and there's a bunch of crazy teenage girls that are blocking the way. After about 20 minutes of being stuck in the same spot I paid the taxi driver opting to get out and walk home or at least walk away from the traffic and get another taxi. As I stepped out screaming erupted and I was pushed along by a mob of teenage girls towards what I presume is the door that the celebrity or whoever it was was leaving through. In the confusion I was pushed over and was in the process of being trodden on when I felt a big hand pulling me back on my feet and out of the middle of what I believed to be a full on mob of hormonal teenagers probably dying to get a glimpse of Justin bieber or someone, not caring if an innocent bystander was trampled to death in the process. To say I'm annoyed at this point would be an understatement, it was cold, I was miserable and on the verge of a complete meltdown. So when I felt myself being dragged along by some stranger and pushed into a car I completely snapped.

Lauren's POV
We'd just finished doing the Manchester concert and I couldn't wait to get back to the hotel, shower, eat and sleep, but unfortunately there had been a delay in us exiting the arena because of the amount of fans waiting outside. We were finally told it was okay for us to exit but the minute we stepped out we were swarmed by fans, I love all the harmonisers but I started to panic when they kept getting closer. I grabbed hold of normani's hand as we fought our way through the fans to get into the car that would take us to the hotel, camila and ally joined us next but we were still missing dinah,
'That was crazy!' Normani yelled, 'but where the hell is dinah? What if she's been crushed?'

Before any of us could respond a body was being shoved into the car followed by dinah and big rob. I couldn't see the girls face but she looked like she was in a bad state, her hair was all over the place, she had a footmark on her back and a big hole in her shirt.

'Oh my god, you okay hun? I saw you go down that looked bad can we do anything? Call anyone?' Dinah asked before explaining to any of us what happened. The car slowly started to move off with the fans still trying to block the way.

'Am I okay? AM I OKAY?!' This girl yelled, causing all of us to flinch, 'no I'm not blo0dy okay, I'm trying to get home but I'm swarmed and attacked by all of those crazy people and now some random people are kidnapping me? Am I okay? Are you all stupid? No I'm not okay, I've been trod on nearly to death, fired, my life's a mess and now I'm going god knows where with you. Fifth harmony right? Couldn't it have been Justin Bieber or Adele or Beyoncé? Jesus what the hell? You can't just shove me in the car and drive off' the girl finished, panting, blood had started to trickle down her face from a cut on her eyebrow. Something came over me and I reached up to wipe it from her eye, she looked over at me with a look of confusion on her face, our eyes met and something just clicked inside me and I didn't want to look away. But she broke the staring contest between us when dinah and normani started to laugh.

'Girllll you look like a mess too' dinah said in between laughing, I shot her a glare, yeah the girl looked dreadful, but telling her that was hardly going to help the situation. To my surprise the mystery girl started laughing too, i was taken aback and started to genuinely worry if she'd banged her head too hard, 'tell me something I don't know' she replied with a smile on her face. The car became quiet for a few seconds but was interrupted by the mystery girl speaking,
'I'm sorry for yelling at you guys, I'm not normally like that it's just been a long day and I have had a bang on the head in my defence' she said laughing slightly, 'so erm thanks for rescuing me, even though it kinda was your fans fault in the first place' she laughed, 'you can just drop me off anywhere here though thanks so I can make my way home'

'I'm sure we could just take you home' ally replied, 'it's the least we could do anyway for kidnapping you'.

Your POV
After freaking out on them all and embarrassing myself in the process, I wanted to get out of the car as soon as to prevent me from embarrassing myself further. Plus I was becoming uncomfortable under the constant stare of the girl next to me, who was later introduced as Lauren, she was beautiful but the intensity of her stare was making me quite self-conscious it was like she was trying to figure me out or something. But the girls insisted that they took me home and I was thankful in the end as my head started to hurt more causing me to become a little dizzy.
The rest of the short car journey was quite comfortable, apart from Lauren's staring and silence, I shared jokes with the rest of the girls, especially dinah who was hilarious and really fun to talk to. We pulled up at my house, swapping snapchats with the girls, except Lauren who still seemed to be in her own world, and promising to meet with them tomorrow for a few drinks because they had a free evening. I thanked them again and exited the car heading straight for bed after an exhausting and eventful day.

Lauren's POV
I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard the car doors closing, I heard a few whispers and then all of a sudden the rest of the girls started laughing uncontrollably,
'What did I miss?' I asked, slightly uncomfortable with their laughing which seemed to be aimed at me.
'Pretty much everything Lo' camila responded before she broke down laughing again.
What? I thought, please don't tell me I stared at that girl the entire time.
'You were literally staring at y/n the entire time, like all you responded with was a nod, she even asked if you were okay' dinah replied laughing at the same time, 'what was up lo? Are you crushing on her? Do you looooooove her?' With that they all started laughing again, causing me to hide my face in embarrassment.
'Shut up guys, no I don't like her she seemed so bratty'

Normani smirked at me, 'really Lauren? That's a shame cause we were gonna meet up with her tomorrow night, we thought we could hook you guys up. That's sad, me and dinah were already starting to think of ship names, guess it's over to you then camz to hook up with her'

'What? No. I mean like she was pretty. She probably isn't bratish I don't know her really do I yet, but I can come with you still tomorrow' I quickly said, completely failing to keep it cool.

'Yay! Maybe you can actually talk to her this time though lo, you know instead of just staring at her like an idiot' Ally teased.

I just rolled my eyes, silently thanking God that I would get another chance to see her, and hoping that I would step up my game drastically when I saw her tomorrow.

I slept well that night, my thoughts full of images of her and hopeful for what tomorrow could bring.