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Being away from home really helped Clara with her mindset. This led to her being way more productive with her music. The last few weeks consisted of a lot of song writing and guitar playing.

She heard the front door open which snapped her out of her daze
"Hey Clara." A call came from in the hall by the door.

"Hey Ruaidhrí." She answered, staring at the words she spilled out onto the page in front of her.

Clara heard as her cousin walked into the room that she was in and she felt his presence as he stood behind her, looking over her shoulder. "You're still writing those wank songs are ya?" He rolled his eyes once he saw all of the pages sprawled out on the table infront of Clara.

She turned to look at him with a tired look on her face. She was sick of hearing his comments for the past few weeks. "It's not wank Ruaidhrí, it's my career. You should be proud of me and stop being a nob."

"I am happy for you, I just like taking the piss. But seriously, I've barely seen your face since you came here. Your heads been in your notebook the whole time. Let's go out and do something." He admitted.

Clara sighed and put the pen down. "Okay you're right, I'm sorry. What do you want to do?"
"Pint?" He smirked.
Clara groaned, "Ugh, do we have to?"

"Uh yes? You've been here, what? A month and a half? And you've only had about three pints! That's not enough. You have three days left here, let's go get pissed on Guinness." Ruaidhrí complained and Clara has no choice but to give in.

Alex on the other hand has been recording most of his songs. He spent the while that him and Clarabella weren't talking to put his heart and thoughts onto the page in front of him with lines of ink that turns into letters and words.

After he perfected every letter in the bunch, he took them to the studio to record, after getting everyone else's approval. Every other member of the band was suspicious that the songs were about her , Alex played it off saying only one or two of them were about her and the rest was about Alexa, as they were now together.

The whole flight home for Clara consisted of finishing and editing songs that she wrote while she was away. She was excited to go back home but she knew it was going to be extremely busy.

She unlocked her front door and dragged her heavy suitcase in. When she turned back around, her whole family was standing there. By her whole family meant her mum, her sister, her sister's boyfriend and her dog.

Hanging above the kitchen door was a hand made banner that wrote "Welcome Home Clarabella!"

Clara was overcome with emotions, her bottom lip pouted and began to quiver as she ran over and hugged her family.

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Clara had no time for anything other than work when she got home from Ireland, she sent her songs to Derek and they got to editing them and recording demos. She has only talked to Alex a hand full of times on the phone since she came home over half a year ago due to their both, very busy, lives.

Clarabella's phone started to screech, snapping her out of the book that she was stuck into. She groaned when she saw the name.

"Good evening Clarabella, I'm just calling to inform you that we will be attending an album launch party on the twenty-third of April." Derek spoke through the phone.

"What? Derek, it's the twentieth! You need to give me more notice. Also, whose launch party is it?" Clara complained.

"Sorry, I only heard about it this morning. Get a nice dress, it's a big one." He quickly said.