Copyright ✘ One Direction [EDITING]

T H I R T E E N

"Jesus Christ Carter, has your car not been fixed yet?"

I sighed and shrugged my shoulders, shutting the car door behind me and fixing my sweater. "It's still in the shop...I have no idea what's wrong with it."

Louis laughed, giving me a quick hug. "You should check on it. How's everything? Your sister?"

I licked my lips. "She's...okay. Could be better." Haha.

Liam stepped out the car and locked it, stretching his arms above his head. He came up and wrapped his arms around me, leaning down to whisper in my ear. "She'll come around."

I nearly settled into his arms, but quickly stopped myself. Louis gave Liam a strange look, staring into his eyes as if sending him a message. Liam quickly returned it before releasing me. I raised an eyebrow at Louis but he only shook his head slightly, as if completely dismissing it.

"Anyway," Louis said, resting his hand on my back as he led me into the Syco building. "How was the Diana video? Did you like it? We were a bit nervous, since y'know it kinda isn't rightfully ours, but I think it went well, how about the -"

"Louis," I chuckled, "It was fine! You guys were great in it." I scoffed. "You broke the damn Vevo record."

"Correction," he smiled at me. "You broke the Vevo record."

Liam waved to Celine, who gave us a tight smile as we walked by. "Her song did."

I bit my lip and followed them to the studio, Louis opening the door and taking me inside. Harry, Niall, and Zayn were there, Niall already up and ready to greet me at the door.

"Miss Carter!" he grinned, enveloping me in a hug. "How I've missed you!"

"Oh, shut up, Niall," I laughed, hugging him back.

"Hey, C," Harry called.

Zayn also said his greetings and I waved to all of them, taking a seat in one of the chairs next to the panel of controls for the sound booth.

Louis and Liam both joined me and I took out my phone, opening the app I used for the writing.

"Have you thought about what you wanted to call the album yet?" Harry asked, leaning back on the couch.

I glanced at my phone before looking at him. "Actually...yeah. I was thinking about naming it after a song, but I don't think Diana or Story of My Life would work right."

Zayn hummed in agreement, "I get it, they don't seem like the album-name type of song."

"Well, our album names have a sort of tradition, right?" Niall spoke up. "Up All Night, Take Me Home...sort of like parties. So what if we wrote a song to follow that tradition?"

"That's actually not a bad idea, Niall," I noted. I thought about something I could write. It needed to be upbeat, energetic, and I couldn't forget the underlying meanings that their songs seemed to have. I hadn't been to many parties in my lifetime, but the few I had could amount to something, right?

"Okay, how about this," Liam said. "Let's just list some fun things people do at parties or whatever and go from there."

Harry was the first one to speak. "How about a house party? Like, those are fun." He moved his hands while he spoke, and the way his lips slowly formed words entranced you and made you want to keep listening.

"House parties are good..." Louis noted. "Letting go, being crazy, um..." He paused. "People. Crowds. Music."

"Getting wasted!" Niall yelled, his booming laughter filling the room.

"There should be a girl," Liam nodded. "But we don't really go too in depth about the girl...like, party, and girl."

"Okay, so maybe it's one of those tired parties," Zayn said.

I furrowed my eyebrows. "Tired parties?"

He nodded, "Yeah. Like, you just got back from somewhere and you just want to forget about things and your brain is all fuzzy but you don't care. And the night is so, like, memorable and you don't sleep and its past midnight and you just really throw off what people say about you."

"Accurate," I chuckled. I looked down at the list of everything they'd said, trying to piece them together. It somehow made sense in my brain, like all the ideas were going to magically form some type of catchy beat.

Something went off and I perked up. "I have a chorus!"

Liam leaned over my shoulder to peek at my phone. "What is it?"

The boys all huddled around me and I started typing as they looked.

Midnight memories

Baby you and me

Singing, singing, singing, singing

Midnight memories

Anywhere we go, never say no

Just do it, do it, do it, do it

"I love that!" Louis exclaimed. "They're singing because they're drunk, right?"

I nodded. "Yeah."

"Okay, so how about, maybe..." He looked like he was thinking to himself. "Stress it, I dunno, like 'stumbling through the street'?"

I scanned over the lyrics.

Baby you and me

Stumbling in the street

Singing, singing, singing, singing

"Perfect!" Harry grinned. "How about some 'oh's? I feel like it's missing something.

Midnight memories, oh oh oh oh

"And you can just sing that after both of them," I told them.

Eventually, the six of us finished the song, coming up with the rest of the verses and the tune it was going to have. We called it 'Midnight Memories' and all decided that it was also going to be the name of their third album.

I pulled out my phone from my pocket after saying my goodbyes to Louis, Harry, Zayn, and Niall, who were going to be staying late at the studio.

From: Miranda

Went to go see dad. Don't wait up

I nodded to myself and didn't reply, making sure I had no more messages before putting my phone away.

Liam walked beside me as we headed towards the exit of the building. I was a bit surprised to see that Celine wasn't at the front desk like she normally was, but maybe she just had something important to do.

"Did you guys have any meetings with management lately?" I asked Liam, staring nervously at the ground.

He shook his head and responded, "Just a short one, but with me...they were just asking what was going on with you and I."

"What did you say to them?"

"I told them that we-" However, Liam didn't get to answer.

Because when we stepped outside the door, we were bombarded with extremely bright flashes.

And that Jodi girl was in the front.

A/N hiiii that's 3 songs down, a lot more for Carter to write

Or someone else ;)

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