Close As Strangers - AFI

Chapter 4

When Sabina arrived at Wembley later that evening, she couldn't believe her eyes, the whole area around Wembley was filled with teenage girls wearing 5 Second of Summer t-shirts. Some of the fans were singing songs, which she guessed were 5sos songs, and others were standing in line waiting for the doors to open. Sabina looked down at her own outfit, a pair of light-washed mom jeans, a white blouse and some doc martens, she felt like she didn't really fit into the picture; all the girls were wearing merchandise, ripped skinnies, flannels and a lot of them had dyed their hair in bright colours. 

Sabina encountered a group of girls that were standing a bit away from the big crowd, one of the girls was strumming a melody on a small guitar. Sabina decided to make her way over to the girls, in the hope they could help her find the backstage area.

'hi.' Sabina greeted shyly as she approached the girls.

'Hey!' one of the girls greeted back excitedly. 'Are you alone here?'

'well, yes.' Sabina admitted, 'are you going to the concert?' 

'Yes, we're are all fans. Are you?' the smallest girl of the group asked, she had her black hair dyed into a red ombre which really suited her.

'uh, sort of.' She couldn't just tell them she was friends with the boys, they would freak out. 'I was wondering if you know where the back entrance is.' 

'it's around the right corner of the stadium, why?' the girl asked. 

'Oh, I was just wondering.' Sabina smiled, hoping they would just leave it alone. 'What are your names, by the way?'

the ombre haired girl smiled, 'I'm Clare, this is Beau,' she said, pointing to an older girl with long brown hair and glasses, 'and that are Valery and Cami.' She finished, pointing at the other two girls, who each gave me a warm smile. Cami was probably the oldest of the group, she looked around 18 and had beautiful long, curly hair. Valery looked a bit younger and was wearing her hair in two braids. 

'Cool, I'm Sabina.' Sabina smiled, 'it was nice meeting you. Have fun tonight!' Just as she wanted to turn away, Valery stopped her.

'Wait! What did you mean by "sort of" when we asked you if you were going to the show?' She asked. Oh, shoot, how was Sabina going to explain this?

'Umm," Sabina stammered, 'That's kind of difficult to explain.' She said, hoping they would just leave it alone.

'Just tell us! You sound so mysterious!' The girl that was introduced as Cami said. 

'Okay, but promise not to freak out.'  Sabina whispered, she didn't want anyone else to hear and she prayed to god these girls wouldn't freak out or cause a scene.

'OMG tell us already, girl!' Beau said, losing her patience with Sabina's mysterious behavior.

'Ok, fine. I may or may not know the boys and been invited backstage.' Sabina confessed, expecting an outburst from the girls.

'No way! We're so jealous! Can you give them our twitter handles? Please?' Cami begged, already writing down her username on a piece of paper.

Sabina figured that giving the boys their handles was the least she could do, she just hoped she wouldn't be crossing a line when asking the boys to follow the girls she had just met. 'Fine, but make it quick, I really have to get going.' 

'Here you go!' Cami handed her the piece of paper with all of their handles on it. 'Thank you for doing this, you're too kind.' she finished. 

'No problem at all! It's the least I could do. I hope you girls have a good time tonight.' Sabina smiled, these girls were nice, and luckily not freaking out or forcing her to take them backstage.