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

and when I walked back into the room Vicky, the tour manager’s assistant, had just come in and seen the mess. I acted dumb, saying, “What has gone on here? Vicky, I have no idea how this happened, I was out of the room. Let me help you pick all of this up.” I started helping her but couldn’t stop looking over at Zayn and smiling. Meanwhile Vicky kept thanking me, so I totally got away with it.
     
    We did the same again in Liverpool, and this time we thought we would get away with it because we threw all the fruit into the shower and shut the curtains. We left the venue after the show and nothing had been said, then the tour managerCara confronted us with two pictures from the dressing room showing us the state of the shower. She looked at us and said, “What is this?” Zayn got all nervous. He couldn’t look at her and just said, “I don’t know, I don’t know.” In the end we denied all knowledge. I think she secretly found it quite funny.

    ONE OF OUR FIRST BOOK SIGNINGS, AT LAKESIDE. WHAT A CROWD! WE LOVE OUR FANS!
    During the tour we kept being given carrots. Basically, this was because in Week 2 of The X Factor all of us boys were asked what we like in a girl, and I thought it would be funny to say I like girls who like carrots. Ever since then fans have turned up to see us with carrot banners, t-shirts and loads of real carrots.
     
    One night these two girls dressed as carrots were dancing at the bottom of the stage. A friend then gave me a carrot costume and I wore it on stage during a show. It was brilliant and I love all that. Mind you, I should probably be getting some kind of cut from farmers, because I’m sure carrot sales must have gone right up.
     
    I loved the wrap party for the tour. It was a chance to kind of reflect on everything we’d done; in a way it was almost a relief it was over and to know that we had a bit of a break afterwards.
     
    We had the most incredible time on the tour, but it was pretty hard work at the same time. We had quite a few nights out in the last week, and knowing that I didn’t have to get up the day after the party was such a bonus. I didn’t get to bed until 5 am, and then my mom drove me home to Doncaster, which took three hours. I was so relieved to get into my own bed.
     
    I missed everyone after the tour had finished. In fact, I missed most things about it. People complain about the traveling, and it can get tiring at times, but we get to stay in nice places and see cool things so there’s really nothing to moan about. I can’t wait to do it all again—I can’t wait to do our theater tour. We love seeing everyone and the feeling of being on stage is second to none.

    During the tour we filmed the ad for the DS Pokemon game and we all got given one free, which was amazing for me, Liam and Zayn, as we’re totally addicted to it. It was really cool filming it in a hotel room. We were just being really natural with each other and messing around, and it felt mad that we were filming a TV ad. That’s big time.
     
    The whole time we were on the X Factor tour we were getting more and more excited about the fact that later we were going to be doing a One Direction tour. It will be a good chance for us to show what we can do. We’ve been planning it all year and whenever we were together we’d be talking about different things we could try. We’re excited about performing the album live for everyone.
     
    After the tour finished Harry and I went skiing with our friends Stan and Johnny at Courchevel in France. It was really good fun. I’d never skied before, but by the end of it I was doing okay. We got recognized quite a lot but everyone was really nice and friendly.
     
    When we found out that our first book, Forever Young , had got to number one we were so shocked. We got the chance to meet lots of the fans at the signings, which was brilliant. We couldn’t believe the size of the crowds that came along, especially at a signing in Lakeside Shopping