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The fans had been asking for it since the tour started and they were finally going to do it. No Control. They hadn't done it at soundcheck because they wanted it to be a surprise and all that, because they were nice guys or whatever their management wanted to portray them as. Harry was a nice guy, everyone knew that. A bit of a sex addict, though, which they'd all found out during the X Factor after walking in on him jerking off more times than they could remember... and then, eventually, him, Zayn, and Liam walking in on Louis and Harry in various positions in the middle of intercourse. Zayn was... a bit vain but still kind of not very confident in himself. Louis was the sassy, sarcastic asshole that was actually a tiny, cuddly teddybear. Liam was the giant, cuddly teddybear. And then there was himself. Niall. The one a lot of fans thought was this nice guy but ask any of the guys in the band (even the actual band, the guys that played the guitars and stuff) or security of anyone that worked with them. Some fans that had met him would readily tell you that, yes, Niall was an asshole. He blamed it on him being the only single member of the band. The only straight member of the band. Liam had been "straight' until finding out Zayn was bisexual then he'd gotten curious and, well, now they were engaged, even though the whole world still thought Zayn was engaged to Perrie. Honestly, a lot of their fans could be such idiots. And he couldn't even blame it on age because a lot of them were in their twenties now, just like him and the guys. It was awful, really, but at least he didn't have to worry about them being illegal to sleep with...
Alright, so maybe being single wasn't the worst thing that could happen to him.
As the song ended, he looked over to the side of the stage, a lazy smile on his face, scanning over the crowd. There were a bunch of young girls, some of them too young, so he did nothing more than just wave at them, listening to Liam talking about how this was their "loudest crowd yet" but... he said that all the time. Whatever, it still made the crowd scream, no matter where they were. It was then that he saw something he didn't usually see at one of their concerts. A girl dressed in all black with some sort of... band shirt or something. He couldn't make out what it was but it looked... graphic. And not in a sexual way. More like in a bloody, gross, zombie kind of way. And she was wearing combat boots that looked like actual, military issued combat boots. Next to her was another girl (well, he supposed they were women, since they didn't look in the seventeen in younger category but they couldn't be much older than him and the lads, either) who was dressed more "appropriately" for a One Direction show. She was actually wearing one of their shirts, a pair of jeans, and what looked like a pair of black Vans. Both girls had brown hair, on the longer side, but one was on the taller side and the other... she was tiny. It made him chuckle, a brow arching when the taller girl looked up, grinning wickedly before nudging the girl next to her (so... Zombie Shirt and Short Girl were friends... interesting) and causing Short Girl to look up. She froze then, looking at him, and Niall laughed, waving and, what the hell, throwing in a wink. The look on the shorter girl's face was priceless and the taller girl seemed to be finding this all rather amusing because she gave a thumbs up.
Liam was finished speaking now so he had to go get ready to sing but he couldn't help glancing over his shoulder, back at the two girls, and letting out another laugh, loud enough to get the other lads' attention because the Zombie Girl was tugging the Short Girl through the crowd to get closer to the stage. She looked like she was used to handling large crowds. The Short Girl... not so much. Or maybe she was still awestruck because she had this ridiculous, goofy smile on her face that was actually adorable. He shook his head, listening to Liam introduce their last song, Girl Almighty, and then he found himself getting lost in the moment, goofing around with the other boys on stage, waving to the crowd, and he nearly forgot about Zombie and Shorty until he wandered back over to that side of the stage and saw them again, goofily dancing together and singing along to the song. Honestly, he was shocked that Zombie Girl knew the words, or seemed to know them, and that she looked to be actually enjoying herself because she looked like she belonged at some metal concert or something, not dancing around to one of their songs.
As the song ended, curiosity got the best of him, and he addressed the crowd. More specifically, the two girls that had stopped dancing and were now looking at him. Well, the Short Girl was staring at him and the Zombie Girl was laughing, maybe saying something, because Short Girl was blushing like mad.
"Oi! I've got a question for the two lovely ladies here in the front," he said, walking closer to the edge of the stage and pointing at first the Zombie Girl, who started laughing all over again, and then to the Short Girl, who looked ready to faint now that his attention was obviously on her, but did manage a small wave. "What the hell is your friend wearing?"
The crowd was screaming, bloody idiots, he wasn't even talking to them. Why couldn't they just shut up for a minute, Christ...
The Short Girl was saying something but he couldn't hear it so, what the hell, he motioned for security to take his mic from him and bring it over to the two girls. The Short Girl was bright red and her friend even seemed to be blushing now and the crowd was screaming even more (it was actually annoying) but the mic finally got to the two of them and the Short Girl took it but couldn't seem to talk. He could hear her giggling, though, and it was cute, but then Zombie Girl took the mic, smirking at her friend, and saying, "It's a Cannibal Corpse shirt. By the way, I'm Keira, and this is Jen, and she loves you."
Short Girl, Jen, was now beyond red and she turned to smack her friend in the shoulder, which only made her friend laugh harder as she handed the mic over to security before grabbing it again last minute and saying, "While you're in New Jersey, go to Wawa," and then the crowd was going crazy again (what the fuck was Wawa?) and security was coming back with his mic and he was left staring at the two girls for a moment before Liam was calling his name, sounding kind of annoyed, a look of disapproval on his face, but Niall ignored it. He gave one last wink, looking directly at Jen just to watch how she blushed again and tried to hide behind her friend, and the look on his face was far from disapproval as he exited the stage, ignoring the other lads. He had two things to do before the night ended.
First, he was going to Google just what the hell a "cannibal corpse" was and second, he was going to find a Wawa because it seemed to be quite popular here in the states, or at least New Jersey.