There he was; standing there with his icy blue eyes, his chocolate brown hair – clearly dyed – and the warmest smile you could possibly imagine. Dressed casually, and arms filled with shopping bags, Louis Tomlinson – one fifth of One Direction for the people who didn't know who he was – was standing right in front of me. I stood there, frozen to the spot and unable to move until Louis shook me.

'Hey, are you okay? I'm not that hard am I?' He said in a joking kind of way which was cute.

'Sorry, I'm just... I never thought I'd see you here, I explained, not bothering to see whether the others were still here or had disappeared. 'You being really famous and everything.'

'Yeah, well, as you can see there aren't many people around so I thought this was the best time to do some shopping? Weirdly, not one person has come up to me and said "hey you're that guy from One Direction" and no screaming super fans have attacked me... yet,'

'Hey, you're not saying I'm a super fan girl, are you?' I said, crossing my arms and pretending to look insulted. He just laughed.

'No, I'm just hoping you aren't,' he replied, adjusting his bags so they didn't leave marks in his arms. He ended up putting them on the floor.

'Hey have you got any paper?' Which was an unusual question for him to ask but I rummaged around in my bag and found a scrap piece of paper. I handed it to him and he pulled out a Sharpie from his pocket and scribbled his autograph on it. I glanced round to see if Jess and Jordan were still there, which they were, and saw that they were flicking from the guys they'd seen and me and Louis.

As he handed me back the paper I said, 'this is kind of a routine for you isn't it? You see someone who's a fan, sign and leave. You must get bored, don't you?'

'I haven't really thought about it. It's a routine sure, but I don't think I've ever thought of it as boring. I'm just happy people like me; I used to be hated at school.' Louis glanced down at the ground awkwardly, like he was ashamed of why people hated him.

I decided to change the subject.

'So where are the other guys? Are they with you?' I didn't want to bog him down with questions, but it seemed weird that he was on his own.

'Yeah... I'm kinda not talking to them at the moment. We had an argument and it lead to us going off in different directions for a while,' Louis explained. I laughed.

'Ha, that's ironic. One direction? Different directions? Sorry, it was amusing at the time,' I just embarrassed myself in front of, possibly, the cutest guy ever.

To my surprise, he laughed too.

'Dude that's quick thinking; I like you,' He smiled again which made my insides go funny. As we laughed, what sounded like his phone started ringing.

'Hello? Yes... No, I'm in the Mall... sure I'll be there now,' He looked at me with a sad face. "I've gotta leave, but I'll catch you later okay?'

I'd just managed to stifle an 'okay' before he winked at me and ran off into the rain. Oh my god I'd met Louis Tomlinson. Finally, the girls had managed to detach themselves from stalking boys and walked over to where I'd been frozen for the last ten minutes.

'Oh no you didn't girl,' Jordan mocked, lightly punching my arm. I didn't flinch until Jess punched me in the same spot a lot harder.

'He... is the nicest person ever,' I managed to squeeze those words out while staring at the path he'd taken.

'Why didn't you guys come over?' I asked, finally snapping out of my daydream and looking at them both.

'You looked like you were having fun so we thought that we should stay out of the way,' Jordan started,

'And we were stalking boys of our own,' Jess finished.

After we all burst out laughing, we went to find Emily, who was, as you would have thought, in the HMV again, looking at the One Direction merchandise. We snuck up on her and screamed at her, which made her jump and which we found extremely amusing.

Emily glared at us and went back to looking at some t-shirts she'd found.

'Met him,' I said, pointing to the 'I love Louis' t-shirt.

'Since when?' she protested.

'Since, like, 10 minutes ago. I bumped into him. Literally,' I said, in a tone of voice that sounded like I was proud to have nearly knocked him over.

'Liar.'

'You want proof? Guys, didn't I meet him a minute ago?' the girls nodded at my question and I pulled out the piece of paper Louis had signed and showed it to Emily. She was clearly shocked and looked at me with an apologetic smile which I returned.

After Emily paid, and we'd gone to throw our empty drink cans in the bin, we decided to waste some time by playing games and reading books we weren't going to buy in some random book shop. Jordan and I were busy taking the piss out of a Justin Bieber book and Emily and Jess were looking at the vampire section when I got a text from my mother... again.

'Hey guys, my mum just said that it's the last showing of The Inbetweeners Movie today before they release it on DVD. We should go watch it,' I said.

'Sure, why not,' Emily said.

'Yeah, let's see it for the 600th time,' Jess said bluntly.

'I'm not so keen on them but I might as well go. It'll be a laugh,' Jordan wasn't so eager but agreed to go and see the film. I'd seen it about 7 times so it wasn't anything new for me; I just enjoyed watching it.

After finishing helping Emily find her things for college, we got in the car and drove to the cinema, where it was the definite opposite of the Mall. People were rushing in and out, pre-ordering tickets and getting food, not to mention the length of the lines.

'You are joking,' I moaned, going to turn back but Jess pulled me towards them.

'We might as well wait. All of these people seriously can't be going to see The Inbetweeners.'

So we joined the line and waited... and waited... and waited... and waited a bit more. Okay, we waited about 30 minutes until the line was getting into a smooth routine and was gradually moving. I was checking my phone every now and again – there was no reason why, it was just one of those things I did naturally. After waiting another 15 minutes, I got fed up.

'Oh come on guys, this is ridiculous. What's the point? We've seen it millions of times yet here we are, waiting in a stupidly long line for tickets. Can we please leave?'

I went to turn around until I walked straight into somebody.

'You've got a thing for walking into people, haven't you?' Louis laughed and held me steady.

'Sorry, I have a tendency not to look where I'm going half the time I'm awake. And even then when I'm asleep I sleepwalk and... Well you can guess where it goes from there,' I said.

Louis laughed and just said, 'hey, it's cool, don't worry. I'm a walking disaster too. Harry, this is Chloe – the girl I met in the Mall,' I hadn't realised Harry Styles had been standing behind Louis the whole time and what looked like-

'LIAM PAYNE!' Jess screamed and pushed past me so I got knocked over into Louis. I muttered under my breath as Jess squealed and threw her arms around Liam's neck. He looked shocked and hugged her back awkwardly. Louis and I were still holding onto each other's arms as we looked at Jess and Liam.

I looked at Emily and Jordan who were as shocked as Liam was too.

'Anyway,' I said, pulling away from Louis before the situation was made more awkward, 'what are you guys doing here anyway?'

'Hmm, maybe we're coming to watch a movie seeing as we're in a cinema,' Louis joked.

'Well duh, but what are you going to see?' I asked, sarcastically, playing along.

'We thought we'd come to see The Inbetweeners Movie 'cause apparently it's the last showing today and we haven't seen it yet,' said Harry, who'd been quiet but spoken up when Louis didn't answer my question because he was too busy on the phone having an argument.

'I didn't! I swear to you, you should know I'm not like that-' he'd been cut off by the person on the other end of the phone and whoever it was, they were yelling loudly enough for me to hear snippets of the conversation.

I looked at Harry who just shrugged at me and mouthed 'girlfriend' at me. I nodded and checked my phone to pretend I wasn't listening when I could clearly hear the conversation,

'Liar... you did... no...' I heard the girl scream down the phone until Louis put the phone down on her and she was cut off. I didn't dare ask him questions unless he thought I was being nosy and invading his privacy.

'My now ex girlfriend has accused me of cheating,' Louis said to Harry without turning his back to me. Harry just stared opened mouthed at Louis and he needn't say anything because Louis just nodded at him.

'Chloe, hurry up!' I heard Emily shout. She was already getting her tickets and I hadn't realised that we were next in line. I ran and got the tickets Jess had finally separated herself from Liam but was still talking to him on the way there.

We met up with the boys just outside Screen 1; the biggest screen in the cinema. As we were let in early, we got our choice of seats in the room, and we chose the best ones. Emily was sat on the end next to Jordan, then it was me sat next to Louis who sat next to Harry and Liam, and finally Jess was sat in her seat next to Liam, who was over the moon.

We were happily chatting when someone unexpected turned up out of the blue.