Chapter 1

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"Everyone time to wake up!" I hear Paul shouting through the entire tour bus. I jump and sit right up bumping my head to the ceiling. Damn I need to get used to living a tour bus again. I groan in pain whilst carefully touching my head, hoping that there isn't any bump forming. I hear Jesy laugh at me and I already know that today is gonna be a rough day. I lie back down and put my pillow over my head trying to fall asleep again. When I'm about to fall back asleep I jump from someone pulling the curtain of my bunk open. "Rise and shine Pez"  Leigh-Anne says to me whilst trying to look me in the eyes. I close my eyes again, turning to my other side, ignoring Leigh-Anne. She tries poking me a couple of times to get me out of bed, but gives up after not getting any reaction out of me for like 5 minutes. I hear her walk away and try to sleep again. It's not my fault they made us shoot a video until 3 last night, and make us do a radio interview this morning. When I decide to sleep for 5 more minutes I suddenly feel arms around me trying to lift me up. I shriek but relax when I see I'm in Claudimar's arms. I give him a death stare. "Good morning to you too sunshine." Claud says with the biggest grin on his face whilst walking me to the living area and putting me down on the couch. It's still weird living in a tour bus again. Well at least people get me out of bed so I never show up late anywhere again. It's just so different than being at home. We've been on this bus for 3 days now. It's nice having everyone here, we share the bus with the dancers and a couple of people from management, it's like a big sleepover every day. But getting privacy in such little space is hard. We only have a small living area with a sofa, a tiny kitchen and a table. There is also a toilet downstairs. In the back of the bus is the luggage area. When you go upstairs you have 14 bunks, with in the middle a door to a lounge area in the back of the bus. In the front is a little room with a table sort of like a very small meeting room, we mostly use it as an office or if we want a bit of personal space. "What do you want to eat Pez?" I hear Jade ask very calm trying not to get me irritated, she knows I'm not exactly a morning person. "Can I just have a tea?" I ask quietly knowing that we will have proper breakfast after our radio interview. "Can I have one too?" Jed, Jade's boyfriend asked.'"Does anyone else want tea?'' Jade asks whilst she is getting the water boiler from the cupboard. After a few seconds I hear some people quietly say yes. I guess everyone is still very tired since we only had 3 hours of sleep. I'm so glad we don't have an early radio interview this morning. We've had days where we had to be at the studio at 5 in the morning. I look at the clock and see it's 6 a.m. I'm still wearing my pyjamas so I stand up and walk upstairs to change in my normal clothes for today. I get my blue jeans, grey sweater with female power on it, and leather jacket from my drawer in the lounge room. We have to put outfits in there for 3 days every time we leave a hotel. In the bus we can't get to our luggage very easily so this is the most simple option. I walk to my bunk and open the blinds. I put on a tiny bit of foundation and some mascara. It's just a radio interview so I don't bother putting on too much makeup. Also it's just really hard to do your makeup in a driving tour bus. "Pez your tea is ready" I hear Jesy shout from downstairs. I walk downstairs and sit myself at the table. "Do you have some sugar for me Jade?" I ask when I notice there isn't any sugar on the table. "Already put it in there for you Baba" Jade says whilst sitting herself down next to Jed

I give her a thankful nod whilst picking up my tea that is still very hot. Jed has a week off of touring in America and decided to join us for our first week here. Unfortunately for him he joins us in a very busy week. Our tour starts in 10 days so we're all really stressed to get everything done in time. From the clothing, to the lighting, to the sound, to the choreo. Everything has to be finished before this weekend when the final rehearsals will start. Whilst I slowly sip up my tea every couple of minutes someone goes up to get ready for the day. When everyone is ready we all sit downstairs again waiting for the bus to arrive at the radio station. I decide to quickly eat an apple because I'm actually kinda hungry. "Claud have you already finished the new salute choreo?" Leigh asks. She's been stressing over the choreo for the last couple of days. She sprained her ankle 2 weeks ago and is still trying to catch up with the choreo. "Of course I have Leigh" Claud says with a big smile on his face, "I wouldn't let my little sister go on stage without knowing the complete choreo". Leigh smiles and seems to calm down whilst we all chat away. We're all very close here. The girls feel like my sisters and Paul is our tour dad, he's actually too young for that and he doesn't like being called the tour dad, but we still call him that anyways. We can all act like little kids sometimes and he is the one that always takes care of us whilst we're on tour. We're all really close to the dancers. Claudimar is my best mate, and he is like a big brother to Leigh-Anne. In another bus are other people from the tour. The stylists, wardrobe people, makeup artist and hairdresser are in that bus along with our main production staff. We're all really close to them as well, especially Jade and Aaron, our main hair stylist. "Okay everyone, 5 minutes until we are at the radio station. Fans are already blocking the main entrance, and it's already getting quite busy at the back entrance. We've put some extra security on it to keep you guys safe. This also means that you can't stop for pictures or autographs this time. Clear?". "Yes." we all say in harmony. I lay my head on Jesy's shoulder whilst Paul is handing out our wristbands so we can enter via the back entrance, which is only for famous guests and their entourage. After Paul hands me my wristband I walk to the cupboard that is downstairs in the back of the bus. I get my black heels and put them on. "Okay girls you ready?" Paul asks while standing with us on the front of the bus. When we arrive at the radio studio the bus stops and I stumble. I really need to get used to bus life again. The door opens and Paul walks out in front of us whilst 2 bodyguards appear next to him. I link hands with Leigh and we are escorted to the building by one of the security guards.

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