Chapter 1- Why Not Chase a Little Danger

Authors note: I love putting songs with scenes in books so I'm gonna try to put a few songs each chapter that make me think about what's going on. You can listen to the songs while reading as well. If anyone has any suggestions comment away.

Run The World - Beyoncé
California Gurls- Katy Perry
Fancy- Iggy Azalea
Outlaws- Alessia Cara
Here's to Never Growing Up- Avril Lavigne
Shake it Off - Taylor Swift
Drag me Down- One Direction

Peytons POV

"Where do you want to sit?" Sophie is in my room sitting at my desk while I'm trying to choreograph my final dance routine. I was so stressed out about this final, well you can't really call it a final its more like a competition with every other dancer in the class. Let me tell you every dancer was beyond amazing,you had to be to make it into CalArts and then you had to be absolutely perfect to make it into the BFA Program.

"As close as possible, oh and make sure it is on the left side of the stage because Louis is on that side the most, oh and make sure it is at the end of the catwalk, I'd rather be out towards the smaller stage and not the main stage, I have no idea what you call that." Ipulled a chair up and sat down next to her at my computer.

"Okay so obviously we want to sit in section B3." As I scrolled through all of the ticket options I found two tickets for section B3 row 13 seats 1 and 2. " This is perfect lets get them." I was already clicking on them to put them in my cart.

"P what the hell look at how much those are!" Sophie didn't seem to happy about the price.

"Soph its $3000 to see them one time come on please I just want to be less than 5 feet away from Louis. This would mean the world to me and you know it will be completely worth it. Just imagine being able to see exactly what color Harry's eyes are. And just think when they look out at our section there is a high possibility that our faces will be the first faces they see." I was practically on my knees on the floor begging her to say yes. Sure I could go on my own but this is something I wanted to experience with my best friend. "Ill pay for your ticket just say yes please?"

"Calm down of course I will say yes I want to go almost as bad you do and you will never pay 3000 for anything of mine lets get that straight right now."

"Technically I am paying...."

"Shut up Im paying you back though." She cut me off before I could even finish my sentence.

"Okay I'm checking out then." I clicked the check out button and put in all of my information before she could change her mind. Thirty seconds later something popped up saying we just bought 2 tickets and a confirmation message will be sent to my email. Sophie and I looked at each other at the same time and we both screamed and started jumping up and down.

After about 5 minutes of us freaking out we went back to being normal 21 year olds. Sophie is the only one of my friends that knows how in love I am with One Direction specifically Louis. I told a few other friends but their response is always aren't you a bit old for that and it just annoys me. I hate when people get judged for the things they like it has nothing to do with anybody else so just let me enjoy it. Sophie and I have made it our little secret and we have a lot of inside jokes about the boys. For example the whole Kevin joke, one time we were at my friends house and she had named her fish Kevin and I looked at Sophie and said thats not Kevin and she said Kevin is a pigeon and we just laughed so hard. People think we are weird I know they do and truthfully if it wasn't for our looks nobody would probably talk to us. I don't care though because at the end of the day as long as Sophie likes me and I like myself that was all that mattered.

I went back to working on my dance routine. We still had a month to make the dance and the teacher technically hasn't even announced anything about the competition yet but I know there will be one because there always is. The only thing I wasn't sure of was the style of dance so I was making a few different dances, I liked to be prepared and when it came to dance you could never practice to much.

LouisPOV

"El you don't have to come to Tokyo, your in the middle of the semester and I know your getting ready for finals." We have been talking on the phone for almost 2 hours now and basically have been having this same conversation over and over again. She seems to think that we need to see each other more. Its not that I don't agree with her I just don't see what else I can do.

"I know I don't have to but I want to," her voice was starting to get whiny and I could tell she was getting annoyed, or maybe that was just me, "Or do you not want me to?"

"Of course I want you to," I do don't I? I mean shes my girlfriend andI love her so I should want to see her more than I do, " look all I'm saying babe is that we are really busy and we might not get to hang out very much and I just don't want you to waste your money or your time if we wont even get to spend any time together."

"Wow Lou nice to know you don't miss me." She sounded hurt and that was the last thing I wanted.

"Baby I do miss you we will be in Tokyo over the weekend how about you fly in on Friday and I will clear my schedule Saturday morning." I wasn't  sure if I would be able to clear my schedule but it was worth a shot, I didn't want to make her cry, I may not be in love with her anymore but I still care about her.

"Okay fine but I can only stay until Monday morning." She sounded happier at least, this seemed like a good time to tell her I had to go.

I"m an ass I know but it wasn't always like this, I used to be so in love with her. We used to  have a decent relationship but because I am always touring we have realized over the years that its  become harder and harder to be in a relationship. I know she feels it to that's why shes flying all this way to Japan, though neither one of us would ever admit that. Maybe that's our problem we suck at communication, not that we suck at talking just at talking to eachother.

Its been two days since she called and we decided that she would spend the weekend with me in Japan as a last ditch effort to fix our relationship.

"Dude you are so lucky that you get to see El, I miss Perrie so much."Zayn was more excited about seing El than I was. I thought about telling him how I felt about my relationship with Eleanor but honestly  I was afraid he would tell Perrie and then it would get back to El. I may not want to tell her myself but I definitely didn't want her to hear from our friends.

After Eleanor  hung up that day I told myself that if I acted like I missed her and wanted her here enough that eventually I would actually start feeling it. So far it was working and by working I mean that I made all of the guys believe that I missed her. Not so much for me though. I made Zayn come with me to the airport to pick her up. I knew that if Zayn was here there wouldn't be so much tension between El and I.

As soon as I saw her walk out of the terminal I remembered why I fell in love with her in the first place. She is unbelievable gorgeous, not to mention smart and funny. I wish she could be here with me all the time, maybe then I wouldn't feel like I was falling out of love with her. I didn't want to fall out of love with her because then the past 4 years would be for nothing. I was standing almost on the other side of the waiting area and as soon as she saw me she smiled and I thought that maybe this could actually work. Next thing I knew she was in my arms, crying and reminding me of what its like to kiss her.

"I have missed you so much." The words are out of my mouth without even thinking, maybe this is working after all, or maybe I do just really miss her.

"You did?" She sounds as surprised as I felt.

"Yes of course I did."

PeytonsPOV

Later that night was our monthly sleep over with our two best friends Clair and Meghan. Meghan  was a dancer who was in the BFA program with me,and Clair was in a lot of Sophies marine biology classes. We met them on our first day of Freshman classes and we immediately clicked.They were both best friends from Michigan who said their dreams were to big for such a small town. They were literally like our best friend twins. We have been doing these sleep overs almost every month since.

"Should we tell them?" Sophie was whispering to me in the kitchen while Clair and Meghan were in the living room setting up for games.

"I don't see why not they knew we were talking about going." we walked back in the living room with drinks and a bunch of random snacks."Guys we have something exciting to tell you." They both looked at us anxiously waiting for what we were going to say. The last time we had big news for them was last summer when I told them we won a 4 pack of tickets on a Caribbean cruise.

"Ok well you know how Sophie and I were talking about going to the One Direction  concert?" I had two ways of telling people stuff: blurting it out or taking my time and the way they were starring at me in anticipation I was going with the latter. "And you know how we weren't sure if either of us was going to be able to go because it was so far away and...."

"Oh my god I hate when you do this," Sophie looked almost as anxious as Meghan and Clair, "WE JUST BOUGHT TICKETS TO SEE ONE DIRECTION!!!!!" Sophie literally screamed at them.

They looked more scared then anything else.

"We bought tickets for the Chicago concert on July 12 and the tickets were $3000 each I know its ridicolous but like Peyton said its one time to see Harry and Louis and be less than 5 feet from them and that is totally worth it although we really should have spent another thousand and maybe we would have been able to meet them oh maybe we should just do that but that would be $7000 each so never mind but anyways we are going to see the biggest band in the world and be within reaching distance of the hottest guys on the planet." Sophie literally said all of this without talking a breath, I don't no how she managed all of that but she did. Meghan and Clair just sat there in shock.

"What did she just say?" Clair finally asked.

"Yea all I got out of that was that you are going to a One Direction Concert." Meghan was just as confused as Clair.

I told them exactly what Sophie said just a lot slower, one good thing about being best friends with someone your entire life you would know exactly what they were saying even if they had a mouth full of marshmallows.

One thing you should know about Clair and Meghan is that they like all of about 5 One Direction songs so they had no interest in going to see the boys. They also didn't judge us for liking them though which was good because we could openly talk to them about stuff and not worry about them laughing or giving us dirty looks like most people.

"So wait its in June does that mean you aren't going to Africa?" Crap this is something that I hadn't even thought about, of course Clair would be one step ahead like always.

"Um we will just have to go the first week and that's it, that might mess stuff up with the foundation but it should be fine." Sophie and I have been going to Africa in June every year since we were 13. We also have a foundation that we created when we were 15 called Peyphies Helping Hand or PHH, we had a lot of help to create this foundation and it has became a huge success. Basically my grandpa and Sophies dad do most of the work on the foundation because at the beginning we had no idea what to even do so they have been our biggest source of help.

What the foundation does is all through out the year we get people to donate clothes toys and food and the food goes over to Africa whenever we get so much of it but the rest is saved for when we go to Africa so we get to actually hand the stuff out ourselves. Its not just us of course, all throughout the month different churches that are partnered with us visit Africa on Mission trips. That entire month is dedicated to Africa, people go all over the country and helpbuild homes and schools, teach children schooling, along with the simpler things of just having a meal with them or playing a game. The look on the childrens faces when they get a new ball or a new pair of shoes is the best part of the whole thing its why I love to go so much.

Normally Sophie and I spend at least 2 weeks there sometimes even more. "Well we definitely have to go the first week," this was because the first week is always the most hectic because people are trying to figure out everything that they need to do, its the time that we need the most help. "So if we go on the first and come back on the tenth that will give us a day to pack and get used to being back in America so we can be in Chicago by the twelfth and then if we want to go  back to Africa after that we can."  I am so glad that I was blessed with good planning skills.

"Okay we need to decide what hotel we are staying in and all of that stuff."

"We can look tomorrow Soph lets play a game!"

Every girls night we played games, got slighty drunk, did each others makeup, had a fashion show and danced all night and this one would be no different. My favorite part of the night was always the fashion show, we would pick out 5 random outfits for each other, some were cute and others weren't and then we would drive all around town andtake pictures at different locations. Basically this is how it goes we put on an outfit, we usually change at a gas station or something,and then we drive around for exactly 3 minutes, and where ever you are at the 3 minute mark is where we have to take pictures. We have been to some pretty crazy and illegal places.

About a year ago we were doing our fashion show like normal except we wanted to go to different places so we drove about an hour away before we even started playing the game.

Flashback

"Okay start the timer" I had no idea where we were but it seemed like  a safe enough place.

"3 minutes are on the clock." Sophie was just as excited as me, Meghan and Clair were a bit against this idea at first but I could tell in my rear view mirror that they were starting to get excited. We drove for 3 minutes and when the timer went off we ended up at a small diner. After taking a couple random pictures we decided to go inside and get something to eat. The diner was so cute it had a 50s theme going on and the workers were even wearing roller blades. It reminded me of the diner in the movie A Cinderella Story, the one with Hillary Duff and Chad Michael Murry, I always liked that movie. We sat in the corner booth and ordered cheesy fries and ice cream. We took so many random pictures and we were being so loud im surprised they didn't kick us out.

"P stand on the table." Sophie was looking around for any employees.

"Wait why me?"

"Because your outfit is the most 50s" Meghan was trying to keep herself in the clear because honestly she was the one with the most 50s outfit.

"Okay fine hurry up." I jumped up on the table and did a few poses while Sophie  snapped away. I heard some yelling coming from the front of the diner and I knew we had been caught. Luckily there was a back entrance.

"Go!Run Now! I am not getting kicked out of another place." Clair was frantically picking up all of her stuff and bolting out of the door. Clair and Meghan definatley worried about that kind of stuff the most, Sophie and I didn't care if we got kicked out as long as we didn't get arrested but even that wouldn't be a first.

End of flashback

Clair and Meghan had brought a suit case each full of random clothes just for the fashion show. We dumped the suitcases on my bed and raided mine and Sophies closet for more clothes. We each wrote our names on a paper and put it in a bowl then we drew out names to see who we got to pick out clothes for. I got Clair, Sophie got me, Meghan got Sophie , and Clair got Meghan. One at a time we went into my room and picked out 5 outfits.

We made the hour long drive to Los Angeles and got out of the car the second we saw the Hollywood sign. We dont usually go this far but we heard there was going to be a movie premier here somewhere and we were hoping to randomly show up looking fabulous.

"Soph wanna climb up on the sign?" I gave Sophie the most devilish look, I knew she would never go for it but I asked anyways. Sophie was a wild child but not as much me. She stood there looking back and forth between me and the sign. Was she actually considering this?

"What the hell you only live once right." No freaking way. I could not believe my ears.

"I'm so proud of you, I have taught you so well." My life motto is 'You only live once so why not chase a little danger.' People think I'm crazy, like literally I've been called insane more times then I count but at least when I look back on my life just like everyone else will, at least I will be able to say that I lived and not just settled.

"You two coming?" I look at Clair and Meghan, I know without a doubt that they will say no but it doesn't hurt to ask right? They don'teven have to speak because the look on their faces says absolutely not.

"Fineyou two can take pics from down here and drive the get away car, you know we will need it." I throw my keys to Meghan and Sophie and I make the climb to the top of the hill.

We reach the fence behind the sign and I can't  help but think how stupid this is. I know there are cameras and I know we will most likely get caught but I would never admit my fear, not even to my best friend so that means no backing out now.

Sophie and I both share a look. I see fear in her eyes or maybe its just my reflection. I have done a lot of stupid and illegal things in my life but this has got to be at the top of my list. Although if I do go through with it I will be able to scratch it off my bucket list.

"Okay it's  now or never." I look at Sophie and start climbing the fence, surprisingly she follows.

We make it to the top of the center of the O's in the word wood and we lean over and look at each other. No sirens yet or helicoptor this is good. Just a couple pictures then we will run and never look back. I pull out my selfie stick, yes im one of those people, but they are perfect for times like these. We take a few random pictures and I quickly text Clair to make sure she is taking pictures from below.

Sophie and I climb down from the O's as fast as we can and we sprint to the car. By the time we get back to the car we are out of breath, Meghan and Clair are already in the front and the second the door closes we peel away. Sophie and I look at each other and burst out laughing. This is what I live for the adrenaline of doing something your not supposed to, something that could get you into trouble and change your entire life. If I didn't live like this life would be so boring I don't know how normal people do it. It makes it even better when you have someone to live on the edge with.

As soon as we hit the highway we hear sirens behind us.

"Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. This can not be happening my father is going to kill me." Clair is freaking out in the front seat, the girl is practically in hysterics and I don't even see any lights yet.

I don't know what to even say, its not that I'm afraid of getting caught, at least not completely, I just don't want to get caught. If I don't want to get caught then I shouldn't do illegal stuff in the first place, I hear the voices of all my previous shrinks repeating over and over in my head but I don't care, I didn't care what they said then and I sure as hell don't care now. A wave of relief washes over me when I see the cop coming from the opposite direction and they drive right pass us. That was close, maybe a little to close.

"P I can't  believe I let you talk me into that it was amazing I felt so..." Sophie looked at me, she was way to excited ".... so bad." I literally laughed until I cried. Sophie is anything but bad she is the sweetest most caring and thoughtful person I know, there is not a bad bone in her body. I hope I didn't change that tonight. I thought I would love it if she became an adrenaline junkie like me but honestly I like that she always reminds me not to take it to far. I can't change her not when I need her sanity to keep the fraction of mine that is left.

"Soph you are not bad you can never be bad and you will never be bad please don't let me drag you down with me." My life has been pretty shitty and Sophie has been the one to show me the light and see the good in the world. These past couple years have been so great, I have been doing so good, dragging her down into my hole of darkness where I use the adrenaline to feel would literally break me, not that it would be the first time that I have been broken.

Sophie looked at me and without even saying anything I knew exactly what she was thinking. She hated the fact that I hated myself. I act like I don't give a shit and that I'm happy with my life and sometimes I am but honestly I have had to much shit happen to me to say that I love my life. I also know that Sophie isn't saying anything because Clair and Meghan are here, they may be our best friends but they still don't know anything.

They know what the rest of my friends at college know, I don't have a relationship with either of my parents although they don't know why, they know that I used to have an older brother that I never talk to because he is living in Europe, but they don't know the truth, and they know that dance is my passion but they don't know how much it has saved my life.

"Okay this night is getting way to serious." I'm speaking out loud but I'm mainly talking to myself because of the direction my thoughts have gone in.

"Yes I agree," Sophie gives me a look, I hate when she gives me that look, its like she pities me or something, " Clair start the clock."

"Wait we need to change first." Meghan says from the driver seat and pulls over at the next restaurant.

Authors note: Hi everyone I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. I am enjoying writing this so much. This is my first book that I've actually put on here so please give me your feedback. Tell me what you think of the characters, your theories, what you would like to see happen, anything just comment. I love you all. XOXO -Chels

P.s sorry this is so long 😘