Promise

Chapter 35 - rumours

LISANNES POV:

"I'm scared." I whisper. Harry and Louis simultaniously get hold of my knee. Harry was sitting on my right and Louis on my left. I giggled from their action. I heard a chuckly escape Harry'a mouth.

"Don't be." Louis said.

"You'll be great." Harry told me and he pinched me knee in an encouraging way.

"Are you sure?" I lean into Harry and I see Louis nod as he releases my knee. Harry's chin rests on top of y head and I feel him nod as well.

"Okay." I sigh before I stand to my feet.

"Where are you going?" Harry takes my hand.

"We need to be there in less than an hour, dad. You guys as well." I mock him.

"Ow. I'll go with you." he says and gets on his feet as well. But I stop him from moving by pushing him against his chest.

"You can't. I'm only taking Ryan. Maybe." I start to tease him. "You could go with your bandmates." I say and quickly lean up to give him a kiss. I pout my lips and wait for him when he finally cups my face with both his hands and places a kiss on my lips.

"Gonna miss you." he whispered.

"Too." I smile.

...

I stared at Ryan as we approached the arena. He wasn't even nervous, but he was excited. I could tell, he couldn't sit still.

My eyes darted outside and I was overwhelmed by the growing amount of people I saw when we got closer and closer.

The car abrubtly stopped driving and I almost fell out of my seat. I stared to my right and looked past Ryan outside. The blue carpet was crowded and a lot of celebrities were already walking on it.

I knew my schedule. Get out of the car, pose for some pictures with fans, talk with some fans and then the first interview. When that's done I'm free to walk over to the entrance on my own speed.

'It will go fine.' I tell myself and I look at how the driver opens the door for us and he helps Ryan climb out of the car before he holds his hand out for me to take it. I hesitate for a second before I grab his hand and step on the ground. And there I am. On the blue carpet. Girls started screaming, not even for me. Well actually they were screaming for me, but they wanted me to tell Harry about them.

They made me realise why I had actually won this contest. Some of the contestant were way better than I was, but from the first day of voting there was no doubt that I would win. Despite their promises, all of the boys, including the boys from 5SOS, had tweeted about it. They pleaded their followers to vote for me, and they did. I won with an impressive distance from the number 2.

From the 6 contestant I had 70% of all the votes. The day we got the results was the day that my exhausting road towards a good performance began. Not even I, but Harry got the call from Gerald that I should prepare myself for some though few days. Because I had won.

I was happy though, but never prepared for what was coming. Not only did I have to learn a whole routine for the perfomance, I had to work on many more aspect. Vocal training, media training, facial expression training, but the worst was building up more stamina.

I was used to running, because of the fact that I played field hockey. But the training sessions I had with Mark, their fitness coach, were harder than every training I had before. Running, cycling, boxing, lifting weight, everything.

I was also forced to eat healthy, but I managed to skip meals without people noticing. I noticed myself getting skinnier by the day. A lot of excercising and not so much food was the cause for it. Everyday I got fitter, not only skinnier. But I felt more ready than ever when I finished my last run before the show.