Streets of New York

How did I not put the pieces together? The amount of fucking clues I have received and I still didn't notice.

One Direction.
One Direction.
One fucking Direction.

The biggest boy band in the world. Worldwide superstars.

I don't know wether this is a good thing or a bad thing. To be perfectly honest there is a tiny, tiny percentage of me that is thrilled by the thought of spending time with such a global success. The thought that I spent an entire night with One Direction. Wow.

I need to stop being so ecstatic about this though, I didn't even know who they were the other week. The amount of their fans who would skin me alive for this, hanging out with One Direction without even realising it was them. I have never listened to their music either. Wow as far as I know, their fans would be mortified by my lack of knowledge.

It's weird though, I would have thought that my first encounter with someone famous would be the complete opposite of what actually happened. They were honestly the five nicest lads I have ever met, I would have expected them to be stuck up and in love with themselves. Not specifically them, but any celebrity really. I always had this particular image in my head on how famous people would act and that they would treat people like me or even regular citizens like they were worthless. But in reality, they were the complete opposite, all five of them.

I shouldn't be too happy about this anyway. Well I'm not happy, more overwhelmed. Yes, that is a perfect description of my current emotion right now. Overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the thought of being in their presence. Overwhelmed by spending all night with them, talking about a load of shit. Overwhelmed by the fact that one of them received a punch because of me. Overwhelmed that two of them tried to help me.

And that brings me back to the harsh truth of reality. They tried to help me. Why is that a bad thing might you ask? Well who were they helping me from? Yes, Jace. They were trying to help me from Jace but in reality they made matters worse. I hope for the sake of all five of the boys and their careers that Jace hasn't realised who they actually are. Because if he has then it won't end well. Fact.

That might be a good thing to keep my distance from all five of the boys anyway. It's sad but what's the chances of me seeing them again anyway? This is my mess and the last thing I want is for them to get involved. There's got to be some way of sorting out my excuse of a life without reeling in others, especially global superstars.

And that reminds me..

Jace.

I haven't seen him since the night of Big Joe's and frankly, I am becoming more and more petrified. It's been weeks since that night and I still haven't seen him. Where is he? I know for a fact that Zayn hasn't scared him away. I know Jace won't let this drop. And I know Jace won't leave me alone. I have already thought that Jace had forgotten about me before but that won't happen again, I'm not as naive as I used to be.

*****

It's been a few days since I met Angie and we have already become quite close. I have visited the shelter everyday since then just for a catchup or we have even had a coffee in Starbucks (well Angie ordered the coffee while I sat there). I don't know how she has money, I haven't asked. Her parents could have gave her it or she could be working? Who knows because I certainly don't. I don't even know if she has mended her relationship with her parents or not, I haven't asked her about that either. We might be considered close now but she doesn't ask about my business and I don't ask her about hers. Simple.

After walking back from another one of mine and Angie's famous Starbucks meeting, I headed to the local park and sat down on one of the benches.

From a distance I could see the other homeless men and women sitting under the bridge. I was familiar with this but there was a couple handing out food to every single one of them. That wasn't the strange part though, there have been many men and women who give food to the homeless loads of times. The weird thing about it all was that to the right there were a group of people watching and taking pictures? Absolutely mind-boggled by the whole situation, I decided to walk towards them to take a closer look at what was going on.

As i was gradually getting closer I was becoming more curious. What was going on? I just couldn't get my head around i-

"Ow." I shouted as I fell on my arse.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry! Wait..is that Katie?"

No. Oh my fucking god. NO. Why was he here? He was meant to be in England. No just no. Why? Why does this have to happen?

"It's me, Harry. Remember, from the night were I received a punch. Fat Sue. That place what's it called..erm.. Joe's Diner..I mean Big Joe's. Yeah that's the one."

He was rambling how cute.

After realising that I was still sitting on my arse, I finally replied. "Yeah, I remember you."

"Oh my god, sorry." He said before placing his large hand infront of me to help me get up off the floor.

"It's fine." I said whilst wiping the remains of the grass off my pants.

"I really am sorry, I didn't mean to knock you over." Harry said whilst scratching his neck awkwardly.

"No honestly it's fine, why were you in such a rush anyway?"

"I was just trying to have a break from all that nonsense."

"I was just about the check that out, what is going on?"

"I don't even know to be perfectly honest. I hate it."

"Hate what?" I asked confused.

"Oh wait, don't get me wrong I love feeding the homeless and that but what's with the paps? It's fucked up. Management are fucked up."

"Your management set all of that up?" I asked confused whilst pointing at the chaos over by the bridge. The girl was still handing out food and looked far too over dressed. I didn't even know her and I know for a fact she only had eyes for the paparazzi. And that was from a distance, too. "Oh and I know your in that boy band by the way." I added, half laughing.

"Yeah it's confusing and you do? When we met you seemed completely oblivious to who we were. I liked that though, so did the boys." He said whilst smiling, his dimple popping out in his cheek.

"Oh I was at first."

"Well anyway how have you be-"

"Harry! What are you doing?" Shouted the girl who Harry was with before, as she jogged towards us.

"Oh..who's this?" She added whilst forcing this embarrassing plastic smile on her face.

"This is Katie. Katie this is Kendall."

"Hi." I said.

Kendall was pretty I'd give you that, she had long dark hair and rich brown eyes. She was also tall with an amazing figure. I didn't like her though. And with me, first impressions have a big impact on my opinion on someone and so far, I didn't think to much of the girl.

"Well it was nice meeting you but Haz and I really need to go. Helping the community and stuff, omg it's exhausting but I love it. What can I say." She said whilst adding a false laugh on top of that fake smile of hers.

What was I saying?! I despised the girl already and I hadn't even had a five minute conversation with her. Urgh what a bitch.

"Can you just give me and Katie a minute please." Asked Harry.

"But look at all the unfortunate over there. And the paps are gonna realise that we have gone."
Wow this girl is really beginning to test my patience, I was literally a second away from slapping her sence less.

"Please. I'm sure you can last five minutes without me." Said Harry, obviously just annoyed as I was.

After rolling her eyeballs she walked about ten metres away and mouthed "I'll just wait here."

"Wow she's a handful."

Harry laughed at my bitchy comment.

"Well anyway, me and the boys have a charity concert and I would like it if you came. They would love to see you again."

"Yeah that would he great!"

"Here let me give you my number and I'll text you the details." He said before pulling out a pen from his coat pocked and writing the digits on my hand.

"Carrying a pen round with you, smooth."

"What can I say?" He said whilst laughing and jogging towards Kendall. "Bye." He shouted.

Notes

So I have finally updated. Sorry about the wait! I know I said I was going to update earlier but I've had quite a busy week and whenever I had the chance to write my mind just wasn't set to it, sorry.

I'm also sorry if anyone gets offended about how I have set Kendall's character out but we need someone in the story like this,right?

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Thank you, Lily xx