Niall and I texted back and forth all week, we had gotten very close. I had also gotten the numbers of Liam, Harry and the rest of the group. I felt like I was finally fitting in to some degree. I had really clicked with Liam, I could tell that we were also going to be good friends. No one could compare to the friendship that Hollie and I shared, even though we only met each other I felt as if we had been friends for an eternity.

With the winter season sports drawing to a close, the spring ones were beginning at the end of March. I had been practicing a lot but I hoped that it was enough to make the team. Louis told me that he had been on the Varsity soccer team since his first year of secondary schooling. We had set up a little practice game in my back yard with Hollie and his friend Tex.

“Okay, do you know what to do?” I ask Hollie, she was tough so I hoped she wouldn’t be afraid of the ball hitting her. She just nodded and stood in front of the goalie next, mentally practicing her next move. Louis’ net was guarded by Tex who was indeed another member of the soccer team so getting the ball past him would be hard.

“Don’t cry when you lose.” Louis teased and set the ball in the middle of the playing field. I stuck my tongue out at him and took my place in front of the ball. I waited for the game to begin, as soon as it had started i kicked the ball away from Louis and started to run towards his goal. Unfortunately he wasn’t going to give up that easily, he blocked me with his towering body giving me no hope at advancement. Thinking fast I slipped the ball through an opening in his legs and bolted around him to kick it.
Tex knew what was going on so he stiffened and glued his eyes to the ball. He was hunched overs I sent the ball flying over his head and into the goal. Louis and tex seemed to stare at me in awe as I smirked and turned toward my side of the field.

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We were halfway through the game when we were interrupted, the score was three to two. Louis had just scored, again, and he was very chipper about it. A group of kids wandered into my yard, I recognized them as pretty much everyone in the group. Harry, Liam, Niall, Perrie, Zayn, Jodi, even Cori showed up. They claimed to be giving us an audience.

“Who’s winning?” Niall asked while sitting next to Liam on a bench next to the fire pit.

“We are!!” Louis exclaimed happily, little did he know that we were still in the middle of the game and no one ordered a formal stop. I kicked the ball into the net with a swoosh.

“Now we’re tied.” I grinned and hive-fived Hollie who was actually a better goalie than I had anticipated. Louis and Tex stood flabbergasted while I stared at them with a smug look on my face. “You get to start with it.”

A couple of rounds later the girls came out victorious, we squealed and hugged each other happily before we were tackled by Louis and Tex. “Admit that we won or you’re going to get tickled.” Louis goofily sneered from his perch on top of me. I shook my head, Hollie did the same. I watched as Louis mouthed the words, one, two, three, and then the tickling commenced. I was very ticklish and my failed attempts of squirming under Louis did nothing.

“Niall, save me!!!” I screamed, hoping that he would come to the rescue. he ams running and tackled Louis to the ground but I was still stuck under them. Soon, Liam tackled Tex and Harry jumped on top. Hollie and I were stuck on the bottom. Perfect.

Eventually they got off leaving the two girls exhausted on the grass, wheezing for air. Being he polite gentlemen they were, they stood near us laughing. Liam gave in and helped Hollie up, Niall did the same for me. He pulled me in for a victory hug.

“I was trying to save you, I swear!” He whined but put me down. I smiled up at him before leaving to talk to the girls. I had become pretty close friends with Jodi and Perrie, they were just nothing like me.

“You girls did fantastic!” Perrie praised us while Jodi nodded in agreement. i noticed that Corinne was missing, when I turned around I saw her throwing herself at Harry who wasn’t giving her any attention, he had his eyes set on… me?

I talked to Hollie, Jodi, and Perrie about your typical girl stuff, lip gloss, Zac Efron. We were all giggling about his abs and his extreme good looks, We decided to plan a movie theater trip to go see his new movie. Our babbling was interrupted by Niall who waltzed up and threw an arm over my shoulder.

“OH MY GOSH, Isn’t Zac Efron just too cute. I like, can’t even.” He mocked us with a girly voice and false excitement.

“Shut up Niall, you’re jealous that you don’t look like him.” Perrie retorted, earning a pouty face from Niall.

“I don’t know he has the quiff going, it’s just the wrong color.” I laughed and swooshed my hand over the flip on his hair. He also had a toned body to match Zac’s but I wasn’t going to mention that. From the corner of my eye I saw Harry, he looked angry as he glared at us, he quickly turned away when I caught him staring.

Zayn approached perrie from behind, “I have a quiff too, babe.” He said while resting his chin on her shoulder. She beamed up at him and agreed.

It was getting late and I had a massive amount of AP homework to do. I said my goodbyes to everyone but Hollie, she was going to do her homework at my house. I hugged Perrie and Jodi and told them that we should plan to see the movie. Niall gave me a giant bear hug before leaving. I couldn’t find Harry or Cori for that matter, I decided to not think of it before heading inside with Hollie. I grabbed a bag of Lay’s potato chips and went to my room with Holllie right behind me.

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“Courir sur le haricot?” I said while skimming through the AP French textbook, we were having a quiz on common french sayings.

“Easy, to annoy someone!” Hollie shoved a mouthful of chips into her mouth. “Now forget french we’ve been studying for over an hour. What is up with you and Harry?”

I closed my textbook and stuck back into my backpack. I honestly had no clue, he would always stare at me, angrily from a distance even if I didn’t do anything wrong.

“I don’t know, I think he hates me. I sighed while popping a crisp chip into my mouth.

“Nah, i think he likes you and he’s jealous that you pay more attention to the other boys.” Hollie said while thinking. “Harry, he doesn’t really have crushes. He just sees a pretty face and not a personality, ya know?”

“So he’s a womanizer?” I asked while furrowing my eyebrows.

“And a man-whore,” Hollie laughed to herself before pulling out another binder from her backpack. I sighed and walked over to my window seat to sit and work on my AP History homework even though it wasn’t due for a week. As I was trying to get some work done thoughts rushed in my head. Why would Harry be jealous of Nial or Liam. We were just friends, right? I shook my head and glanced out my window to stare outside but I saw something else that wasn’t my business to see.

“Yeah, Harry really likes me.” I mumbled to Hollie who poked her head up from a textbook. She walked over to me and I showed her where to look. It was Harry and some girl forcefully making out against a wall. It wasn’t just some girl, when she got off the wall and onto the bed I could clearly tell who it was, Corinne.

Notes

I know, its a bit short but some stuff got answered!! Haha I promise to update later today! Thanks for reading!! I really appreciate it!! <3

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