”You… You what?!” I exclaimed.

”Yeah, she didn’t know I was still there, I guess, and so she and Liam decided to take a shower. And get undressed in her room. Unless they’d been sleeping naked. And then they walked out in the living room. Without clothes on,” he told me with a smirk forming on his face.

“And there you were,” I ended the story myself laughing. “Oh my God, what did they say?”

“Well, Liam just got scared and shouted. But it wasn’t like he was that embarrassed, since you know… we’ve seen each other without clothes before and so on…”

“Like a true boy band,” I teased him. “And what about Em?”

“She screamed. And slammed her head in to the door as she tried to turn around back towards her room,” he laughed along.

“Oh my God!” I exclaimed putting my hands in front of my mouth.

“Yeah it was pretty scary,” Niall nodded. “She might have gotten a black eye, but you know. She didn’t want me to help her.”

I couldn’t help but laugh. “Just like me, of course. That poor girl!”

“Yeah, I don’t hope I embarrassed her too much, she sure did find it a bit scary though.”

“What happened then?” I asked curiously.

“She called in sick for work and Liam took her to the hospital. I don’t even think they got to take that shower.”

“Jesus,” I gushed. “That was just very unfortunate.”

“Yeah, I feel quite bad actually,” he said.

“Aw that’s true, you must feel so terrible,” I said walking over to him around the table to sit on his lap. I wrapped my arms around his neck and smirking down at his gorgeous face before pressing my lips against his.


Since we’d started on having sex together our kisses had become more violent and forceful at the thought of what might happen after the make out sessions, but this time it felt like the first ones we’d exchanged; soft and tender and with a different kind of passion. Maybe it was because we both knew that there wasn’t any time left for anything else, not even a quickie, before Louis and Eleanor would arrive. But it really felt amazing to sit so close to him and feel his heart beat slowly underneath my hand placed on his chest and how our lips moved together flawlessly.



We cooked the dinner together that consisted of a dish of baked ziti and some green salad and Niall would take any chance of kissing me by putting grapes in his mouth and exchanging them to mine through the kiss, put dressing in my face and then kiss it all away.

“I have a distinct feeling that you’re only doing this because you’re hungry,” I laughed as he licked my upper lip clean from a tasting of the pasta.

“Hungry for what?” he smirked back at me.


At that second in the middle of our giggling the doorbell rang and Niall went out to let in the guests.


“Hi guys!” I said when they entered the kitchen and went over to hug both of my dear friends. “So how’s everything going?”

“Really good,” Louis said. “Finally having some time off after recording. I’ll just wait for this young lady to do as well, before we can start planning any wedding.”

“Wow,” I smiled. “Wedding. It sounds so… big. So grown up.”


They chuckled at my cute and childish comment, before Eleanor said:

“Yeah, I have a lot of jobs the next couple of weeks that I have to get done first. I’m actually doing a fashion show soon, maybe you would like to come and see me? You and the girls?”

“We would love that!” I exclaimed as we all sat down to eat in the kitchen, since none of us bothered making anything fancy out of the meal. Just the food and some red wine made it a lot cozier.

“We actually have a surprise for you, Maja,” Louis said secretly as Eleanor walked over and took out something from her purse that looked like a magazine. I followed every of her movements trying to figure out what it might be.

“What, are you in this magazine, El, or what?” I tried but figured I got it all wrong as Louis started laughing at me shaking his head.

“This is an issue of FACT magazine…” he began as I moved closer.

“What kind of magazine is that?” I asked.

“Music. I doubt that Eleanor would be in that,” he smiled.

“Well. Okay. Nice,” I replied not exactly knowing what was so special about that magazine and once again they both laughed at me which only made me explain: “Jesus Christ, will you please tell me what’s going on?”

“Okay, okay,” Louis finally said still laughing though. “There’s a review of your music in it.”


Several seconds must’ve gone by without me noticing it where I just stared at them probably not realizing anything of what they just said.

“What?” I then mumbled and Eleanor pushed the small article over to me.




Exactly five seconds later I had dialed Aida’s phone number and both she and Em were listening as I read the words from the article out loud with a breathing that had quickly increased to a rapid speed.


“The upcoming pop trio, The Rookies, that consists of the three young Danish girls, Aida Berisha, Em Olsen and Maja Lings recently performed for the second time at Dirty Dicks delivering an implemented concert revealing their sense for creating a beautiful and personal sound using the piano, guitar, percussion and singing.
The multiple and talented skills at each of their instruments as well as song writing improves the raw style and makes The Rookies a band to look after in the nearest future.
Check out their music by going to their third concert at the above-mentioned venue Saturday the 15th of December.”




When I’d finished reading none of us said a word, I had trouble believing the words that were written about us.


“Oh my God,” Aida gushed after a really long time. “Oh my God. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my fucking God!”

As her voice became louder and louder I heard Em squeal through the phone the same way as I was doing it making Niall hold his ears to protect himself from the pain that my outbreaks caused.

“Apparently a music critic was at our concert, shit I can’t believe this!” I shouted.



“Do you have any idea how that will change your life?” Louis asked me as I had hung up and calmed a bit down a long time later.

“You sound like Simon Cowell,” was the only thing I could manage to reply. I had had to take off my hoodie as the sweat had started returning to my body quicker than ever. “Is it very hot in here…” I mumbled as my friends were laughing at me.

“Congratulations!” Eleanor smiled. “I’m so happy for you.”

“Thank you,” I smiled to all of them. “I seriously can’t believe this.”

“Believe it,” Niall joked and I hit his shoulder cracking up.



After the dinner we ended up playing on Niall’s Xbox in the living room going way too crazy about a stupid game of Crash Bandicoot, but I don’t think there was one single time where there weren’t any of us laughing at some point.


I had such an amazing night that was only made even more perfect after several hours of soft and tender love making in the bed room, making Niall and I exhausted like hell the following morning, but it seemed as though nothing could possibly destroy my mood, not even an escapade of binges when I got home that afternoon.




Aida and Em were feeling the same way as we had the most concentrated rehearsal that evening, I guess we were all pretty determined that we would like to keep that kind of reputation that FACT magazine had been so amazing to create for us.


Friday afternoon after work I visited Nathalie for the first time at her small apartment in a dodgy neighborhood in East End to get some information about my babysitting the following day. Brady was the cutest little boy with blond hair and warm big eyes that would make even Joseph Stalin melt inside and I was now really looking forward to be taking care of him the following day.


It seemed like Nathalie was still having a lot of trouble leaving her son for that long time as she was getting ready for her date while I sat down on the floor in the tiny living room playing with Brady.

“Are you sure you will be all right?” she asked rubbing her hands against each other nervously.

“We will be just fine,” I smiled as comforting as I could up at her.

“Okay. If you like to you could take him out for a walk before his nap? There’s a playground nearby that he loves,” she suggested.

“Well…” I hesitated. “Are you sure you want me to do that? I mean, bring him out in public… with all the girls and hysteria, you know?”

“Oh that? Sure, I couldn’t care less. It wouldn’t make him unhappy in any way,” she immediately said.


At that second someone knocked on the door making Nathalie panic checking her reflection about 400 times in the mirror before she could bring herself to open for a nice looking man, Aidan.


“The diapers are…” she began while putting on her jacket but I finished her sentence.

“In the basket in the bathroom.”

“Yes and clean clothes…”

“In the drawer in his room.”

“My number is…”

“On the fridge, now will you please go and have some fun?” I said as I stood up to push her against the man waiting for her. “Hello, nice to meet you Aidan, I’m Maja. You two go have a good time.”


I closed the door behind them and went back to playing with Brady, who found it really exciting when I sang for him, Let it Be with The Beatles seemed to be his favorite song so far and he would sit there giggling and singing along to the chorus, which made the blood rush to my head and making me blush heavier than I’d ever done it before.

And so I did for about an hour, before Harry called me to tell me that he, Tom, Lou and Lux were on their way pick us up and go for a walk to the playground that Nathalie had told me about.
I was suddenly feeling a bit nervous about meeting these new people, they seemed so important to Harry so I couldn’t help but doubting whether they would like me or not.


Luckily I didn’t get much more time to think about ridiculous stuff like that since I saw them standing waiting down on the street only a few minutes later.

I put on some warm clothes on Brady and my own bordeaux colored jacket and a white scarf to keep out the late fall cold that had quickly increased through the past couple of weeks.


“Hello you!” Harry smiled once I managed to transport both myself, a stroller and a child down the stairs.

“Boy, I don’t really get the whole blessing-thing in having children yet,” I breathed as I almost dropped the heavy stroller on the ground before walking over and hug him. “And you are Lou and Tom. It’s so nice to meet you.”


I shook both of their hands using the one that I had left over from carrying Brady on my left arm, they were both laughing at my comment a few seconds earlier.

“Nice to meet you too,” Lou smiled at me before I kneeled down in front of the little girl holding Harry’s hand.

“Hello. What’s your name?” I said in a tone that suddenly reached a whole different and much lighter pitch as I brushed her other hand.

“Lux,” she mumbled shyly with the cutest voice ever.

“Hi Lux, I’m Maja. How old are you?” I asked.

“Four.” Her eyes were almost making me want to cry as they had a slightly naughty sparkle in them and as she stood there in her grunge-style clothing that looked very much like the ones her parents wore, and just being the most fashionable kid ever, her charm was more than I could bear.

“Four years, you’re a mighty big girl then! This is Brady, he’s two years old,” I said letting her touch his hand. “Want to go to the playground?”

She nodded standing close up against Harry’s leg.



As we walked I noticed a couple of big guys in black clothes walking near us, I guessed that they were bodyguards making sure that Harry and his friends wouldn’t get killed by hordes of screaming girls, especially now when there were several children involved.


The playground was only a few minutes of walking away, so I almost didn’t need the stroller that I was pushing around in. As soon as we got there he and Lux went out to play in a sandpit while the four of us sat down on a bench watching them. She was so cute trying to teach Brady how to build a castle, while he was just destroying everything she was making.

We just sat on the bench chuckling at their cute behavior and talking about different stuff, those two friends of Harry’s were truly some of the nicest people I’d ever met, I couldn’t help but think that they reminded me a bit of Em and Liam the way the acted as a couple and as people.



Unfortunately it didn’t take the paparazzi’s and fans more than a few minutes to recognize them and quickly there were cameras all over the places making the security guards’ job a lot more frustrating than normally, when most of them didn’t take no for an answer. They were constantly asking Harry whether he was dating Aida or me and I really did my very best not to act annoyed with any of them, even though I found it rather offensive to be saying anything like that.


About an hour later Lou and Tom decided that the hysteria was a bit too much for the kids to be walking around in and they followed me home back to the apartment, before going home to their own place to get some quiet as well.


“Say hello to Aida from us, we’re looking forward to see her again!” Tom said hugging me and Brady goodbye. They’d apparently met her a couple of times before and I honestly didn’t have any trouble imagining how she and Tom would get on so easily as they appeared to do.


While Brady was taking a nap half an hour later Niall arrived after having done his interview about all the terrible rumors about him and I and I was dying to know what had happened, so I almost didn’t even kiss him hello before asking a thousand questions and probably acting even more rude than some of those paparazzi’s that were spreading these rumors.


“Jeez, relax girl,” he smiled pulling me in for a tight hug. “I just told them the truth, just hoping that it will calm down some of it.”



I spent the rest of the day at Nathalie’s place looking after her son with Niall, who seemed incredibly excited about playing with Brady and to see him sit with a kid in his arms was making me go crazy for him, he looked so cute and hot at the same weird time. He was feeding him dinner making noises like an airplane which only made little Brady giggle almost as much as me.


I quickly took a glance at my phone when it was almost time for Nathalie to come home. I suddenly saw that Aida’s had been leaving endless messages on my answering machine and so I hurried dialing her number.


She picked up after a few calls shouting: “Maja, why the hell haven’t you picked up your phone, I’ve been calling you a hundred times!”

“I’m sorry, I had Brady. Is something wrong?” I asked worried by the rare shrill tone in her voice that I don’t think I’d ever heard before.

“Have you seen Em?” she breathed and I could tell that she was crying.

“No. No, I haven’t. Wait, what happened?!” I exclaimed starting to feel very anxious about this and Niall was now looking at me from the sofa with a concerned expression himself.

“Em is gone! We don’t know where she is!”

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