Izallouis’ View:
“So she doesn’t want to kill me??” I asked Justin happy it was working out for him.
“Nope.” He popped the P. “We talked about it and she actually wouldn’t mind coming to a rehearsal or dinner; something.” He sounded happy.
“I would love to but I have someone coming to live with Justin Number Two and I so I need to make sure everything in the house is around.” I smiled being able to say that.
“Oh, who is coming??” He didn’t know and I really didn’t care for anyone to know my grandmum was coming. It was a really cool secret but sooner or later he would come over and find out.
“My grandmum and grandpa.”
“Iz that’s great! I know how much you have been missing her.” He shared my excitement. After my break down with Jessica I have actually opened up awkwardly. I mean Jessica and I have gone shopping for the baby and decorated the room a bit as a surprise for Justin who is coming home in a week for an early vacation and to help my grandmum move in. This is a very eventful week for everyone. I'm going to audition for a reality entertainment TV show to help get my name out, and possibly win. I'm also turning 16 soon and going to start some driving so I can be even more independent. “Selena is here. I have to go. Rehearsal tonight still on??” He asked rushed.
“Yeah, see you there!” I hung up so he could do whatever he was going to with Selena.
“Izallouis! You home??” Jessica hollered through the house.
“Yeah!” I half yelled back. I quickly plugged my phone in to charge and headed down stairs. Jessica isn’t fat but the baby inside of her has added some noticeable weight. “Wow.” I said looking right at her stomach.
“Thanks.” She said sarcastically putting some bags on the counter. “Well the ultra sound went great. Everything is healthy and I'm eating right so everything is going on track. I stopped off and got some fast food for you. I didn’t know if you would be home but I thought just in case.” She slid one bag towards me. I peered inside to see my favourite meal from McDonalds. I dug in as she got some fruit from the refrigerator. We sat at the barstools and ate quietly. “So this baby is on the way, you are doing a competition, Justin is coming home for a week, and your grandmum is moving here so she can have a peace of mind??” Jessica laughed.
“Yeah. I have been trying to sort it all out myself.” I chuckled back a response.
“So what do you have going on??” She asked setting down her food indicating she wanted conversation.
“Rehearsal with Justin Number One tonight. Movie after I clean up with Mary and then sleep. Tomorrow I have to go to the park with Mary because our YouTube thing is a bit bigger than we thought; I will be there all day most likely. Then, what day am I on??” I asked realizing I don’t even know what today is.
“Today is Wednesday, so you're on Friday.”
“Thank you. Friday I'll probably be doing just about nothing. I want to surprise Lu with a visit but that depends on if I really want to.” I sighed and looked at her already feeling the end of the week draining me. I don’t know how I'm going to make it through the weekend.
“Tonight I'm going over to Ralph’s place. I think I'm going to stay the night there. Tomorrow I won't be home until late because Ralph and I are going a few hours out of town to visit his family probably will stay there. Friday I'll be home late afternoon and then I'm going to need sleep because Justin’s flight comes in Sunday.”
“Are we doing anything special for that??” I asked. We are under this strange agreement where we tell each other our plans and then we don’t interfere with them. JC and I used to do it but then he got too busy with things.
“I was going to pick up some cupcakes but other than that no.” She cleaned up her mess and I cleaned up mine. The conversation pretty much died then. She went off to her bedroom and I went off to mine. I looked at my phone and saw I had some twitter messages and regular texts as well. Twitter was another place my fame was growing. People were starting to ask for follows and RTs. I would do it because I have nothing to lose and they have everything to gain from it. After I did that they would tweet more and freak out more. Someone more people followed me and I just skimmed them. I saw a tweet in my mentions and read, “Follow @IzallouisRae she is a crazy dancer! XX” Someone verified tweeted it. I clicked on their name and scrolled their profile. He was hot. By his pictures he looked tall, was tan, and had curly hair, and gorgeous green eyes. @Harry_Styles was his name on twitter. I tweeted him back saying meaningless thank yous and just being awkwardly humble about it.
There wasn’t a response so I went to my texts. In my inbox from Justin Number One, that’s Bieber, asked if we could move rehearsal to a later time. I responded saying I didn’t care then as I waited went to my other message. Mary wanted to know if we were still on for our movie. I text her back and said rehearsal with Justin is getting pushed back so our movie is either not going to happen or going to have to be at one of our houses. She is a faster replier than Justin because he is always busy, I mean being Justin Bieber and all. She said one of our houses was fine because she already had a backup movie ready. I sent a smiley face asking which house. She replied with yours and a winky face. By this time Justin had responded and I was able to sort out a later rehearsal time with him. Everything was going to plan.
I had two hours before I needed to be ready for rehearsal with Justin so what better thing to do than dance. Most people would nap, it doesn’t sound bad, but I’d rather learn some dance steps. I got on YouTube and looked up some things I have been struggling with and started my practicing. Jessica knew I was a dancer because of what Justin has told her so she had a wall of mirrors put in my room whilst I was rehearsing with the other Justin. Dancing got boring after a whilst because I still couldn’t learn these stupid steps. It wasn’t a hard combination and it wasn’t fast either. I just couldn’t get something right. I called it a day with those steps and packed for rehearsal.
“I'm going to rehearsal!” I hollered to Jessica who could be or could not be home. I don’t know but I always yell because she said it's a good habit to let her or Justin know where I am.
“Ok.” Her voice vibrated from the kitchen. I walked to the studio without interruption. Recently I have had a few people ask for my signature or a picture, which is cool but disruptive. I like to get to places without much hassle, yet another reason I don’t know why I want to be famous. I opened the studio door and the front desk manager handed me an envelope with the room number and key to get in. I heard the music from down the hall as I started to creep on the rehearsal room. I opened it up and everyone stopped to look at me.
“Did I do something??” I tilted my head and dropped my bag.
“Is this her??” Someone I have never heard asked. Everybody parted and through the dancers emerged Justin with someone.
“Yeah.” Justin smiled almost apologetic at me.
“She is little.” The girl in front of me scoffed.
“Justin.” I said absolutely clueless as to why I was being scoffed at.
“Iz this is Selena.” He said wrapping an arm around her.
“Oh.” I let it trail. “Hi I'm Izallouis.” I extended my hand and she took it suspiciously.
“I'm Selena. So I hear you're quite the dancer.” She said it like she was judging me. I could tell she was and everyone was watching because it was really awkward the way she looked at me and talked down to me.
“Yeah, I may be tiny but I can dance.” I shrugged. She doesn’t know me and she doesn’t need to.
“Well let’s see it then.” She stepped back as to symbolize giving me the floor.
“Is everyone ready??” I asked looking at all the pairs of eyes already fixated on me.
“No, just you.” Selena said. I have seen her dance before and it was very pop but I'll give it to her it wasn’t terrible. I used to be a decent fan, used to.
“Selena is that really necessary??” Justin rested a hand on her shoulder.
“Why not?? If she is so good why doesn’t she dance alone??” She said giving me the floor. I took it and did a small little thing I have seen in one of her videos. I want to say its “Come And Get It” but I'm not entirely sure. She laughed and smiled recognizing it. “Not bad but you did it too slow.” She criticized. I sped it up and everyone kind of chuckled. She did it in front of me to show she was a better dancer.
“Selena do you really want to pick this fight??” Lu asked.
“She's really good.” I said softening up her hatred on me. She did an extra unnecessary move then looked at me with a smirk. I mirrored everything she did and some extra stuff myself. Once I was done I looked at her and smiled a genuine smile. We went back and forth dance battle style and after she was tired and I was warmed up we stopped. She looked at me and just pointed.
“I know when I have been beat and I own up to it. You're a great dancer.” She hugged me and everyone clapped giving us a hand.
“So are you two good??” Justin asked looking up from his phone.
“I think she is pretty cool.” Selena said taking water that was handed to her and opening it.
“I didn’t have a problem before.” I laughed.
“I'll sit down and let all of you rehearse.” Selena moved Justin and sat down in the chair he must have gotten when we were doing our little battle.
“Everybody pair up.” I said to the dancers ready to learn. “We are doing somebody to love.” I said and the music started. Almost everyone has the dance down it's just cleaning up and getting in sync. Some of the steps were touchy and I could tell Selena wasn’t happy that I was dancing on Justin but it was going to be Lu when they performed live and she is going to have to get used to it. I still have to work with Lu on it because she is far behind and no one knows why. She literally just dropped her dance skill from a ten to a seven and we need to keep pulling her up to speed and stopping for her. Justin noticed I wasn’t exactly focused and started to lose focus. He stepped on me and I fell and then he tripped right over me.
“What the hell was that??” I asked.
“Sorry I noticed you weren’t focused and I guess I lost mine.” He apologized.
“Do we need to go back over that??” I asked everyone. Everyone just shook their head indicating we could move on. “Let’s do –” as I pondered his song list Lu spoke up.
“Baby.” She yelled for everyone.
“Yeah.” I agreed. We ran through that without any problems. Took a break and then started “Somebody To Love” again. We got through that with Lu keeping up and Justin getting everything spot on. Cleaning up was going great. Soon it was nice and late so we all decided to call it a night. Selena and Justin left together. Jeff and Lu left together along with the rest of the group. Everyone had someone to go home with but I was going to walk alone, again. Usually if we had rehearsal sooner we would go to lunch or dinner if it's not too late but I guess since Justin got his princess back they need to go and feast at the castle. It was cooler outside as the wind blew lightly. I pulled out my phone and text Mary that the limo would pick her up; I then text our driver and her address. Since I told her about Justin and the dancing she has become a real friend. She doesn’t care about my upcoming fame and she doesn’t care about the fact I live with Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake. She has become a true friend. Someone I count on for small tasks, like helping me get famous.
“Watch out!” Someone yelled. I looked up in time to hit the person.
“I'm so sorry. I happen to do this a lot.”
“It's ok the sidewalks are always packed.” The green eyes looked at me. I broke the gaze he had with me and looked around to see just us.
“There is no one else here.” I practically whispered. He then looked around and then straight into my eyes.
“I guess not.” He smiled.
“You're that guy from twitter.” The realization hit me.
“Yeah I have one.” He said not hearing exactly what I said.
“You tweeted me, well you tweeted people to follow me.” I said.
“Izallouis??” He asked like he knew me personally.
“Yeah you're Harry!” I said sticking out my hand.
“You're a fan??” He asked taking it and instead of just shaking it he kissed it.
“Well, no.” He frowned. “I mean I know who you are but I'm not in love with you.” That sounded creepy. “I like your music.” I finished great.
“I get it. You don’t get star struck.” He chuckled.
“Yeah but tongue tied is another thing.” I said more to myself but he definitely heard.
“Hey, how about I walk you home since it's late, dark, and you have my jacket.” He said. I gave him a weird look.
“I don’t have your jacket.” I looked at myself. As I was looking for the jacket I knew I wouldn’t find I felt warmth and looked to see Harry putting his jacket on me. That was smooth.
“Let’s go.” He said. We started walking the way to the mansion. He followed me because he sure didn’t know where I was going. “I live around here in the suburbs. It's a yellow house, it's tiny for five guys but it's cozy.” Harry kept the conversation going.
“I'm new around here. I moved in with Justin after JC died.”
“Why after JC died??” He was being a little nosey but it was nice to talk to someone on my walk home.
“He was my dad.” I looked down.
“Oh, I'm sorry.” I hate it when people say that. It's not like they killed him.
“Where were you going??” I asked changing the subject abruptly.
“I was actually just clearing my head.” He chuckled. I saw a dimple poke out of his cheek and I quickly stuck my finger in it then pulled it away. He looked at me like I was a freak.
“I'm sorry.” I said fast.
“Why did you poke my cheek??”
“It's a game I liked to do when my dad smiled. I guess it's an awkward habit now.” I said blushing hardcore. I felt so hot I wanted to give him his jacket back but we were about halfway to my house and I didn’t want to have a conversation on why I didn’t want it.
“It tickled.” He laughed awkwardly.
“Ok then.” Silence. We continued to walk without speaking. He cleared his throat getting ready to speak.
“Could I have your number??” He asked the quietest he has been all night.
“Yeah.” I handed him my phone and I took his. We exchanged
numbers and started to near the gate. “Well this is it.” I said.
“What kind of gentleman would I be if I didn’t walk you to the door??” He smiled at me.
“I guess, but I'm warning you my friend is here and she nearly tackled Bieber when she saw him so just brace yourself.” I said handing him his jacket back.
“Keep it. It looks good on you.” He said holding up his hands indicating he wouldn’t take it back.
“Thanks but I don’t really need paps assuming we are together too.” I took it off and handed it to him.
“Hey I totally get it.” He was being really nice. We made it up the driveway and I noticed the limo was back.
“She's here so I think its best I continue on alone.” I whispered just because I didn’t want her to hear me.
“Hey it's cool. Text me whenever. I wouldn’t mind clearing my head with you again.” That was weird. I barely knew him and he was being creepily nice and wanting to hang out. Something almost compelled me to want to know him though. He was definitely a charmer.
“Is that Justin out there??” Mary yelled from the door.
“No!” I quickly yelled back. I didn’t say anything to Harry. I just gave him a look and walked fast to the door that was opening. Before Mary could poke her head out I shoved her back in and slammed it shut.
“Hey! Slow down!” She said catching her balance.
“Sorry. It was cold out there.” I said pretending to shiver.
“I brought the movie, hope you don’t mind. It just came out on DVD so I thought why not. Also the popcorn has been made.” She took my bag and threw it on the table by the stairs.
“I don’t care what we watch. I'm just glad to be home.” I smiled.
“So you smell funny. The movie can wait for you to shower.” She plugged her nose and sounded nasally.
“Hey, I work up a nice sweat when I do my thing.” I joked walking up the stairs. Gosh, I hope Harry didn’t smell me.
“I'll be down here.” Mary smiled and point to the direction she walked. I pulled a dude shower so I could be done faster. I ran downstairs in my pajamas and flew over the back of the couch.
“Hey! Watch where you land!” Mary yelled holding up a bowl of popcorn trying to save it.
“Sorry I was coming in hot.” We both laughed and as I settled down she pressed play. We were sharing a blanket because we do that sort of thing as friends. I'll be completely honest, I didn’t know a lot about how friends acted because I never had any. Having Mary is something new to me and she must know because she always lets me decide what happens. It's almost like we are in a real relationship only she has hit it off with Ryan very well, or so I'm told. Justin tells me what Ryan tells him and apparently the two have gone on some dates here and there. Mary has yet to tell me but I think she doesn’t want to because she thinks I will judge her.
“We are watching This Is Us featuring the hottest British boy band of our generation!” Mary said in an announcer voice.
“Can't wait!” I tried to share her excitement.
“I think you'll like Liam he likes to dance around. They all do but he actually looks the best.” She said. Hey they dance, I'm in.
“You'll have to point him –” I stopped talking. The movie had officially started and I saw two people I didn’t expect to see, Harry Styles and that guy with the blonde hair and blue eyes.
“That’s him.” She pointed to the screen when a taller buff guy was on it. He had scruff and tattoos. They all seemed to have tattoos but the blonde. His name was Niall, Niall Horan.
“How do you even say that??” I whispered.
“Ni-all. He's the Irish one. The only Irish one.” Well the accent fit the profile as well. I didn’t speak the whole movie, I just watched it contently. Mary on the other hand was crying, screaming, and even singing along to some of the songs. I got a nice kick out of it.
“Mary??” I asked.
“Yeah.” She looked at me.
“I'm glad I met you.” I said. She seemed to be a bit taken aback but then smiled.
“I'm glad you're glad.” She said awkwardly. We laughed and continued to watch the movie. Seeing how late it was, us falling asleep on each other wasn’t a surprise.

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