Tennessee Whiskey AU

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

"We'll find out what we're made of when we are called to help our friends in need."

"Yo, Lettie," Connor says with his usual greeting of a fist bump.

"Connor, on time as always I see."

"Hey, don't get me confused with Erin. I was only fifteen minutes late and it wasn't even my fault. I'm laying all the blame well and truly at Leo's door. He was on the phone with Lilly sounding like some love-sick fool. I love you so much and miss you so much." He puts on a girly voice at the end.

"Oh, I'm sorry that I wanted to check up on my gorgeous finance this morning seeing as how she was having a few niggles today. You know my pregnant finance who unlike someone else's I won't mention isn't here with me."

"How's she doing? The morning sickness still causing her problems?" Erin asks finally making her way over to us.

"Yeah, she said it's not too bad now. She actually said it was better than having to deal with me in the mornings."

"I can imagine. I thought I was going to be sick this morning just listening to you." Connor jokes as Leo jumps on him.

"So, while the boys play at whatever that is," Louisa says as they are now rolling around the floor. Shortly followed by Rob shouting pile on and adding to their 'fun'. "You wanna share that set list we came up with last night," Louisa says turning her attention back to me.

"Yeah, I'm not so sure where the we came up with together part came from though. I thought the only thing you worked on last night was two-thirds of my bottle of wine."

"Yeah, I kinda did, didn't I? It was really nice though."

"Guys can we attempt to grow up for five minutes please," Erin shouts fulfilling her role as the mom of the group.

"Right, so I was thinking a couple of album songs, a couple of covers, and maybe a few of the other songs we have ready to put on what will hopefully be the second album."

"Sounds like a plan our little guru," Leo says. It's weird being the baby of the group but I'm the one who writes most of the songs and plans most of our shit. We all have to agree to the plan in the end but it's me that makes the plans. It also means I'm the one who has the joy of working with Ollie the most. God help me.

"Ok, so we want to start with something upbeat maybe. Get people into it." Caleb suggests. Ever my second in command, so to speak. He's the one who writes with me, mostly the music side. I used to think he didn't like me very much as he seemed more distant than the others. Now I know it's just who he is. If he wants to talk to you, he will if he doesn't, he doesn't. easy when you think about it, but so many of us waste time talking for the sake of it. Just in the hope people will like us. Caleb doesn't. honestly, I don't think he cares as long as Chloe and Erin still love him, he's ok.

"Ok, so I thought about 15 songs in total, seems to fit for a ninety-minute show. A bit of chat in between every now and again."

"Fits with me." Caleb agrees.

"Starting with 'bathroom floor', it's got a nice intro, it's upbeat as per your request," I say winking at Caleb as if I knew what he would be thinking when I wrote this up. He gives me a shy smile in return. "Then going into 'X&Y', 'drinking alone' slow it down a bit after that with 'feel me gone', two tears in a bucket', 'anything but love' then I was hoping we could do Louisa's song. Start bringing the tempo back up a bit with 'what I man oughta know', 'guess I'm a liar', and 'stand by you'. Then the covers which I am open to suggestions on. Building it back up to the end with 'what it means to be a girl' and 'my best friends ex' before finally ending with 'little girl gone'. Thoughts?" I say spreading my arms out expecting the onslaught of issues that normally come my way.