Crimson Idol

Four

Song: Warmer - Bea Miller

And the rest of the week was exactly like that, Caitlin had arranged meetings on meetings on meetings and press conferences and interviews. I was up to my nose in work, but that was what I had asked for, when Caitlin told me I had needed time off I told her that this was only the beginning and that I couldn't get lazy or people would forget about me. And I was right, because the more I appeared, the happier the fans were, and that's really all that mattered.

As the week rolled by, day after day we would get up at seven and be in the street by nine, all made up and dressed, at one point I just stayed at Caitlin's house because it was closer to everything, and that's when it occurred to me, it was Thursday, the day I had told Harry I would meet him in the café, and if he's going to be there any time like last time he was probably on his way now

"Caitlin" I called out, but I heard nothing back from her. She had gone to the kitchen to make breakfast, so I walk out of the guest room to find her. Milk, toast, eggs and sugar are all laid out in front of her on the counter, and her cheek is squished against the countertop as she sleeps

"Caitlin" I shake her lightly, and she blasts from her sleep, spilling the milk on impact and pushing the sugar to the side "God! Caitlin, take it easy, its 9:30" I tell her as she stand up and begins to clean up the mess

"Shit! Why'd you let me fall asleep? Do you know how much work we have! Good god" she says. She grabs a wet towel and begins wiping the floor of the milk she just spilt

"About that" I begin. She's now pulling the sugar off the counter and onto her hand and spilling it back in its container "I was sorta wondering if I could maybe have the day off?"

She snaps her head to me and blinks "Excuse me?" Her eyes suddenly alert "Leila I thought you wanted to hustle what is going on with you lately?" she says, pausing the clean up that she had started minutes earlier and waiting for my response the way your mother would while you explained yourself after getting in trouble at school

"Nothing, nothing! I just wanted to catch up with some friends and .." I trail off, not finding another excuse. But she shakes her head and continues cleaning up the mess

"Don't lie to me Leia I know that face" Caitlin has never been one to take my bullshit, but I stay quiet, hopeful that she might let it slide

Moments go by before she speaks again "You're being weird you know that" she says "anyway we have a meet and greet with the fans today and that we cannot cancel" she says. Putting the towel aside and returning everything back to its original place.

"Dammit. When will we be done?" I ask her, i'd knew we had work to do today, but a meet and greet is next level time consuming

"It starts at 11, the rest is on you" she says "And how many people show up"

There shouldn't be too many, I should be able to finish up and run over to The Hallway hopefully in time to catch Harry
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The meet and greet was randomly organized, so there weren't any tickets or security, I just tweeted a few days ago that I'd be in Starbucks on Thursday, well, Caitlin did anyway. By the time we got to the mall it was 10:30, but we could not find a single parking spot

"What's all this? Its ten in the morning on a weekday!" I say to Caitlin "Is there anything happening today?" I ask

"Yeah" Caitlin says, raking the place for somewhere to park "You are"

The amount of people standing outside of Starbucks was uncanny, they weren't even in Starbucks. Rows upon rows of people stood in front of the shop, to the sides, on every corner, on the second floor. And all of them were chanting my name. MY. NAME.

"Holy shit" I breathe out, trying to take it all in. There must be at least a thousand people here 

"We're gonna need security for this" Caitlin said, and got on the phone immediately contacting our security team, which I thought were just Adam and Martin, but half an hour later when they showed up with six other guys, I decided maybe not

We spent the entire day at the mall talking to fans and taking pictures, at one point the number of people got too much mall security had to kick the people who have taken photos out, but then we went out into the parking lot and we had a mini concert because this one guy brought his guitar and everybody insisted I sang. I ended up going home at 8pm with a car full of letters and journals and shirts and a heart full of warmth because I just had my first meet and greet, and then it hit me

I just missed my first date with Harry

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I know its short chapter but ill double updates because that's how i want the events divided upon chapters

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