You Are My Best Friend

We got the guys ready for their concert, which was in Philly, and then they disappeared for the last half hour they had before the show. As Harry was leaving, I called after him,

“You can do it Harry!”, and gave him a thumbs up. He needed all the encouragement he could get. He and Taylor had been together for too long for them to just call it off all of a sudden, so it was really imperative that they talk through this.

I didn’t get a chance to check up on Harry before the show started, so I headed out to the seats so I could watch them perform. I hadn’t watched a concert in a few weeks, so I decided to see how they did. I ended up in a seat in the front row, next to a girl who was a SUPERfan. I mean, she even knew who I was. It was crazy, I had never had anyone recognize me right off the bat like that! We talked a bit before Icona Pop opened, and found out we had both gone to the same Eagles game two years earlier, in this very stadium! After we followed each other on Twitter, the girls started their opening act. And I got caught up in it, having sooo much fun with the girl next to me, whose name was Sammy. Everyone caught their breath after they announced that ONE DIRECTION was coming on stage in a few minutes!

“Soooo, who’s your fave?”, asked Sammy.

“What do you mean?”, I replied, not sure what she was talking about.

“Umm, of the boys, duh!”, she laughed. I guess it was a pretty dumb answer I gave.

“Well, I mean, Niall is forever playing pranks, Zayn is...well, nevermind, and Liam is such a bossy-pants”, I laughed. “Louis is just sassy as can be. I think that Harry gets on my nerves the least”, I added.

“Wow. Do you like him?”, she queried.

“Um, yeah. I like all of them. They’re like irritating brothers”, I said.

“Well. You know what I mean. Like, like like him. You sure act like you do!”, Sammy said

“Uhh, well”, I stammered, “How can you tell?”, I asked. Surely it wasn’t sooo obvious. I couldn’t like him, really, it would be unprofessional.

“Oh god Skyler! You blushed and looked down when you said he was your favorite! A baby could tell!”, she said, laughing at my apparent ignorance. I decided to take it good-naturedly.

“Well, whatever. He has a girlfriend. It can’t happen. Besides, he just told me this morning I’m his friend. JUST a friend”.

“Okaaaay!”, she said. Acting like she could believe me, but I knew she didn’t. Hell, I wouldn’t even believe myself.

Any other thoughts I had were drowned out by the deafening screams when Niall, Liam, Louis, and Harry, took the stage.

We screamed along to every song. Then, my favorite, Midnight Memories, started playing. I got even more excited than before, if that was even possible!

When the lyric, “Five foot something with the skinny jeans”, was sung by Liam, Harry came right in front of where I was sitting and blew. Me. A. Kiss. What. The. Hell. Sammy was freaking out, so was I.

After the concert, I met Harry backstage, him with a huge grin on his face.
“What the HELL was that?”, I asked, with a huge grin.

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