'Did you still want to go to shopping at Cribbs, today?'

'I don't know, the weather looks pretty bad,' I replied to Jordan who was talking to me on the phone. I looked out the window and my heart dropped. It was pouring; there were puddles in every crack and dip in the road and water was dripping off the roofs of the surrounding houses. It was dark, dreary and barely looked like it was only 11:30 in the morning.

It was summer, believe it or not and Jordan and I had planned a major shopping trip to the Mall after saving up every penny we had for months as a birthday treat for me. It was my birthday in a couple of days anyway, and Jordan thought it would be good to do something. After waking up to the sound of the rain, I'd automatically assumed that the shopping trip was off, so I was sat on my bed in jeans, a t-shirt and had my hair tied up in an untidy bun talking to Jordan with my legs crossed.

'We might as well. We've only got two more weeks left of summer and I've got tons of homework to catch up with,' Jordan argued, clattering around in the background with her laptop. 'This week will be the best; I can use next week for homework.'

I moved to the end of my bed, my feet dangling over the edge. Staring at my collection of One Direction posters, I thought deeply about whether to risk it or stay in and organise the trip for another day.

'Okay, we'll go. I'll just have to text Jess and Emily,' I heard Jordan mutter an 'okay' because she was busy and put the phone down. As I put my phone to my ear to call Jess first, I flicked through the clothes in my wardrobe to pick what I was going to wear. I grabbed a black and white stripy t-shirt, a pair of skinny jeans, my red Converse and one of my favourite hoodies – my limited edition All Time Low one I got from Jack when I met him.

By the time I'd grabbed the clothes off the hangers and got my underwear, Jess had finally picked up.

'Hello?' she sounded like she'd just got up – which she probably had.

'Get up, lazy. The shopping trip's still on; we're leaving soon,'

'Okay, I'll be at yours in a bit; just let me get dressed and I'll walk round,' she told me before I put the phone down.

After I'd called Emily, I got myself ready. I showered, got dressed and put on make-up – I wasn't too heavy on make-up because I didn't want to go round looking plastic so I stuck with black eyeliner and mascara; applying it lightly and not thick. I text Jordan telling her the others knew and we'd leave at 1:00. I grabbed some lunch and headed out the door to Jordan's after Jess arrived.

When we got to Jordan's, Emily was already there in her car. We all piled in and I drove us to the Mall. It was 2:00 in the afternoon by the time we arrived and it took us 15 minutes to try and find a parking space. I drove round in circles while the girls were on look-out for spaces. It may have been grim, but people sure assumed no-one was going to go shopping. Clearly, they were wrong.

When we finally managed to get a spot – right across the car park – we trekked to the shops. It wasn't as busy as I had thought. Surprisingly, it was basically dead.

'Are you sure we haven't just stumbled into the beginning of a zombie apocalypse?' Jordan ridiculously suggested, looking around at the few people who were shopping.

'Or maybe people don't want to come out because the weather is crap?' Emily said bluntly, looking at Jordan with her 'that's-so-stupid' expression.

I rolled my eyes at the two girls, who were fighting over which theory was more believable. It doesn't take a genius to guess who won.

We spent the next two hours wandering around the different shops there were but we spent most of our time in HMV, spread out in the different sections. Jordan and I were busy looking in the rock and metal sections while Emily was in the pop section and Jess was looking at the merchandise. Unlike before, the things I wanted, I got. Usually, whenever I came into Bristol with friends, I had to choose one or the other because I didn't have enough money but now I had loads.

After flicking through a load of CD's and clothes, I finally settled for All Time Low and Paramore CD's and a One Direction t-shirt. Some people thought it was weird, my liking of rock and metal but then loving One Direction. I supposed people didn't think I varied my music much but the truth was I did.

The girls had decided what they were buying and as usual, Jess couldn't choose so she'd bought Paramore, All Time Low, Kids in Glass Houses and Michael Buble CD's, a Kids in Glass Houses t-shirt, a Beatles mug and All Time Low badges. Jordan had been safe and just bought Black Veil Brides and My Passion CD's and Emily only bought Adele and Bruno Mars posters.

After we paid one after the other, we left and the Mall looked completely dead. HMV wasn't as busy as usual and there were hardly any people around at all.

'Well, it's pretty quiet here, isn't it?' Everyone looked at Emily, unimpressed.

Emily was usually the one who stated the obvious even though she had a lot of common sense. No-one bothered to reply to her and we headed straight for Costa Coffee.

We ordered our drinks and grabbed a spot right by the window looking out onto the not-so-busy road. It was still raining and it didn't look like it was going to stop anytime soon.

I sighed.

'Why does the weather have to be so darn bad in England?' Jess asked. This was the first time she'd spoken in ages – she was the quiet one of the group.

'Something to do with us getting the cold from the north, the heat from the west – something like that I can't remember,' I replied, still looking out the window.

When our drinks came, we paid the waitress at the table. I sipped my hot chocolate as Jordan told us about how much of an asshole her ex was.

'... He was such a dick, cheated on me with some whore-bag then tried to sleep with me after he said he was drunk that night,' she explained, emphasising on the drunken part. 'And he's still trying to talk to me.'

'Well, you deserve much better than him, Jordan. He was such an idiot,' Emily said to her. As I took another sip of my drink, I nearly spat it out all over Jordan who was sat opposite me. The only reason was because of what I saw.

'Whoa! Chloe, what was that all about?' Jordan nearly jumped out of her skin with shock.

'I thought I saw... no it wasn't. Ignore me, sorry guys,' I muttered, half to them, half to myself.

'Who was it you saw? Tell us,' Jordan said turning around to look out the window. Then she was the one who spat her drink out but not all over me, all over Jess.

'Ah, crap!' Jess was about to start ranting but Jordan had pulled us under the table before Jess could get another word in. Before we knew it, we'd been shoved under the table and told to be quiet.

'What are you on?' Emily mouthed, gritting her teeth.

'It's Josh. He's here and he's just outside. If he sees me I'm screwed – he'll follow me everywhere until we leave!'

I looked over and saw a tall guy with styled dark hair standing with his friends,

'We can't stay here all day until he goes, can we? Ow,' I whispered, as I hit my head on the table. Jordan muttered something, slowly got up from under the table and sat on the seat like nothing happened, refusing to look back at where she saw Josh. The rest of us got up and looked around, making sure we weren't notice in the cafe looking like complete idiots.

'See? He's gone,' I said, glancing over in the direction Jordan had seen him.

'No he hasn't,' she replied, pointing over to the counter where we got our drinks from. 'He's right over there. Can we leave now?'

Emily and Jess nodded in unison as we grabbed out drinks and sneaked out before we could be spotted. We'd been in Bristol for just over three hours Emily had only just said she had a list of things she needed to get for college next term.

'You could've said when we got here,' I told her, annoyed by the fact that we'd been here for ages and she'd only just told us. 'How long are you gonna be?'

'I don't know. There's only about 7 items so I don't think I'll be long.' With that, Emily ran off to find all her things and told us we were to meet her back at Costa Coffee when she was finished.

'Hey, can we go to the Disney store? I need to get something for my brother,' I suggested to Jordan and Jess, who were quite busy checking out some boys that walked past.

They both nodded and I got my phone out to text my mom as the girls slipped behind to keep the guys in sight. I was texting so I was looking down at my phone and I didn't realise where I was going before it was too late.

All I heard was the girls shout 'Chloe! Look out!' and then I felt something smash against me. I'd walked straight into someone because I wasn't looking where I was going.

'Oh my God, I'm so sorry, I was too busy texting and I didn't look where I was going! I'm really sorry–' I had started rambling and that wasn't a good sign.

By this time the guy I'd walked into turned around and looked at me.

'Hey, calm down, its fine. Don't worry about it,' he said, laughing slightly. I didn't dare look at him but for some reason I automatically lifted my head.

I couldn't believe it.