Niall’s P.O.V
“I hate myself for doing this” I sighed, shaking my head
“Louis would of wanted you to have his solos, he always said you should’ve had more anyway” Liam replied, giving my shoulder a comforting squeeze.
“I suppose you are right, it will just feel weird doing an interview without him cutting in with stupid jokes…” I continued as our microphones were attached.
“But…I suppose we will have to get used to it now” Zayn bit his lip, watching as the countdown counted down until they were on live television.
“And give a warm welcome to One Direction!” The host welcomed, as we ran on stage, making the audience clap.
“Welcome boys. So I can’t help but notice, only four?” She asked
“Erm…yeah Louis can’t make it today. Family reasons” I lied, management told us not to say to real reason just yet. The host moved closer as if indicating she wanted to know more.
“We can’t reveal the reasons though, we have to respect his and his family’s privacy” Harry cut in, making the host nod understandingly although we all knew she wanted an exclusive for her show.
“So boys, how are you all handling the fame, the girls, the paparazzi following you everywhere?” She asked
“We love our fans, they are the people who got us here today and I speak for the boys and Louis that even though some won’t get the chance to meet us, they are all very special to us, each and every one” Liam answered, a small smile on his lips.
“Of course” She smiled. Before reading the next question which had been asked a million times before, they all were. But thankfully there was no questions about Louis until the last one…
“So boys, the 2013 tour will be coming soon. What will happen if Louis still isn’t with you? Will you continue?”
The boys all looked at each other, not knowing how to answer it. They hadn’t even thought about it themselves…
I shot a look at the wings where Paul was standing watching. He obviously got the message how they were uncomfortable with the question so he jogged over to the producer and told him to cut to the adverts. He luckily did as he noticed himself how they didn’t know how to answer it.
“Ugh, that was horrible” Zayn complained
“I know, we are gonna have to think of answers so we are ready for those type of questions. We can’t keep cutting every interview short because they will figure something is up” Liam pointed out.
“Right boys, places! You will be singing as soon as the adverts finished” The director ordered as we made our way over to the microphones standing there, ready.
The audience clapped as we were back on air and the familiar opening tune of One Thing started.
I listened to Liam, Harry and Zayn as they did their verse. Singing my usual verse like normal, it soon ended and the boys were almost expecting Louis’ voice to ring through like it usually did, but it never came. It was my job now. I can do this. Make Louis proud if he is watching this.
I opened my mouth about to sing when nothing came out. I couldn’t. The lads picked up that I was having difficulty and quickly sang Louis’ verse all together hoping no-one noticed.
As soon as the song finished, I ran off stage, out of view of the camera.
“I couldn’t do it, I can’t just do all his solos as if he never even existed in this band. I just can’t” I shook my head, trying to stop the tears. Emily ran over, giving me a big hug.
“You didn’t let anyone down, we all know it’s hard. I’m proud of you for trying” She comforted me, giving me a gentle kiss before wiping the tears away with her thumb.
“She’s right mate, it was hard for us to continue ourselves. Management was watching and they are giving us a small break” Liam continued “So I was thinking we could move on, to the next city?”
“Sounds like a plan” Erin agreed
“The thing is…Louis was the one who mostly drove and Evie was the one who mostly looked at the map…?” Taylor pointed out
“I’m sure we’ll manage” Zayn waved his hand dismissively, although we all knew the chances of getting lost had just got higher…
Louis P.O.V
Me and Evie were curled up on the sofa, flicking through the channels of the tv.
“Wait! Go back!” I shouted, Evie frowned and flicked back slowly, I needed to see if it was just a trick of the light…thankfully it wasn’t, there doing an interview was my four ‘brothers’.
We watched intensely as they made an excuse up for my absence then went on to being so uncomfortable about the question about the tour.
“I’d never even thought about the tour” I sighed, rubbing my hands over my face as they cut to the adverts. “What happens if they cancel? Those fans which waited for hours just to get their hands on tickets…I’m so selfish”
“You aren’t selfish” Evie protested, moving a stray hair out my eyes.
“I never thought about it properly, I almost thought they would just be able to carry on, how wrong was I?” I let out a dry laugh
“Do you regret it…leaving I mean?” Evie asked hesitantly
I thought about it for a minute, do I regret it?
“I kinda do” Evie piped up “They annoy me sometimes, that’s for sure like when Harry walks around the house naked, ignoring your protests or when Erin uses the last tea bag. This house, it’s beautiful. I’d love for us all to spend holidays here but it’s not…home”
I smiled throughout her little speech and it made me realize that she was right, we should never have left.
“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” I smirked, she looked up, looking into my eyes with a small smile playing on her lips.
“Going back?” She questioned. I nodded.
Evie pulled her phone out, pressing a few buttons before reading;
“If they are sticking to the schedule, they will be making their way down to California”
“It’s not that far away from here then” I said
“I don’t know where we are, so I can’t agree or disagree!” She laughed
“I’m thinking, just walking in saying hi! Is too boring for Louis Tomlinson, I think we should meet them in…style” I grinned, thinking of the perfect plan.
Harry P.O.V
“Uhm Harry? Why’ve we stopped?” Zayn asked from the back
I turned around giving them an innocent smile “We….we uhm….ran out of petrol”
“We’ve what?! We are in the middle of no where!” Liam burst out
“I’m sure we passed a petrol station a few miles back, I suppose we could walk down there” Beth pointed out.
“Ughh…come on then” I groaned as we all hopped out into the blistering heat. Great. Just great.
A few hours later and the van was filled up and ready to go.
“I’m hungrrryyy!” Niall moaned
“So am I actually!”
“Yeah I agree with Nialler”
“Is there restaurant near?”
Replies like that shot around the bus, until I pinched the top of my nose and told them “I will find a restaurant!”
They seemed pretty content with that because they shut up, thankfully. I drove until I came into a town which luckily had a nice restaurant.
“I look like a tramp” Emily complained, looking down at her white top which was now a brown colour from all the dust we had walked in.
“We all do, don’t worry about it” Niall smirked as they went into the restaurant. Finding a table a table and sitting down, we looked at the menu before a waiter and waitress came over.
“Hello! We will be looking after you tonight! What would you like to drink?”The waiter asked, with a weird Italian accent. I put the menu in front of my mouth to hide the laughter spilling out my mouth at his stupid big bushy moustache and his almost monobrow. Not to mention the waitress, with her bright orange mop of bushy hair and a wart on her upper lip.
“Sir?” He asked
“Oh…erm a bottle of beer please” I managed to hold the laughter in and finally when they both went I burst out laughing.
“D-Did you see them?!” I exclaimed though laughter. We continued to joke about them until Taylor pointed out that somehow…they look familiar. I waited until they came back and I could see where she was coming from. The waiter had bright blue eyes, the kind I had only seen on Louis and the waitress, as she smiled she stuck her tongue out slightly, a thing Brianna always does because we always take the mick of it. It couldn’t be….could it?!
A/N Im sorrrrryyyy for not updating in a while! And I'm sorry for not having a good chapter to make up for it because personally I think this chapter is crap but oh well!
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