Van
Two weeks time and we'll be back home, I'll be back with Liv, we'll be doing album two, we'll be back chilling in our hometown and I'll get to see the family again. Europe's been class, we've done some of our biggest shows yet which is mad, sometimes you think people from where you're from just listen to your music to support someone local but having fans out here in all these different countries is mad. We just done a show in Italy which is one of the biggest ones we've done yet so we were going out to celebrate, get absolutely pissed cause we've not gone crazy in a while.
It's 11PM now and Liv still hasn't texted me through a picture so I text and ask if she's eaten and then join the lads for pizza before we head out. 'I'm not hungry I had a late lunch xx' she replies almost instantly as if she was expecting my message. I don't know why she didn't just tell me that though, would've saved me worrying. 'Could've said' I slide my phone back into my jacket pocket and me and the lids walk round to the nearest bar for a few drinks. Before we get inside I check my phone and see Livs message; 'sorry I've just finished working, don't be mad at me? x'. She knows I just worry when she's not spoke to me in a while but I'll reply to her tomorrow, tonight's all about celebrating.
"I'll get the first one" Larry wanders over to the bar as the rest of us just sit down at a table waiting for him to come bake with our drinks.
Time seems to pass quick and the alcohol seems to keep coming, I'm more drunk than I planned on getting but Bob was also singing his heart out and he's not normally a singer so I clearly wasn't the only one.
"Look Benji, theres a fit bird. You should graft her, get some action maybe for the first time in a while" I say pointing towards this tall, long legged blonde girl who's just walked in and taken a seat at the bar. Benji looks at me with furrowed brows and a weird look on his face.
"What the fuck?" He takes a sip of his beer, clearly I've ruffled some feathers but I never meant to, I'm just too drunk to think. Although I don't seem to do much thinking when I'm sober either.
"You're probably not supposed to be calling other birds fit when you've got a girlfriend Van" Says Bondy, I can't tell whether he's joking or being serious but I don't really care at this point, my heads spinning.
I offer to get the next round which we agreed would be our last, it's half three and we were travelling to France at lunch time so I picked my self up and stumbled over to the bar, can't really see straight but it doesn't matter. When I'm looking around at the bar I notice the blonde girl I tried to get Benji to speak to is standing beside me, so naturally I introduced myself. She's not got very good English but I can understand what she's saying, says she knows the band and thinks I'm very good which I'm flattered by. As I'm chatting away to Amelia I decide to offer her a drink as well, completely forgetting that I came up to the bar to get a round for the lads.
She's wearing a short, figure hugging dress and I won't lie, my eyes have been wandering but I can't help it. Her long blonde hair is loosely curled and at the bottom of her long toned legs are a pair of black high heels, you'd think she's a model or something. She must notice me checking her out because every so often she budges up closer to me when she laughs at one of the shitty jokes I've told her. This time when she laughs she places a hand on my thigh making me feel nervous, I wasn't doing anything wrong was I? I was just chatting to a lady the bar, she seemed to be on her own anyway.
"Van! We've got to go mate" Bondy shouts, placing a hand on my shoulder and slowly pulling at me. I shake him off and furrow my brows at him, why was he so annoyed? "I mean it, we've got to go. Sorry"
The apology at the end was directed to the Italian girl who went by the name Amelia and he dragged me outside to meet the boys who seemed much more sober than I am. Larrys looking around, checking who's surrounding us outside on the empty street.
"What were you doing? Getting that close to her?" Benji asks, an annoyed tone is slightly apparent in his voice.
"Nothing I was just speaking to her" I say as we start walking back to her hotel we were staying at which was just five minutes away.
"Well someone was taking pictures of you and god knows where they'll end up. Fans don't know about your personal life Van if that photos get out they'll just say you've been spotted chatting up a girl and if Liv sees it-"
"They won't be bad though, we were literally just speaking" I interrupt Bondy as we reach our hotel.
"What were you doing? When we first left Llandudno you refused to speak to someone of the opposite sex" Benji asked, I could tell he was frustrated at me but still I had no clue why.
"What? You think I'll cheat on Liv? Cheers lids, see yous in the morning"
I walk away towards my hotel room which was on the ground floor. The fact they thought that pissed me off so much, I was just literally speaking to a girl and they went all panic mode. So what if someone has taken pictures? Taken pictures of me speaking to someone of the opposite sex? Yeah I'm sure Liv will feel so betrayed by that. As soon as my head hits the pillow I seem to fall asleep, thank god.
