Katie! (:
Long time, no speak?
Guess where I am tomorrow afternoon…
London!
We should meet up, let me know…
- Joe x

I gulped a little as I read the message through once more to make sure I was seeing things right, surely it was some mistake? Joe had been a close friend of mine since the beginning of high school but he moved to Ireland just as we were going into Year 10 and I hadn't seen him since. We were never officially dating but we were kind of flirts in denial.

"Are you going to meet him?" Bex questioned, already knowing what the DM had said. That was a good question…Was I going to meet him? Did I want to? Well, of course I wanted to…I hadn't seen him in forever and we were best friends but at the same time I didn't want to face any awkward silences or running out of things to say, it'd been so long.
"I'm not sure…it's a bit of a shock really isn't it?" I sighed trying to sound calm,
"I think you should. What's the worst that could happen?" Sarah added.
True…
-

"I find it so cool that you're working on running your own business…I like people with ambition" I laughed stirring my Frappuccino with the straw, we'd been sitting in Starbucks since 4 O'clock and even though it was only 5, it was completely pitch black outside.
"Well, you knew that was a dream of mine for ages" Joe laughed handing his empty mug to the waitress, "What about you? What're you doing?"
"Well besides crappy GCSE's, I just got a job as a tour dancer" I grinned. I still couldn't get used to saying that!

"Wow really? That's so cool…What tour?"
"One Direction…I don't know if you've heard of them? They were on the X-Factor"
"Kate, I moved to Ireland…Not to another planet, of course I know who they are!" he laughed hitting my arm from across the table, I couldn't believe how natural everything felt, first of all I was worried about awkwardness but I clearly had no reason too.

"I have missed you Kate" he's voice was lower than it had been before and he's face seemed a lot more serious…Maybe I spoke too soon when I thought there was no awkwardness,
"I've missed you too!" I tried to reply as casually as possible. A silence built up and I could sense that neither of us knew where to look, so I decided on out the window…wow it was dark…and only five o'clock...

Five o'clock

Shit!

Evening rehearsals!

I jumped to my feet and quickly tucked in my chair, "oh my god Joe, this is so rude of me but I have to go! I forgot all about me having afternoon rehearsals!" After giving him a quick hug I quickly burst out the shop and marched onto the pavement and waved down the first Taxi available,
"Katie, wait! At least let me get in the car with you…" I heard Joe laugh as he followed me into the black vehicle,
"Trafalgar Studios please…Block 7" I panted as the car began to move.
-

I'd been on my edge, too nervous to talk through the whole of the journey to Trafalgar Studios, I had a really bad feeling that somehow the car would breakdown half way there and I'd be majorly late and get chucked off tour but as I glanced at the digital clock on the Taxis radio I saw that it read "16:56"…I would've happily said I arrived not a moment too soon.

"Right Joe, ring me tomorrow and I promise I'll make this up to you!" I said as I passed the money to the driver,
"You better, Bernal" he jokingly glared at me while I gave him the finger in response before getting out of the car and walking towards the studios.

I couldn't help but get the same nervous feeling I had when I first auditioned for the tour, it felt like I almost had even more to prove to everyone that'd be watching me like a hawk today. I pushed open one of the fire escapes as a short cut and wondered down a long hallway until I came to the main part of the building which was a lime green colour with the letter "G" painted on the floor, which I assumed stood for 'Ground Floor'.

My feelings had suddenly gone from panicked…to calm…to panicked again, I had no clue in the slightest as to where I was suppose to be and I was due in rehearsals in five minutes,
"Katieeee" I heard a kind of familiar voice call from behind me.

I turned round to see Helen and Brogan standing outside the door to what looked like a dance studio
"Oh my god, have I missed much?" I asked nervously running towards them,
"No…not a lot at all, we've just been warming up and talking to some of the other girls" Brogan laughed, "we haven't started any of the serious stuff yet"
"oh good" I laughed, trying not to sound too relieved

"AND AGAIN! 5, 6, 7, 8…" Our choreographer, Freddie, yelled over the introduction of 'Summer of 69'. We'd been dancing non stop for about two hours and a half and I could literally feel my legs dissolving into jelly underneath me,
"Energy girls!" Freddie yelled, joining in with the runtime we'd been perfecting. At that moment in time I really wanted to just turn around and punch her in the face…but this was the shot I'd been waiting to get! There was no way I was going to go all diva about it – I would've happily danced until I literally collapsed and passed out.

"Wait hold on…" Freddie called turning down the music, "Jess I want you to stand on the end besides Louis…Chloe I want you slightly behind but bang in the middle of Harry and Liam and I want Katie to come round so she's on the end next to Zayn…" she ordered. Forcing my legs to move some more a hopped to the other side of the dance studio over to where Zayn was,

"Hi!" he laughed as I got to his side,
"Hello" I panted back…not even daring to look at myself in the mirror as I looked like an absolute wreck,
"you're definitely not worn out…" he teased clearly taking note of my tomato face, slobbish tracksuit and static hair.
….Brilliant!

"Do you dance often?" I heard Harry ask Brogan and Helen as everyone began to call it a day and empty out from the studio,
"No definitely not Harry…They've never danced it their lives, they just turned up at our audition because they felt like it and happened to be brilliant" Louis replied and naturally, of course, Brogan and Helen laughed at his sarcastic sense of humour.

"Are you girls all coming tomorrow?" Niall smiled; thankfully turning around to look at me also…otherwise it would've been a bit awkward,
"going where?" Brogan asked,
"Just to the bar in our hotel, loads of people are going…like to get to know each other and all that jazz!" Louis replied. It was so obvious by the looks on the girls' faces that they were there.

I wanted to be there
but then I'd already promised Joe we'd go out tomorrow…
Go or no go?