"Mum, please stop!" I beg her.

"Oh hush." Mum waves her hand at me. "Now when Carter was seven, she had this adorable little pink dress that she would always wear. She used to sleep in it because she loved it so much."

I groan and place my head in my hands. My mum is killing me. Louis decided to ride in our car on the way to the airport. His parents are driving behind us.

Mum has decided to tell Louis about how I was so adorable when I was younger. I don't think I was adorable. I think Mum just wanted to embarrass me even more. She has told him every embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me. And I do mean everything.

"Now Carter had this little stuffed animal that her cousin gave her. It was a blue polka dotted dog and she used to carry it everywhere." Mum tells Louis.

"Mum! He doesn't not need to know my life story!" I complain.

Louis grins at me from the front seat. "I like hearing these stories."

"See, Carter." Mum looks at me from the rearview mirror. "He likes them. It's not everyday that you bring home a guy."

"He is my best friend." I correct her.

"Well, he deserves to know about you." Mum pulls into the airport parking lot.

I bang my head against the window. She is killing me. Truly killing me. Mum's should not do this to their children. It's rude. It's a good thing that Cher isn't here. She would just love to hear about these stories.

My car door opens up and I fall partially out of it. I let out a small yelp when I fall forwards. My seatbelt cuts in my chest, but prevents me from hitting the hard ground. Riley is standing there with a huge grin on his face. I straighten myself out and unbuckle my seatbelt. I smooth at my clothes pretending that nothing happened.

"Very smooth." Louis chuckles.

I walk past him to the back of the car. Riley hands me my red suitcase and my shoulder bag. "Thanks." I say.

Louis's parents pull up in the parking spot next to us. I watch him grab his things and fall into step with me. "I get to go to Spain!" He brags.

"At least I will land before you." I point out.

Cheryl Cole's house is not that far from London, but the producers wanted to fly us there to be safe. Since we are going such a short distance we will be flying in a private jet. The flight will only be an hour long, though.

We go through all of the metal detectors and meet up with our judge's. They have given us five minutes to say goodbye to our parents and get on our own planes. The show managed to block off one side of the airport to give everyone privacy.

"My baby girl!" Mum suddenly pulls me in a hug.

"Mum." I gasp as she squeezes me tightly. I try to breathe in deeply, but my airways are cut off.

"I'm going to miss you so much!" Mum runs her hands through my hair. "You better try as hard as you can!"

"I will." I attempt to step out of her arms, but she pulls me even tighter.

"Try not to do anything too embarrassing with the cameras around." Mum cries.

"Okay."

"I love you so much!" She pushes me away. Her hands are latched onto my shoulders still keeping me in reach. "You make me proud!"

"Mum, I have to go!" I take her arms off of me.

Mum nods her head. "Go say goodbye to your boyfriend."

"He's not my boyfriend." I adjust my bag on my shoulder.

"He will be." Mum leans against Riley. Riley and I already said our goodbyes back at the house. I knew if I said goodbye to him here I would start crying like a baby.

"I love you guys!" I wave to them.

"I love you too!" Mum yells.

That wasn't too embarrassing. I thought she would have said something worse. I walk over to where Louis is standing by the gate next to the other guys in his group. Louis is chatting with Harry when I reach them. I wrap my arms around his neck quickly.

"Where's my hug?" Harry pouts.

"She loves me better." Louis brags, hugging me back.

"I will personally kill all of you if you don't make it through." I threaten them.

"Why?" Harry questions.

I let go of Louis's neck and hug his waist to face Harry. "Because if you don't make it that means you didn't try hard enough. I know each of you are really talented. I also thought if I threatened you, you would try as hard as you can because you don't want to die."

Harry nods his head. "You're such a good friend." He says sarcastically.

"I try to be." I smile at him.

"We need all of the girls going with Cheryl to board the plane." A voice says over the intercom.

I let go of Louis and step out of his reach before he can hug me again. "You can hug me when I see you at the X Factor house."

"That's not fair." He whines, trying to hug me.

"Not my fault." I laugh, skipping away.

"There you are." Cheryl smiles at me. "You are the last one to board."

"I'm sorry!" I apologize quickly, feeling bad.

Cheryl shakes her head and leads us on the terminal. "Don't worry about it. I saw you with Louis Tomlinson."

"We're just best friends." I assure her.

"Of course." She smiles. "I think Cher was looking for you earlier."

"Thank you." I say, walking towards the back of the plane where Cher is sitting by the window. "Hey, Cher!" I sit in the seat next to her.

"Hey." Cher grins. "I was looking for you."

"I was saying goodbye to Louis." I place my bag on my lap.

"Oh!" Cher giggles. "I get it now."

I look away from my bag to my smirking best friend. "Get what?"

"Did you kiss him?" She nudges my arm with her elbow.

Why does everyone think we are dating? We are just really good friends. We are best friends. That's it. Nothing else.

"No, I did not kiss him."

"Do you wish you did?" Cher asks. I open my mouth and then shut it. "You hesitated!" She shouts and points her finger at me.

Everyone else on the plane turns around in their seats to face us. Why are all of my friends out to embarrass me? Maybe they plan together to come up with ways to embarrass me.

"I can use this to my advantage." Cher giggles.

"What are you talking about?" I raise my eyebrows at her.

"I didn't forget about the deal." She leans back in her seat.

I hit the palm of my hand to my forehead. "I completely forgot about that." I groan.

"I didn't." Cher sings. "This will be so much fun!" She claps her hands together excitedly.

"For you." I reply.

•

"Welcome to my home." Cheryl leads us up some stairs to her house.

It should be considered a mansion. It is huge. Her house is painted all white while the windows are a dark tint. It is two stories tall. If this is what it looks on the outside I can only imagine what it looks like inside.

Cheryl opens the door to go inside and we step in the house. My converse make a soft noise as I walk across the wooden floor. All of the girls, including myself, stare at Cheryl's house. It is so clean and neat. The ceiling is up high. We stop in front of a set of floor to ceiling windows. I ignore all of the cameras and people in the other side of the room.

Do not embarrass yourself, Carter. This will most like be put on tv. Cher is standing on my left, obviously trying not to cry. I rub her shoulder gently.

"Welcome to my home." Cheryl says again. "You will be here for a week and be preparing for your song that you will be singing in front of me and a surprise guest."

I glance at the other girls. Surprise guest? I forgot that the judge's get to have someone help them decide. It must be someone close to Cheryl. I block Cheryl out and try to think of who the guest is.

"Will. I. Am."

I snap out of my thoughts to see Will.I.Am walk down the set of stairs behind Cheryl. My jaw drops open as the other girls cheer. Cher hugs my side in excitement. I'm in the same house as Will.I.Am. I can't believe it!

"How's it going?" He smiles at us.

Cher grabs my arm tightly, trying to remain calm. Ouch! I wince at the pain her nails are causing as she digs them in my skin. She must be a big fan of his.

"I can't wait to hear all of you sing." Will.I.Am stands next to Cheryl.

"There are five bedrooms available. Some of you will have to share. Go pick your rooms!" Cheryl steps out of the way as two girls rush forward.

I pull Cher along up the stairs. There is eight of us all together and only five rooms. That means there is probably three rooms that has two beds in it. They will probably be the biggest. I run down the hallway past the other rooms. The last door is wide open showing a large room with two queen sized beds. I jump on the bed next to the small window.

"Dibs!" I shout. I bounce on the bed in excitement.

Cher explores the bedroom. Apparently, there is a huge bathroom attached to it. There is a flat screen tv hung up on the wall. The carpet is a fluffy white color with a square red rug in the middle. This room is made up of two colors. Red and white. My bedspread is a bright red with five stripes in it. Cher's bed has a white bedspread with five red stripes. We have a great view of the backyard with the pool in view.

"I can't believe we're here!" Cher jumps on my bed next to me.

"Me either!" I stand up on my bed and start jumping up and down.

Cher stands up and jumps with me. "Now we just have to get through this round."

The cameramen walk in our room and start filming us. Cher and I keep jumping up and down without a care in the world. Dermot O'Leary, the host, starts laughing at us along with the camera crew. I wave to the cameras with a huge grin on my face. My mum will probably see this.

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Author's Note:

I'm so sorry for not updating sooner! I've been sick the past three days. I still have a headache, but that's it. I felt bad about not updating.

I don't know why, but I'm really hyper! Gah! That was random. Alright I'll stop writing about pointless things.

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