Torn: A One Direction Fan Fiction

Chapter 20: Kill Her With Kindness

Alexis' Pov:

"Here we are!" Louis shouts over the music as we pull into the lot of

the massive shopping center.

A few days have passed since the accidental hotel fire, and Texas is

far behind us now. We're at the Mall of Louisiana, 156 stores and

easily the largest mall in the whole state.

"This is huge," I mutter.

"We should take you to Mall of America sometime, it has over 500

stores," Zayn says from his seat on my left.

"I would probably end up getting lost," I laugh.

"Me too!" Niall chimes in from his seat in the back.

"It's true, he has before," Liam informs me, leaning over Zayn in the process.

Louis parks somewhere near the back.

I open the door wide enough so Zayn can exit behind me.

Louis leans across and whispers something to Harry in the passengers seat.

I'm usually not a snoop, but I subtly lean in a little closer.

"Lexi come on!" Zayn complains behind me.

Louis and Harry break apart after Harry nods curtly and I scramble to

get out of the car.

"Sorry," I say after Zayn hops out after me.

"It's okay," He rolls his eyes.

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The inside of the mall is massive. It looks even larger on the inside

than it does on the outside.

I feel a hand interlock fingers with mine. I look up and see Niall

standing there with a cute grin playing on his face.

"I don't want to get lost again."

I laugh, secretly happy he chose to hold my hand instead of Liam's.

"So what store do we go to first, Lexi?" Louis asks after we're all

done admiring the size of the mall.

"Erm..." I mumble looking over the visible stores.

I don't see any of the familiar stores I shop at.

"Why don't we look over the directory?" Liam suggests.

We all shuffle over to the directory accept for Louis, who sprints

there, pulling Harry along with him.

He seems awfully excited to be shopping.

We end up heading in the direction of the Abercrombie, since I'm

familiar with the store, and the boys like to shop there as well.

The store is quite crowded, which seems accurate considering the

whole mall is packed.

The boys all drift towards the men's section of the store, except for

Niall who stays by my side.

"What about this Lex?" He holds up a pair of purple shorts, my favorite color.

"Purple?" I feel a small smile creeping up on my lips.