City of Blinding Lights

I look up at the stage and there I see him, Neil. How could I be so stupid? How could I not remember him? You think I would since they are basically everything Clover can talk about. But hey there are a million other girls in the arena tonight maybe he won’t even notice me.
The boys all walk to the middle of the stage and introduce themselves. I don’t think any of the girls here really needed that introduction except for me but it really came in handy.
The first one to introduce him was a an average hight guy with curly hair and green eyes ( yes, I could see their eyes. Perks of being in the front row, bitch). He said his name was Harry.
Next was Liam. He had brown hair that he kind of did in an up-way and brown eyes.
After Liam came Louis. Louis also had brown hair like the other two guys but he had this kind of blue-green-ish eyes that really looked like they liked both colours equally and couldn’t quite choose one.
And last was the irish, blond haired, blue eyed lad named Neil. No, I’m sorry it turns out that his name was Niall, all this time ( and yes it is written that way. He spelled it for us ). How stupid could one person be? Being kind of smitten about this guy and not even getting his name right? Well apparently this girl is.
They started singing and they sounded okay. I never said they sucked. I just said that I didn’t particularly like them. But they actually did have a couple of okay songs that I ended up dancing to.
“So we were wondering if any of you would like to join us up one the stage for this song?” The crowd went crazy when Harry asked. I mean who wouldn’t? I have loved singing since I was in elementary school and I have always wanted to sing on a big stage, yes. But in front of a million hormonal teenagers ( mostly girls ) no way in hell.
All the boys came to the crowd and started pointing at random girls. I put my hands together and silently prayed not to get picked.
But as my luck would have it, I felt my hand being taken by Liam or Louis ( hey, it’s the first time I’m meeting them. Give me a break ) and he helps me up on the stage.
“Hey what’s your name?” He holds over his mic while he asks me. I try to keep my voice normal and it comes out a lot more braver then I’m feeling inside.
“Naveen. Which one are you again?” He laughs at me as he takes my waist lightly and leads me to the other guys.
Niall still hasn’t noticed me. Thank god for that. I can’t believe how he would react if he would remember how we really met. I can’t believe I had a one-night-stand with a celebrity. Who does that?
The guys introduce us girls and the other ones turn out to be named Hannah, Sage, Ella and Leslie.
An upbeat song comes on. Hey, I actually think I know the lyrics to this one. Niall and Sage start belting it out on the mic he keeps between them. I knew it. It’s that new song from their new album Midnight Memories. Strong.
The others take turns singing until L-boy ( still don’t know which one ) gives me a signal that we’re up next. I slowly nod and try to clear my throat without anyone noticing.
I close my eyes and feel the light pressure of L-boys arm on my shoulder as he tries to pull me closer in so we can both sing into the mic. I close my eyes and start belting out the lyrics.
I have no idea when to stop so I just continue to let the words flow from my lips with my eyes closed. I start listening to the voices all around me when I finally realised that they all stopped singing. Why did they stop singing? The song isn’t even over yet. We’ve only finished about half of it. I open my eyes and see that L-boy has taken his arm from my shoulder and he is completely stunned. I look around at the other guys and they all have the same expression on their faces
I look back at L-boy. Still singing I look at him with a look that is meant to ask him if I should stop singing, but he just gives me a slight thumbs-up and gestures for me to continue singing.
Way too soon the song is over. The crowd cheers and L-boy walks back up to me.
“ So I’m not quite sure I got your name?” He said making it sound like a question and handing me the mic.
“It’s Naveen” I say. The other girls walk off stage after getting a big hug from every member and I’m just about to do the same when the curly haired one, Harry,grabs me by the shoulder and by the look on his face he is in no hurry to let me go.
“So who wants to hear Naveen here sing another song with us?” The crowd went nuts. Everyone asked for more. I felt my cheeks getting red.
Another song started playing but I didn’t know the words to this one. I lightly touch Harry’s shoulder and he turns to me.
“I don’t know the words” I say, rather embarrassed.
"It's rather easy. Just follow my lead" He flashes me a golden smile and starts singing. The other boys sing along with him and when they reach the chorus Harry hands me the mic and I belt out the words.
When the song is finally over I'm about to make another try to get of the stage but Harry stops me again. He holds his hand over the mic so the fan won't hear us.
"Will you meet us backstage after the show?" I nod my head and walk back to Clover.
"Wow, you sounded awesome. I had no idea that you could sing like that." Clover shouts over the screaming of the over hormonal teenage girls around us and I can just barely hear her.
"Now this will be our last song of the evening and we really hoped that you all had a great time tonight" Zayn blows some fans a kiss and I see that the girl next to us almost faints.
They start paying their most famous song of all times "What Makes You Beautiful" and I really enjoy it. But before the song is even over Clover starts tugging my arm and half screams in my ear.
"We have to be early backstage so we can be the first." I let her drag me to where I guess "back-stage" is and there stands a big security guard ( and I'm not talking about height )
"Do you have permission to go here?" Clover takes our tickets out from her bag and hands it to him. He eyes the tickets over then turns them around and looks at the back.
“It seems to me….” He makes a dramatic pause and I can see how Clover tenses up and is just about to cry when he continues talking. “... these tickets are okay. You two can just wait on the couch in their dressing room.” He steps away from the door and we slowly open it.
There is not much to see in here but a rack of clothes, a few mirrors with two chairs in front of them and a yellow couch kind of like the one from the TV-show friends.
I can see Clover’s eyes light up. I turn around and flash the security-guard a smile before closing the door. I can see that Clover is completely losing her mind. I walk over to her and take her by her shoulders. We walk together to the yellow couch and I try to get her to sit down. When she finally sits down there is this awkward silence for a few minutes but then she whispers/screams to me.
“ O.M.G. We are in One Directions dressing room. Can you believe it.” How can a person seriously be so excited about this? That really is a mistery to me.
“ Yeah ” I simply reply and try to make it sound like I mean it. But I really don’t. I wish we hadn’t come here. I mean how could I come here after sleeping with Niall? Especially since he is Clovers favorite. That would totally destroy her. I just have to hope that he won’t recognise me. Like when we met at the park. He didn’t recognise me then so why should he now? It’s nearly been a week since that day.
My thoughts are interrupted as the boys come in one by one. First Zayn, next Louis I think, after Louis comes Harry, next Liam and last but not at all least Niall.
Clover looks like she’s trying to not jump up from the couch and jump one the boys with hugs and kisses. Harry flashes us a smile and I’m seriously surprised that Clover didn’t faint.
Niall had been way to busy to notice me and I kind of wanted to just melt into the couch. He wouldn’t notice me that way. Would he? But of course he had to turn around and see me. His eyes widened.
“ You! ” he gasps. All five pairs of eyes that hadn’t been looking at me turned to me. I awkwardly put up my hand and waved him.
“ Hi “

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