All At Once

Ch. 24: Are You Listening?

"Annie I'd like you to meet Hannah Biscoe, our stage director."

Hannah was a skinny blonde in her twenties from what it looked like. She was very pretty, and it was then that I remembered something.

"Did you say your name was Hannah?" I asked.

"Yes, Hannah Biscoe." she smiled brightly.

Hannah was the name that kept coming up on Harry's phone the night I found it on the floor of the restroom in Harry's dressing room back at the X-Factor show in December. I kept what I knew to myself for the time being.

"Come on, I want to show you the rest of the stadium before we practice, the boys are here already." Harry said holding my hand and leading me through a set of clarge closed doors.

"It was nice to meet you Ann." Hannah called out.

"You have no idea." I mumbled.

...

"When do you guys play here?" I asked, 

We were sitting on the stage, our legs swinging on the offside. 

"Our first show is here in August." Louis said.

Harry had walked me around the whole arena, we had been here for a few hours already. 

This place was huge, my feet were tired from walking around so much.

"You ready to go?" Harry asked me while hopping off of the stage and putting his hands on my hips.

"Yep." I said, popping the 'p' at the end.

"Are you tired?"

I hopped off the stage with Harry's help of his large hands picking me up form the hips.

"Yes I am." I replied.

We waved bye to the crew and the boys and I looked at the time on my phone.

9:53 p.m.

We had arrived around 3 earlier today, I couldn't believe I'd spent almost all day here.

The boys practiced a few songs and stance on stage for them, as a little practice to get comfortable with the stage before actual rehearsals started.

I sighed and leaned my head on Harry's shoulder.

"Hey come on, hop on my back." Harry said. I was tired and my feet hurt, I wasn't about to deny a free piggy back ride. 

I jumped up on Harry's back with my arms around his neck, leaning my head on his shoulder once again.

"Thanks for coming today." He said.

"Mmm" I groaned.

"You were kind of quiet the whole time." Harry said.

I didn't want to seem too jealous about this Hannah character at the time. 

"I don't like the thought of you leaving." I mumbled.

Harry didn't reply but I knew he was frowning. 

We were coming to the end of the large hallway where guards stood at the door. I was willng to walk the rest of the way to the car but Harry just picked me up higher and mad eno movement of putting me down.

"How is it out there?"  Harry asked the main guard.

"Pretty crazy. Like a zoo." the guy responded.

"Are you two ready for the car?" the second guard asked.

I hugged Harry just a little bit tighter. "I think we are." Harry said.