Butterflies

Chapter 7

Addison’s POV

We all sat around my room laughing and getting to know each other better. I found out a lot of interesting stuff about the boys and they found out a lot about me, I was actually quite surprised how much I opened up to them.  They told me about all their crazy fans that’d done unspeakable stuff to try to touch them. But they said that they love them so much that they are actually their entertainment.

 They seem really interested to where all I have lived and visited, especially Japan.  I told them about my dad and how I never knew my mother so that’s why I ran out of the convention center when Louis asked. They understood it all and knew that I still wasn’t with over the loss of my parents, and tried not to get me too uncomfortable by asking too many questions. But what they didn’t seem to let go was the whole ‘Hope’ thing.

“So now please tell us why you want to use your middle name for the pageant?” Louis asked and everyone went silent.

“Just because.”  I slowly breathed out.  “Maybe I just want to.”

“That’s not a good expiation.” Zayn said and I shrugged.

“OK fine.” All eyes were on me and I hate that feeling. “I saw a girl that I go to school with, Natalie, and she is the most popular girl in the entire high school. She has been doing pageants since she was a baby and she calls herself ‘The Queen of the Hills’-.” (My school is called North Hills).

“Rubbish!” Louis butted in and we smiled.      

 “Yeah really, she not even close to nice and everyone wants to be her friend for some obscured reason.” I said with disgust.

“It seems to me that you have had a bad past with this Natalie chick.” Liam pointed out.

“Yeah, I used to be friends with her when I first moved here but she turned out to be a huge back-stabber. I accidently tripped and spilt paint on her; she called me a klutz, and then went off and told everyone that I liked a certain guy that I told her about at a sleepover. She spread a lot of mean rumors about me but now she basically forgot about me as it was quite easy to keep a low profile, and that guy left the school so I’m now I’m staying in the shadows with my true friend Talia. She had a bad history with Natalie as well and I felt stupid for not listening to her advice on friends.”

“Well we’ll always be your friends!” Louis said and the boys joined in with his smile.

“You guys are just too sweet. I can’t remember the last time I felt like I could trust someone with everything, except Talia.” I smiled back.

“So do you want to continue with the pageant? You don’t haft to but I think it will be fun and we could get revenge on that Natalie chick.” Nail asked.

“That wouldn’t be nice.” I said

“Oh, no it wouldn’t be anything like that but we could just try to beat her and prove how awesome you really are.”

I smiled “That’s not going to help with keeping a low profile.”

“That’s the point; we want you to become more confident so you can perform easer.” Harry said.

I paused and thought. “I guess I could continue.”

“YES!!!” the boys all blurted out at once and I jumped.

“Ok ok. Calm down I think registration ends in like less than an hour so we better hurry.”

Louis pulled out the registration papers and looked at them. “You can do it.” he held them out to me.