Chapter 5
I made my way to the front of the stage, we were at rehearsals at a new venue in New York and apparently this concert sold out within ten minutes of the tickets being sold and the crowd here was going to be the biggest, even larger than the one yesterday. I still got nervous thinking one day I may mess up and trip or something, I had made little mistakes with my steps before now but none that I wasn’t able to cover up.
I stood beside the stage as they finished off a few little things with the speakers and lighting; I felt a presence at my side and turned to see Pattie who was flashing me a slightly irritated smile.
‘Hi Pattie...’ I said returning a small smile.
She tried to force a bigger smile onto her face but anybody could tell that it was strained. ‘Morning Olivia...’ She said sending me a slight nod.
‘Is everything okay?’ I asked crinkling my eyebrows together.
‘He isn’t the same around her you know...’ She said while turning attention towards me but then directed her eyes straight forward looking at the other side of the stage; I followed her gaze and felt a large thump in my chest.
There Justin was his lips locked with Selena’s as he held her legs up and around his waist, I clenched my hands into fists letting my nails dig sharply into my skin but I tried to recover quick enough so Pattie wouldn’t notice.
He never told me she was coming here and he didn’t even think to mention after what happened yesterday, even with that conversation he didn’t think to add in the fact that she would be coming along nor did he seem to care about the fact his girlfriend was coming along the next day yet he had sex with me a few hours before her arrival. Did he have no shame!?
I carried on arguing involuntary in my head, I don’t see why I should care though when I knew from the start what I was getting myself into, I put this over on myself, everything is my fault.
Why can’t I just get myself to stop this!?
‘She makes him into somebody else whenever she’s around.’ Pattie carried on.
I stopped my inner argument and turned my head to her sad sullen face and it was like I could feel my eyes softening, I was worrying about my problems with Justin but Pattie had it worse, every time Selena was around it was like he forgot about Pattie, his own mother. I knew from the start Pattie didn’t like the girl but she would never tell her son that she thought she made him happy and his happiness was her main priority although Justin uses it like nothing.
‘Maybe it will just take him sometime to settle back to himself? He will probably come around.’ I said.
She sent me another small smile but I could tell she didn’t believe what I was saying and in all honesty I didn’t believe a word I was saying either. Justin changed when she was around, maybe they were perfect for each other, their personalities sure matched.
I was sat in my hotel room updating and replying to some things on twitter, I felt like I couldn’t leave the room, I was in fear of bumping into Justin and Selena somewhere in the hotel so I decided to stay locked away, it was 12am the concert had finished at 9 so that was really the last time I saw Justin, he congratulated everyone on their good performance and he locked his eyes with mine but I tore mine away from his and didn’t turn my attention back to him, I couldn’t exactly start shouting at him for not telling me she was coming here so I just decided on the silent treatment for awhile, we were only in New York for another whole day and then we were heading off to Europe meaning leaving Selena behind which means Justin’s attention will be back on me, I needed to figure something out here.
I didn’t realise I had been starring off into the distance for the last few minutes until Lisa stormed through the hotel room door squealing, I shut my laptop screen down and looked at her with a questioning expression as she carried on squealing in front of me as she span in circles.
What the hell is she on...
She stopped spinning soon enough and stumbled on her feet making me stifle my laughter. ‘OMG! You will never guess what. Guess who is joining us for the tour in Europe!?’
I began to open my mouth but she ‘shushed’ me and squealed once again. ‘ONE FRICKIN’ DIRECTION!’ She shouted as my eyes started to widen.
‘Wait, what? How?’ I asked.
‘I don’t know apparently a meeting was held this afternoon and they were thinking of doing a few extra concerts in Europe as a surprise and One Direction are joining for them so they will be touring with us in Europe.’ She rushed out before squealing again. ‘Can you believe it!? And apparently people are paying mega bucks for this. Think of the audience.’ She said as she began to shake me, my eyes widened slightly as I tried to calm her down.
‘Lisa. Breathe.’
I typed in ‘Liam Payne’ on the twitters search bar as the girls all crowded me eagerly, I clicked on his official name and scrolled down slightly as I pointed to his last tweet and read it aloud.
‘One Direction will be joining Justin Bieber in Europe for a few surprise concerts. Better get looking for the secret destinations ;)’
All the girls around began squealing... including me. Oh come on, it’s One Direction for crying out loud, 5 hot guys with hot accents, what more could we ask for?
‘This is unbelievable.’ One of the girls said.
All the girls had herded together after finding out the news and they insisted on checking their twitters to see what they were saying about it. One Direction had been under the radar for a little while and this was sort of just getting them a bit more publicity just before their second album goes out for sale, some of their dancers were also coming onto tour but as they were on a break some didn’t have the time to head back over so some of us background dancers were going to fill in the position although we didn’t know who; it really wouldn’t be much difference we were all still dancing for Justin and some would have to put in that bit more effort to work with the other boys, I couldn’t help but hope I would get the chance to be one of them although I was trying my best not to show it, unlike the other girls.
This was going to be amazing...
with that bit of drama.
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This failed. Sorry.
