So this is the sequel to The Worst Is Over and The Sky Is Clear, so if you haven't read that one already, I'd recommend so before reading this or it'll make no sense!
I've been working on this fic for what feels like FOREVER, and some parts of it are pretty dodgy and random and strange, depending on what had been going on while I was writing it, but bear with me! It's done in Lucie's POV again and I was planning on putting a McFly's POV with it, but it's extremely long and hard to write and nowhere near halfway finished, so maybe I might post it later on, when it's finished.
I wish this could happen. But I know it never will, but it's been fun writing it. And it's pretty long, so anyone who sticks with it til the end deserves an ENORMOUS pat on the back and congratulations for making it that far!
Of course I don't own McFly or anything to do with them, although it would be pretty cool to! Ha-ha, so anyways, here's the first chapter, hope you like it =)... (Although the start bit sucks!)
It's been nearly six months since we spent that amazing week in England with McFly. It's still all we ever talk about! When we got back to school everyone had their own stories to tell about their holidays with their famous people, but I think we had the most fun out of everyone. Even Will and Joel had something different to talk about, other than girls and motorbikes and footy. When you hear about how many girls they'd pashed on the weekend and how much they hated the Melbourne Football Club and how awesome Essendon and Collingwood are... (which they aren't. Everyone already knows Geelong kills them all!) (A/N Congrats Geelong on winning the 2009 AFL Grand Final as well!! Ha-ha :) ) nearly every single day, you get sick of it after a while.
Zac and I are still in touch every day with the internet and once or twice a month when he can be bothered I get a letter. I've got a big, white scar from the cut and it stands out so much. I'm slowly getting over the loss of my dad; I don't cry as much about it. Annnyyyyyywaaaay I have another story to tell you, so here goes........
About five months after we got back from England and the excitement had been slowly wearing off, I came home after walking up the street with Vanessa and Sophie, on a Wednesday night and as soon I walked in the door Mum told me to check our emails. I threw my school bag on the lounge room floor, and went on the computer. I opened them, spinning around in the computer chair while I waited for it to load. It finally did so I clicked on the first one that had my name on it. It said:
Hi again Lucie!
Well it's McFly again and we've got a question to ask you, Sophie and Vanessa, but they'll get their own emails. We have a tour coming up soon and we were wondering whether you girls would like to join us on it. It goes for five weeks, so that means a lot more time with us than you did last time. We would like to hear from you ASAP, even if you can't make it because we need to tell the people who run our tours and our managers but we hope you can make it. Please contact us through the numbers your Mum will have and also send us an email back. Hope to hear from you soon!
From Tom, Danny, Harry and Dougie xx (written by Tom HA-HA Dougie I write better emails than you!!!!)
I started screaming and jumping up and down hysterically.
'What's the matter Lucie?' Mum asked.
I quickly printed out the email and took it to Mum who was in the laundry, even though she'd probably already read it on the computer.
'You can go if you want,' she said after skimming through it quickly. I gave her a massive hug.
'THANK YOU SO MUCH,' I screamed over and over again.
'Give Sophie and Vanessa a ring to see if they're going too,' Mum said and put one of my school dresses in the washing machine.
I quickly rang Vanessa and Sophie, and they were both coming on the tour.
'Invite them for a sleepover Lucie,' Mum yelled from the laundry.
They both said they could come. I was surprised Mum said that because we had school in the morning and the athletics carnival as well.
I quickly replied to the email (with a lot of capital letters and exclamation points) and waited for Sophie and Vanessa to come round. They came round, laden down with sleeping bags, pillows and bags and lots of food.
'Mum, can we have McFly's number please?' I asked as soon as she finished talking to their mothers. She handed me a piece of paper with two numbers written on it in Mum's swirly handwriting. One was landline, one was mobile. Sophie grabbed my phone off the hook and handed it to me. I dialled the landline number, except there was no answer.
'Try the other one,' Vanessa urged.
I dialled the other number and put it on speaker.
'Hello?' Tom's voice answered. His voice sounded tired, hoarse and exhausted. We all grinned at each other, fighting the urge to scream.
'Hi, this is Vanessa, Sophie and Lucie!' Vanessa yelled into the phone.
'Hi girls,' he replied, his voice lifting a bit and I could imagine seeing him grinning on the other end of the phone. We heard Dougie, Danny, Harry and someone else excitedly yell hi (amongst other things) at us in the background.
'We're ringing to say we can come,' Sophie grinned.
More screams and cheers.
'That's wicked,' Tom replied and we heard something that sounded like a hi-five in the background.
'When do we fly over?' Vanessa asked.
'What cities are we going to?' Sophie asked.
'How many shows are there?' I asked.
'Umm, I'll get back to you girls. Listen I can't talk right now, but I'll get back to you later, okay?' Tom replied.
'Okay bye Tom!' we all yelled.
'Bye girls,' he said and hung up.
'Wonder what's happening,' Vanessa said.
'Mmm me too,' I replied.
'Pepper!' Sophie suddenly exclaimed, bending down to pat my white and fluffy puppy who had come and lay next to her foot with her toy.
Delilah and Pepper were my two dogs. We had gotten them as puppies and they were both sisters. Delilah had long, white flowing fur with black around her eyes and brown paws and tail. Pepper, on the other hand has flecks of black through her long white fur (which is how she got the name "Pepper") and black around her face and big brown eyes, the same as Delilah's. They both have little pushed up noses which make their faces cuter than ever. Mum and I went to get a new dog, but we couldn't choose between them, so we took the easy way out and took both the little puppies home.
We were unrolling our sleeping bags onto the floor of the lounge room when Mum walked in.
'Lucie, tonight I'm going out for dinner with Sophie and Vanessas' mothers, so I'll be back late and you'll be on your own,' she said. 'If you need anything call my mobile okay?' she added, putting a diamond earring that Dad gave her for their wedding anniversary, through her ear.
'Yes Mum, we'll be fine,' I replied.
'I'll leave you some money for pizza,' she said.
'Thank you Mum,' I said.
'You know all the emergency phone numbers are near the phone?' she said.
'Yes Mum,' I replied.
'Don't be too loud,' she added.
'Yes Mum,' I said again.
'Remember you have school tomorrow so not too late to bed,' she said.
'YES MUM,' I yelled, rolling my eyes.
'Well I better go or I'll be late,' she said, getting her car keys and putting forty dollars on the bench for our pizza.
'Bye Mum, have a good time,' I said, pushing her through the door.
'Oh and around I'll be back late, so open the door for me alright?' she called back and I nodded.
'Bye,' she called, getting into her car and backing out of our gravel driveway.
'So should we order our pizza?' I suggested after she'd gone.
'YEAH!' Sophie and Vanessa squealed.
I grabbed the phone and ordered three pizzas- one Aussie (me), one Hawaiian (Sophie) and one Vegetarian (Vanessa), three bottles of coke and heaps of chips. We finished setting up our beds and set up the room for our sleepover, which included bowls of chips and lollies and chocolate spread around the room and pulling my stereo out of my room. We even found a whole packet of balloons in the cupboard left over from my birthday party almost a year ago. We got through half of the packet of fifty when the doorbell rang. We sprinted to the door, got our food, paid for it and then sat on the floor to eat it. We started scoffing our pizza.
'Yum, I haven't had anything to eat since lunch at school,' Vanessa said with her mouth full.
'Don't tell me it's another one of your stupid diets Ness?' I said.
Vanessa was always on some stupid diet even though she was so skinny but it never did anything to her. She always stayed the same weight.
'No, had netball training,' she replied, taking another bite of her pizza and getting the sauce on her chin.
'How's netball going?' I asked.
She shrugged and wiped it off.
'It's alright,' she replied.
'Don't like it very much though,' she added.
'Why did you play it if you knew you wouldn't like it?' Sophie asked.
'Mum made me, remember and it means I have to cut my nails,' Vanessa said, looking glumly at her short nails that were painted pink, purple and green with silver spots.
'Well I couldn't play cos of this,' I said, holding up my scarred arm.
'You could take my place, I'm quitting,' Vanessa said.
'Would it be okay?' I asked.
'Yeah just have to ask the coach,' Vanessa said, reaching for more chips.
'Cool,' I grinned.
We finished as much of the pizza as we could, then finished blowing up all the balloons and then got changed into our pyjamas. We turned the music on and had our own party, till we felt so sick we couldn't dance any longer. All the chips and lollies ended up on the floor and our beds ended up strewn all across the floor. We pulled our pillows out of the piles and sat and watched a movie. Just my Luck of course!
'Oh, my God! Danny looked so hot back there,' Vanessa kept saying.
'No way Dougie did!!' I'd argue back, then Sophie would butt in saying that Tom and Harry were. It's exactly the same every time we watch it.
We got through two blocks of chocolate between us while we were watching the movie.
'So Lucie, how's Zac going?' asked Vanessa while a big boring bit of Lindsay Lohan was on the screen.
'Good, talk to him every day,' I replied.
'Hey, that's same with me and Nate!' Sophie exclaimed.
'How's Alex, or whatever his name is going?' I asked Vanessa.
Alex was Vanessa's boyfriend from school. He was a year above her, but he treated her like a princess all the time. He was cute as well, with blonde hair and brown eyes. He loved her so much and she loved him but lately they'd been fighting a lot, almost every day. Vanessa was forever in tears or close to it or they'd be sitting there at school yelling at each other, but at other times they'd sit there and just laugh and hug and talk. It was hard to work out what type of day it was going to be with them. Vanessa always seemed wary around him, like she thought something would happen.
'Good,' she smiled.
They'd been going out for five months; she got him the same week after we got back.
'Hey guys, come and have a look at this,' I said. I walked into my room and opened a video on my laptop. It was a video with all the McFly pictures we'd taken while we were over there. There were pictures of Dougie in makeup and our clothes, us all made up by McFly, our football games, backstage pictures (not of me), and generally just all us being idiots. We all squealed and jumped up and down in unison. We were all so surprised that it happened at the same time that we stopped and laughed, then did it again.
We bounced back into the lounge and Vanessa grabbed a bottle of nail polish out of her bag. She sat down and started painting our fingernails in our school house colour. All of us are in yellow. She got out silver glitter and painted that over the top. She seemed preoccupied with something else and looked upset.
'What are you going in tomorrow Luce?' Sophie asked as Vanessa painted glitter on her fingernails.
'Ummm, 100metres, high jump, shot-put, discus and long jump I think. What about you?' I asked.
'Javelin, discus and shot-put,' Sophie replied. 'What bout you Ness?'
'Um, 100metres, 200metres, 400metres, 800metres, 1500metres, high jump, long jump, shot-put, javelin, triple jump, discus and I think Amanda has me down for the girls under 15 relay,' she replied.
'You'll be busy,' Sophie said.
'Yeah, no time for Alex at all,' I teased.
'Hey, at least my boyfriend doesn't live on the other side of the world,' she replied.
'I guess so,' I replied.
I let Pepper and Delilah out so they didn't knock over the nail polish that was sitting on the floor. About five minutes after I'd let them out they started barking. Then there was a sharp knock at the door that made us all jump in fright.
'Oh my God, who's that?' Vanessa shrieked.
'Probably just Mum home,' I said.
'Open the door Vanessa,' I said.
She didn't move.
'Sophie, open the door,' I said.
She did the same thing.
'I'll do it then,' I said.
I quickly looked out the window. Three shadows. Mine, Sophie's and Vanessa's mothers; they usually came round after they did something together. I could hear Sophie and Vanessa sprinting down the hallway into my room. Too bad if it was an axe murderer or something. I unlocked the door and pulled it open.
And screamed, definitely waking up the neighbours.
Review and tell me what you reckon? And I hope you could understand the athletics thing, that's how we call the events at my school... And yes, I did write it the day before our school's...