Cat's POV

A pillow crashed onto my head.

"Eva!" I groaned, whipping the pillow back towards her without lifting my head. Eva was my roommate. Not my new roommate. She's been my roommate since my first day here, and she's been my friend for way longer. When I first moved to Australia, she was my neighbor. We became instant best friends. We both stay here over the summer, too. I stay for Niall, the boys, and Emma. Eva stays because London, is one hell of a fun time, and her boyfriend, Cody, lives here.

"Get up lovely!" She shouted in her Australian accent.

"No!"I groaned, pulling the covers up over my head.

"Come onnnnnnnnnnn! Our new roommate's going to be here soon!"

I looked up to see Eva standing over my bed, her light brown waves piled in a ball on the top of her head, her hazel eyes shining with excitement. Eva was extremely excited to meet our new roommate. She was absolutely convinced she was going to be the best roommate in the world.

Knowing she wasn't going to let me sleep anymore I slowly got up.

"Come on! I wanna go on a run before she gets here!" Eva and I were both training for sports. We both wanted to do soccer in the fall, and Eva wanted to do basketball in the winter. We played for our university, but it wasn't a huge thing. Academics were really important to the both of us.

I threw on a pair of shorts and a tank top before slipping on my Nikes and lacing them up.

"Ready?" I asked, clipping my iPod to my waistband and blasting Cher Lloyd.

We jogged around campus, which was huge, and came back to our room, dripping in sweat.

"I'm off for a shower." I said, pulling my brown locks out of the sticky ponytail and grabbing a towel.

"Hurry! I want you back here before our new roommate gets here!" she demanded. I laughed, giving her a thumbs up over my shoulder and walking out the door towards the bathrooms. I let the warm water wash all the stickiness and sweat off my body. Feeling refreshed and clean, I slipped on a pair of sweats and a t-shirt. I didn't want to start getting ready for the party now, because, knowing me, I would spill something on my outfit.

I walked back into the room, swinging the door open. Eva looked up hopefully, but sighed and looked back at her magazine when she realized it was me.

"Oh, it's only you. I thought you were going to be the new roommate."

"Thanks for being so happy to see me, I love you too." I joked, flinging my wet towel at her.

I grabbed my phone off of my bed and joined Eva on the floor. I flicked through my Twitter feed, responding to a few fans. Fans tweeted me and stuff all the time because they knew Niall and I were best friends. I was nice enough to respond to some of them, Athena, on the other hand, was not. They annoyed her. Can you guess which one of us the fans like better?

There was a light knock on the door. Eva jumped up immediately and flung the door open. A shortish girl with light brown hair and brilliant green eyes was standing in the doorway, luggage surrounding her.

"Hi!" she said cheerfully. "I'm Joanna, but you can call me Jo."

"Hi, I'm Eva!" she introduced herself, helping Jo drag her bags into the room.

"I'm Catherine, but most people call me Cat." I smiled, grabbing a bag as well.

We lugged all her bags into the room and flopped down in the center of the floor in a triangle. We started getting to know each other. Joanna was so hyper and bubbly and the sweetest thing. I had a feeling we were going to get along very well. Suddenly, my phone, which was resting on my knee, lit up with Niall's name. He had jacked my phone one day and changed his name to "Niall 'The Beast' Horan3", so that's the name that brightened my screen. Joanna took a look at the name on my phone, and looked to me, seemingly seeing me for the first time. A look of recognition brightened her eyes.

"Wait a second!" she gasped. "Are you Catherine Roberts?"

"That's me."

"Oh my god! I can't believe my roommate is Catherine Roberts! I absolutely ADORE you! I see you all over Tumblr with the boys! And once, I tweeted you and you tweeted back! Oh my gosh! You're even prettier in person. Holy crap, so this means you're best friends with 1D?" she babbled.

"Yup." I sighed. I didn't mind it much, but being best friends with the boys made it kind of hard to find out who really wanted to be your friend and who just wanted to use you to get to the boys.

"That's so cool! You're really lucky." She beamed at me.

"Mhmm." I hummed. She seemed to notice it wasn't something I wanted to talk about, so she changed the subject. Hmm, maybe I judged her too quickly.

Around four I had to start getting ready for Liam's party. Zayn was dragging him off to somewhere unknown for about an hour, and we had that short amount of time to get the house ready and all the friends and family to show up. Of course I was helping set up, so Niall was picking me up earlier than eight, when the party started.

I slid on the dress me and Emma had picked up the other day. We had planned on matching, wearing the same dress and shoes but in different colors. It was a drop back dress with a tight top and fluttery skirt. Mine was a light pink, and Emma's was a baby blue. I pulled the straightener through my hair, making sure my blonde highlights were visible. I swiped lipgloss across my lips, through it into my purse with my phone and camera, waved goodbye to Eva and Jo, and headed off to wait for Niall. The heels of my white wedges clicked against the pavement, creating a constant reassuring beat.

Niall's car pulled into the lot. I waved happily when I saw him. He smiled and returned my wave. He popped out of the car and gave me a tight hug.

"You look nice," he said sweetly.

"Thanks Niall," I beamed, looking at the ground.

"Ready?"

"Yup!"

Instead of going around to the other side of the car and opening the passenger seat for me, he opened the back door for me. I looked up at him, confused. Sheepishly, he nodded in the direction of the passenger seat. A tiny girl was sitting there, smirking at me. Her blonde hair in perfect curls down to her waist and her green eyes, big and bright.

"Hey Catherine." Athena greeted me with faux sweetness. "You look lovely tonight."

"Hello Athena." I said in a tight voice.

Knowing I was upset about her being in the car, Niall gave me an apologetic look. I shrugged and gave him the best smile I could muster before slipping into the car. I sat in the back seat of the car in silence, the boy I was utterly in love with and his bitch of a girlfriend whom absolutely despised me chattering happily in the front.

Emma's POV

"Come on!" I tugged on Harry's arm. I had just gotten back to the boys' house and everyone but Harry was downstairs helping set up. Harry was fast asleep, sprawled across his bed. He groaned and shoved me away.

"Five more minutes mum!" he said sleepily.

"Harry Edward Styles! I am most definitely not your mother!"

I walked to the far side of the room, then took off sprinting to his bed, jumping straight on top of him with as much force as I could. My baby blue dress rode up when I landed, but I didn't care, Harry had seen me in far less.

His eyes snapped open and his head popped up.

"Good morning sunshine!" I said cheerfully.

"What time is it?" he yawned, flicking a loose curl out of his eyes.

"Time for you," I poked him on the nose. "To get out of bed and help everyone set up for the party."

He moaned, rubbing his eyes.

"You sleep entirely too much." I scolded him playfully, wagging a finger at him as I stood. I offered my hand to him to help him up. He grabbed my hand and yanked me back down onto the bed.

"Well you see, I feel like I don't sleep nearly enough." He said, his warm breath tickling my neck.

"Well, you're wrong. Now let's go." I jumped up, this time forcing him with me. I dragged him by the hand down to everyone else.

"Look who's finally rejoined the living," Louis joked, his arm slung around Rose's shoulder.

"Yeah, it took a lot to bring him back." I laughed.

Cat was sitting in the corner blowing up balloons by herself, while Niall and Athena stood on the table-very table Niall had stood with Cat last night-hanging streamers and giggling. Cat glared moodily up at them. I unhooked my arm from Harry's and flounced up to her.

"I like your dress," I gave her a grin, sitting down next to her.

She gave me a small smile in return, but her eyes remained sad. She was seriously in love with Niall, yet he remained oblivious, dating a nasty girl no one liked. Honestly, Cat would be so much better for him.

"Cat…" I reached out a comforting hand and placed it on top of hers.

"I don't get it." She mumbled in a quiet voice only I could hear. "Why are they together?" I didn't know. No one knew. And when we asked Niall, he got annoyed and stormed out of the room, complaining that 'no one understands'. It was the only time he ever really got mad, which just confused everyone further.

"Honey, I'm sure that he'll realize how gross she is soon enough. Then he'll finally see you."

"Emma, I've known him since I was two, I think he's seen me."

"You know what I mean!"

She sighed. "You're right, I'm sorry. I just wish things could be different."

"Just give it some time." I said optimistically, patting her knee.

She gave me a hopeful smile before handing me a bag of balloons. Everyone got to work then. Harry and Sophie, Zayn's girlfriend who was here to help and I was also pretty good friends with, joined me and Cat blowing up balloons, Louis and Rose worked on the sound system and lights, and Niall and Athena the Teenage Witch hung streamers.

At seven thirty, everything was ready to go. The house was decorated, the food and drinks were up-guarded from Niall by me and Harry- and the guests were starting to trickle in. Liam's family, friends, and anyone else we could think of were invited. At eight o'clock Zayn texted us saying he was here. We hid everyone and shut off the lights.

In the silence, we could hear Zayn and Liam's footsteps up the walkway, and their loud laughter. The door swung open, Liam blinked around the darkness in a confused sort of way. We all jumped up, Sophie flicked on the lights, and we shouted 'Surprise!'. Liam jumped back in shock, a hilarious expression on his face, which I captured on my camera.

"Oh my god guys! I can't believe you would do this for me!"

"Of course we would!" Zayn lightly punched him on the arm. Liam smiled bashfully around at all of us. Louis cranked up the music then, and the party started. It was really fun. If anything, One Direction could throw a killer party. About two hours in, Cat come up to me, where I was sitting with Rose, Sophie, and Harry on the sofa, laughing about a stupid joke.

"I'm gonna tell him." She said. Her words were slightly slurred and her breath smelled strongly of alcohol. I pried myself off the sofa and grabbed her by the arm, leading her into the kitchen.

"Slow down. You're going to tell who what?" I asked, pushing her down on the stool.

"I'm going to tell Niall that I love him." She said decisively.

"I don't think that's a good idea right now." Earlier, I had walked by Niall and Athena with their mouths locked together.

"Well, I don't think I'll ever do it if I don't do it now. I'm doing it. Wish me luck." She said firmly. Before I could stop her, she swaggered confidently into the crowd of people to where Niall and Athena were just visible, her blonde hair swishing behind her.