Stand Up – Prologue – Beginning of an Infection


"Liana Rosado Medina!"

The aforementioned Liana was sitting with her legs crossed on her bed, hunched over a thick book, heavily focused on the text in front of her. She glanced upwards for a moment, looking at the closed doorway that her mother was probably standing behind. She could clearly paint the picture in her mind of a diminutive woman with arms angrily crossed, tapping her foot impatiently, her brow creased in frustration.

Lily rolled her eyes at the thought. "Que pasa, mami? What is it?" The girl shifted herself to a lying position, her textbook propped up on the white wooden headboard of the bed.

"Are you studying for your test tomorrow or are you on Tumblr again?" The yell was piercing to her ears despite the wooden door barricaded between them and the headphones blasting music to her eardrums.

Lily groaned heavily in frustration. She'd been studying all night, all day, all week in fact and at this rate she'd end up hitting the books and staying up all night.

"Estoy estudiando! Do you want me to list to you all the types of essays? There's argumentative, narrative, exposito–"

"Okay, I get it, keep it up mija."

Across the door her mother produced a vague appreciative noise and left Lily back to her studies. Gracias a Dios! The dark haired girl sighed yet again (she figured she'd be doing that for the rest of the term) and tried to – failingly – focus on the words in front of her.

All essays are to one point persuasive as they try to convince the reader of–

"My brain is going to explode," she yelled out to the heavens, well, more like the ceiling above. Lily let her head drop into her striped pillow headfirst, her continuous whining muffled by the fabric. Ugh, I deserve a break…

Slowly, she lifted herself off the bed, shaking her dark curls in an effort to wake up the rest of her functioning brain cells. That was a bad idea. Her headphones, which had been loosely hanging around her neck, fell to the floor with rapid movement of her head. "Shit!"

Groaning, she knelt on the bed and propped herself forwards, reaching with an outstretched hand under her bed. Damn headphones, damn day, damn studies…the fuck? Her hand touched something else that was definitely not what she had been looking for. Confused and curious, this time she precariously leant her whole body down to scan underneath her bed. A wicked grin slowly stretched across her face as she picked up what her hand had grazed earlier.

Hello, my lovely little distraction…


"Oh yeah! I'm such a rebeeeeel! Doing exactly what mother said not to dooooo," whispered-singed Lily in an impromptu song as she fitted the mini Dell laptop comfortably on her lap.

"My dear Tumblr, I have missed you and your virtual addictive goodness so much this month," she murmured lovingly. Oh boy, it's been one month of Uni and I'm already going crazy.

The young girl rubbed her hands excitedly as she waited for the Tumblr homepage to load.

A frown marred Lily's features as she scrolled continuously down on the internet page.

"What is this curly-haired mofo doing invading my dashboard?"

For some odd reason the usual mess of gifs and posts had been replaced by a sudden influx of the mention of carrots, superman, spoons, some foreign thing called "Hazza," and an infestation of the mention of 1d, always 1d. What did it even mean? One diabetic? One diarrhea? One delusion? Maybe it was some new trend she had no idea about? The girl pouted and tugged a curl in annoyance. Well, she did have a tendency to disappear from Tumblr and wind up finding about everything way later than everyone else.

Who the hell am I following that is re-blogging all this shit? Lily inclined forward, narrowing her eyes in concentration. She scrambled to reach for her glasses on the bedside table situated next to her, jamming them onto her face as rapidly as she could. Now that the words didn't look like a monstrous blur she could see that the culprit was someone named "1d to Mcfly." The young girl scrunched up her nose in confusion, she didn't remember following anybody named that. In fact, she followed no more than eleven accounts, most of them being her real life friends.

Lily clicked on the username and – Oh, that's Sunny. Why'd she change her username from pioneerwizard to this? Yep, it was definitely her closest female friend, and her page was full of links to songs she'd never heard about and obscure references to things she had no idea what they had to with.

"Why, in the name of the House of Weasley, would something about a carrot have more than eight-hundred notes?" To Lily this was one of the many mysteries of Tumblr, the strangest things seemed to become popular for no apparent reason.

Lily rolled her brown eyes in disdain; well that was enough, she had wasted too much of her time looking through one of Sunny's obsessive phases. It was time to set her eyes on the prize – the Harry Potter fandom.

Hmm, Matthew Lewis looks particularly delicious in that gif.


"Lily! It's nine at night, check your blood sugar!"

"Already on it!" Not.

A yawn escaped her mouth as she stretched her arms out. Lily gently moved the laptop off of her legs, placing it on the soft comforter of the bed. She quickly reached for the blue medical kit on her bedside table, before her mother could get to the room, and unzipped the bag and let its contents fall to the bed.

Time for some mood music, she thought absently. Unpleasant activities called for something to rock out to.

She clicked on the open Tumblr tab, her eyes scanned for the links she had seen earlier. Lily smirked, she figured if she couldn't beat Sunny she might as well join her, the girl usually ended up liking what her friend listened to anyway.

She dragged the arrow towards the link that read "1d Lyric Video" which transported her to an unknown youtube page. With headphones snugly hugging her ears, Lily waited for the video to load as she plugged the small needle to check her sugar levels. She jumped a bit when the needle hit her skin, but it was mostly due to the jarring noise rather than the sting. Quickly she squeezed her finger to let out more blood and let the stick and gluco-machine do their job as she waited for it to register the number. And 5…4…3…2…217? No wonder I'm in a bitch mood tonight. She sighed deeply, high sugar levels just meant drink lots of water, do a bit of exercise, and wait until later to eat a snack. Lily sadly took her headphones in hand as her hungry stomach rumbled and was about to disconnect them from the computer until….

You're insecure/Don't know what for/You're turning heads when you walk through the doh oh or…

She jumped in surprise at the sudden noise that blasted her eardrums.

Everyone else in the room can see it/Everyone else but youuuu…

Lily's lower jaw dropped and her eyes widened considerably. "Mami! Angels are singing, I've got angels singing in my computer!" She yanked the cord out of the laptop and let the sound waves travel across the hallway and through the entirety of the house.

"If this is another Jonas Brothers song I don't care Lily!"

Lily grabbed the laptop, jumped off the bed, and ran down the hallway careful not bump into any corners. "This is better than them mami, I don't know who they are but they're amazing!"

Her mother was sitting on the sofa of the TV room watching a Spanish soap opera. She raised an eyebrow at her daughter's harried state, chuckled at her antics and turned down the volume of the television. "Okay let's hear it, then."

"It's a group, I think. I'm pretty sure I hear different voices in the song." Placing herself next to her mother, she lodged the laptop between both of them.

Baby you light up my word like nobody else/The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed/But when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell…

Her mother smiled as she bobbed her head in time to the song. "They're good, so who are they?"

Lily furrowed her brow, "I don't know, let me look at the title again." In her hurry she had accidentally minimized the window, the girl clicked on the bottom bar again, opening the window, and read.

"They're called One Direction."

You don't know oh oh/That's what makes you beautiful…

And as you all know dear friends, the infection had only just begun.


Hola fellow Directioners! (I'm assuming you are if you're reading this fic). In case if anyone wonders if this stuff actually happens in real life…it does. This is actually based on how I found about One Direction – and yes my mother is that cool, she's a fellow Directioner, too. Having established that, Lily is NOT me.

I hope you stay for the ride because the official first chapter is already in the process of being written. Just need to finish it up and edit.

Anywho, tell me what you think of it so far! The good, the bad (but maybe not the ugly) of reviews are welcomed.

Simply,

ThatOne

P.S. "Pioneerwizard" is an actual Tumblr account. Go follow her and her 1D blog, "dessi-horan"

P.P.S. Speculations, anyone? Do you guys have any inkling of who she could possibly end up with? ;p