Best Friends Forever

Lucie’s P.O.V.
“Wake up!”, I shouted in Iris’ ear and took off her blanket. She mumbled bad-tempered, grabbed her blanket again and turned over to her other side. “Okay, then I’ll tell Harry you’re not coming”, I said with a smirk. Immediately Iris was out of her bed. I laughed. “I knew you wouldn’t let me”, I said, still laughing, while poking Iris in her stomach. “Ohmygod, today is the day”, Iris exclaimed while letting everything sink in. I exclaimed along with her. We both walked over to our suitcases to grab some clothes. “Shit, what do I have to wear?”, Iris asked worried. “We shopped for like €400 and you have like 100 new clothes and you are complaining about what to wear?”, I laughed, “You’re crazy.” I looked in her suitcase and grabbed a jumpsuit and high heels out of it. It was a short jumpsuit with Aztec print and the high heels were bright blue which matched perfectly with the jumpsuit. “Yes, that’s perfect. Thanks”, Iris said smiling. For myself I grabbed some shorts, a top and sneakers out of my suitcase. I had bought a short with the American flag on it. Right now I matched it with a band tee of The Doors and white high top Converse. No high heels for me today. After half an hour we were finally done. We both went for a natural look. We only applied some mascara and lip gloss. I grabbed our purses before we walked out of our room and handed Iris hers when we were in the elevator. It was 8.50am and we would meet Harry and Niall at 9. Iris’ parents wouldn’t notice anything. Well, that’s what we hoped. When we arrived in the lobby Niall and Harry were already there. I walked over to Niall and hugged him. “Are you ready?”, Niall asked smiling. “Absolutely”, I responded with a smile as well. We said goodbye to Harry and Iris when we were outside and both went separate ways. “Where are we going to?”, I asked curiously. “Nowhere actually”, he said with a chuckle. I raised an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”, I asked confused. “I just wanted to hang out with you today. I didn’t really have plans. I just want to have a nice day with you and have a lot of fun”, he said, “Is that okay?” I heard an uncertain tone in his voice. “It’s perfect”, I answered smiling. I wasn’t really the type of strictly planned dates. As long as I am with Niall, I am happy. “Let’s go to the park”, I suggested. Niall agreed and hand-in-hand we walked on our way to the park. It took a long time before we arrived there because at every corner of the street we bumped into fans. They were all freaking out and asking for pictures. I was completely fine with it. Almost every girl asked Niall who I was and every time he proudly answered I was his date. It made me smile. I realised how damn lucky I was. It was the dream of every girl to have her idol fall in love with her and I was living this dream.
When we were at the park we laid down on the grass. “Look, there’s a chicken in that cloud”, Niall said while pointing at the clouds. “No way it’s a chicken. It’s more like a dinosaur”, I said laughing. “A dinosaur? Do you even know what they look like? A chicken and a dinosaur have nothing in common”, Niall responded laughing. “Yes they do”, I said certain. “No they don’t.” “Yes they do.” “No they don’t.” “Yes they do”, I said one last time. I turned on my side and looked at Niall and he did the same. I looked into his beautiful blue eyes. Niall leaned in closer and all of a sudden his lips were pressed against mine. His beautiful and soft lips. It was the perfect kiss. The kiss was like fireworks were shooting around us. To me the kiss was over too fast. I wish I could kiss him forever. Niall stood up, grabbed my arm and pulled me upright. “Do you want an ice cream?”, he asked. “It’s only 10 in the morning”, I said laughing. “Well, it’s afternoon somewhere”, Niall said with a grin. “Yeah why not”, I laughed. We walked to a little shop in the park. “What taste do you want?”, Niall asked. “Chocolate!” While I was waiting for Niall to buy the ice creams my gaze fell on a French newspaper in the kiosk. “Hey Niall, do you want to learn some French?”, I asked. “Yes yes yes yes!”, he shouted over-excited. I laughed and we bought the newspaper as well. A few minutes later we sat down on a bench. When we were done eating our ice creams I grabbed the newspaper. “Le monde”, I said while pointing at the headline of the newspaper. “Le monde”, he repeated me. It sounded so cute with his British accent. “It’s an easy one. It means ‘the world’”, I said with a grin. I laid my head down on his chest. I taught him some more words. Just the daily words, like hello, goodbye, how are you, thank you, you’re welcome. And of course I taught him some French food. It was really fun and we were having a great time. His pronunciation was so adorable. “Est-ce que nous nous promènerons à nouveau?”, I asked a while later. We had stayed for quite a while at the park, but I wanted to walk again. I looked at Niall and immediately started to laugh. He looked so confused. It was so cute. “Excuse-moi?”, he said while trying to do a French accent. “Est-ce que nous nous promènerons à nouveau?”, I repeated myself. “Stop talking French!”, he shouted, trying to look mad. I knew he wasn’t. “Let’s walk again”, I said while pulling Niall upright. “Where do you want to go?”, he asked. “You choose”, I said smiling. “Then we go to Pier Park”, Niall said with a grin. “What is it?”, I asked a bit confused. “It’s on the Navy Pier and it has some attractions, like a Ferris wheel”, he explained. “A Ferris wheel?”, I asked. “Yeah. Don’t you like it?”, he asked. “No no no, I do”, I said fake smiling. I really didn’t know if I was going to like it. I had been in one once before, but it was a really small gondola and I started freaking out when the thing stopped at the top. It was so scary. I am really claustrophobic. “C’mon, let’s go!”, Niall said and grabbed my hand.
“Are you ready?”, Niall asked when we were in front of the big Ferris wheel. “No”, I thought. “Yes”, I answered with my biggest fake smile. I tried to find all my courage, but it didn’t really succeed. I didn’t want Niall to notice I was afraid. I knew Niall was claustrophobic as well, but apparently he could stand Ferris wheels. He was the one who suggested. Niall grabbed my hand again and we stepped into the gondola. After a minute the wheel started moving. The first part wasn’t so scary. As long as we were moving, I was fine. At the first round we stopped a few times, but not at the top. Luckily! I hoped it would be the same with the second round. “Lucie.” “Lucie.” “Lucie.” “Lucie!” “Huh what?”, I asked confused. Apparently I hadn’t heard him. I was only paying attention to what was happening outside the gondola. I looked in Niall’s bright blue eyes. “I called you a few times”, he said with a grin. “Oh I’m sorry”, I said blushing. He grabbed my hand. “Are you okay?”, he asked worried. I looked away. He took my chin and looked at me. “Tell me”, he said with his sweet Irish voice. “I am claustrophobic and I hate it when the wheel stops at the top”, I said in one gasp. “You silly, why didn’t you tell me”, he said half laughing. “Stop laughing. It’s not funny”, I said while slapping him in the stomach. “Ooooh now you’re going to get it back!”, Niall shouted, laughing louder. I saw his fingers coming really close to me. “Stahp it!”, I shouted back. “No”, he said with a smirk. He started tickling me and I started laughing like a freak. “Niall don’t!”, I shouted again. I enjoyed and hated it at the same time, but I kept laughing. At that moment the gondola moved because we were moving. I made a high-toned scream. He stopped. I sighed. “Aw my stomach hurts from laughing”, I said laughing. “Look outside the gondola”, Niall said with a grin. I did and my heart stopped for a moment. We had stopped at the top and I didn’t notice. Actually it wasn’t so scary at all. Thanks to Niall. I looked in Niall’s eyes again and I hugged him really big. “Thanks Ni”, I said with a smile. A few minutes later we were on the safe ground again. “See, that wasn’t so scary at all”, Niall said. “You’re right”, I responded with a smile. “Let’s go into the giant’s stride!”, I suggested when it caught my eye. I really liked giant’s strides. “What you want”, Niall said grinning. After the giant’s stride we stayed a little bit more at Pier Park. “Chicago is such an amazing city”, I thought out loud when we were walking around the area. “Yeah, it’s one of my favourite cities”, Niall said. “What about Paris?”, I asked indignantly. Niall laughed. “And of course Paris!” “Good”, I said smirking.
“What time is it?”, I asked a bit later. “It’s 3pm already. I have a surprise for you for this evening”, Niall said with a mysterious smile. “Let’s hope Iris’ parents haven’t noticed we are gone”, I said laughing. Together we walked through the streets of Chicago and talked about everything. I told him about family, friends, school, fears, dreams, life. Everything. We really got to know each other and we noticed we had so much more in common than we already thought we had. “When did you start playing the guitar?”, Niall asked me. “When I became a fan of you guys and that’s since day 1”, I answered. “You encouraged me so much, even though you might not have been aware of my existence”, I continued. “I really like the idea you made your own cover band”, Niall said smiling. “I wish I could see you all playing sometime”, he continued. “Then you should come to my school when summer is over”, I said laughing. “No, I will just book you for a private concert”, Niall said with a grin. “Do you also have your own songs?”, he asked at the moment we passed a street musician. “Only 2”, I responded. “Wait”, I said and stopped walking. I listened to the street musician who was playing the guitar. When the song was over, he started a new one. “He is playing The Doors!”, I shouted excited when I heard what he was playing. “Yeah that's my favourite song of them!”, Niall exclaimed. “Are you kidding? Mine too!”, I said laughing while looking at Niall. I focused on the musician again and I started singing along with the lyrics. A few seconds later Niall started singing too. While we were singing and the musician was playing, many and many people stopped to listen at us. I looked at the musician and I saw he liked all the attention. How many times do people see a celebrity singing with a street musician. This was definitely something special. When the song was done, everyone clapped for us and Niall and I did the same for the musician. A lot of people gave the guy some money. “Hey, I'm Niall and this is Lucie”, Niall said to him when the people had walked away. “Hi, I'm Marc. And of course I know you're Niall”, he said with a grin. “Thanks a lot”, Marc continued to both of us. “You're welcome”, I said smiling. “You have a beautiful voice”, he complemented me, “You should really do something with your talent!” “Thank you”, I said blushing. “Can I have a picture with you and an autograph for my daughter? She is totally crazy about One Direction”, Marc said. “That's sweet. Of course!”, Niall responded smiling. “Shall I take the picture?”, I suggested. “No! I want you to be on the picture as well!”, Marc said. Marc handed his polaroid camera to someone who walked by to make a picture. A few minutes later Marc had the picture and the autograph for his daughter. “Give your daughter lots of love from me and the other boys”, Niall said smiling. We said goodbye to him and walked away. “You are so sweet for your fans”, I told him. He smiled. “Can I have your autograph as well?”, I asked. Like I would want his autograph when I already have a date with him. He looked confused at me and started to laugh. “It’s for my sister”, I explained laughing. “I’ll give it to you later”, Niall said with a grin. When Niall and I were walking hand-in-hand, it was Niall who grabbed my hand every time, but now I grabbed his. He looked at me smiling and I smiled back. I laid my head down on his shoulder as we walked further. “We’re not going back to the hotel, aren’t we?”, I asked Niall when I saw we were in the direction to our hotel. “No, we’re not. Don’t worry”, he answered with a chuckle. Some chatting and walking later, we were only a few hundred meters away from our hotel. “Liar”, I said to Niall. At that moment a police car stopped in front of the hotel. I saw Iris’ parents running out of the hotel towards the policemen who just stepped out of the car. I pulled Niall with me in a corner of the street. “Shit.” It was the only thing I could say. I saw Niall grabbed his phone. I looked at his screen and saw he dialled Harry’s number. We are so going to be punished, I thought while Niall was waiting for Harry to answer his phone. “Haz, we’ve got a problem. Iris’ parents have called the police”, Niall said when Harry picked up his phone. “Yeah let’s just meet there and then we’ll see. See ya!”, Niall said and hung up. “Meet where?”, I asked Niall confused. “C’mon”, Niall said. He pulled me out of the corner and we walked back till we were out of sight of the hotel. He hailed a cab and we stepped in. “Where are we going to?”, I asked. I was really curious now. Why was Niall being so mysterious so suddenly? “To the Navy Pier, please”, Niall said to the driver. Now I was even more confused. To the Navy Pier, again? I looked at Niall and I saw on his face he knew I was looking at him. He was trying to withhold a laugh. I slapped his arm. “Stop being so mysterious. Just tell me”, I said. I couldn’t bare the curiosity anymore. When the cab was about to pull over, I saw Harry and Iris standing together outside. I squealed and a big smile appeared upon my face. I stepped out of the car and ran over to them. I hugged Iris really big. “Babe! How was your day?”, I asked her smiling. “It was truly amazing”, Iris said with the biggest smile. I had never seen her so happy before. “What about yours?”, she asked me. “Exactly the same”, I said smiling. I turned to Harry and hugged him as well. “I hope you treated my best friend well”, I whispered in his ear. I knew it was actually unnecessary to say since Harry is definitely Prince Charming. He started to laugh. “Of course”, he answered with a grin. “Shall we go?”, Niall asked. “To where?”, Iris asked. “Yeah, that’s what I’ve wanted to know the whole drive. Niall was being so mysterious”, I said. “Harry too”, Iris said laughing. Harry and Niall took lead and we just followed them. We stopped in front of a cruise. A dinner cruise. “Ladies first”, Harry said and pointed at the entrance of the boat. “Do I have to take off my heels?”, Iris asked uncertain. “Just go”, I laughed and pushed her in front of me. When we all stepped on the boat, we got welcomed by a waiter. “Mr. Styles and Mr. Horan. Ladies. Please follow me”, the waiter said and he walked in front of us to a table.

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