Being There

Chapter 7 The beggining of something awsome

Emma's POV:

"your beautiful, your beautiful girl..." sang Camilla.
They were the last words of the song witch ment... Bye bye Lauren.
I looked at her and she was smiling but then she also realized that the song ended.
Her smile turned to a frown. She came close to me and hugged. Something told me that she didn't wanted to say goodbye eather...
"I need to go, right?" I asked her almost bursting into tears.
"I'm afraid so... I'm sorry I really wanted you to stay here for the rest of the show but I don't think that will possible." She frowned.
"I know... Thank you though! For everything"
She gave me a smile. I smiled back.
I said goodbye to the other girls and when I turned away I saw Big Rob calling me.
I walked towards him really slowly thinking of how that night was going to end. Then I remembered... 'I still have Meet and Greet!!!' My head went up and I ran towards Lauren to tell her the news...
I heard Big Rob calling me back but I ignoref it.
I ran up to her And hugged her with all my streght! She was confused but she hugged me back.
"I'm still going to Meet and Greet... We will still have the oportunity to take a picture and talk for 5 minutes!!!" I told her with a huge smile on my face while pulling away from the hug.
Her smile growned from 10 to 100!
"Oh my god!!! Really???" She asked in disbelieve.
I nodded.
I heard Big Rob calling me again, I couldn't ignore him this time.
"See you later" she told me and I winked at her.
I ran up to Big Rob and apolized for my behavior... He wasn't upset though.

Lauren's POV:

I followed Emma with my eyes till she got to her spot.
Her smile was huge. It made me smile back without even noticing.
Dinah tapped my shoulder.
"Lauren?" She whispered.
"Hmm? What?" I asked distracted.
"Nothing! It's just... You are really happy! I never saw like that."
"I'll explain later okay?"
"Hmm... Yeah sure but I really want to know!"
I chuckled.
"Okay..." I said still smiling.
Then I looked at Camila 'cause she was talking but i wasn't hearing a thing! I was thinking deeply about what Emma said.
'She's coming to the Meet and Greet'.
In portugal, the Meet and Greet is a little different... We are going to take some pictures with the people who payed meet and greet and then we are going to be sitted in front of them and awnser some questions.
And so, I still had a little time to talk to her.
I don't know why I am like this right now. Never been so excited about a fan coming to meet and greet. I mean I love them but Emma... I don't she's different. She's calm but really happy and cute at the same time. I really liked her. And face... Looks familiar. And it's not because she was dressed like me... I don't I've seen that face before. I guess I might have seen her in instagram or something like that but I'm not sure.

Emma's POV:

Lauren looked at me a few times while the concert was going and smiled. I smiled back.
"Ok guys and that was the last song! You guys were absolutely AWSOME" Camila shouted.
"Yes! You were one of the best crowds we ever had!" Lauren interupted. She was looking at me in the end.
"Thank you for coming and we hope you've enjoyed this evening with us!" said Ally.
Everyone in the audience including me and my friends started shouting and 'yaying' them!!! You could see how much everyone loved those girls!
"We love you!!!" said happily Normani.
"Obrigada!!!" screamed Dinah.
And after that they left. I saw Lauren looking behind and making eye contact with me, then gave me a cute smile and I smiled back.
There was a voice witch seamed to come from the heaven.
"All of the people who payed meet and greet stay in place and wait for more informations please. The others please leave the arena."
Me and my friends waited.
We saw almost everyone leave and there was just us and like ten other groups but they were groups of many people.
"Soo... Tell us..." started Mariam with a calm voice.
"How was it like?" shouted Annie making all of us jump.
"It was AWSOME!!! She was the nicest person in the world she said that I should sing and not worry about what others might think or say! She's the best! I love her! I think I've never admired someone so much in my life!" I replied with energy.
Zöe came closer to me and gave me a big hug.
"We are really happy for you" she said.
"We are more than happy!!! You made one of your biggest dreams come true! You are really lucky!" said Marie throwing her arms in the air trying to get in the hug.
In the end we were just a big fat group hug and I felt that everyone was looking at us, but I didn't care 'cause we like to be weird!
All of a sudden a voice was heard:
"Welcome to Fifth Harmony's meet and greet! Please make a line!" said a woman.
We were almost the last ones but there were one like eight or nine groups before us...
While we waited Annie, Mariam, Marie and Zöe were talking loudly about how excited they were about meeting the girls but I just stood there thinking about how I would talk to Lauren and what I would say... We only had 5 minutes in "private" with them and I didn't want to wast them!
I had an enourmus bag full of gifts for them but mainly for Lauren. We all had one for our favourites.
When the last group before us went further meaning they went hang out with the girls, I started getting nervous and anxious.
Finally, after 5 minutes, Big Rob assinalated that it was time.
As I started to see Lauren, I started smiling and all my anxiety went away.
As I went closer she started smiling too.
"Hi!!!" she said.
I hugged her! She hugged back.
"The show was amazing! Congratilations!!!" I said.
"Ohh! Thank you! You had a big part on that!" She affirmed with a wink.
"Ahaha! Nooo it was all you guys! And by the way thank you so much. It was without a dought the best night of my life."
She smiled.
"Here" i said holding up the bag.
She looked confused so I continued.
"It's just a bunch of gifts for you guys but mainly for you. Me and my friends all made one."
She looked around and saw the other girls with smilar bags. She started smiling.
"Thank you! It was very kind of you! I will look at them when we get to the hotel. Does one of this papers got your twitter or instagram?" She said genuine.
"Yes one of them."
"Great! I'll thank you by one of them as soon as I look at them properly ok?"
"Yes! Thank you!"
"Thank YOU!" She smiled with a honest smile but a bit sad.
I could see that she was upset about someting but I didn't have gutts to ask her.
"2 more minutes!" shouted the man behing the camara.
"So what do you want to do for the photo?" She asked.
"Hm... Could we... Maybe...hmm..." I tried to say.
"Go for it!" She encoraged.
"Could we... Koala Hug!" has everything I managed to say.
She chuckled loudly with her so famous laugh.
"Do you think maybe we could..."
"Absolutly! You know normaly people only ask Camila 'cause she was the one who sort of invented it... But I love Koala Hugs..."
"Well I had this idea of asking you since I can remember..." I replided.
"Thank you" she said.
"For what?"
"For thinking about me!" she smiled.
"Of course I did! You are my favorite and I'm not afraid of saying that out loud! And I'm sure I am not the only one who wanted a Koala Hug from you." I explained.
She frowned. I was so confused... Why was she sad?
"Ok guys! Let's take the picture!" Shouted the man.
"Jump!" She said opening her arms so she could hold me.
I started to worry... How was she gonna handle my weight... I'm not... Skinny...
I guess she saw in my eyes what I was feeling and so she said:
"Don't worry! I will catch you... It's not like you are fat!"
I wanted to laugh so much at that statement.
"Really? You think YOU are fat???" She asked.
"Well..."
"Oh please! Don't even!!! Just jump, i'll catch you."
And she did! I jumped with the courage I didn't know I had in me and curled my legs around her waist.
Her facial expression didn't even change a bit.
"Thank you Lauren!" I said looking her in the eyes and just before I looked to the camera man, I hugged her really tight.
When I was already smiling to the camera, I felt Lauren looking at me really concentrated.
"Come on... In 3, 2.." started counting down the man.
Right before the "1", Lauren looked at him and smiled.
"1!!! Great picture everybody. Next!" shouted the man.
I got down and looked up 'cause Lauren was bit taller than me. Not much, but enought.
"Thank you... For everything! Really! There's a video inside... I hope you watch it! I think you will like it!"
"Thank you!" she said with a marvilous smile.
"No! Thank you!" i responded as I was being dragged from the place by one random security guy.
I saw her looking down before we entered another room.
I think she was sad about something...
As I looked in front of me, there was a big room full of wooden chairs and a big table in front of them with five sits behind it.
There were five sits in the front line and so we ran till we were sitted there.
We were all quiet. I think each one of us was thinking about the experience they just had. Mine was incredible, although I would really like to know if Lauren was sad or not.
I didn't have to wait that much because five minutes later they all entered the room. There was a woman who was calling theire names individually.
"Give it up for Ally..."
The crowd started screaming energeticly.
"Dinah Jane, Normani, Camila and..."
As I knew who was going to be next, I stood up and screamed with all the voice I had.
"Lauren!" said the women.
Lauren came inside the room with a smile which caused me to smile too.
They all sat down at the table in front of us. I was right in front of Lauren and Camila.
They questions started and four of the girls were awsering them frantically.
Lauren was a little bit quiet maybe because some of the questions were directed to each one of them. There weren't many questions for Lauren so I started thinking about making one.
She started looking really sad again all of a sudden. What was happening?
"This question is to Normani" said a girl that was near me.
Right before the girl could finish, Lauren stood up.
"Excuse me, I really need to go to the toillet."
'What???? That is NOT why she was sad!!!' I thought.
As the meet and greet was going, I tried to take my mind of it and just focus. But then she was taking REALLY long...
"I'm sorry..." said the women who introduced the girls. "I was told to call a girl in the audience... Her name is Emma... Is there any Emma here"
I was in shook. Both me and another girl stood up. Great 2 Emmas.
"Great!" said the women with irony.
"Just a moment" and she left.
We both sat down and waited.
She came back.
"You!" said the women pointing at me.
I stood up and left the room.
As I was following the lady I started seeing some parts of the backstage.
"Wait here please!"
I was sooooo confused. What the hell was happening.
Suddenly I saw a familiar face.