Love you, X Lou

We perform on stage?!

"Guys, guys, listen up."

I try to get their attention, but they're all japping away. You wouldn't even hear a bomb go off with the noise those three are making. Harry is ofcourse listening to me, he always does. I'm glad he's well again. School was dull without Harry, I missed him.

Harry suddenly shouts.
"SHUT UP!!!"
And Harry never shouts, so now half of the lunch hall is quiet, simply out of shock. I gently pat his back.

"Easy love, nearly gave me a heartattack then. But seriously, listen up guys."

Atleast I have their attention now.

"You know next month we got this autumn dance right?"

They nod and Zayn grins.

"More like  a glorified Halloween party."

He's not exactly wrong. The dance is always on the friday before Halloween, wich is in the weekends this year, and usually all students ans teachers dress up like it's Halloween. But that's not the point now.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. The school board is looking for bands to perform that night. They want multiple bands so they can take turns and everyone can enjoy the party. So I was thinking, lets sign us up!"

We share looks between one another and then they all start protesting and asking questions all at once."

"Niall is the only one who plays guitar."

"Performing in front of an audience? Louis, are you mad? We're not good enough for that!"

"What would we even sing?"

"What band name would we use then?"

My ears are ringing. They're all so loud and all talking at once.

"QUIET!"

When they all shut up I take a deep breath.

"Niall isn't the only one who plays guitar, we got wonderboy now, remember? Harry plays guitar and piano too. And I bet Niall and Harry could ask some people from their music class to be the instrumental part of the band. I DO think we're good enough to perform on stage, and we still got four weeks to practice. I've been thinking I might write a song or two meself, so that's no problem. Band name is a good question though. Suggestions anyone?"

I look around the table. They all seem to be at loss for ideas and then Harry mumbles something.

"Speak up love, I can't hear you."

"One Direction."

"One direction? How'd you come up with that?"

"Well, if we're on stage, we'll all be looking in one direction, right? The audience."

I look at his blushing shy face for a second, as he is obviously convinced he said something stupid, and then I nod.

"Simple, but effective. One Direction it is then. Niall, Harry, you ask people in your music class to join our band. Zayn, could you ask your mother if we can practice in your garage? I'll write the songs , so Liam, you are in charge of our outfits."

"Wait!"Zayn says. "What do we dress as? It's a Halloween party after all."

"Vampires!" says Liam.

"Yessss, good idea, Li!"

"SEXY vampires", Zayn adds with a creepy grin. And then he shouts, "OW! 'Vas happening?" because Liam whacked him in the head.

..................................

The next four weeks are a rollercoaster. Liam actually manages to have these dashing vampire outfits custom made for us and buys us all red contacts and fake fangs. Anne offers to do our make-up to make us look more scary and, you know, like living dead. At least she doesn't offer to make us sparkle.