Cheer Up Baby | Elijah Hewson

Chapter 11. The Aftermath and broken hearts

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This hangover was fucking killing me. My head was pounding like mad and it didn't help that we were currently doing soundcheck and also doing an interview for NME.

Had to try and pull myself together, which I think I was doing a good job at doing. The only thing keeping me sane was that I knew Becca was brining me back a coffee and hopefully a plain glazed donut.

The person who was interviewing us for NME had just gone on a lunch break, and in that moment I realised Becca was taking longer than the four of us expected. She shouldn't be gone this long.

"Hey, lads! Any sign of Rebbeca yet?" I asked the three of them, turning around from my position in front of the mic to look at the three of them.

"I was actually just thinking about that. I haven't seen her walking around." Eli answered, bending down to grab his phone that was in front of his feet. I'm guessing to check his phone to see if she texted him.

"I'll check my phone as well." Josh said, reaching for his phone in his back pocket.

Me and Ryan nodded in agreement, also checking our phones.

Opening my phone I instantly recognised the five missed call symbols, all of them being miss calls from Becca.

"What the fuck." Ryan cursed, staring at his phone.

"Jesus lads, I have 10 missed calls from Rebbeca." Eli's face instantly went pale in worry looking at the amount of missed calls he had from her.

Ryan and Josh also had five missed calls on their phones from her. All of us giving each other a look of panic and worry.

I was the first one to run out of the room. I ran straight backstage and up the stairs to the dressing room, flinging the door open to see a messy empty dressing room. I loudly shut the door and ran back downstairs. All the lads split up to try and find her, but no one had any look, which caused us all to go into fits of pure panic.

I took out my phone to try and ring her it went straight to voicemail. I kept trying over and over again but the call wasn't going through.

"Sssshhh lads, calm down for a second. Eve is ringing me." Eli said his voice full of panic.

I sat down on a random seat in the green room, putting my face in my hands. We could literally be being dramatic as fuck right now, wouldn't be the first time, but there was something really odd about the situation that I can't fully describe.

"Eve. Stop for a second. Where are yous?....okay....stay there....I'm on my way." 

Eli's conversation with Eve was making us panic more because the way Eli was reacting was sending us into overdrive.

"What the fuck is going on Eli?" I asked him as soon as he hung up the phone.

"Rebbeca had a panic attack. She called my mam after we didn't answer. She's back at the house. I need to leave now."

Eli was rushing around trying to gather up his stuff. Me, Josh and Ryan looked at each other, not knowing whether or not we should go or not.

"Can we go with you?" Ryan asked for me and Josh.

"If yous want, but if it gets too much for her you guys will need to go."

We all agreed and started rushing around to get our stuff together.

Josh sent off a short message to Gary saying we had to leave for an emergency and that we'd be back in about two hours. We all knew Gary would be pissed off but at this moment in time we really didn't give a fuck.