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Chapter 9

2037

I couldn't wait for this year to get going, But an old story about Dougie and his battle with drink and drugs had resurfaced.

The papers were filled with Dougie's face because he had been seen leaving the house on New Years Eve with a pint of beer in his hand after swearing he would never drink again after coming out of rehab over 26 years ago.

"This is stupid. It's been over 26 years. Can I not have a drink?" Dougie was getting really wound up about the whole thing to the point of leaving and going to stay with my mum and family whilst I sorted everything out.

It wasn't just me Dougie and the other Mcbusted boys it was Buzz, River and Seb getting shit as well.

Seb came home about a week after going back to school to get something's for the tour for him to work on in tears

"Seb calm down what happened?" I asked

"They called dad a druggy and he's going to die and stuff like that and I know he doesn't mind talking about what happened but it got to me." Seb said through sobs.

"Sebastian. Come here babe." I said holding my arms out

River came home in tears as well saying that the pap had cornered her outside work and shouted questions at her 'what's it like living with a father with Dougie's background' and 'what's it like having a druggy for a father' River had just shouted he's not a druggy and had walked off. But when she had got home she was in a state. Buzz had not got as much as River and Seb but was getting hit as well. Buzz had came round about 3 days after Dougie had left saying that people at his work had been talking about the whole thing and about how they thought that Dougie was going off his head with stress and stuff.

To make matters worse the story about Ash and me hugging before a 5sos gig about 9 years ago had been dragged into it, saying that I was having a secret affair with Ash and that's why Dougie had gone off and started drinking again.
I knew the whole thing would blow over but every time I went out I was bombard with pap and questions. 'Where's Dougie?' Was the most common question because he hadn't been seen since new year because that's when the whole thing had kicked off.

I had exchanged texts with Dougie over the past couple of weeks but as it got closer and closer to the tour kicking off me and the other boys knew that we had to do something. So in the dead of night when I knew no one would be around Dougie came home it was the end of January the tour was due not to start until the start of March ish but everything needed to be sorted and needed to have blown over by then.

"Babe it's good to see you again." I said hugging Dougie when he got home

"I know babe. I have missed you so much. I'm so sorry for leaving you with all this." Dougie said and I think for the first time since Seb was born Dougie burst into tears

"Hey Dougie." I said I just put my arms around him and held him

Once Dougie had got control of himself he said "how have the kids been."

"Not bad, they have both come home in tears a couple of times because of the question and being cornered by pap etc but the 5sos boys have been taking it in turns to walk out with them whenever they have needed to go out." I said sitting down on the sofa

We spent about 3 hours talking about what we were going to do about the whole thing and it was decided that on February 3rd we would hold outside our house our own little conference to say what had to be said, on our own terms and to answer a few question. Both Mcbusted boys and 5sos boys plus River, Jodie, Gi, Gerogia, Izzy, Emma, Seb and Buzz would be there seen but not heard.