Chapter 55

I woke to the sounds of someone knocking extremely loud on the bedroom door. Whoever they were, were obviously was not aware of me not being a morning person. When no one answered they barged into the room and jumped on the bed.

"Go away!" I moaned, rolling over and putting the covers over my head.

"Get up lazy bones!" laughed Harry.

"Harry I swear to god…" said Liam in his sexy morning voice.

Harry bounced even harder on the bed and Liam curled up under the covers next to me.

"HHEEEEELLLLLOOOOOOOO!" my ears were pierced by the sound of Louis, who was now also jumping on the bed.

"Louis!" I whined.

"I heard someone causing mischief and I had to be a part of it." He laughed. "It's who I am."

"Yes we know." said Liam, his breath on my shoulder.

"C'mon lovers its 11 in the morning and Ally's song is being released in two hours!" said Harry.

"Exactly!" I said. "Two hours, which means we can sleep for two more hours."

"Uh uh!" tutted Louis. "We made a promise to the fans last night on twitter that we would all do a Twitcam together at midday."

"Which means you have an hour to get ready." chucked Harry. "So up you get!"

"Fine!" I moaned.

"If neither of you are up in ten minutes we're bringing a bucket of freezing cold water up." said Louis.

"You got it!" said Liam sarcastically.

Louis collapsed on the bed and squished himself in between Liam and I. "This is nice isn't it…"

"Lou!" I laughed.

Then he kissed Liam and I both on the forehead and then hurried out of the room with Harry following close behind.

"They're extremely lucky that I love them so much." I muttered. "They would have been dead by now."

"You're really not a morning person are you?" laughed Liam.

"Nope. Take me or leave me, baby." I giggled, rolling over to face Liam.

He brushed my hair away from my face. "I guess I'll take you then."

I smiled and then he pressed his lips gently on mine. "You were incredible last night. Honestly I've never been more proud of you in my life."

I felt my cheeks go red. "Thank you. And the album is amazing. It's going to do magnificent things, I know."

"Hopefully." He smiled.

We talked for a little while longer, carefully making sure that we were out of bed before our ten minutes was up. Liam had had freezing cold water poured on him before by the boys, and he made sure that wouldn't happen again.

I showered, did my makeup and got changed into buttoned up white shirt and denim jeans. Then Liam and I both went downstairs to find everyone else sitting around the dining room table and eating breakfast.

"Morning!" they all said in unison as we sat down at the table.

"Morning." I smiled.

"Good to see you took my advice." winked Louis, who was digging in to a pile of pancakes.

"Yeah well getting woken up by two crazy, loud boys is enough for me." I laughed.

"Thanks for this Claire." said Niall, who was currently stuffing a large hash brown into his mouth. "Best breakfast ever."

"No worries." She smiled. "There's nothing else to do when you're up before anyone so I thought I'd surprise you all with a yummy breakfast. Plus we needed something to kick off the celebrations for the day!"

"You're an angel." smiled Harry, kissing her softly on the cheek. Their cuteness was just the most beautiful thing in the world. I always wondered what Harry was like before Claire. According to the rest of the boys, Claire had matured him up, even though he was still incredibly immature now.

"You nervous Al?" asked Tia.

I nodded. "A bit… I'm more excited than anything."

"Good." She smiled.

We all finished our breakfast and then Zayn went to set up the laptop in the living room. I had never done a Twitcam before, but I had always wanted to. The boys said that the main purpose of it was to talk to the fans and then for us to play my new single while the Twitcam was going. It had been Niall's brilliant idea and he had gotten a huge response when he had tweeted about it last night.

All seven of us sat down on the couch while Zayn finished setting up the laptop so you could see all of us. I was squashed between Liam and Harry, then it was Claire, Tia, and then Louis, Niall and Zayn were going to sit on the floor in front of us.

"Alright are we ready?" he asked. We all cheered and smiled and then Zayn pressed a few buttons on the laptop. "VAS HAPPENIN!" he shouted into the laptop.

We all laughed as he hurried over to the couch to sit with the rest of us.

"Hello everyone!" said Harry.

"Hello der!" said Louis in a hilariously bad Irish accent.

"How is everyone?" said Liam. Niall was closest to the laptop, so he could read all the tweets that people were sending in.

"Shout out to Jess from Glasgow!" he said. "My cat back home's name is Jess."

"Love the cats!" said Harry cheekily. Claire slapped him on the leg.

"Right does anyone have any questions?" said Liam.

"Okay let's play a question game and I'll be the host okay?" said Niall.

"Let's do it!"

Niall cleared his throat. "Welcome to the One Direction house!" he put on a hilarious voice like the voice over guy from X Factor. "I'm your host, Kyle! Today we are joined by Barry, Wayne, Ian, Hughy, Pear, Sally and Mia!" We all fell into pits of laughter at the names Niall had given us. "Olivia says what's all of your favourite songs on the album?" said Niall.

"My favourite is More Than This." said Harry, winking at the laptop, such a flirt.

"Mine's Stand Up." smiled Claire.

"Um… I think mine is One Thing." said Zayn.

"Moments!" I said. "Liam?"

"My favourite is I Want." He chuckled.

"Mine's Stole My Heart because Baby Andlinson was going crazy in here while that song was playing last night." said Tia, rubbing her stomach.

"Awwwww!" we all said.

"And, my favourite would be Stole My Heart as well but I don't have a baby inside me so…" said Louis. "So, my favourite is also Moments."

"And I'd have to agree with Wayne and say that mine is also, One Thing." said Niall, or Kyle I should say.

"So guys, it's exactly 20 minutes until Al- I mean Sally's single is being released." said Liam. "What should we do?"

"Let's prank someone!" said Louis.

"Yes!" said Harry jumping up. "Except this time we won't prank Matt Cardle, you know what happened last time."

"What happened last time?" I asked.

"Well, being the incredibly smart boys they are…" said Zayn. "They pranked Matt Cardle last time they did a Twitcam and they had it on loudspeaker. So when it went to voicemail they gave his number out to 10,000 fans."

Tia and I both burst out laughing. "Oh my god!"

"It wasn't our fault that he didn't pick up!" said Harry.

"Anyways!" said Claire. "Who should we prank now?"

Harry and Louis both scrolled through their phones. "Simon Cowell?"

"Noooooo!" we all screamed.

"Oh god could you imagine that!" said Liam.

"We'd be fired in an instant." laughed Niall.

"How about Cher Lloyd?" said Harry.

"Yes!" said Zayn. "She'd get so confused, it'd be hilarious."

"Alright let's do it." grinned Harry.

He gave the phone to Louis as he was the master of pranking, and we all waited anxiously for her to pick up.

"Hello?" said a cute, high voice on the other end of the line.

"Hello there." said Louis in a loud Irish accent.

"Hello who's this?" said Cher.

"It's Hughy." He said simply.

"Hey Louis."

All of us bursted out laughing. "What? How'd you know it was me!" shouted Louis.

"I'm watching your twitcam you fool." She laughed.

"Ah shit…" said Harry.

"Yeah nice one." She giggled cutely.

"Okay well bye!" and then Louis quickly hung up the phone before she had a chance to reply.

We all laughed and then Niall searched for another question from the tweets. "Teresa wants to know, do we ever have any arguments or fights?"

"Well…" said Liam. "We definitely have our disagreements."

"Yeah but we're all over it by the next day." said Zayn.

"One time Liam and Louis straightened my hair in my sleep, and I didn't talk to them for like two days." said Harry.

"Right this next question is from Rebecca." said Niall. "And she wants to know if we think Ally's new single will go Number 1."

"Definitely!" said Liam.

"Without a doubt." said Tia. "When they performed it last night everyone was just mesmerized. It's truly something amazing."

"I'm trying not to get my hopes up though." I said. "I mean, I'm preparing myself for it. But even if it doesn't I won't really mind. I'm so blessed to have had this opportunity in the first place. Going Number 1 would just be a bonus."

"Great answer!" said Niall. "Oh and it looks like we're out of time! Because… it's time for…."

"TIME AFTER TIME!" screamed Harry.

Butterflies started to swarm around my stomach as Zayn opened iTunes on the laptop, also checking himself out in the reflection. "Okay it should be on there in about 30 seconds…"

We all crowed around the laptop and Liam held my hand tightly as we waited. Tweets came flying in wishing me good luck and telling me wonderful things that made me smile.

"This is it…" said Tia excitedly.

"You ready?" smiled Liam.

I nodded and then Zayn pressed refresh on the iTunes page. And there it was.

Time After Time – Ed Sheeran & Alyssa Summers

"Woooooo!" we all cheered and jumped around excitedly. I wrapped my arms around Liam's neck and he hugged me tightly.

"Right now I have to buy it so we can jam out!" said Zayn.

We all continued to celebrate together as it downloaded. Once it was finished, Zayn ran over to the iPod dock and played it.

The opening guitar riff sounded and we all started dancing around. We turned the laptop over to the open space in front of the TV so the fans could see us celebrating. Louis and Harry were sharing a special slow dancing moment, Tia and Niall were dancing around the room, Claire and Zayn were attempting to shuffle, and Liam stood right next to me with his arm snaked around my waist as we watched them. We were out of view of the laptop.

"I'm so proud of you." He whispered.

I looked up at him and smiled, then turned so our bodies were facing each other.

"I love you so much." I said, stroking the side of his face.

"I love you too." He beamed.

I heard a buzzing sound coming from the dining room table and then the sound of my phone ringing. Liam let me out of his grasp so I could go pick it up. I smiled as I walked past everyone celebrating. They were the greatest friends on the planet.

"Love you guys!" I shouted over the music.

"Love you too!" they all shouted back in unison.

Then I walked quickly over to my phone and picked it up.

If I had have known that what I was about to hear would shatter my perfect world to pieces, I never would have picked up the phone.

"Hello?"