Best Friends Forever

Iris' P.O.V.

"Ohmygod and look at this pic!", I shouted and turned my phone to my friend beside me. "THIS ONE!", Lucie shouted even harder. I looked at the picture she showed me and smiled really big. I was in my bedroom with my best friend fangirling over One Direction. The pictures of their new photo shoot just came out. Lucie is my best friend as long as I can remember. We grew up with each other, did everything together. We live just 2 houses away from each other, so we are inseparable. We live in Paris. Lucie's a Niall girl and I'm a Harry girl. We always watch X Factor together and we've been in love with those 5 amazing boys since day 1. 'Isn't She Lovely', 'So Sick', 'Let Me Love You', 'Cry Me A River' and 'Hey There Delilah' are the songs which changed our lives for good. We have never seen the boys in concert, but we tried everything to meet our idols. In April the boys played right here in Paris. We tried everything to get tickets, and when we thought we finally we had them, it turned out the tickets were fake. We were furious. We cried 3 days long in each other's arms. But we didn't lose hope. We would meet them! Whatever it takes! So since then we tried anything. We saved all our money and worked so hard to get more.

"GIRLS!", my mom shouted from downstairs. "Yeah?", I responded. "Come downstairs!", she shouted back. I sighed. We both stood up and walked downstairs. "What's up?", I asked a bit annoyed. I hated it when my mom or dad interrupted me while I was with friends. "We were looking for a holiday for the summer, and we thought, since Lucie isn't going on holiday, she could come with us? Your parents think it's a great idea", my dad said with a grin. I saw in his eyes he knew how we would react after this. Lucie and I immediately turned our heads to each other and screamed out of happiness. "YOU CAN COME WITH US! WE'RE GOING ON HOLIDAY TOGETHER!" "OHMYGOD THAT'S AMAZING!" We kept screaming and dancing and jumping for 5 minutes. My parents were laughing at us and probably thought we were crazy. Well that's true, because we are. I stopped and sighed with a smile. "This will be the best summer ever", I said smiling. I knew this summer would rock. The last few years I've been on holiday with only my parents, because my older brother was already out house. That wasn't always fun. Lucie nodded smiling in agreement. "Wait, where are we going?", I realized. "That's up to you girls", my mom said with a smile. I saw my dad's face changing and he put his hands already near his ears which caused us to laugh. "We won't scream that hard this time", I said laughing. "Well, you can do that upstairs while searching a holiday spot", my dad responded and walked away laughing. "Come on!", I shouted happily. We both ran upstairs and plopped down on my bed. "Ohmygod, I still can't believe it. We're going on holiday together!", Lucie said smiling. I side hugged her. "It will be great." I grabbed my laptop and opened the internet. "Where to start?", I wondered. "Can I?", Lucie asked while pointing to my laptop. I nodded and handed it to her. I saw she went to Google and searched for 'Take Me Home tour dates'. "Huh what are you doing?", I asked confused. I didn't know where she planned on going. "Just see", she said with a smirk. I saw she looked at the tour dates for the summer. "What about the USA?", Lucie said while giving me a look and grinned. "LUCIE YOU ARE A GENIUS!", I screamed. "I know", she said with a shrug and smiled. "Let's suggest to my parents!", I said and immediately ran out of my room to downstairs. Lucie followed me laughing. "Already have an idea?", my dad asked laughing. "What about the USA?", I said with my sweetest smile. I looked at Lucie beside me and saw she showed her puppy eyes. "Too far away and too expensive", my dad said clearly. "Ah c'mon dad!", I said indignantly. "You always say how much you want to show America and Canada to us. Well, Thomas isn't home anymore, but you can still show us. And last year we stayed here in France, so we can go more far and expensive right now?", I continued with my sweetest smile. "She has a point", my mom said while walking in. "Thanks mom!", I said with a grin. "Please dad? How many times will we come there?", I said. Finally my dad gave in. "Okay I surrender!", he said laughing, "You two really know how to get something done." "Thank you thank you thank you!", I said while giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Lucie, do you stay for dinner?", my mom asked her. "Yes, I'd like to", she answered.

"So what were you thinking about?", my mom asked while we were having dinner. I looked at Lucie before speaking. "We thought about touring around America and Canada", I said. "What cities?", my dad asked. "New York, Washington, Miami, Los Angeles...", I began. "Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal", Lucie continued. "What!? So many!", my dad exclaimed. "It's America dad. We can rent a camper for the east coast, the west coast and Canada and just see where and when we go. New York, Washington and Miami in 1,5 week, Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1 week and Chicago, Montreal and Toronto in 1,5 week", I suggested. "I like the idea", my mom said, "But maybe not Miami, but Boston or something? Miami is really far away from New York." "Your mom and I will discuss it further tonight", my dad said.

"I really hope they liked our idea", Lucie said when we were back in my room again. "We have my mom at least", I said laughing. "But we have to make sure we're in one of the cities on the right date. They're playing in almost every city we suggested, but some of them are already sold out", I continued. "Do you think your parents would let us go to a concert?", Lucie asked. "I don't know. I hope so. But why would they mind, we're paying it ourselves anyway", I responded. I knew my mom would let me go, but my dad... I walked to my piggybank where I saved all my money for a concert. I had done everything to get this money together. Babysitting, cleaning, my job at the supermarket, selling my old stuff. I opened the piggybank and threw all the money on the floor. When I was done counting I was shocked by how much money I had earned. "Lucie, I have like €400...", I said in disbelief. Her eyes widened. "But then it's almost the same for me. We've done almost everything together, Lucie reacted. "What city do do we prefer the most?", Lucie asked while surfing on my laptop again. " LA or Chicago?", I asked. "BINGO!" "What is it?", I asked curiously. "I had seen somewhere on Twitter they are doing meet and greets in the US", Lucie said with a huge smile. "THEY ARE DOING WHAT?", I screamed. "They are doing meet...", Lucie tried to say. "Yes I heard you! BUT WE HAVE TO GET IT!", I screamed again. At that moment my mom just walked in. "Your dad and I discussed about it and we like your idea, but it will be Boston instead of Miami", she said. "Thank you mom!", I said smiling and hugged her. "Group hug!", Lucie shouted. Lucie was like a sister to me and a daughter to my parents so it wasn't awkward at all for her or my mom. Lucie's house was my second home and my house was the same for her. "Mom? Can I ask you something?", I asked when I was sitting on my bed again. "Does it have to do something with your screaming before I walked in?", she asked. "Maybe...", I said with a smirk. "One of the reasons we wanna go to America is because One Direction is there in the summer..." My mom interrupted me, "Ooooh I could have seen this coming", she said laughing. "Please mom, you know how much it means to us. You saw us when we found out the tickets were fake. Can you please discuss the dates with dad without him finding out there's something behind it? And we will tell it ourselves when the time's ripe", I suggested. I could discuss this things only with my mom. She was a huge fan of Michael Jackson when she was my age. My dad can't understand it and is always overprotective. "Which cities aren't sold out yet?", my mom asked while walking to my laptop on my desk. "Boston, LA and Chicago", I said while showing her the dates. "I will see what I can do for you girls. You have my permission", my mom said. "Thank you", Lucie and I both said with a smile. When my mom left I grabbed my laptop again and sighed. "Let's hope for the best", I said softly. "Iris, we will see the boys, don't worry", Lucie convinced me. I had to meet them, so I could hug them and thank them. They have helped me through so much. They are my everything. "Hey I gotta go", Lucie said. "Okay. I will see you at school tomorrow", I said while giving her a hug. It was the end of June and we had only one week to go and then it was summer. Lucie and I counted how many classes we had left. We were so excited for the summer, just like anybody else, even though we thought we didn't go on holiday. We're even more excited now we know what the summer will bring. I bet we won't have the concentration and focus for these last 5 schooldays.

"And? Do you already know something?", Lucie asked when I was at her house. I always picked her up before school and we walked to school together. "No, but what I do know is that my mom already told my dad about the One Direction plan. I heard them fighting yesterday while I was in bed. And it was loud enough to hear what they said", I responded. "But I thought your mom would wait?", Lucie asked. "Same. But maybe this is better...? My dad would have been furious for sure if we already arranged everything and kept it a secret for him. Let's just not think about this. Right now it's only making us depressing", I suggested. We walked to school in all quietness. Probably both thinking about our holiday and the boys. When one of us was down, we went to see each other and blasted their music really hard. It always helped for us. We both had really hard moments sometimes, and for me, then it felt like nothing was worth anymore. Happily Lucie and the boys have pulled me through anything. People say it's weird that your idol can keep you alive and I thought the same before all this, but now I know it's not. And I wish I could tell that to them.

"I can't keep my head with this", Lucie whispered to me. We were in maths class and it was really boring. "Me neither...", I responded slowly and let my head rest on the table. It wouldn't take so long before I could fall asleep. "Miss Iris!", the teacher suddenly shouted. "Huh what?", I mumbled while raising my head. Did I really fall asleep? "Could you explain to me why you're sleeping in my class? Honest please", he asked with a harsh tone. "I can be honest if you want", I said with my sweetest sarcastic smile, "First thing, this class is boring. Actually like all of them. Second, it's almost summer. Do you really think we're all gonna remember this? No, didn't think so. And third, I just felt like sleeping", I said shrugging. I heard the class laughing. The teacher's face turned red. "Oh and now you're also being cheeky? OUT! GO REPORT YOURSELF TO THE VICE PRINCIPAL!", he screamed. I shrugged, stood up and walked to the door. I turned around to say something, but the teacher interrupted me, "Don't you dare."

I walked to the vice principal. This was actually the first time ever I had to see the principal. I never was that cheeky. "So why are you here?", the vice principal asked me. I explained the whole story about what happened in class to him. He was trying to look serious, but I saw he thought it was funny. "You see? You think it's funny too", I said laughing. "Okay, it's actually pretty funny, but it's not nice to your teacher. I will have a word with him, but I want you to apologize to him. That's all I'm asking. I really understand you guys are tired and you don't want to learn anymore. It's almost summer. I've also been young. Now go", he said. "Thanks", I said smiling and walked out of the room. The vice principal is actually pretty cool. I walked back to my classroom and apologized to the teacher. When the class was over, my crush came up to me. "That was really cool what you did there. I was wondering, do you wanna hang out sometime?", he asked smiling and I felt my heart beating faster. "Yeah, would be nice", I answered. I turned to my friends when he was gone and we exclaimed together. Justin was the hottest guy in school and he was in our class. Every girl had fallen for him. I walked with Lucie and my other friends Sophie, Anna and Michelle to the cafeteria downstairs. "Would you go out with him?", Sophie asked me. "Yeah of course! But I think the question is more like 'Would he go out with me?' He can get every girl he wants. He just wants to hang out with me, that's it", I said. I've had a crush on him since we came in the same class. I always said I had a crush on Harry, but I know that will never happen. Only in my wildest dreams. At that moment I got a text from my mom.

We have a surprise for you & Lucie at home! xx mom

I showed Lucie the text and frowned. "Now I'm curious", Lucie said. "Me too. Happily only one class left", I said and walked to the stairs to go to English class.

"WHAT'S THE SURPRISE", I screamed as we walked in my house. I was really curious. I had to know what my mom and dad were planning! Had it something to do with our plan? "Kitchen!", my mom shouted. Lucie and I walked over to the kitchen where my mom and dad were sitting with huge grins on their faces. "What's going on?", I asked suspiciously. "We have something for you two that you are definitely going to love...", my mom said slowly. "SPILL IT MOM!", I shouted. I couldn't handle the nerves anymore. I hated surprises. "Close your eyes", my dad said. We slowly did what he said. I heard my parents laughing. "Open your eyes", my dad said after a few minutes. I immediately opened them and my breath stuck. In front of us my dad was holding two concert and two meet and greet tickets. I turned to Lucie and grabbed her hands while screaming "WE'RE GOING TO SEE ONE DIRECTION!" "THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!", Lucie screamed back. This exceeded everything. "We're paying everything for you two since we saw how much the fake tickets affected you. And, you've both done this year great on school", my mom explained. And then I started crying. "What? You don't like it sweetheart?", my mom asked immediately concerned. "No mom, I love it. It's amazing that you will let us do this. I just can't believe I will meet my idols after these 3 years. Thank you mom and dad, I love you", I said with tears and a smile. Beside me I heard also Lucie crying. "Come here", I said and pulled her into a big hug. We were standing in each other's arms crying for a few minutes. "When are we leaving?", I asked when my tears were dry. "In two weeks. We will tour around America and Canada as we said and we will be in Chicago first, where you will see One Direction", my dad explained. I gave my dad a hug. "Thanks dad", I said smiling.

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