Part Twenty-Two

Beth’s POV

My heart stopped and my eyes widened. Louis Tomlinson… THE Louis Tomlinson, my boyfriend, just told me he loved me… on my birthday… under the moonlight… how much more perfect could this get?

“Beth… Beth?” Louis waved his hand in front of my face, but I didn’t even blink, I was in too much shock. He had girls throwing themselves at him every day, girls which are much prettier than me… I thought it was a bloody miracle when he asked me to be his girlfriend in the first place… now he’s telling me he loves me. Wow. That’s… That’s… words can’t even describe.

“Great, well done Louis… you’ve only bloody gone and lost the chance with the only girl you’ve ever loved by telling her you love her, you should have just waited!” Louis started ranting.

“Lou,” I managed to speak.

“Now she won’t even talk to you, she’s just sat their shocked… probably thinking you’re some complete utter weirdo,” Louis continued to rant.

“Louis,” I tried again.

“Why can’t you just not be so honest and play it cool, wait until it’s later into the relationship. But no, you just have to go charging head first into it and now look at the mess you’ve made,” He continued his rant- will he just shut up a second?

He continued ranting as I said his name again… time for action. I leant forward and placed each of my hands on either side of his face. I then kissed him passionately. He sat their shocked for a second and then kissed me back. After about a minute I pulled away.

“Louis Tomlinson,” I whispered, my face still close to his, “I love you too.”

“You do?” He gasped.

“Yes you idiot,” I laughed, “I always have.”

“I love you so much,” He laughed and kissed me again.

Oh my gosh Louis Tomlinson loves me! Fan girl moment…

ASDFGHJKL!!!!! AHHHHHH I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS! I’VE LOVED HIM EVER SINCE I SEEN HIM ON X FACTOR! I HAVE DREAMT ABOUT THIS DAY FOR AGES NOW IT’S REALLY HAPPENING! OH MY GOD! HE CHOSE ME! OUT OF EVERYONE IN THE WORLD! HE CHOSE ME! SUCK ON THAT! HE CHOSE ME!

Sorry, just lost my cool for a second there.

“I was so nervous about telling you,” He whispered. We were back to lying down on the bouncy castle, next to each other, my head resting on his chest.

“Why?” I asked.

“Because you’re so perfect, any guy would be lucky to have you,” He whispered kissing the top of my head.

“Lou, are you joking?” I said propping myself up on my elbow so I could look at him, “Every girl is throwing themselves at you, many of them much prettier than me! You could have literally anyone, yet you chose me… out of all the people. Me. Just some girl from the streets of London. I’m nothing special.”

“Don’t say that Beth, you are very special, to me at least, you’re not just some girl, you are the girl for me. The only girl for me,” He said and kissed me.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Sophia’s POV

I woke up the next morning still laying my head on Niall’s chest and his arms wrapped protectively around my waist, his breathing was comforting. I decided I wouldn’t tell anyone what had happened with Stefan yesterday and that I’d just stay away from him. That’s the only thing I can really do. I kept my eyes closed and just enjoyed the peaceful silence.

“Niall! Get up! We have to leave soon!” The four boys burst into my room, so much for peaceful silence. Niall and I both bolted upwards at the sudden noise.

“Oh, Kinky,” Harry commented as he took in our appearance.

“Aren’t you hilarious,” I mumbled and lay back down.

“I know, I’m just a born comedian,” He sighed and pretended to flick his hair over his shoulder.

“Whatever you say Curly,” I said.

“Gasp!” He said, “You did not just challenge my funniness.”

“Wherever did you get that idea?” I said sarcastically.

“Now she’s being sarcastic towards me!” Harry said in outrage, “You hear that Boo-Bear!”

“I do, don’t worry Hazza,” Lou said and pulled Harry into a hug.

“Anyway,” Liam said, “We’re leaving in about an hour, so you best get ready.”

“Yes Daddy,” Niall muttered and lay back beside me.

“You can use my shower if you want,” I said to Niall as the others left my room.

“Are you implying I smell?” Niall gasped.

“No, I’m just saying,” I laughed.

“Good,” He grinned and hopped out of bed and walked into my en suite bathroom. I sighed climbed out of my warm duvet. I walked over to my wardrobe and pulled out my onsie, it was black with a white and pink mosaic pattern at the top, it also had a hood. I pulled it on over my pyjamas and tied my hair in a messy ponytail before pulling up the hood, rolling the legs of the onsie up to my knees (as it had no feet), the arms up to my elbow and leaving the zip half up half down. I then walked downstairs.

“I’m a Bradford Bad Boi, init,” I said in a deep voice, doing my best impression of Zayn as I walked into the kitchen where everyone was waiting for Niall to finish getting ready.

“I don’t even say that anymore, Sophia,” Zayn moaned as everyone laughed- I’d seen this on their video diary things that the girls forced me to watch.

“Meh, thought I’d see what it was like being Zayn Malik for a day, did you know if I could do one dance move to ‘get a girl’ it’d be a triple back flip,” I said in my ‘Zayn Malik voice’ which I think is quite good.

“But you can’t do a triple back flip,” Lou said playing along.

“No, but I can do a double, and I’m learning to do a triple,” I smirked and every cracked up laughing again.

“Oh my gosh you guys are actually ROFLing!” Niall shouted as he walked into the kitchen and referring to Louis, Harry, Molly, Beth and Lauren who were actually rolling on the floor laughing, “What’s so funny?”

“I’m a Bradford Bad Boi, init,” I said turning to face Niall. He just busted up laughing and joined the others on the floor. Liam, Zayn and Mel were the only ones who weren’t on the floor; but Mel wasn’t even in here so she didn’t count. Zayn was trying to glare at me, but kept laughing. Liam was laughing but trying not to, because he’s meant to be the most responsible.

“We’ve really got to get going,” Liam said after we’d all calmed down.

“Aw,” I pouted going back to my usual voice, “I was enjoying being Zayn for the day.”

“You could still be,” Molly laughed.

“Yes, but it’s not as fun when Zayn’s not here to see how awesome I am at doing it. I don’t get to see his little annoyed face as he tries to glare but fails miserably and ends up laughing,” I pinched his cheek and he swatted my hands away, “You love me!”

“Uh-huh, sure I do,” Zayn smirked and I pouted.

“You do love me… right?” I pouted, and made tears appear in my eyes so it looked like I was going to cry.

“Aw, of course I love Sophia, don’t cry babe,” Zayn said quickly and hugged me.

“Good,” I grinned and made the tears disappear as we pulled out of the hug. Zayn stood there in shock for a moment, but long enough for me to get a nice picture and upload it to Twitter.

“You were faking?” He glared playfully at me.

“What can I say,” I pretended to flip my hair obnoxiously.

“Guys, Paul’s here with the car, we’ve got to go,” Liam said.

“Right, bye,” I hugged Zayn again and then let Mel say goodbye to him- she was now up and suffering from a massive hangover.

“Bye,” I hugged Liam, then Louis, then Harry and finally Niall.

“Bye Niall, and thank for helping me out yesterday, I owe you,” I smiled and hugged him tightly- longer than the other boys.

“You don’t owe me Sophia,” He laughed.

“Fine, but I’ll see you next week at the concert, yeah?” I smiled.

“I’ll be the one on stage singing,” He grinned.

“I’ll be the one in the audience pretending I know the words to your songs, when I have never heard half of them before,” I laughed.

“You haven’t heard our songs!” Harry gasped loudly.

“Nope, well, I know One Thing, What Makes You Beautiful, and Gotta Be You, because they are you’re singles and are played on the radio a lot, but the other, I’ve never heard,” I shrugged.

“Well, we challenge you to listen to the CD and learn all the words by the concert next week,” Lou said seriously.

“Challenge accepted,” I laughed, I never give up on a challenge I will do this.

“Good, now bye everyone,” They all said their farewells and hugged us all once more before they headed out to the car. We stood at the door and waved them off, we waved until they were out of sight then we all went back inside.

“So, how was it?” Lauren asked Beth and we all listened eagerly as Beth told us, in full detail, about how Louis confessed his love to her. It sounded so cute and romantic!

“Aw, I hope Liam says it to me soon,” Molly sighed.

“Why does he have to say it first?” I asked her.

“Because he’s the guy,” Mel said as if it was obvious.

“Take some control, go tell him yourself. In fact next week at the concert, you should all do it, except Beth of course because you’ve already said it,” I organised them.

“What about you? You and Niall seemed very close last night, and you two left early,” Lauren wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

“No, he just helped me out is all… Stefan well, Stefan said he loved me… and then he kissed me and tried to take it further, I tried to push of me but boy is he strong. Anyway Niall came out and pulled him off me, then he took me home,” I said briefly.

“But you shared a bed…” Molly raised an eyebrow.

“Yes, because I didn’t want him to sleep on the floor and you guys know I still love him anyway, there is no denying that,” I sighed, “Anyway, don’t get off track… next week after the concert we will go backstage and Lauren, Molly and Mel will tell Harry, Liam and Zayn that you love them.”

“I don’t know if I can do that,” Lauren sighed.

“Why not? It’s obvious you love him and he loves you, go for it,” I smiled reassuringly.

“I can do it,” She nodded.

“We can do this,” Molly and Mel agreed.

“You will do this,” Beth and I said.

“We will do this!” They shouted.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

“I can’t do this,” Lauren, Molly and Mel said as we made our way into the stadium at the start of the concert.

“Look, we’ve got a couple of hours yet, you’ve been rehearsing this all day, you’ll do fine,” Beth and I tried reassuring them.

“Yes, by the time they’ve finished doing the concert you’ll be so hyped up, and have so much energy you’ll go backstage and be so confident when you say it,” Beth agreed with me.

“Okay, if you say so,” They nodded un-sure. We handed our tickets to the staff lady.

“Oh you are lucky girls,” She smiled at us.

“Huh?” We all frowned.

“You’ve got front row seats,” She smiled.

“Really?” We all asked shocked.

“Yes, didn’t you know?” She laughed and lead us to the front.

“No, our boyfriends got us the tickets,” Mel said.

“Oh, well they must be very special boys,” She smiled and then looked at us properly under the stage lights, “Aren’t you… One Direction’s girlfriends?”

“Yes,” Lauren smiled proudly.

“Wow,” The lady muttered, “Well there are your seats.”

“Thank you,” We smiled.

“Enjoy the concert,” She nodded and walked back in a daze. We walked over to where she had pointed us; we were on the first row, in the middle, perfect seats.

“Wow, I’m so excited,” Beth squealed.

“I know right,” Mel agreed.

The lights went down and cheers erupted the stadium, then the first supporting act came on. They sang some of their own songs and we danced along, because we were at the front the people behind us were laughing at us, and at one point the support act (who were a boy band of four) were laughing at us too. Once they went off the lights came on again and some music videos came on the screens either side of the stage. The five of us stood up and we were dancing and singing along to the songs. Maroon 5, Moves Like Jagger, came on and we went mental it was one of our favourite dance tunes. The other people in the stadium were watching us and clapping along to the music, laughing at how stupid we looked some even videoing- but we didn’t care we were having fun.

The lights went down again and screams erupted around us again as a second support group came on, this time they were a group of girls, five of them, they were called Parade- I actually had their CD and I loved them so I went crazy. They sang their songs Louder and Perfume- those had both been released on iTunes, and the girls and I were singing along to every lyric as well as dancing. Parade laughed at us, but thanked us for joining in before they left the stage.

When the lights came up again, I felt a tug on my arm, I looked down and saw a girl about eight years old, smiling shyly at me, a notepad and pen in her hands. “Hello,” I smiled and sat down so I could talk to her properly.

“H-Hello, are you Sophia Dowell?” She asked nervously. Aw how cute!

“Yes, I am, can I help you?” I smiled kindly, she’s so cute, but how does she know my name? Oh wait, Niall’s ex... that explains.

“C-Can I get your autograph please, and the other girls if possible?” She asked, her eyes full of hope.

“Of course,” I smiled and took the pad out of her hand, “What’s your name?”

“Alyssa,” She smiled happily.

“Don’t you want the boys autographs? I mean, we’re not famous,” I laughed as I scribbled down a message that read ‘To Alyssa, Stay Happy, Love’ then I put my signature. It seemed weird someone wanting my autograph.

“I’d love their autographs, but I want yours too. I mean, you're like best friends with them! And… You’re my role model, I want to be just like you when I grow up,” She smiled brightly.

“Aw, thank you,” I smiled, “Hey girls, this is Alyssa, she would like your autographs, here.”

“Really?” Beth looked shocked.

“Yes please!” She grinned.

“Sure,” They all nodded and then signed it. I suddenly had an idea and turned to the girls.

“Hey girls, you know Alyssa, well I’ve just been talking to her, and she’s a really big fan of the boys, do you think we’ll be able to take her backstage and meet the guys- you know get their autographs, she’s just so cute. She said I was her role model! How cute is that!” I said in a hushed whisper.

“Aw, really? That’s so cute, and I don’t think the boys will mind, I think we should do it, but maybe we should text them first, I’ll text Liam and ask,” Molly said and fished out her phone.

“Okay,” I nodded.

“He said it’s fine,” Molly grinned and Mel handed me the note pad and pen back- it now had little messages and our signatures on.

“Alyssa,” I said turning to her.

“Yes?” She smiled and admired the note pad that I just gave her back.

“How would you like to come backstage after the concert and meet the boys, perhaps get their autographs?” I smiled.

“Oh my gosh!” She screamed happily then turned to her mum- I think it was her mum anyway, “Mum, Sophia said I can go backstage after the concert and meet the boys! Can I go?”

“You can go with her if you want,” I said, knowing her mum probably wouldn’t want to leave her with strangers.

“Thank you, so much. You don’t know how much this means to her,” Her mum smiled kindly at me.

“It’s fine, honest,” I grinned.

“Thank you!” Alyssa screamed and hugged me.

The lights went down again, but this time we knew it was the boys that would be coming on. Screams erupted the stadium yet again, but this time they were louder than before. The boys came on singing Up All Night, and yes, I did know all the words now.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

A couple of hours later and we were nearing the end of the concert. It all went silent as Niall walked forward, so he was in front of me, staring me in the eyes.

“Right, so you’ve probably heard a lot of things about me in lately… Not good stuff unfortunately. And believe me because of it, I have lost the person I loved, the person I still love,” Niall said and my chest tightened, “I did not kiss the girl all the magazines said I did… She kissed me and made it look like I kissed her. But Sophia you have to know…”

He stared me right in the eye and I felt my heart literally melt- I cannot believe he is doing this to me. “Sophia Dowell, I love you with all my heart. I am dedicating this next song to you, because it truly has gotta be you,” Niall smiled at me and I felt tears of happiness slide down my cheeks.

“Oh my gosh, that was like so cute!” Alyssa said beside me and hugged me as the music started up for ‘Gotta Be You’.

“Hey, Soph, are you okay?” Beth asked me.

“That was the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me,” I whispered but I know she heard me because she pulled me into a hug. We pulled apart and watched them sing the song, the whole time Niall and I made eye contact, never breaking it, and I knew he was singing that song to me, and he meant every word of what he had said. He really did love me!

The song ended and they bowed and thanked everyone for coming before they ran off stage, but no one left because we all knew they were going to come back on for an encore, because they hadn’t sang WMYB yet. The stadium was alive with screams and chants shouting out ‘One Direction’. The stage lights came up and the boys came back on as the start music for WMYB came on.

“We’d like to dedicate this to our girlfriend who are on the front row tonight,” Louis shouted into the microphone, winking at us, “Beth!”

“Molly,” Liam shouted.

“Lauren,” Harry shouted.

“Mel,” Zayn shouted.

“We love you,” They all shouted into the microphones and then they began singing.

“Oh my gosh!” The girls screamed and I hugged them all. Lauren was in tears, Molly was nearly and Mel was just laughing at Lauren for crying- she was always like that.

At the end of the song the boys said bye to everyone and then went back off stage, and the house lights came up. We waited for everyone to leave and then we walked backstage with Alyssa and her mum, Paul was waiting for us. “Hey Paul,” I smiled and he grinned back.

“Enjoy the concert?” He asked.

“It was amazing,” We all agreed.

“Wait here,” He said and we stopped walking; he walked off to where I presumed the boys were.

“Soph,” Niall shouted and I ran over to him, throwing my arms around his neck and kissing him. He was shocked at first but then kissed me back, wrapping his arms around my waist.

“I love you,” I whispered resting my forehead on his.

“I love you too,” He grinned, “So does this mean you’re my girlfriend again?”

“Do you even have to ask?” I laughed, “Of course I am.”

“Great,” He grinned and kissed me again quickly. I pulled him over to Alyssa, who stood there in shock.

“Niall, this is Alyssa,” I smiled.

“Nice to meet you Alyssa,” Niall smiled and hugged her.

“Hi,” She squeaked.

“She would like you autograph,” I nodded and smiled reassuringly at Alyssa.

“If it’s not too much to ask, and you were all amazing by the way,” She smiled and held out her pad pen.

“Thanks,” Liam smiled.

“So who’s your favourite boy in the band?” Lauren asked.

“Favourite! How could you pick? They are all amazing!” Alyssa practically shouted and we all laughed. The boys all signed her book and we sat around talking for a bit, but then she had to go. Her mother thanked us kindly before she left.

“She was so cute,” I sighed.

“Do you want kids some day?” Niall whispered in my ear, sending chills down my spine. We were now sat in the boy’s dressing room; I was sat in between Niall’s legs and we were both on sat on the floor. There was only us two and Beth and Lou, because the others were off somewhere else- the girls were confessing their love… how cute.

“Someday, yes, I’d love children… two, a boy and a girl, so you could play football with the boy and I can go shopping with the girl,” I smiled and leant back into Niall.

“So, you’d want me as the father?” Niall asked.

“Of course,” I laughed, “I couldn’t imagine my children without you as their father.”

“I’d love kids too one day… not now though, I’m too busy with the band,” He smiled into my neck and gently kiss it.

“What would you call them?” I asked him.

“Who?” He asked confused, how cute.

“The children,” I laughed lightly.

“I don’t know, but we’d have to agree on the names,” He smiled.

“Names?” It was my turn to sound confused.

“Well, you said you want two children, a boy and a girl,” He laughed lightly.

“But sadly you can’t chose the sex of your baby,” I grinned and kissed Niall on the lips.

“But you can dream,” He whispered against my lips.

Mel’s POV

“Zayn, can I talk to you… alone?” I asked, god I’ve never felt so nervous in my life.

“Sure,” He frowned slightly. I walked outside, knowing he was following me. Come on Mel, you’ve practised this you can do it. All you have to say is three simple words! I kept fidgeting as I made my way outside. Once we were outside, I felt the cool air on my clammy skin. Breathe Mel, you can do this come on! You make fun of people that are like this, it’s just three words.

“Zayn…” I started, not being able to look him in the eyes, so I just focused my gaze on his shoes.

“Oh my god. This is the break up speech isn’t it,” Zayn muttered sounding devastated.

“What no!” I said quickly looking up at him.

“Then what is it,” He asked confused.

“Zayn,” I said again taking a deep breath, “IloveyousomuchIhavesinceImetyouandwestarteddatingI’veneverlovedsomeonesomuchandI’vebeenwantingtosaythisforagesbutIcouldn’tfindthecouragebutSophiaconvincedmethatit’dbeokayandthenwhenyousaidyoulovedmeintheconcertIknewIhadtotellyousoZaynMalikIloveyou,” I said as quickly as I could.

“What?” He asked.

I took a deep breath and tried again…

“I love you so much, I have since I met you and we started dating. I’ve never loved someone so much and I’ve been wanting to say this for ages but I couldn’t find the courage, but Sophia convinced me that it’d be okay and then when you said you loved me in the concert I knew I had to tell you so… Zayn Malik… I love you,” I said my voice shaking slightly.

“I heard you the first time,” He whispered, smirking.

“Then why’d you make me say it again?” I asked.

“Because I wanted to hear you say it again, so I knew you were being serious,” He smirked and I laughed before kissing him. He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer to him as our kiss deepened.

“Did I mention?” He whispered and rested his forehead on mine, “I love you too.”

“Nope, I don’t think you did,” I grinned.

“Well, Melissa Partridge, I love you,” He whispered and I kissed him again.

Molly’s POV

I looked at Liam, who was on his phone talking to someone. Come on, hurry up Liam, if you don’t I’m going to chicken out and then I’ll get my butt kicked by the girls. “Okay, bye,” Liam said and I sighed in relief.

“Liam,” I said.

“Sorry, I need to… I’ll be back in a minute,” He muttered and walked by me.

“Liam!” I shouted and ran after him.

“I’m sorry Molly, but something’s going on outside,” He said and carried on running in the direction of the back exit.

“Liam Payne you listen to me right now!” I shouted angrily and he turned around shocked, so I took this opportunity, “I love you!”

“W-What?” His eyes widened.

You know that awkward moment when you tell someone you love them and they don’t say it back… yes? That’s happening now. “Well this is awkward,” I muttered and turned away from him, letting the tears to fall.

“Molly wait,” Liam said.

“No! If you don’t love me then I’m not going to stick around to hear you ‘letting me down gently’!” I screamed and ran off.

“Molly!” I heard him shout but I ignored him. “Molly please,” He said and caught my arm, making me turn around.

“What? Are you going to rub it in and tell me you don’t love me?! I don’t want to hear it!” I shouted.

“Molly, I love you,” He said.

“I don’t care! I don’t want to hear it Liam! If you don’t love me just leave me!” I shouted then thought about what he said… “Wait what?”

“I said, I love you,” He laughed.

“You do?” I gasped.

“I wouldn’t lie about something as big as this,” He whispered, wiping a tear away.

“Then why didn’t you say it back there,” I asked.

“Because I was so shocked that someone as beautiful would love me,” He laughed.

“I should be saying that to you, I’m nothing special, you’re the one who could do so much better. You could have anyone but you chose me, why? When you could have someone much prettier,” He cut me off by kissing me.

“No one is more beautiful than you, I love you Molly,” He whispered and then kissed me again.

Lauren’s POV

“I need to tell you something,” Harry whispered in my ear. He took my hand and gently pulled me out of the boys dressing room.

“What is it Harry?” I asked nervously, was he going to break up with me? Because I’m not pretty enough for him? Or because I’m not famous enough for him? Or because I repulse him? Or because he doesn’t love me, and he never did? All sorts of possibilities buzzed around my head.

“Lauren,” He said, turning to face me and staring in my eyes, “I’d like to sing a song to you.”

It was then that I realised we were on the stage of the arena.

I sat on the chair that was provided on the stage and Harry took my hands in his smiling at me.

He began to sing With You, by Chris Brown in acapella, his voice just made me melt; not only that but it was my favourite song! Also a love song… is he… oh my god! He’s telling me he loves me! When he said it on stage I didn’t think he was being serious, I thought he was just saying it, but this proves it. I’m not just another one of his girls… I am the girl for Harry Styles. He loves me! I smiled through the happy tears that half blinded my vision.

“Oh!

I'm into you,

And girl,

No one else would do,

'cause with every kiss and every hug,

You make me fall in love,

And now I know I can't be the only one,

I bet there heart's all over the world tonight,

With the love of their life who feels..

What I feel when I'm” He sang.

When he finished the song he wiped my tears away with his thumbs, and then left his hands on either side of my face.

“Lauren Varnam, you complete me… I always thought something was missing in my life. The day we ran into Sophia in the streets and she let us hide out in her home was the best moment of my life… do you know why?” He smiled at me and I shook my head, unable to speak, “Because it led me to you. I know now that the piece I thought was missing in my life, was you… you were my missing piece and now with you I am complete and happy. Lauren Varnam, I have never ever loved anyone as much as I love you… I love you so much I can’t even explain… I love you more than cats! I love you more than my Boo-Bear!”

“That is the sweetest thing anyone’s ever said to me! I love you too Harry! I always have! I love you more than cats and Louis,” I cried. I stood up and hugged Harry tightly, he then leant down and kissed me.

“I love you,” He whispered and kissed me again.

This day has been truly perfect.