Savannah // Michael Clifford

3.3 - #BetterSelfies

Savannah

Leaving Michael was one of the hardest things I've had to do but I needed to head back to California. To home. The award show was just a few short weeks away and I had to get everything finalized and done before the performance.

Michael thought I was leaving because of album obligations and because it was kind of true, I let him believe it because it was better reasoning that anything I could have come up with. I hated to lie to him but I wanted the surprise performance to be perfect and that just meant he couldn't know any details on it.

Today Taylor and I were going through dresses that some lesser known designers sent for me to wear. Upon first look I had to pass up the first and second racks. The dresses on all the hangers had places that had too high slits or places cut out that I really wasn't comfortable with. Although they all were so gorgeous, I had to move on to the ones that were black or a lovely burgundy color. These were the racks that I had started trying on; however none of them worked for me.

"There are a few more dresses in the hallway that we haven't got to yet." Taylor spoke as he saw how distraught I was on this situation. Days ticking down and I don't want to have to choose a dress at the last minute.

Stepping out into the hall wasn't much better. I saw a blue tight fitted dress that had cutouts on each side of the ribs and that's when all my hopes started to vanish. I had been trying on dress after dress all day today and the few left weren't looking too promising.

I walked down to the last rack, hope filling me. I saw the bottom peeking out from the other dresses surrounding it. The beautiful material of soft colors on the train of the dress had me wanting to see the bottom more. The floor length, strapless number had absolutely stolen my breath.

"Taylor, I'm almost positive that I found the dress!"

I heard his footsteps coming up behind me and a small inhale of breath. "That is most definitely the one." His fingers traced over the material lightly. I grabbed the hanger and bolted to the room. I had to try this one on.

Taylor followed, taking a seat on the bed. I zipped the dress up on the side and immediately looked in the mirror. I'm so in love with this gown.

"Taylor, it's so perfect." I said, opening up my bathroom door and stepping out. The black corset top fit snuggly until just about the middle of my tummy, there it flared out with a array of colors until it pooled around at my feet. It was just a bit too long for my height but I definitely didn't see it as a problem. Heels are a thing to help there.

"I think this one will definitely work with where you want to go with your image and music. It's a very nice change for you, Vannah."

With his comments we moved on to how to do the makeup and hair. Unfortunately, Nicole would not be doing either as she was going to be joining Luke as his date; and as my treat for being the best friend I could ever have, I got a few woman to come and do both of our beauty for us. She just doesn't know it yet because she thinks she's going to be doing her own.

Somewhere in the conversation of eyeliner and lip color, I had another idea on a surprise. Since I would not be seeing Michael until we were both ready to leave, I wanted to do a little change to my hair. Give it some new life since it hasn't been changed in a while.

Later that evening I sat in my bed, my phone beside me and my laptop in my lap; a romantic chick flick movie playing across my television. Different food and drinks scattered around my bed as I snooped through Twitter, randomly following people and replying to others.

'@MikeyPlusMe: Are you excited about your nomination? #SavannahChoiceBreakoutArtist #AskSavannah'

I quoted the tweet, adding 'I'm just excited to even be considered. It would be super amazing to win though.' Truthfully, I knew that I wasn't even going to have a big chance at winning this award. There were so many others that were nominated that definitely deserved it more. My fans are great and all but with being up against Chance the rapper, Dua Lipa, James Arthur, Julia Michaels, and Zara Larsson, I had no chance. That's even with all the 5SOSFAM who like me and my own fans. Someone like Halsey would come in and grab that award because well have you heard her voice. She's amazing.

'@Love_5sos: Can we get a 'Sike' selfie? #AskSavannah #SavannahChoiceBreakoutArtist #FollowMePlease?'

Going to her page, I clicked the blue follow button before scrolling down to the tweet and retweeting then replying.

"@Savannah_Official: Mikey's not with me, unfortunately, but here's one from the other day. @Love_5sos.'

The photo I shared was of us on the last day we were together before I came back to California. We were sitting (I was actually laying on him?) on a swing out on the patio of Michael's parents house. Michael was playing with my hair as we were talking about how we are going to make the time apart, work. It wasn't the easiest talk we've ever had but it's definitely not the hardest either. We didn't figure it out but I did make it clear I want to be their opening act again for the remainder of this world tour of theirs. They had a couple more months of touring before they were done. I needed to talk to Breanna to see what I was doing and if I could rejoin them in the near future.

I missed touring with everyone. Playing pranks on Cal and Luke was basically the highlight of tour, especially now because I have Nicole to plot even better pranks with.

Michael

Getting permission from all the necessary people was extremely trying. No one from their camp wanted to answer our numerous calls or emails that our higher ups sent. We were very persistent with the request though (I may or may not be the reason for that) and good thing too because we received news two days ago that we could record our cover of the song; just a few things more needed to be discussed. All that mattered to me was that we could start recording very soon.

In the little time before finding out who would sing what, we needed to learn the cords to the song. It seemed like I was the only one who was struggling with the progression. I got it though, after a bit of doing it wrong and snapping some strings, and that's all that matters. Even if it was right before we started recording.

"Your girlfriend's currently on Twitter." Ashton came out of the small recording room, phone in his hand. "She's tweeting and following fans. Looks she tweeted a photo of you guys." He leaned his phone over, showing me her shared photo.

"We should tweet her a selfie ourselves." Chuckling a bit, I agreed and watched as he opened up the camera app and we snapped two or three different photo's.

'@Ashton5SOS: Our selfies are better @Michael5SOS @Savannah_Official. #BetterSelfies.'

Immediately we got a reply back, I laughed upon seeing what she said.

'@Savannah_Official: Highly doubt that boys." Attached to the Tweet was a photo of her smiling and then a couple emoji's were added to the bottom of the photo.

She's undeniably the prettiest woman I have ever seen. Hands down. I could stare at her, photo or not, for forever and a day and never find a single flaw; that's my baby girl though. She is perfect and always will be to me.

"Michael, you are wanted to record now." Luke poked his head out the door, calling for me. I gave a nervous laugh but headed in the door. Don't screw up, Michael. Hopefully Savannah really likes this cover.

Hey ladies and gents! Hopefully you guys loved this chapter. I know it's been a long time coming! over a year and so many odd months. Anyway, I'll try to get this story finished so it will be completed and won't have to wait for update after update!

-Stay Beautiful

Courtney <3

*Edited on 7/24/21*