2022
"Okay, Gracie, could we run the whole song again one more time please?" Gracie's producer asks. They've been sat in the studio for a few hours now perfecting Gracie's song she wrote quite a bit ago but is only just now recording.
"Of course" she replies as the beat starts playing in her studio headphones, "24th street, where you held me, grabbed my arm..."
Time skip
"Thank you so much, that was a great session Gracie! Good luck on tour, you're gonna kill it!" Her producer exclaims as they leave the studios building.
"Thank you so much! See you!" Gracie waves goodbye as she makes her way over to her car. Once she's in, she closes her door before sighing to herself. She'd been getting so exhausted so easily recently and she didn't know why.
'Probably because you haven't eaten today' her thoughts chewed at her, but she knew they were right. She hadn't. But she couldn't. After what some people have been saying on Instagram, she needed to be the perfect Hollywood girl. If that meant ruining herself in the process.
She shut off her thoughts from saying anything more as she turned on her car and made her way home.
Time Skip
Gracie closed the door behind her before throwing her keys into the bowl. She bends down to untie her laces but jumps back up in freight as she hears a voice say her name.
"Hey Gracie!" Abby, Gracie's cousin, says as she rounds the corner hearing her come through the door.
"Jeez Abby you scared the shit out of me!" Gracie exclaims as she holds her chest with a breathy laugh. She moves her trainers to the side before moving over to Abby to give her a hug.
"How are you?" Gracie asks as they both move out of the hug and towards the kitchen. She moves over to one of her cupboards to get glass out to fill with water.
"Yeah, I'm okay. What about you? Excited for tour in 2 days?" Abby asks as she takes a seat at the island in the middle of the kitchen.
"I'm good. Yeah, I'm so excited! Cannot wait till I get to Europe, it's gonna be so much fun. Do you have all of your equipment here with you for when we leave?" Gracie asks, leaning against the sink as she takes sips from her glass of water.
"Um.. yeah, so, about that..." Abby trails off as she hesitates for an answer. Gracie gives her a sceptic look as she tries to decipher where Abby was going with this.
"What are your trying to say Abby?" Gracie sighs, though she had a feeling where she was going with this.
"I can't get the time off work and college to come with you on your tour. I'm so sorry it's completely last minute but they only just decided to tell me" Abby explains with a slight look of guilt on her face. Gracie turns around to place her glass in the sink and then makes her way around the kitchen island to sit next to Abby.
"Um.. okay... that's fine. I just wish they would've told you earlier so I could find another photographer without it being too close to the leaving date" Gracie says with a sigh as she messages her temples, getting slightly stressed with the fact she has to now find a new photographer in such short notice.
"Yeah, I know, I'm so sorry about that Gray" Abby replies before they both sit in silence. Abby could practically hear the clogs in Gracie's brain turning but nothing was coming to her mind. That's when Abby had an idea.
"Hey, why don't you ask if Morgan can do it? She's a photographer, right?" Abby asks Gracie, the look on her face seeming as if a lightbulb went off when she thought of it, "I've seen so much of her work, it's incredible!"
Gracie thinks about it for a minute. She could ask the girl. They had known each other for nearly 6 months now and had become quite close. But she didn't want to ask as the tour was in the UK, and she knew Morgan probably would not be uncomfortable with going back to her home town. But, Gracie didn't know anyone else who would be able to come this late notice.
"Gracie?" Abby asks as she snaps her fingers infront of her face, "hello? Earth to Gracie?"
"Huh? What?" Gracie says as she's shook out of her thoughts of Morgan.
"Do you think she'd be able to do it?" Abby asks, the look of guilt still prominent on her face as she won't be able to see her cousin perform live on tour and photograph for her.
"Okay, yeah, I'll see what I can do. Let me just go outside and call her" Gracie says as she goes to stand up from her chair. It seems she stood up too fast as a wave of dizziness hits her out of nowhere. She grips the counter next to Abby as she hold her head in her other hand.
"Woah, Gray, you okay?" Abby asks with a worried expression on her face, standing up next to her cousin to make sure she doesn't fall.
"Yeah, I'm okay. Just got a head rush from standing up too fast I think" Gracie replies. She didn't want to lie to her cousin but it would be too much to explain about the fact that she hasn't eaten since yesterday morning. She just hasn't had the time.
"Are you sure?" Abby pushes. She knows what Gracie is like as she's been like this before and it didn't end well. She just worries for her.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I'm just gonna go call Morgan. Are you staying tonight?" Gracie asks as she finally collects herself and pulls her phone out from her pocket.
"Yeah, If that's okay. My dormmate brought over a guy so I'd rather not be there tonight" Abby explains with an uncomfortable look on her face. Gracie nods in reply before moving out of the room to give Morgan a call.
She pulls the sliding door to her balcony open and closes it behind her. The sound of moving cars fill her ears from down below as she feels the hot May air hit her face. She pulls up Morgan's contacts as she sits down on one of the chairs, reminding her of the morning she spent with Morgan out here a couple days ago. She hears the trilling as she calls Morgan. It rings a couple times before she picks up.
"Hey Tiny! You okay?"
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The Blue- GA
Random"You came out of the blue like that, You came out of the blue like that, I never could've seen you coming, I think you're everything I've wanted." Gracie Abrams x OC Alternate and extended version of my short story 'Minor' TW: mentions of addiction...
