The Reunion 2015

~Chapter 5~

It was early in the morning, and Frida was lying in the bed looking up on the cieling. Soon she felt a hand on her cheek, and turned around and met Henry's eyes. "Hi" he said. "Good morning darling." They just watched each other for a long time. "I can't believe that you will be away from me..." Henry said then. "We haven't decided how long the tour will be. It won't be too long though. You know, we're not young anymore..." Frida laughed. Heney smiled. "Okay. But you will still be away. You know, I miss you during the days you aren't here with me. The last days have been awful..." Frida smiled and took his hand. "I have a meeting at Mono Music today about the reunion. You can come with me if you want."
"I gladly do that" he said.

Agnetha woke up early. It was her grand-daughter's birtday. Tired she wrapped in her presents, and added some more chocolate sauce to the chocolate cake. Tilda loved chocolate... After putting on some clothes, she went out to Linda's house. Carefully she knocked on the door and soon Jens opened. "Hi" he said quiet. "Hi" Agnetha said with a smile.

In the kitchen Linda and Jens had done the table beautifully, and a big bunch of presents was lying on the sofa. "Wow... nice" Agnetha said, and hugged her daughter. "I can't believe she turns fourteen" Linda said tired. "Not me either..." Agnetha said.
"Time passes" Jens said, and both Linda and Agnetha sighed. "Yeah..."

Agnetha went to wake up Esther and Signe. "Grandma!" Esther exclaimed when she saw Agnetha. "Schh, darling. You have to be quiet. We will celebrate Tilda..."
"Oh, right. Sorry..."
Agnetha smiled and stroked her cheek before she woke up Signe too. Signe was so tired that she didn't even want to sit up. So Agnetha lifted her up. She was about to be too heavy for Agnetha to carry. She would be five soon. "Darling, you have to wake up. It's Tilda's birthday today, and we will celebrate before you go to pre-school."
The fact that Signe was about to be too heavy for Agnetha gave her tears in the eyes. She didn't want any of her grandchildren to grow up. She thought it was so hard to take with both Linda and Christian too. And the whole life actually. It is difficult to respect that time passes and things change...

The meeting would be 3 o'clock, and then everyone would have dinner together at Görel's place.

"Hi" Frida said as she and Henry entered the door. "Hi" Björn said and so did Agnetha and Benny. They took seat around the table and waited for Görel, Michael and Owe. Agnetha yawned and held her head in her hands. Frida laughed. "What have you done? You look like a zombie?"
"It's Tilda's birthday today, and we celebrated her in the morning. I'm so tired... And then we will have a party with just the family tonight, and in two days there will be a party for her friends..." Everyone laughed. Agnetha turned her head against Björn.
"I expect that you will help us then..."
"Well..." Björn joked and Agnetha sighed. "Of course I will."
"Have you bought her any present?"
Agnetha wondered. "Yeah. A necklace if you wanna know what it is. And then a shirt. That I hope will fit her..."
"Okay" Agnetha said and yawned again.

Soon the others came. And the meeting started at once.

"Any ideas of how you want it to be?" Görel asked. "Well... It's not important at all... But I want us to start the concerts with I Am An A" Frida laughed, and the others laughed too. "Well, that's not a bad idea" Björn said with a smile. "That's brilliant" Benny said and smiled against Frida. Frida gave him a smile back of course. "Benny and I talked about to write one last song for the fans. Something that will be new, but still in the style of the old ABBA" Björn said. "Like We Write The Story we did with Avicci 2013?" Benny asked. "Yeah, something like that... But maybe a bit less house..." Everybody laughed. "That would be fun" Michael said with a big smile. "To do something for you which isn't folk..." he said with a bitter voice, as a joke. And they laughed. "Well, sorry..." Benny said.

Görel wrote every word they said in a note book. "Any ideas for new clothes?" Owe asked. "Well, we maybe should have something new to put on for this. But not as the old costumes..." Frida said. "Oh, why not?!" Owe exclaimed and made everyone burst into laugh. "God, I got a picture in my head that I just want to get out..." Agnetha said and laughed even more.
"Maybe something black? Black is always nice" Frida said. "Yeah..." Owe said. "The boys could have just like black trousers, and costume jackets. While you two have black jeans and..."
"Wouldn't it be fun with some kind of old ABBA thing through the clothes. We maybe can wear glittery shirts?" Frida said.
"That's a good idea!" Agnetha exclaimed. "Okay, then we have an idea. We have to talk more about it later" Owe said. Everyone nodded.

"Songs then?" Görel asked. "Which songs?"
"The question is which songs we can sing without sound like turkeys" Frida said. "We have to test" Björn said. "Someday soon we can have a day in the studio where you get to sing. And then you two get to decide everything" Benny said. "Oh, wow!" Frida exclaimed. "That was new! That never happened during those days!" Agnetha shouted. "I remember how you two pushed us to sing stuff that are almost impossible for a human being to sing" Frida said. Benny and Björn looked down, and they understood what they meant. "Well, sorry for that if I haven't said it before..." Björn said. "Sorry..." Benny said. Agnetha and Frida laughed.
"It's okay. We like you anyway."
"Oh, good!"

Some hours later the meeting was over, and they talked about a lot of things. And had already decided some stuff completely. Frida, Henry, Owe and Michael and some other people working in the studio went home to Görel for dinner. But Björn and Agnetha had to be at Tilda's birthday party. "Congratulate from me" Frida said and gave Agnetha a little box.
"I bought ear rings for her."
"Oh, thank you Frida! I'm sure she will love them." Agnetha hugged Frida tightly. "See you!"
"Bye!"

"Hi, dad" Linda said and hugged her father as he entered the door.
"Hi darling."
"You haven't been here for a while."
"No, I'm sorry. It have been much with the work. How are you?"
"Fine, thank you."

Everyone were there already and sat in the living room talking. There were the childrens grandmother and grandfather from Jens side, Lena who then was step grandmother, some of their cousins, and some friends of the whole family.

They had a great time. And Tilda was so happy over that everyone she cared about were there, and all the pesents she got. "Those ear rings are amazing! From who is it?"
"Frida..." Agnetha said, and Tilda sat down on the chair next to her grandmother. "I would tell you congratulations from her." Agnetha studied her grand daughter as she studied her ear rings. She felt such happiness in her heart. She loved her family so much.

"Is it true that ABBA will reunite?" Tilda wondered. "Yeah..."
"I though you said that it would never happen." She laughed. "I heard you say that too!" Esther screamed and came running against Agnetha and Tilda. " Björn laughed from his armchair across the room. "I know we said that. But things change, and now we want to!" Esther ran towards him instead and sat down in his lap. Agnetha laughed silent. Linda sat down opposite them and smiled over the sight of her loved mother and her loved daughter together.

"Well, doesn't you want us to reunite for some reason?"
"No! Why would I?"
"I don't know. You looked like it was a bad idea when you asked me about it." Tilda shrugged. "Well, you and grandpa will be away..." Agnetha hugged her.
"Darling, not for very long..."
"Yes... Mom has told me about when she was a child and you two were away a lot..."
Agnetha gave Linda a look that said forgive me for the thousand time.
"It was then darling... We were young, and very popular then. Now we're old and grey and can't do very much!"
Tilda laughed. "That's true!" Agnetha shook her head and sighed before she gave Tilda a hug. Then she slipped through her fingers...