Part Twenty-Eight

Sophia’s POV

We were all glammed up in new dresses and the boys in new suits and ties and smart clothes. We were going to the Brit Awards. The boys had been nominated a while back for Best British Single for, What Makes You Beautiful. I hope they get it, they deserve it, I know every one of the people in the category deserves it though. It’s going to be a close one, but I’m rooting for my boys.

They were up against:

Adele- Someone Like You

Ed Sheeran- A Team

Example- Changed The Way You Kissed Me

Jessie J feat B.O.B- Price Tag

JLS feat Dev- She Makes Me Wanna

Military Wives/Gareth Malone- Wherever You Are

Olly Murs feat Rizzle Kicks- Heart Skips A Beat

Pixis Lott- All About Tonight

The Wanted- Glad You Came

I love all of those songs and artists, well except the Military Wives song, I didn’t really like that one to be honest. Don't get me wrong, I understood and respected what they were doing it for, I just wasn't keen on the song.

Anyway, we all piled into the limo that was picking us up and driving us to the awards. We were all buzzing, especially the boys, who were very nervous. We sang along to some tunes which we were blasting out the stereo during the journey.

When we arrived Niall wrapped his arm around my waist as we got out the limo, I saw each of the boys doing it to their girlfriends as well. Then we all had to walk down the red carpet- that’s what I was most nervous about, what if I trip and make a fool out of myself?

“Please don’t let me trip,” I whispered to Niall and he chuckled.

“I promise I won’t,” He kissed my cheek and the ten of us made our way down the red carpet together. We had to stop for a lot of pictures, the boys had some together, then some with us, and they had to do a quick interview thing and the interviewer person asked us girls some questions as well, they also had to sign a few autographs. All in all it was a lot of fun.

When we got inside the boys split off from us, they had to sit at this table on the floor, whereas we had seats on the tiered seating around the edge. We didn’t mind though. We kissed them goodbye quickly; we were a little late so we had to hurry to our seats. The show began and it was extremely interesting. We watched as they showed the nominations and I must admit- I didn’t know everyone- then they read out the winner for that category.

“And the winner for the Best British Single is…” The presenter said and all of us girls were clutching each other’s hands tightly. I don’t know about the others but I was holding my breath in anticipation.

One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful! One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful! One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful!

I chanted over and over in my head as the tension built up in the room and the silence was sickening. Come on say it already. It honestly felt like a lifetime before they read out the winner but eventually it came.

“One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful!” James Cordon, the presenter shouted out and I jumped up screaming along with the rest of the girls. We saw the boys and they looked in utter shock. They went up on stage and began to read their speech.

“I want to start off by saying, this award is for the fans,” Louis began, “We’d be absolutely nowhere without them, so thank you so much.”

“We’d like to say, again, a massive thank you to the fans, everything that we do is for you, and this is yours so thank you so much, and a massive thank you to Radio One.” Harry continued.

“You know, obviously we’d be no one without our team back stage, so we want to thank all of them, Simon, Sony, everyone at Syco, erm, Kim Davidson, Emma, everyone at Modest. Thank you so much, Paul Higgins, all our team backstage, thank you guys you’re amazing, and to be on this stage, you know we’re going to be doing our arena tour so we’re massively flattered,” Liam said.

“Again thank you so much to everyone that voted for us, our fans are absolutely incredible, and again this is one for you,” Niall grinned holding up the Brit Award trophy, I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been so proud in my life than I am at this moment.

They finished their speech and went off stage. We slipped out of the audience and ran back stage, Paul was with us so they let us through easily. We saw all the boys laughing and talking together and we ran over to them. I jumped on Niall’s back.

“Well done!” We screamed.

“Thanks! I can’t believe it!” They all laughed and kissed us, well their own girlfriend, and then we all had a massive group hug.

After the rest of the awards we went to the after party where we met some people, like Jessie J, she was there and some other people- it was really cool. We met JLS, they were really nice lads, great to have a laugh with.

We stumbled out to the limo at about three o’clock in the morning and went back to the boys apartments. We all then stumbled into Liam’s apartment and passed out wherever we fell.

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I woke up the next morning to the nice sight of Harry’s foot in my face. I sat up and found myself lying on Liam’s kitchen counter, Harry was lying next to me. I shoved him on to the floor and he yelped before jumping up and glaring at me.

“What was that for?” He grumbled massaging his head.

“You were in my way, I needed to get down,” I stifled my laugh as I climbed off the counter myself, “Do you know where Liam keeps his aspirin?”

“Yes, it’s over here, grab us a glass out of that cupboard,” Harry muttered, pointing me in the right direction, whilst he went to get the aspirin.

“Here,” I handed him a glass which was now full of water.

“Here,” He handed me two aspirins.

“Cheers,” We clinked glasses then swallowed down the aspirins and water.

“Time to get the others up?” He smirked.

“Definitely,” I nodded, “But I’m waking Lauren up because you’ll be too easy on her.”

“Only if I can wake up Niall,” He grinned and we high-fived before walking into the other room where we found Liam lying on the sofa, Molly on the floor lying starfish style, Beth on the arm chair lying upside down, and Zayn lying across the table.

“Wait,” Harry whispered and ran out of Liam’s apartment quickly and quietly. He then came back holding up a blow horn and smirking at me, I grinned back and nodded my head.

“You might want to cover your ears,” He whispered and I nodded doing as I was told. Harry stood next to me and held out the blow horn towards the sleeping people.

“Three… Two… One…” We counted down and then Harry squeezed the thing and the room erupted in the loud noise as it bounced off each wall. They all screamed and jumped up, wide-eyed.

“What the hell?!” Liam shouted but then winced.

“Time to wake up,” We smiled innocently.

“When I’m not hungover, I’m going to kill you,” Beth glared at us and the others all nodded in agreement.

“Well it’s a good thing you are hungover then isn’t it,” We smirked then high-fived each other.

“Right, now to find Lauren, Niall, Mel and Louis,” I listed them off on my fingers.

“Let’s go,” Harry held out his hand and I took it before he dragged me off through the rest of the apartment. We found Louis asleep in the bath tub, he was cradling the Brit Award trophy in his arms as if it was his baby. I took it from him before Harry let of the God-awful horn.

“Ah!” Louis screamed and bolted upward.

“Get up!” We smiled and then skipped out the bathroom. We then went into this room that was set up like a gym and found Lauren, Niall and Mel asleep in various positions.

“Go,” I grinned at Harry and he let the horn off again. You know, you’d think this would be getting old, you know the third time and everything, but it really wasn’t. It was so entertaining watching their reactions.

“What is life!” Lauren screeched and everyone winced at the loud noise that was also known as Lauren’s mouth. I swear; it was louder than the horn.

“No time to sleep! Up! Now!” Harry smirked and we left the room.

“That was so fun, we have to do it again sometime,” I laughed with Harry.

“Definitely, you want some breakfast?” He asked.

“Sure,” I nodded and we walked into the kitchen, Harry did us both some toast and we ate it quickly before heading back into the lounge, where were faced with eight very angry looking people.

“Harry,” I said warily stepping away from the angry people. You know what they remind me of… angry birds. You know the game? Yeah, that. They are all frowny and red… I don’t think that’s a good sign…

“I think you’re right Sophia,” Harry muttered without me even saying it.

“Run!” I shouted and grabbed his hand before we both legged it out of the apartment. We could hear them following behind us and we dived into a nearby bush.

“Do you think they’ll find us?” He whispered in my ear. Jeez we were close.

“I don’t know,” I whispered back.

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We must have sat in that bush for hours, because it was about three o’clock when we woke up and it’s getting dark now…

“Do you think we should get out now?” I asked.

“Probably,” He mumbled.

We stuck our heads out and checked the all clear before we ran into Harry’s apartment. He leant me some clean clothes to get changed into since I was still in my award dress.

“Where are we going?” I asked as Harry dragged me outside.

“I’m hungry, I want food,” He said and pulled me into one of the cars.

“But you have food at the apartment,” I pointed out.

“But I can’t be bothered to cook,” He said.

“Oh,” I nodded in understanding, “So where are we going?”

“McDonald’s?” He asked.

“Go for it,” I smiled and we drove off. I wonder where the others are. When we got to McDonald’s we walked in and Harry ordered our food and we both sat down together.

“I would so laugh if tomorrow this was in a magazine as our ‘first date’,” I laughed and Harry chuckled. I think I’d kill myself if someone took me to McDonald’s as a first date, no wait… I’d kill whoever had taken me to McDonald’s as a first date.

“It probably will you know, by tomorrow I’ll be cheating on Lauren and you’ll be cheating on Niall,” He chuckled.

“Yes I will,” I smiled.

“Aw, I love you too,” Harry said and kissed my cheek.

“Harry what are you doing?” I laughed at him.

“Playing up to the cameras,” He smirked.

“Oh you would be,” I rolled my eyes.

“And what’s that supposed to mean?” He raised an eyebrow. I opened my mouth to answer but he shoved a handful of chips in my mouth before I could. I started choking but managed to swallow them down.

“Thanks for that oh brilliant boyfriend,” I muttered sarcastically.

“You’re welcome,” He winked.

“So how do you feel you know winning a Brit Award and everything?” I asked suddenly.

“It’s really cool, I never thought we’d be nominated let alone win it,” He laughed, “It’s so surreal.”

“Surreal for you? This time last year I would have been chilling at school, now I’m sitting in McDonald’s with Harry Styles. Oh my god! The Harry Styles from One Direction!” I gasped sarcastically.

“You’re a bit sarcastic today,” He commented.

“Your point?” I raised an eyebrow at him.

“No point, I was just saying,” He smiled.

“Right…” I rolled my eyes.

“You keep rolling your eyes they’ll get stuck that way,” He sang.

“Alright,” I shook my head and rolled my eyes at him again.

“I’m being serious,” He said.

“Okay Harry, I believe you,” I patted his shoulder.

“You ready to go yet?” He asked.

“Yeah,” I nodded and we threw our rubbish in the bin before heading back to the car. When we got back to Liam’s apartment we saw everyone inside so we walked in.

“Where have you two been?” Liam asked seriously as we walked in.

“McDonald’s,” We shrugged.

“Wait, what?” Louis frowned looking hurt, “How come I wasn’t invited?”

“Because me and my new girlfriend didn’t know if you’d kill us or not,” Harry laughed.

“What?” Lauren shrieked.

“Huh?” I raised an eyebrow looking at her.

“Did you just say ‘new girlfriend’?” She frowned.

“Yep, by this time tomorrow magazines will be saying that I’m cheating on you with Sophia,” He laughed.

“Why?” Niall asked.

“Because we went out to dinner, and Harry decided to play up to the cameras,” I laughed.

“Did you two… kiss?” Lauren asked.

“No, well unless you count on the cheek... anyway, we weren’t really cheating on you guys,” I laughed, “But people probably thought we were. You know what the media is like. ”

“Okay,” Lauren nodded.

“So what are you doing?” I asked sitting on Niall’s lap.

“We were waiting for you,” He smiled.

“Cool, what for?” I asked.

“We’re going to play twister!” Louis shouted.

“Yeah buddy!” I shouted. I love twister.

“Wait before we start, I have something to ask you two,” Lauren said gesturing to Harry and Louis.

“What?” They asked.

“Well, I’ve been wondering it for a while, but I kept forgetting to ask,” She started, “You know in that interview you did…”

“You’re going to have to be more specific, we’ve done a lot of interviews,” Louis laughed.

“The one where you,” She gestured to Louis, “Said that Harry slapped you around the head with his penis and it went all the way around your neck, and I quote ‘wouldn’t you envy that?’ was it true?”

“Oh that one,” Harry and Louis busted up laughing as did everyone else.

“That my friend,” Beth said getting all of our attentions, “Is what you call a real wet willy.”