Forever

Chapter 5.

When Josh finally woke up, he could hear singing. Thinking he was dreaming, he sat up whilst rubbing his eyes, then yawning and stretching. He could still hear the singing which made him realise he wasn't dreaming, bringing him to the reality that his best friend was in the shower but singing, practising her vocals for their mini UK tour.

A couple of minutes later and Josh was on his phone. Once his wifi fully reconnected after such a long period of time not getting used, all his texts and iMessages came through. He had one message off Kieran, saying

'You two, support acts, I could only get Nous Boi, Nathan Gurd and Ryan Lawrie! No one else was free so we have four so far including Tarkan. I think we could get locals for every place though, I got in touch with Caitlyn Vanbeck, she's doing Edinburgh, Angel Gold is doing Glasgow, Young Kings are going to do London, The Waiters will join Newcastle and maybe even a couple more dates and I think Michael might even join the tour with his friend, James so either way, we have support acts and shouldn't be anything to worry about! :)x'

So, Kieran does ramble on in his texts and it would have been easier to just call one of them although it was technically still basic as the three were in a group chat so it saved Kieran typing it out twice, saying it twice or even losing messages and typing it more than twice.

Josh sent the simple reply of,

'Okay, yeah that's 100% great! Rach is in the shower so unless she knows I'll tell her! See you soon pal!x'

For some reason, these two boys always put kisses on but not with anyone else! They always put either a ':)' or 'x' or both on their messages to each other! I guess it's just them saying 'I love you' without having to actually type that much.

Once Rachel was out the shower wrapped in two towels - one round her body, one round her hair - Josh went in and came out after around 10 minutes, probably around 10 times faster than Rachel. When he came out, his friend wasn't even a quarter way through drying her hair whilst talking to his one-and-a-half-year-younger sister.

'Honesty you two could talk for bloody England! You're so loud!'

Both girls turned round and laughed at his remark, shaking their heads because they both knew how loud Josh could be. Josh turned around on his heel to go into his room and put his clothes on seeing as he was walking round in a towel, about twice the size of him. It was a good job he did go to get ready as his towel fell down, causing him to trip over into his room (which was lucky for him, I guess).

He pulled on a pair of black skinny jeans and a baggy t-shirt with Nike trainers then once Rachel came in with clothes on they had similar outfits on, other than her having white, ripped skinny jeans on and not having a long t-shirt on, just an ordinary-sized one on.

As they walked up to Josh's 'studio', Rachel pulled her hair into a messy bun while blending concealer into her skin, then once they were in there, added a coat of mascara. That's one thing Rachel never did. Wore lots of make-up, simply because she's the laziest person in the world. Anyway, they both went through their set lists, gave each other 'constructive criticism' then went on to practise their duets until they hit the nail on the head, getting their vocals totally perfect, letting themselves just stop and rest their voices, simply because they needed them for tour. If it was up to them they would sing all day.

When they were finished they took the five minute walk to McDonald's for food with Josh's nine-year-old brother, Jacob. Jacob took after Josh so much and he was so close to the two friends. He always felt independent when he got to do stuff with them, as if he was trusted and with the 'big kids'.

The two siblings went and got a table while Rachel ordered for them all. After about five minutes of standing next to the counter waiting, their food was ready so Rachel got straws, sauce and napkins (Jacob would have food everywhere...and so would Josh) then walked over to their table so they could enjoy their meal.

McDonald's had a two minute walk on the way back to Josh's however dropping Rachel off. Once she was home she put her pyjamas on and lay in bed on her phone, whereas Josh got home and played with his little brother for a while to tire him out to help make bedtime easier.