The Girl Next Door// Louis Tomlinson {Completed}

Chapter One

Zailey's P.O.V.

   It was the weekend at last. Finally. School's been busy and so has work. My name is Zailey and I'm 19 years old. My lifes screwy and messed, but totally worth living. I juggle two jobs, just to pay the rent and to pay for Hollywood Arts school.  I need money, and I'm barely hanging in there. But I still have enough to manage my life, at least for now.

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"Hey Todd!" I said.

"What's up Zailey?"

"Nothing much. Do you wanna come in?" I asked.

"Well, I don't want to bother you if you're doing anything." He trailed off nervously.

"No Todd. I'm not doing anything. What do you think I do on weekends?"

"I don't know...... Shop at the mall?" He sheepishly shrugged his shoulders and grinned.

"Do you even know me? I never shop just for fun." I smacked him jokingly on the shoulder and said, "We could have a Star Wars movie marathon today." Don't judge me. I love Star Wars. Best damn show on the whole entire Earth.

"I'll provide the money for snacks if you go out and get them with me."

"Fine. One second I gotta go grab my purse." 

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"I think I had too much popcorn." Todd moaned.

"I think I drank too many mountain dews."

"Are you kidding me? You had thirteen cans! Of course you drank to many! You don't have to think about that one! You know about that one!" 

I pushed him off the couch and said, " Maybe I like my dew."

"Gosh Zailey! Push an innocent man off your couch!" He yelled like a child.

I crossed my arms and said, "Yes. It's my house. I have the right."

"Fine." He said and snapped his fingers in a z shape.

"Man, sometimes I really do think you're gay." 

"Well, I can prove that I'm not." He said deffensively while getting off the ground.

"No thank you Todd. I think I've had enough of that."

"Whatever you say lady." Todd said while rolling his eyes. 

"You're an idiot, you know that right?" I asked.

"I'm pretty well aware of it." He grinned at me and then he stands up and yells, "Ohmygoshiforgottotellyouthatonedirectionismovingrightnextdoortoyouforlikeayearorsomething!! OMIGOSH!!!

"Todd, I have no idea what the hell you just said."

"Touche." 

"Well aren't you going to tell me now?...." I questioned while moving my hand in a go-on gesture.

"Oh yeah. So you know One Direction?"

"No."

"Come on Zailey, seriously?"

"Seriously Todd. Seriously."

"Okay, well anyways, my dad has been trying to sell that house for like a year now. And this week he just sold it to the famous boy band One Direction. Aren't you excited??"

"Uh.... Sure. The house got sold! Yay!" I faked excitement.

"You aren't even excited. Wow Zailey I am disappointed." Todd said with disaproval.

"Dude! I don't even know who One Direction is! Why would I be excited?" I asked.

"Come here." He said while dragging me to my computer. He looked up pictures and videos on youtube of them singing.

"Now are you excited?"

"Todd, I seriously think you are gay now. There is no way of changing my mind. You are officialy gay."

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   Sunday. Last day of the weekend. According to Todd, I had to come over to his house today to watch One Direction move into their house. Stalker. But hey it is Todd. I kind of have to. And I don't really have a choice.

   "Oh shit!" I thought. "I have work today! Shit. Shit. Shit."

Wait.... I have this Sunday off. Phew. If I got fired from that job, no more Hollywood Arts, no one house in L.A. Wow Zailey thanks for scaring yourself. 

I pulled on a black tank top and some dark skinny jeans. Since I'm just going across the street, I could really care less about what I looked like at the moment. It's noon. Just when Todd told me to be at his house.

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"Todd is this really necessary? Stalking celebrities?" I asked.

"Yes. Yes it is. And hey, we've gotta live while we're young." 

"Todd, isn't that the title of a One Direction song you showed me last night?"

"Maybe. Maybe not."

"Wow. Totall fan-girl over here." I shouted and pointed at Todd, even though nobody was watching.

"Zailey!" He screamed. "You child you're gonna blow our cover!"

"Like I give a rat's ass."

"Oh, but you should."

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"Can we just go get some food at McDonald's already? All your house has is a bunch of healthy diet crap. Did your mom decide to get skinny again?" I asked.

"No Zailey, my mom did not decide to get skinny again. And no Zailey we cannot go to McDonald's because we are watching One Direction move into their house."

"Todd! They're not even outside! See? Look out the window, they all just went inside! Now let's drive to McDonald's, get some fries and soda, and come back here and watch them if we still have to watch them...." 

"Fine. But yes when we are coming back, we are watching them so hard." He grabbed his keys and a hoodie and finally, we went and got some food.

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"Don't you think it's creepy that a guy like you, is stalking five pop-star boys?" I asked.

"No. Not at all. I think that it is perfectly normal."

"Fine. When we get home, I am going across the street and telling them how much you love them and how much you want an autogra[h or whatever it is that you want from them."

"Really? You would do that for me?"

"You sound like a cheesy wasted fool dressed as a monkey. Of course I would go over them and tell them how much you love them if it means that you stop fan-girling over them!"

"Zailey, you're a good friend you know that right?"

"Sure, sure. Now are you done with your cheeseburger so we can go?"

"Yes. Let's do this." Todd says.

He is so weird. In fact, I don't even know how I got to be friends with such a weird and gay person.