Violet Humstrum is out of the hospital, and twelve times as fabulous than before. After fixing the universe (Somewhat.) and getting discharged, she's ready to rock the world. Step one: touring with One Direction!
Violet finally woke up around six. This was when the boys' concert was starting. We could hear the chanting "One Direction! One Direction!" being screamed by girls through the walls, that's how loud it was. And we were, like, backstage!
"Jessica, I'm booooorrrreeeeedddd." Rayna complained. Brooklyn then stepped back into the room we were in backstage. "This will hopefully cure your boredom!" She cheered. Brooklyn set down this medium-sized Rubbermaid bin with a masking-tape label that reads: beauty stuff- hair, makeup, nails. The whole room erupts into giggles. "I'm game!" Shouts Abi.
I do my makeup so I look like Taylor Swift, and paint my nails neon green. Brooklyn and Abi are going around doing hair (Both their mothers are professional hair stylists.) and Violet is looking through nail polish with a devilish smile on her face. "Hey Abi, how's this colour?" Violet teasingly asks as she lifts up a bottle of glossy black nail polish. Abi looks as if she's about to explode. "NO! IT'S TOO DARK!" She shouts. "Hey, keep it down! We need to focus on the audio-visual stuff and we have a hard time without your shouting!" Yells an audio-visual tech guy. "Sorry."
Eventually the two negotiate a compromise, and Violet paints her nails an evil-queen purple. "I like this. It really suits me." She says as she admires the colour. "I'd like to think an evil-queen purple would suit Satan." Abi remarks sassily as she examines her nails for missed spots. Violet throws a random pillow-no idea how that got there-at Abi's head and missed. She always misses. "Shut up, Angel." She mutters.
"Hey, I've got an idea!" Cheers Rayna. "Yes?" I ask. "We should totally do a performance of 'What Makes you Beautiful'! You guys up for it?" "Of course!" We cheer in unison.
After in-depth analysis of the original music video, Violet has managed to write down the full routine of the choreography so we each know our parts. Rayna prints out the lyric sheets, Brooklyn clears out an area of the messy room we're in with the help of Abi, and I'm practicing singing.
"Let's try this, girls! Five, six, seven, eight!" Brooklyn claps. We awkwardly dance and stumble over the lyrics of the song. The second time doesn't sound nor look much better. Neither does the third. But we keep on trying and trying, and eventually we get better. Key word: eventually.
We collapse onto the floor, breathless. Rayna dumps water on her head before re-tying her hair back. "From the top, girls!" Brooklyn commands for what feels like the millionth time. A loud collective groan rises from the girls, excluding Brooklyn. "C'mon, guys! This could be the time we nail it!" "Fine." Violet and Abi groan in unison. We get up, and hit the routine from the top.
-- Niall POV --
"To celebrate Zayn's coming back, we decided to sing the first song we put in our first album! Which one is that?" I shout into the microphone. I hate saying the last part, it reminds me of a condescending character from those 'interactive' children's cartoons. "'What Makes you Beautiful'!" The fans chant over and over. The boys and I begin to sing. The music video plays in the background on the big screens.
But one-quarter of the way through, something goes wrong. Suddenly, we hear the coordinated singing of girls. I wince, hoping to god that Jessica and Rayna didn't do that thing with the microphone again. In the singing, there's too many voices at once to have that happen. We all stop, and turn around. On the screens there is footage of the girls doing the original choreography and singing. A small gasp escapes my mouth when I realize they're doing it better than we did. Liam puts a hand on his face and rubs his forehead. We all know the inevitable outcome. Simon will kill them.
A/N: Ooo! A cliffhanger. Don't kill me for that one! Comment down below for what should happen next chapter. The Chiba Saruman doesn't have anything to do with the chapter, but I just wanted you to see it.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Evangeline, it'll be okay. Just 'cause you can't do a headstand now doesn't mean you won't ever. You can cry later, let's try this again."
- Kathy Dreemurr
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