After Niall left I stay at the door to our apartment. I can't help staring at the door he just walked through, still feeling his arms around me.
Anne sneaks out of the kitchen. "Is he gone?"
"Yes, but he invited us to come to Jimmy Fallon tonight and go clubbing afterwards." I say tonelessly still facing the door. I haven't processed it yet.
One second of silence. Then Anne starts screaming, I turn around and take her hands screaming with her while jumping up and down.
Max comes bursting out of his room "What the fuck?!" he yells at us.
"OMG Max, don't you realise what just happened?" Anne squeals bouncing towards him
"No" He is clearly irritated.
"I didn't tell him who the clothes were for." I explain to Anne.
She gives him a short review on the events with a huge grin.
"Specify who's going to Jimmy Fallon and 'the clubs'" Max demands waryly.
"Anne, you, me and One Direction!" I list giggling, jumping around with Anne again.
"Okay, okay. But only if you fucking calm down now."
"Oh, we are 100% calm" I state "We have serious business to attend!"
"And what would that be?" he wonders skeptically
"Getting ready" I inform him, already walking towards my room.
"And planning her wedding with Niall" Anne shrieks, running after me.

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It has taken us hours to choose the perfect outfits, hair, accessories, makeup and whatever else we could think of. We also discussed and analysed every little detail that had happened between Niall and me while picking out.

Sophie's look
Anne's look

When we step out of the bathroom at a quarter past 11 Max is astonished.
"Wow, you both look... wow! And you even got ready on time, I can't believe it!"
"You think we look appropriate? Not cheap but sexy, suitable for a late night show and clubbing?" I ask panicky
"Yes, definitely. You look perfect, don't worry! Now can we please leave and grab some food on our way?"

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"AAAHHH, we're here!" Anne whisper-screams into my ear.
"Ok, take a deep breath and try to bury all of your excitement. We are not like these girls out there." I call her to order, pointing at a bunch of screaming girls on the street.
"Some of them look like 10, what kind of fucked up parents let their kids out on the streets of New York City at night?"
"Oh, I'm sure the parents are around here somewhere Max." Anne says absentmidedly
He mumbles something, but I can't hear him because I opened the cab door.
"Ready? Let's go!" I step towards the entrance, with Anne holding my hand and Max close behind us. Somehow we manage to approach a security guard and I ask him whether this is the place to go when you're on the guest list. He looks all of us up and down and shuffles through the crowd guiding us to another security person.
"Hey Nick! They say they're on the guest list."
"Names?" Nick grunts
"Anne Bishop, Max Glock, Sophie Klett"
"You really are on the list." he ascertains and opens a heavy door for us. I'm asking myself how many people already tried to sneak in tonight. Judging from the amount of girls shouting pointed remarks as we get in probably a lot. These men must be having a hard time, so I politely thank them and smile. No need to be mean to them when they are already stressed out and will most likely need a hearing aid tomorrow.
Inside they check our IDs, gauge us cursorily and take a look into Anne's and my bags. Maybe I would have been indignant if something like that happened to me at home, but this is the USA better don't protest if you don't want to arouse suspicion even if you see your privacy invaded. And there are persons here tonight who could be targets to some sort of psychopath.
We are guided down a hallway and receive VIP passes, uuuhhhh. Finally we reach the backstage area. There is a large buffet and people running around hectically, others stand together in little groups.
"And now?" Anne is insecure
"I don't know" I admit
"Do you see anyone we could talk to? Or will we just stay here?"
"I don't know... Well at least we're not alone, so we could just... Check everything out first?" I seriously don't have a better idea, I'm daunted.
"Great, you dragged us here and now we feel stupid and redundant" Max acts gloomy for a second, but lights up immediately, encouraging us: "Girls, we are not any different from these other people. And as you, dear Sophie pointed out, we three are together so let's just mingle"
He steps towards a girl about our age, she's texting.
the girl
"Hi, I'm Max. These are my friends Anne and Sophie." He introduces us with a polite smile.
"Good for you that you have friends, but I do too. Gotta go, sorry" She stretches the y and doesn't sound sorry at all. I'm trying not to judge by first impressions but I don't like her. Anne gives her the finger as the girl walks off "Bitch!" she mumbles. Anne doesn't have a problem with judging people.
"Show starts in 5" someone shouts. The people start to exit through one door, so we follow them.
"This is gonna be a great night - maybe the night of our lives!" Anne grabs our hands excitedly.
"So much to realistic expectations" Max chuckles "But I suppose we'll have fun..."

Notes

Help, I think I just got addicted to polyvore! It's like dressing up dolls but with more choices :D
I'm so sad that you can't pick out boys' outfits though :( or can you? please let me know if you can and I'll spend the rest of my life on this website! And insert what Max and our boys are wearing ;)

Sorry for the filler chapter, I know there's nothing really exciting happening here and none of the boys are in it. What am I even doing? (creating outfits on polyvore obviously)
But it was Lindsay's first appearance, she's going to be an awful bitch, making Sophie's life a lot harder.
And, this time it's more of a cliffhanger-like ending, hope you like that ;)

I discovered that I have subscribers - oh my god WHAT? I love you
This means I will upload as often as I can, I don't want to leave you hanging
xoxo