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Chapter 9

Fazia’s POV

we had all watched the lads board their plane and left for home. I was walking with Catherine, and Laura and Méadhbh with Rhiannon.Me and Rhi had agreed to go with Méadhbh to get her belly button done, that her Mum had paid for her to have done for her birthday. She was dead excited and couldn’t wait to show Tom.

Laura's POV

Méadhbh and Rhiannon, well what can I say – they found it difficult saying bye to Tom and Nathan – They tried not to show it, but we could all see. Méadhbh was being comforted by Fazia who was essentially her sister (going out with Max kind of made it more obvious) and Catherine and I were comforting Rhi. We all understood; it was the same for us when the lads went to America the first time.But Rhi, Fazia and Méadhbh were going to have some fun at the Piercing shop whilst me and Catherine went to Starbucks – then we were going to finish the day off with some retail therapy; especially when the lads leave us their credit cards;).

Méadhbh's POV

Eeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.I was so excited, to finally get my belly pierced; and a surprise Tom didn’t know about – a tattoo. The adrenaline running through my veins was surprising considering not only was this going to be painful; but my tattoo would be permanent. I chose these - http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=41956803 – I had the pink belly bar put in; and the musical note for when it healed. And the Tattoo had meaning – ILoveYou to everyone I did love; but the date, only me, and my relatives knew what that date meant…the night my granddad died. The night my life came crashing to a halt.He was my best friend, my granddad, the one person – other than max – I went to with everything.When he died the only person I would talk to was Max, he understood me. How I felt. How much my Granddad meant to me, regardless of the fact I was 9 when he died.I didn’t leave my room for 2 weeks, and didn’t go to school for 3.

Max and I would go to my granddad’s every day and we would always visit our place – well that is until we moved to Tamworth – and moving away from him and our Nan was difficult. Even now whenever I visit her, I will go to his bench in the local park, and visit our place where I would re-visit the memories from when we were kids.

We left the tattoo studio and made our way to Starbucks to meet the girls.We then headed to Oxford Street to splash out on some well-earned retail therapy – armed with Tom’s Credit Card, it could get messy.

Catherine's POV.

We had been everywhere you could think of in London city center, & we were weighed down by more bags of clothes, accessories and shoes you think a girl would ever possibly need!! The best thing was we all had similar style, and were the same size so we would all end up swapping and sharing the clothes anyway.

When we got home, Méadhbh showed us her tattoo, as she changed the dressing; I’ve gotta admit, it’s amazing. She was so excited to show the boys and we had to keep an eye on her to make sure she didn’t tell them by accident.

After the many hours of shopping; we all settled on a quiet night in. We settled down with a takeaway and a selection of chick flicks.

Rhiannon's POV – 2 weeks later

Not only has it been 2 weeks since the boys flew to America, but it’s been two weeks of constant rehearsal, texting/tweeting/skyping Nathan, and two weeks with my sisters, their boyfriends and my girls.

Rehearsals were a grueling task, but we were doing something we had all dreamed of doing, and every day we would put our hearts and soul into it. We had our opening and finale piece and 2 of our other pieces. The choreography was all finished, and we were perfecting the routine and adding our own twists – before moving on to the other pieces.All together Jayne had asked us to do an opening, finale, dances to fill in the 5 costume changes, and routines to Lightning, Glad You Came, Warzone, Rock Your Body and Wherever You Will Go. We had decided that Méadhbh could choose to do either a solo or duet to WYWG, and she had chosen to do a duet with Rachel as they were both contemporary dancers, whereas the rest of us were modern or street.

Méadhbh's POV

I was so excited for the tour, luckily it had all been timed right so that I could change my belly bar. Best thing was, Jayne was getting the merchandise people to make me and Rach proper ‘TW’ belly bars, as we were the only two wearing crop tops, and the only two with our bellies pierced.My tattoo had fully healed and looked immense. I just couldn’t wait to show Tom and Max.