The Girl Standing Front Row (revised)

Chapter 56

The next morning everyone crowded into Luke and Sapphire's room to see how their night was.

"Our night was incredible. Dinner in the dark and music around the clock" Sapphire said

"Wait in the dark.....?" Mackenzie said

"Yeah the restaurant we went to the power was out but we stayed anyway"

"Well that's sure is different" Kyleigh said

"Anyways how was your guys night? Hows Ashton feeling?" Luke asked 

As she spoke Ashton popped up in the doorway and replied by saying "i'm all good"

"And our night was very uneventful. Other than too much pizza and terrible movies" Mackenzie said "by the way never let Michael pick the movie"

Luke put up his hand and Mackenzie gave him a high five as Luke said "Amen to that"

"Well i'm glad you guys had a fun night out but fun time is over because now that Ashton is alive again we need you guys in the studio" Sophia said

"Soph we just woke up can't we have a minute" Luke begged

"As your manager NO you can't! But as your friend sure why not" she said "you better love me for this"

Luke put out his arms and waited for Sophia to hug him back embracing his gratitude towards her. They were all exiting the room being careful because some paint might still be wet. They were waiting to approve all the furniture from the warehouse but everyone was always so busy.

"How about today after rehearsal we go straight to the warehouse to pick furniture?" Calum suggested

"I agree because I can't sleep on pillows anymore" Mackenzie said

After eating breakfast they all drove to the studio for a few hours. They did some full recordings of new songs and some were just snippets to see if they liked the music that went along with the song. Michael and Luke did mostly some writing that day while Ashton and Calum did vocals. Sapphire was keeping an eye out for Calum and Mackenzie to make sure nothing funny was going on. For most of the day Sapphire and Kyleigh were taking snap chat videos and pictures of the guys equipment and their singing to show their fans.

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After being in the studio all day they all finally left when another artist had the recording booth for the night. They drove over to the warehouse to meet Sapphire's uncle who would be helping with the house. She introduced everyone and they got straight to work. Inside the warehouse there were shelves and shelves of different furniture. There were couches, chairs, tables, and dressers. On one side there were paints of nearly every color in existence. On the other side there were these bed frames with different shapes on each one.

"Okay Uncle Tom I think we found everyone we want for right now to be able to live comfortably for a while" Sapphire said

When they all gathered they gave her uncle a slip of paper with the serial number of everything they wanted. Some of them had a lot of things they wanted and some had a small amount.

"Okay so i'll bring in a few guys who can help take the stuff from here to your house" he said "do you have a certain time when at least one person will be there so we know when to come"

"I'm mostly always at the house so it should be no problem having someone there" Kyleigh said

"Thanks Uncle Tom we really appreciate this" Sapphire said

"Well hey thank you, we've been looking to get rid of this stuff for a while. The company kept trying to get in touch with your mom to see what she wanted to do" he explained "but there was never any response so we kept it here"

"Yeah don't hold your breath on that response" Sapphire said rolling her eyes 

"Well anyways we should get going so we'll just show ourselves out" Sophia said jumping into the conversation

Once they got home Sophia told them their schedule for the follow day.
"Since Ashton is better we have 2 interviews tomorrow morning followed by more recording sessions and your meeting with some people to discuss what they'll see on any upcoming live shows"

"Question?" Michael said "when do we have time to breathe?"

"That's for your lungs to decide I only monitor the band duties not your lung capacity" she joked and smiled

"For a manager your pretty scary" Ashton joked as well

"For a sick guy with no voice you sure can run your mouth" she smiled

That night they all decided that they would spend the night together watching movies instead of being on their phones. Michael was on his phone before the movie started talking in private about what Luke was doing. He didn't realize that anyone was watching him however Sophia was standing there watching and listening to him from a distance. As soon as he hung up the phone she walked in pretending like she heard nothing.

"Hey Michael, was that your mom on the phone?" She said trying not to sound weird

"What? Ohh ummm......no that was just an old friend of mine"

"Oh that makes sense you normally tell your friends everything about Luke. It's natural" she said with sarcasm

"Look you don't know anything"

"Your right I don't because everything you said wasn't even true"

"I'm trying to protect Luke and Sapphire's relationship" he said getting a drink "for right now just leave it alone"

Sophia grabbed the bag of chips and went into the living room to sit down with everyone on the couch. They were watching a movie about a women who had a certain ability and it made Sapphire feel very uncomfortable. She hit under neath Luke the entire movie even though the movie wasn't a horror film. She sat there for the full 2 hours and 48 minutes until the lights finally turned back on. She didn't move from the couch for the entire rest of the night. Everybody left to go to bed except for Sophia. She sat next to Sapphire and asked her to tell her what she was feeling.

"I feel that someone else is in here with us but I know that can't be true" she said sounding a bit crazy

"You know just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it's not true" Sophia said "I can help you get through this if you let me"

"I want to let you help but my heart doesn't believe it could possibly be true"

"You know what just get some rest and tomorrow will be a new day"