Chapter Three: Spirit Hope
I stayed behind as Luna stomped away with Liam right behind her to justify her behavior. I didn't want anyone thinking badly of her, especially not this stranger.
"I'm so sorry," I began. "She's not always like this, I swear! She's just really upset right now, and I mean, who can blame her?"
Harry stared at me patiently. Upon realizing that I was thinking of how to word what I was going to say, he spoke up, "You're both so very protective of each other."
I looked at him in surpise. "Umm, I guess. I don't know, really."
"Haz!" A boy came running down a corridor to us.
"Lou!" Harry yelled back, grinning as he turned around to this 'Lou.'
Lou stopped beside Harry and gave him one of those awkward looking bro-hugs. Then he stared at me, eyeing me up and down. I felt embarrassed being checked out by him. Once he was done with that, he extended a hand with a giant grin on his face, saying, "Hi, I'm Louis. Louis Tomlinson."
Louis Tomlinson was a handsome guy. Light brown, almost dirty blonde, hair decorated his head in a side-swept manner. Light blue eyes stared back into my dark brown ones, and a muscular, lean build that stood straight with confidence.
I grasped his hand politely and gave it a firm shake. "Nice to meet you, Louis. I'm Hope."
"What a beautiful name!"
I blushed a darker shade of red. "Thanks."
"Harry, are you giving Hope a hard time?" Louis asked his friend disapprovingly.
Harry opened his mouth to answer, but he was cut off as girls screamed form somewhere inside the facility.
Well, shit, I thought, knowing that the girls were coming for them.
"Quick, follow me," I said, running down the corridor that Louis had come from, in the opposite direction of squeals.
"Where are we going?" Louis asked as they followed me.
"To Bradley's," I said.
"Bradley's?" they asked.
I nodded my head as we reached the store. I quickly pulled out my key and found the one that opened the fence.
"Harry, Louis!" a blonde said, catching up with us. He brought with him a dark haired young man.
"Niall, Zayn," Harry said. "Where have you two been?"
"Browsing," the blonde said. He had a thick Irish accent that made him a little bit harder to understand with my ears. Stupid American ears. "What have you two been doing?"
"I was in the Disney store," Louis said. "I bought this." He held up a purple Cheshire cat. "I got it for you, Haz."
Harry pinched his nose. I started laughing. Something about it, probably something I read online and forgot until this moment, made that Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland and Harry seem oddly hilarious.
"What is it that's so funny?" the dark haired fella asked.
"I have no idea," I admitted as I unlocked the chained door that seperated us from Bradley's. I lifted it up, and all the boys went under it. Then I crawled under it as Harry held it up for me. They pushed it down as I locked it. I ran to the back of the store, dragging the boys with me.
"Hide!" I said as I heard the fans approach the store.
The boys didn't waste two second before they were all cleverly hidden. I hid in one of those circular clothing display things. I felt someone breathing down the back of my neck and turned my head to see the dark haired guy.
