“Ha”. I laughed to myself as I walked past the magazine rack at the supermarket. His face on almost every cover. One Direction was the world’s biggest boy band and to think that I knew one of the heart throbs! Or at least, I used to…
Harry Styles had been my neighbour and we were kind of actually friends… before fame discovered him. And it’s not that I didn’t wish the best for him, just that I missed our small talk when we bumped into each other walking home from school. And those awkward glances when I looked out of my bedroom window and saw him looking at me from his. Well, from those giggling, annoying girls on the bus I had picked up that he had been touring for ages now, returning to Holmes Chapel for a bit and then touring again. I mean, I don’t even know why I cared so much, we had only been neighbours… and maybe I had dreamed of a little more than that, but nothing ever actually happened.
So here I was, walking down the aisles of supermarket thinking about a guy that probably didn’t even remember my name by now. I needed to distract myself with other things. I walked off towards the frozen food sections and looked for ice cream that would help my mood. Plus, I was having dinner with my sister tonight and she always made me laugh. Just when I thought that I was over my day dreaming about the boy with lusciously curly hair, a new song started playing in the supermarket. One Thing. Trust. “Get out of my head!” I yelled as I slammed the freezer shut. Ironically, that was the next lyric.
I trudged over to the cashier with my groceries and waited to be served by an old lady with a moustache called ‘Suzy’. I found that a couple times, I had to stop myself from singing along. Darn! Their songs had to be catchy too?! It was at that moment that I realised it would take lots of remedial therapy to get this boy out of my mind.
I felt my phone vibrating in my pocket and saw my sister’s name come up on caller ID. I answered hoping that I would be receiving good news. “Hey Madge,” my sister had used that nick name on me for so long I had forgotten when it had started. “It’s Maddie or Madeleine. You know that I hate being called Madge. Anyway, what’s up?”
“Well, Madeleine. I’m going to have to take a rain check for tonight. I’m so sorry but something important came up. I promise I’ll make it up to you though!” I sighed and pulled out my wallet to pay Suzy. “I’m going to stick to you on that promise!” I told her. “Alright, I’ll talk to you soon! Bye.” And she hung up. “Bye”, I muttered to myself.
So I guess would be a night alone in my bedroom with The Notebook and a tub of ice cream. Living the life Mads, living the life. I grabbed my shopping bags and exited the supermarket. And as I left, a huge cut out of One Direction stood in front of a whole pile of their album, Up All Night. Leave me alone! I glared at his stupid, annoying, extremely sexy face and left in a bad mood.
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The Boy Across The Road
FanficLove. The most beautiful yet difficult thing in the world. Maddie gets to experience this first hand when she falls head over heels for Harry Styles but little does she know just how hard relationships can be.