Love At First Type ~ COMPLETED
Conversations
Harry immediately ran up to his room after arriving back at the pad later that day. The other boys shouted questions to him, but Harry had his mind set on one thing to not be bothered. He quickly kicked off his shoes and flopped down onto the bed, phone in hand. His smile rocketed up from his frown when he saw that one new message label on his lock screen.
ThatInvisibleGirl: Hey best friend!
JustYourNormalGuy: Hello!
He sent his response. Minutes later, the two sides of an electronic screen were in a full-blown conversation.
ThatInvisibleGirl: So what’s up?
JustYourNormalGuy: Eh, not much. Just got done with work finally.
ThatInvisibleGirl: That’s cool :)
Harry wasn’t really sure what to say. He didn’t really know anything about his alleged new best friend, but that didn’t mean he had to remain clueless forever.
JustYourNormalGuy: So tell me about yourself
ThatInvisibleGirl: Hm… How about you ask me questions but tell me what you would answer as well? Oh! And give reason to make things more… interesting. And be completely honest!
JustYourNormalGuy: Haha. Okay, I’ll start then. Um… What is your favorite food?
ThatInvisibleGirl: I have a thing for parking lot tamales ;)
JustYourNormalGuy: Parking lot tamales?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Yeah. Their tamales that you buy in parking lots, especially amazing during winter
JustYourNormalGuy: I’ve never had on in my life. My favorite food is probably tacos
ThatInvisibleGirl: Never had one?!?! I’ll have to take you some time… and tacos? Baaaasssiiiiiccc!!!!
Harry chuckled. If anyone had read these messages, they would have though that the two had known each other for years. Only he, and Darren of course, knew that they had just met; yet it seemed like forever ago. But ‘take him sometime’? That would be quite unusual to meet up with a stranger and go out to buy parking lot tamales. ‘How unusual,’ he thought.
JustYourNormalGuy: Take me? You haven’t even met me
ThatInvisibleGirl: not yet ;) Maybe someday I’ll meet you for realsies, but that would be weird since I only virtually met you like two days ago
Again the thought of meeting his social media quote-on-quote ‘best friend’ came as an uneasy, but happy, feeling. Harry really wanted to meet her, but when she saw who he really was… would she accept him? Perhaps she’s a hardcore Directioner, would they be able to maintain a friendly relationship? Would she freak out and treat him as the celebrity he’s known to be? Or would she see him as he really is, as a somewhat normal guy who just happens to be pursuing his dreams?
In truth, he would love to meet her, to get this opportunity of making new friends. She doesn’t care about stranger danger, and she didn’t seem to care about his problems. Darren, as he came to know her, saw that he needed a friend, and she was the one to reach out to him and be that friend. Harry left the topic off as a ‘maybe’ and continued the lively exchange of messages.
JustYourNormalGuy: haha maybe. Favorite color?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Black because it’s the most misunderstood color… like me
JustYourNormalGuy: Interesting… haha. I would have to say orange because it’s bright and… different. Favorite animal?
ThatInvisibleGirl: I personally love turtles because turtles are the personification of goddess energy and the eternal Earth itself
JustYourNormalGuy: You make my reasons sound stupid :( My favorite animal is a llama because one spat on my sister when we were little :P
He remembered the time that his mum had taken him and Gemma to a petting zoo. They were both little at the time, and Gemma had found a sparking interest in the llamas there. Harry found a love for them as well when the llama spat straight into his sister’s hair, saliva dripping onto her face. ‘Those were the days…’
ThatInvisibleGirl: That’s so mean!
JustYourNormalGuy: Well she is older than me, and she deserved it.
ThatInvisibleGirl: okay, I guess that’s okay. I have two older brothers, twins, and they are the most annoying older siblings on the planet!
JustYourNormalGuy: right? Older siblings are a pain!
ThatInvisibleGirl: Agreed. The worst part is that I have to live with them, like literally under the same roof because… reasons…
JustYourNormalGuy: That must be annoying to have to live with them everyday. Why don’t you just move out?
ThatInvisibleGirl: It’s complicated…
Personally, Harry couldn’t really understand what she meant by reasons. Now ‘it’s complicated’. He wanted to know what she meant, but he knew that the idea of opening up to some ‘random guy’ who just became her ‘best friend’ wouldn’t be such a great idea in retrospect.
JustYourNormalGuy: oh. Got any other siblings?
ThatInvisibleGirl: yeah. One younger sister and a younger brother
JustYourNormalGuy: Wow, you have a big family.
ThatInvisibleGirl: yeah, I guess my parents just wanted to make up for their mistakes.
JustYourNormalGuy: What do you mean?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Its nothing… Maybe someday I’ll tell you, but for now I can’t. How about you? Got any other siblings?
Harry thought back to Gemma. Deep down inside he sincerely missed her, but he knew that she would be iffy on talking to him. The two siblings hadn’t left off on a good note. All she did was try to help him, but his walls went up and she was pushed away, just like everyone else.
JustYourNormalGuy: nope. It’s just my older sister and me but I haven’t talked to her in forever…
ThatInvisibleGirl: why not?
JustYourNormalGuy: I wish I could tell you, but like you said it’s complicated
ThatInvisibleGirl: fair enough
JustYourNormalGuy: what’s your favorite song?
ThatInvisibleGirl: hmm… I don’t really have a favorite song; there are just so many amazing songs back there
JustYourNormalGuy: back there? What about today’s music?
ThatInvisibleGirl: meh. Today’s music is kind of blah. I’m more of a ‘80s music in general or ‘90s pop kind of gal. how bout u?
JustYourNormalGuy: Well, I personally like Free Fallin’
ThatInvisibleGirl: by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers?!?! I frickin love that song!
He was taken aback. Everyone around him seemed to think John Mayer sings that song all because he said he liked John Mayer and Free Fallin, his favorite song, just happens to be a cover by him. It’s a wrong assumption to incorporate the two together considering the original track is much better than Mayer’s cover of it.
JustYourNormalGuy: you know who it’s by? That’s a first; everyone seems to think it’s by John Mayer because he did a cover. I love John Mayer and that song but I like the original version way better
ThatInvisibleGirl: right? Everyone gets that mixed up… Like – GEt yOuR FaCTs StrAigHT pEOPlE!
JustYourNormalGuy: you really do have a reason for everything, don’t you?
ThatInvisibleGirl: yeah, I’ve learned to back up my answers. Its all a part of being right all the time
JustYourNormalGuy: right…
ThatInvisibleGirl: exactly!
~
“Harry!” a voice screeched at him. Harry’s body went up a couple inches before plopping back down on the mattress. “Harold!” the voice called again. This time Harry opened up one eye to see a pair of feet, smelly and clad in wooly socks, jumping up and down next to his head. “It’s time to wake up!” Harry groaned as the person finally smacked down next to him, making the mattress rise a bit more.
“Lou… What in the bloody hell do you think you’re doing in here? I was trying to sleep,” Harry complained to his mate before shoving him of the edge of his bed.
Louis’ body made clear contact to the surface sending out a loud thump in the room. “Ow…” Louis got up on his feet and rubbed his head. “Mate, you need to get going. We have a meeting in about… half an hour. We need to leave in like five minutes.”
Harry shot up at the hearing of this. “Five minutes! Christ’s sake, I thought I had set my alarm-”
Louis cut him off as he rushed around to find clothes to wear. “You did, but it kept going off so Zayn came in here and turned it off. You were out like a light still, so we didn’t bother waking you up. Must’ve been up pretty late last night… Who is she?”
“She?” Harry asked as he squeezed his legs into a pair of black skinnies. “I’m not sure I know what you’re talking about.”
Louis glared at him. “Don’t play dumb with me, Harold. You were most definitely texting a girl late last night. You ran to your room and never came out for dinner. What else could you have been doing?”
Niall yelled at the two from downstairs, alerting them that it was time to leave. Harry swiftly ruffled his curls before looking at a waiting Louis. He walked out of the room with Louis not far behind.
“I’m waiting,” Louis said as they expertly ran down the stairs. “Who is she and when can we meet her?”
“She’s just a friend,” Harry grated. They hurried out the door. “I’ll tell you about her later.”
“You better,” Louis challenged as they piled into the middle row of the van.
~
“Two months! We haven’t even finished recording, yet you want us to go on tour in two months? Impossible, it can’t be done,” Louis quarreled for the boys.
Management decided to have the boys’ hometown tour take place at the beginning of March. This only gave the boys two months to complete the album in progress, release the album, and plan a whole concert. The idea might as well be number one on the list of ‘things they can’t’.
“You can, and you will. There are only two more songs that need to be written and recorded as well as a rerecording of Come and Go because the verses were a bit off,” Simon told the boys. Still, the boys had counterarguments.
Liam countered, “Uncle Si, it takes time to write a song, let alone two. Then, you have to divvy up the verses, decided who sings what. What about the album cover? Or the name of it even? What about that?”
Simon was frazzled by how knowing and responsible the boys had become, and he still didn’t want to admit that they were fine young men now. He didn’t want to confess they might conceivably be right, because he knew that these boys had the determination to do the tasks at hand.
“Look, the decisions are final. If we must, you can try looking at the old songs that have been rejected and I’ll have the team look over them again. There will be no more but’s or if’s. Are we clear?” The boys sighed in defeat and nodded. “Good, now I want to here Come and Go as well as Fly Me Home.”
Dragging their weary bodies into the recording booth, the band made an effort to get through the last few hours of recording. They all got their fair share of solo sessions and were out of the studio just past nine after getting the okay from Simon.
“I’m done. I just… ugh! They can’t do this to us.” Louis threw a couch cushion at the wall in protest as he flopped face down onto the couch.
Niall sat down on top of him and tried to calm him. “None of us agree with them, but we have to Lou. And-”
“Where are you going?” Zayn cut Niall off as he saw Harry making a quick escape upstairs. All of the boys proceeded in looking at Harry, frozen in place as if he was a teenager trying to sneak back into his room after allegedly leaving a party he undoubtedly shouldn’t have gone to. “Well… Are you just going to stand there pretending to not be seen or are you going to tell us?”
Harry turned back around trying to play off an innocent smile. Louis just smirked at Harry, seeming to know that he was on his way to privately text a girl under their noses.
“I was just… going to bed and-”
“Tell us about her,” Louis interfered his lie. Harry glared at Louis.
“Ooh, it’s a girl. This should be interesting,” Niall gleamed.
ThatInvisibleGirl: Hey best friend!
JustYourNormalGuy: Hello!
He sent his response. Minutes later, the two sides of an electronic screen were in a full-blown conversation.
ThatInvisibleGirl: So what’s up?
JustYourNormalGuy: Eh, not much. Just got done with work finally.
ThatInvisibleGirl: That’s cool :)
Harry wasn’t really sure what to say. He didn’t really know anything about his alleged new best friend, but that didn’t mean he had to remain clueless forever.
JustYourNormalGuy: So tell me about yourself
ThatInvisibleGirl: Hm… How about you ask me questions but tell me what you would answer as well? Oh! And give reason to make things more… interesting. And be completely honest!
JustYourNormalGuy: Haha. Okay, I’ll start then. Um… What is your favorite food?
ThatInvisibleGirl: I have a thing for parking lot tamales ;)
JustYourNormalGuy: Parking lot tamales?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Yeah. Their tamales that you buy in parking lots, especially amazing during winter
JustYourNormalGuy: I’ve never had on in my life. My favorite food is probably tacos
ThatInvisibleGirl: Never had one?!?! I’ll have to take you some time… and tacos? Baaaasssiiiiiccc!!!!
Harry chuckled. If anyone had read these messages, they would have though that the two had known each other for years. Only he, and Darren of course, knew that they had just met; yet it seemed like forever ago. But ‘take him sometime’? That would be quite unusual to meet up with a stranger and go out to buy parking lot tamales. ‘How unusual,’ he thought.
JustYourNormalGuy: Take me? You haven’t even met me
ThatInvisibleGirl: not yet ;) Maybe someday I’ll meet you for realsies, but that would be weird since I only virtually met you like two days ago
Again the thought of meeting his social media quote-on-quote ‘best friend’ came as an uneasy, but happy, feeling. Harry really wanted to meet her, but when she saw who he really was… would she accept him? Perhaps she’s a hardcore Directioner, would they be able to maintain a friendly relationship? Would she freak out and treat him as the celebrity he’s known to be? Or would she see him as he really is, as a somewhat normal guy who just happens to be pursuing his dreams?
In truth, he would love to meet her, to get this opportunity of making new friends. She doesn’t care about stranger danger, and she didn’t seem to care about his problems. Darren, as he came to know her, saw that he needed a friend, and she was the one to reach out to him and be that friend. Harry left the topic off as a ‘maybe’ and continued the lively exchange of messages.
JustYourNormalGuy: haha maybe. Favorite color?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Black because it’s the most misunderstood color… like me
JustYourNormalGuy: Interesting… haha. I would have to say orange because it’s bright and… different. Favorite animal?
ThatInvisibleGirl: I personally love turtles because turtles are the personification of goddess energy and the eternal Earth itself
JustYourNormalGuy: You make my reasons sound stupid :( My favorite animal is a llama because one spat on my sister when we were little :P
He remembered the time that his mum had taken him and Gemma to a petting zoo. They were both little at the time, and Gemma had found a sparking interest in the llamas there. Harry found a love for them as well when the llama spat straight into his sister’s hair, saliva dripping onto her face. ‘Those were the days…’
ThatInvisibleGirl: That’s so mean!
JustYourNormalGuy: Well she is older than me, and she deserved it.
ThatInvisibleGirl: okay, I guess that’s okay. I have two older brothers, twins, and they are the most annoying older siblings on the planet!
JustYourNormalGuy: right? Older siblings are a pain!
ThatInvisibleGirl: Agreed. The worst part is that I have to live with them, like literally under the same roof because… reasons…
JustYourNormalGuy: That must be annoying to have to live with them everyday. Why don’t you just move out?
ThatInvisibleGirl: It’s complicated…
Personally, Harry couldn’t really understand what she meant by reasons. Now ‘it’s complicated’. He wanted to know what she meant, but he knew that the idea of opening up to some ‘random guy’ who just became her ‘best friend’ wouldn’t be such a great idea in retrospect.
JustYourNormalGuy: oh. Got any other siblings?
ThatInvisibleGirl: yeah. One younger sister and a younger brother
JustYourNormalGuy: Wow, you have a big family.
ThatInvisibleGirl: yeah, I guess my parents just wanted to make up for their mistakes.
JustYourNormalGuy: What do you mean?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Its nothing… Maybe someday I’ll tell you, but for now I can’t. How about you? Got any other siblings?
Harry thought back to Gemma. Deep down inside he sincerely missed her, but he knew that she would be iffy on talking to him. The two siblings hadn’t left off on a good note. All she did was try to help him, but his walls went up and she was pushed away, just like everyone else.
JustYourNormalGuy: nope. It’s just my older sister and me but I haven’t talked to her in forever…
ThatInvisibleGirl: why not?
JustYourNormalGuy: I wish I could tell you, but like you said it’s complicated
ThatInvisibleGirl: fair enough
JustYourNormalGuy: what’s your favorite song?
ThatInvisibleGirl: hmm… I don’t really have a favorite song; there are just so many amazing songs back there
JustYourNormalGuy: back there? What about today’s music?
ThatInvisibleGirl: meh. Today’s music is kind of blah. I’m more of a ‘80s music in general or ‘90s pop kind of gal. how bout u?
JustYourNormalGuy: Well, I personally like Free Fallin’
ThatInvisibleGirl: by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers?!?! I frickin love that song!
He was taken aback. Everyone around him seemed to think John Mayer sings that song all because he said he liked John Mayer and Free Fallin, his favorite song, just happens to be a cover by him. It’s a wrong assumption to incorporate the two together considering the original track is much better than Mayer’s cover of it.
JustYourNormalGuy: you know who it’s by? That’s a first; everyone seems to think it’s by John Mayer because he did a cover. I love John Mayer and that song but I like the original version way better
ThatInvisibleGirl: right? Everyone gets that mixed up… Like – GEt yOuR FaCTs StrAigHT pEOPlE!
JustYourNormalGuy: you really do have a reason for everything, don’t you?
ThatInvisibleGirl: yeah, I’ve learned to back up my answers. Its all a part of being right all the time
JustYourNormalGuy: right…
ThatInvisibleGirl: exactly!
~
“Harry!” a voice screeched at him. Harry’s body went up a couple inches before plopping back down on the mattress. “Harold!” the voice called again. This time Harry opened up one eye to see a pair of feet, smelly and clad in wooly socks, jumping up and down next to his head. “It’s time to wake up!” Harry groaned as the person finally smacked down next to him, making the mattress rise a bit more.
“Lou… What in the bloody hell do you think you’re doing in here? I was trying to sleep,” Harry complained to his mate before shoving him of the edge of his bed.
Louis’ body made clear contact to the surface sending out a loud thump in the room. “Ow…” Louis got up on his feet and rubbed his head. “Mate, you need to get going. We have a meeting in about… half an hour. We need to leave in like five minutes.”
Harry shot up at the hearing of this. “Five minutes! Christ’s sake, I thought I had set my alarm-”
Louis cut him off as he rushed around to find clothes to wear. “You did, but it kept going off so Zayn came in here and turned it off. You were out like a light still, so we didn’t bother waking you up. Must’ve been up pretty late last night… Who is she?”
“She?” Harry asked as he squeezed his legs into a pair of black skinnies. “I’m not sure I know what you’re talking about.”
Louis glared at him. “Don’t play dumb with me, Harold. You were most definitely texting a girl late last night. You ran to your room and never came out for dinner. What else could you have been doing?”
Niall yelled at the two from downstairs, alerting them that it was time to leave. Harry swiftly ruffled his curls before looking at a waiting Louis. He walked out of the room with Louis not far behind.
“I’m waiting,” Louis said as they expertly ran down the stairs. “Who is she and when can we meet her?”
“She’s just a friend,” Harry grated. They hurried out the door. “I’ll tell you about her later.”
“You better,” Louis challenged as they piled into the middle row of the van.
~
“Two months! We haven’t even finished recording, yet you want us to go on tour in two months? Impossible, it can’t be done,” Louis quarreled for the boys.
Management decided to have the boys’ hometown tour take place at the beginning of March. This only gave the boys two months to complete the album in progress, release the album, and plan a whole concert. The idea might as well be number one on the list of ‘things they can’t’.
“You can, and you will. There are only two more songs that need to be written and recorded as well as a rerecording of Come and Go because the verses were a bit off,” Simon told the boys. Still, the boys had counterarguments.
Liam countered, “Uncle Si, it takes time to write a song, let alone two. Then, you have to divvy up the verses, decided who sings what. What about the album cover? Or the name of it even? What about that?”
Simon was frazzled by how knowing and responsible the boys had become, and he still didn’t want to admit that they were fine young men now. He didn’t want to confess they might conceivably be right, because he knew that these boys had the determination to do the tasks at hand.
“Look, the decisions are final. If we must, you can try looking at the old songs that have been rejected and I’ll have the team look over them again. There will be no more but’s or if’s. Are we clear?” The boys sighed in defeat and nodded. “Good, now I want to here Come and Go as well as Fly Me Home.”
Dragging their weary bodies into the recording booth, the band made an effort to get through the last few hours of recording. They all got their fair share of solo sessions and were out of the studio just past nine after getting the okay from Simon.
“I’m done. I just… ugh! They can’t do this to us.” Louis threw a couch cushion at the wall in protest as he flopped face down onto the couch.
Niall sat down on top of him and tried to calm him. “None of us agree with them, but we have to Lou. And-”
“Where are you going?” Zayn cut Niall off as he saw Harry making a quick escape upstairs. All of the boys proceeded in looking at Harry, frozen in place as if he was a teenager trying to sneak back into his room after allegedly leaving a party he undoubtedly shouldn’t have gone to. “Well… Are you just going to stand there pretending to not be seen or are you going to tell us?”
Harry turned back around trying to play off an innocent smile. Louis just smirked at Harry, seeming to know that he was on his way to privately text a girl under their noses.
“I was just… going to bed and-”
“Tell us about her,” Louis interfered his lie. Harry glared at Louis.
“Ooh, it’s a girl. This should be interesting,” Niall gleamed.
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A good handful of the other characters are YouTubers playing themselves, but there aren't any specific people who play the rest of the characters like Leanna. It's all up to your imagination really.
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