The next few weeks flew by, and I became a professional at booking hotel rooms and various forms of transport. Before I knew it, it was Sunday evening and Rob and I were stood on a platform at Liverpool Street waiting to board a train to Birmingham.
“And you’ve got all the emails, cards and…” Rob said as he glanced in my direction.
“Yes, I have everything, plus photocopies in case we misplace anything” I reassured him.
My precise organisation skills certainly came to use during the last few weeks of preparation, and Jack seemed to appreciate my thorough nature when it came to itineraries.
We boarded the train a little after six and by eight thirty I was sat in the quiet hotel bar with a large mug of tea with my laptop open checking my emails.
“Five buds please” a soft irish accent said to the barman, ruining the heavy silence around me, I glanced up to see Niall stood at the bar, he was soon joined by the rest of the band.
“Oh would you shut up. The tackle clearly did not deserve a booking. It was clean, it was clean!” Zayn said to Harry as they leant against the bar.
“Ok, whatever. Cheers mate” Harry said as he took a bottle of beer from Niall.
“Food. Need food. Now” Louis said as he threw himself on a sofa not to far from me, grabbing a menu on mid-flight. They all followed, grabbing menus as they went.
They proceeded to pick the menu apart, before making a decision of who was having what. Liam and Harry then went to order their meals. On their way back to their table Harry spotted me and came over.
“Hey Jem” he said sitting down next to me “Jemma I mean, sorry you have the same name as my sister, shortening it is habit”.
“Oh Jem’s fine, how are you?” I said as I closed my laptop and but it on the table in front of me.
“Yeah really good, looking forward to this week!” he said excitedly, “How are you?”
“Yeah I’m fine, busy though” I said reaching for my tea.
“Yeah sorry about that” he said with a sorry expression.
“It’s hardly your fault” I chuckled.
“Well actually…” he paused “It kind of is” he said looking slightly embarrassed.
I looked at him in a confused way and he elaborated.
“Well after that meeting, I kinda spoke to Jack and asked if he could put in a good word for you, and an email later and it was all agreed. I thought you being new and all you could do with some out of office time” he said with a smile.
It was a nice gesture, if a little strange. I didn’t really know how to respond to such an admission.
“Well thank you” I paused “I appreciate it” I said with a smile.
“Well you know, got to keep the press team happy” he said with a wink.
“Well yeah. Please be on your best behaviour this week. I could do with this week going nice and smoothly” I said jokingly, but with an added hint of truth.
“I give you my word” he said as he rested his hand on his chest, as if to gesture a promise “Can I get you a drink” he said as he gestured to my empty mug.
“Oh no, I’m fine thanks. I should probably head back to my room actually” I said glancing at my watch.
“Oh come on, just one? You can’t really be part of the 1D team” he said as he mimicked comma’s “without consuming some form of alcohol, and unless that tea had some brandy in it, then you need a drink” he said as he stood up “So what are you having?”.
He wasn’t taking no for an answer. “Ok, vodka and cranberry juice it is then. Thanks” I said before he jogged her to the bar.
Just as he reached the bar their food arrived at their table and Louis shouted over to Harry.
“Yeah ok, hold on a sec” he shouted back to Louis as he walked back to me “As you can see my dinner is going cold, but leaving you sat here drinking alone seems a little wrong, so do you want to come over and join us?” he said. I didn’t appear to have a choice in the matter as he was still clutching hold of my drink.
“Yeah ok” I said hauling myself out of the comfy sofa and grabbing my laptop.
“Oh good. Do excuse us as we eat, especially Zayn, his table manners are not the best!” he jaked as we reached their table and he put down my drink and pulled a chair out for me.
“Oi, speak for yourself Styles” Zayn said munching on a chip.
“Guys, this is Jemma, she works in the press office and will be working with us this week” he pointed to Liam “Liam” then Zayn “Zayn” but I interrupted “Niall, Louis and Harry” I said nodding at them all.
“Yeah sorry, forgot you know who we are” he said as he tucked into his dinner.
They finished their dinners in record time and I spent the next hour or two talking about the week ahead with them, their excitement for their new single, plus life in general.
“Well I have a 6am wake up call tomorrow, so I had better be off” I said as I grabbed my laptop and pushed my seat back.
“Well I guess we shall be seeing you in the morning. If we are unresponsive at any point tomorrow, remind us not to drink on a school night and supply us with coffee” Louis said with a smile as he raised bottle in the air.
“Louis, I’m sure she’ll have more important things to do than getting you coffee” Harry said as he stood up, which caused some strange looks to be cast amongst his band members “Well we’ll see you tomorrow then”.
“Yep, night guys” and I headed for the lift.
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Sometimes
Fanfiction"Sometimes you put everything you have into one thing, one thing that you believe will make you happy. And when you finally get that one perfect thing, that you’ve always wanted you realise something is missing, something you can’t quite put your fi...
