Chasing Summer [Chasing Series Book 1]

Behind the Scenes

Nicola's P.O.V

The lights in the venue turn back on, and the giant hoard of girls and guys begin to make their attempts at leaving. I look over to the girls and smile, as we lean against the seats until the area is more cleared out.

"You know," Christine begins, "I was pretty excited when we came back here, and now I'm just nervous," she states making us all laugh.

"I feel ya, but all we have to do is be ourselves. After all, they're just people....who happen to be famous, talented, and incredibly good looking." I pause, trying to keep a straight face, all resulting in all of us laughing again.

"I guess it's clear enough for you girls to start heading over there," Ms. Kennedy states.

"John will probably be waiting for you, and I'm sure it's better if you go as all these people are heading out so no one can notice you," we all nod and start to leave the seats, following behind Sam as she knows where to go.

We make it to a secluded side stage entrance, and see John waiting for us as he said. We pull out the sticker passes and place them on our shirts, walking up to John.

"You girls all set?" He asks, only receiving nods from all of us.

"Alrighty, let's head on in," and we walk in, following him behind the stage as crew members of the band and the venue are frantically running about cleaning the stage.

We continue to walk into the building, passing by doors closed or used by crew. Eventually we walk past Hey Violet's dressing room, Rena and Miranda run up to us with huge smiles on their faces.

"You're the Three-Fourths girls right?" Rena asks excitedly.

"We loved you're Lana cover you posted, it was amazing!" Miranda finished, they give us hugs and we thank them for their compliments before they leave, heading out to wherever they're headed.

"I can't believe Hey Violet watches our videos!" Maisie exclaims, they're one of her absolute favorite bands, and the rest of us like them too. We quietly squeal as we finish our trip backstage and make it to the 5SOS boys' dressing room.

"Here you go, I'll be around here, so just yell if you need me," John winks and leaves the room.

As we are about to faint from excitement, Zoe makes her way into the room.

"Hello girls," she smiles walking over to us, "I see you got here alright. I'm so glad you're able to stay in and meet the guys. They're really excited to meet all of you," she states, making me feel like I'm going to pass out but I manage to keep my composure.

"Thank you so much for letting this all happen, we are all really excited too," I thank her.

"Oh of course!" She exclaims, "It's not everyday you see raw talent like you girls. I'm sure John told you the boys have a small meet and greet right now, it won't take them long. So chill in here and hang out until they're done. If you're hungry there's pizza over on that table," she points to the connecting room over to us. I couldn't believe where we were right now, this has to all be a dream.

"Ms. Kennedy," Zoe looks over to Maisie and Chris's mom.

"Oh please, call me Lisa," she smiles at her.

"Well Lisa, I'm sure you don't want to be in a room full of sweaty boys and 8 teenagers, you can follow me out and we can head to another room for you and me to talk about some exciting stuff," Zoe states.

"That would be great. You girls have fun, I'll see you a bit later," Ms. Kennedy says, heading out the door.

"Oh, and no alcohol," she says with wink. We all roll our eyes, "we'll be fine mom," Christine says and she leaves the room.