The Story of Steps

Sightseeing

Faye: 

The next day is our day-off which means that we're allowed to go sightseeing again. I style my hair into a few plaits, similiar to how it was styled in the music video, singing along to our recent song all happily. It's such a beautiful day full of sunshine and I can't wait to enjoy this city for our day-off. "Can we go now?" I ask across the room, putting on my sunglasses.

"Don't stress us." Claire laughs as she appears in the room too, putting on her sunglasses as well before putting her arms around my shoulders. "Now we can go, stressed Steps."

"I'm not stressing you, it's just so exciting to be here. Did you know that plenty of famous movie stars been here already? There's this festival for awards and-" 

"Faye, I know. You and Lee literally talked about nothing else on the plane." Claire laughs as she closes the door behind us. Lisa already went off with the boys because they take the duty of buying postcards for us all and stuff like that. I assume that H wants to buy souvenirs for himself as well and wants the others to help him carrying the stuff. And so, Claire and me sit down on a bench in front of the hotel to wait for the rest of the band. We agreed to meet here and it's perfect that our hotel is near the city. Silently, I'm humming along to the melody of our song that still plays in my head while Claire takes a few pictures of our current location. "By the way, you really are fond on that outfit from our music video, aren't you?" she questions, implying on the fact that I decided to wear it today as well. It's simply a lovely outfit and I will definitely buy it so I can keep it in my wardrobe. 

"I love it. Yours is nice too and- oh, look! There are the others!" I say happily, seeing them approaching us with the stuff they bought. Lisa bought a new hat as it seems and Lee bought a football with the flag of France and the logo of some football club that probably none of us knows. Claire and me exchange a grin at this before asking H what he bought. 

"Well, postcards for us all and I bought this book with pictures from Cannes so we can look at it when home again. And a bought a skateboard in the shop where Lee bought his football." he announces proudly. 

"H, why did you bought a skateboard? Does that even fit in your suitcase?" Claire sighs, the only reply she receives being a shrug from H. "Fine. Let's take your stuff to the hotel so we can go sightseeing, our Faye is far too excited already."

H grins and I grin back as he quickly heads off to take their new stuff to our hotel suite and when he returns, he flashes a wide smile at us. Claire rolls her eyes annoyed, handing him the little suitcase that we decided to take with us; with swimming stuff for example and a map so we wouldn't get lost - recalling when we were at a former filming location and got lost in the city, wondering where our location was again. Gladly Pete called us on our phones back then and came to take us back to the studio, obviously angry. I grin slightly when thinking about his expression. "Why are you grinning to yourself?" H teases, playfully pulling my plaits. 

"Just thought about something funny again. How we nearly got lost and Pete was absolutely furious." I giggle, making the others grin as well.

"So what do we want to do first?" Claire questions us after we stopped laughing in the middle of the streets.

"Swimming." H announces, pointing at the beach, while Claire explains him that 'Swimming isn't sightseeing' to which he answers with pulling a face.

"I know where we can go." Lee replies. "The hotel where we filmed in yesterday, how about casually looking at it? And after that, we could walk through the city and go swimming afterwards."

"Perfect." Claire exhales. "Thank you, Lee." 

Walking to that luxurious hotel is definitely fun, Lisa and me keep stopping near to almost every shop and asking the others to go there while Claire explains that she wants us to follow what Lee told - adding that shopping is no sightseeing either. "She's such a leader." Lisa says annoyed, stopping at a bar to read through the card. "Look, these drinks are quite cheap. Perfect for us to buy a few." she announces, sighing angrily when spotting the others already walking further. "Why can't we do something interesting? Claire is demanding us around as usual."