Iris and her younger brother Jack made a bet together that if the Sidemen would ever come to their home town Brighton then Iris would take Jack to see them. But she doesn't regret the bet as much as she thought she would when she meets one of the bo...
When we finally got home it was late because there was so much traffic coming back so when Jack and I walked through the front door all the lights were off so mum has clearly gone to bed, I too off my shoes and placed the car keys into the bowl near the front door. "Iris?" Jack asked quietly "What?" I said bluntly as I as still annoyed at him for what he did earlier "Thank you for taking me to see the Sidemen I really enjoyed my self and I'm sorry for what I shouted out of the car window." Jack did look genuinely remorseful "It's okay don't worry about it, just go to bed but try not to wake mum up when you get up the stairs." I said as I walked into the kitchen to get a drink, Jack and my mum had been staying with my for a few days while they got the kitchen re done so I gave up room for my mum, Jack had my spare room and I was sleeping in the living room although sometimes Jack and I would swap like last night he slept in the living room on the sofa and I had the spare room, I took some clean pyjamas from the tumble dryer and put them on I then grabbed a few heavy and fluffy blankets along with some pillows and set up my bed on the sofa. I didn't go to sleep straight away I went on my laptop and watched a few films on there and then I felt my eye lids getting heavier and heavier and I shut down my laptop and placed it on the coffee table and quite quickly drifted off to sleep.
Morning
When I woke up my mum was already awake and watching TV but on a low volume. "I didn't want to wake you up." She said as she drank some of her drink "Oh its fine, you should've just woke me up and I would have gone back in my own bed for a few hours." I replied as I sat up wrapping my blankets around me in the process, "Where's Jack?" I asked my mum "Gone to see Ben and I guess talk about yesterday." Mum replied "we'll be gone soon so we'll be out of your way." She added "No it's fine stay as long as you want, truth be told I prefer the company to be honest." I smiled "You know Iris this place is so big, I think if you're feeling lonely you should find a flat mate." Mum suggested "Maybe, but Troye spends most of his time here to get away from Ben so the spare room is basically his room, he has most of his clothes here already." "Yeah I wondered why you were wearing a mens jumper the other day." "Yeah I just borrow some of his jumpers because they are nice, anyway I'm going to go and get changed and then see if Jack and Ben want to play some football on the pitch." I said as I stood up placing my pillows and blankets in the cupboard near the kitchen door. I walked upstairs and went into my room to get changed.
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I did a subtle makeup look, I then put on my shoes and walked downstairs grabbing my car keys and football on the way out. It didn't take long to get to Ben and Troyes it only took about twenty minutes in the car so I was there pretty quickly, I parked up the car just outside of the house I then got out and walked up the the door and knocked and waited for someone to answer. "Iris, what are you doing here?" Troye asked me "I wanted to see if Jack and Ben wanted to go and play some football on the pitch." I replied "They already left to go there, I was just going to meet them." "Oh right, well shall we go then?" I asked him "Yeah let's go." He smiled as he walked out and locked the door behind him, we walked down the road and crossed it to get to the football pitch. Troye and I were confused because there were more people on the field than usual because it isn't one of the most popular places to go the only people that go there is us that's why Troye and I were confused.
We walked through the gates to see Ben and Jack talking to four boys who looked quite familiar from a distance but I just didn't really pay attention. "Jack!" I shouted out to him, he and Ben turned their heads and faced Troye and I, they said something to the group of boys and then came rushing over to us "Iris it's them!" Jack said excitedly to me "It's who, I don't understand?" "The Sidemen, well three of them plus Cal. Josh, JJ and Simon." Ben said "Cal?" I asked "Calfreezy." Jack said. I sighed heavily then looked over at Troye who was just as confused as I was "Come over and play football with us." "What no! I can't do that I'm rubbish." "No you're not, what harm can one game do?" Troye said to me "Fine." I gave in and walked cautiously over to the boys who were doing keepie uppies, when we got to them they stopped and looked at us all, apart from Simon who I don't think noticed as he was so focused on the ball until Josh hit him in the arm. "What?!" He asked frustratedly he then looked up and looked me in the eyes "Iris." He breathed out slowly "Hi." I said awkwardly I then turned to Cal and introduced myself "I'm Iris, I took my brother Jack to the sidemen meet and greet yesterday." I smiled at him "Oh nice to meet you, I'm Cal." He said "What are you doing here?" Josh asked "To play football, this is where we all play." Troye answered to Josh "Do you play?" Simon asked me "Huh, oh um yeah a bit I'm not very good though." I replied "Well that's a load of shit Iris you're amazing." Jack said quickly "Well if she's as good as you say she is then she can take us all on then can't she?" JJ said competitively "What no i-i can't do that." I raised my voice a little. "Course you can, who's your worst player?" Troye asked, instantly everyone looked over at JJ who looked slightly offended that everyone looked at him.
"Okay well Iris will compete from your worst player to your best player." Ben said "Do I not get a say in this?" I asked "What's the for fit?" Cal asked "If Iris wins then we have to say our first impression of her when we met her and her brother yesterday and the same if we win. Deal?" JJ asked "Deal!" Jack said to them "Well not like I've got a say but fine I'll do it." I tied back my hair and placed down my football on the floor, "So you get three tries to the crossbar, then you have to tackle each other to score okay?" Simon asked, JJ and I nodded he then placed down his football and took a shot for the crossbar and missed the first two times he only had one go left. "Come on Jide!" Cal shouted at him, he then closed his eyes and took a run up to the ball and kicked it, it finally got the cross bar and the boys cheered for him. "Iris your go." JJ smirked at me, I took a deep breath in and kicked the ball it hit the crossbar all three times. "What the actual fuck?" JJ was stunned. "Come on let's just get this over with." I said quickly.
(*Time Skip*)
I had beaten Josh, JJ and Cal in football I now had to beat Simon and then I had one, this time it was different we had to see how many tricks we could do in thirty seconds and then see how many keepie uppies we could do in thirty seconds as well, Simon went first and done ten different tricks and then did forty two keepie uppies. "You can smash that easily Iris!" Troye shouted at me, I smiled at him and nodded as I picked up the ball and pulled out some of my best moves. "Stop!" Cal shouted "Well?" I asked him "Eleven!" He shouted, when I looked over a Simon he wasn't happy about it "Okay last one, ready? Three two one go!" Cal shouted and I started, I did loose my balance a few times but I still managed to carry on. "Stop!" Cal shouted at me again, I dropped the ball and looked over at him "Sixty four!" JJ shouted, Troye came running over and hugged me tightly "See told you that you were good." He beamed at me. I walked over to the four boys who were looking at me and smiling "Right come on then tell me what you thought about me then." I said "Well when you came over, I did think that you were a bit stuck up and that you didn't want to be at the event but once we talked and took a photo together I realised that you were actually pretty cool." JJ said "Oh right okay, Josh what about you?" "I thought you were quiet and there was something that you were hiding but once you took a photo with me I thought you were nice and when we spoke I thought that you were really funny." He smiled at me
"Thanks, Simon what about you?" "I-I thought that you were really pretty and I don't know I guess that's it really just really pretty and gorgeous." "Oooo Simon!" The boys started to tease him and I blushed a little at what he said to me, I rolled my eyes at them all and picked the football and walked away with the others, as we were walking I heard my name being shouted so I turned around to see Cal standing in front of me. "Yeah what is it?" I asked him "I just wondered if I could get your number?" he asked, I looked behind him and all the boys apart from Simon were standing in shock, Simon on the other hand looked pissed off. "Yeah sure." I took the phone and put in my number and he did the same with my phone "Text me some time yeah?" Cal asked "We'll see." I smirked as I rolled my eyes slightly and walked out of the gate with the others. When I looked behind me I saw Simon kicking footballs really violently into the goal but I didn't pay much attention to it I just walked back to Ben and Troyes house and hung out there with Jack while they all teased me about having Cals phone number.
