Loud music coming from the basement blasted around the house. They had been downstairs for no less than an hour, yet I could already feel a headache coming. I grabbed some aspirin from one of the cupboards in the kitchen and made my way downstairs to the basement.
"Guys!" I shouted, but due to how loud the music they were playing was, none of them could hear me. I waited until they had stopped playing until I tried again.
"Guys!" I shouted again; this time everyone turned to face me. "Can you please try and keep it down? My head hurts so much. All I can hear is the music you're playing and I can't concentrate" I asked
"You just can't get enough of us, can you? I caught you staring at us earlier, obviously shocked as to how good looking we all are" Tristan stated, a smirk plastered on his face
"Oh don't flatter yourself, you're nothing but a worthless human who can't play drums for shit" I backfired, the smirk wiping off Tristan's face and falling onto mine. Behind me I could hear a few 'ooo's' coming from the boys behind me.
"Mia, that wasn't necessary" James raised his eyebrow at me. "We'll be done soon so why don't you go and have a look around the neighbourhood in the meantime?" James suggested to me.
"I'd rather not. I'll just wait for you to finish." I replied, sitting down on the black leather sofa that had been placed in the basement, I pulled my phone from my pocket and scrolled through my Twitter feed, signalling the band to play once more.
"I thought you had a headache?" Connor asked me
"I took some aspirin, plus, if you're not going to be that long then I should be alright" I replied back. Connor shrugged his arms and went back to focusing on his re-tuning his bass.
"Ready to play once more?" Brad asked the others, they all agreed and started playing Vegas Girl by Connor Maynard; I have to admit, they were pretty good. As they neared the chorus, I found myself tapping my fingers to the beat, getting into the song more than I imagined.
"That was so good!" I exclaimed once they had finished
"Thanks" Brad replied smiling. Conversation between the boys soon began as they started to discuss how to adapt the song to make their own. This conversation was soon interrupted by the sound of an empty stomach. All eyes turned to face Connor who turned red
"Can we go and get something to eat?" He asked sheepishly. The others all agreed and placed their instruments down onto the floor, grabbing their shoes and making their way towards the door of the basement.
"Are you coming too?" James asked me. Since I didn't have anything better to do, I agreed to come with them. Walking over to James who was stood at the door or the basement before we both joined the others who had already made their way outside.
"Where are we going?" Asked James
"Starbucks, it's just around the corner" Brad replied before leading the way, everyone walking in pairs behind him.
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We had arrived in Starbucks and had ordered our drinks; whilst waiting for them, we all found a table large enough to fit us all round. I found myself on the end of the table sat next to Tristan...great. It was about five minutes until our drinks had arrived
"Two hot chocolates?" the waitress asked, both Connor and Brad nodded and were handed their drinks. "One Caramel Macchiato?" This time I nodded. "Two Caramel Frappachinos?" James and Tristan nodded and, like the rest of us, were served their drinks.
"Is there anything else you would like?" the waitress asked
"Um, can we have five slices of that coffee cake?" Connor asked
"Of course, it'll be over straight away" the waitress replied, walking over to the counter, cutting up the cake and bringing it over to our table. She handed the pieces to Connor who handed a slice out to each of us.
"Thank you Connor" I accepted the cake and tucked into it straight away. Whilst we demolished out cake, not a word was said from either of us. Connor, being the hungriest, was the first to finish.
"So, will we be recording the cover to upload to YouTube?" he asked the others
"If we all want to, I mean, I guess it was pretty good" Brad replied.
"I think we should" James piped up, swallowing cake as he did so. They boys continued the discussion about uploading the cover, boring me as they did so. I pulled out my phone and started scrolling through my Instagram, liking a few of my friends' photos from America.
"Would that be okay Mia?"
"Huh?" I looked up from my phone and saw Tristan, James, Connor and Brad all looking at me.
"Would you be willing to record our cover for us?" James asked
"Yeah, of course. When are you thinking of recording it?" I asked
"Soon, preferably sometime this week" Brad cut in.
"Okay, well I have no plans so whenever you want to record I'll be up for it" I replied, returning back to my phone which had vibrated in my hand, telling me I had a new message. I clicked on the text message app and opened up the message.
From: Unknown
I know where you live now Mia. I'm flying to England to get you. See you soon princess, love L ;) x
I froze as I read the text over and over again.
"No...no...no" I said to myself quietly, my whole body shaking
"Mia?" James questioned. I broke down into tears as shoved my phone into his hands, allowing him to read the text. "He doesn't mean it, Mia" James said once he had read the text.
"I-I need to go" I whispered, grabbing back my phone and my bag, running out of the cafe, tears in my eyes stopping me from seeing clearly. I ran, brushing past people and towards an empty park. I sat down on a bench, read the text again, and allowed the tears to fall out of my eyes. This can't be happening; he's one of the reasons we left America; what's he going to do to me when he arrives?! I didn't feel safe anymore. The tears continued to run down my face, my whole body started to shake, my breathing became heavy.
"Mia?" A voice came from behind me "Mia, stop shaking, everything's going to be alright." The voice carried on. I felt a pair of arms wrap around me, engulfing me into a hug. I didn't know who this person was but the thought of the person being here to comfort me allowing me to cry into his chest whilst I was upset, allowed me to feel what I needed to feel most right now: security.
Ooo who is this person? I know my writings bad, but I am editing the chapters every so often. Please vote and comment!
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