Part 28 is hereeeeee! Two updates in one day.... in the wise words of Amber: "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" all the people who claim that I don't update enough.
I'm in a hyper mood tonight so I thought hmmmm why not do something productive and update?!
Part of this story is a bit fan girl-ish so I apologise in advance! You should definitely check out the songs that I mention. I actually met Avenged Sevenfold once (ages ago back in 2006) and M.Shadows asked how I was and I replied: "I'm very good thank you, how are you?" to which he replied that he was great. Talk about a conversation being 0% rock and roll! I bet he thought, who the hell is this overly polite speaking girl?! (seeing as everyone else was saying things along the lines of "Dudeee, you all f*ucking rock!"). It's not as embarassing as when I sort of met Benji Madden though :o I still cringe about that now....
Anyways enough of my hyper ramblings.... please enjoy and vote and comment (and make sure you do the same with part 27 :p )
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"Good practise girls!" I called out to the girls after a gruelling session.
Candice had spent an hour on cardio and toning exercises before we'd even started practising our newest routine. She'd also lectured us all about not eating any kind of junk food and had handed us each a copy of a workout plan that she'd devised that we had to do every day.
She'd said that her squad weren't going to turn up to Nationals looking like a bunch of heffers.
I politely reminded her that they were OUR squad.
Jogging into our changing rooms I had a quick shower and put on the clothes that I'd picked out to wear to the Avenged Sevenfold gig. I put on my black skinny jeans, a hot pink cropped vest and then my "Kiss Me, I'm Contagious" t-shirt that Teigan had magically turned into an off the shoulders top. I completed the look with my hot pink converse that had stars on them.
I was pinktastic and proud!
Chelsea was waiting for me on the changing room bench to do my make up.
I wasn't at all surprised to see that Lacey, Janey and Alicia were sat with her - they wanted the gossip no doubt.
"How do I look?" I asked, twirling in front of them all.
"Like a sexy ass rock chick" Chelsea declared, grabbing my hand and pulling me down on to the bench.
She started working her magic on me while the other girls watched.
"Okay, I'm just going to ask" Lacey blurted out, "What-"
"- the heck is going on with you and Liam Unsworth?" Janey added, finishing her sentence.
I could sense all of their eyes on me, desperate for details.
"We're going to see a band do a gig tonight" I replied, hoping that this would be enough information for them.
It wasn't.
"Are you dating?"
"Is he your boyfriend?"
"You love him don't you?!"
That last overly dramatic question was from Lacey.
"We're just hanging out" I shrugged.
"Keep still" Chelsea tutted, my shrugging obviously interfering with her make up application.
"You should have seen them when they babysat for TJ" Alicia gushed, "When we got back they were both fast asleep snuggled up to each other"
My mouth fell open (which earned me another exasperated tut from Chelsea).
"We were not snuggled up to each other!" I said indignantly.
"They looked so cute, I wish I'd taken a photo" Alicia continued, ignoring what I'd said.
Janey and Lacey both let out wistful "Aaaaaw"s
"Finished" Chelsea told me.
I got up, walking over to the big mirror on the changing rooms wall.
My make up was perfect.
She'd done my eyeshadow so that the inner half was pink and then the outside was black and there was glitter dusted across my eyelids, so that everytime I moved I could see it twinkling. The eyes were completed with a think line of eyeliner and lashings of mascara.
It wouldn't suit me as an everyday look but it was ideal for the concert..
"You look different" Alicia commented, coming and standing next to me in front of the mirror.
"A good different" Lacey and Janey said in unison.
"Just call me the Harry Potter of make up" Chelsea grinned, doing jazz hands, "Ta-dahhhh"
Grabbing my hairbrush, I quickly brushed through my wet hair.
"It's an hours drive, it will dry on the way there" I told the others.
My hair was naturally quite straight so I didn't need to go through the whole ordeal of drying it and straightening it before the show. Plus, it was probably going to end up manky anyway after I was surrounded my a bunch of sweaty fellow fans.
I grabbed my handbag and rummaged through it for my lipgloss.
"Can't forget my cherry lipgloss" I said, knowing that none of them understood the back story as to why I wanted to make sure that I was wearing it.
We trailed out of the school gym and stood in the car park.
"What time is he coming to get you?" Chelsea asked, looking at her watch.
"Anytime around now. Now remember, do not ring me or anything tonight because my mum thinks that I'm out with you. You know what she's like - she'd never let me go to this kind of show"
She'd freak out for sure.
Chelsea nodded, I'd already briefed her on this earlier.... like a gazillion times.
"She's hanging out with Jordan, she won't be ringing anybody" Alicia teased, making Chelsea smile.
"And you're hanging out with TJ tonight aren't you?" I asked her, "A little, hyper, dancing bird told me"
Alicia blushed and nodded.
"Pfft we so need boyfriends" Lacey and Janey pouted.
The sound of an engine filled the car park and Liams familiar car pulled up several feet from where I was stood with the girls. He probably wanted to save himself the traumatic experience of them either staring at him as I got in or quizzing him about where we were going and what we were to each other.
"I'll see you all later" I beamed, excitement kicking in that I was about to go and see my favourite band.
AND hang out with Liam all evening.
"Have fun" they all told me
"And look after her Liam!" Chelsea called out to him as I got in his car, in the sort of threatening tone that best friends use to warn people not to let any harm come to their BFF's.
He nodded at her and gave her a brief hand gesture as if to signal that he heard her loud and clear.
"You ready?" he asked when I'd buckled up.
I nodded, not wanting to speak incase I let out an embarassing squeal of excitement.
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"You look really nice" Liam told me as we drove along, "There's a lot of pink but that's just you allover"
"Hey! More of my body is covered in black" I argued, "And thank you. You look really nice too"
He definitely did.
He was wearing dark blue jeans with a plain black v-neck t-shirt that emphasised his muscles.
Simple... but sexy.
"Do you want a skittle?" I asked him, offering him the bag.
He should have felt privileged that I was offering to share my bag of heaven with him - I don't do that with just anybody.
He shook his head but shot me an amused look.
"You're munching them like they're going out of fashion. Is this your first time eating sweets?" he teased.
"My mum doesn't let me eat sweets so when I'm out I'm a bit of a sugar addict"
I fell silent when I realised what I'd said.
Why the hell would I tell him that?
"Your mum doesn't let you eat sweets?" he asked, frowning.
I just knew that he'd pick up on that part.
"She's a bit of a control freak sometimes" I shrugged.
Oh my god, talk about over sharing.... shut up Kaydie!
"She worries that I'll get fat"
My verbal diarrhea was definitely well and truly back and I had a severe case of it this time.
Liam looked incredulous.
"There's nothing on you" he frowned, "You're the last person I'd ever call fat"
"That day that you caught me jogging, my mum had decided that she could pinch more than an inch and made me go jogging to burn it off"
It was surreal that I was telling him all of this.
He looked shocked beyond belief.
"Do you think you're fat?" he asked, his tone concerned.
"Nope, I know I'm not. I do far too much dancing and cheerleading for me to even have chance to gain weight"
His face softened when he realised that I wasn't body conscious.
It was sweet that he was worried for me.
"Then why don't you tell your mum to shove her jogging up her ass?"
"Cos she's my mum" I replied simply.
He sighed and shook his head but didn't say anything else on the matter.
"What are your parents like?" I asked, genuinely curious.
His expression darkened in a split second.
"I hate them" he told me shortly.
That was the end of that in depth story.
The tension in the air had multiplied quickly so I didn't want to push him to talk about them.
I could still remember what happened the last time I tried to insist that he talk to me about something.
"So, what song are you most looking forward to them performing?" I asked, speedily changing the subject.
He looked grateful that I'd done his.
"Scream" he answered, smiling at me.
There was a cheeky glint in his eyes.
"What about you?"
I wasn't sure that I wanted to admit to him which song I wanted to see - the song was sort of twisted.
"Um, A Little Piece Of Heaven" I finally replied.
Liam threw back his head, laughing loudly.
"You always surprise me" he said, sounding impressed with my choice, "I thought that you were gonna be a proper girl and say Warmness On The Soul"
Warmness On The Soul is a sweet, ballad type song.
"I love that song" I admitted, "But yeah, I think that the other one will be more exciting"
"I bet it will" he said, still laughing.
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The show was fricking amazing!
They'd opened with the song Chapter Four and I'd screamed until I didn't think that it was possible for me to scream any louder.
We'd ended up being able to push our way through the crowd and I was against the bar while Liam was behind me, his arms either side of me protectively.
Every now and then the crowd would sway forward and he'd be pressed solidly against me.
Not that I was complaining....
I wasn't let down when they performed A Little Piece Of Heaven. The performance was spectacular and M Shadows even held out the microphone for me on the wedding part so that I could scream "I doooooo" into it.
"Oh my giddy goodness goshy god!" I squealed afterwards as we walked back to where Liams car was parked, "That was frickin' fantastical"
I wasn't actually walking, I was bouncing along Amber and TJ style.
"Is this the gig or the sweets making you like this?" Liam laughed, shaking his head at my hyperness.
"A bit of both" I gushed.
"Mind you, you got to speak into the microphone tonight." Liam reasoned, "I'd be pretty hyped up too. It did cross my mind to steal the microphone from you and shout "Shadows, I f*ucking love you!"
He was in such a good mood as well.
It was great seeing him so happy and carefree.
"I would have paid good money to see that declaration of bromance" I told him honestly.
"Any t-shirts or hoodies?" a guy asked, approaching us.
He was pulling along a makeshift stand that had a variety of shirts and hoodies on.
I puchased several and so did Liam.
"I'll have that hoodie too" Liam said, pointing to a small black hoodie that had a pink deathbat on the front.
"What a gentleman" the guy said, handing the hoodie straight to me and then taking the money from Liam.
"Oh my god, thank you" I said to Liam, after the tshirt guy had walked off to try and sell his merchandise to another group, "I love it"
He looked shy and vulnerable for a tiny second before he gave me a smile.
"Maybe you can stop stealing my hoodie now" he said, raising an eyebrow at me.
And there was me thinking that he'd not realised that I'd gone home in his hoodie the other night....
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"Kaydie, do you want to be naughty?" Liam randomly asked me as we drove back.
I recognised where we were now as we weren't far from my house.
"Um, sure?" I replied.
It was a bit of a naive and clueless response seeing as being "naughty" could have meant a whole lot of things.
"Do you want to go and get some fattening food?" he asked, his eyes twinkling, "I won't tell mummy dearest"
I rolled my eyes at his so called joke and smacked his arm gently (he was driving afterall).
However, I was quite relieved that eating junk food was all he'd meant though when he'd suggested that we be naughty.
He pulled into the carpark of a diner that I knew was open all day, every day.
I could see that it was deserted, except for an old lady who was bustling about behind the counter.
The door emitted a jingling noise as we walked inside and her head shot up to see who her new customers were.
"We will take two of your biggest, unhealthiest burgers with side portions of fries" Liam orders.
"With two large chocolate milkshakes" I added.
Hey, we're both extremely active so a random pig out session wouldn't hurt.
The old lady smiled as she took our order, telling us that she'd bring the food over to us when it was ready.
We went and sat in a booth in the corner. We were out of the ladies line of sight but seeing as we were the only two customers there, she wouldn't struggle to find us.
"Thank you for taking me tonight" I said when we were sat down, "I owe you now. But I don't know how I'm going to top that show"
"It's cool" he replied.
He had his hand on the table in front of us tapping his fingers on it's surface.
I felt an urge to reach out and hold his hand but in typical me style I didn't dare.
While I sat there willing myself to not be a chicken, Liam yawned, stretching his hands out above his head.
I bit my lip to stop myself from gigling when I felt his arm slip around me.
I just couldn't believe that he had used that move on me!
I was glad that he had, but still - cheesetastic or what?!
Reaching up, I entwined my fingers with the hand that he had put around me and let out a contented sigh as I snuggled up to him.
Liam just had the effect on me where when I was around him I felt at peace, like nothing else mattered.
Sure we argued sometimes but times like this made it worth it.
He tilted my chin upwards and kissed me.
A soft lingering peck on the lips was followed by a deep, sensual kiss that lasted for what felt like forever.
I pouted when Liam pulled away.
"They put loads of onions on the burgers in here" Liam said smiling down at me, "I thought that I'd better do that before you had onion breath"
I burst out laughing when he said this.
My laughter was obviously contagious as he began laughing hard too.
"Two unhealthy burgers, two fries and two milkshakes" the elderly waitress said, arriving at our table with our food on a large tray and placing it down in front of us.
She took a step back and just looked at us for a moment.
"Adorable" she smiled, before walking away.
"She was clearly talking about my face" Liam joked when she'd left.
"She said adorable, not terrifying" I teased him.
He pouted and I lifted off the seat and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.
"Bring on the onion breath!" I declared, lifting up my burger and taking a big bite.
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