Serendipitous: Zayn's Story

Kate tapped her feet as she waited for her cue.  She looked over on the other side at another girl; the two shared a look as they anticipated their task. 

At the sound of screaming, Kate’s gaze went right to the entrance of the mall. Kate couldn’t help but to inwardly fan girl herself upon seeing the five members of One Direction walking through the doors. 

“Welcome back to LA, One Direction!” All the girls yelled together to a very bewildered One Direction and of course their security.

“Everyone, ready?” One girl down in the crowd yelled. 

“1, 2, 3!” Another girl counted and on the count of three, Kate as well as five other girls all turned on One Direction’s One Thing from their large boom boxes to a deafening volume.  On cue, all the girls, including Kate herself took off their jackets to reveal white t-shirts all decorated with the simple One Direction signia. 

Kate whipped out her precious Nikon D800 and began to take pictures of her friends in the flash mob. A large smile appeared on her face as she went around the deck and continued to snap as many shots as possible. 

She even got a shot of one of her friends, Carly dancing with Louis Tomlinson, whom jumped in the dance with them when it got to the Inbetweeners section of the flash mob.  She couldn’t help but laugh at the picture she caught of another one of her friends looking like as if she was going to pass out when Liam Payne started to dance beside her, a huge grin on his face.  Kate quickly adjusted her setting to get a close up shot of Liam smiling beside a girl that she was friends with, knowing that she would just about die when she saw the picture.  Kate quickly took the escalator down, grabbing her Starbucks frappe as she went.  It was half hazardous, but with one hand she continued to take as many pictures as she could, while the other hand held her coffee.  She nearly paid five bucks for it, she wasn’t going to let the frappe go to waste!

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Niall and Zayn were dancing along as they tried to move towards where the music store was.  Liam was already half way there, having made his way right away after dancing quickly beside a starry eyed teenage girl. 

Zayn couldn't help but keep looking over his shoulder back at the flash mob that many very dedicated fans had planned to welcome them.  He was smiling and laughing along with his mates as he watched the girls work really hard to keep going with their flash mob. He was about to turn the corner, still looking beside him when he stepped right in the way of a girl.  His arm knocked right into the girl in effect hitting her on her side, causing the coffee in the girl’s hand to fall between them, spilling all over the both of them. 

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Kate let out a small gasp as the icy cold frappe drenched the front of her shirt and a part of her high waisted black shorts.  She was just thankful that her camera had been in her other hand and not damaged by the coffee.

“I’m so sorry,” Zayn managed to say as he stared guiltily at the girl's ruined outfit. 

Kate looked up from her coffee stained outfit to the voice, her words died on her lips as she found Zayn Malik looking down at her horrified and completely embarrassed that he’d literally ran into her. 

“No, its okay.” Kate said at last finding her vocal chords. “It’s just clothes.” Kate said smiling up at him. “Anyway my camera’s untouched!” Kate tried to assure him but Zayn was still as embarrassed as ever.

“Smooth Zayn, very smooth.” Niall said coming up to them having just caught back up with Zayn.

Zayn shot Niall a look before looking back at the girl.  “Let me make it up to you, I should’ve been looking,” Zayn said knowing that he’d been the one at fault, he was the one that knocked into the girl.