Never Is A Promise

We all piled into the Range Rover as Harry drove us to a quieter part of downtown where boutiques lined the street, a small movie theater, a few coffee shops and restaurants, a shoe store that Aly and I got really excited about, and a store fully dedicated to accessories. We freely admitted we were shopaholics and I hadn’t gone shopping in 6 months.

As soon as we were out the boys let us decide where we went not expecting us to take off down the street to the cute boutique we’d seen Harry drive past. Aly had immediately grabbed the back of my chair and took off running, pushing me as fast as she could then jumped on the back of my chair, thank God this thing has brakes. The boys stood shocked for a moment before taking off after us chasing us down. They caught us as I slowed to a reasonable speed to turn into the boutique with. Stairs. I made to get out of the chair but the boys beat me to it.
Harry picking up me as Niall grabbed my chair walking it up and into the store Harry and I coming in after as he set me back into the chair, Al already had a ton of clothes in her arms, she tossed half at me, “Go try them on!” the boys laughed as I sputtered under the clothes that had been dumped on me.

“I will after I look around a bit and find my own stuff,” I laughed untangling myself as I began to roll around the store slowly Harry pushing me.

After ten minutes I had sorted through the store and found the top things I wanted to try on, all shirts and dresses since pants and skirts were difficult to work around in the chair. I looked around to find Aly and laughed, “Is that Niall or a blonde clothing rack?” I asked pointing, Harry laughed at the sight of his friend covered in a mountain of clothing, but still grinning through it all holding Aly’s hand as she pulled him toward a cute blue dress that she’d probably force me into at some point.

I bought a new wardrobe that day for my new job, I only had to listen to Harry whine about me not showing him each outfit, I had simple told him to wait patience is a virtue, knowing how he hated that pro-verb. And sure enough I heard him grumbling about it after I said it. We had split up from Aly and Niall for about a while since she had wanted to go into every shop. As Harry and I moved to the coffee shop with big fluffy chairs we could curl up on. I handed him a few pounds to get me a cider. I rolled over to a plush green chair, moving into the fluffy chair I decided to use my phone to check my bank accounts and see how much I had drained them I had spent a good 900 at least already today. I logged in, that couldn’t be right it said I hadn’t bought anything today. I refreshed the page just to get the same result. I looked up to see Harry putting the money I’d given him into the single bag of mine he was holding for me. That little trickster!

He walked over with our drinks “So where to after this?” he asked innocently.

“I’m not sure I have more money in my account then I thought I would.” I said turning to look at him as he sat down next to me in the chair pulling my legs over his.

“You checked your bank?” he asked his eyes widening slightly.

I nodded “In fact according to my bank I haven’t spent any money today, any ideas on why that is Styles?” He coughed shrugging I glared at him “Harry Styles have you been paying for me?” He looked away whistling before looking back at me, I shook my head. “Harry!”

“What, can I not pay for my date?”

“Harry that’s a lot of stuff!” He laughed, “I’m paying you back”

He stopped laughing brushing my bangs back “No your not, I bought it because I wanted to. Besides I won’t have you spending money you may need when I have more than enough.”

“I don’t even want to know how much money you have.” I said resting my head on his shoulder He chuckled his chest rumbling deeply with how deep his voice had gotten. “Just warn me next time you decide to pay for me, so its not quite a shock to me that I still have my money.” He smirked.

“Aww I rather liked you flipping out at me about it, it was cute.” I smacked his arm gently pouting up at him. He laughed again pulling me closer and kissing my forehead, before pulling out his phone. “Niall is wondering if we want to catch a movie at 4 with them.”

“Sure what time is it?” I asked as Harry texted Niall back.

“3:55 the theater is a block away, we can meet them at the car to drop off bags on the way.“ I nodded starting to push myself up, before Harry picked me up and put me into the wheel chair.
“I can do that myself you know.” I said poking his hip.

“I know, I just like doing it.” Flashing me a bright smile, dimples and all, I swear he could get away with murder just by flashing that smile.

We moved out the door cameras flashing as he pushed me down the street ignoring the paparazzi, I smiled at least their last PR manager had taught them that much. We stopped at the car to find Aly and Niall both waiting holding at least 4 bags in each hand. “Get enough clothes?” I laughed seeing as she had twice the amount of clothes I did.

We walked quickly to the theater the boy’s keeping us close, I was surprised that we hadn’t run into any fans yet, but we still had a while. “What do you want to see?” Niall asked holding Aly hand pulling her in front of him resting his head on her shoulder her height making her perfect, I have to admit I am jealous of her 5’4” I had to wear heels to even get close to that like I had been last night. The chemo had stunted my growth at 5 foot it was a little weird since I was the shortest in the family that was otherwise pretty tall. I shrugged resting my head on Harry’s hip since it was closest to me.

“Only one way to decided!” Aly and I said I laughed as she put her arm up going up and down the movie list speeding up and slowing down I closed my eyes waiting a few seconds “Stop” I said Aly laughed as she came to the name of a horror movie “Ummm no.” I said wheeling back a little unike Aly who loved horror movies I hated them with a passion. “I’d rather the Disney movie” I said.

Niall and Harry rolled there eyes “We’ll pick” Niall said walking up to the box office and grabbing tickets, a romantic comedy, the safe choice. We walked into the theater as Harry sent a text to the boy’s security where they were and when the movie got out just incase it got really bad. I sighed knowing the boys Harry and Niall out on a date could cause a riot of angry girls.
Harry pulled me into his lap for the movie as we sat in the handicap seating Aly and Niall moving up to the back of the theater. “You know I’m normally not this comfortable with a girl right away.”

“Well I haven’t dated anyone in two years so I know what you mean, but I feel comfortable with you too.” I said smiling as he kissed me before pulling me close as we cuddled for the movie. I have to admit it felt nice to be back in Harry’s arms.

The security met us outside the theater escorting us to the car blocking the paparazzi from getting to close as they called to Niall and Harry asking the generic questions ‘Who are the girls?’ ‘Are you dating?’ ‘What’s happened with you and the DJ Lucy Horbin’ ‘How are things between you and Caroline?’ ‘What happened to Demi?’ The boys ignored the questions and continued walking making sure to keep Aly and I close they knew how aggressive the paparazzi could be. We climbed into the car Harry texting the name of the restaurant we were headed to, to the security before taking off.

The rest of the night went smoothly, as we all ate dinner together then went for a walk to get dessert. While walking a few girls recognized the boys, asking for autographs, the boy’s nodded being perfect gentlemen as they talked to the girls that were waiting for the boys to finish up the autographs they had asked for. Another few girls gathered around, “Are you guys out on a date?” One of the girls from the original group asked.

“Phst yeah a charity date with the girl that looks like a bulimic and a girl in a wheelchair” a girl from the new group said to her friends. Even though we all heard it we ignored the girl’s rude comments that she continued to make at our expense.

Finally when it was their turn the boys were curt and forced smiles but they kept up the image that put on for the other fans, before politely dismissing themselves to get back to their date. Both were fuming “ I don’t get it most of our fans are super nice and love seeing us happy” Niall said linking hands with Aly as we walked into the ice cream parlor. Niall ordered for us as we went to grab a table.

“What’s up?” I asked Harry something was bugging him. “Is it what the girls said?”

“How’d you know?” he asked laughing

“It was pretty obvious mate” Niall said holding two milkshakes. “It wouldn’t have mattered who
we were with they’d have found something to say.”

I laughed, “True one of the reasons girls talk shit about each other is because they are jealous,” Aly nodded.

“You don’t have to worry about me, the worst blow to my self esteem was during school dances, where you watched Kole get asked to the dance by every guy in the damn school.”

I burst out laughing “I forgot about that, and it wasn’t every guy” I countered.

“How’d you forget THAT! It was damn close to every guy. Made me wish she’d stayed in her awkward phase”

“Jake. Hugh, Gavin, Lou,” I started listing names

“They are all gay!” Aly laughed

“Gavin is Bi,” I laughed “or did he finally decide to quit kissing Clara?” Aly nodded.

“Well Harry never mentioned Mickole was that hot.” Niall said dodging Harry’s kick to his shin.
“Oh they dated when she was still in her awkward phase.” Aly said “She was pretty before but, hot damn after –ow” I kicked her under the table Harry looked at her “brainfreeze?” she asked I laughed as the boys just nodded.

“You two are something else” Harry said. As he leaned back in his chair holding my hand, smiling at me as I sipped the milkshake.

Niall and Aly were talking quietly, I rested my head on Harry’s shoulder handing him the drink. “my stomach hurts“ I admitted.

“Well at least you could eat some actual food today.” Harry said.

“Yeah, I really hate that all I had was salad and a fruit smoothie. I think my stomach hates me,” I groaned as he laughed at me.

“Dramatic much” he asked smirking.

“I’m allowed to be once in a while,” I said poking his dimple in response before resting my head back on his shoulder.

Harry’s phone went off. “What up Lou?... Oh really… shit its that late!... Niall that meeting with Simon we thought was tomorrow, is tonight, the boys are wondering where we are.”

“Fuck!” Niall said his eye widening.

“Yeah Lou we’ll be there as soon as we can.” Harry said hanging up the phone. All of us getting the message and standing up to leave.

“Shit we are gonna be so late, we still have to drop the girls off.” Niall said hugging Aly close “I don’t wanna.”

“Then bring us with we can stay out in the car or in the lobby or something” Aly said. The boys smiled nodding as we piled into the car, the boys up front us in the back as Aly showed me what she had purchased for the day.

Harry parked right in front of the building tossing the keys at a valet. “Go! We’ll find a place to sit without you two,” I said waving them in. They both shot us a grateful look as they took off at a sprint toward the building.

Aly looked at me and grabbed her phone and flipped on the video camera zooming in on the door and hit play “Wait for it,” Aly said We watched as Harry got to the door starting to pull it open when Niall failed to stop short slamming into him as they both hit the door. We laughed as the boys both blushed as Aly hit stop “Hello twitter” she said then I noticed she had taken Niall’s phone.

“Oh the fan’s are gonna love that” I laughed knowing how the fans shipped the boys together so much.

We walked toward the doors and up the stairs laughing as Aly read the responses. We found the downstairs lounge just as Simon Cowell was walking out to go meet the boys.

“I was just about to have someone call you, Kara these are the two girls get them set up.” He said walking past us toward his office.

“You two are the boys new PR Managers?” We nodded “Alright then right this way, we will need official applications a resume and Mr Cowell has already submitted your letters of recommendation, what ever you did impressed him enough for him to write you one himself. Right now I’m going to show you to your desks and get you the name tags, then while I put you into our system and get you all set up with Syco you can fill out the applications and other papers.”

We nodded “How long with it take, Harry and Niall are our ride.”

“Not long, don’t worry, Mr. Cowell wants to introduce you to the boys as their new PR people, they were not happy about the stunt the old one pulled at the meet and greet last night.”

“I don’t blame them, unfiltered questions and them being forced by contract to answer all questions, not a smart PR move.”

“Wow, she did that?” Kara asked setting up a printer we nodded “She turned to Aly “What name would you like to go by here?”

“Aly, or Al with one L.” She responded.

“Ok and –“ Kara looked to me

“MJ” I said.

“Oh you should do M-Jace” Aly said bringing up the other nickname I had from volleyball.

“What No! M-Jace is a nickname from high school! I’ll stick with MJ,” I spelled it out for Kara as soon as she was done typing she hit enter.

“Alright first up your new desks then name tags meet the boys then get the paperwork going.” She explained walking out of the room and into the elevator “You’ll be working on the 39th floor,” she said, I looked at the buttons 40. We followed her as she walked out of the elevator. “You’re in the atrium,” She pointed to the room at the end of the hall.

We walked down expecting cubicles. What we got was a huge room with a ceiling and two walls of windows and a bunch of desks in arranged into giant plus signs ‘+’ two desks for each person in the middle were electronic signs for who the employer was, position and their name. We followed Kara to the other side of the room, “Each artist gets there own set of tables and you work within the artist so these two desk sets are for One Direction.” She said. Motioning to the electronic signs “And these are the desks you’ll be at. Now if you could start on the applications that are at your desks I’ll go get your name tags and desk tags.” We nodded as she turned to leave.

We looked at the desks, laptops, mini fridge underneath, a fuzzy phone, note pads, lamps, drawers, file cabinet, a plush desk chair, everything you’d need. “Aly” she looked over as I pointed to the side of the room we just came from, up a spiral stair case were a bunch of offices in one that had an all glass front was Simon talking to the boys.

“Wow, this is actually happening” she giggled, I could only smile in response as we sat down to work on the applications.

We finished the Applications just as Kara came back “Alright so I got your nametags and also signed you into the system, here is your login information and nametags.” Kara said before a knock was heard on the glass from up stairs. Simon had knocked on the door “Time to see the boys” Kara said “Put on the nametags for him,” she added as took the elevator up instead of the spiral staircase to Simon’s office.

We moved into the room with Kara “Well boys it seems as you’ve made a few good choices in finding these two ladies, which is why after yesterday and the PR stunt that Manda pulled we have hired Aly and MJ to take her place.” Simon said causing the boys to cheer, jumping up to hug us. “Well you guy took that really well.” Simon said smirking.

The boys ignored him, as Louis as asked random questions “Can I yell curse words?”

“No” Aly said.

“Can I come out as Gay?”

“Not while you’re with El” I told him.

“Can I post a picture of Harry cooking naked?” He asked.

“Hey!”

“That’s up to Harry” I laughed.

“Ok!” Simon said calling everyone’s attention “I see that we are done here, I’ll see you all soon. Aly, MJ you start in 2 days”

“Yes Sir” We said as we headed out the doors.

“Come on lets get you two home, its late” Harry said kissing my forehead as we sat in the elevator heading down to the ground floor.

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