The Reunion 2015

~Chapter 7~

(Some weeks later)

"Friday night and the lights are low. Looking out for a place to go. Where they play the right music, getting in the swing. You've come to look for a king. Anybody could be that guy. Night is young and the music's hight. With a bit of rock music, everything is fine. You're in the mood for dance. And when you get the chance. You are the dancing queen..."

Frida and Agnetha stopped singing and burst into laugh. Benny and Björn laughed too. "My... I think we have to practice the transition to the refrain..." Björn said. "You don't say?!" Agnetha shouted. "That sounded awful..." Frida said. "Well, yeah" Benny said. "But we maybe can skip this one?" Agnetha said. Frida's eyes got as big as plates and she gave Agnetha an "are you serious" look. "What?! Never! We have to sing Dancing Queen!!!"
"Wow, take it easy" Agnetha said and laughed. "I promise, we can do it after some practice" said Frida and smiled.

They went through a lot of songs, and decided to take the biggest hits, and some of the other songs as well, that Agnetha and Frida could sing. They changed the key on some songs, and skipped some parts. But it still worked very well.

"How many lessons did you take? It sounds actually really good most of it" said Benny. "We took three."
Björn smiled. "I knew that our girls would be able to do this."
"Please, don't call us girls... It was bad enough that people did it during the ABBA years. We were actually grown up women..." Frida said. "I will call you girls anyway" Benny said with a teasing smile. "You have always been our girls!" Agnetha and Frida smiled. "Alright then... But we won't care about it.." said Agnetha.

After the singing session they would go home to Owe to talk about the clothes. They had already decided the style of the clothes, but they would chose the material.

"Hi!" Owe exclaimed when he saw the four stars. He hugged them all. They went into the living room and took seat in the sofa. Owe sat opposite them in an armchair. "How did the sining go?" he wondered. "Perfect. Just a few things we have to practice" Frida answered. Agnetha nodded and smiled. And then all four burst into laugh, and Owe didn't understand much.

After the meeting with Owe everybody went home. Frida knocked on the door, and walked in. "Hi" she said and gave Henry a kiss on the cheek. "Hi love. Did it go well to sing?" "Well, yeah. Most of the time. There were a few things we have to practice."
"Okay."
Frida took her mobile and called Jonathan, her grandson. He lived in the USA with his girlfriend. But he would come to Sweden and meet her. Plus, he loved Sweden a lot.
He lived with Frida in Switzerland when he was a child, after his mother's death. Lise-Lotte's husband became sick because of her death, and couldn't take care of him. So, Frida took care of him. They were really close. Probably because both have gone through the same thing. To lose their mother and had to be taken care of their grandmother.

"Hi darling" Frida said and felt such happiness in her heart when she heard his voice. "Hi grandma!"
"How are you?"
"Fine, thanks. Do you know a thing?"
"A lot of things, but probably not that you will say." Both laughed.
"Well, no... But Charlotte and I will get married!"
"Finally!!"
"So you have waited?!"
"Yeah! You are 28 years old, and you two have been together for so long." Jonathan laughed. "Yeah... I'm so happy."
"I'm happy that you're happy my love. I miss you... When would you come here?"
"I'm planing to leave next week. I miss you too."
"Aw... How is it going with the band?"
"Well, kind of good."
"Kind of?"
"Yes. I mean, we have no gigs!"
Frida laughed. "Just continue. You will get it soon. Talking about bands, ABBA will reunite."
"Yeah, I know."
"What?! Have it spread all the way to the US?"
"Yes. You know, there are fans who's following your facebook and instagram here too." Jonathan laughed. "Oh, right. That stuff... I don't even know what that is!"
Both laughed. "No, I know that grandma... Sorry, but I have to quit now. Bye, love you!"
"Love you more! Bye!"

"Is he alright?" Henry asked.
"Just fine. But he's a bit annoyed that his band doesn't get any gigs."
"I don't think it's that easy to get gigs when the band have that image and style. What's it called...?"
"Heavy metal..."
"Yeah, right."
"Why not? There are a lot of people who like that. I do!"
"Yeah, but. Many don't..."

Frida thought that Henry was a bit stupid now. And she couldn't take it when people were stupid. "I'll take a walk" she said and put on her outerwear. "Okay, bye" Henry said and continued with his book.

Benny and Björn had been in the studio working all day. When Benny came home the dinner was waiting for him. "Wow... Thanks honey..." he said and kissed Mona's lips. "I didn't have anything to do so..."
"I love you so much, and I hope you know that..."
"I know... Love you too..."

Agnetha used to have dinner together with Linda's family. It was so boring to eat all alone!

"Signe! Don't play with the food!" Jens exclimed. Then she stood up on the chair and started to scream. Agnetha tried everything to keep back the smile. She was so cute... Signe started to dance around, while she had the fork in her hand. "Oh my god... Signe!! Sit down now!!!" Linda screamed and Jens actually pushed her down. She started to cry, and Esther just laughed. Tilda tried not to care and concentrated on the food. "Is she tired?" Agnetha asked. "Probably the opposite... She has been sleeping since she came home from pre-school..."
Signe jumped down from the chair. "You're dumb!" she shouted and ran away. Linda sighed and fought against the tears. She was tired. Her work as an actress was hard.... Agnetha gave her a worried look. "I'll go and talk to her...."
"Thank you mom..."

Björn was really tired when he came home. He had the ideas of the reunion spinning in his head all the time. Direct after dinner he went to bed. And so did Lena. "Has it been a hard day honey?" she wondered. "Well, no... Or a bit. It's much to think about right now. And Benny and I have a lot to do in the studio on that."
"I understand. But this ia a brilliant idea. And you will get a lot of money for it."
"No... We decided that the ticets won't be too expensive. And the money we get will go to UNICEF. We don't do this for the money, we already have more money than we need. We do this because we want. No one has forced us..."
Lena smiled. "You're so wise my love. I love you."
"Love you too."