One Dreaming Reality

Chapter 1: One Dreaming Reality

"What do you think we should do today," Courtney asked, looking directly at me. "I don't have a clue, but lets do something completely memorable.. something that no one else will be able to say they did." "You do realize it has only been 3 days since we graduated school, right?" She asked this with a bewildered look. "I know, but I just really want to do something exciting, I guess," because after thinking about it.. why was I in such a hurry to do something? Either way, Courtney ended up coming around, later asking what we should do. We both sat at the foot of my bed, looking out the window, as if something would jump right to us. After 5 minutes of silent thinking, Courtney came up with the idea to just cruise around town. We had absolutely nothing else better to do, so why not. It took us about a half hour to straighten our hair, put makeup on, and get dressed. While I was putting on a little extra mascara, I thought to myself, 'Why am I even getting ready, it is not like I will see anybody I know.'

"Kandice! Hurry the hell up!" I heard Courtneys voice loudly coming from the driveway. 'Why is she always in such a damn rush?' I thought to myself, as I was putting some money back into my wallet. Finally, I walked outside to see Courtney awkwardly standing up against her car. "Who's driving," I asked, even though I really did not feel like driving whatsoever. "Well, I guess I can," Courtney said with a silly grin on her face. We both hopped in the car, buckled our seatbelts, and we were on our way.

 About 15 minutes after we left, we had only gotten about 2 miles away from my house. Courtney liked to drive slow and cautiously, something I usually picked on her for. "Where to?" I asked as I rolled down the window to feel the warm summer wind on my tanned arm. She replied with, "Honestly, I have no clue.. Should we just go home?" With that simple question, I had the biggest mind snap ever. It felt as if all the gears in my head came to an abrupt halt, and new ideas began flushing through my mind. 'This is our last free summer, the only summer we have together as best friends, the only summer we have to do whatever we want, no regrets. Next year we will be moving apart, going to seperate colleges, and only getting to see each other on holiday weekends.' I looked my best friend of 10 years in the eyes and said, "This is our last summer in the same town together, we need to have some excitement and do things we never thought we would." Courtney whipped her head to the right to see me looking at her with a huge grin on my face, and she simply replied with, "I'm in."

That was the thing that I absolutely adored about my best friend, she was always ready for anything. I remember back to the first times we hung out, and how she would always be the one to get us to do something. She lived in the moment, and like me, she loved a great adventure.

I turned on the radio to hear nothing but terrible lyrics and stupid radio hosts talking about their life. Flipping between all 5 presets on Courtneys car, I finally pressed preset number 2. It sounded like it was a couple seconds into the song, maybe even the middle. The lyrics were catchy, "Baby, you light up my world like nobody else.." Turning the car speakers up about 10 notches higher, Courtney whipped her head to see me humming along. "What the fuck is this?" She asked me like I had been singing some crazy song in German or something. I simply answered with, "There was nothing else on."

That was a total lie. Once Courtney had dropped me off at my house, and she went home, I grabbed my laptop and ran straight into my room. I didn't know the name of the song, so I just typed in the words that I heard over the radio. 'Baby you light up my world like nobody else'- enter. I scrolled down a little bit when I see the song is called "What Makes You Beautiful." I wanted to hear more, so I clicked open a new tab to YouTube and searched the song. 'Hmm, One Direction, that's kind of a silly name, but lets give it a go.' After the song took a couple minutes of buffering, finally I saw it...them. 

How amazingly beautiful they were, how absolutely incredible their voices were.. I could not get enough of them. Once the song ended, I found myself sitting in my room in pure awe with these 5  boys who left me simply breathless. I began searching more and more songs. "One Thing, Gotta Be You, I Want, Moments" I Googled them, found as much reasearch as I could on them. While in the midst of reading about Larry Stylinson, I looked to see the clock. Holy shit, it was 2:16 in the morning! I had literally been on the computer for 6 straight hours, trying to learn as much as I could about One Direction.

Then those words crossed my mind "What the fuck is this?" Oh gosh, what is Courtney going to think of me? I bet she will make fun of me, banish me from her friendship, then punch me in the face. I wanted my best friend to feel the same way I did about these boys. I wanted this to be our thing, and I wanted my friend to accept these boys and love them just as much as I did. It hadn't even been 1 day, and I knew these 5 boys would be my life. I just wanted to be their life.