Smoke and Mirrors

Chapter two

Harry's POV

Bang bang bang bang on our hotel room door makes us both jump with fright! That was our usual wake up call to get up and get ready for our busy day ahead.

I groan into my pillow, eyes pinched closed as if I just fell asleep five minutes ago. I can hear Louis rushing around somewhere in the room.  I throw off the duvet clicking on the lamp and stand up with my eyes peeking open.

"Morning love your matcha juice is on the side" Louis says as I head to the bathroom. I smile at him and thank him in my groggy morning voice.
I jump straight into the shower and start washing my hair, it really needs a wash, it gets dirty quicker these days, I like to prepare it before Lou our hairdresser arrives.

After I finish showering I start to brush my teeth suddenly I can hear Louis on the phone to someone but can't work out what he's saying, his voice is too low!

I feel fresh now and smell of strawberries, Louis loves the smell of strawberries, we have great memories from them. I step out of the bathroom and I see Louis on our balcony with a coffee in his hand, phone to his ear and a cigarette in his other hand. He smiles at me but signals to keep quiet by putting his finger up to his mouth.  He then mouths to me that he's doing a radio interview. I nod ok to acknowledge him and blow him a kiss.

I hear another knock at the door, I walk over to the oak door and peek through the spy hole to see who it is. It's Niall peeking back at me, he's making faces, typical Niall he knew I'd check the spy hole.

I open the door to let him in laughing as he goes. While being his loud usual self I notice he takes out a mini box of cereal from his hoodie pocket and tears open the lid. I don't know where he finds all the food and where he puts it, he loves his food our Nialler.

I give him a funny look I can feel my eyebrows frown together and I ask him "where did you get the cereal?" he shrugs his shoulders and with a mouth full of cereal says "I have an emergency supply in my suitcase". I signal to Niall where Louis was and mouth he's doing an interview and to keep quiet.

I know it can be hard at times with Nialls infectious laugh, even more so when he knows he needs to be quiet.

Niall goes over to the round table and throws himself down in one of the chairs all the while still munching on his cereal. I walk over to my suitcase which is on the floor still, we only arrived yesterday and it was late by the time we got to the hotel room.

Rummaging through my clothes I'm looking for my comfy track pants and a T-shirt. need to get dressed for Lou coming soon. I put my clothes on pick up my matcha juice and head over to the table and join Niall. We wait patiently for Louis to finish on the phone.

A couple of minutes later Louis walks back into the room saying hi to Niall and then tells us about the interview.

Our door bangs again and we all jump in fright, "why are management so loud and disrespectful to us?" "Why can't they just knock"  I angerliy express, I look over and all I see is both Niall and Louis shoulders shrug! "This is them telling us the hair and makeup team are on their way" says Niall.

Our full on day has officially began, Louis runs over to the door and lets the team in but just as he was about to close the door in walks Tom our manager with his clipboard. That's a sign we're going to get a rundown and probably a telling off of some sort.

Great great start to the day.... Not. Lou and Lottie are setting up their work stations in the corner of our room that has the most space.

Tom's phone starts ringing, he turns his back to us and answers and starts to walk to the door again, as he does the three of us look at each other and roll our eyes and think, what was he going to say now.

Lottie calls Niall over to her chair so she can start his makeup first for our TV interview which is only 2 hours away. EekI'm getting nervous, Louis walks over to Lou and gets his hair trimmed and styled.

The door opens again and Tom, Liam and Zayn walk through. They look as tired as we feel, these early mornings are killing all of us. We are all extremely tired.

We have been on the go non-stop for nearly four years. Tom turns to us and asks can we all gather round for our early morning meeting. We  all hurry over to the bed and pull our chairs together so we are in a semi circle facing Tom.

Right guys here's your schedule for the day, Tom starts to read "Louis has already done our interview with capital FM, next we have your TV interview with This Morning, then you are off for your photo shoot with Smash Hits Magazine, following that you're heading to the studio to start recording your new album." Tom continues with a list of appearances, looks like we another long day ahead of us.

He then flicks his eyes to Liam who narrows his gaze, "Liam we have just received your hotel bill for the night and it's not good" he says "We see that you spent over £100 on alcohol alone, this isn't a good look for you, the hotel staff are whispering among themselves about your late night room orders, especially the alcohol".  Liam looks down at his hands in shame.

I'm sure Liam's feeling really guilty but this is what it comes down to. We work so hard every day and then we're pushed into a hotel room for the night with no interaction with anyone and we're not allowed to leave. I think to myself we're in our rooms alone at night what else is he supposed to do? Liam clears his throat and looks back up at Tom and apologises, he says "I'll try to do better today".

God I wish we could help him more and think of a way we could distract him at night so he doesn't head straight to the mini bar.

Tom continues "That's it for now guys,continue with your hair and make for now" "I'll catch up with you all later." "Wardrobe will be up soon to fit you out within the next hour, we need you ready and in the cars by 7am."

"The cars are at the front of the hotel" Tom reminds us.  I'm looking out the window from my room waiting my turn for my hair to be styled.

I can see a large gathering of girls at the front of the hotel. Tom then shouts as he's leaving "You need to be quick, no stopping for photos or autographs, just walk straight to the car."  "We're on a tight schedule today remember" We all nod simultaneously at Tom's last sentence before he leaves the room.

Lou and Lottie call Liam and I over to their stations now that Niall and Louis are finished. Lou starts by spraying my hair with a serum that keeps my wavy curls looking good and shiny while I watch Lottie put concealer under Liam's bags that are under his eyes.

I'm sitting in the chair feeling relaxed with Louis humming one of our songs 'little things'.  I'm suddenly brought back to reality out of my relaxed dream, thinking about Louis and how much this song means to us, suddenly Niall causes Louis to laugh uncontrollably about something and it makes me smile to hear them laugh, it's been a while.

Just as Liam and I swap places, the door opens again and in walks the style team to dress us for the day. My eyes quickly scan the rails to see what I can wear, I like some outfits but I pray they don't ask me to wear clothes I don't like.

It's now 6.45 and another bloody bang on the door from management again!!! All our heads turn with the look of gloom, we know it's Showtime, put on the fake smile and pretence that me and Louis don't talk. We all stand in sync as if hypnotised from our seats, head down dreading what the day has in store.

We exit the hotel room and make our way to the cars. I see Tom,  whispering in Liam's ear, probably giving him his tasks for today, he will be telling him to try and keep us separated during our interviews, of course, we give away too many hints to the public, we can't help it though, when you love someone, it's hard to look at them differently.

We are heading to the US for our next leg of tour 'On The Road Again' The tour name is really fitting for us, we literally are on the road all the time , travelling all over the world.

We love being on tour though although it's hard work, we have fun on stage, it's where we feel we're free.

After today we get to have a week off before we head out and I can't wait to spend time with all my family and have some downtime, and of course catch up on some sleep!