Free One Direction: Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction by One Direction

organized with anything in my life!
     
    I kept in touch with the boys by text a lot over Christmas, and Harry and I spoke over the phone a few times. The guys also got in touch to say happy birthday, which was so nice. All of our families are friends now too, and my mom and Harry’s have become really close. During the tour they even came to the Newcastle gig together for my mom’s birthday.
     
    When I got back to Doncaster I heard that a few guys I knew were talking about me behind my back and saying that I didn’t deserve to be where I was. Certainly I’ve had a lot of luck to be in the place I am now, but at the end of the day I worked really, really hard, so regardless of whether or not they think I’m good enough, I am here for a reason.
     
    A few fans came over to the house while I was home for Christmas, and people go to my granddad’s house and knock on his door sometimes. I just feel bad ifI’m not there. One time some people waited eight hours for me, but I was out all day so I missed them, and I felt terrible.

    I don’t know if we’ll ever get fully used to the attention from the fans. It’s been happening for a while now so we are getting a bit more used to it, and we appreciate the support so much, but it’s still easy to forget that people know who you are. Even if you pop out to the shop at 11:30 at night after a busy day you can find that people are taking pictures of you, and that’s a very strange feeling.
     
    Things I never used to think twice about doing I now have to give thought to. Even the simple things like going to buy toiletries. Mainly we just have to be a bit careful if we go somewhere that’s busy, because things can be totally calm one minute, and then it can go a bit crazy.
     
    I spent New Year’s just going out with my friends and I had a really good laugh. Most of my friends don’t treat me any differently from how they always have, and that’s so important to me. They mean a lot to me and I would hate our friendships to change.
     
    We all loved having some time off, but we knew we had a record deal so we were all excited about getting back to work and seeing what was around the corner.
    NEW YEAR, NEW CHALLENGES
    When we went back to work we knew we had a busy January ahead of us, and we were all ready for it. I’d had a really good rest, but I missed performing live and I was kind of itching to get back into it. Now we had some gigs coming up, so I was really looking forward to getting back out there and seeing all the fans.

     
    January was also spent talking about plans for the future, and we were all set to start working on our album, so whenever we had a spare moment we were coming up with ideas about how we wanted it to sound and what kind of influences we wanted in there. We all knew that we wanted to be as involved in it as we could. That meant a lot of song writing, so we would bounce ideas off each other a lot.
     
    When we were on The X Factor we absolutely loved being in the recording studio, so we were really excited about getting back in there. The studio is a great place to be because we get to hang out with each other, and we always get to order in good takeout. As anyone who knows us will know, we like our food. Then we heard that we were going to be heading to LA for work, which was a massive surprise, but a brilliant one. One of the first things I thought about, I admit, was how good the shopping would be over there. I love buying clothes, so I was already mentally planning what I would buy.
     
    We went over for five days, of which we spent two traveling, so we were quite tired for some of it, but being in the sun made me feel much more energized and we made the most of the time we had. When we finally got to go shopping I was actually a bit disappointed. I bought a few things but I can get my Toms in England and that’s the most important thing!
     
    While we were there we went for dinner with a big producer called Max Martin, which was a bit