Unexpected
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
How can one person be so beautiful? The way his hair falls perfectly in place, his eyes shining bright like emeralds, his smile bringing laughter and happiness with it. His lips, so full and ready to be kissed, beckon to me each time I see them.
“Hey, Chloe? Are you okay? We need to get these up so we can eat, I’m starving!” Tess waved her manicured hand in front of my face.
“Yeah, I’m fine, just thinking. We only have a few more to go, then I’ll ask mom what’s for dinner.” I hung up the poster that I was holding of Harry on my wall above my bed. Tess, my best friend since first grade, was helping me put up the poster we’d gotten a few hours ago.
“Do you think Zayn and I would make a cute couple?” Tess shot me a hopeful smile and help up a Zayn poster next to her face. I laughed a little at the funny face she made and nodded.
We finished hanging the posters on my wall and Tess went to find my mom to ask what she was making for dinner. I pulled my laptop out from under my bed (I keep it there so Tess doesn’t steal it all the time) and logged onto my email account. Scrolling through the contents, I mostly came upon junk mail. There was an email from a girl I met at camp last summer but our conversation was dwindling so I decided to leave it for another day.
I was about to sign out and head to the kitchen to see what was taking Tess so long with the dinner report but one email in particular caught my eye. In the subject line were the words: CONGRATULATIONS, CONTEST WINNER! Although these emails are usually spam, I had a funny feeling about this one. I clicked on it and began reading:
Dear Chloe Douglas,
You have been randomly chosen to attend a concert and meet the boys of One Direction! In just a few short weeks you will be attending a concert – VIP of course! – and staying in a 5 star hotel, all expenses paid. Click the link below to read the full details of your prize.
I wasn’t quite sure if this was a fake email so I clicked the link below the congratulatory paragraph and waited for it to load. When the website came up, I recognized it immediately. A few weeks ago, while Tess was staying over, she had convinced me to enter a contest on one of the websites she saw while doing her usual internet browsing. I protested at first but after a lot of nagging and a few cupcakes I entered. I forgot all about it until just now.
I looked around the website for a few minutes before I saw something amazing. At the top of the homepage was a banner. I’m used to seeing ads across the tops of websites but never my name. The banner read: Congratulations, Chloe Douglas! I clicked on the banner and there was my contest entry. Somehow I had been chosen at random out of thousands of girls to be the winner of the contest.
Many girls had commented on the entry and congratulated me, some sent a little hate because they had lost, some asked for pictures when I meet the boys. I was speechless.
I read through all of the conditions and when the contest was, how I would get to the venue, where we would be staying, everything. It was all legit. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
I was going to meet One Direction.
How can one person be so beautiful? The way his hair falls perfectly in place, his eyes shining bright like emeralds, his smile bringing laughter and happiness with it. His lips, so full and ready to be kissed, beckon to me each time I see them.
“Hey, Chloe? Are you okay? We need to get these up so we can eat, I’m starving!” Tess waved her manicured hand in front of my face.
“Yeah, I’m fine, just thinking. We only have a few more to go, then I’ll ask mom what’s for dinner.” I hung up the poster that I was holding of Harry on my wall above my bed. Tess, my best friend since first grade, was helping me put up the poster we’d gotten a few hours ago.
“Do you think Zayn and I would make a cute couple?” Tess shot me a hopeful smile and help up a Zayn poster next to her face. I laughed a little at the funny face she made and nodded.
We finished hanging the posters on my wall and Tess went to find my mom to ask what she was making for dinner. I pulled my laptop out from under my bed (I keep it there so Tess doesn’t steal it all the time) and logged onto my email account. Scrolling through the contents, I mostly came upon junk mail. There was an email from a girl I met at camp last summer but our conversation was dwindling so I decided to leave it for another day.
I was about to sign out and head to the kitchen to see what was taking Tess so long with the dinner report but one email in particular caught my eye. In the subject line were the words: CONGRATULATIONS, CONTEST WINNER! Although these emails are usually spam, I had a funny feeling about this one. I clicked on it and began reading:
Dear Chloe Douglas,
You have been randomly chosen to attend a concert and meet the boys of One Direction! In just a few short weeks you will be attending a concert – VIP of course! – and staying in a 5 star hotel, all expenses paid. Click the link below to read the full details of your prize.
I wasn’t quite sure if this was a fake email so I clicked the link below the congratulatory paragraph and waited for it to load. When the website came up, I recognized it immediately. A few weeks ago, while Tess was staying over, she had convinced me to enter a contest on one of the websites she saw while doing her usual internet browsing. I protested at first but after a lot of nagging and a few cupcakes I entered. I forgot all about it until just now.
I looked around the website for a few minutes before I saw something amazing. At the top of the homepage was a banner. I’m used to seeing ads across the tops of websites but never my name. The banner read: Congratulations, Chloe Douglas! I clicked on the banner and there was my contest entry. Somehow I had been chosen at random out of thousands of girls to be the winner of the contest.
Many girls had commented on the entry and congratulated me, some sent a little hate because they had lost, some asked for pictures when I meet the boys. I was speechless.
I read through all of the conditions and when the contest was, how I would get to the venue, where we would be staying, everything. It was all legit. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
I was going to meet One Direction.
Notes
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6/16/13