Serendipitous: Liam's Story

Exploring London

Jolie left the National Museum to head towards St. Paul’s Cathedral.  She jumped on one of the commercial double decker buses and sat down with the map of London, smiling widely as she put sticker on the National Museum to show that she’d been. After two stops she was the only one on the bus so that the radio could actually be heard. 

“So these are the lucky ladies that won your contest?” The radio announcer asked. 

“Yes.”  All five of the boys answered. 

“That’s a mighty good number,”  he remarked.  “These nine must be the envy of every female in the world.” He joked.

“Actually there’s ten girls.” Niall corrected.

The interviewer looked surprised.  “Ten? But,” he looked again about to mentally count.

“Yeah we don’t know what happened either.” Niall shook his head.

“But we think that’s she’s exploring London on her own.”  Liam answered quickly.

“Well, that’s a first.”  The interviewer laughed.  “Now I want to meet this girl that chose to explore London rather than be with One Direction.”  

Jolie's cheeks flushed bright red when she realized that it was One Direction being interviewed and they were currently talking about her. 

 “St. Paul’s Cathedral.” The intercom interrupted over the radio to signal the next stop. 

Jolie gathered her bag and map, quickly getting up to get off.

After exploring  the crypts, climbing up to the whispering gallery, taking more than enough pictures of everything including Moore's version of the Madonna with Child, Jolie stepped into the plaza that was near St. Paul’s. She decided on one of the numerous restaurants that had outdoor seating with free wifi for lunch.

Quickly logging onto Skype, Jolie saw that her friends were online, however, she first tried to talk to her mom. 

It took a good minute before the call was answered. 

“Mom?”

“No it’s Leah, did you get to meet them?!” Leah asked. “No Anna, I’m talking to her first!”

Jolie could hear her youngest sister somewhere in the background.  “Yes Leah, Anna, I did get to meet One Direction.”

“Did you hear that,” Leah said on the other side to Anna.

Jolie pulled her phone away from her ear as her sisters proceeded to give fan girl cries.  Was there a correlation between being a One Direction fan and screaming?  “You two need to get out more, a little more fresh air and less computer.”

Leah scoffed on the other end before the phone was pulled away from her. 

“Sweetheart?” Paul Whitefield asked.

“Daddy!” 

“How are you doing kiddo?”

“I’m doing good! London’s wonderful, I just went on the audio tour of St. Paul’s. And the National Museum was so big I almost got lost.” Jolie joked.

“I’m glad you’re having a good time, your sisters are still grounded too from what they did.” He glanced over at his two youngest who had the decency to look embarassed.

“Dad, it’s okay… its not like I had that great of a chance at the scholarship anyway.” Jolie said softly, because despite everything, they were her sisters till the end of time.