Broken In Paradise (Perfect Promise Trilogy)

Chapter 7: Ally

Sometimes, I truly despised being in a girl group. That day was one of the days I hated it because of all of the drama. I honestly never even understood the point of drama; if someone has an issue with someone else, her or she should just have a mature conversation with the other person involved, and come to a peaceful resolution.

"Ally," Normani whispered in my ear, "I don't want to go on the bus." "Mani you have to," I told her. "I don't want to see everyone else," she said softly. "I know boo, how about you just go back to your bunk? Listen to some music?" I suggested. "Okay I guess," she sighed and got onto the bus, then as I suggested went straight to her bunk.

Meaghan walked up to me as Normani went to her bunk. "Is Normani okay?" Meaghan whispered. "Not really," I whispered back truthfully. "Should we get Lauren and Normani to talk to each other?" Meaghan asked. "I don't know if that'll be the best idea," I confessed, "maybe we should talk to Camren first?" "Sure, I'll talk to Camila about it and you talk to Lauren," she decided.

"Camila," Meaghan went over to the couch and pouted at her. "Yeah boo?" Camila asked. "I need to talk to you," she said. Camila looked over to Lauren, who was sitting next to her on the couch. Lauren gave her girlfriend a nod of approval, causing Camila to get up and follow Meaghan to the back of the bus as Lauren pulled out her phone. Simultaneously, Dinah and Taylor decided to go to Taylor's bunk to play board games on her iPad, rendering Lauren and I alone.

Taking a cautious approach, I went over to Lauren and carefully sat down on the couch. "Hey Lauren," I greeted her a little nervously. "Hey Ally, I know you want to talk about what happened earlier," she stated without even glancing up from her phone. While I stuttered for a reply, Lauren continued, "It's fine, seriously, we can talk about it no problem." "Are you sure?" I asked. "Yeah definitely," she finally looked up from her phone to look at me.

"Well I was really just curious of how you felt about the situation," I told her. "Honestly, I don't really know. I mean I guess I'm kind of flattered that she likes me, but I certainly don't feel the same way as she does. I love Camila, and I will always love her. I messed up with her pretty badly, so I'm certainly not going to do that again," she said. "Do you think this is going to affect the group in any way?" I asked. "I really hope not, Fifth Harmony is the best thing to ever happen to me, well besides being with Camila," she replied.

"Girls, we'll be at the venue in three hours. Be ready to get off of the bus by then," the bus driver informed us all from the wheel. "What do you wanna do in these three hours?" Lauren asked. "Let's just watch some funny movies," I suggested. "Great idea Ally," my friend smiled at me, causing me to return one back to her.

"I want to join you," Camila came up to us and pouted. "Sure thing Camz," Lauren seemed to relax completely at the sound of her girlfriend's voice. The two girls cuddled on one side of the couch, I sat on the other side, and Meaghan joined the three of us as well by sitting on the floor in front of the couch.

Before we knew it, we were at our very first venue of the tour. All seven of us got off of the bus and went straight into the venue. We all went straight to the dressing rooms where our clothes were set out for us, except for Taylor and Meaghan, who went backstage. After getting changed, the five of us went directly to hair and makeup. Hair and makeup is normally silent since we don't want to end up making the person working on us mess up.

Normani came up to me as soon as she was finished. My hair was getting curled during this time. "Allycat, I'm really scared," she mumbled. "What's wrong?" I asked her softly. "This is our first concert, and what if it gets messed up because of me? We're all tense now and it's all my fault and if we're still all tense by the time the concert comes in a few hours we won't have a good show and then we'll never get to live out our dreams," Normani was freaking out.

"Don't worry, we're all going to great okay? Just calm down, breathe, and you'll see it's all going to go just fine," I assured her. "Pinky promise?" Normani asked. "Pinky promise," I smiled and held out my pinky finger, which she shook with hers. "Thanks Ally, you always know what to say," she smiled. "Anytime okay?" I told her. "Okay thank you, again," she replied with a giggle.

"Rehearsal in five!" Dinah called out as she left the room. Normani and I laughed as we hurried to catch up to her. Once we did, I jumped onto Dinah's back, causing her to scream in shock. Meanwhile, Normani took pictures of this and I laughed my head off, since it was really funny to see her get so scared.

"You suck!" Dinah shouted as she threw me off of her back and ran away. I jumped up from the ground and chased her to the stage. Although, Dinah was much faster than me, and I got tired quickly so I decided to lean on a door for support. However, the door apparently wasn't closed, as I fell down on the ground and the door opened wide.

Looking up, I saw something I never thought I'd see.

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