Pieces of Us| h.s.

Chapter Thirty Four.

Sydney Archer

We finished the record completely a few days ago, submitted it to the label and got the approval for it to be released with that set tracklist and album cover. They released it to the public yesterday and we've got the go ahead for some promotional events and appearances we'll be doing leading up to the release soon.

It's been a busy two weeks, Jamie got engaged, we barely left the studio or offices, we've signed letters after letters, taken pictures after pictures, and now it's finally paid off. We're all flying home today for a little break between work and the release, spend time with our families and it'll be Jamie's first time home since being engaged. Kyla left two weeks ago now and it's driving him insane.

We're home for quite a while, a lot of our promotional things are in the UK, we got ahead of the game and have done some prerecorded things for America and we'll fly over for some things at a later date, we were all just excited to be back on home turf for a while.

I'll be staying at Jasmines, everyone will be back in their families homes and we'll be going back to our local pubs and takeaways. I'm excited. It's not often I'd say I love going back, sometimes it brings back memories I hate thinking about, but Jasmine's pregnant and I've missed her. I'm excited to see everyone's families and see Jude.

Harry and I also haven't been home since we've been a thing really. Last time we were home things were awkward between us,w e had kissed a handful of times, after each one we promised we'd never do it again. This time we're home and we're together.

Jasmine knows, I told her over the phone and Harry's parents know too, he told them briefly and Jasmine is close with them too so, so did she. It'll be strange being home with Harry. I associate our little home town village with being kids, sitting in Myles garage, the four of us staying up far too late and drinking cheap beer on the beach.

It was an easy flight, it was at stupid hours from L.A. over to London, so we were all asleep for the majority of the flight and when we weren't I don't think any of us even had the energy to converse with one another. Somehow, we had convinced our families to pick us up from the airport in the morning, we were all excited for that, you wouldn't be able to tell though. Nobody has energy on this plane.

Harry woke me up just as we were landing, I had his jumper over my shoulders and my head was resting in his lap, using him as a pillow. Everyone else was awake already, looking out the window excitedly waiting to be reunited with the people we haven't physically seen in months.

'Can't wait for my mum to cook me breakfast.' Myles grinned.

'Fuck sake,' I laughed, 'out of everything.'

'I'm excited to see my dog.' Harry said, 'Jas is pregnant, d'you reckon she's like...extra pregnant now?'

'Extra pregnant?' Jamie repeatedly raising an eyebrow at Harry.

'Shut up I mean like...size wise, bump wise.' He defended himself, putting a smile on our faces with his strange way of wording things.

As the plane landed none of us could wait to get off and head through security to meet our families again. It'll be crazy this time for me, Jude always grows so much and this time, Jasmines growing too. I can't wait for it, to see them and spend time at home with Jude waking me up at 7 again.

We all practically raced off the plane, escorted through the safer part of the airport which I'll never become used to. I understand that it isn't safe to go through the main part of Heathrow, but it's sometimes strange to think about all these people taking us in certain ways rather than the normal route.

We made it through and as soon as our suitcases rolled along the tiles, echoing round the corner to alert our families that we had arrived, I could hear Jude scream that we were her. An Instant smile was brought to my face and everybody else's. This was it, we'd be back with our families in a matter of seconds and I couldn't wait.