Andromeda
After a bit I wander back to our seats. The opening band has started playing, and Jane is looking around, probably wondering where the heck I wandered off to.
I slide into the seat next to Jane.
She looks at me and frowns, "everything okay? Did you get lost?"
I blink and then say almost in one breath, "a bit. I missed the bathroom by one door, managed to hit Harry Styles in the head with the door, blabbed to him about bathrooms and doors and being sorry and then came back with my pride utterly shattered.
Alexis whips her head around really fast and leans her head around Jane to look at me, "What? What? How the hell did that happen?" she screams.
Jane is just gaping at me in shock, with her eyes as big as saucers.
My face is starting to turn red again, "the signage sucks in this building."
Alexis continues to scream, "you are telling us ABSOLUTELY everything right now or so help me I will go into cardiac arrest!" She's getting louder and most of the girls in our vicinity are looking at us. Luckily the band on stage hasn't noticed the disturbance yet.
"Calm down. I don't want to cause a scene. Everyone is already looking," Alexis doesn't look like she is going to calm down any time soon. "I'll only tell you if you promise to be absolutely silent."
If looks could kill I'd be a puddle of goo right now from the laser beams shooting out of Alexis's eyes, "Are you fu-"
Jane jabs her in the ribs before she can finish, "Alexis, there are little girls here! And I wanna know what happened!"
So, during the songs of the opening band I tell them everything that happened. I kinda feel bad for the opening band because I'm talking during their songs, but if I don't I'm pretty sure even Jane won't be able to stop Alexis from torturing the story out of me in front of everyone.
When I finish, both Alexis and Jane are gawking at me in complete stupefied shock. I give them a minute to recover but when they don't I start to get concerned. "Are you two okay? Remember I was the one who just hit a celebrity in the head with a door." The image of Harry coming on stage with a cartoon size welt on his head distracts me momentarily and I grimace, "I hope he doesn't come on stage with a big welt."
They continue to gawk, and it finally begins to dawn on me exactly what I've done. Apart from hit a guy with a door that is. "Oh my god. I just make a compete fool of myself in front of Harry Styles," I moan and put my head in my hands. "Please kill me now."
Jane still seems unable to say anything but she reaches over to me and puts an arm around my shoulder, hugging me reassuringly.
Alexis is making these weird gargling noises that remind me a bit of a baby.
"Shit," I continue to moan.
"It'll be okay dear, promise," Jane says, though she is still completely floored by what happened to me. Have I mentioned she is the best friend in the world? She's the only person who would comfort me in complete shock.
I shake my head; "I just made a fool out of myself in every way possible. Oh God," I moan.
Jane pats my hair, "it couldn't have been that bad. Harry Styles manages to make a fool out of himself all the time.
Alexis has now moved past baby sounds to strangling noise. Normally I would be alarmed, but I'm to absorbed in my own embarrassing problems to care.
"I talked about bathrooms! It would have been bad if it was just a normal boy," I pause for emphasis, "but it was Harry Styles! He's probably telling everyone how stupid I am right now." I'm back to moaning.
"Are you kidding? He's done far worse than that! You have absolutely nothing to worry about," Jane says, squeezing my shoulder.
"Bathrooms?! You meet Harry fucking Styles and all you can talk about is bathrooms?!" Alexis screeches, obviously having gotten her voice back.
I moan, "You know I was starting to feel okay. But I'm back to shit. Thanks Alexis," I try to glare at her but fail miserably, looking instead like I'm about to cry.
Jane, the angel she is, rolls her eyes, "Please, Andi. If Alexis had met Liam the way you just met Harry she wouldn't have been able to shut up about bathrooms." She shoots Alexis a warning look.
Alexis mumbles, "sorry… but seriously bathrooms?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't exactly plan it that way. It was what was on the fore front of my mind at the time," I look at her apologetically.
"Even with Harry motherfucking Styles, the god of curly headed perfection, standing right in front of you, all you had in the front of your mind was bathrooms? How did he not completely distract you?!" Alexis sounds dumbfounded.
I switch from moaning to blurting random facts that no one wants to know. "Alexis, when you are completely embarrassed and nervous in front of someone you say the first thing in your head. And for me that happens to be whatever random fact I find most prevalent to the situation. In that case it was about how the words in German look nothing like ours and it sucks when you're trying to find a bathroom without the little stick people to guide you because you don't want to walk into the wrong one." I squeeze my eyes shut, "Okay. I'm still in that mode. Can I go home now?" I look pleadingly at Jane sounding like a five-year-old child.
She grins at me and winks. "No dear. We have to check and see if you've given the one and only Harry Styles a welt on his forehead," she says, waggling her eyebrows.
Despite my embarrassment I still laugh a little, "I love you sis." I say as I hug her.
"Love you too dear," she says back.
Alexis grumbles next to Jane, "I still can't believe you even got to meet him at all… fucking lucky."
I look at her completely serious, "Next time I'll drag you with me and we can talk about bathrooms together." I start to laugh a bit, realizing just how funny this whole situation is, now that I'm distanced a bit from it.
Alexis laughs too, "Sorry I made you feel bad." She shakes her head, "Bathrooms."
"God, I'm never going to be able to hear that word without turning bright red and laughing," I mutter.
Jane chuckles evilly and waggles her eyebrows again. Obviously she's planning on never letting me live this down.
I crack up, and soon all three of us are laughing, right up until the point that the guys from the opening band say their goodbyes and everyone waits in anticipation for One Direction to come on stage. Well, everyone but me, who is secretly dreading the moment incase Harry Styles does come on stage with a welt.
The curtain opens and suddenly I can't hear myself think through all the girls screaming. Through the jumping girls I can see the five boys smiling and waving at all of us in the audience. I look closer at Harry and see, thank God, that he doesn't have a welt, or even a red mark that is visible. Thank that curly hair of his.
I collapse on my seat in relief. Jane looks down at me concerned and I shout into her ear, "He doesn't have a welt!"
She grins and nods, then turns back to the stage.
By the time intermission rolls around I'm pretty sure Alexis has screamed herself horse. Half the girls in the audience probably have. The boys have played about five to ten songs and have talked in between them. The rest of the boys seem just as nice as Harry, though I still don't know how they handle all the attention.
The second they get off stage Alexis turns to us, "Let's go, we have to get to the twitter stage."
She drags Jane and me up to the very front. We're actually right next to the stage, so I'll be able to see them. And more importantly they'll be able to see me.
I don't really pay attention to the questions that they answer, I mean I hear what they're saying and I store it away for possible use later. But I have something else on my mind. Or more accurately someone.
I'm trying to watch Harry as inconspicuously as possible. A couple of times I catch him looking at me, probably thinking that I'm the biggest idiot in the world.
"Okay everyone," Harry says smiling at all of us. "I'd like to announce the winners for the backstage passes today. They are Ms. Andromeda Larsen and her friends Jane and Alexis from row E seats 4, 5, and 6." He walks over to where the three of us are standing and kneels down. In turn he gives us high fives, then stands up and walks back to the middle. "We'll see you ladies after the show." And I could have sworn he winked at me.
Currently my face is redder than a sunburnt tomato. Jane is grinning like she has just won the biggest prize on earth, her eyes completely focused on Niall Horan.
I put my arm around Alexis who is so happy that she is actually sobbing with joy. She turns and hugs all of the air out of me. "Thank you."
"For what?" I ask, thoroughly confused. We all put our names on a piece of paper, along with the people we wanted to bring with us, up to three. I just got lucky.
Jane rolls her eyes, "Jesus Andi, we're going back there because of you."
"Me? Why would he want to see me again?" I look from her to Alexis.
Jane smiles, "I'm sure you're going to find out."
