Broken (a one direction fanfic)

Chapter 2

"Guess who" Carl opened the front door and span around making me laugh because he nearly twisted his ankle in the process. 

"an alien?" I replied before noticing the bunch of flowers in his hands  

"Oh Laura's in the shower" I said "You can put those on the table for her if you like"  

"These are for you Grace" he laughed nudging my shoulder "What? Why me I'm not your girlfriend" I said laughing but confusion was written all over my face. 

"To celebrate" he said winking, I groaned, why do I need celebrating, its the middle of July  

"...and why are we celebrating Carl?" I said suspiciously "I got you a job at a radio station! You have been given one hour airtime every day of the week!" he said, a huge grin formed onto my lips, It has been my dream career having my own radio broadcast, I ran over to Carl squishing him in a big hug. 

"Thankyou so much Carl!" I squeled from excitement doing my own little hapy dance around the room,  

"what's all the commotion?" laura asked, walking into the room running her hands through her wet hair, wearing her silk baby blue dressing gown , "Carl got me a job" I said bowing down pretending to praise him. 

She laughed "does this mean you can start paying rent?" Laura winked and I threw a pillow at her. 

Lauras family is very rich, they give Laura all the money she needs and she insists on paying for our monthly rent on the apartment, I feel really guilty and but she won't let me pay, but she pretends to act like she doesn't want to. I know shes joking but I sill feel really bad that im not paying.

I gave her a glare and turned back to Carl with a huge smile on my face "Let's celebrate" I said, grabbing the phone and dialing the familiar Nandos number.

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"Come on we are leaving!" I called out to the couple on the couch who seemed to be very interested in each others face.  

I ran over to them and jumped, pulling my weight over them both receiving groans coming from below me "Get off me you lard" Laura moaned trying to shove me off 

"Lard? Is that what you say to the girl who's buying you dinner?" I said pretending to sound sad, "Please get off me you lard" Carl interrupted laughing and I lifted my legs off of him, "hey what about me? " Laura squeezed her arm out from underneath me tickling my ribs.. My weakness... I squeled and fell onto the floor while Carl and Laura ran off towards the door yelling shotgun for the front seats in the car. Very mature..

Around 5 minutes later when laura and carl finally decided to unlock the car doors and let me inside, We were on our way to nandos. I was sitting in the back which means I have no control over the stereo,"You don't know your beautiful oohhhh" Laura sang in the car out of tune, as the song came onto the radio, she absolutely is in love with this band, though she tries to keep her fangirling to a minimum when im around since she knows my history with Harry.  

I reached forward and pinched her arm, she quickly covered her mouth and stopped singing, "Whoops" she said glancing at me nervously, "I forgot you were here", I laughed "it's fine Laura, I was joking, he means nothing to me anymore, not after me ignored me" I sighed 

"And he was a dick for doing so" Carl said and I smiled, "I do have to admit though, it is quite a catchy tune" I said before breaking out into my own pitchy version of the song "That's what makes you beautiful", I croaked pretending to mock the 5 boys voiced, even though we all know for a fact they have really good voices.

We arrived at Nandos and there was a suprisingly large crowd there, I looked at the time, 8:00, surely this wasn't the busy time to buy Nandos, some of the girls here looked young enough to be eating at 6:30, I thought glancing at the group of kids besides me probably 10 or 9years old squealing and hauling there mums inside the store, what's the rush?  

I saw another group of girls but they looked like teenagers, 15 and 16, they were all clutching there phones and one even had a camera. 

I looked over to Laura who shrugged and we walked in to collect our food, it took so long just to get through the Que that when we finally got to the front our legs hurt.  

"Let's sit down for abit before bringing our food home" i said and sat down at a table in the corner with the others.

I had barely taken a bite from my peri peri chicken when I heard clock dinging noises go off and everyone started cheering, what was going on...??!  

I looked at my watch and it wasn't even the start of a new hour, it was only 8:22. 

"Let's have a look at the time?" Laura asked and I put my wrist infront of her face, he eyes went from confused to wide and she quickly glanced around before stopping and looking at something. I raised my eyebrows at her and mouthed at her whats wrong, 

"What's the day today grace?" she asked, her eyes still wide, "ermm the 23nd of July... Why?" I asked her glancing at her suspiciously. 

I heard her swear under he breath "How could I have forgotten, we have to leave, now, come on grace, Carl grab the keys" she said frantically and then rushed off to the front of the shop to grab a takeaway bag, I shrugged at Carl who was also looking extremely fazed by what was going on.

I was about to tell the girls behind me to stop squealing, lord knows what goes through there mind, but I was interrupted by a cough and someone ticking on there glass announcing a speech. Everyone went quiet and I could hear the beeps of cameras as people clicked record. 

I stayed facing Carl because his expression was shocked and I wasn't particually keen to turn around and find out why.  

"firstly, I wanted to just say Thankyou for all your support, we couldn't of reached our 1 year anniversary without any of our fans" a voice said, why did it sound so familier... I scanned my brain trying to recognize the voice but gave up and turned around, unfortunatly this was another one of the times I wished I was taller, there were too many tall girls infront of me and I couldn't see a thing. 

I was about to turn back around to Carl and ask him who was talking when I heard someone shouting infront of me "WE LOVE YOU LOUIS"..  

I could feel my whole body tensing up.. Please don't let it be Harry's best friend, the one who practically replaced me. No wonder the voice sounded familier. 

Laura came back to us and she looked straight at me and noticed my face of horror, she grabbed my arm and pulled me through the crowd of girls towards the door, i was so eager to leave I wasn't looking at the ground and clumsily tripped over someone's foot,  

"Crap" I muttered as I lay on the floor, my knees grazed, I started lifting myself up when a hand reached down, I hesitantly grabbed it and was about to run back off when I heard someone... 

"Grace?"  

I looked at the hand which was still gripping mine and looked up at who it was, my body stopped and I froze on the spot as he stared down at me smiling, "Grace it's me! harry!"