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IT HAD BEEN about five weeks of the album being out, and today was the day that the band were setting off to start their tour. They had started with a show in London the night before, just to kick things off, and it had been a great success. Many people had attended and the venue was filled with excited fans. Valentina had watched from the side of stage with the rest of the bands partners and had sang and danced the entire time.
Now, she was standing in the street outside her flat with Roger, who had just loaded his things onto the tour bus that was parked up on the curb, and was waiting to get on. The other boys had said their goodbyes to their partners, and although Valentina was feeling quite sad about being parted from Roger for the next three months and only getting fleeting visits in between tour dates, it was better knowing the three other women were in the same boat as her.
She held Roger tightly in a prolonged hug, her head on his chest. "I'm going to miss you so much, Rog" she stared up at him, sadness in her blue eyes. "I'll miss you too, Angel. But I'll call when we arrive at every venue, and I'll keep you updated on what's happening, don't worry" he reassured her. He had spent a while meticulously memorising her phone number so that he would be able to call her from everywhere, and he succeeded. Valentina thought it was sweet that he had made the effort.
"Please do" she smiled. Paul poked his head out of the bus window, looking unimpressed. "Come on Roger! We need to be leaving now!" he hurried the man. Roger flipped him off from behind and Valentina scoffed at this, as Paul rolled his eyes and slammed the window shut.
"Now come here and kiss me because I can't tell you how much I'll miss that" Roger smiled, and Valentina went slightly weak with his words. Roger placed a finger under her chin and lifted her head, connecting their lips. They kissed rather passionately for a few minutes, savouring each other before they would have to be parted. Brian opened the little door and laughed, "once you two have finished sucking each others faces off, can we go?" he teased. Valentina stuck her finger up at him as she kissed Roger, and heard Brian laugh.
She finally pulled away and looked up at him, "have a wonderful time, and for fucks sake be safe and don't do anything stupid!" she said, a smirk on her face. Roger laughed, "I'll try love. See you in a few weeks then" he smiled, before placing a light kiss on her forehead and heading towards the bus and getting on.
"Bye love!" he called before shutting the door. His face soon appeared at the window along with Brian, Deacy and Freddie. They all waved as the bus pulled away which made her smile. She did the same and blew a kiss to Roger, before the bus disappeared from her sight and and she turned and headed back into her flat, out of the cold air and into the warm.
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The weeks began ticking by towards Christmas, when the boys would return home shortly to spend time with loved ones before heading back on tour. Roger started with regular phone calls, keeping Valentina very up to date with everything that was going on and who his was with, how the shows were turning out, etc.
Eventually, the nightly phone calls turned into every few nights, and she was okay with that because she assumed his busy schedule was the reason for the slow in phone calls. But, when phone calls became weekly, she started to wonder whether he was really that busy, or whether he was just start to forget about her a little bit. Was she being absurd? Was she turning into a crazy girlfriend? Or was she completely justified in her feelings about it?
This particular cold early December evening was quiet, she was snuggled up on the sofa with Emilia, drinking warm mulled wine and chatting about everything. She had ran through her feelings with Emilia, who thought it was best just to talk about it with him, because communication the key in a relationship after all. But, Roger had a tendency to get hot-headed, and the last thing she wanted to do was argue on the phone and not be able to see him in person to resolve it because he was currently in Germany.
She knew bottling up her feelings and acting like her normal, chipper self on the phone to him was wrong, and was destroying her a little, but she knew she would just speak to him properly when he came home for Christmas. After all, they would be spending the entire 5 days he was home together. They were going down to Cornwall to visit Rogers family for Christmas eve, and then spending the actual day of Christmas with Valentina's family. She had never met his family before so she was a little nervous, but she knew it would be fine.
The phone ringing brought her out of her thoughts, and she moved to pick it up from the table next to the sofa. "Hello?" She picked up. "Tina. It's me" Roger replied, and she couldn't help but smile a little as his voice.
"Who is it?" Emilia mouthed to her, looking intrigued. "Roger" she replied, moving the phone away. Emilia nodded, looking slightly suspicious.
Valentina put the phone back on her ear and spoke, "Rog! Where are you? How's it going?" She asked, eager to hear all about it as usual. He paused, "we're in Berlin for our second night here, last night went pretty well. The German fans seem to love us" he laughed slightly.
Valentina giggled, "that's good. How long have you got to talk?" she asked, hoping their call wouldn't be cut too short as it had been four days since they last spoke. He paused again, "about ten minutes? Sorry love, the phone is outside the venue and it's really cold here. There's been a bit of snow too, only light though. The show is in an hour but they want us for hair and makeup in about 15 minutes too" he replied, her heart sinking a little bit.
She swallowed, "that's okay! You must be pretty cold" she replied.
The conversation continued for around 10 minutes, before he said he had to go, and then they exchanged goodbyes and "love you's" and then he hung up. Valentina sighed.
"What's up?" Emilia asked, placing her wine on the table and shuffling closer to her friend.
She shrugged, "everything's okay...I just can't help but feel he's not that interested when he rings me. He sounds a little like he's somewhere else.." she trailed off, not enjoying speaking out her thoughts.
"Somewhere else? You don't think he's in Germany?" Emilia seemed confused.
Valentina couldn't up but chuckle slightly, "no, you numpty. Not like that. Like he's somewhere else in his mind.." she trailed off, frowning.
a u t h o r s n o t e ! oooo what's up with roger? pls leave comments telling me what you think is gonna happen in the next few chapters(: i'm intrigued..
sorry i haven't updated for a few weeks, everything's getting a bit busy what with christmas deadlines etc. i'm hoping to have this book completed by new year, so that it can be done by January as i have a lot to focus on in the new year. i'm still gonna be writing other stuff, as i have another book in the making which i may publish after i finish this one. it's a paul mccartney one, so pls let me know if you guys would read that? idk if any beatles fans read this book..?
anyway hope y'all have a great week. stay positive, even if life is giving you reasons not to(:
