"Hey El, you coming to study group tonight?" My friend and classmate Edward asked as he stood up from his desk.
"Seven, right?" I closed my notebook and put it down in my bag. Edward nodded as he walked to the door and I stood up following him out into the hall. "Yeah, I'll see you then." I smiled as the two of us parted ways.
I started down the hall towards the door to exit the building. It was late August and the air was already hot and stale and it was only noon. I've never liked summer; I've always been more of a fall and winter person. I was halfway across the quad when I heard my phone ring; I reached into my bag and grabbed it not looking to see who was calling.
"Hello?"
"Where you at ho?" Alana said in her best American accent on the other end.
"I'm on my way home now." I laughed.
I started to hear a beep as if someone else was trying to call me. I pulled the phone away from my ear and saw a number I didn't recognize.
"Hurry! Clueless is on!"
"Oh shit." My American accent was rubbish. "That movie is da bomb."
"Don't ever do that voice again." I could just imagine Alana's serious face as she said that to me.
The other line continued to beep.
"Okay. I'll be home soon."
I hung up and answered the other call that was coming in.
"Hello?"
"Eleanor?" I stopped in the middle of the quad; I had never heard my name said so beautifully before.
"Hello?" The voice said. "Eleanor, It's Louis."
Just then someone bumped into me, causing me to trip, almost knocking the phone out of my hand.
"Hey." I tried to stay calm.
"Sorry it took me so long to call, things have been mad."
"It's okay, I just thought you forgot about little old me." I joked as I started walking again towards my flat.
"How could I ever forget about you?"
I started to blush as I walked by a mom with her small children. The little girl with her had to have been at least six and was wearing a backpack with One Direction on it. If only she knew that at the moment she walked by me that I was on the phone with a member of the band. I smiled at her and continued on my way.
"So," Louis said, "I was wondering what you were doing tonight?"
"Oh," I was taken back by the question, "are you in Manchester?"
"No silly." Louis laughed. "I'm in London. Wait are you in Manchester?"
"Yeah, I go to Uni here remember?"
There was silence on the other end. Did I say something wrong?
"Right. Well I've been meaning to come up to Manchester."
"It' a three and a half hour drive." I said shocked. "And I have a study group tonight." I bit my lip, why would I turn down a chance to hang out with Louis Tomlinson.
"A cute boy says he wants to drive three and a half hours to see you and you would rather study?"
"When did a cute boy call me?" I couldn't believe at what I had just said.
"Ouch."
I giggled at Louis's, maybe he was right, I could take the night off from studying. Now that I think about it, I have been working really hard lately and a night out does sound nice.
"Fine." I sighed. "What time will you be here?"
"Let's say six."
"Sounds like a plan Stan."
"Okay, just text me your address." Louis laughed. Even his laugh was perfect. "See you at six Eleanor."
"See you at six." I heard the phone click on the other end and he hung up.
Did that really just happen? Did Louis Tomlinson just call me? Not only call me, but also say that he was driving three and a half hours to see me? This was not my life.
I couldn't hold in my excitement and skipped the rest of the way back to my flat. Once there, I ran up the stairs and into our apartment where I found Alana sitting in the living room with a bag of chips and ketchup.
"You know that's disgusting." I said trying to catch my breath from running up the stairs. Alana just shrugged her shoulders and ate one of her ketchup covered chips. I sat down on the sofa next to her.
"You'll never guess what just happened."
"By the way you're breathing, I'm going to say you got chased by a tiger lose for the zoo."
"Even crazier than that." I laughed and grabbed a chip. "Louis Tomlinson called me." I put the chip in my mouth.
"No fucking way." Alana sat up putting the bag of chips to the side.
"Yep." I nodded, my smile getting bigger. "And he is going to be here and six to take me out."
"Shit. What are you going to wear?"
"I don't know." I leaned back into the couch trying to play cool. "Maybe Cher can help me decide." Alana leaned back with me and we sat there and watched the rest of Clueless.
***
It was 5:30 and I was looking in the mirror at the outfit I had on, something was wrong with it, I just couldn't tell what it was. It was the fifth outfit I had put on, I didn't know what we would be doing so I tried on every option possible, I tried casual, dressy, dressy-casual, nothing seemed to be working. Alana was sitting on my bed watching as I went back and forth on every outfit.
"You know he'll be here in like thirty minuets." Alana laughed.
"You are no help, you know that?" I picked one of the shirts off the floor and threw it at her.
"Fine." Alana got up off my bed and walked over to my closet, she grabbed a pair of my skinny black jeans and a deep red lose fitting V-neck t-shirt.
"Put this on." She handed me the outfit she had just put together.
I stood in front of the mirror with Alana's outfit on, it was some how perfect. I put on a pair of dark brown oxfords and some earrings that I had gotten the other day with my friend Maggie. I was taking one last look in the mirror when there was a knock at the door. A smile came over my face and I quickly grabbed my bag and rushed for the door before any of the other flat mates could answer.
"I'll get it!" I yelled loudly so everyone could hear me.
"Have fun." Alana yelled to me as I ran towards the front door.
I opened the door fast and came face to face with Louis almost bumping into him.
"Going some where?" He smiled and put both hands on my shoulders stopping us from colliding.
"Just don't want..." I stopped myself from saying the rest, not wanting to sound rude. I closed the door making sure none of my other flat mates saw who I was with.
"You just don't want anyone to see me?" He asked.
"It's not that, I just..." I felt my face start to get red.
"It's okay, I understand."
I sighed with relief. I stepped back and got my first real look at him. He was wearing a pair of brown pants, a white t-shirt and suspenders; his hair was swept to the side. He looked like he had just stepped out of a fairy tale and into my life, only I wasn't a princess.
"So I heard about this pub I thought we could try." He said and led me downstairs to his car waiting out front.
At the pub Louis got us a table in the back so we would have more privacy, he was scared that someone would notice him and disturb our time together. We talked about everything, his drive up, my first few weeks of classes, his press tour coming up, our families, the other boys in the band.
"Oh and Niall," Louis was laughing, "He has the worst farts, like her can clear a room faster than anyone I know."
"That's awful." I giggled.
"Nah, he's a lovely bloke."
I had never smiled as much as I did in that back booth sitting across from Louis Tomlinson.
After dinner Louis decided that it would be a wonderful night to walk through the park nearby.
"When I was little I use to lay on my back yard and just look up at the sky." I told Louis, stopping on the bridge over the parks lake. "I use to wonder what else was up there and if there was someone else just like me on some other planet looking back at Earth thinking the same thing." I looked up at the stars above us now.
Louis was silent; I looked over and saw that he was staring at me.
"What?" I smiled.
"You're not like other girls."
"Oh." I blushed and tucked my hair behind my ear. I felt something fall and soon heard a small splash in the water below, I put my hand to my ear and didn't feel an earring. "Shit."
"What?" Louis asked concerned.
"I think my earring just feel in the pond." I looked down into the dark waters on the pond.
"I'll go get it."
Louis took off down to the edge of the pond, I followed him.
"Louis, that's crazy. It's dark and anyway I'm sure the ponds deep and it sank to the bottom."
I met Louis at the edge; he was taking his shoes off and rolling his pant legs up. He was really going to go in and try to go find my earring; I couldn't believe what I was seeing in that moment.
"It can't be that hard," he smiled and put his feet in the water, "it's a pond in a park, it can't be that deep."
"Really Louis, they were a cheap pair of earrings, it's not that big of a deal."
"Eleanor," He held his hands out and walked into the water, "I've got this." I crossed my arms and watched as he entered the pond.
He took a few more steps in and before I knew it Louis was underwater. I burst out laughing as his head came back above the water and he came back to the edge-soaking wet. He climbed out of the pond and walked towards me.
"What's so funny?" He laughed.
"Nothing." I was trying to stop laughing but every time I looked at him I couldn't help but laugh harder. He quickly grabbed my hand and before I could protest Louis was back in the water and I was with him this time.
"Louis!" I shouted as my head came back above the water.
"What I thought you might enjoy a swim."
Once out of the pound, we laid on the grass next to each other laughing before standing up to wring ourselves out. I looked up at Louis as I wrung out my shirt and hair, he was pushing his wet hair away from his face, I still couldn't believe who was standing in front of me, and he was even perfect when he was wet.
"You're mad." I smiled as he put his shoes on.
"I know." He looked over at me and gave me a knowing smile.
The two of us laughed as we walked back to his car and the whole ride back to my flat. I was glad to see that the street was empty when he pulled up outside and parked his car. He turned towards me, his hair still dripping wet.
"Well I had a wonderful night Miss. Calder."
"As did I Mr. Tomlinson."
We both just sat for a moment looking into each others eyes. I felt like I had known those blue eyes my whole life, deep down I knew they belonged to the person who my future was with. I blinked and looked away from him, not wanting to be the freak girl he told people about in interviews, who wouldn't stop staring at him.
"I should probably go upstairs."
"Do you have to?" Louis pouted.
"I do."
"Okay, but not before you make me a promise."
"And what's that?" I asked him.
"That you let me call and text you whenever I want."
"I promise." I felt my face blush and butterflies in my stomach. Louis then leaned forward and kissed my cheek.
"Good night, Eleanor."
"Good night, Louis." I opened the car door and stepped out. He watched as I walked inside.
I climbed the steps up to my flat, my smile getting bigger with each step. I opened the door and was greeted by Alana who looked at my soaking wet cloths and took a step back.
"What the hell happened to you?" she asked.
"I lost an earring."
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