Another World

The group had decided before they left that they would meet in Carrie’s room like they had done the day previous when they first met Harry and Liam. That’s exactly why Des and Cassandra are entering “Mom’s” apartment. The story behind Carrie being called “Mom” is actually a simple and short one. When the tall blonde was in middle school, she was the oldest out of all of her friends, so they started to call her “Mom”. It actually fit her perfectly since she has always been more mature than everyone. Hell, she’s even more mature than her sister, Des. Through the years of middle school and high school, the name stuck. Of course, she has always been ok with it anyway. Besides, Des still calls her “Care”. The only time “Mom” falls off her sister’s or Victoria’s mouth is when the nineteen-year-old yells at them for doing something stupid which happens a lot more for the oldest than you would think.
The two brunettes open the light brown door and enter the apartment. Inside is Carrie, Brandon, and Stella. They get off work the same time as Des and Cassandra, but the grocery store is closer. The ginger is sitting on the loveseat on his phone, and Carrie is talking to Stella about work. Des goes right over to her sister while the other brunette goes over to the couch and also gets out her phone.
“Hey Care, how was work?” the short girl asks her sister.
Carrie shrugs. “It was ok. It wasn’t really all that busy. I just stocked shelves with this guy named Zayn while Stella and Brandon worked at the two cash registers that aren’t self check-out.”
“Wait, did you say ‘Zayn’? I wonder if he’s the same guy that Niall was telling me about. That blond guy at The Hangout is friends with Harry and Liam and some guys named Zayn and Louis. Oh, and we actually work with Liam. He didn’t really say much. Cassandra just helped with whatever he was doing.”
“I wonder how Victoria and Diana’s day went.” Just after the words left her mouth, the door opens. “Speak of the devil.”
Victoria and Diana walk in with the strawberry blonde in front. Victoria slams the door behind her. This causes Cassandra and Brandon to jump a little, more so for the brunette. Victoria, being the nice friend that she is, mumbled an apology to her on the way over to the sisters alongside Diana.
“Damn,” Des says since it’s the first thing that came to mind. “I assume you had a shitty day.”
“What happened?” Carrie questions.
“He works there!” Victoria exclaims.
“Who?”
“Harry fucking Styles! It was terrible! He would not leave us alone, and he kept telling us these stupid knock-knock jokes!”
“Oh.” Des looks away from them.
“Why ‘oh’?” Stella asks.
“Well, Niall kind of invited us to hang out with his friends. Harry and Liam are two of them, and I told him yeah.”
“What?!” Victoria shouts. “Why would you do that?! Did you know? I swear, if you did-”
“Yes, I knew, but I couldn’t say no to him!”
“Why the fuck not?”
Des, who had started looking at Victoria, turns her head to the side and mumbles, “Because Niall...”
Victoria raises her eyebrow. “Wait, is Niall the cute blond?” Des nods. “Oh, well, we can all go then. You should have just told me that he was the cute blond guy.”
“You didn’t give me a chance!”
“Sorry about that. I’m just... you know from work.”
“It’s ok.”
“So, when are we going?”
“Do you want me to see if he asked yet?”
“Wait, he gave you his number? He so likes you!” Diana claps. “OMG! You guys are going to go out, and get married, and have cute little kids-”
“Get ahold of yourself, Diana. It’s just his phone number to see when we’re going to hang.”
“But couldn’t he just tell you tomorrow?” Stella questions.
“Um, well, I guess he could, but that still doesn’t mean anything.”
Stella puts her hand on Des’s shoulder. “I think it does. I’ve had shy girls do that to me.”
“Yeah, but those were girls.”
“Still.”
“Well, I don’t think he does.” She looks down at her now blinking phone. “I better check this before it blinks 182 times.”
“You and your music references,” Carrie says while shaking her head. Des chuckles before looking at the text.

Niall:I talked to the guys, and they all said they’d hang.

Des:It figures that this world doesn’t abbreviate anything, and that’s awesome.

“What did he say?” Diana asks with a huge smile on her face.
“He said that they’d all go. I assume we’re all going to go?”
“Actually,” Brandon says, “I’m going to stay here. When I was checking people out today, I started talking to some guy who has a ton of wood he bought but doesn’t need. I mentioned that I could use it to make some bodies of instruments, and this guy our age said he had a bunch of stuff I could have and use if I made him a guitar and taught him how to play. They don’t have music here, but he heard it from our dimension and wants to learn to play. I’m going to use most of my free time to make some guitars and a bass for you, Des.”
“That’s fucking badass. OK, so we’re all going but Brandon. Correct? OK, I’m going to text him that.” She looks at her phone and sees that he texted back.

Niall:If you’re talking about LOL and TTYL, those are slowly getting popular. We normally don’t use them I’m a fast texter, so I write out all the words.

Des:I prefer to do that. Oh, and my friends are going to come but my friend Brandon. There are six of us including me.

Niall:OK. We decided that we were going to hang at Louis’s place. His apartment is the biggest.

Des:KK. Oh, and just make sure that you give me the address beforehand.

Niall:Well, Harry and I are going to his on Friday to hang out. You can come. Oh, and we plan on hanging next Saturday at six.

Des:I’ll come hang with you. I don’t think anyone else will come because of Harry. He annoyed the hell out of Victoria and Diana at work with his knock-knock jokes.

Niall:He told me about that. He saw that they were annoyed, so he kept doing that. He’s really cool when you get to know him.

Des:Anyway, Diana is looking over my shoulder right now, so I’m going to have to pay attention to everyone again.

Niall:OK. You can walk with me to Louis’s place this Friday.

Des:Oh, and what day is it? They didn’t tell us when we got here.

Niall: It’s Monday.

Des:KK. Well, TTYL.

Niall:TTYL.

“Is it fun to see what I’m saying?” Des questions Diana.
“Yes.”
“Well, since you know, I’ll tell everyone. We’re going to hang next Saturday at six. Friday I’m going with Niall to hang with Harry and Louis.”
“You guys are so going to kiss,” Diana smiles.
“Whatever.”
The short brunette knows that there won’t be any kissing, They’re just friends and nothing more. Des wishes the blond and her could be more, but she knows that that won’t happen. They’re just friends.

Notes

I was going to put this up sooner, but I wanted to change the cover on mibba and wattpad, and I just come up with the cover yesterday. I also ended up changing a bit in the timeline for this story as well. I'm going to put chapter 4 up now.