SURPRISE!!!

LENNON'S POV

Thank goodness Niall didn't chase after me, at least I don't think that he did, there a lot of people around. I looked down at my watch to check the time: 6:43. No!! I have to be at this meeting in the less than twenty minutes! I arrived at the hotel a few minutes later and ran onto the elevator. I got a few strange looks after I pressed the button for the eighth floor about seven times but whatever. Once we finally reached my floor, it seemed like we stopped at every other floor letting people off, I ran out the door and reached for my room key in my back pocket, probably not the safest place to keep it. I opened the door and threw my clothes off. I had to make a good impression at my first college meeting so I put on a pair of white jeans, a flowy floral top, and a pair of black heels, not too high of course. I reapplied my makeup and checked the time: 6:58. Ahhhhhhh!!!! I bolted out of the door and ran to the elevator. Remembering that the meeting was on the seventh floor, I skipped the elevator and ran down the steps, not too easy in my heals however. I opened the door to the seventh floor and bolted down the hallway until I found the meeting room. Several other people were entering at the same time I was so I slowed down, relived.

One of the professors took role and then started going over the schedule. While he was talking about the plans for next week, the door to the room swung open and in walked a familiar looking boy. I looked down at his red baseball shirt and I knew where I recognized him from, he was the cute guy at Starbucks. He apologized for being late and took a seat a few away from me. I smiled at him and he returned my smile. It gave me butterflies. The meeting continued on. Apparently, there was a problem with the hotel in Scotland and since it was such late notice, we were skipping Scotland all together. Darn, I was looking forward to seeing Edinburgh. Instead, we were going to Ireland next month and then back to England for August. I guess there were lots of things to see here.

When the meeting was over, I went to talk to a few people, I didn't know anyone but I think everybody was in the same boat. Everyone was very friendly. I was talking to a girl named Katie when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I swung around and I was face to face with cute, red baseball shirt guy.

"Hey!" he said. My stomach was doing somersaults. "My name is Zac."

"Hey," I managed to get out, "I'm Lennon."

"That's a really pretty name," he blurted out, blushing. As soon as he said this, I thought of Niall. I'm sorry. Here I was talking to this really hot guy and all I could think about was Niall. It was the first words that Niall said to me, the first time he noticed me. Why do I remember that? Lennon, shut up.

"Thanks. So you like baseball?" I really couldn't think of anything else to say but baseball was my favorite sport and it was a way to the get the conversation started.

"Are you kidding me? Best sport out there!" I'm glad we agreed on this. After talking some more, he shyly raised his hand to the back of his neck, sighing quietly.

"Lennon, do you think.. umm.. we could.. ummm... hang out sometime?"

It was cute the way he was shy about it. "Yeah of course! Let's exchange numbers then!" I said confidently. Wow, I had never been this comfortable around a guy before. Cool! I reached into my back pocket to get my phone, it wasn't there. I thought back to the last time I had it... Starbucks.

"Shit," I said under my breath. I rarely curse, but I felt it to be necessary.

"Something wrong?" Zac asked concerned.

"I think I left my phone at Starbucks today, but I can plug my number into your phone and you can text me saying it's you later."

"That sounds good," he said, handing me his crappy flip phone. I plugged in my number and wrote my name in as Lennon ;).

I handed him back my phone. He gave me a hug and I skipped back up to my room.

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I picked up the hotel phone in my room, carefully dialing my number. It was either in the possession of Harry or a Starbucks employee, although I was hoping for the latter. It rang a few times before I heard a familiar deep, husky voice answer. Darn.

"Hey Lennon," he said laughing. Why was he laughing, this was not funny?

"Why are you laughing and how did you know it was me?"

"I just knew. So I'm guessing you want your phone back?" he said.

"No," I said blandly.

I heard him laugh on the other end and I rolled my eyes.

"Can you drop it off at my hotel?" I said questioningly.

"No I'm busy. So the only way you're getting it is if you come here," I heard him laugh before you continued, " furthermore, you are going to hang out here and have dinner."

"Yeah right," I laughed. There was no way I was going over to the place that they all stayed at to "hang out." If the rest of the boys were anything like Harry, they would hate me at first, and I couldn't face Niall, not again.

"Niall won't be there," he said after a few seconds of silence. It's like could read my mind. Where was he going to be then? The first thing I thought was that he would be with that Stacy bitch. I didn't even know her yet I hated her already. Instead of anger or sadness, i felt jealousy and it was boiling up inside of me.

"Lennon, ya there?" Harry said making me forget about what I was just thinking about.

"So... If I come," I could feel him smiling through the phone. Why did he want me to come anyway? "Then you have to tell the other guys that I didn't cheat on Niall so they don't hate me like you did."

"Deal," he gave me the address and finished the conversation with, "See you at 8:15."

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After an annoying cab ride, I finally got to what I thought was the boy's building, the place looked expensive enough.

I awkwardly walked up the steps of the front entrance, rode the elevator to the fourth floor, and knocked on the door, 4B. I heard loud footsteps followed by the door swinging open revealing Harry's smiling face.

"Hey Lennon, come in," he said stepping aside so I could walk in. Although the place was a mess, it was very nice.

"Lads, Lennon's here!" Harry yelled, followed by more loud footsteps.

The first one I saw was Louis running excitedly towards me, behind him was Liam. A few seconds later I saw Zayn walk in yawning, I think I heard somewhere that he sleeps... a lot!!

"Lads, this Lennon. Lennon, these are the lads."

Before I knew what was happening, Louis ran up to me, hugging me. I smiled at his kind gesture and hugged him back. When we pulled away, he smiled at me and whispered in my ear, "I'm on your side."

What did he mean by that?

Next I got a hug from Liam and Zayn. Wow I guess they like hugging here.

"What's for dinner?" I blurted out , hearing my stomach rumble. I haven't eaten in ages.

Zayn snickered and Louis yelled, "You sound like Niall!!"

"Louis!" Harry said annoyed.

"Oh sorry!" he looked at me apologetically.

"It's okay," I said smiling, I didn't really care, honestly. "But really, what are we eating?"

Harry and Louis looked at each other and smiled before, in unison, screaming, "CHINESE FOOD!"

Yumm! I thought. Chinese food reminded me of home. My dad and I both shared a love for it and whenever my mom was working late, we would run out, without her knowledge, and get some Chinese take out. She was never too thrilled since she prefers eating healthier.

We all looked over the menu and I ended up ordering wonton soup and sesame chicken.

"That's a lot of food for someone so tiny!" Harry said, playfully putting his hands on my waist, practically wrapping them around the whole way just to show how skinny I really was.

"Reminds me of--" I saw Harry shoot daggers at Louis, who stopped mid sentence, "never mind." I knew what he was going to say. I guess I was a lot like Niall on some ways.

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"Anyone want to come get food with me?" Louis yelled from across the room. I shot up, still curious about what he had said to me earlier.

"Can I come?" I asked.

"Yeah sure Lennon!"

I almost got into the wrong side of the car trying to find the passenger seat. Louis was just watching me and laughing. When we got in, on the right side, he started the ignition, and we drove off.

"Hey Louis?" I asked.

"Yeah?" he said, keeping his eyes on the road.

"What did you mean when you said that you were on my side?"

"Oh, I just wanted to let you know that Harry told us everything and I believe you entirely, not that the other boys don't, they do. Also, even though I am one of Niall's best mates," he paused, "I wanted you to know that I am on your side with this one and I'll defend you if you need it," he finished off heroically, holding his hand to his heart.

I giggled at his gesture and thanked him, that was really sweet.

Most of the rest of the car ride was silent until I couldn't hold back my curiosity any longer.

"Louis, the fans know that you're dating Eleanor so why doesn't anyone know that Niall is dating her?" I said spitting out the last words. "Also, how long have they been dating and what is she like? Is she pretty, smar--"

"Lennon, calm down!" Louis exclaimed, cutting me off. "I think that that is something that all the lads will want to explain together. When we get back, I promise we will tell you everything."

We arrived at the Chinese restaurant and picked up the food. On the way back, we were listening to the radio when I heard a familiar tune, One Thing. To be perfectly honest, this had to be one of my favorite songs of theirs and the fact that Niall had a solo made it even better. I was obnoxiously singing along, and Louis was laughing at me, until it got to Niall's solo. Right before it started I went silent. I loved hearing him sing, he was so incredible and he voice made me melt.

Now I'm climbing the walls, but you don't notice at all,

"Lennon, why'd you stop--," I think Louis understood mid sentence and he smiled.

That I'm going out of my mind, all day and all night.

As soon his solo ended, I smiled to myself, I always went quiet during Niall's solos, I thought.

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We arrived back with the food and I swear, It was gone within 5 minutes. Zayn and I brought all of the dishes into the kitchen and started cleaning them up.

"So, why are you in England, Lennon, if you don't mind me asking?" he said curiously. It was the first time I heard his thick British accent, well in person I mean. I've heard it plenty of times watching their interviews. It was cute.

"No not at all," I said drying the last dish. "I am studying to be an archaeologist and as a pre-college thingy, we are going on some trips around England and Ireland."

He looked to me shocked. "Wow! An archaeologist? I've never even thought of that as a career. It seems so interesting," he said excitedly.

"Well I'll be sure to keep you up to date on things we find, if anything!" I said, realizing an archaeologist is a risky job, considering I could go my whole career and find nothing of any importance, but to me, that didn't matter much, it was more about the history! I think I took after my parents a bit, those history buffs. I'm sure they were glad that one of their children were going into a field involving history considering Emma was studying to be an interior designer, oh well, she could decorate my house.

I was glad I got to talk to Zayn, even it was only for a minute. I wanted to make sure I got to talk a bit with all of them, Liam was last.

When Zayn and I entered the living room, everyone was sitting on the oversized couch and Louis was flipping through television channels. I went over and sat next to Liam, determined to have a nice conversation with him.

"Hey Liam," I said, plopping down on the couch.

"Hey Lennon, how are you?" he asked sweetly.

Liam and I did have a great conversation, we talked about archaeology and he was asking about America when the boys joined in on the conversation.

"So what does it mean if someone says I'M ALL EARS?" Louis yelled, a bit too loudly.

I giggled, "It means that they are listening to you and telling you that they are giving you your undivided attention, I guess."

"What about ditch, not like the hole?" Zayn added.

"Umm.. Like to leave."

"Mind blown," Zayn said as Louis made an exploding sound in the background like his mind was blowing up. Haha! I loved these boys already.

"There is absolutely nothing to wat-- what was that?" Louis asked.

I heard it too, it sounded like, umm like, the fidgeting of a door handle, I thought. That's when my stomach dropped.

"Hey lads, Stacy and I are back, hope you don't mind!" I heard a familiar Irish accent say.

All heads quickly spun to me except for Zayn who said WE DO MIND under his breath.

SURPRISE!!

A/N I like this chapter... It's really long though! Enjoy! And comment and vote please :)