"Brad. Brad. Brad!" called James. I looked up.
"Huh? What?" I said.
"He said did you hear about the escaped rhino?" said Tristan.
"What?" I said. They all laughed.
"Brad, can you please focus for one session?" said Connor. I had another text from Sarah.
From Sarah <3: would it be really bad to have a coffee on duty?
She worked at Starbucks.
To Sarah <3: Could u get me one :D
From Sarah <3: No way! But if you come and see me at lunchtime you can have a staff discount?
To Sarah <3: Discounted coffee and seeing you? I'm in.
From Sarah <3: I thought so ;-)
Then Tristan took my phone.
To Sarah <3: Would you mind not texting your boyfriend for all of half an hour so that we can do a little band practice? Thank you. Love you. T x
From Sarah <3: Haha ok Steffy, love you to byeeeeee
This was a month after our first date and I had been seeing her a lot. I had never really felt like this about any other girl but we were taking it one day at a time and seeing what happened.
"Shall we run risk it all again?" said James.
"Yeah." I said, smiling because it was Sarah's favourite.
You just know
Sometimes you feel it in your bones
Though we've heard that hearts can still be wrong
Something's telling me that your the one
I just know
Even if I had a heart of stone
You could make it bleed all on your own
You could break it but I hope you won't
Then my phone rang.
"Hi is this Brad? From the Vamps?" said a female voice.
"Yes, how can I help?"
"This is Selma. From star records? Yes well, we've heard your demo and we love it. We'd like to offer you a record deal."
"Are you joking? That's fantastic, thank you so much!"
"We need to meet up to discuss the details like the supporting act tour and the contracts and such. How about tomorrow at lunch?"
"Um.. yeah that should be cool, I'll just pass the message on to my bandmates."
"Great, so I'll see you tomorrow."
"Ok bye and thanks again."
I hung up the phone and then turned to face the boys.
"Who was that?" asked James.
"It was only Star Records! They're offering us a contract!" I almost shouted. The boys erupted.
"Are you joking?! That's amazing!" said Tristan. The others were just running around and shouting.
"Dude, you gotta call Sarah." said Connor.
"Oh yeah." I said. I picked my phone up and calling her.
"Bradley"
"Sarah, guess what?"
"This better be good cuz I'm skiving out for this."
"WE GOT THE RECORD DEAL!!!"
"Oh my God Brad, that's amazing! We have to celebrate."
"That we do."
"Put me on speaker and I'll ask the boys."
I put her on speaker.
"Hi guys, well done with this deal, it's fantastic. We need to celebrate."
The boys all murmured in agreement.
"It can't be tonight though because we don't want to be hungover when we meet Selma tomorrow." said James.
"Yeah, how about Friday night?" said Sarah. "I hear that the new club is opening then." Tristan nodded.
"Yeah, I heard about that. Let's do that then." he said.
The next day at the meeting I was nervous. Sarah had come over and we had worked out what I was gonna say but still. I was nervous. She came into the room, she was reasonably young, late twenties? She has this aggressively ginger hair twisted up on her head and she wore a suit. I stood up and shook her hand.
"Hi boys, I know who you are, you know who I am let's get down to it." she said. I sat down.
"You said something about a tour. Do you think you could maybe give us more details on this?" asked Tristan.
"Well you'd be the supporting act on the tour for The Jam Jars but you won't really talk to them. You get to hire your own make up and hair people and we'll be gone for four months, leaving in 2 months." she said.
"That sounds amazing, do we bring anyone on tour or not?" asked James.
"Not family, only the staff and stuff." she said. I thought of Sarah but decided to worry about it later.
"Will we be working on any songs to release?" asked Connor. She nodded.
"We choose one of your songs and work on it until it's good enough. We also do magazine interviews when we know the release date, which we do, and then we release when all the 'fangirls' know you." she said. "We have an interview tomorrow with Monthly Music to talk about the single. By listening to your demo we think Can We Dance is a good first single. We're releasing it in 4 weeks so get ready for some hardcore work." She said.
"Wow, 4 weeks?" I said. "Thats quick." she nodded.
"Sooner rather than later." she said. Then she checked her phone. "Shoot I've got to go but you guys are gonna do great. Come to this address I'm leaving tomorrow at 3pm for this interview. Ok bye." she said. She strode out and I took my hat off and fanned my face with it jokingly.
"Wow." I said. Tristan laughed.
"That went really well." said Connor.
"But we have an interview tomorrow, that's gonna be scary." said James.
"No it will be fun." I said.
"Dude, are you gonna tell them about Sarah?" said Connor.
"Yeah, I think so, if it's a secret and they find out it could ruin everything. I don't wanna put everyone at risk by being selfish." I said.
"Wise choice." said James.
"I'm gonna call Sarah cuz I promised her I'd tell her how it went." I said, and I went outside to call her.
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Knee Socks (BWS)
Fanfiction"She didn't look like the other girls, they all wore their socks at the ankles. If I'll remember one thing about this girl, it'll be her knee socks."
