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Fifteen: The Turning Point

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Chapter 15 The Turning Point

Luke

Filming began for the cover. I had my new guitar, and Michael claimed that we weren't the Australian 1D, despite what I'd told him... Calum and Ashton had no idea why he thought people would even consider us being a five-man British boyband, but we played as we had rehearsed and although we weren't satisfied in the slightest with our voices, and the cover itself, we posted it online and immediately we got a response. I headed to the toilet whilst checking the comments.

5sosfan29

This is so awesome! I love 1D and this just made my day. Hope you guys get to tour someday!

emz19

hey luke it's me, emma. My friends and I really love this! Thx for covering it :)

I scrolled through a couple more until my eyes began to hurt, and returned to the living room where the other three were messing about with the guitars and drum. "Have you guys seen the comments yet?" I asked, sitting myself down next to Calum who immediately put his arm around my shoulder, just like a reflex. "Yeah we checked em out," Michael replied nonchalantly. "Our fans are so awesome."

And he was right. As February turned into March, we found out that our Next 2 You video had reached 500,000 views, which was absolutely fucking crazy. We'd written a load more songs as a group, one called 'Get Out' and another called 'Heartbreak For Two'. School went by – my grades were fine, if not a little low. Our fans kept discussing what their collective fandom name should be, and after much contemplation, we decided to just call them family.

After school one day, mum stopped me from going upstairs for a moment.

"Luke, could I have a word?" she said in an undertone with her hand on my shoulder. I was ready to zoom up the stairs until I saw her face. It wasn't exactly the happiest of expressions.

"Sure, what about?"

"There's something I found in your room earlier. I just wanted to ask you about it..."

Oh shit. Had she found the stupid things that Jack planted in the bag? Fuck. FUCK. "W-what is the thing?"

She reached into her pocket. It was small enough to fit in her pocket. Could it have been the condom? "This."

"I'm really sor- wait what?!"

Out came my black capo that I used to change keys on the guitar.

"I didn't buy this for you. Where is it from?" she interrogated with a stern look in her eyes.

I sighed thankfully and took a deep breath. "Jeez mum. I bought it a few weeks ago when we went downtown. Is it really that important?"

"Yes but what is it?"

Did she think it was some kind of adult toy? Cause it really wasn't. "It's a guitar capo, it enhances my performance."

Her eyebrows shot to the sky in surprise. "Oh! Can you show me how you use it?"

I chuckled and went upstairs to get my guitar, then took the capo from her and clipped it to the 2nd fret, playing some random chords. Then I took it off again and played the same chords. "Do you see now?"