“Alexis!” Natalie yelled from the band room entrance. I had just gotten out of Spanish 1, and my brain was thoroughly fried. I walked into the small band room, looking around at the assortment of musical costumes, chairs, stands, and people. The room looked like a complete wreck, but it was my favorite place to be.
“Natalie!” I yelled back, already feeling a little better.
“I think tonight’s video is going to be the one. I can feel it.” She said, pulling me into a hug before walking into the crammed instrument storage room with me to grab our clarinets.
“I think this time you might actually be right. We gained a thousand followers after last weeks video. We’re getting somewhere!” I said, hoping to keep feeding her fire. The more pumped she was for the video, the better it was bound to be. We had people from all over the world waiting for this one.
“I know babe! This is working, I can tell.” She said around a mouth full of reed. You get used to it after five years.
“Are we doing recital today?” I asked, giving up on trying to read what our band teacher, Mr. T. had written on the board. It had said the same thing for the past three days. He was missing his pea coat. Oh, darn.
“Yeah. Mr. Kenzie said so.” Natalie said, referring to our college instructor.
“You know what that means?” I asked, pulling out my internet router and smiling devilishly.
“Twitter with the fans!” Natalie yelled. I laughed at her enthusiasm. When we had recital practice we only had to practice half of the hour, and the teachers were never in the room. This pretty much gave Natalie and I the freedom to do whatever we wanted to after we practiced with our group.
“Hey, guys. Are you ready?” Emily, one of our group members, came in and asked. She was wearing a cute pink t-shirt, and black skinny jeans. Her black curly hair was pulled into a half updo, looking gorgeous as always. We both nodded and walked with her, leaving my purse by the wall with the rest of our stuff.
“Okay guys. Let’s just run through this a couple of times, and be done. Natalie and I want to tweet, and this is stupid anyways.” I said, already counting us off.
“Alright! We’re done!” Anya yelled, throwing her music into her folder. Her sleek straight blonde hair flew around in the wind her folder had created. She blew it out of her face, showing off her light blue eyes. She pulled her shorts down slightly, making sure they weren’t shorter than school regulation, before heading out the door of our small practice room.
“Fine by me.” I mumbled, packing my stuff up immediately. Natalie and I walked back to my purse, opening it up and pulling out my router. Natalie had to have it to connect her iPod to the internet. She didn’t trust herself to carry around her iPhone, so she kept her old iPod with her during school hours. We sat down against the side wall of the room, hiding behind the drums, and started tweeting about the video we were posting tonight.
@GetTheHoranHug: We’re doing our Black and White video tonight. ARE YOU EXCITED?? -A xx
I retweeted a couple of the replies that came flooding in, and got a notification that Natalie tweeted.
@GetTheHoranHug: I think this is the one! @TheEllenShow DO YOU HEAR ME YET?! -N xx
I laughed and tweeted her back.
@GetTheHoranHug: N, you always think it’s the one. I’ve got to say, I have a pretty good feeling about this one as well, though. -A xx
We continued to tweet back and forth, laughing while we teased our fans. They were just excited about our post as we were. We always wanted to please the fans. That was one of the big things about Operation Get The Horan Hug. It was about Natalie, but we cared so much more about just making our fans happy. I think we did a pretty good job of it too. We got on every night, and we uploaded a video at least once a week.
The bell rang, snapping me out of my trance.
“Lunch!” Natalie yelled, shoving all of her stuff in her purse and pushing me out the door.
“This is why you and Niall are meant for each other. You guys love food so much. Imagine what else you have in common!” I said, following closely behind her.
“I know! That’s why I eat so much, it’s ‘cause he does.” She said, laughing.
“I just want to know where it all goes!” I said, finally catching up to her. We sat down at our lunch table, pulling out our lunches. I scanned the crowded white walled lunch room as Emily and Anya walked up and sat down beside us. They were followed quickly by Danielle, a gorgeous brown eyed girl with short brown hair I’ve been telling her to grow out for years.
“Do you really have alfredo again?” She asked, looking down at the alfredo sitting on my plate.
“It‘s my favorite!” I yelled, jumping up to microwave it. She jumped up behind me with her Lean Cuisine meal. We both always ate the same thing, but routine is easiest, right?
“I know it is, but I could never eat pasta that often. And I love my pasta!” I laughed at her, popping my container in the white outdated microwave, setting her box next to mine and putting them in for a minute and a half. We both leaned against the wall, talking about the video.
“I know it’s a black and white themed video, but how are we going to incorporate that into our normal updates and goofiness?” I asked, motioning to our clothes.
“Well, we’ll do normal updates, then we can edit in a lot of color to black and white shifts. Act goofy, that tends to make the fans happy most often.” She said, laughing.
“What’s our catch phrase going to be tonight?!” We both said simultaneously. I hadn’t even thought about it. We always had a catch phrase for the video. It was always something goofy and Niall and Harry related. Those were our two favorites.
“Oh my god. I don’t know. I didn’t even think about it.” Natalie said, putting her hand to her chin as she thought. I grabbed our meals out of the microwave and started walking back to the table, Natalie close behind. “How about ‘I love Niall more than a cow loves its spots’?” She said, still deep in thought.
“That‘s perfect!” I said, taking a bite of my pasta. Natalie smiled, snapping out of her train of thought and taking a bite herself.
“That’s because I’m so clever.” She said, laughing.
“Lord, do we know it! What would I do without you?!” I asked sarcastically, laughing as we continued to eat.
Author's Note:
Hope you liked it! It could have been a little longer, and a little more interesting, I know. I just want to introduce you to the main characters. I really would love some feedback. I love it actually. It's really important to me.
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FanfictionNatalie and Alexis have been dedicated fans of One Direction since the beginning. About six months ago, they decided they had one goal in life. Natalie had to meet Niall Horan. They started Operation Get The Horan Hug as a joke, but it quickly becam...
