Behind the Pain

This Changes Everything

" so did you write down the dates?" Andrea asked as we got started on working out how to fix this dam mess. I am furious that it has even come to this, I thought after being with Universal for so long they would know that I don't tour anymore and don't like being away for longer than a week, but it didn't concern them because they got some person to schedule me to have at least two weeks away at a time.

" um yeah kind of, just the weeks I need to be home to look after the girls" I replied waiting for Andrea to return from her office, since the dinning room was much bigger and more open we thought it was easier to work out here so we can place all the different files on the conference table. Looking up from one of the files I was surprised to see Andrea walking over towards me pushing a massive whiteboard with her.

" wow, you're prepared" I smirked seeing she has made like a calendar on the board and placed the dates I was expected to be away. I do have to say its a lot easier this way seeing the whole month laid out and not having to keeping flicking back through all these different files.

" better to be organised, besides its easier to work out how to cut down the scheduling this way" she replied smiling softly. I have to admit these last couple of days she has managed to surprise me with how well she handles pressure and some of the shit they guys can say to her. Even though she works for me and I don't treat girls as badly and disrespectfully as some of the other guys, it didn't mean I wasn't going to have to work or associate with guys that think girls are only on this planet for sex and pleasuring them. I'm not excusing the way some guys treat women, especially they way Danny has been treating Andrea but it does make it easier when girls are stronger enough to handle the situation themselves.

Straight away we began working out which dates can be changed and which can't, obviously we have to work around the important ones like the Festivals I am meant to be playing at, and hopefully getting rid of some of the stupid interviews that have me scheduled to do.

Andrea turned out to be very surprising, even though she looked stuffed and exhausted she always looked at every possible way we could go with getting these next few months right. She defiantly has the skills you can only develop over certain amount of time, so obviously she has been doing this longer than I expected.

" Takeaway is here" I yelled through the studio as the security guard bought the takeaway we had ordered, since this scheduling was more confusing and stressful than we both anticipated dinner seemed like the best solution to give our heads a break for a while. If I was asked early this week to sit down and actually have dinner with Andrea I would've said no straight away, but since tonight we have surprisingly been getting along really well dinner didn't seem that bad and besides I promised Royce I was going to give her a fair go.

Taking the dinner and placing the Chinese Down I realised that Andrea was still in her office on the phone to one of the radio station's that has me booked in for an interview, she is explaining what has happened and that I was going to have to do it over the phone instead of doing it in the studio. So I got straight into getting us drinks and the plates out so when she is finished the dinner will still be hot.
The one thing I've been noticing while getting Dinner prepared is her mobile is constantly ringing, me being the curious type I can't help but have a quick glance at who is ringing her, within a few minutes both a Hayden and a Liam have rung her multiple times.

" Hey, your phone rang a couple times while you were gone" I said when she entered the lounge area again. obviously her communication skills were pretty good cause she quickly heads straight to the whiteboard and rubs of an interview I was meant to do, making one more day free to spend here at home.

" Thanks" she replied giving me a soft smile while walking over and grabbing her phone before coming to join me at the table where Dinner was placed.