After that second chance, it was all a blur, really. It was still in my mind but very much forgotten.
Every week we'd slave over learning a new song and then perform it for the judges, praying they'd like it.
And then, we had fans... People actually wanted to hear our music and they wanted us to win. And being on the show was weird, too. Every time we'd get interviewed I'd always get asked what it was being around so many guys and how it was making music with them.
It was great. I mean they were good to me; Harry was always trying to make me laugh but would fail. Louis would be the one to do so. Zayn would always ask me about my music preferences and when we were discussing something he would make the other guys let me go first because I was "a lady."
I liked Zayn.
Liam was so not the quiet person that he seemed to be and Niall is exactly who you see. He was loud and he was not shy and I liked that too.
"One Direction." Trust me; I wasn't quite fond of the name at first. To me it sounded like an airline. But the guys liked it and even when I tried to object they'd shoot me down. Even Zayn.
But the name grew on me after some time and I liked. I was stuck with it so I kinda had to like it.
Unfortunately, we didn't win X-Factor. But we did get a record deal. Mostly because we were something different. A girl stuck in the horde of five teenage boys, and we sang. So it made money. But I'm not in it for the money nor the guys. We want to make music and travel.
And we did. Our first single, "What Makes You Beautiful" was number one in the UK for quite some time. Then it went number one in the US and then we knew we were gonna make it.
People in the US didn't know I was in the band, which was a bit embarrassing but understandable because I didn't really sing on the single. What was there for me to sing about? I was in the video though.
I guess they thought I was a groupie.
I remember when we sold out our first tour in America. I was so happy. In that moment I knew my mom was proud of me wherever she was.
~*~
"Sky?" I heard a voice and a hand shake my shoulder, "Sky? Honey, wake up, please." I opened my eyes slowly, they felt so heavy. I looked around, I was still in the bus and it was dark and moving.
I grunted, "How long have I been asleep?" I asked Mark, our music producer.
He looked sheepish, "Fifteen minutes. I'm sorry Sky, but I need you to sing some lyrics for the next single."
"Ok," I said; my voice sleepy. Hell, my whole body was sleepy.
I jumped out of the bunk and bent down to grab my sneakers and saw Niall snorting the night away. Lucky asshole.
I walked to the media room in the very back of the bus and squeezed in between two mattresses in the entry way.
"I'm sorry Sky. We really need to get this done." Mark explained and Troye smiled at me.
"It's fine," I said, I was still groggy.
We'd just played a two hour sold out show and we had been in and out of interviews all day, I was too exhausted. And it didn't help that there was a camera in my face.
Reason due to that we are getting our own movie! Well not movie movie because its not scripted but our own concert movie and so camera's follow us everywhere.
"Maybe it's the way he walked straight into my heart and stole it, through the doors and passed the guards just like he already owned it," I sang.
"Okay your voice sounded a bit hoarse, drink some water and try again," Troye said.
I nodded and tried again... and again and again until it was perfect. They had me harmonize with one of Zayn's high notes and that was easy but it took me almost a solid hour to perfect. But finally at 3 a.m. two hours before we hit the next city in our tour I fell asleep.
~*~
"Hey kid," Harry said walking up to me with my breakfast.
I took it from him and said, "Don't call me kid, I'm older than you."
"Yeah you are older but you look nine," he said.
"And you look forty," I said as Niall sat next to me.
"Yes, but a cute forty," Harry said eating from his own bowl of Lucky Charms.
I rolled my eyes and yawned. "You're gonna need coffee," Niall said to me, ruffling my hair.
"Shut up, Ni."
"Aw, c'mon were gonna rock tonight, its gonna be so much fun." Liam said from the couch
"Yeah, I know. I just wish I had a good nights sleep for once."
Being in a famous band was hard.
