"Mila," someone whispered form behind me. I stopped walking and saw Alex with a smirk on his face. "What?" I whispered back.
"Drew hates it when people walk slowly in front of him. How about we mess with him a little," Alex grinned with excitement. "Oh, I'm in for sure!"
It was day two of recording and we were currently walking back to the studio after having a drink at Sturbucks just down the road. Alex started with our 'prank' and walked casually in front of Drew who was texting someone on his phone.
Alex pulled his phone out as well and pretended to text someone before slowing down a little. "Hey Mila, look at this," he said before slowing down more and more.
I walked next to him and looked at his phone where he just showed me a selfie he had made with me, earlier today. "Oh and this," he continued showing me pictures from the last week we had spend together.
We both slowed down even more until Drew finally reacted by groaning and stepping aside. We pretended to almost step on dog poo just so we had a legit reason to step aside as well and in front of Drew yet again.
We tried not to laugh as we did the same thing and slowed down again.
"Alex seriously!" Drew exclaimed as he pushed Alex aside and walked in front of us. We tried to keep in our laughter since we weren't done with messing with Drew.
As we arrived at the studio I walked in first with Drew behind me. In the hallway I walked slow on purpose and he pumped into me. "Sorry," I apologized with a quiet chuckle.
Drew put away his phone and since I was walking so slow he got really annoyed as he groaned. I couldn't keep in my laughter as I turned around to look at Drew's face. Alex joined me and just to annoy Drew a little further I slowed down even more if that was even possible.
Suddenly he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder, making me scream out loud. "Don't mess with me Mila," Drew chuckled and almost let me slip on purpose.
I looked at Alex who was laughing his ass off while holding his phone up, probably filming our brilliant way to annoy Drew. You guys have no idea how funny it was to mess with that guy.
Finally Drew let me down and placed me on the couch before sitting on top of me. "Jesus Drew, get off!" I groaned because of the way he literally let himself fall on top of me.
"Alright Drew one last time!"
Drew got called to sing the Post-Chorus again and I finally got him to get off of me. Andrew was done after that and it was my turn to sing the Post-Chorus again just like he did before me.
"We ain't never getting older," I sang and repeated the words to layer Drew's not without putting my own touch to it.
"That's a wrap!" everyone screamed after I had sang the last tone.
I jumped up and down in excitement and went to hug Alex & Drew. "Thanks for recording this song with us Mila," Alex said, making me smile. "Thanks for having me on your song."
To be fair, the guys and I could've been done long time ago but we were always messing around and Alex & I even pulled a prank on Drew and changed the pitch to make his voice sound like a chipmunk so he had to re-record the part.
In the end all I can say is that it was awesome to work with these guys and their crew so I was really lucky to have the opportunity.
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Apparently, tour starts in less than week and my schedule was full.
The day after recording the song with the Chainsmorkers, I finished recording the movie song for 'Moana' and just yesterday we started filming my music video that had to be done quick because of the change of plans my managment had made. I was supposed to fly to Glasgow in a little more then a week but now it was less then a week and I still didn't know when exactly but I sure hoped that it wouldn't be in less then two days. It got changed because of the rehearsing I would have to do in Glasgow for my shows but I really didn't need or even had a routine for that.
So right now we had about one or two more scenes to film before the music video was done. Ellie touched up my make up and we all got in position. The music started and I tried my best to remember the routine that I had to rehearse yesterday before we started. It wasn't much but I missed rehearsals because of other things that were more important for my career.
I was exhausted but there was no way I would complain.
"THAT'S A WRAP!"
Finally. I loved filming the video but I wanted to rest until I had to fly to Glasgow little did I know that that wouldn't be the case.
"Mila, let's go home and pack. We'll fly tomorrow," Andre told me as I was currently walking to the dressing room to change into my normal clothes.
"Tomorrow?" I asked in disbelief.
"Mark is really sorry for all the stress he's put you under the last few weeks but he did everything to push your career and maybe keeping tour a secret from you wasn't so smart so he promised to make it up to you soon. Just go change I'll be waiting here."
I nodded and quickly changed before hugging everyone goodbye and thanking them for being in my music video and also to the crew who were really amazing. I can't wait to see the finished video in a few weeks.
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So yesterday, Lauren helped me and Andre to pack til early in the morning and said goodbye to her this morning. I always felt bad when we left her alone but it wasn't my choice and she told us she would be fine after we promised to call her at least once a day.
I had just three hours of sleep and I wasn't a morning person, at all. I usually need ten hours or preferably more then that but being in this industry meant that I had to cut my sleep short when I was working which was mostly everyday especially now that I was going on tour.
My flight however was this afternoon at around four so until then I had a few Interviews to announce that I will be on tour. Usually, the artists would announce their opening act beforehand but apparently not this time.
"So I just announce that I'll be on tour but I'm not allowed to know with who so I can't say anything else?" I questioned, making Andre nod.
"Well, that's stupid."
Andre laughed but he knew I was right. Why couldn't they just tell me? What was the problem?
"Personally, I think they're just messing with you because of all the trouble you make wherever you go," Andre shrugged. I ignored his comment and soon I was seated on a comfortable couch in front of an interviewer.
I did the intro and got handed a glass of water before the interview began.
The interviewer asked me the usual questions until he asked about upcoming stuff.
"Well, I'm happy to announce that I'll be going on tour, starting in less than a week. Just the opening act of course but it'll be awesome!" I grinned happily.
"Wow! That's really awesome, congratulations."
I thanked him before he asked further about the surprising announcement. "Who will you be on tour with?" he asked me. Now...what do I say?
"To be completely honest with you. I don't even know," I shrugged but he didn't seem to buy it. "Oh c'mon as if no one told you about the most important information?"
"No seriously, my management is keeping it a secret from me but I will know this afternoon so I'm really excited to finally know."
The interview came to an end after a few more minutes and Andre & I drove straight to the airport where my people where waiting in one of the waiting rooms with all our luggage.
I greeted everyone and talked with Ellie & Lena who would of course come with me. "Do you guys know who I'm touring with?" I asked quietly so no one else would hear me asking this.
They shook their heads but something told me that they in fact did know.
"How long do we have to wait?" I asked Andre after just a few minutes of waiting.
"Well, we have to check in soon and go through security so not longer than an hour," he answered for me.
I pulled my phone out and tried calling Jason, who was my best friend, since the last time I talked to him was when I was back in Texas. He didn't pick up so I texted him quickly telling him that I was soon going to be on tour and that I was almost on my way to the UK.
I was told that we would arrive at 2am, LA time which meant 10am UK time. I couldn't believe that it was finally time to travel the world. To places I've never been to.
It didn't take as long as I thought so after checking in and going through security we were shown to our first class seats. Only a few people of my crew had actually tickets to first class so a lot of them had to sit in the economy class which wasn't bad either.
The first class in this plane was seriously the coolest I've ever seen. Everyone had like their own booth with these partition walls but you could shove them away, either way you could still see others since they weren't that high but no one could see you if you make your chair to a bed. I'm not good at explaining to be honest but adding to that everyone had their own little TVs and everything.
A little pillow was placed on our seats and two seats were always in front of each other so you could put the TVs down and see the person in front of you. Andre had the seat in front of me but the TVs were up and I didn't plan on taking them down, so we couldn't see each other.
Ellie & Lena were behind me since I was flying backwards and the rest of my crew was in the economy class. I put my headphones in and before the plane even took off I was fast asleep.
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I did a lot of pre-writing. I'm proud of myself 😂