Wonderland // McFly

Hold You Through The Night

GUYS! WONDERLAND IS ONLY 26 READS AWAY FROM 7,000 READS! 

You guys are honestly the best. Thank you for sticking with me for 2 years and 3 months! Nothing makes me happier than seeing comments or votes or even just reads showing me you guys like this. Thank you for taking my little dream as a teenager for a book about a band I was OBSESSED with (and still am) and turning it into something amazing! 

We're probably about 3/4 done with the book, things start moving quickly and get very dramatic starting very soon. It's parts of the book I wrote over two years ago, and it's some of my favorite parts! 

I hope you enjoy, thank you so much again. 

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October 22, 2007

Today was the day. You know it's a good life when you start off lots of your days with that statement.

Because Fletch had been serious about the Australian thing he told me about quite a while ago, the boys were going to have the longest break they've ever had since the time Room on the Third Floor was released between the release of Motion in the Ocean, and their next album. The boys wouldn't start recording until the beginning of next year. It was like every day was boxing day and as much as you are really happy about all the new gifts you got yesterday, you had the smallest ounce of sadness looming in the back of your mind knowing that you have to so long until next Christmas.

Well, that's what Tom tells me about Boxing Day, anyways.

But back to today.

So today was a big day. Why? I'm glad you asked. Since the boys weren't putting out any music until at least the end of 2008, Fletch decided they needed to put out a single at the end of this year, and the day it was being released was today.

The song is called The Heart Never Lies.

I personally love it. It's almost like nothing I've ever heard before. It's a song that makes you sad, but it has a fast tempo like a rock song. The boys were kind of geniuses like that.

But the boys had also been clubbing a lot lately. Especially Dougie. He's definitely shed his shy skin from when we were younger. Now he can stay out till the early hours of the morning. Most of the time I can't even go with them anymore because I can't stay out so late.

So the boys, as they do, went clubbing to celebrate the new single, but Gi, Izzy and I stayed home. My home, to be exact. I was kind of zoning out as they spoke.

"What do you think Lilly?" Izzy asks.

"Oh what? Sorry I was-"

"No worries." She laughs. Izzy was good like that. "We were just wondering what you think of all the boys partying."

"Oh. Well it's kinda annoying as hell." I laugh.

"Why?" Gi asks.

"Well when they come back early in the morning and they're drunk and then they have horrible hangovers-"

"Woah, wait on a second. Does Dougie do that?" Gi asks.

"Well...yeah." I laugh a bit. "I didn't just say that stuff out of the blue."

"Well...Harry doesn't really do that. I mean, he gets a little tipsy, but he's usually home by 1 at the latest." Izzy says.

"Yeah. Tom too...I didn't know that they don't leave together." Gi adds.

"Yeah. I knew but...I don't know. Dougie's younger than the others." I say.

"Yeah you're right." Izzy says. "Plus, he's probably making up for all the partying he missed a few years ago when he was shy." I laugh.

"Yeah." I smile at Izzy. But I can see Gi. She has something else in her eyes.

It'll be fine. I'm sure it's just because Gi and Tom have a very different relationship than Dougie and I...and that's okay.

And sure enough, at about 12:00 Gi got a text from Tom saying he was home, and at 12:45 Izzy got a text from Harry saying he was home.

The girls went home. I went to bed. Dougie wasn't back.

But the bad part was, I was thinking too much. Was our relationship becoming bad because of the constant partying? I couldn't stop them. It's their lives, I don't want to bust in on the fun. And Dougie and I still go out in the day together...although I can't seem to remember the last time we had dinner together...

Soon, it was 3am and I heard the front door open. I quickly got up from bed, still in the dark, and rushed to the top of the stairs. At the doorway was Dougie, rubbing his eyes. He looks up and sees me.

"Long night." He laughs, clearly still at least a little drunk.

"Morning."

"What?" He asks.

"It's morning." I say

Be easier on him, Lil.

"D'you need anything?" I ask him, my concerned side kicking in.

"Nah I'll be fine." He says, trudging up the stairs. He gives me a kiss. "Sorry I woke you."

"I was already awake." I say.

"Why?" He asks. I shrug.

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The next morning, at 11:00, Dougie was still asleep. I know he had only gotten about 6 hours of sleep, but I also knew he would be mad if he slept the day away. Plus he's functioned on much less sleep before.

I went up to the room with a glass of water and two pain relievers and sat on the edge of the bed.

"Dougie." I say, waking him from his already light sleep. It was almost noon anyways. He sits up and I hand him the water and the pills.

"Thanks." He says after taking them, and putting the water back on the bedside table.

"Is your hangover really bad?" I ask.

"They get less worse every time."

"That's not a good thing." I say.

"I know. I'm kidding. Come here." He says, pulling me next to him to lay down in bed, and suddenly all my doubts went away.

For now.

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