Half A Heart {h.s slightly au}

Chapter 37 - Song Writing

Turns out, Management planned to have 'On The Road Again' tour go to America and England so that solved my dilemma on where to sing to Emma. It meant that I could just invite her to one of our concerts and sing my heart out for her! For once, Management actually did something right!

I know that this song idea may seem lame and corny but it was definitely the most romantic thing that I could think of to get Emma back. It seemed like that was what some fans wrote in their fanfictions. It's not like I read them or anything... Niall just likes to read fanfictions about him.

I continued using the lyrics that were already on the page and wrote random scribbles on the sides. The boys insisted on helping me but I wanted to do this on my own. Besides, this song is basically a profession of my love for her. It's not a group effort thing and I wanted Emma to get the message loud and clear.

Of course I asked Niall for help on the guitar as I still wasn't talent with it. The basic choreds were easy peasy for me but the bar chords were something else. Whenever I had spare time, I would grab the nearest guitar and play some chords, making sure that I still remembered how it went.

I gave up with the lyrics since nothing was coming to me which led me to putting music in. I asked the boys opinion and other people in the crew if the music sounded right and listened to whatever suggestions they had. The song was actually soming along perfectly.

Time flew by and we continued the 'On The Road Again' tour. Every country and city that we were in was spectacular. I got to meet new people and sightsee in a van or through my hotel window. Sometimes I hated these parts of being famous asa I couldn't step out on the streets without being mobbed.

My stomach started growling and I stopped writing. I looked out the window. We were currently in Tokyo and the window was overlooking the entire city. The lights were beautiful and was bustling with life. 

I left the sheet on the seat and called for room service. I asked for plenty of junk food and the staff happily agreed to getting all the food that I'd ordered. I rounded up whoever was still awake to have a party in mine and Niall's hotel room.

The boys and our musicians happily joined us while the crew closed their doors on us. I guess they were just plain tired. Kristen gave us a warning note saying that "If I hear any loud noise coming from your room, your party will be shut down. And don't you dare pull an all nighter! If any of you do that, I'll make sure to pinch you hard whenever you're dozing off tomorrow!"

We all gulped at the statement and reassured her that that would never happen. There was no way that I was going to pull an all nighter. I tried doing it once at home with my friends but I was the first one to fall asleep and got permanent marker all over my face. Oh the fun times back at home.

Tons of chips and pretzels, requested by Louis, and soft drink was provided. We sat on the two beds that were pushed together. Liam was the one who came up with this idea since he didn't want to sit on the hard floor. I guess Niall and I are going to sleep next to each other today because by the time this get-together finishes, we're going to be too tired to move the beds away from each other.

Truth or dare was played. Louis was the daredevil out of all of us and always chose dare which allowed us to make up the stupidest dares for him. Zayn even had the deceny to get Louis to drink toilet water. Everyone cringed but Louis was completely willing to do it. I hope that he's gonna be fine after tonight.

This game was played til 2am as Liam, still being Daddy Directioner, commanded us to go to bed so everyone followed him out. This made Niall and I the only ones in the room. As suspected, the two of us didn't bother moving the beds away and we slept next to each other.

Touring continued and the 'On The Road Again' tour was only half over. We all had free time to relax and see our friends and family again. I headed back to Cheshire as I didn't want to be alone in my apartment. Last time that happened, I stepped out into a bar and got myself drunk as hell.

My mother and sister were surprised to see me yet accepted me nonetheless. They asked me how I was doing and we exchanged the simple greetings. It was nice to be back at home. There was no awkward silence between us as Gemma could think of many topics so the conversation would never die out.

Eventually, night came and everyone went to bed. 

There were only a limited amount of days before we would begin touring again. My song was nowhere near perfect but I had to deal with for the next couple of days.

Every spare moment that I had was spent on song writing. I was beginning to be quite obsessed with it in all honesty. Personally, I've never been a perfectionist and would usually wing it but my love life was on the line this time.

I even went out to buy a piano for this one song! Too bad the original one that I bought was too big for my room so I had to buy a smaller one.

Also I forgot how to play the piano and how to play those piano chord-y things so I learnt everything from the internet. Honestly, it was quite hard because everyone on the internet knew which key was what while I had no idea what was what.

I started playing around with the chords and trying to match it up with the guitar and my voice. By ear, it sounded alright so I recorded it.

To this day, I still hate hearing myself recorded. You'd think that I be used to it by now but honestly, I'm not. My voice sounds extremely deep and unlike me when I listen to it.

Unfortunately, I listened to this one song over and over again. I was actually really proud of my work. Of course it's not as great as Ed Sheeran's but it was damn close. I tweaked a few of the lyrics just to make it sound better and the song was finally complete.

All that had to be done now was to sing this to Emma. But how would I get her to see me?

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A/N: I wonder how Harry.... oh well you'll just have to find out soon!! Remember you have to achieve the update goal for the next chapter :P

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