”HELLO YOUTUBE! My name is Karen and today I’m gonna do a cover of ‘You and I’ by the one, the only, ONE DIRECTION! Then after that I will do some updates, so I hope you enjoy my cover, and be free to like, comment and share this video, cause I do make new video’s every Wednesday and Friday!”

We don't wanna be like them

We can make it till the end

Nothing can come between

You and I

Not even the Gods above can

Separate the two of us

No nothing can come between

You and I

Oh, you and I

Ooooh You and I

We could make it if we try

Oh, you and I

You and I

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Finishing up the song I looked into the camera, putting the guitar away. “Yep that was today’s cover; I hope you all liked it, now moving on to the updates. I will start taking more request, adding Monday to the list of days to make a video, also, I’m gonna do a Q&A, bringing special guests aka my friends into a video, once a week, and I think its gonna be the Friday videos seeing as it’s the weekend then. Also I’m gonna start vlogging, so that’s what I had of the updates, have a great day and I’ll see you all on Monday when I update a new video, have a great weekend, and may the odds be ever in your favor. Bye guys!” waving to the camera I ended the video and started editing it.

Two hours later I was done editing it, and posted it on YouTube. I then went on twitter and opened a new tweet window, “@This_CareBear: “Just updated a new video on YouTube, so please go check it out”, posting it I smiled to myself and sent a kik to my English best friend CJ, reason I’m saying English best friend is because she lives in England and I live in Norway. In April next year we’ve know each other for 4 years. My name is Karen Jensen, I’m 20 years old from Bergen, Norway and I live with my Nan and my older sister, I regularly visit my dad and talk to him though, my mom on the other hand, died when I was 7. Anyways moving on… me and CJ ended up talking on kik for the rest of the day, were we talked about anything really.

The next day I woke up by my sister walking into my room. She and I have our difficulties but it doesn’t mean we hate each other, well that is if she lets me sleep. I cherish my sleep and my bed too much. After getting up which took me 20 minutes by the way, yep I’m lazy like that, I went to get a shower, playing my one direction playlist on spotify, singing along. Then after my shower I went to my room and got dressed and checked my phone seeing I had gotten a new DM on my Instagram from CJ, it was a picture of my ‘You and I’ cover video, and it had gotten 100,000 views, 50,000 likes and only 200 dislikes, which I could live with. Doing a happy dance I took a picture of myself on Instagram with the caption: “just found out my newest video on YouTube got 100,000 views since I posted it last night!” I was so excited I got on kik and texted CJ, who apparently had been screaming so loud her parents had thought she was dying, smooth move girl. Getting on YouTube I saw that I had gotten a lot of comments, subscribers, close to 500,000 now, but there was one comment that really struck me, it was from One Direction’s official YouTube account, they had written that they loved my cover and that they wanted to meet me… OH MY GOD! ONE DIRECTION WANTS TO MEET ME?! I thought to myself before texting CJ again, telling her everything. I then went on Twitter and opened a new tweet window, “@This_CareBear: “So today I woke up to 100,000 views on my new video, and @onedirection had commented saying they wanted to meet me #BestDayEver” refreshing twitter I saw a few like, retweets and some replies, I also got a few new followers and a DM from Louis Tomlinson, yes the Louis Tomlinson of One Direction, one of my number 1 favorite bands in the world. I quickly wrote him back telling him where in Norway I was from and that if they wanted to meet me, they would have to come there, which he agreed to, and since they weren’t currently on tour until next month they would come as early as tomorrow, and that he would DM me before they took off and as soon as they landed so I could come meet them at the airport. This was defiantly the best day ever. I can’t believe Louis Tomlinson and I had a DM chat on twitter, this is amazing! I thought to myself, making me grin as I told CJ who was green with envy.

Morning after as pretty hectic as I was getting up really early so I could leave for the airport where I would meet the lads, who were secretly landing in Bergen, and they were secretly staying at a hotel near the airport. “Karen you need to get up so you don’t have to stress to get to the airport in time!” my Nan shouted from upstairs, I quickly got up and went to take a shower, washing my brown and dark blond hair. After that I went to my room, getting dressed and blow-drying my hair, which always took the longest since it’s so thick, then I went to get some food, ate it before I went downstairs again to brush my teeth and apply the makeup. I hardly ever wear makeup, but since I’m meeting the biggest boy band on the planet I decided to make myself look nice. Getting to the airport I stood where Louis and I had arranged, and an hour later or so five handsome British lads and two girl walked into the terminal and over to me. “Hello Love, how are you?” Louis asked, immediately hugging me, then it was Harry, Zayn, Niall and lastly it was Liam. “This is my girlfriend Eleanor, and Liam’s girlfriend Sophia, girls this is…” “Karen Jensen, I know Louis, if it hadn’t been for me you wouldn’t have know about her, hello Karen, I’m a big fan of yours”, Eleanor said and surprisingly gave me a hug. Louis you’ve got a keeper, I thought to myself. Sophia didn’t seem to bother saying hello so I decided not to bother her.

Getting to their hotel we all sat down on the couches in one of the room, which was a huge room by the way, and we just started talking. “So how did you find out about our music?” Zayn asked, sitting across from me, “Well I was really bored one day and went on YouTube, mind you it was before I made a channel, and I was listening to some music, when I saw ‘What makes you beautiful’ standing in the line of common videos to the one I was listening to, and I thought why not give it a try so I clicked it and ended up listening to it on repeat, since it’s soo beautiful, and after that I’ve been a big fan of yours”, I said with a genuine smile, looking at everyone, seeing Sophia sending me dirty looks, What’s her problem? I asked myself, but decided to ignore it, since I didn’t want to cause any problems. “You and Eleanor are soooo beautiful together Louis, you fit so well to each other!” I said and smiled, “So how old do you have to be to drink in this country and is there some clubs/bars you recommend?” Niall asked, making everyone laugh, well almost everyone. “You have to be 18, but some of the places you have to be 20 or older to get in. We have two Irish pubs and a Scottish pub in town too, but I think one of them is 25 years limit. And since I never go out to bars/pubs to drink anymore I can’t recommend any, because I’ve had so bad experience when I’ve been out”, I replied shrugging at the thought of last time I was out. “You don’t sound like your Norwegian, are you sure you didn’t grow up in England or the states?” Harry asked looking at me with a smirk, “I get that a lot and I wish I was born in England, it’s such a beautiful country, but no, I’m born and raised Norwegian, I have Norwegian parents and grandparents”, I say and laugh. “Can you sing for us?” Eleanor asked looking at me, then at the other, I nodded and saw in the corner of my eyes, Sophia was rolling her eyes at me, ugh that girl!

…And live while we're young

They all clapped. “Have you ever thought of being famous?” Louis asked, making me smile, “Yeah I’ve thought about it a lot of times, but I don’t want to be famous just because of who I know and what I do for a living, I want to be able to do something for the world, to make a difference in someone’s life and to be someone young kids can look up too.” Again Sophia was rolling her eyes, but before I could say anything, Louis looked at her, “Don’t start Sophia, you had a choice, to stay home or to come with us, and since you chose the last one I want you to treat Karen nicely or you can go home right now, because that is not a way to treat someone.” I think we all wanted to laugh at that, but Sophia just looked at him in shock before standing up and going out the door, Liam following after her, muttering I’m sorry to the rest of us. It all made me feel awkward; I wasn’t used to strangers standing up for me. “That girl needs to smile more”, Niall said after a few more minutes of awkward silence, making us all laugh a bit, well except for me who just looked at my hands, “You okay love?” Zayn asked wrapping an arm around my shoulder, “Yeah, it’s just I’m not used to strangers sticking up for me, I was bullied all through middle school, so my self confidence has been really low, I was really surprised when I uploaded the first video on YouTube”, I say and force a smile, feeling Zayn pull me in for a tight hug. “You’re a fighter, never stop fighting for your dreams”, he whispered into my ear. “Picture time, Harry and Niall on that side, Karen in the middle, Zayn and Louis you stand there, perfect, annnnnd smiiiiiile!” Eleanor said with the biggest smile on her face, I think she and I will get along fine, after the picture was taken I took several selfies with one guy at the time before taking some selfies with Eleanor. “Would you like to come to England with us and hang out with us there? You can come with us on shows and to the studio”, Harry asked before I was leaving, “I would love too, it’s until your tour starts in January right?” he nodded and smiled. I WAS GOING TO ENGLAND WITH ONE DIRECTION! I had to mentally slap myself. Hugging them goodbye I went to the bus and went home, which took over an hour since I was living so far away from the airport.

It’s been two days since the lads flew over to Bergen to meet me, and today they were bringing me back with them to England. I had already packed and decided to go for jeans leggings, my favorite plaided shirt, my green converse and my favorite beanie. In my handbag I had my laptop, chargers, camera, wallet and passport and when 2 o’clock rolled around I was off to the airport with my Nan, who was driving me. While in the car I got my phone out and sent CJ a text, saying I was going to England with the lads and that she should come visit, she immediately agreed, of course, I then went on twitter and opened a new tweet window: “@This_CareBear: “On my way to the airport… England here I come!” getting immediate replies, retweets and favorites. I loved the recognition from my new gained fans. As we rolled into the parking lot my Nan and I got out of the car and went to take my luggage, she then hugged me, “Be careful hun, if you ever need me when your over there, just call me, and if you want to come home sooner you can, I’ll be here to pick you up”, I smiled at her and hugged her once more, then I went to find the lads.

Getting on the plane we found our seats, Louis, Eleanor and Harry sat on the right side all the way in the back, Niall, Liam and Sophia, in front of them, and me and Zayn beside Louis on the left side in the back. Five minutes before takeoff Zayn and I were already out cold, my head on his shoulder and his head on mine. It felt like I had slept for an eternity when I felt myself being lifted up from my seat by two muscular tattooed arms, looking up I saw right into Harry’s eyes, “hello sleepyhead”, he said and laughed, rolling my eyes he sat me back on my feet, but of course as the child I am I jumped up on his back and held on to him, making him and the others laugh, well except for the queen bitch.

Getting out of the plane we could see the entire airport filled with Directioners, all screaming for one or the other to come over, “OH MY GOD ITS KAREN FROM YOUTUBE!!!” one of the girls shouted, making me smile wider then a kid on Christmas eve. “Hello sweetie, what’s your name?” I asked taking her autograph book, “It’s Lilly”, she said with a smile, I signed the page, then smiled for a picture, “I would love it if you could send that to me on twitter so I can show it on my YouTube on Monday”, I said, obviously making that girls day, because she nodded super fast. The lads seemed to be super busy writing autographs so I stepped back and waited for them to finish, and soon enough they joined us and we made our way out to the waiting car.

An hour or so later we made it to the studio where we were met by Perrie, Zayn’s fiancé, who ran over to him the second we walked through the doors. All the others sat down on the couch and started talking. “I’m so glad you agreed on joining us”, Niall said and sideways hugged me. I tried my best to smile, but it wasn’t so easy when your crush sat in front of you with his girlfriend on his lap, yes I’ve got a massive crush on Liam Payne, I’ve had it since I first saw their video of ‘What makes you beautiful’ and it’s never gone away, might never do. “So you’re Karen? Its soooo nice to meet you”, Perrie said and pulled me in for a hug, squeezing me, making us all laugh, “So nice to meet you too Perrie, I love your band”, I said and smiles. After we finished hugging we sat down again and started talking about what we should do, with Sophia constantly sending me dirty looks, and about then I’ve had enough, she’s been like that since the second I met them, and I didn’t complain much, but she really grinded my gear. “Alright Sophia that’s enough, I haven’t done anything to you, and you just decide to be a bitch to me, I don’t deserve it, I’ve done nothing wrong, so if you don’t like me, just say it already or leave me the hell alone!” I blurted out, feeling the others look at me in shock, “It’s obvious that you fancy Liam, but guess what, you can’t have him, so stop being so childish and grow the fuck up!” covering my mouth in shock I stood up and ran out the door, feeling the tear stream down my face, not seeing where I was running, until I crashed into someone. Looking up I saw CJ, oh great, first time I meet her and I look like a mess, I thought to myself. “Karen? Oh god what’s wrong?” she asked hugging me to her, “Ask Sophia”, I mumbled before running away. I needed to get far away so I could think properly. Walking for a while with my earplugs in my ear and the Enemies playing I found Starbucks and went in, ordering a gingerbread latte. Sitting down with my coffee I logged on to the internet in the café and went on Instagram and posted a picture of me at Starbuck, no caption, and no hash tags, just a picture. I felt so empty inside, and I hated when people yelled at me for no apparent reason, other than being rude to me. “You alright love?” I looked up seeing Louis standing over me, nodding a bit I got up and walked back to the studio with him and one of the security guys. “Your friend CJ told us she had ran into her on your way out, and she yelled at Sophia for a good fifteen minutes”, Louis said laughing at the fact of CJ being one sassy little lady. “I don’t know what to do, Sophia is right, I’m falling for Liam, but he’s with Sophia and there is nothing I can do”, I said and looked down at my feet. Right then there was a click and a bright light, “Crap, paparazzos”, Louis muttered under his breath as we continued walking, me covering my face luckily with sunglasses and my beanie. “Louis who’s this mystery girl? Are you cheating on Eleanor?” “No I’m not cheating on Eleanor, this is just a friend of mine, nothing more than that, now leave us alone she’s claustrophobic”, Louis said helping me into the car, how does he know I’m claustrophobic? Oh right I’ve mentioned it in some of my video’s. Getting back to the studio, neither Sophia nor Liam was around. “Hey”, I mumbled as we walked in, and I was ambushed by Eleanor, Perrie and CJ, who hugged me as tight as they could, “Okay, I can’t breathe”, I said, pulling away from their hug. “How are you feeling sweetie?” CJ asked, obviously worried, “I’m okay I think, would it be totally inappropriate to ask if I could sing a sing in your studio?” I asked one of the producers who shook his head, “Which song?” Josh asked picking up his drumsticks, “Stay by Florida Georgia Line”, I replied and entered the sound room, putting the headphones on and sitting down.

And if I wrote you a love song and sang it to you every day, would it ever be enough to make you wanna come back home and stay?

(I can't go another day without you)

Would it make you, make you, wanna stay?

(Girl you gotta know I love you)

Would it make you, make you, wanna stay?

(I can't go another day without you)

Would it make you, make you, wanna stay?

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Getting out of the sound room I looked at everyone, they all smiled bright, even Eleanor who had been filming it all, “I filmed it for you in case you wanted to use it on Monday for your video”, she said and smiled, it made me smile too.

Next day the lads were going to be in the studio all day, no girls allowed so CJ, Eleanor and I decided to go shopping, not bringing Sophia because she would only make my day bad. “Ooo can we go to Primark?” I asked as we made our way through Oxford Street, the other girls nodding in agreement. Walking along with them I felt needed, I also felt a bit overwhelmed because every so often fans of either me or Eleanor would come over and ask for pictures and autographs, and every time I would pull CJ in with us for the picture, just to annoy her. “Can you not involve me in your little fame?” she finally snapped at me, making me feel a bit bad. “Sorry, I just didn’t want you to feel left out, I’ll stop doing it I promise”, I blurted out, blinking away the tears in my eyes.

Liam’s Point of View:

I felt bad for Karen, Sophia really shouldn’t treat her like that, but then again I was in a bit of a twisty situation, Sophia is my girlfriend and I love her, but Karen is falling for me, I can see that, and I don’t know how to let her down easily. I didn’t want to hurt her, yet I didn’t want to hurt Sophia, meaning I would never win. “What’s wrong mate?” Niall asked pulling me out of the thoughts. “I don’t want to hurt Sophia, but I don’t want to hurt Karen either”, I said sitting down across from him, “What should I do?” he sat there thinking for a bit before looking at me, “Tell Karen the truth, yes it will hurt her, but then she will be able to move on, she won’t if you never speak to her”, he was right, she needed to know we couldn’t be together. “Thanks mate”, I said and got up, finding my phone, dialing her number. “Hello?” she said, “Hello its Liam, can we talk?” I replied biting my lip nervously “Sure, we’re almost back at the studio, see ya there”, she said then hung up. Now all I had to do was wait, and think of what to say and how to say it.

“Hey you wanted to talk”, Karen said as they walked into the studio, several shopping bags at hand. “Yeah, let’s chat out here”, I replied motioning to the hallway, she nodded and sat her bags down before walking out in the hallway and sitting down in the stairway. “Okay so I know you have some sort of feelings for me, and that’s okay but I love Sophia, and as much as I hate seeing how she treats you, she’s been in my life the longest and as I said I love her. I don’t want to hurt you Karen, I just think its best you know how I feel, and I would love to be your friend”, I blurted out, and looking at her face she had no expression other than relief. “Thank you Liam, for confessing this to me, I think it’s exactly what I need, something to help me move on from the major crush I’ve had on you, and I would love to be your friend, just please make Sophia understand that I mean no harm, I can’t stand her bitching towards me”, she said throwing her hands up in the air at the last sentence. I nodded, “I’ll do my best”, and she nodded too, then got up and went back to the studio.

Karen’s point of View

A wave of relief hit me as Liam spoke. Finally I could live on without a feel of jealousy and want every time I saw Liam and Sophia. It honestly used to hurt me because I couldn’t have him, but even more so when Liam ignored the potential friendship between us. “Hello love”, a familiar Irish accent hit my ear as I was sitting on the couch reading ‘Hamlet’ what can I say I’m a sucker for Shakespeare, “Hey Nialler”, I said putting the book away, “How are you?” he asked sitting himself down next to me, “I’m great”, I said and smiled, and it was true. I was great, because I was finally free, and there had been no drama today, as a matter of fact I was fantastic. “I’m hungry, let’s get some Nandos”, I said rubbing my tummy, Niall’s face seemed to light up at the word Nandos, making me laugh, him and his food. “I’m in, Paul; we want to go to Nandos “, Niall said looking at the tall, dark haired Irishman, “Alright, how about we all go? Steven and Mark you guys are coming too”, he said and we all piled into the van, me, Niall and Zayn in the back, Eleanor, Louis and Liam in front of us, CJ, Harry and Steven in front of them and Paul and Mark in the front seats. Getting to Nandos we found the biggest table available and sat down looking at the menu. Constantly feeling Niall’s gaze on mine. Looking over at him swiftly I whispered into his ear so only he could hear, asking if he was okay, he just nodded so I went back to looking at the menu.

Niall’s point of view:

She’s gorgeous, funny and talented, and probably too good for me. I couldn’t help but to look at her, she was an angel, sure she had her rough past with the bullying, depression and panic attacks, but to me she was an angel, Gods creation. As you may all tell I have a major crush on Karen, and I have been ever since I saw her first video, which was a vlog, I think it was right after her friend died in the terror attacks in Norway. I saw how vulnerable she was, and it just made me feel like I needed to protect her, to love her, and to never let her go.

As we got back to the studio, we could see Sophia standing in the room… Oh great, I swear I’m gonna give her an earful if she as much as opens her mouth towards Karen. “Ugh where have you been Liam, I’ve been waiting for you for ages, I hope you haven’t been with that foreign girl”, Sophia said, just as Karen walked in, poor girl looked up at Sophia as she tried to defend herself, “first of I’m Norwegian and proud of it, and secondly I’ve moved on from Liam, he and I will be just friends, nothing more, so I suggest you leave me alone or so help me G…” the first slap came, leaving Karen and everyone else in shock, a few seconds of silence before Karen burst out crying running out of the studio.

Karen’s point of View:

Feeling the stinging in my cheek as her hand hit my cheek, it’s painful, and it sure will leave a mark, but right now I didn’t care, I’d gotten another one of the panic attacks and now I needed to get out of the building and away from everyone upstairs. Hearing Niall shout after me to stop I made my way out in the street, crossing the road, making my way to Hyde park before leaning on a light pole to get my breath to even out, but even that seemed like the hardest task ever. It took a good 10 minutes before my breath was even, and before Niall had managed to catch up with me, “Karen, look at me, look at me, it’s okay, just breath out”, he said placing his hands on each of my cheek’s letting me rest my hands on his arms, as I breathed out slowly, after a good few seconds I finally managed to steady my breath, “Thank you Niall”, I said and smiled, our faces was inches away from each other, and before I knew it, butterflies, birds, the whole lot, as his lips crashed into mine. At first it took me by surprise, but it didn’t take many seconds before our lips moved in sync. “I’m so sorry I didn’t m…” kissing him again, I pulled him closer to me, not caring if we were in public, feeling him lift me up of the ground I wrapped my legs around his waist, still kissing him, and him kissing me. After a few minutes of hot making out in public, we pulled away and he sat me back on the ground, taking my hand in his, entwining our fingers as we made our way back to the studio.

As we entered the studio hand in hand we got a lot of looks from the lads, Eleanor, Sophia and CJ, and Perrie who must have arrived after I left. “Hello gorgeous”, she said and came over to hug me. Oh she is such a sweet girl. “Now Sophia its time you apologize for your rude behavior towards Karen”, Perrie said wrapping an arm around my waist. “I’m sorry”, Sophia mumbled then went to sit down on the couch with Liam.