AN: Ok so hopefully here's where it gets a little interesting, now that all the boys are here and stuff.
I tried to make this chapter long cuz i'm gonna be gone all weekend but... it's late and i'd rather leave yall with a shorter chapter than nothing.
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I’m gonna save you the time and skip the boring details of how all that went down. Of course as soon as I got asked the question if we’d like to tour with them, I said yes. I didn’t even bother asking Alainey first. I knew she’d give her entire life to have 5 minutes of with One Direction. Let alone touring with them? That’s insane! Sometimes I still can’t believe it happened.
They said there was already an opening act for the boys… some band called… 5 Sauces? I don’t know. Whoever would name their band something like that must really love chicken nuggets or something.
Anyways. We spent the next month rehearsing at a studio by our apartment, going over our songs, and making them perfect so all the directioners would love us. On January 4th, we would finally meet the boys. One Direction. We were gonna do one run through of the show all together, you know, us doing our set, then the sauces, and then 1D. Making sure everything would run smoothly, we’d all get along, stuff like that.
January 4th came quicker than I could ever imagine.
I woke up that morning at about 8 a.m., even though we didn’t have to be at the rehearsal studio till 2. Who could sleep knowing we were gonna meet one direction!
I took my time in the shower, basically going over everything I’d try to remember to say to the boys as soon as I saw them. Hug them, thank them for having us, thank Liam for tweeting us, throw in a little flirtin here and there. Ya know, the harmless kind.
Choosing my outfit felt like the toughest decision I’d ever made. I went shopping for this day like a week ago, yet I still felt under prepared. I went with my new pastel blue sleeveless blouse with a white lace collar. It was sort of see-through cuz of the material of the shirt, so I paired it with a leopard print bandeau. To match that, I had leopard print vans, and added my white canvas moto jacket, since it was still January and a tank wasn’t gonna cover everything. I threw on a pair of light wash distressed capris and bam. Outfit complete.
I again spent hours making my hair appear wavy, which was sort of ironic. When most people’s hair is wavy, it’s usually natural. When they spend time on it, it’s either curled or straight. But I went out of my way to make my stick straight brown hair was as naturally wavy looking as it could be. I bobby pinned the front part of my hair (what most people have as bangs, but since I don’t have bangs it’s just kinda… there) into a twist sort of thing. My makeup was absolutely perfect. I was ready to make one direction fall in love with me.
Alainey was ready also, sporting a lose light pink tank top with a very intricate beading pattern at the top, dark skinny jeans, white beaded sandals, and a gray cardigan. Her makeup was light but definitely noticeable, her main feature being her glossy light pink lips. Her long blonde hair was straightened today and fell perfectly down her back, almost to her but.
1:15 pm. We were ready.
We got to the studio at 1:45 and, not surprisingly, we were the first ones. We sat and talked about irrelevant things for a little while while everyone showed up. First the managers and then sound tech and all the crew, security, everyone that you’d forget a celebrity would have. At about 2:15 when the boys still hadn’t showed up, I had a little panic attack that they weren’t gonna show up. Till I remembered that it was their tour.
I checked my phone. 2:22. Right as I saw that, I heard Alainey say under her breath “I wish they’d show up already”.
Just then, we heard the far off sounds of very loud laughter. I perked my head up. I knew those laughs. It could only be coming from two people. Niall Horan and Harry Styles.
My heart pounded. They were here. They were in the same building as me, and in about 30 seconds, they were about to be in the same room as me.
Don’t freak out, Cay, don’t freak out. You’re gonna be on tour with them for quite some time, don’t embarrass yourself.
Nothing I was telling myself worked. My heart was practically jumping out of my chest. I bet Alainey could even see it. But she was just as distracted by the laughter as I was. We looked at each other, then back to the door. It opened.
The first to step in the room was Zayn and Liam, followed by Louis. The door closed, then opened again for Niall and the most perfect person I’d ever laid eyes on.
Harry Styles.
The boys walked around, greeting each team member with loud “ayyyyy”’s and lots of fist bumps. They got to our side of the room and stopped. Liam spoke up.
"You girls! You’re here! That’s so awesome! It’s so great to finally meet you” his accent was even more beautiful in person.
Ok Cayls, all you gotta do is respond. Think you can do that?
“Um..” act quick Cayley, act quick. But don’t be stupid! “Yeah, it’s so awesome finally seeing you guys in person and not just on my laptop background”. Well… not exactly what I rehearsed. They laughed. Ok, could’ve been worse. “I’m Cayley, nice to meet you boys.” I waved.
They all said hello in their own perfect voices. Alainey introduced herself also, and then the boys sat in the chairs placed next to ours.
“I really just wanna say thanks for inviting us to tour with you guys. I’m SO excited for this! I can’t thank you boys enough.” I managed to say.
“Oh, it’s nothing. You girls are really talented, and we’re the excited ones!” Liam smiled.
Maybe talking to these 5 superstars was easier than I thought it would be. I didn’t exactly act badass during our conversation, but I wasn’t embarrassing myself. Which was really good. We all talked for a few minutes about the cities we’d be heading to, then Steven, our manager, came over. He told us it was time for us to run our set.
Since we were the openers to the opening act, we were only given a short amount of time, but that was fine by us. We had 4 songs prepared, 3 originals and 1 cover, Ho Hey by the Lumineers. The song was a little overplayed and got annoying, but everyone knew it and could sing along.
I was terrified at first to play in front of the boys, they were so natural up on stage and I really didn’t think I was. But if there’s one compliment people have always told me, it’s that I look like I belong on stage. Not cuz I’m pretty or anything, but cuz I’ve always had a love of being in front of a crowd, whether it be to lead a group of people, or to sing or dance or act or even walk around being an idiot.
My nerves calmed by the end of the 1st song, and I remembered why I had such a love for preforming. It was just so much fun to be up on stage, dancing to our own music and belting every word of the songs I got to write myself. It was such an incredible feeling. By the end of our set, everyone was applauding. Even the boys.
“That was so awesome! You are so talented. Our fans are gonna love you” Louis said as I went to take my seat. Wait… where’d my seat go? I looked around for an empty chair and found none, until I realized that Niall had taken two chairs to sprawl out on.
“Hey, dude that was my chair!” I half-yell half-laugh, pointing to the chair Niall’s legs were in.
“Too bad! Get your own!” Niall stuck his tongue out at me like a little kid and then laughed loudly.
“Hey! Be nice to her! She’s our guest on this tour.” Harry said.
Harry Styles just defended me? Wow. As soon as I realized what just happened, something else dawned on me. That was the first words I’d heard Harry say around Alainey and me. Was he being shy? That’s not like what I assumed Harry would be like. Oh well, he was sticking up for me.
I smiled sweetly back at him. “Yeah Niall! We’re your guests! Now get your feet off my chair!” I smirked. Oh how I could already tell that this tour would be basically nothing but us nonstop joking around 24/7. And I’d probably never let Harry forget that we were their “guests”.
“Fine” he mumbled as he took his feet off my chair. I smiled at him and sat back down.
Just then, four more boys walked in.
“Eyyyyyyyyyy” the new boys, who I’m assuming were the sauces, all shouted as they ran into the room and over to where we were sitting. “Niall!” The tallest one shouted. “The fifth member of our band!” They all laughed. I didn’t get it.
They all greeted each other excitedly, bro hugging and fist bumping and even some secret handshaking, it looked like?
“Oh, I almost forgot!” Louis said, stopping everyone’s loud chatting. “Boys, this is Cayley and Alainey, also known as A-Oh-Cay! They’re our opening opener, so they’ll go on before you. But you should already know that.” He turned and nudged one of the boys on the arm. “Girls, this is our badass opening act, formerly known as 5 Seconds of Summer, also known by us as the emos.”
Huh, 5 Seconds of Summer. That has nothing to do with sauce…
5 SOS…
Wait… I get it. It wasn’t 5 sauces. It was 5SOS. Well that made sense. And I felt really dumb.
I shook each one of the boys hands as they told me their names, until I got to the boy Louis had nudged.
“Hey, I’m Ashton” he said with a very smug look on his face. I stared at him for about 7 seconds trying to figure out why. That accent. Those eyes. That name. And those biceps… he had to be a drummer. I put it together instantly.
“The boy from the party” I said, quieter than intended.
“You remember” he sort of half-questioned, half stated. I nodded my head yes and smiled.
Of course I remember. There was something about him that was so… hard to forget. His hair was different, his face even looked a bit different. That party happened about a year and a half ago, yet I still remembered. Not that I specifically wanted to remember him, not that there was even much to remember, but him in general… there was something about him.
Everyone looked at us, a little confused, till Niall spoke up. “How d’you guys know eachoder?”
“We met at a party not too long ago” Ashton responded, but before he could finish his sentence I did.
“Actually… a year and a half ago.”
"Wow, so there’s history between you two” Niall raised his eyebrows at us jokingly.
“You could say that” Ashton smiled.
…No you couldn’t. Whatever, I ignored it. We all finished our introductions when Alainey tugged on my arm, a very excited look plastered on her face.
“Cay” She whispered, pointing with her eyes to the bathroom. She didn’t even have to finish what she was saying. I knew there was something she was dying to tell me.
“Uh, I’ll be right back. I have to go to the bathroom” I awkwardly announced to no one in particular.
"Me too!” Alainey added, following me into the bathroom.
“What’s goin on?” I asked, sort of confused, as soon as we were safely out of earshot from everyone.
“The boy! The boy from the street! The one who picked up my debit card?” She could barely get her words out, she was way too giddy.
"Yeah? What about him?”
“That was him!” She squealed.
“What?? Who? Which one?!” I don’t know why I asked that question in the first place. I knew it wasn’t one of the One Direction boys, obviously. I knew Alainey’s type. Dark hair, dark eyes, cute face. It had to be that one named Calum.
I was already picturing the two of them together, even planning their ship name, when she said something that completely threw me by surprise.
“Ashton!”
Ashton was the boy from the street. The boy she fell for as soon as they made eye contact.
Ashton. The boy from the party.
Ashton. The one my best friend instantly had a crush on. The same one who seemed surprisingly interested in me.
Ashton. The boy who we would be touring with for the next few months.
Small world.