CHAPTER 2
Today was the day. The day I had been waiting for since I saw them on the X Factor in 2010. I woke up this morning and I tried my hardest not to start freaking out because I didn’t want to wake my friends. They spent the night last night because I was too excited to be by myself. I glanced at the clock and it was 8:43 a.m. so I decided to quietly get up and get my day started. I rolled out of bed, grabbed my phone and my robe and carefully stepping over my friends lying on the floor as I made my way to the bathroom to shower. After I finished getting ready I walked back into my room to see the same thing as before I went into the bathroom. My six sleeping friends.
“It‘s time to get up!” I yelled in a Harry Style’s kind of voice as I climbed onto my bed
“Shut up Harry” Alexia moaned throwing a pillow at me from below
“You know what today is! Get up, we have a busy day ahead of us”
“There‘s nothing planned until seven o‘clock tonight…what kind of busy day are you talking?” Fiona said sitting up from her sleeping bag
“Well…” I said jumping down from my bed and sitting on the floor “…I need to go shopping to find the perfect outfit for tonight, I can’t be scrubbin it in front of my husband ya know” I said in a completely serious tone
We all laughed, but they knew I was right, if I was going to catch Zayn’s eye in the crowd, I had to look good. A little while later everyone got up and got ready to go, then we went down to the kitchen to get breakfast, and then we were off to the mall.
“We need to be home by four if we want time to get ready and get to the Palace” Piper said to us and we piled into my car.
We got to the mall quicker than usual, probably because I was so excited to get there and get shopping for what we will hopefully be the best night of my life. Hours later, we were back at my house getting ready to go. I put on my new outfit; a simple white button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to my elbows, tucked into my favorite medium wash skinny jeans and red TOMS, along with a skinny red belt and the same small pearl earrings I wear everyday. I decided not to wear the sweatshirt Landon got me because I would’ve been too hot so we just took pictures of me wearing it before we left.
“Ready guys!?” I yelled up the stairs as I fixed my short dirty blonde hair in the mirror
“Yeah, coming sorry” Piper shouted as she came down the stairs with the others “Don’t forget these” she said throwing me my keys
“Oh yes, those are important aren‘t they” I laughed as I opened the door
We drove to the Palace jamming out to Up All Night of course, getting pumped for the show, as Alexia put it as we settled it for the ride. The music was blasting, windows cracked open, because it was October in Michigan so it was cold. As I stopped at a red light waiting for the light to turn green I checked my twitter to see Harry tweet Out in Detroit looking for a McDonalds.
“Oh My God! Guys! They‘re out here somewhere, Harry just tweeted!” I said excitedly
“Keep a lookout” Fiona laughed from the back seat
The light turned green and I started driving forward to get to a turn around, and that’s when it happened, I thought my life flashed before my eyes. I wasn’t sure what was going on until my eyes focused in on their faces.
“Are you okay Love?” I hear his perfect voice say from next to me
Am I dreaming? What is going on? What happened?
“What happened? Where am I?” I said as my vision slowly started to come back to me
“We hit each other in the turn around, our fault I‘m sorry” I hear Zayn’s voice say as he helps me up from the ground I was sitting on.
“Where is everyone? Where are my friends?” I asked still a little disoriented
“They‘re over there, in the ambulance” Zayn pointed across to where we were standing
Why was I not with my friends? Why was I off in the middle of…who knows where?
I thought to myself as we walked over to everyone else
“Oh my god! Lorna thank God you are okay!” Greta said running over to me from her spot in the ambulance
“What happened? Why was I over there” I asked still using Zayn as support to stand up
“I don’t know exactly, but all that matters is that you‘re fine, you‘re fine right?” Greta asked me
“Yeah, I‘m fine” I told her
“When you stood up you said you‘re ankle hurt, you should go get that checked out” Zayn said leading me over to the paramedics
“Yeah, I should, right. Thanks” I said as we walked over to them.
