To hook a Star [LOUIS TOMLINSON]

10. 16 LINES

LUCY,

While editing a video to post later, Lucy suddenly heard a giant crash from outside of her room. Slamming the laptop shut, she ran out of the bedroom. Upon entering the living room she is met with Niall standing by the bookshelf and glass shattered around him.

Niall fucking Horan?

   Her head felt hot, she had no idea how to react. Lucy was in absolute disbelief that Niall, of all people, is in her apartment. Not to mention, Kristin was screaming at the top of her lungs. She never yelled often, it usually took a lot to piss her off to that point.
    Walking over to Niall and her she feels a sharp pain on the bottom of her foot. "Shit! What the hell.." Lucy trails off as she looked at the bottom of her foot. Her eyes followed to shards of glass everywhere and a broken picture frame, at Niall's feet. Kristin quickly ran off to the kitchen for the first aid kit and Niall picked the glass up, "I am so sorry. I tripped on a skateboard and knocked into the bookshelf."

    Examining the picture frame closely, she grab it off the ground carefully. It's a picture of Lily and Lucy from when they were 17. It was a conflicting feeling because it wasn't Niall's fault. Sooner or later this was bound to happen, the girls were notorious for leaving their skateboards in random areas.
    Niall with worried eyes as he started to throw the glass away and Kristin looks at me as if she was asking permission to tell him about the photo.
   Nodding at her I put the picture into a chest then sit on the couch. "It's a picture of her and her twin Lily. Lily died in a car accident when they were 15." Niall's face turned into horror and worry, "Lucy.. I am so so sorry..fuck."

   Sighing deeply, "Don't worry about it, a picture frame is replaceable. Besides, we aren't the best at keeping them put up, kinda bound to happen." Niall breathes a sigh of relief and sits on the love seat. As soon as he sat down I bombarded him with another question. "No offense, but why are you here? Kind of jarring seeing Niall Horan here.."
   Kristin and him started laughing and he said, "We were texting and she said you wouldn't hangout with her." I chuckled followed with a groan, "Kris, I was editing a video!" Kristin sits down by us laughing, "That's why I invited him over, you can take six hours easily." Thinking about it, she does have a fair point. If it's not perfect I will not post it. "Okay you got a point." I walked into the kitchen.

   "Either of you guys want a Gatorade?" They both said yes so I grabbed a Blue, Red, and white one. Handing a white one to Niall he gave me a small groan of displeasure.
    Shaking my head, I take it back and hand him a blue one and gave the red one to Kristin. "So.. How did you two meet?" Niall asked us as he took a gulp from his gatorade. Kristin spoke up and answered him, "One night I was heading home late, and we literally smacked into each other." Her response made me giggle, I couldn't help but recount the events of that night. Took a corner too sharp and BAM! Good times. I nodded in agreement. "That's very true"

"..I'm not sure I want to ask.." He said shaking his head. "No, no you do not." I simply said putting on a movie. Kristin was laughing calmly.

  We ended up watching two different movies and just got to know each other. Until Niall brought up a question I was hoping to avoid. "Lucy, I have to ask. You act a bit strange, why?" My head pivotes back and forth from shock, "Did any of your mothers teach you boundaries!?",Kristin chuckles nearly choking on her Gatorade.
    His face turns red as a tomato before beginning to back track on his question. I chuckle at him and cut him off, "I'm just fucking with you Niall, but seriously all of you are so nosy!" Kristin and Niall chuckled and as he checked his phone, quickly tapping away then putting it up. "In all honesty, I can't help it. I mean why am I the only one that is acting like this is crazy?!"

     He raises an eyebrow at me, as if to show he isn't quite sure what I mean. Pinching the bridge of my nose, I grunted. "Niall, you guys are a famous boy band and I'm just a nobody on the internet! My life hasn't been what it's all cracked out to be, I don't need any unnecessary hurt in the process."
    Taking a sip from my Gatorade I clear my throat waiting for a reply. Niall slowly looks over at Kristin then back over at me. "Is it that crazy to think we want to be friends with you guys? Is it really that hard to grasp?" My face drops while I roll my eyes at him, this feels like a game to everyone. It makes me want to go crazy! Just having one person in my corner about this would be enough, one person to tell me that what I feel is valid!

    Niall sighed and spoke once more, "We are just like any other normal guy out there, only our job is abnormal. Hell, if it's about what happened with Louis.. trust that it didn't change his mind about you." I nodded along as he talked. Leaning back on the couch to stare at the ceiling I wasn't sure what to say.
     He has a point, a very valid point. It's a one in a million chance I caught the attention of someone in a band, it should be a blessing from my perspective. In the end, they really are just five normal guys. They do have friends, and can make friends with who they choose.

   Wanting to break the silence Niall asked us if we wanted to go hangout where the guys are staying at currently. "Are you guys down to hang at where we are staying at?" Kristin immediately says yes cause she has nothing better to do. Me on the other hand...

"Ah.. well ya know. I got videos to edit, I gotta clean the apartment, go grocery shopping. I have a lot to do today."

  Kristin scoffs at me, "Luce, you and I both know you don't have shit to do today." Then Niall buts in, "I know Louis would wanna see you."
    Now it's my turn to scoff, I shake my head at him. "No he wouldn't, I made a fool of myself." Kristin sighs as she put her jacket on, "I thought you two made up?" I could shrug at her, "We did, but I still pissed him off. We pissed each other off." Pausing for a moment, I closed my eyes. "If he saw anything in me, I have a feeling it's not there anymore."