All's Fair in Love and One Direction

6: All's Fair in Skype & Fangirling

Chapter 6

As I take the short walk back to my car I reflect on the craziest and most amazing evening I've ever had in my life. The stagnant, crisp winter air and bright moonlight on a calm nighttime sky are such contradictions to what I am feeling inside.

Today, I, Andie Keating, met One Direction. I have Liam's phone number. Liam Payne's phone number. The phone number of Liam Payne. The boy I have obsessed over for the last year and a half. Liam Payne gave me his phone number. I keep repeating these thoughts over and over in my head, incapable of deeper thinking.

I approach my 2005 cobalt-colored Toyota Camry, unlock the door, and pull myself inside.

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I park in front of my apartment building and get out of my car. I smell the new building scent of drywall as I open the door to my relatively new 900-square-foot apartment and walk in. Why do I live away from my parents at 17? Well, I'd rather not go too far into that, but my home life as a little kid wasn't that great. I got out of that place as soon as I could. Plus, heck, I'm a straight-A student with high standards for herself, living with her best friend. (Well... Not at the moment. She's an exchange student in Paris until summertime. Grr.)

I flop down onto my bed with my arms out. A goofy grin spreads across my face again, and it turns into a full-on giggling fit. Don't judge me.

I pause, sit up, and frantically search for my phone.

11:17

"Oh, no. Katrina."

The second I get online an incoming call shows up on the screen of my iPad.

<3<3<3 Katrina <3<3<3

It switches to video streaming and I see Katrina, my best friend (and roommate)'s, face.

"OH MY GOD I'M SITTING HERE KNOWING YOU MET ONE DIRECTION AND YOU'RE TWENTY MINUTES LATE OH MY GOD I DID NOT GET UP AT FIVE FOR YOU TO BE LATE OH MY GOD TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT."

I tell her all about the date. I'm just getting to the part where I'm gushing about when Liam gave me his jacket to wear and I got the craziest butterflies in my stomach.

"AND HE GAVE ME HIS PHONE NUMBER, KATRINA. HIS PHONE NUMBER!"

We fangirl for a few minutes together. It feels just like old times... When we would scroll through pictures of One Direction, mostly Liam Payne and his abs, and throw fangirling fits about how the boys would never love us.

"Do you think that one of them is going to fall in love with you?"

"Um...?"

GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT OF MY HEAD, AND FA- I answer the incoming call on my phone without even glancing at the ID.

"Hello?"

"Hi, it's Liam."

"Hey Liam. What's up?" I say cooly.

Katrina's eyes grow wide and she mouths - SPEAKER PHONE. She is about to flip out and she hasn't even heard his voice yet.

I do as she says.

"Well... The lads and I just wanted to say goodnight. And that -"

Katrina lets out a screech and I watch her pretend to faint on the video stream.

" - what was that?" He says, chuckling. I turn speakerphone off.

"Nothing... What were you saying?"

"I was saying that we need to hang out again soon... Tomorrow even."

It is going to be ridiculously difficult to get sleep tonight.

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(A/N: Heyyy, butterflies. It's Katie. WE BROKE 100 READS ON OUR BOOK TODAY! Thank you thank you thank you. Your votes and reads mean so much to us. Our new goal is 8,000,000 reads. We can do it. Tell your friends?(:

How did you like the chapter? So we brought Katrina in... What did you think of her? How awful would it be if your best friend could meet One Direction and you couldn't? Oh my goodness, the pain.

Maria says: Tell them about my depression because I have an essay test in biology tomorrow and I have no fracking idea what it's going to cover so I'm just studying the entire 7-chapter outline and hoping for the best.

Wish her luck. She will probably need it.

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