Duplicity [h.s]

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vegas teaser^

there are multiple short audio clips in this chapter for you to get a better vibe of what they hear throughout. enjoy!

Aven Brooks

With an aggressive last strum of the guitar and the lights going black, the concert ended. I was in the left-wing, just barely hidden off the side of the stage. Tonight was the first concert in Las Vegas. As usual, the crowds were roaring for the band.

During the show, I made sure to stay very public in any area I was. There were no moments I was left alone in the venue like last time, and those were orders from Harry. Throughout soundcheck, he wanted me in his line of vision at all times, then before the show, I stayed glued to him in his dressing room. It was just too risky to be alone anymore. I was scared but I also had to exert every moment like it was my last.

Everyone's been very excited about Vegas, I understood why. The whole crew was raving about it during soundcheck, I think it was a ritual for everyone to have a little vacation at this specific tour stop. All I heard was buzzing conversations about the casinos and the sunset strip. Everyone was very eager to be done with the show tonight so they can runoff and gamble.

We are performing twice in Vegas, meaning we're here for more than two days. I believe it's different venues but I really haven't been paying attention. My mind is busy dealing with the fact someone's trying to kill me.

As the concert ended with the lights going black, the arena cheered marvellously for the a-list band. All four boys made their way off to the wings where I was standing within the crew. My camera hung around my neck as they all saunter towards me, Niall first.

"Okay! Let's get the fuck out of here." Niall wastes no time the second he was off the side of the stage, slinging his arm around my shoulder so I flip around to walk involuntarily with him.

I laughed at his gesture of me walking under this arm towards the backstage, his natural personality never seeming to care much for physical boundaries. The other three were right behind us, everyone eager to get out of the venue so we can go have a night's worth in Las Vegas.

"Are we heading straight to Harry's?" I ask the group for the extravagant itinerary, all of us walking quickly in direction of the dressing rooms.

"Yep, people that are supposed to be there in two hours so that gives us time to gamble before I gotta go upstairs and make sure everything set up," Niall, who seemed to be the party planner, takes charge. Under his arm in walking, he turned his head to me with a grin, "Is sweetheart gonna help me?"

As I was about to answer, Harry jumps himself in front of Niall and I. I barely got to look straight at him before he bent down and threw me over his shoulder. I yelp out in startle while being skyrocketed off the ground and dangling over the back of his body.

"No, she's staying with me." He corrects as I laugh at the way he was carrying me like a fireman.

"Harry!" I exclaim as he walks with my dead weight over this shoulder, his arm wrapped around the back of my thighs to keep them pressed to his chest.

"And I thought the doctor's orders instructed you to stay in bed? Looks like you won't be partying at all tonight." Harry adds in regards to Niall, ignoring me while I couldn't see anything but the back of his blue flannel.

"Doctor says I'm not supposed to drink either but I was drunk by soundcheck today." I hear Niall defend, all of us still heading to the dressing rooms.

"You're an idiot." I hear Louis.

"Dammit Harry—put me down!" I shout but it was also coated with laughter so I wasn't very convincing.

"It's Vegas, if Niall is gonna kill his only kidney then let him." Liam laughs.