Good Enough (A Little Mix Fanfiction)

Chapter 1- Puzzle Pieces

Chapter 1- Puzzle Pieces

There was a pitter patter of the rain making contact with the roof of the house as I watched the clip of Little Mix winning The X Factor UK over and over again. They were so hysterical and happy, and my heart hurt from watching it. The way they all reacted, smiles the size of the United States, disbelief. Their hard work over months, years, possibly their entire life, had paid off, and resulted in global domination. I wanted to feel that happy someday.

Those are my girls, I thought to myself.

Even watching it for the 2293016th time a mere two years after they won, I was still so amazingly proud of them and their success. I touched the screen as the clip replayed and smiled to myself. The girls in this clip had no idea how big they were going to make it. They were just 4 young British girls who had happened to win The X Factor UK, right?

Wrong.

They had used every last bit of effort and pushed themselves to get as so far as to win. They grew talent-wise and maturity-wise. They wouldn't have been able to win without their sisterly bond and strong solo voices that, when put together, create magic. And here I was, sitting in my Massachusetts bedroom crying of their global success.

I wanted to be just like them. I wanted the same success as them. I didn't necessarily like the idea of being in a group, however.

I always felt like being in a group would be so difficult because of how rare it is to find four girls who's voices and personalities fit together so well like pieces of a puzzle. If each person represents a puzzle piece, it would mean that each puzzle piece is unlike any other. Some are jagged, some have very fine details that make them hard to connect. But what they all have in common is that there are other puzzle pieces, somewhere, that fit perfectly. Sometimes people don't look hard enough to find theirs and give up, praying that one day it will show up. For some, their fitting puzzle piece is where they would least expect it, and low and behold, it fits.

Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall, Jesy Nelson, and Leigh Anne Pinnock had solved their life's puzzle, by finding the people who's pieces fit perfectly with their own, and were on their way to becoming the biggest girl group in the world. They were'nt searching for their match, it came through a competition. They weren't expecting it, but things have a way of happening.

I wondered if I had a puzzle piece that fit perfectly with another's, and that I could become a phenomenon like them. But most of the time I felt like I didn't belong with anybody. I barely had any friends, and the ones I had had other friends whom they favored over me.

Ill-fitting puzzle pieces.

I did have a close friend named Liliana. We trusted each other and I knew her better than anybody else. But it is hard, because I see her with other friends and I instinctively feel jealous. She was there for me when I needed her, and I knew in my heart how much she loved me.

Maybe somewhere, across the country, maybe across the world, there were puzzle pieces that fit with my own.

But what are the chances.

I closed my laptop and left my bedroom, walking downstairs to my kitchen. My mom was standing around the counter making dinner as the TV was playing as white noise.

"I can't drive you to your audition today, can you get somebody else to drive you? Lucas is sick and I need I stay home with him," my mom said, sensing my existence.

I looked over to the couch to see my little brother slouched on the couch cradling his stomach.

Such a faker.