Hang Onto Yourself

Hang Onto Yourself Part 2

The album, "Girls On Top" hit number one in the album charts, with 2 singles going to number one and 1 in the top five, all of which was much to Nova's annoyance. That didn't change anything for her, her feelings were still the same, her frustrations were still very real.

The Viva Divaz toured Europe with the success of the album.

Nova loved travelling, loved being on stage, she was known to be a good performer, articles were written about her stagemanship, she could really get a crowd going.

Even if she didn't like the music or who she was portraying, she was going to make the best of a bad situation and do her best as she knew it meant Jeff, and to a certain extent the girls, wouldn't push her too far.

Plus it gave her certain leverage to keep Jeff off her back as she was so liked by the public.

She was one of, if not the, most popular member.

The tour for the latest album was a long one, 64 gigs over Europe, finishing up at Wembley Arena in London.

As tired as they were from the tour, the buzz for playing to their home crowd always lifted their moods, even Nova's. The last show went off without a hitch.

They'd done it numerous times a week, a total of 63 times previously, leading up to this show so they knew their vocals, moves, and knew where they needed to be and when like it was an army regiment.

At the final bow, after the encore, the girls rushed off the stage, dressing gowns were thrown round them by their personal aides and made their way to their dressing rooms.

Usually they would jump straight on the tour bus, but a couple of the girls lived local to the Arena so they had agreed to just clean themselves up, have a little toast to the tour going well and thank the crew, plus they'd had an end of tour interview organised at the arena after.

While walking towards their individual dressing rooms with their aides who had cared to the girls every whim while on tour the girls hugged and congratulated each other on a job well done, commenting how glad they were it was all over so they could now have a good rest.

As they approached their dressing room doors they said their momentary goodbyes for getting changed and then agreeing on meeting in the green room where all the crew would be celebrating.

As Nova approached her door, she spoke to her aide, "Thanks for all your help Ed, but if its ok, I'd like to take a shower and have 10 minutes to myself", "Sure thing Nova" he replied. "Thank you, again I'm really greatful to you for your help this tour."

She walked through her dressing room door and closing it behind her, leaned against the door sighing with relief "Thank fuck thats all over".

She locked the door, took off her dressing gown and sweat ridden clothes, just letting them drop to the floor as she made her way into the bathroom to turn the shower on. Grabbing a towel and hanging it over the shower screen she stepped into the shower.

The hot water was a sweet welcome to her aching muscles from dancing so hard. Nova was a good dancer. While the dancing was fairly simple for the tour as it was routines all the girls could manage, she had learnt to breakdance when she was younger and often used it as part of her fitness regime.

She let the water fall on the top of her head, and as the water dripped all over her face she thought about work, all the stress, all the arguments with Jeff and other officials such as the tour manager.

All the unhappiness she felt. She sighed "What am I gonna do?". After a couple of seconds she heard her mobile phone start ringing in the other room "Oh shit...ugh that'll have to wait" she growled.