Another World {The Vamps/Connor Ball Fanfic}

Chapter 1

I scroll through twitter as I get ten mentions every ten seconds, or something crazy like that. Why am I so popular you wonder? Well that’s because I’m in a duo girl group with my best friend Jess, we’re called ‘Keep My Secret’. Don’t even ask how the name came about, it’s stupid. Jess had a boyfriend, but he was someone else’s boyfriend. Basically she was having an affair but it wasn’t an affair as such because she was fifteen and I found out and I was sworn to secrecy ‘keeping her secret’ but it’s such a vintage, rocky name. I love it! “JESSICA, HURRY UP!” I yell from the hotel bedroom. We’re in London today because we’re recording stuff for our second album. “Coming dear.” She mumbles through the bathroom door. Me and Jess are doing a twitcam today, we just answer a few questions, sing a few songs. It’s a lot of fun to pass the time away.

After another five minutes of waiting for Jess I manage to set up the twitcam and turn it on. “Morning guys, how are you all?” I ask as I get like a million responses on the comment section. I see that people are asking where Jess is and if on cue she sits down on the bed next to me looking absolutely flawless. Her black shoulder length hair is curled making it shorter than it already is, her olive toned skin glows healthy with foundation and her chestnut brown eyes are hiding behind a thick coating of mascara. Whereas my hair, which is wavy waist length dark brown, is hung in an extremely messy bun and my hazel eyes are left looking sleepy. I also notice that her 5’6” body is dressed in a cute black skirt and a white tank top and my 5’3” body is covered in an oversized hoodie and Hollister joggers. “Here am I, so what questions you want us to answer today?” Jess asks the fans, who we call ‘Liars’. We wait a few minutes for some responses and we get a good variety of questions. “Okay so we’ll start off with the basic information a few of you want to know. Name, age, favourite colour. So my name is Jessica Leigh Doughty, I’m eighteen and I’ll be nineteen 5th September and my favourite colour is red, your turn Ellie.” Jess says as she scrolls through some more tweets. “Ellie Hayes, born 1st April 1996, making me eighteen, nineteen in April obviously.” I laugh and then add “Purple is my favourite colour.” After a few more questions we sing a few songs from our album called which is self titled. “Well that’s all we got time for, we got some exciting things coming up and we have to work on them to perfect them.” I sadly say. I love doing twitcams and hate having to end them. “Just a few more questions, please?” Jess pleads and I reluctantly agree so we answer at least ten more questions. “Are you girls familiar with The Vamps?” Jess reads from the screen and I feel my heart flutter in excitement. “Why don’t you take this question?” Jess smirks as she nudges my arm. I feel my cheeks blush as I start speaking “Any mention of them and I swear I go insane. I love them so, so much so of course I’m familiar with them.” I wink and add “Just because I’m famous doesn’t mean I’m not a fangirl with a fan account for the boys.” I tease. I have an official account for me (@EllieHayes) which is verified with nearly a million followers but I also have a fan account for The Vamps(@TropixalBrad), but the Liars don’t need to know that. “Honestly, no one understands how much she loves them. A legit fangirl right here.” Jess laughs. Every time someone mentions The Vamps or a song of theirs play whilst I’m in public I don’t even try to hide that amazing butterfly feeling I get, I just have to have a mini freak out.  “Oh here’s a good question, who’s your favourite?” Jessica asks me and I’m unable to think straight as I think about him. “Connor. I swear he’s like a sex god. His hair and his eyes and his body and his musical ability and that nose ring blows my mind away. Obviously I love them all but I guess you can call me a Connor girl. Oh and I got tickets to see them live on their debut tour in the autumn.” I smile as I feel my body fill with happiness, The Vamps have such an amazing effect on me. “Well no more questions, goodbye!” Jessica declares and I wave to the screen and she ends the twitcam.

“That was so fun!” I beam as I jump off the bed and start packing a small backpack for a day at the studio. “It was great, hey want to know a secret?” Jess winks as she closes the laptop lid and hands it to me. “Was it you who stole my new lip-gloss?” I roll my eyes as I put my laptop into my bag. Jess looks at me in confusion, obviously that isn’t the secret. “I heard Jack onto the phone to someone called Joe O’Neil.” I almost drop my bag in shock of the name Jess just said. Jack Ward is our manager from Virgin emi records, who we’re signed to, but Joe O’Neil is The Vamps manager. “Wait, what?” The possibility of me and Jess working with The Vamps is extremely high. “TELL ME WHAT YOU HEARD.” I squeal in excitement as I shake Jessica’s shoulders. “I didn’t catch it all but I did hear Mark and Jack talking about secretly filming a surprise today or something.” Mark is our cameraman, he follows us around all the time filming us and then he makes short documentaries for Youtube. I don’t listen to what else Jess has to say, I dart over to my suitcase and start throwing things out looking for something nice to wear.

I carefully walk down the hallway at Virgin emi record studio as I feel my feet starting to ache after wearing these high heels for ten minutes. My body feels overexposed as a peach coloured pencil skirt tightly, maybe a little too tightly, hugs my stomach and waist and a white bralet covers up most of my chest but leaves a little bit of cleavage showing. “I was pushing my luck expecting to still fit into this bralet. It’s a size four.” I moan as I unattractively try to pull the bralet down. We turn a corner through the corridor and we see famous faces on the walls like Katy Perry and Jay-Z. “Aren’t you normally a size six or eight?” Jess asks me and I just nod my head. “I was in TopShop and they were having a sale and I saw this and I fell in love, only problem was they didn’t have my size so I brought it thinking it wouldn’t be too tight and-” I feel Jess hit my shoulder. I go to shout at her and hit her back until I notice four boys walking up the corridor as we walk down. “Oh my-” I don’t get time to finish my sentence, I need to act hot. Normally when I come to the studio I’ll wear hoodies and ripped jeans but because Jess told me The Vamps would be at the studio today I had to make myself look respectful. If by any chance they knew of me and Jess they’d have only see us on performances and red carpets and that would have been when we were looking hot, three hours of work done on our hair and faces. I decide to play it cool and twist a piece of my wavy hair around my finger and then I let it go as I twirls, twists and turns back to its original place. “I’m starving.” I hear one of the boys says, I think it was Tristan. “Break times are my favourite.” Brad says as he rubs his hands together. They’re off to the catering room. I have to follow them. I turn to Jess and she knows exactly what I’m thinking because she gives me an unapproved shake of the head. I just sigh silently as I continue walking forward. As I do I notice Connor walking behind the other boys slowly, checking his phone. I realise too late that I’m in his way as I nearly go flying into him. He looks up from his phone and my plain, boring hazel eyes meets his pure, deep, full of mystery electric blue eyes. A colour you almost never see. “I am so sorry.” I mumble, not really sure if that was loud enough for him to hear. “It’s cool, I should have been paying attention.” He laughs it off in his worn off Scottish accent. It’s so cute, I could listen to him talk all day and I would never get bored. “No, don’t be sorry.” I feel as if now is the right time to start a conversation, but I don’t get chance. “Oi Con, stop flirting with Hayes!” James speaks in a deliberate loud tone just so I could hear. Connor then smiles and says “I best be off, see you around.” I don’t get time to say bye because he runs off to catch the others up and then I start analyzing in my head what James just said. ‘Stop flirting with Hayes’- James knows my last name. How? Why? And now it finally sinks in. I just met The Vamps. I just met my idols! “Wow, playing it cool totally worked.” Jess rolls her eyes and drags me down the corridor.