The Heartbreak Factor - Part One

Chapter Thirty-Four.

“Are you serious?” JJ asked the producer, trying hard to take in what had just been announced to us, as we all sat around the table in the meeting room at the studios.

“Yes,” the producer smiled. “Your train to Disneyland Paris will depart from St. Pancreas at 2pm.”

As she handed us all an envelope with our train tickets and passes into Disney itself inside along with all the hotel and check-in details, she walked out of the room, leaving us all to jump up and down in excitement. 

“Disney?” Josh said, grinning in his monkey onesie.

“Disney!” Rylan screamed.

Walking out of the studios to the cars, we were all still grinning. As the driver drove us back to the hotel to get all our suitcases packed up for the big adventure, I began to text mum since her and Jack left London this morning to go back to York. Once the car pulled up at the hotel, me, Jaymi, George, Josh and JJ jumped of the car and ran up the steps into the lobby, almost knocking the doorman off his feet. “I’m so sorry,” I called back to the doorman in an apologetic, yet hasty tone, as we rushed through the lobby towards the stairs.

Followed by the boys, I ran up the stairs, missing two steps at a time in an attempt to get to our floor the quickest. “Meet me out here in half an hour?” I asked them, trying to catch my breath back as we got to our hotel room doors.

“Okay,” Jaymi smiled, unlocking their hotel door.

As soon as I had unlocked my door, I ran in and grabbed my suitcase, not realising I’d left the hotel door still wide open. Sitting on the floor inside the walk-in wardrobe, I stared up at all the clothes I had hanging on the rail. You could tell I was a typical teenage girl as I had more clothes in my wardrobe than Susan Boyle had cats, but I had nothing to wear at all. That’s the worst part about all the pressure from the media with regards to the X Factor – I can never wear the same outfit twice. In the end, I just chucked random clothes that I pulled out from the rail into my suitcase. Finally, I zipped my suitcase up, bouncing up and down on it so that it closed shut since I had piled all my clothes up in a disorganised fashioned mountain, and dumped it on my bed before going into the bathroom to sort my hair and make-up out quickly. By the time I had finished my hair and make-up, the clock on my phone was showing it to be half one exactly. Grabbing my suitcase from the bed, I pulled it out of my hotel room and locked the hotel room door. As I walked towards the boys’ hotel room, they rushed out, pulling along their suitcases too. “Gonna be wicked,” George grinned as JJ made sure the hotel door had locked. 

We all ran down the stairs and back out to the cars, dragging our suitcases along with us. As we got in the car, the driver put our suitcases into the boot. The car journey to the train station seemed like nothing; we were sat on the Eurostar train in no time at all. 

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“Tell me, princess, now when did you last let your heart decide?” George began to sing to me as I rested on him, playing on my phone on the train. “I can open your eyes, take you wonder by wonder. Over, sideways and under on a magic carpet ride.”

“Seriously?” Jaymi laughed, looking up from his phone and across the table to George.

“A whole new world,” George continued to sing, laughing at the same time. “A new fantastic point of view. No-one to tell us no or where to go or say we’re only dreaming.”

“George, please stop,” JJ said, throwing his hoodie at him.

“A whole new world,” I began to sing, looking up at George as I still had my head on his chest. “A dazzling place I never know. But when I’m way up here, it’s crystal clear that now I’m in a whole new world with you.”