I woke up alone, one week after my birthday. I was in a hotel room missing home, and missing Niall. I was now doing last-minute promotions before I started the tour with the girls from Little Mix. I haven’t spoken to Niall for five days, and I was already started to feel alone, a lonliness I’d never felt before.
Niall wouldn’t understand, he’s got the boys, they’re going through the same things he is at the exact same time. I’m by myself, with a manager who’s controlling, and Justin just doesn’t seem to have time to talk with me anymore.
I am alone.
Incoming Call: Unknown
I hesitantly answer the phone, bringing it to my ear.
“Hello?”
“Hello, is this Lennox Byrnes?” A woman asks into the phone.
“Yes?” I reply and the woman soon tells me something I never thought I’d ever hear.
“This is the office of Mr Simon Cowell. He hears that you happen to be in the area and he would very much like to set up a meeting with you.”
Holy crap.
“Urm. Yeah?”
“What time would be best for you?” The woman asks with her prim voice that was ideal for a telephone voice.
“Any time?” I reply, unsure why THE Simon Cowell wants a meeting with me...
“How about 1 o’clock?” I look down at my gold watch that I received from Liam and Dani for my birthday, I had an half an hour... that was perfect.
“Perfect!” I reply.
“Great. Have a nice day.”
“Yeah, goodbye.”
As soon as the PA had hung up, I threw the phone onto the bed and went towards my suitcase in the corner, which I had refused to unpack. I pulled out dress after dress, all crumpled from being rushed and pushed into my suitcase at the last minute.
“Shit.” I curse out loud. Maybe I can just wing it and turn up casually? I grab some brown tights and black shorts, pulling on Niall’s blue Oklahoma city jumper over the top of my vest top and grab one of the lads’ beanies that I had managed to steal. I pull my hair into a bun, making some of my hair fall down in ringlets, and put the beanie on. Then I apply my make-up, adding bright red lipstick to my lips and pull on my green converses that Harry got me for Christmas.
I put my phone and purse inside my handbag and open the door to my hotel room, just as Emma was about to knock on the very same door.
“You look nice, going somewhere?” She asks, walking into my tidy room.
“Yep, I’m meeting a friend, and I’m already late... so I’d better be going now.” I tell her, walking out into the hallway of the hotel.
“But we have an interview in 3 hours!” Emma shouts after me.
“I’ll be done by then! Don’t worry!” I roll my eyes at my manager and pray to God I can get to Simon Cowell’s office in time.
I get in my private car and tell the driver where to take me, and I know that he’s itching to ask me why I’m going to Simon Cowell’s office, when I’m not even signed to him.
We get there in about ten minutes, and I breath slowly, watching the building as I walk in. Why does he even want to talk to me? I don’t understand.
“Hi, Lennox Byrnes, I’m here to see Mr Cowell?” I ask the receptionist, and when she looks up, she looked shocked to see me.
“Yes, h-he’s expecting you.” She tells me and I nod, walking towards the door that she had pointed at . “I’m a big fan by the way!” She shouts after me, and I nod, smiling broadly at her.
Is it weird that I find it weird that I have fans? I knock on the door, and hear a very familiar voice say “Come in.”
I open the door, and poke my head around the door, before opening the door fully and stepping inside, and Simon isn’t alone.
“Ah, Lennox, come and sit.” Simon doesn’t stand from his desk and I smile, still watching the woman who was sat beside Simon. My freakin’ manager.
“Now, Lennox, I suppose you’re wondering why I asked you to meet me here.” Simon says and I nod. “Well, you’re big news Lennox, and you also happen to be touring with an act signed with my company, Little Mix, and you’re also dating Niall Horan.” I nod, because I’m not really sure what to say, because everything he said was true, and he knew that I knew that. “And I was listening to your album, and I want you to sign with Syco.”
My mouth dropped open. Was he kidding? This must be a joke... I can’t just switch like this can I?
I glare at Emma, who had actually come here, knowing that she was going to make me change management. Well I am not changing if it still means that I have Emma as a manager.
“Erm...” Is my clever retort. “But... I signed a contract.”
“Well we looked at the fine print.” Emma explains, pulling out papers and placing them opposite me, I look down at the papers then back up to her.
“We?!” I ask her and Emma looks down.
“The fine print says that the contract is void if you are no longer happy with this management. And, well a teenage boy isn’t the greatest person at managing a great career like you have ahead of you.”
“But I’m not unhappy with Justin. I’m unhappy with her.” I bob my head at Emma, and Simon looks between us both.
“I am offering a clean movement to Syco, and you still get to keep those people closest to you, stylists, bodyguards, your manager.”
“No way.” I reply, shaking my head. “I do not want to work with her.”
“What is wrong with her?” Simon asks.
“She tried to force me into breaking up with Niall! She controls my tweets and doesn’t even allow me to mention that I have a boyfriend, when everyone knows I do! She works me way to hard, I was lucky to get a day off at New Year’s!” I pause. “I could go on but I think you catch my drift.”
“What about a new manager?” Simon asks, turning on his chair slightly. Now it’s Emma’s turn to drop her mouth open.
“There will be no controlling. You can see Niall whenever you want, within reasons, your twitter will be a place where you can say what you want to say, I want you for your talent Lennox.”
“And my relationship with Niall will not be tampered with?”
“We’ll play it to our advantage.” Simon tells me with a wink. I nod, wiping my hair out of my face. “So, do we have a deal?”
“Absolutely not!” Emma interrupts, just as I’m about to reach out to Simon’s hand to agree.
“Emma, I think it would be best if you left.” Simon tells her, glaring at her, still his hand hovering over the table. Emma sighs, looking angry, and then nods, walking out of the office, slamming the door behind her.
“Do we have a deal?” He asks, quirking an eyebrow at me and I nod, leaning forward and shaking my hand with his. “You won’t regret this.”
I sure hope that I won’t.
*
I was on a tour bus.
And that was a sentence a year ago I wouldn’t have been able to imagine. I was on a tour bus, about to start a joint tour with Little Mix, and those girls were now my best friends.
It’s strange how spending a few days out together, and then living on a tour bus with four girls can get me so close to them.
“Wait! Here’s Perrie!” I grab Perrie’s hand, as I was doing a twitcam for my fans, which seemed to have multiplied and I pulled Perrie down next to me.
“What are you doing?” Perrie asks, looking at her face in the computer.
“Twitcam.” I tell her, reading the comments. “I love Perrie.” I reply to the comments. “I love all the girls.”
“Well we love you too Lennox.” Perrie wraps an arm around my shoulder.
“Aw.” I coo, pulling on Perrie’s cheeks.
I laugh at a comment that says: PERROX IS WAY BETTER THAN ZIALL!
I point out the comment and Perrie laughs.
“Perrox for the win, aye?” Perrie chuckles and then walks away from the computer.
How are you and Niall Lennox?
“Me and Niall are perfect.” I say with a goofy smile on my face. “It just sucks that he’s in America and I’m here.”
I nod along with all the sympathetic comments.
Have you seen Niall in his mankini yet??? ;)
“Niall has a mankini?” I ask, my mouth wide open as I laugh out of shock. “Why did he buy a mankini?” I then get comments telling me that it was a Christmas present. “I’ll try and take a picture of him in it for you all.” I tell the camera with a wink.
Did you enjoy being on Celebrity Juice?
“Yeah, celebrity Juice was so fun you have no idea! Except Keith really takes his jokes to the extreme. But I still had fun, and I got to meet Tom, which was cool because I know him and Li are good friends and I’ve always wanted to meet him.”
It’s so cool how she just talks about Liam and everyone as just normal people.
“They are normal people!” I tell the random commenter. “Well I can understand if you guys you know... think they’re like the forbidden fruit or whatever. But... I guess famous people don’t intimidate me. To me, One Direction are just those five goofs who I hang out with and I’m dating the one with the bottomless stomach.”
Do you eat as much as Niall?
“Does anyone eat as much as Niall? Please think through your questions before asking them.” I joke, pretending to scold the questioner.
“JADEY!” I shout as Jade walks past me in a onesie. “Does anyone wanna see Jade in a onesie? She looks adorable.”
“No, we don’t want to see Jade in a onesie.” Jade replies, rolling her eyes.
“Look, I’m wearing my onesie.” I move the camera down to show my onesie and smirk. “I’ve got my concert clothes underneath.” I whisper to the camera, then bring my finger to my lips. “But don’t tell anyone. I’m a slob. And don’t tell Niall, he likes hygienic girls.”
Let’s get #SlobbyLennox trending on Twitter!
I laugh. “Good trend.” I tell the commenter, and in a matter of minutes it’s trending.
When do the Brit Nominations come out? I swear you’re going to win all the award Lennox!
“I don’t know when the Brit nominations come out. And I don’t think I’ll win them all! I’m a newcomer, I’ll be lucky to get a nomination!”
“In a few weeks!” I hear Leigh shout through the bus.
“What?” I shout back and I hear two girls chuckle.
“The brit nominations! They come out when we’re on tour!” Leigh explains. But how can she hear that I’m talking about that...?
“Are you watching me?” I ask, and instead of a reply, laughter echos through the bus. “They’re really crazy.” I tell the camera, and then look at my watch that I got off my dad for my birthday. “Hey Leigh!” I wait for her reply, “What time are we getting at the arena?” I shout back, and I hear here tell me half 5.
“Well, we should be at the arena in a matter of minutes, so I guess I should be signing off now! I love you all!”
I read the good luck messages and then close the twitcam.
It was Simon’s idea really. He thinks that if I connect very closely with my fans, the fanbase should grow. So now I’m to do follow sprees and #AskLennox on Twitter every week, and two twitcams every week. It was going to take time to do, but it would be worth it if I would be able to load my mentions and see not a single jealous hate tweet because of Niall and I.
The movement to Syco was pretty clean. Justin was okay with it and we’re still close friends, he texts me pretty much every other day.
Niall was a different story. He was happy when I told him that I’d been signed to Syco, but we haven’t talked for days, and the tour started 10 days ago and I haven’t heard a word from him!
We were in Manchester, and today I had special guests in the audience for me. My dad and his wife and daughter. I’d never actually met my step-sister, she’s only a few months younger than me, and from my dad’s descriptions, she’s drop-dead gorgeous, and a complete slut.
“I’m really excited for tonight.” Perrie says with a smile. “I think this will be my favourite performance.”
“And why’s that?” I ask her, sitting next to her on the sofa.
“I just have a gut feeling.” Perrie tells me with a coy smile.
*
“HELOOOO MANCHESTER!” I greet the stage, waving at the crowds. It’s crazy that before a week ago, I’d never performed in front a crowd this big. It’s strange how quickly I’ve adapted to it. “So, I love Manchester, like really love it.” The screams get louder. “And I’d like to say a quick hi to my dad, Julia and Becca!” The sceams go up again. “I’d also like to thank you all for coming out to see me and Little Mix today! And for anyone whose bought my album!” Screams again, “So here we go, this is Try.”
I get off the stage, sweat making my forehead shiny, and a large smile on my face, that probably won’t wear off for a couple of hours. But when I get off the stage, I see a person I didn’t expect to see.
“NIALL!” I run towards him, and throw my arms around his neck. “OH MY GOD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?” I scream and Niall chuckles, kissing my lips quickly.
“Well I-“
“You’re supposed to be in America!” I whack his chest.
“Harry and Zayn are supposed to be in America as well, but it didn’t stop them from coming as well.”
“Harry?” I ask, and Niall nods.
“He brought Taylor with him.”
Oh yeah Taylor, the girl he is supposed to be dating, but didn’t stop him from kissing me in the last seconds of 2012.
“He said he wanted to talk about a misunderstanding he had with you.” Niall says, making it sound like a question. “What happened?”
“Oh, nothing much.” I reply, my voice going higher. Niall raises an eyebrow at me and I shrug. “I don’t know how you’ll react.”
“To what?”
“Actually, I know how you’ll react.” I tell him, ignoring his question and continuing my rambles. “you’ll be furious, and it will all be because of me, and then I’ll be the cause of the split of the band.” Niall raises his eyebrows at me again, pulling away from my hold slightly.
“How serious is it?”
“Breaking of the bro code?” I tell him, but adding a nervous chuckle on the end.
“What did he do?”
“Harry kissed me.” I tell him in a small voice, “Not the other way round, I didn’t even kiss him back! And then I wanted to tell you straight away! But..but I couldn’t because Harry is still my friend and I didn’t want you to hate him because of his actions to me.”
Niall pulled me closer, wrapping his arms around me.
“It’s okay, Harry told me.” I pull away, and Niall has a smirk on his face. “I wanted you to tell me, because if you hadn’t... it might’ve meant more than a kiss to you. And Harry was drunk anyway, he didn’t know what he was doing.”
Harry didn’t know what he was doing? I’m pretty sure he did when he locked me in the bathroom with me! How could he lie to Niall like that? He looked pretty damn sober to me!
This didn’t help harry at all, if possible, I was more angry.
*
Hmmm.. that was a long chapter :)
What does everyone think? I hope you liked it! Lennox's has begun her touring! What does this mean for Ninnox?! ;D
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Perrie Edwards GIF, because my love for her is just insane! My love for Little Mix is crazy! :')
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