Butterflies

chapter 8

Liam’s POV

Zayn, Niall, Lou and I were walking down the street on our way back to the convention center.

“Ok guys remember what we said the warning signal was if a crazy emergency happened?”  I said after I saw some weird looking people starting to stare.

“Didn’t we say it was to sing Whistle as loud as we can?” Lou asked.

“Yes, or just scream.” I said. I’m pretty protective of these boys if anything happened to them it would be hard.

We continued walking as the wind blew harsh against us and a little while after, out of curiosity I broke the silence of our conversation by asking a question that was dying to be answered.

“So what do you guys think about Addison?”

 There was a short pause where there was thinking.

“I like her,” Lou said. “Cool girl.”

“Harry seems to like her a lot.” Zayn spoke up.

“Well why else do you think he went up to her first and stayed with her just now?” I asked.

“Because we kind of let him.” Niall shrugged and we laughed.

“What do you think about Addison, Niall?” Zayn asked him.

“She’s pretty hot but not really my type.” He replied.

“Well what is your type?” Lou asked.

“I’m not exactly sure. I guess I’ll find out when the right girl comes around.” He smiled and we nodded.

We made it to the conviction center and walked up the steps to the door. We entered the big lobby and it was not as busy as it was before.  We found the table that Addison was at earlier and walked up to the lady who was typing away on her computer.

“Hello.” I said and she looked up and smiled.

“Hi there, can I help you?” she asked.

“Yes, we’d like to register.” Lou said handing her the papers and she looked at us confused.

“Oh no, not us. Addison.” Niall said and I stopped him.

“Hope.” I said shooting him a glance and he quickly corrected himself.

“Yes, right Hope, Hope Taylor.”

“OK. So what events did you want to sign up for?” she flipped the papers over. “You forgot to fill this side out.”

“There was a back?!” Lou asked surprised.

“Yes there was and it was probably the most important part.” She replied.

“Oh then we must fill it out.” I said putting my hand out to accept the papers but she just smiled.

“It’s ok; you can go ahead and do it now.”

“Ok so what are our options?” I asked

“There is Beauty, Talent, Outfit of Choice, and Swimwear. You can only choose three.”

“Well no-brainer Beauty and Talent.” Zayn said and we agreed. The lady behind the desk wrote it down on the back of the paper that we missed.

“And what will be your third event?” she asked us.

We stood looking at each other wondering what we should do.

“How about Swimwear?” Lou asked smiling and the lady wrote it down.

“Are you sure? I don’t know.” I said but the lady had already put it in the pile behind her.

“Oh well.” Niall said.

I just rolled my eyes. “Ok let’s get back and see if Harry and Addison have come up with some ideas.”

“Doubt it.” Zayn smiled and winked.

“You know he wouldn’t go that fast Zayn you dirty minded child.” Lou laughed.

“I know I’m just kidding.” He smiled back.

We turned around to find this tall skinny girl with medium length blond hair that you could tell it had been highlighted. She gave us the fire-stare icy blue eyes but then quickly changed her facial into a smile. I smile back and started to walk. As we were walking away I overheard the girl say her name.

“Natalie Parker. I’d like to register for Talent, Beauty, and Swimwear.”

Oh shut.

    Addison’s POV (no time has passed really, this was while the boys were on their way to the convention center)

I stood there in Harry’s arms relaxing against him. I could smell a mixture of his shampoo and his cologne. After a few seconds I backed up from the hug and looked at him smiling.

“You have a nice smile too.” I said.

“Thanks. But it’s not as pretty as yours.” He said not taking his eyes off of me.  I laughed a little bit.

We stood there in a little bit of awkwardness and I didn’t know what to say. I started to ask if we should try to find some ideas for the pageant but he spoke first and asked:

“Did you feel the sparks too?”

“What?”

“Nothing.”

Ok that was even more awkward… I just don’t know. Now I think I will ask about the pageant.

“So do you think we should start coming up with something for the pageant now?”

“Oh yeah, sure.” He said sounding relived.

“Ok then what do you think we should do?”

He thought for a little while. “What is that annoying show with all the little girls in pageants? And it’s like really dramatic and sassy.”

I thought for a few seconds. “Toddlers and Tiaras?”

“Yeah, that’s it!”

“You think we should start off by watching sassy little girls in cute little cupcake dresses getting overly dramatic with their mothers to think of ideas for a teenager doing pageants?”

 “Yeah, Lou loves that show. It could help us get the basic outline of pageants like what we are and are not supposed to do and what all we need.”

“Ok well let’s go then, but while we’re watching it I’m gonna pull up something from the Internet.”

 He nodded. “Good choice.”

I grabbed my phone and laptop and followed him down the steps to the living room.

 Overly dramatic toddlers. Yup, that’s our best idea for trying to win a pageant.

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