Just a replacement (one direction)

Chapter 16: Epilogue

“JAKE WAKE UP YOU IDIOT.” Today is the first day of the tour, it’s a show in the O2 Arena, the first performance of the boys in three months, they took those months to only concentrate on their  third album and a bit of time for themselves. In these months they also learned that the best way to wake me up isn’t polite but just pulling me out of bed, throwing me on the cold floor. I wish they never found that out. However today they were nice and let Charlotte wake me up-not that she used another tactic, she just was less strong.

Charlotte and me moved in a apartment together because she didn’t have enough money to pay her college and an apartment and I didn’t want to live with my parents anymore. However, today we were at the boys house, the house where this all started. Charlotte already spend a lot of nights here with Liam and because the tour would start today we had a sort of sleep over with Josh, Dan… -well basically the whole band no need to name them all – at the big 1D mansion. Of course Charlotte and Eleanor where there too to spend the last time with their boyfriends before they went on tour. Perrie would come later that day to say goodbye to Zayn, both busy with their own tour.   

I get out of my bed, or basically I already was out of my bed, since Lot threw me off. Downstairs in the kitchen everyone was already gathered around to eat their breakfast, suitcases in the hall since we had to leave to Ireland immediately after the show. While I was eating my cereal I realized how amazing the last four months of my life had been. In the first month I had made four new friends. In the other three months I spend a lot of time with them, getting another friend (Niall) and writing a lot of songs with the lads, they would come up with lyrics and sometimes also a melody and key and I’d play the guitar, finding the best way to let the emotions that belonged with the song express themselves. The funny thing was that now Niall was back and we hang out together, nobody even got the idea that I might have been replacing him. When there was a picture with him they’d just be like this friend of them looks a lot like Niall. They just believed that we never lied to them.  In the months that passed, Liam and Charlotte became one of those couples everyone envied, clearly being in love and just looking like they were made for each other, maybe they were I don’t know.

Suddenly Barbie girl became blasting through the kitchen, everyone looked at me and I realized that the sound was coming from my phone. Whoever changed my ringtone is getting payback….. I glanced at all of the people in the now looking really small kitchen and saw Louis dying of laughter, of course it was that boy. With my phone in my hand I walked to the hall where I picked up, it was my mum calling me.

 “hey boy, I just wanted to wish you good luck for tonight!  I still can’t believe how this happened to you but I’m glad you’re happy.” When I got back to my parents after being gone for a month they were very angry, I explained them that I just needed the time alone and that I met some great friends –which all was the truth- and that One Direction heard me play my guitar and asked me to become their guitarist –now this isn’t exactly how it went.

“Thanks mum, I’m sure it will be great. But I really have to go now, I haven’t packed my suitcase yet and we’re going off to Ireland right after the show. You got my tickets to come and watch right?” The boys gave me two free tickets so my parents could see my first show, not that the attention would be on me but still, I was going to play in front of thousands of people.

“It’s fine J, can you tell Charlotte that I’d want to see her when she’s back in London?” Charlotte was going to Ireland with us, Liam asked if she wanted to come on tour but she couldn’t miss more than two weeks at uni.

“I will mum, bye I love you.” I ended our phone call and told Charlotte what mum said. When we told our parents about Lot’s relation with Liam she was even more surprised than when I said I would be guitarist in front of thousands people. They both approved of their relationship anyways, not knowing the whole truth about how Payne and my sister met each other.