Webs of the Heart

chapter six

Crystal POV

I was super nervous tonight before going on the stage, and it was completely because Tom was watching, but I took a deep breath and stepped out on the stage, the beat for Hello softly echoing through the stadium. I sang the song well, then I greeted the crowd.

"How is everyone doing this lovely night?" I messed with my in-ears as I walked towards the main stage, smiling at the enthusiastic response.

"Good! Now, are you ready to party?!" Two staff people came towards me and I said,

"Well good! Because this, is the Lush Life!" The lights went out completely and the two staff people helped me out of my dress quickly, revealing my black silk shirt and silk galaxy themed skirt, which was paired with white and black high tops. The skirt was a bit shorter than I was used to, but I skipped down the catwalk nonetheless, singing energetically as I got the crowd to dance with me.

After Lush Life I sang Dark Horse, the black lights coming on and making my skirt glow brightly, and I was especially nervous about that one because Little Mix came out on stage with me and danced to it with me. I did the singing and danced as well, doing a choreographed dance that I hadn't done in public before now. The girls were wearing similar to what I was wearing, but with their own personal touches.

Afterwards, I sang Break the Rules, Boom Clap and for my final song, I sang New Romantics, which we had choreographed as well. After I ran off the stage, I quickly changed into a knee length black silk skirt with a white blouse clipped onto the skirt waistband with black suspenders, then I joined Tom in the area right in front of the stage.

"What did you think?" I asked him over the noise of the crowd waiting for Little Mix.

"It was awesome! I didn't know you could dance." He told me.

"Not many people do, I was waiting for a fun time to reveal that." I explained. He nodded in understanding, then the concert started.

At the cover part of the concert where the girls sang Where Are Ü Now and others, right before they started, Jesy came forward to the edge of the stage and said into her microphone,

"Who here loved Crystal's dancing skills?" I heard a surprising amount of agreeable screaming.

"Who thinks she and Tom Holland should get up here and dance with us?!" Leigh Anne shouted. Everyone apparently agreed, so Tom and I climbed up onto the stage. Jade and Perrie came over to me and asked me in a low enough voice for Tom to not hear but loud enough for me to hear,

"We need to make Tom speechless at you." My eyes widened and I was about to protest but the music started, so I had no choice but to go along with Perrie and Jade.

I stood between Jade and Jesy, while Tom stood on the other side of Jesy, and looked like he really didn't know what to do but was enjoying it. I soon got completely focused on the dancing, and I didn't notice Tom watching me very closely.

Perrie POV

I noticed Tom Holland watching Crystal very closely so I subtly looked over to Jade and winked, letting her know our plan was working. Ever since Crystal had told us she liked Tom, Jade and I had been looking into him and agreed that he would be perfect for her, so we were trying our best to get them together.

Crystal POV

I saw what Perrie and Jade were doing, and when I was dancing with Jesy, I smoothly flipped them off, making Jesy and Leigh Anne crack up laughing, and Tom looked surprised before laughing as well.

Afterwards, since there wasn't a show the next day, and Tom didn't have to be in America until two days later, (some tech problems had arisen and pushed the day back), we all went back to the hotel, where Tom had gotten a room, and we all changed into different clothes after showers. We were going clubbing, so I dressed up a bit, wearing a white, poof long sleeve shirt under a black velvet jumper that had a cute skirt going to my knees, knee high velvety boots, a white gold necklace with a heart pendant in contrast to the black choker around my neck. I put in simple black rose stud earrings in my ears, and a black headband in my curly hair to keep my bangs out of my eyes, while the rest of my silver hair was kept back in a messy fishtail braid. I did a simple black smokey eye with white eyeliner for my make up, and just clear lip gloss for my lips before picking up my black and white plaid leather purse, which was small and convenient, and I went out into the hall, walking down to the room Tom was in and leaning against the wall as I waited.

I crossed my ankles in front of me and examined my boots closely; they were of the make that had the outside ripples, so they were loose looking, but the interior clung to your skin and was laced tightly up the side by myself. I didn't hear the door open and I didn't notice Tom's presence until I heard the sound of a camera taking a picture, and I looked up in surprise. I saw Tom holding his phone in his hand, grinning mischievously at me, and I rolled my eyes, laughing as I figured out that it was he who took the picture.

"Just for that, you have to let me record you when you're drunk." I told him, and he agreed, laughing. We took a picture of ourselves, then went to the hotel exit, waiting for Jade, Perrie, Leigh Anne and Jesy.

We went to the club, and Jade and I went to the bar, ordering two shots for every person. We took them over to a table and we all gathered there, downing the shots quickly. We were going to take an Uber back to the hotel, so we could all get drunk. Jade and I had an Irish whiskey shot competition, where we both drank three shots as fast as we could. I won, and by that time everyone was very tipsy, and myself and Jade were already almost drunk.

We Found Love by Rihanna and Calvin Harris started playing, causing me and Jade to shout in excitement because it was our favorite song, and we ran out to the dancefloor, immediately dancing around like full on drunks to the electronic party song.

After staying out on the dance floor for about twenty minutes, we made our way back to Tom, who was sipping some green drink, and we stumbled onto some chairs, but I missed and fell on the floor. I burst into laughter at my own mistake, not acknowledging Tom taking a picture of me and Jade recording me as I clumsily stood up, carefully sitting on the raised stool, but still slipping a bit as I leaned forward.

Jade and I ordered tequila cocktails, myself ordering a watermelon one while Jade chose strawberry, then I decided to stand up and rest, just because then I could still move to the beat of the songs. Jade did the same, once our drinks came, and Tom took a picture of us before taking a video of us as well.

Eventually we got Tom drunk, and all five of us took the dance floor. I went over by Jesy and we danced, laughing continuously at each other's silly antics. Then Tom came over to me and challenged me to do ballet spins with him, and I accepted, following him to the most open part of the floor. I took a gulp of my margarita then gave it to Leigh Anne to hold before standing a decent space away from Tom, then we started spinning. I had always had a very strong stomach, and was never made dizzy easily even when drunk, and I had taken ballet all my childhood. So, as you might guess, I beat Tom.

After a few more drinks and realizing it was three in the morning, we paid for our drinks and went outside, catching our Uber and heading back to the hotel. Perrie and I had gotten fruit flavored beers before leaving, so we made our way through the halls drinking and laughing, leaning on each other and constantly stumbling over air. We all went in the four girls' room and the other three laid down on the beds, but Perrie and I kept messing around as we finished our beer, singing terribly and messing up all the time.

Once we finished the beer, Leigh Anne and Jesy made us drink two glasses of water, despite our protests, then Perrie and I fell asleep on her bed.