Striving for Perfection. (Niall Horan fanfic)

Chapter Seven.

‘London Baby!’ we screamed as we got to the airport

We hadn’t actually left America yet but we were excited, we didn’t walk in with the boys because of all the attention that would be brought to us but we were sitting with them on the plane. We went through check-in and then security. Whilst we were waiting to board the plane we were talking about the Olympics.

‘I can’t believe we are going to the Olympics!’ I smiled

The four guys across from us, around our age just smiled at us.

‘What do you girls do?’ the one with the blonde spikey hair asked

‘Gymnastics’ I said

‘Oh cool, we are going to watch that’

‘Well you will probably see us there’ I laughed

‘Hope we do good luck’

‘Now boarding flight DJ80 to London’

We got on the plane and then the boys got on.

‘Took you a while’ Lauren smiled

‘Yeah, we were getting chatted up by these guys’ Sophie smiled

Zayn and Niall just looked at each other and we laughed. I sat in-between Niall and Lauren, Sophie was next to Lauren. Zayn and Louis were on one side of us and Harry and Liam were on the other side. The only thing separating us was the aisles.

I had always hated planes, they sucked. The longest plane ride I had been on was three hours. But now I was going to be on a plane for ten and a half hours, but I knew it would be fun but I also knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep.

‘I am going to miss Dean’ Lauren pouted

‘Won’t he be in London?’ Sophie asked

‘Yeah but I won’t see him’

‘Oh, that’s right’

That’s all I heard and then I was asleep, wow. I had never slept on a plane before, I was always scared I would wake up and we would have crashed or I wouldn’t wake up at all. I woke up and food was coming around, good timing. Everyone was still awake around me, everyone except for Coach. He was sound asleep, luckily he wasn’t a snorer.

Dinner was yummy, well yummy for plane food. Niall ate his really fast which I was surprised at.

‘Hungry much?’ I laughed

‘Just a little, I slept in this morning so I didn’t eat’

‘You’re a goose’

Once they collected our food I tried to get to sleep.

‘I can’t get comfy’ I pouted

‘Come here’ Niall said moving the arm rest

I put my head on his chest and I was finally comfortable. I slowly fell asleep and when we I woke up we were landing. I slept for 10 hours, whoa. I woke up and Niall wasn’t there, I looked behind me and he was talking to some of the male gymnasts who were going to the Olympics. With them was Kate.

Niall came back and sat down and we talked while we landed. We went to get off the plane and my legs were numb, I hadn’t walked around for the whole time. I finally got the feeling in my legs back and we walked out to collect our bags in the airport.

The opening ceremony was tonight and we were all going to be walking out in front of everyone. The gymnasts from around the world were going to walk out during What Makes You Beautiful and then they would introduce us all. Once the introducing has done, the torch would be lit and then the Olympics would start. The next day we would start, we had a couple of days to prove ourselves to the judges on each of the apparatus’ and then they would choose 12 people to get to the finals for each apparatus.

The boys went back to their apartments to get ready for tonight and we went to our hotel. Us four girls were all sharing a hotel room and the male gymnasts were all in the room next door to us. Coach was on the other side of us.

We put on our leotards and our gym trackies, the shirt had ‘USA’ on the back sparkling and the pants were blue white and red. We went to the arena where the ceremony was being held, the athletes were already standing there being introduced, and we were next.

Everyone cheered and the Athletes came off, we were about to go on when a gymnast from Great Britain came up to me. One Direction was setting up to perform. The girl was watching them, she then looked at me. She had blonde hair tied into a tight bun at the back of her head; her green eyes had light blue eye shadow on.

‘You and Niall hey’ she said

‘Do I know you?’

‘Michelle Greene’

‘Hi’

‘So at the end of this, I will have the gold medals and Niall. He won’t want a gymnast who wins nothing, which will be you. So have fun with him while you can’ she smiled and then walked to the front where her team was

‘What was that all about?’ Sophie asked

‘I have no idea’ I laughed

‘Now, we have the male and female gymnasts from around the world’ the man said over the intercom

What makes you beautiful was just finishing as all of us were out.

‘Please welcome, the worldwide gymnasts!’

Everyone cheered and right in front of me I saw the guys from the airport in the front row.

They introduced Great Britain gymnasts, Australian gymnasts, and Chinese gymnasts and then they got to us.

‘Representing America, Lucy Hemsdale!’ I stood forward and waved

I saw the blonde haired guy whistle. They introduced the rest of my team, and then introduced everyone else. They would be introducing us again before we performed. We went back to our hotel room and instantly went to sleep.

‘Girls get up!’ Coach screamed knocking on the door

Lauren was walking towards the door as I was getting out of bed.

‘Now, it is five thirty we have three hours to practice and then it’s time to shine’ he smiled ‘so get ready and meet me outside in ten minutes’

We all got ready and we were all outside just in time. We headed down to the gym and we practiced for the rest of the time. The competition started at nine, first competition was on the beam. They top ten will go through to the finals. I was up first, as I was waiting, I saw the airport guys again.

‘Representing America on the beam, Lucy Hemsdale!’

I jumped on the beam and started my routine, I couldn’t believe it. I was actually at the Olympics. The beep went off and I had ten seconds left, time for the dismount, this was the part I was most scared of, if I land this I would get a perfect score.

I landed it, I actually landed it. I was so happy. Everyone cheered and I went and sat down waiting for my score, the girls came and hugged me and so did coach. We were all so happy.

‘Lucy Hemsdale, from America’s score on beam is 16.066’

Everyone cheered again.

‘Yes’ I cheered

‘You did good’ Coach said ‘Keep it up and you can win this whole thing’

‘Next up, Michelle Greene’

The girl from the opening ceremony. She did a good routine but on her dismount she fell backwards. Her score was 15.096. I was still first. Lauren was up next, she, being the queen of beam did amazing.

‘Lauren Thomas, representing America on the beam, score is 15.999.’

I couldn’t believe it, I did better than Lauren and she was queen of beam. She was coming second. America is taking over.

Sophie was last, her score was 14.333. The final score board was, China third, Lauren second and I was first. We are in the finals; Sophie unfortunately didn’t get in because she fell off the beam twice and fell over on her dismount.