I nervously knocked on the door of Liam's house, with a present for him. I could hear the music blaring from within and I looked around to see if anybody else was coming at the same time, nope just me. It'd been a year since X Factor you see and everything had changed so much. I hadn't seen many of the people I was about to in a while because things hadn't ended the way everyone wanted them to. The only thing that hadn't changed was my friendship with the boys from One Direction, I didn't see them as much as I would've like to because they were massive now. And by massive I mean number 1 band in the UK. Since then, The Rick Rolls had a bit of a messy break up. We had been arguing about things a lot and decided to just call it quits, it wasn't expected at all. I had hardly been in touch with any of them since the split so I was kind of worried about this party but I had to go, it was Liam's 18th!
"HELEN!" Liam opened the door and squeezed me, "aw I've missed you so much! So glad you've come," he smiled and let me in.
"Thanks for asking me," I laughed and looked around, "Fancy pad!" I winked jokingly and handed him his present. "Thanks," he smiled.
I looked around and seen loads of celebrities, this was so surreal. I hadn't really been in this sort of environment since The X Factor Tour wrap party and it reminded me of all the happy memories I had.
I looked around and saw Caitlin sitting on Niall's knee, I'd seen that they were dating in magazines and stuff, I didn't really know what to make of it, Caitlin knew how much Bex and him were in love but yet she dates him. I walked over and sat with them and tried breaking the tension that had been left between me and Caitlin for months. "Hey guys…" I smiled and fidgeted awkwardly. "Alright Helen?" Niall grinned and Caitlin just rolled her eyes. Typical. She had become pretty famous after our split, she decided to go solo and since getting with Niall she'd had a lot of publicity and album sales. She thought she was better than the rest of us but to be honest I was proud of everyone and their achievements. Bex had become part of another band and was doing pretty well, Gillian had become a model, Katie was doing dancing for various celebs and was also choreographing and me, I hadn't really achieved anything. I would post covers now and then on YouTube and get quite a lot of views and I was happy with that, I had my 15 minutes of fame and I didn't really need much more.
"NIALLER, HELEN, CAITLIN VAS HAPPENIN!" Louis came and pretty much jumped on us all. Thank God, he eased the tension between us all. I gave him a quick hug and took a sip of my drink.
"Hiya Louis," Caitlin smiled patronisingly. Wow, she really had changed, she used to be so nice. Louis frowned and sat next to me.
"So what's the goss?" I asked smiling.
"Well, I've just had a number one hit, you know the usual." Caitlin shrugged and bigged herself up… I could tell she was going to annoy me.
"Oh, well done," I smiled and gritted my teeth.
Niall planted a kiss on her cheek, "Yeah I'm so proud of you babe!"
At that moment, I saw Bex and Katie come into the mansion, laughing. They're the only ones out of us who had stayed friends and to be honest, I really wish I'd stayed friends with them, I missed them a lot. They were looking around and spotted us, I gestured for them to come over but they pretended not to see and skipped towards Harry and his friends. Oh, I frowned and looked at the others. "Hey, don't worry about it," Louis put his arm around me and I smiled. He was my best friend and the one I was still really close to after X Factor. To be honest, some feelings never disappear and I think my feelings for him had been the same for all this time.
"GILLIAN!" I heard Liam gasp, I looked over and saw him squeeze her really tightly, grinning. Another thing that hadn't changed was the relationship between them two, they were still going strong and it seemed nothing could get in the way of them two. She and I would still talk actually, she found the split the hardest out of us all. Obviously Liam had just found out what she got him for his birthday, a car. She really loved him, I could tell. They were so cute. They came over and sat with us. "Why aren't Bex and Katie with youse?" Gillian smiled unaware of how they ignored us.
I shrugged, "Who knows?"
I really wanted to sort everything that had happened out but at the moment, it didn't look likely.