Two-Sided

There's A Place

1962

Shortly after coming back from Hamburg, the boys replaced Pete Best for Ringo Starr who ironically happened to be Michelle's older brother. After that they recorded and released their first single "Love Me Do" and it made to the national Top Twenty although it was partially Brian's fault because he had bought 10,00 copies himself.

The boys returned to a pub called "The Cavern " despite the fact that the place was dimly lit, there was not the best hygiene, and the place was full of smoke, the boys gained fans and reached altitude by the minute.

 But the night were long and the days were short, they barely ate, barely slept.

One night when Paul returned from "The Cavern" he looked like death. Paul  had not had a good night sleep in a while and the dimly lit bar  had accustomed him to the darkness, so now the lit blinded him like a bat.

"God you need a bath Paul" Michelle frowned as she sat down next to him "You also look like you need to hibernate for  three months"

"Yeah I know" Paul yawned and rubbed his tired eyes " We don't have to perform until next week"

Michelle sighed and brought him a cup of tea "Yes, but now you go and stick yourselves in the studio" She laid her head on his shoulder "Paulie this is no way of living"

"We're living the dream Elle" He smiled "and it takes hard work to get it and seize it"

"Yeah I know " She placed a small kiss on his cheek "You know I love you and I was worried"

"I promise you Elle" He got up "We won't be doing this much longer, the storm will pass" He left to the bathroom.

Paul couldn't have been more right. By January of 1963  when the second single "Please, Please Me" dropped the boys appeared in national television  their voices being drowned by screaming fan, they hit newspapers and by February hitting No. 1 in all UK charts.

The date was February 16th 1963 when cheering voices filled Michelle's sleepy ears. Down in the living room the boys were celebrating.

With a smile  Michelle asked as she walked in the living room "What are we celebrating?"

John walked over to her with a smile and an aura she had never seen before "We hit number one on all UK charts!" 

"What ?! No way" Michelle gasped and giggled 

Paul ran to her and picked her up by her waist "Yes way luv! " he laughed and kissed her "1963 can't get any better! "

Brian walked in the room with a smile "Oh on the contrary Paul it actually can" He laughed when all heads turned to see him "George(Martin) wants you to make an album" 

The boys looked at each other "But are we ready? " Ringo asked fidgeting with his rings "I mean I can barely keep up with the vocals"

"He's right and we can't keep putting Alan to fill up for Ringo" George added "At some point we will have to perform and Ringo needs to be there"

"Well we somehow got to keep you up in number one" Brian said sitting down 

The cheering faces turned in a matter of seconds to faces of concern and doubt. The aura John had faded away, Paul placed Michelle back in the floor, Ringo kept fidgeting with his rings, and George just looked out the window.

"We can have them record as if they were performing live" Michelle said "Just as it comes out , few days of recording just pure and raw music"

"You're a genius Elle!" Brian stood up in a blink "You guys do awesome while you perform, the studio is the problem" He stared pacing in the living room "But if we take the live performance and record it, without the screaming fans of course, it saves us time and tape" 

"I mean we're already halfway there the tapes we have from the beginning of the month and we can do a few more by the end of the month" Michelle followed Brian with her gaze "The album  could probably drop by the end of next month"

Brian stopped in front of Michelle "How would you like a job Elle?"

"I need a job" Michelle smiled

"Can you be my assistant manager?" Brian asked

"Sure" She giggled "You kinda need it"

2017 

Stella dug herself in books trying to figure out what all the odd feeling and "flashbacks" meant. Her memories from her childhood were fuzzing with different images. She needed help, she needed to know what was going on 

She rubbed her temples "What's happening to me?" She leaned her her chair closer to all the open books "There's nothing in here"

Stella closed the nearest book to her and laid her head down on the table 

"God this is stupid"She mumbled "I'm never going to find anything"

"What are you trying to find?" Daniel leaned on the door frame of the living room where Stella was studying "Alien theories?"

"Uh.. No" She sprang her head up immediately " I'm just investigating...stuff"

He walked closer and sat on the table "Paranormal behavior?" He read the title of a book and chuckled a bit "What's this Ella?"

Stella sighed knowing she couldn't hide stuff from Daniel, he knew her too well to know when she was hiding something. She explained her situation as clear and as logical as she could. Trying to sound crazy and mental.

"Well, I..." He blinked twice "That is an odd circumstance you have in your hands Ella" Daniel scratched his neck.

"I borrowed all these books to help me understand what's happening to me" She looked at the nearest book she had "But none of them make sense nor help"

Daniel paced in the living room, processing what Stella had just told him, it sounded crazy yes it did, but she had always helped him and the boys, he couldn't tell her no right now in her time of need.

"Maybe you lived twice?" He laughed at his own response, hearing how dumb and crazy it sounded "Like reincarnation ?" He laughed again

"Daniel this is serious business" She added a hint of anger to her voice "I started to panic last time I had one of those flashbacks" 

"Well I'm serious too" He sat on a chair next to her pushing all the books to the side "Reincarnation has been proven to be somewhat true"

Stella looked at Daniel as she repeated  the word "reincarnation"over and over again, she reached for a book and went through it, flipping its pages rapidly and suddenly a paragraph came into sight. She went as pale as sheet when she saw that Daniel was right.

Daniel  grabbed the book and started reading it "Reincarnation is the even of being born twice and having two lives, reincarnation patients might have memories from the life they had before, coming to them in sudden flashbacks, deja vus or sudden thoughts of realization, the only way to stop these events is for the individual to find out who he or she was before..."

"Daniel, I'm freaking out right now" She panted and rubbed her temples

"You need some sleep Ella that's what you need, its 4 in the morning, go get some rest" Daniel rushed her to bed.