Chapter 5
With a stack of papers in hand, Nat led me into a large room with a recording booth in it. I found a table to set down the documents on and turned to Nat and smiled, wiping my palms on my jeans somewhat nervously. She smiled at me and held up a finger, signaling for me to wait a moment while she talked to someone. After a minute or so, she waved me over. "Stoney, I've got some friends I think you'd like to meet."
I walked though a second door and into a large office. Behind the desk sat Simon Cowell, and beside him on a couch sat the boys of One Direction.
"Boys, meet Stone. My cousin. She and her sister came from Texas to live with me for a while." She extended an arm and shoved me towards them.
"Hi. I'm Stone. But Nat already told you that," I smiled. "Its a real pleasure to meet all of y'all." I stuck out my hand, offering to shake. And by shake, I mean my arm was grabbed and I found myself dragged into the middle of a group hug. And by that I mean I wasn't expecting it. Meaning I might have screamed. Just a little.
"WHOA WHOA EVERYONE OFF SHE'S HURT!" Liam demanded, being the Daddy Direction he is always described to be. Immediately, they released.
I laughed." I'm fine, y'all. You just startled me. I wasn't exactly expecting to be dog piled.."
"WELL in that case, TACKLE, BOYS!" Louis shouted. The other boys laughed with Nat as Louis ran back in and picked me up. "Oh so Im the only one?" He looked around, then put me down.
I chuckled and walked over to the desk where Simon Cowell was sitting. I straightened out my shirt and stuck out my hand. He stood up and shook it (like a normal person). "Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Cowell."
"Nice to finally meet you too, Stone. We've heard quite a lot about you. Your cousin speaks very highly of you, you know?" I blushed. He laughed and looked at Nat, who began blushing as well.
I looked around at the scene, and realized something was missing. "Hey, Nat? We need Ruth. She can't be missing this."
"How about we all go to lunch, and then when go back to the apartments, we'll introduce her? I'm pretty sure she's, like, in a coma right now." We laughed. Ruth, to say the least, is quite the heavy sleeper. We all are, it runs in the family...
The boys were fine with the plan. "So where do we eat? Gotta make it special, my first official outing as a Londonite!" I kidded.
I already knew what the response was going to be. Just as I predicted, Niall instinctively screamed "NANDOS!"
We all laughed. Nat asked Simon for permission to steal them, and when he confirmed, we made our way to the elevators.
"Nice seeing you again, Stone." Harry jested at me.
"Harry, no..." I knew what was coming. The boys looked at us quizzically.
"Last night, I met little Stoney here at the laundromat." I put my head in my hands. Oh God, why me...
"Well, I kind of went through her laundry-"
"Harry! You don't do that!" Liam interjected.
"- and I came across-"
"Oh come on! NO!" I said, blushing profusely.
"Nattie, did you know your sweet little Stoney has a purple party thong?" Harry sputtered through intense giggles.
The elevator got quiet while his words sank in. Everyone realized what had bed said, and why I was dying in a corner, and fell to the floor, tearing from laughter.
