Welcome to the Band

Chapter 4

I woke up to being shaken. I felt tears gushing out of my eyes.

"Oh Annie." I heard an Irish voice say as he cuddled me into him.

"No! I need Josh." I sobbed, pushing him away. I saw hurt flash across his face but nodded quickly. He rushed out of the room and soon Josh came in.

"Shhh, it's okay. It's over." He whispered into my hair.

"I had t-the dream a-again an-and Ky." I cried and sobbed relentlessly. Josh just sat and stroked my hair, trying to calm me.

"Hey, it's okay. We're going to get that bracelet back and it will be okay." I continued to cry. I saw Niall looking helpless in the corner. Eventually, someone else came in.

"Can I try?" A deep voice asked. I was shifted around and was rested into someone else. "Shhhhhhh." He hummed, kissing just behind my ear. He began humming and nuzzled his face into my hair which comforted me. I finally fell into a dreamless sleep.

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Someone shifted under me and my eyes slowly opened to find Harry trying to get out of bed.

"Sorry love, I had to pee." I nodded and got up to let him go. I grabbed a pillow and put it into his place. He nodded and walked towards the bathroom.

"Tank you?" I yawned so my 'thank' sounded like 'tank'. He gave a small smile as I drifted into another sleep.

"Sorry babe, but we have rehearsals." Harry woke me up and I nodded. He started to walk out when I looked at my wrist and stopped him.

"Will you help me?" He nodded and followed me into the bathroom where the first aid kit was. He grabbed the gauze and began wrapping it around my wrist. When he finished I thanked him and proceeded to get ready and Harry left.

I went to my suitcase which I'm guessing someone brought in. I grabbed a shirt and some shorts since it was warm outside. As I tried to lift my shirt over my head my wrist began to ache. I poked my head out of the door and saw Harry sitting down.

"Is Josh still here?" I asked and he shook his head no. "Then do you think you could maybe... Help me change?" I hesitantly asked. He thought for a second before nodding and walking into my room.

"Thanks, my wrist and foot don't really help me." I chuckled looking at my injuries as did Harry.

He pulled off my shirt and exchanged it for my new one. Then he went for the sweats. He took off my boot and patted my shoulder to signal for me to hold on. I did and he slipped off my sweats and on my shorts.

"Ready?" He asked as he stood back up. I hobbled to the bed and put on my boot then grabbed my vanilla perfume and sprayed it on.

"That smells really good." Harry commented.

"Wanna try?" I laughed and sprayed some on him.

"Great! Now I'm gonna smell like a girl all day." He whined as we walked to the door.

"Hey at least you smell good." I giggled and he chuckled.

"Whatever." His tongue poked out from between his lips and I mirrored him.

After many laughs and jokes, we finally got to the arena we were going to be playing at.

"I know it's kind of a bad time to mention this but... What was that scar on your hip?" He asked and I looked sadly at the terrible mark from a terrible memory.

"Umm just burnt myself." I quietly said and looked down to the ground.

"Sorry for asking." He whispered as we came into view from the others.

"Finally!" Liam groaned, grabbing Harry and pushing him towards the stage. Niall grabbed my hand and brought me to where I was supposed to be, next to Dan and in front of Josh.

"You okay?" He asked and I nodded. "If you have a problem with your wrist then just say so okay?" I nodded again and he backed away to where the boys were.

"You okay?" Josh asked from behind me. I turned towards him.

"We need to talk about that night you know?" Josh gave a single nod.

"Tomorrow? After the rehearsals?" He asked but it came out as more of a statement. I nodded and turned back towards the now dancing boys.

"Okay now let's start guys!" A crew member shouted as we got into our places. I started off a little roughly but eventually, after watching Dan, I got it. If I got how it went on guitar, I got how it went on bass.

"Dan, do you think we could get together and play it through again? It's easier when I see the guitar part." I asked him after our rehearsals finished and we began leaving.

"Sure. I think we're busy for the next couple days so maybe like right before our first show?" I nodded and thanked him as we went our separate ways.

"Anne Marie!" Paul shouted after me and I stopped.

"Hi Paul." I greeted.

"How's your wrist? I'm sorry no one was there. And your bracelet. We'll get the boys to tweet or something and get it back." He grabbed my hurt wrist and began pulling away the bandage.

"She got you pretty bad." He examined the bruising and cuts. "Lou? Do you have something that could heal this faster?" He asked a blonde woman with a young girl on her hip as she was walking past.

"Oh yeah, just back in the hotel room. Why don't you come with me?" She asked and I walked with her to the car.

"Who's this little cutie?" I made a funny face to the little girl and she giggled.

"Oh this is my baby Lux. Seems to like you." She laughed a little and we got into the car.

"Harry!" Lux giggled again and Harry got into the car with us.

"Baby girl! How's my favorite princess?" He picked her up and sat her on his lap as Lux continued to laugh at him and play with his curls.

"I gotta say, I'm pretty jealous of her. I wanna touch those curls." I laughed and Harry chuckled which cause Lux to poke his dimples.

"Maybe you'll get to, if you are lucky enough." He teased and I stuck my tongue out at him as did Lux, copying me.

"Lux!? You're turning on me?!" He began fake crying and Lux crawled into my lap.

"Be a man Harry." I laughed.

"Yeah, be a man." Lux laughed like me and began playing with my wavy hair.

"You have colors in your hair." She said.

"How did that get there?" I grabbed a piece of hair and looked at the purple and pink. Lux laughed and examined her hair too.

Soon we pulled up to the hotel and got out.