fool again

chapter seven

***ding dong***


"Oh my god mum, that'll be him! Do I look okay?" I decided to go with Joanne and wore a simple mid calf length black skirt, and a little top, equipped with a cardi. I also, well my mum also thought I should go with the minimal make up look, and I still wasn't sure if I looked okay. "You look great hun, now calm down and get down here and open that door."
She called from downstairs.
"Okay, okay mum I'm coming," I called whilst coming down the stairs. I gave my mum a quick hug and whispered, "Don't wait up for me!" and then gave a cheeky grin.
"Okay, but don't be too late, remember you've got to work tomorrow." She said relenting slightly.
"Okay I won't-I promise!" I said nearly shaking with excitement.
"Good now just have fun!" she called.
"Oh I will," I called back while shutting the door.
"Hi!" I said nervously.
"Hiya-you look great, I take it Joanne gave you my note then?" He said while leading me to an awaiting taxi.

"Yeah!" Jeez, Shelly I thought to myself, what is with all the one-word answers?! I couldn't help it though-he was just too gorgeous, he was wearing smart black trousers and a smart shirt, and he looked and smelt for that fact divine. What was he doing out with me??

"We couldn't all fit in one taxi, so the others went ahead and left us to one alone." He said grinning whilst doing the gentleman thing and opening the door for me. I carefully climbed in and he went around the other side and hopped in.
"So where we going then?" I asked intrigued.
"Oh well we thought we'd go out for a meal and then off onto the pod night-club. I checked with Joanne if that was your sort of thing-she seemed to think so." He asked a little concerned.
"Oh yeah, that sounds great! Oh, but..." I started.
"Oh but what?"
"Well uh," I started, trying not to get embarrassed. "Well I'm under, so are you we're under 18, we can't get in, I've tried before, they're really hot on security."
"Ah don't worry about it-we checked with Louis, and he's getting John to put us on the list." he said proud.
"Oh wow, cool! The benefits of being in a pop group are starting to pay off already!"
"Yeah, but that's all thanks to you Shelly," he reached over and put his hand on mine, I felt shivers down my spine. "We, really, really appreciate it." He said looking into my eyes. Then took his hand away, and looked away embarrassed.
"No probs, but to be honest I really don't know if I did anything." I said turning to look at him.
"You must have done something coz I saw that guy's look in his eyes before you worked your magic!" He said looking back towards me.
"Well if it wasn't me, it would have been someone else." I replied.
"Yeah, but I'm glad it was you," he said whilst reaching over and carefullymoving my hair and adjusting my earring.

"Hey guys," called Mark as soon as we arrived.
"Oh hi Mark," called Bryan, "Decided to put in an appearance then did you??!" Bryan joked, whilst slapping him on the back. "Oh and I see you've arrived with our star!"
"Yep, she got me note and for some reason thought joining us on a night out celebrating would be fun!"
"Yeah, well with you buying the drinks, who could refuse?!" I called back.
"Drinks yeah, some more of them'd be good, come on guys lets go in!" Shouted Shane.
Oh dear I thought to myself, it looked like the guys were already pissed out of their skulls-who could blame them really, their lives were taking off today, but I was left with the empty feeling that what Mark said in the car was just probably part of his drunken state.

chapter eight