Wonderland // McFly

Setting You Free

October 25, 2012 

Yesterday the Love is Easy music video was released and today all the boys were coming over to mine to celebrate. 

We were going to watch the video all together, since I hadn't seen it finished yet, and I promised I'd wait for them. I was also excited to see my debut...as a bird...but still. 

When the doorbell rang, I expected to see just one of them, probably Tom, who was always on time, or maybe two of them together, but I didn't expect to see them all standing together, crowded on my doorstep. They were holding bags, boxes and balloons. 

"Happy Birthday!" They all exclaimed, when I opened the door. Danny popped one of those tiny confetti cannons, but all the smoke went right in Dougie's face and he started to choke. I just stood there shocked, as they composed themselves. 

"I don't want to sound ungrateful..." I start, once Dougie has finished coughing, "but...it's not my birthday." 

"Well yeah, duh, we know that." Tom says. "But it's almost your birthday and we realized we weren't sure if we had another chance to celebrate with all the press coming up and stuff." 

"So we're doing it now!" Danny smiles. 

"Well...thanks." I smile, ushering them in. 

"We even got a cake this year." Dougie smiles, going to the fridge and putting it in, while the other boys put the things they were carrying down. "I mean, we didn't make it. We bought it from Waitrose, but still. It's the thought that counts, right?" I laugh. 

"Absolutely." I smile. 

"And someone else wanted to wish you a happy birthday." I hear Harry say, as I turn to see Danny, Tom and him entering the kitchen, holding onto Flea's leash for dear life as he pulls to run towards me. 

"Flea!" I exclaim, bending down, as the three boys dropped the leash and let him run. He jumped up on me, which was not as cute as it was when he was a puppy, since he was a full grown chocolate lab now, and Dougie fed him way too much (I told him to stop because Flea was getting fat, but Dougie insisted he was just "big boned").  "Oh you guys! Thank you." I smile, getting up from petting Flea and giving them all big hugs. 

"And Fletch is coming over later. He wanted to celebrate too." Tom smiles. 

"What about the girls?" I ask. 

"Their getting their nails done, or some shit." Harry smiles. Don't get me wrong, I love Gi, Izzy, Georgia and Lara with all my heart, and I loved having them around, but it was kind of cool to have it just be me and the boys again...like old times. 

"Well he should be here any minute." Tom smiles. "Do you want to watch the video?" 

"Yeah!" I exclaim. We all make our way into the living room and I open my laptop on the coffee table. We all huddled around on the couch to watch it. They boys had started putting their music videos on YouTube, which was weird. I was so used to music videos being played on TV, but I guess the times were changing. 

The music video was amazing and brought back so many amazing memories, including the one's not even made a year ago, like Dougie winning I'm a Celeb and Harry winning Strictly. 

But of course, my favorite part was right in the beginning when they remade some of their earliest music videos; Five Colours, Obviously, Room on the Third Floor and That Girl.  

They were music videos I hadn't been around to see filmed, since I hadn't started working for them yet. 

I also loved the part were they recreated all their album covers. As they did, we paused the video, and I got my CDs off the shelf so we could compare them.