Mixed Up -ON HOLD-

Chapter 6

Veronica's POV

This was total chaos in my mind. Everyone thought me and Zayn had been making out in the woods. I can't believe he said it. He could say something like 'oh we were only grabbing some blueberries' or 'we just wanted to get to know each other better'. But I guess he said what came up first in his mind. Sigh. We were all standing there awkwardly waiting for something to happen. Nothing happened so I grabbed Zayn's arm and dragged him away from the others. He gave me a nervous look.

"Why did you say that?"

"First thing on my mind" he said defending himself.

"You had time. You could say that we were picking blueberries or something, now we have to act like we like each other"

"1. Don't we like each other? 2. Why didn't you say that 'we were only picking blueberries'" he said and imitated my voice. I gave him a sigh and before I could answer him a voice from a mike interrupted us.

"Are you enjoying yourselves?" there was an awkward silence and to make it even more awkward Louis yelled:

"YEEEAHH!" I couldn't help myself from laughing at him. The women with the mike and embarrassing small boobs blushed slightly as she moved on.

"Can we bring up the contestants?" Everyone started to applaud as we started to walk up to the stage. Zayn grabbed my hand, but I shook him of me.

"What are you doing?" I asked him confused.

"Acting like I like you" he said and grabbed it again, with a harsher grip this time and I didn't even try to pull away. After all, I liked him. He seems cool and he has always been my favorite in the band. I've always been a Zayn-girl.

Harry's POV

I looked over to Liam's girl once again and she was hugging that other boy. I don't like him, he makes me jealous. I know I shouldn't fall in love, cause that will only complicate stuff, but... Just look at her. The way she flips her hair, the way her eyelashes are longer than Liam's hair. The way she just is herself and no one else. I still haven't talked to her though. That will be my goal for the night, to talk to Hannah.

Madison' POV

This sucks. I thought this would be awesome. To hang out with One Direction? Come on, nothing would be greater of all times and all places on this universe. But somehow they don't seem to like me. I thought One Direction liked all girls? What's wrong with me? Harry, who is my partner, is supposed to like me, there got to be something between us, some connection. But all he does is staring at Liam's girl. Seriously? Why would he not look at me like that? I don't think he has even talked to her yet. I mean, come on. I even know what Harry think suits best on a cat, a rosette and not a partyhat. Does this Hannah know that? Uh no. Don't think so. And that I know such a simple thing means much. I know Harry very well.

My thoughts were interrupted by a fall caused by me. I must have been tripping over my own leg or something, cause there was nothing that could make me fall otherwise. Wow. I really am clumpsy. As I tried to get up, I heard a voice and two hands on my arms.

"Don't worry, I got ya" I looked up and to my big surprise, Louis was there. My blank face must've made him feel awkward, but I didn't really care. He scratched his neck and said:

"You alright?" I slowly nodded, still staring at him. I could clearly see how he tried to make this a bit less awkward.

"We should get up..." he pointed at the stage and when I didn't move an inch, he grabbed my hand and pulled me up. His hands were warm. The early summer air were hitting us and it wasn't as warm as it was earlier today. The cold breeze flung over my shoulders and I was freezing, except for where Louis held my hand. It was like all my warmth made it to my hand or something. It was weird and it was magical.

Alexandra's POV

This was so weird. I was standing up on the stage all alone, cause Louis was helping Harry's girl, Madison up on the stairs. He held her hand and she looked truly in love with him. She is kind of awkward. It's like she's the kid of the group. It's kind of weird how she got in here actually. I felt a pinch on my arm and I turned my face to Liam. He leaned closer to me and whispered:

"I'm truly sorry for making fun of you" I sighed and rolled my eyes.

"You've already said that" I said and gave him a mad look. He shot a charming smile. Sorry Mr. Payne. Not working on me.

"Come on, please forgive me" he said when he saw that the smile didn't work.

"I've already forgave you" I said and then the lady with the thick glasses started to speak in the mike. I felt Louis arm resting on my shoulders. I liked that feeling. I couldn't help but to notice Liam's staggered face. He gave his partner, Hannah a little smile and then he laid his arm around her waist. She gave him a smile back and took a step closer to him. I couldn't help myself from rolling my eyes.

"So this is the teams. We will now give you your first mission. It's important that you don't tell the other teams you mission, cause then they can destroy your plan. Every mission have the same value and are about the same difficulty. We've been trying to make it as fair as possible. Here are your first missions, hide the papers well!" She was giving out a envelope and I took it as Louis looked at it with hungry eyes. He was really going for this, and I like that. I hate to lose, and if I don't win, I won't be happy in the end - especially when it's such a big deal. It's actually quite a lot money. I opened the envelope and it said:

"Dear Alexandra and Louis

You first mission is to find three men on this party that is wearing a necklace"

Was this the kind of missions? Seriously?

"Got it?" I asked Louis and he was already searching through the crowd, looking for different men.

"Yup. We will go for them in the back, they're rich" he said, not giving me a look, so I only nodded at him. The scary lady with the mike and the curly hair spoke again:

"Does anyone have a question?" she asked and everyone shook their heads. "Okay, I'll count down from three. THREE! TWO! ONE! GOOOOO!" we all ran out to the crowd, searching for different things, then I remembered a tiny detail I noticed when we were standing in the group before. Zayn had been wearing a necklace. Mohaha.