Living With These Five

Santa Monica Pier

It's been a week since Lauren arrived here in LA, and I've begun to realise how nice it is to have some female company! Finally I have someone other than Harry who will paint my nails and watch chick flicks with me! Despite this, I feel the seven of us have become really close this past week and it's making me feel a lot more at home.

I was awoken this morning by a very loud thump and immediately dreaded what the source of it was. I walked rather zombie like into the living room to find Harry eating a banana, Niall and Lauren laughing their heads off and Liam lying uncomfortably on the floor, with Louis looking triumphant with himself.

"I'm not even going to ask..." I said whilst rolling my eyes.

"Well I am. What are you doing!?" Zayn said as he appeared from his room in a similar state to myself.

"Liam thought it would be a good idea to wrestle with me, and of course, he lost."

"I never knew tickling was a form of wrestling!" Liam groaned.

"Have you quite finished?" Louis yelled, placing his foot on Liam's back.

"Alright, alright, don't get sassy!"

"Alright,  I'm going to pretend that I never saw this... I'm going back to bed!"

"No! We are going out for the day!"

"No!" Zayn and I moaned in unison as we walked out of the room.

"I want to go to Santa Monica Pier" Lauren said after she finally stop laughing at Louis and Liam. 

"We haven't been there in ages!" Niall said sounding as excited as Lauren.

"Alright, I'll go get ready" I said reluctantly whilst trying to sound enthusiastic, maybe a day out will do us all some good.

Whilst I was getting ready,  I checked the weather before deciding what to wear,  it's just something I used to do back in England so I knew what to expect. As the weather was meant to be colder I chucked on my dark acid washed jeans with a white crop top and my white converse.

"Are you ready yet?" Lauren said barging into my room, in a similar fashion to what Louis has done in the past.

"Yeah let me grab a jacket" I said picking up my bag and sunglasses while grabbing my leather jacket from my coat rack I had in my room.

"Why a jacket?"

"Because the weather is meant to be terrible today"

"Always miss organised" Lauren said leaving my room as I followed closely behind.

Once upstairs, where the boys were all waiting for us, we grabbed the keys and piled into my car and one of harry's. I still don't understand why he needs so many car's,  hes got like five parked in the garage.

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After an hours drive we pulled up into a car park. The place was pretty quiet, I presumed it was because everyone was at work and its the quiet season for tourists. You could still hear the pumping music coming from the speakers and the smells of greasy fast food but weridly it felt calm with the sound of the sea  in the background. 

Snapping some pictures on my camera of the pier as we apporached it, I tryed to capture the movement of the ferris wheel by slowing the shutter speed right down, even though the movement was slow it still left a really good motion blur on the photo. Since moving to LA i have really started to enjoy taking photos, especially sunsets, they're beautiful here. The other day I drove for 2 hours to try and get some nice photos of the beach at sun set because i heard that people were flying kites at night that have lights attatched to them. Zooming in and out i continued to take some photos at different angles, until i was dragged off by Lauren.

"Come on, we are going on the roller coaster." She squelled. 

"Alright, alright!" 

After going on all the rides we could possibly could, everyone finally decided on some food and somewhere to sit down. I started to eat my chips that i had brought but i was still feeling sick from being dragged from pillar to post, so i grabbed my phone and camera and got up.

"I'll see you in a bit, im going for a walk" 

The amount of people here had picked up as the evening rolled in and it was a bit of a push to get off the end of the pier but once i did i decided to take a walk down the beach, my head was full of thoughts and the load music but the feel of the cold damp sand on my bare feet felt so relaxing. I took my shoes off so that they didn't get ruined by the sand and salt. I took some more photos of the waves falling over the pebbles at the shoreline and the sea guls as they flew over head in the peach sky as the sun started to set. 

I was crouched down taking  photos of the waves as they attacked and retrearted on the shore, when suddenly i was being lifted up and spun around, screaming i wriggled to see who my attacker was. By their laugh i could tell that they were enjoying seeing me struggle and that it was one of the lads. 

"PUT ME DOWN!"

"You ruin all my fun!" Liam said as he put me down. 

"What did you think you were doing?"

"You looked lonely so i thought i would join you" 

"Oh thanks"  i said dusting the sand off of me and picking up my shoes just in time as a wave nearly washed them away. 

"Have you been over here?" Liam said pointing towards the underneath of the pier. 

"No but come on" 

Liam was right, the inricate engineering of the pier was the perfect oppertunity to take some photos.

Liam took my shoes from me as we walked in comfortable silence, you know the kind of silence that tells you that you can talk to the other person about anything and everything. 

"So, how many photo's have you taken?" Liam asked as i started to take photos of underneath the pier. 

"Urmm, let me look" i said sitting down on a large rock that was where we were stood and looking a at the photos i had taken. "This says 2569"

"Really!"

"Yeah, but there's loads of blurred ones from when you attacked me just!" I said flicking through the photos that had been taken when Liam had just picked me up, as the camera was set to take a photos constantly until i pressed the button again so it had taken loads of the ground but there was some cute ones of us two as well. 

"Let's look at them" Liam said leaning over me. 

"Sit down then" 

"I'm not sitting on the sand!" 

"You sound like Lou!" i said laughing at how sassy he suddenly sounded, "I meant sit on the rock anyway!"

I moved over to let Liam sat on the edge of the rock so that he could look at the camera, i wouldn't let him touch it because knowing him he would break it.

"You're going to print some of these off for me"

"Why would you want them?"

"Because you're talented"

"Thanks"

We sat there talking and looking through all the photos on my camera untill Lou rang to tell us that they were going and that if we didn't go now we would be stuck there as they had my keys. 

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Hey, 

Sorry i havent uploaded in a while, i have been really busy but i hope this chapter was long enough to make up for it and i will try and upload next week but i can't promise anything. 

Let me know what you think 

Zoe x