Thinking Out Loud // Ed Sheeran

Chapter 60.

Meredith's POV

"Teds!" I sing down the stairs.

"Yeah, honey?!" I hear his voice yell back. It sounds like he's in either the kitchen or the living room from where I stand.

"Come here for a minute!" I smile slightly to myself.  Sipping back into the dance room, I wait.

"Yeah, Mere?"

"Dance with me." I say as he walks in the door. I joyfully grab both of his hands in mine, quickly appreciating his outfit; simply black tight jeans and a white tee-shirt showing off all of his tattoos that I love so much.

"What? Why? You know I can't actually dance unless we've been practicing for three months straight, Merebear." He says with a little humor laced in his tone making me giggle.

"But, I'm bored and we could just have a little dance party." I say trying to persuade him while moving his arms to try to force him to dance. I can tell he's holding back a smile to guilt trip me. "Please, for me?"

"Fine, but only because I love you." Basking in my glory, I gladly turn on a random song on shuffle from my phone which comes blasting through the speakers. It happens to be 'A Love Like War' by All Time Low. In my opinion, this is a very good dancing song. Not a real dancing song, but more of a random kind of dance song.

At first, I just jump around and give Ed creepy smiles to make him move, but he doesn't budge. Finally, I grab his hands again and spin myself around in them. Before I could even notice, he's lifting me up and spinning me around the room. All the colors are flying through my vision. Looking back down, I meet his eyes and it feels as if time has slowed down.

Not after long, the song comes to an end and I and I both calm down. Only seconds later, his phone goes off. "Hello?" He answers. "Yeah, we're not too busy right now. I don't know, I'll have to ask." Moving the phone from his ear he looks to me. "Amy wants us to go to the office to do some promotion thing. Do you want to go, or no?"

"Well I already finished work today, so why not?" I reply using a small towel to wipe my non-existent sweat off my forehead.

"Yeah, we'll come in." He say pulling the phone back to speak. "Okay, see you then." Hanging up the phone he sighs.

"What kind of promotional thing is it and why does she need me?" I ask quickly.

"She didn't tell me the answer to either of those, but we have to be there in thirty minutes. I'll call the cab now, it's only about ten minutes away." He says putting his phone away and pulling me in his arms. I feel his hands press against my back pushing me further into him as he rests his head gently on the top of my head.

"Do I have to look good for it?"

"You look good all the time, Merebear." He laughs.

"I meant, do I have to dress nice and actually do something pretty with my hair or something?" I say letting go of him and going straight back to our room.

"If you do, they have make-up people and wardrobes and dressing rooms and basically anything you could think of at office." He says following me in as I shuffle through my top dresser for my favorite hair brush.

"Right, what is office?"

"It's the head quarters of my management. That's where I get most of my indoor photo shoots done. The photographers go there." He says laying back on the bed and watching as I struggle to brush out my knotty curls.

"Oh, okay." I laugh throwing the brush back on top of the dresser and sitting next to him. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. What if it's something involving people seeing my face? I just sweat like crazy."

"Meredith, you look beautiful, you barely even sweat, and they have people there if it means that much to you. We've been over this." He says just as his phone dings. "That's the cab, better get going."

Ed's POV

After a long cab drive full of Meredith's quiet worrying, we finally make it to office. It's a large golden colored building in more Northern London with tinted windows that block everyone from seeing in. It's much like a skyscraper.

Without surprise, when we step out of the cab, we're swarmed with people. We have security guards escort us through the large crowd of paps and fans to the front doors where they lock us in for protection.

"Amy's office is top floor, but she didn't say what we're doing so I don't know where to meet." I inform Meredith as to why we have to speak to the front desk lady rather than me knowing where exactly to go.

"Ahh, Mr. Sheeran. Amy told me to send you down the hall into the studio along with Ms. Jane." The lady I don't know says from behind the desk before I can even say a word. I nod as a thank you and continue my way down the large hallway with many doors leading off of it right to the end. This is where I get my photoshoots done. Luckily, this room has only one window, and it's covered my blinds, closing all the outside people away from us for now.

"Amy, what are we doing?" I ask walking through the double doors, hand-in-hand with Meredith.

"A couples photoshoot." She replies clapping her hands like she always does when she gets exited. If you ask me, it's quite annoying.

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Answer:

Ed's first gig alone was when he was 11 in Ireland.

<<Ed Trivia>>

Question:

Ed's single 'The A Team' won how many Platinum awards and in which year?

-2 Platinum awards in 2010

-5 Platinum awards in 2011

-4 Platinum awards in 2011

-3 Platinum awards in 2012

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Love you all.     -Hadleyxx