Right here, in this moment, I was truly happy. I wasn’t thinking about the things I needed to do. I was holding on to my mother. It made me feel like I was eleven again and crying over the fact that a kid was mean at school. I never wanted to let her go again but after what felt like only seconds someone let out a small laugh. I lifted my gaze from my mothers shoulder, I had been hiding my head in it, behind her stood the ever so famous Demi Lovato. She looked at me and my mother with adoring eyes before a big smile spread across her face.

“This is the most adorable thing I have ever seen!” She let out another small laugh and I smiled at her. My mother started to lean back and I felt as if a part of me did too. I blushed when I realized I had just balled my eyes out in front of one of my idols.

“Thank you.” I almost whispered and soon felt arms around me.

“It’s great to meet you, Johanna.” Demi leaned back and I looked up at her. “Niall told be so much about you and asked if I wanted to come to your birthday party.” She smiled sweetly and backed away. “How could I say no?” I laughed and shrugged. I grabbed my mothers hand, feeling a little sick without her near me.

“I’m a huge fan. I love your music and think you are one of the strongest people alive.” I looked at her sincerely and she grabbed my other hand.

“Thank you darling.” She looked over at my mother and then continued to speak. “You mother told me about some of the things you’ve been through. I just wanted you to know that even though I’ve struggled and made it through, I find you an inspiration. To sacrifice your happiness for the safety of someone you love is hard.” She hugged me again and the door behind us opened. Demi’s face lit up and when I turned around I saw Louis and Niall standing there. Niall went over to Demi first and gave her a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek. I had to strain myself from saying ‘aaw‘. Louis walked over to me and waited for me to introduce him to my mom.

“Mom, this is Louis.” She smiled at him and extended her hand that wasn’t holding mine. “Louis, this is my mom, Charlotte.” He smiled and shook her hand before slipping his arm around me. Mom placed herself in front of us but was still holding my hand. When Niall was done greeting Demi he turned and hugged my mom. She laughed and patted his back before he leaned back.

“I’m Niall, and you must be Mrs …” He waited for someone to place the missing last name in but no one did. I had never told them what it was and didn’t intend to do so now.

“Oh you can call me Charrie!” She smiled and gave me a look that told me I had done the right thing not telling them. I nodded to her so that only she saw it.

My mother looked a lot like me, or maybe you should say I looked a lot like my mother. When I was a baby I was the exact copy of my father and bigger brother. But as I grew up I started looking more and more like her. We both hade blue eyes, almost of the same shade but hers were a little bit greyer. Or noses were round, we called it potato noses, but not as extreme as you might think. We had the same frame both in the face and on the body. The only things that made us different were that she was older and she had brown hair, and I was blonde. Me and my brothers had gotten our blonde hair from our father. But it was my mother I looked a lot like.

“You ready to celebrate?” Louis whispered in my ear. I jumped slightly, I had been lost in my own thoughts and he spooked me. When I looked at him he gave me a small smile and the pressure of what I had to do was back. I felt my mothers hand tightened around my own.

“Hell yeah I am!” I smiled and tried pushing those horrible feelings away. I wanted to enjoy this. It was written all over Louis face that he had seen my weak moment, his smile faltered a little but only for a second before the smile was back.

“Come on.” He grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the big door he walked through before. He knocked on it and it opened, revealing Paul. He held the door opened and wished me a happy birthday as I walked by. I looked behind me and saw that Niall and Demi were following closely behind us. She had her arms looped through his and they looker adorable. I smiled and turned around just as we walked out on a big stage. I froze but felt my mom pushing me from behind and Louis pulling me forward. The stadium wasn’t the largest one around but it was big and there were plenty of people in front of the stage. I easily spotted Perrie and Yvette. Next to them stood Soph and I smiled largely at her, and couldn’t wave because both my hands were taken. Louis pulled me over to a stool that stood in the middle of the stage and my mother kissed my cheek. I sat on the stool and watched her leave the stage.

“She’s just going to Sophie and the girls. She’s not leaving.” Louis hugged me and whispered in my ear. He must have noticed my worried stare. I nodded and tried to smile.

“Thank you.” I spoke as quietly and kissed his cheek. His smile became brighter. I looked around the room and there must have been at least 400 people. I gasped as I noticed that there were several celebrities in the audience. The boys band were here and several others. I couldn’t believe they were here, and I didn’t understand. They didn’t know me so why would they want to be here. After I had been sitting there for about three minutes the boys of One Direction walked up to me.

“You need to turn around.” Harry spoke as he pushed my around so my back was to the people in front of the stage. I thought it was weird but didn’t ask any questions. I noticed that there were three screens in front of me. They were big enough so that every one could see them. The middle one was bigger than the others and the two on the sides were currently showing my face. I blushed as I noticed and looked at the boys on the side of me.

“Guys what’s going on?” I narrowed my eyes at them and then heard someone start to play the guitar. I looked around and found Niall, he wasn’t the one. I gave me a bright smile and winked at me. I became even more confused as I recognized the song that was playing. My jaw dropped and I waited for the boys to tell me this was a joke. But then I noticed the microphone that was placed in front of me, facing so that someone could stand in front of me and sing towards the crowd. The person playing the intro made it longer than it should’ve been. The boys all turned their heads to the left of me and when I looked over I almost screamed. There stood the one and only Ed Sheeran. He smiled at me as he walked and stood in front of me. I stared at him with wide eyes as I heard the boys laugh beside me. He spoke into the mic and winked at me, I thought I was going to faint.

“Happy birthday Johanna!” He then began singing the familiar lyrics to Give Me Love. I bit my lip and stared at him in amazement. I then realized that on the big screen in the middle there was some picture show. At the moment there were picture from me as a baby. The pictures started showing me as I grew older and I felt tears form in my eyes. The memories of my childhood were something I held close to my heart. It was a time of innocence and happiness. There was a picture from when I was seven and I had just gotten a new bike. It was my first without training wheels. My brother was the one who took the picture and in it were me and my mother. She was putting bandages on my toes because I had scraped them when I was riding the bike. She had warned me before I started riding that I should have shoes on so this wouldn’t happen, but I wanted to be bare foot. She didn’t get mad at me after, she just helped me and then gave me ice cream. I remember that day like it was yesterday. Several photos with memories even more powerful were shown I was bawling my eyes out. Finally came the picture from when I was grown up.

They started off with picture from when I studied at Uni and those made me laugh. When I noticed they skipped the year I had spent with him my smile faltered. But it was soon back on my face when the pictures from my time with the boys came. All the photos made me cry even more, but no one could understand why. The screen turned black and Ed stopped playing. I stared at the screen a few moments more before some words popped up. ‘A special birthday card from…’ I laughed as I knew from the boys. Not to long after that their faces popped up and they were all smiling at the camera.

“Hi! We’re One Direction!” They screamed in unison. I smiled at their ridiculousness and wiped the tears away.

“We just really wanted to wish you an awesome happy birthday!” Niall spoke first.

“Even though it’s already awesome since we are with you.” I turned my head to look at Harry and he winked at me. I rolled my eyes and looked back at the screen.

“You haven’t been with us for that long, but we do love you like a sister.” Liam spoke up. I placed my hand over my heart as I felt it began to swell. They were too cute.

“And like a mother, you’re a great cook!” Niall spoke and everyone in the room burst out laughing. I smiled and shook my head at the boy.

“But even though you might not be related to us we feel as though you are.” Zayn said and I felt tears form in my eyes again.

“You’ve been there for us more that words can explain ever since you moved in with Harry and me.” Louis spoke and I felt like someone stabbed me in my chest.

“So if you look to your right now, there should be someone coming in with a cake.” I looked to my right. I gasped as I saw the huge cake that was being rolled over to me. It was beautiful with roses and pearls. It was extremely girly but I didn’t care. My hands were over my mouth as they stopped the cart in front of me. Faintly in the back ground I heard the boys in the video yell ‘Happy Birthday’ but all I could think of was the cake in front of me. In the lower right corner there was something written. I tried smiling even though it broke my heart.

‘To the loveliest person alive, our friend forever and always.’