The Wanted: 'She is my Weakness'

by Hannah-Dixon

Basically just my random obssession with The Wanted led to me including me and my friendlings in this wonderful story from my imgaination which I SO WISH WAS TRUE!

1. Chapter 1

The Wanted Fan Fiction: Part 1

'I'd fill the vacancy, in your heart, in your heart, in your heart…' I sang along with The Wanted, blasting out my CD at full volume. I absolutely adored them. I knew every word to their songs, I knew every dance step, and me and my friends could even have re-created their videos with the right set. My bedroom wall was no longer visible, covered in pictures from google and their website, posters from magazines, ad every single magazine and newspaper article about them. But, although every member of the boyband fivesome was there on my wall, one member stood out among them, maybe it was the fact there was a huge picture of him in the centre of the wall by my bed outlined in hearts. But, he'd stood out for me from that first day I ever saw them perform. Maybe it had been the way his hair curled naturally, maybe it had been the way his grin was never fully there, a half smile, or maybe it had been his overpowering voice. Whatever, I didn't know; all I know is that when I first saw James McGuiness, or Jay as his band mates call him, I'm only 16 but from that day, I knew that no one else would ever satisfy me, it was him, or no one. No one would replace him; no one could ever replace him. And I knew that if I had to spend the rest of my life with someone, it had to be him.

I gazed at my wall as I pulled on my shorts and leggings, my specially made The Wanted T-shirt with every on of their names printed 60 times in various colours and styles, and finally my huge, baggy, purple, I Jay McGuiness hoodie and my black Converse. I pulled the 5, backstage; V.I.P concert tickets out from my special box on my desk, and skipped downstairs just as the doorbell rang. There stood my 4 best friends: Sarah, wearing a blue I Nathan Sykes Hoodie, Nikki, wearing a yellow I Tom Parker hoodie, Louisa, sporting a green I Max George hoodie, and Priya, wearing a pale pink I Siva Kaneswaran hoodie. My mum walked in the hallway, took one look at our faces, lit up and shining, hint of make-up between us and nail polish to match our hoodies and grinned.

'If those boys don't fall for you today,' she smiled, 'then I don't know who will. You all look beautiful, now go get in the car or we'll be late.'

'Thanks mum.' I grinned, hugging her tight round the middle, handing her our tickets as the others clambered in to the car.

We were completely hyped up the whole journey to the O2 Arena. We couldn't wait to get there singing along to The Wanted's Album the entire way. Suddenly, in the distance, I spotted the spikes of the Millennium Dome, now the O2 Arena.

'OHMIGOD OHMIGOD OHMGOD!' I shrieked, bouncing in my chair. 'OHMIGOD WE'RE LIKE 5 MINUTES FROM MEETING THE WANTED!' The car was suddenly full of 5 different shrieks from all of us. I could feel the car almost bouncing with us as all 5 of us bounced up and down, only slightly restrained by our seatbelts. Mum pulled the car in to the car park and wound down the window to talk to the man on the barriers.

'Girls, Hush up for like 2 minutes, I can't here the man speak.' Mum yelled in to the car. Our shrieks sub-sided and we heard mum say to the man that we had V.I.P tickets.

'Ahh, so you're the 5 lucky girls who get the meet The Wanted personally.' The man grinned poking his head through the window to speak to us. The 5 of us nodded, speechless with excitement. The man grinned.

'If you go and park over there,' he said, pointing to a spot nearby, 'then my colleague there will take you to the back entrance, where I believe, a lady called Jayne is waiting for you.'

'OHMIGOD JAYNE! The lady who formed The Wanted!' I shrieked uncontrollably. Mum flashed a glance at me and I shut up pretty quickly.

'Yeah, that's the lady' the man nodded. 'Anyway, you go ahead and I'll keep an eye on your car for you Miss. And you girls…' he looked at us, winking, 'have fun.'

'Thank you!' We chorused as Mum pulled in to our parking spot.

We could hardly contain our excitement as we piled out the car in to the car park and tried to dash off.

'HOLD IT' Mum cried. We froze in our tracks and turned towards her. 'Smile girls' Mum grinned, pulling her camera out of its case and turning it on us. We shoved our arms round each other, grinning inanely from excitement.

'Great' Mum said, momentarily blinding us with the camera flash. 'Now come on or you're going to be late.' We skipped over to the mans colleague who grinned at us and put out his hand for us to shake.

'Hi, I'm Phil.' He said, shaking our hands and Mums hand. 'I'm looking after you for this evening.' Then he added, in a whisper 'I'm actually one of the O2 arenas bodyguards, it's my job, to make sure you, have a good time, whilst not getting hassled by the press.' He winked, before beckoning us across the car park, towards the back entrance of the O2 Arena. Mum followed behind us as the 5 of us clutched hands tightly and followed Phil.

Part 2:

At the entrance stood a woman, waiting for us. She smiled warmly at Phil when she saw him and he stepped to the side, sweeping his arm out along us. She stepped forward, 'Hello', she smiled at me, I was in the middle, 'I'm Jayne, I'm the manager of The Wanted and I'm assuming by the grins on your faces that you're Hannah and her friends?'

I stepped forward, 'I'm Hannah, and this is Sarah, Louisa, Nikki and Priya.' I added pointing at each of the girls in turn. 'And this is my Mum, Ruth.' I quickly added, as an afterthought. Jayne reached out her hand to shake mine; I ignored the hand, stepped forward and hugged her. She seemed confused, but glad as she hugged me back, the sudden arms around me meant that the girls had joined in the hug and turned it in to a huge group hug. We eventually let go of Jayne, whose smile was excited as ours.

'Well, if you girls would like to follow me,' she said, pushing open the door in to the Arena, 'the boys can't wait to meet you…'

We looked at each other, huge smiles lighting up all of our faces, and pushed our way through the door behind Jayne.

The minute we stepped through, we were enveloped in a huge crowd of people, wandering the Arena. Phil stepped in front of us and Jayne and began pushing his way through the crowd, calling as he went,

'Make way people! Come on MOVE! VIPs coming through!' Murmurs and hushed whispers moved through the crowd as they parted like the red sea, creating a pathway ahead of Phil. Eyes were on us as we walked, hand in hand, through the crowd, whispers passing through like wind. Eventually we reached the backstage entrance. Two large men stood, blocking the door. They looked at us menacingly as we approached.

'ID?' One of them grunted at us as we halted. We turned to Mum, whom we could hear rustling in her handbag. She pulled out 6 identity tags that she passed over to the men who scanned them. Smiles crossed their faces as they handed them back to us, opening the door and parting to let Phil, Jayne and then the 6 of us, through.

'Have fun girls, see you later.' They smiled.

'Thank you, see you later.' We chorused as Jayne let us down a corridor.

We stopped outside a large door, reading 'Main Room' on the sign. She turned to us and said, 'the boys are in there, waiting for you. You can go in as soon as you're ready.'

'Actually, Jayne.' I said, stopping her hand as it reached towards to door handle, 'do you mind showing us where the toilet is first?' I asked, biting my lip. She smiled,

'Of course girls, as you're being so polite, follow me.' And she led the way down a corridor off to the right. The second door we reached, she pushed open.

'This…is a toilet?' Sarah asked, sounding shocked as we walked in. It was hardly a toilet, more of a sitting room in itself. On one side there was a row of 10 cubicles, about as big as our bathroom at home, each one with a toilet and a sink in it. Opposite stood a row of hand driers next to a row of sinks. On the far wall, well, there was no far wall. It was just a mirror. And then round the small corner was an area full of chairs and sofas, gathered around a small table.

We all split up, going in to the toilets first and then clustering round the mirrored wall. Each of us rooted in our bags and pulled out a set of make-up. We layered on small amounts of mascara, enough so that it was visible, but little that it looked natural, we touched up our eyelids with small amounts of eye shadow adding a thin layer of lip-gloss to our lips. Each of us puckering up in unison to do it. Then we all brushed our hair until it was shiny and bouncy, covered over one or two large spots on our faces with concealer, ad turned to Mum and Jayne, who were standing behind us.

'Perfect' Mum said, looking to Jayne, who nodded. 'Now have you got everything?'

'Yes Mum' we all chorused. She rolled her eyes at us and walked over to the small table. 'Empty your bags' she smiled. We followed her, each of us laying a camera and spare batteries on the table, along with make-up, hairbrushes and phones. I-pods, purses and finally, some packets of Skittles and other sweets. Jayne laughed.

'I see you girls know the way to make them boys hyper before the show.' She giggled, before beckoning us out towards the Main Room once more.

Part 3:

The door loomed on us, quicker than we anticipated. Jayne stopped, with her hand on the handle.

'How about, your mother and I go in first, then you girls join us in a minute.'

'Yes please.' We nodded, suddenly very quiet. Mum hugged each of us tightly before nodding to Jayne. We moved out of sight of the door, off to the side as Mum and Jayne entered the room. We heard the chorus of 'Hey Jayne' from the boys and felt our hearts quicken with excitement. We took one last look at each other, and hugged tightly.

'Ready?' I asked, my hand on the door handle.

'Ready.' Came the reply of the girls. I breathed in deeply, and turned the handle, pushing open the door, and stepping inside.

The first thing we saw was Mum and Jayne, sitting in the corner of the room with mugs in their hands. Our eyes scanned the room and froze in the centre. Five pairs of eyes were on us. Jay, spread across the sofa, Nathan, sprawled over a chair, Tom, sitting on the widow sill, his guitar across his lap, Max, sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall and Siva, who popped up in front of us, taking us by surprise.

'Hello girls, you must be Hannah, Sarah, Louisa, Nikki and Priya.' He said, in his soft, Irish accent, pointing at each of us as he said our names. 'Jayne and your Mother were just telling us about you. I'm Siva, and that's Tom, Jay, Max and Nathan, although, judging by what Jayne and your Mum have been saying, you probably already knew that. Make yourselves at home; we were just putting on the kettle for tea. Do you girls take sugar?'

'Umm' I squeaked, before clearing my throat, 'Um just one for me please.' I said, well, almost whispered, only just hearing the agreements from the girls standing round me. Siva smiled.

'I'll sort that for you. Find somewhere to sit around this lot.' He gestured around the others, who immediately shifted to accommodate us, before returning to the side with the kettle and mugs. I turned to the girls and we looked at each other, not saying a word. We nodded, and split up.

Priya followed Siva across the help make the tea. He smiled at her, before striking up quiet conversation. Nikki and Louisa moved across the room, Louisa sitting down on the floor beside Max and Nikki hopping on to the windowsill beside Tom. Sarah moved towards the chair Nathan was sat on, and perched herself neatly on the arm. I walked across the room to he centre, where Jay was still stretched across the sofa. I tapped his legs.

'Do you mind?' I asked quietly, gesturing for me to sit down.

'Not at all…Hannah…right?' Jay nodded, sitting up and crossing his legs. I sat opposite him, crossing my legs in the same position, noting his Converse, matching mine, but a few sizes bigger.

'Hey look.' I giggled, stretching my leg so my foot pressed against his. 'We match.' He flattened his foot on the sofa, in much the same way mine was, and grinned his beautiful lopsided grin.

'I see great minds think alike then?' He smiled, before looking up, straight in to my eyes.

Part 4:

I was hooked; I couldn't look away. It was like; his eyes were pulling me under a spell, enchanting me so that I couldn't turn my eyes away from his. He stretched out a hand towards me, and gently placed it on my face, slowly moving his thumb so he was stroking my cheek. Suddenly, with no warning, he pulled his hand away from my face, and shook his head a little, as though to clear it.

'I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me.' He muttered, not meeting my eyes. He then turned away from me a little and sat, sulking. I sighed; it had been so close, yet so far. I shifted so I was kneeling beside him. I reached out and turned his face towards mine. He pouted at me.

'Jay', I whispered, pushing my face slightly closer to his, so he could hear me, 'Jay, I, honestly don't mind. Jay…I…I want to get to know you better. Please Jay?' He grinned, back to his usual self and placed his hands on either side of my face, as mine were on his.

'I'm sorry', he whispered back, his breath washing over my face. He pushed me down so I was sitting on my heels. 'Let's talk' he smiled at me.

An hour later and we were still with the boys. Mum and Jayne had left us long ago, to go and find something to eat. Instead of joining them, we had stayed with the boys and pulled out our sweets, beaming. The boys smiled back at us. Max, Siva and Tom pulled over some spare chairs and joined us round the table with Louisa, Nikki and Priya. Nathan was still on the chair, but now he was squashed over to one side, with Sarah's bare feet in is lap; she was still sitting on the arm of the chair. I was sitting cross-legged against one arm of the sofa with Jay stretched out, his legs hanging over the other arm, and his head in my lap. Everyone was chatting about everything, school, GCSEs, what we want to do in the future. Every couple of minutes Jay would open his mouth, like a baby bird, and wait for me to drop a skittle in his mouth before chewing and guessing what colour it was. Jay had his eyes closed most of the time, but every now and again he would open them. When he did this, he would look me straight in the eyes, reach up one hand to my cheek and brush my face with his thumb.

There was a knock on the door and Jayne and Mum entered. They looked around the room. At Max and Louisa sitting close together, at Priya and Siva sitting hand in hand, at Nikki and Tom cuddled on a chair, Sarah and Nathan on the chair, Nathan massaging her feet. And then at me and Jay, with Jay's head in my lap and his arms above his head, wrapped around me.

'Boys,' Jayne said, shutting the door behind her. 'You've got about hours before the show, have you decided where the girls are sitting?'

Jay looked around at everyone else, finally his eyes resting on me.

'Yep, I've just decided.' He grinned, winking at me.

'Good.' Jayne said, 'well, me and Ruth are just going to sit over there in the corner. Don't let us disturb you. Just remember, changing in an hour boys. ONE hour.' The boys nodded, proving that they had heard her. She seemed satisfied and as her and Mum walked towards the corner we heard her ask 'tea or coffee Ruth?'

Part 5:

Half an hour later and Jay gently shook me awake.

'Hannah. Hannah, I've got something to show you. Come on, wake up.'

'Mmmm?' I awoke, groggily peeling my eyes open. 'Where…am I…?' I asked, trying to take in my surroundings. 'I had this dream, where I fell asleep, in a room with The Wanted, with Jay McGuiness's head in my lap.' I looked around; there were my friends, each deep in conversation with a member of The Wanted. But there was one missing. I was suddenly aware of a set of arms round me, and there were two extra feet, either side of mine, that clearly did not belong to me. I twisted slightly and Jay looked at me. His eyes shining, his half-smile clear on his face. His hands, which were clasped together, unclasped and his fingers intertwined with mine. He leaned forwards, his mouth to my ear.

'Come on, I have to show you something.' He whispered in my ear, his breath soft and warm, his teeth grazing my earlobe, making me shiver. He gently pushed me forward until he could stand up, and then reached his hands out towards me. I stretched mine up and he intertwined his fingers in mine again, pulling me up, out of the sofa, to stand before him. His 6ft 2inch frame towering over my tiny 5ft 4 inches. He pulled me over towards Jayne by the hand.

'Jayne.' He asked excitedly. 'Jayne do you mind if I show Hannah…like…around a bit?' He asked. Jayne grinned at him, his face lit up like a child on Christmas day.

'Of course you can dear. Just make sure that you're back here in an hour to take the girls to their seats.' Jay nodded.

'I promise.' He said, before pulling me out the room.

Jay pulled me out into the corridor before turning to me.

'I've got so much to show you, in an hour.' He pulled me towards him as he pulled me down the corridor, he wrapped on arm around my shoulders and reached down to wrap my hand in his before pulling me gently further down the corridor. As we reached a sort of, corridor cross roads, Jay ground to a halt. He turned to me and took both my hands in his.

'Close your eyes Hannah. Please, I want you to get the full hit of this.' Jay said to me, making sure my eyes were tight shut before pulling me down the corridor a few steps more. Then he stopped, I stopped to, but a bit to late, walking in to him. He laughed gently, holding the tops of my arms.

'Eyes still tight shut?' He asked his breath suddenly close on my face. I nodded, biting my lip. 'Don't open them just yet.' He said. I nodded again, suddenly aware that I was in very close presence with him. He moved away slightly, and I heard him open a door, he came back to me, and led me forwards, presumably in to the room he just opened the door to. He stepped in after me, closing the door behind him. He was very close to me. I could feel him, pressing against me, his breath warm on my face, his arms wrapped around me. I moved my eyelids a bit.

'Don't open your eyes, just yet.' He whispered, his breath moving closer. I could feel his lips brushing against my face, catching my cheeks and eyelids. I stood there still. With my eyes shut, letting his lips get closer to mine.

Suddenly, I felt them touch the corner of my lips and I moved. I slid closer to him, standing on my tiptoes, leaning my body against his for support. I caught his lips with mine, and pressed mine gently against his, waiting for a response. His arms wrapped around me, holding me up, he moved a little closer to me, my body shaping to mould to his, my arms rising to clasp my hands behind his neck. He pressed his lips harder against mine, catching me in a passionate kiss. I didn't want it to end, but I had to pull away, I had to catch my breath. I slumped forwards in to Jay's arms feeling light-headed and faint. He lowered me slightly, allowing me to rest on him, his arms tightly around me, holding me up, stopping me from falling.

'Hannah…' Jay stammered, 'I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me…' I used my remaining strength to press my finger to his lips. I took a deep breath in before saying,

'Jay, do you honestly think I would have kissed you like that if I minded?'

'No, ok, I see your point. It's just that, I've never felt this way about another girl before. You're so, down to earth, and you treat me like a person, these last hours with you, I almost forgot I'm famous, you make me forget who I am. You like me for who I am, not because I'm famous, you can see the real me, not the me that the press have created.' I grinned at him before reaching up to give him a quick kiss.

'Right so where are we?' I asked looking around.

Part 6:

Jay swept his arm round the room.

'This?' Jay said taking me to the centre of the room, 'this is my dressing room.'

'OhmiGod!' I exclaimed. 'But, It's, HUGE!' I said, taking in my surroundings. There was a large sofa in the middle of the room with a table in front of it and a mini fridge beside it, then on the right hand wall, stood a dressing table. Besides that, the rest of the room seemed empty. I looked around, confused.

'But…Jay Jay…' I asked. He looked at me and I winked, 'if this is your dressing room. Where's your clothes?'

'Ahh that.' He said, nodding. 'Well obviously, this isn't just my dressing room so my clothes have been moved in here for the concert.' He said, picking a remote off the sofa and handing it to me. 'Press this button.' He told me pointing to a green button in the top right of the remote. I pressed it. A door on the far wall slid open, a clothes rack slid out, with shoes lined up in pairs underneath.

'OHMIGOD!' I exclaimed dropping the remote and running forwards. 'These are your clothes?' I asked rooting through his rack of clothes.

'Yep.' He nodded, 'these are what my stylist has to choose from when I'm changing for the show.'

I pulled out a large, black hoodie, holding it up.

'Jay…' I asked, sidling up to him, 'would I be allowed to act as your stylist tonight?' I pleaded, pulling a puppy dogface at him. He wrapped an arm round me and looked down at me.

'Of course you can love.' He said, leaning down to reach my lips with his for a quick kiss. I pulled back,

'Jay…' I said looking him in the eyes, 'Jay, I…I…' I stammered cutting off as his eyes looked down in to mine, I felt my heart melt. Jay continued my unfinished sentence.

'Love you.' He whispered. I nodded before skipping off over to the rack off clothes and started rooting through his clothed, aware of his eyes watching my movements.

A little later, I pulled some black skinny jeans out the rack, with a blue checked shirt to go with it. Then bent down to see his shoes. I giggled when I saw that most of them were Converse. After a minutes decisions I pulled a pair of blue Converse off the rack and handed them over to him. He looked at them and nodded.

'Good choices my love' He said before disappearing behind the changing curtain. I wandered over to the dressing table where some sorts of jewellery were laid out. I looked over the rows and grabbed a black, square earring and a couple of chains off the table, then two rings for good measure. Then I went over and flopped on the sofa, waiting for Jay to finish changing.

When he emerged he came over to me and spun round in front of me. I stood on the sofa arm and pulled him towards me, turning his back to me, I put his earring in and fastened each chain round his neck before turning him to face me once more. I pulled one of his hands up to me and put one rings on, with a engraved union jack on it. Then took it off again, shaking my head, and replaced it with a plain band. I nodded and kissed his ring. He took the other ring off me and took my hand in his, He slid the union jack ring over my thumb, where it just sat, fitting perfectly. He kissed the ring, before kissing me once more. Then he lifted me down off the sofa and stood me on the floor,

'Wait there.' He said to me before jogging over to his clothes rack and pulling off a large, black hoodie, with a large Converse print on the front.

'It's my favourite hoodie.' Jay said, handing it to me. I stood, shocked.

'So, I take it you want to see me again?' I asked.

'Of course I want to see you again love.' Jay said pulling me in to his arms tightly in a hug. He looked at my watch.

'We'd better get back to the others or we're going to be late.' Jay said.

'Oh wait before we go.' I said, gripping the base of my I Jay McGuiness hoodie and pulling it off. Jay watched with interest as I pulled on his black Converse hoodie and folded my purple one, before pushing his ring tighter on my thumb. I grinned at me and grasped my hand in his before leading me out the room back towards the Main Room.

Part 7:

We opened the door and walked in, the room fell silent and everyone turned to look at us. Tom walked towards us, looking us up and down, as if looking for any changes. He took in the entwined fingers, raising his eyebrows at us. Then, he suddenly stopped, looking at me.

'Hang on,' he said , his Bolton accent standing out from everyone else's accents in the room, 'isn't that Jay's favourite hoodie?' He asked, gesturing at the Converse hoodie I was now wearing. Nathan came over, staring at my thumb.

'And…' He said, grabbing my hand and pulling it up to his face so he could see it clearer. 'Isn't that the ring that belonged to Jay's grandfather?'

Max joined the fray, 'But, Jay never lets anyone touch those other than him.' He said, the shock registering on his face.

Jayne walked over, holding a camera.

'Hannah, the other girls have all had their photos taken with the boys, you're the only one left.'

I nodded, posing with all five of the boys, then with each one individually. Getting hugs and cheek kisses in each of the photos. Finally Jay pushed his way past Tom, Nathan and Siva, who were holding him back until Max was done posing with me. He wrapped his arms round my middle and pointed to his cheek where I placed my lips. Jayne counted down from 3 and, just as the camera flashed, Jay turned his head slightly and his lips met mine just as the camera flashed. The room went silent and I saw the girls mouths drop open. Jay pulled back and winked at me.

'Facebook profile picture.' He grinned.

Half an hour later and we all left the room hand in hand with the boys, who were taking us to our seats. Myself and Jay were at the back when he suddenly stopped. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and shoved it at me.

'I don't want this on stage with me and there's no time to take it back now. Could you hold it for me please?'

'Of course.' I grinned at Jay taking his phone. 'Hmm no pockets…' I said checking my shorts. 'Ahh I know what to do with it.' I said pulling the collar of my t-shirt out slightly and pushing his phone down into the top of my bra. I looked up to see Jay with his mouth wide open his eyes slightly shocked.

'What?' I asked innocently. 'It matches mine.' I said pulling the neck of my t-shirt down, showing him the top of my bra with a phone shoved down each side. Jay put his hands round my ribs and lifted me up to kiss me.

'You're unbelievable Missy.' He said kissing me and rubbing his nose against mine.

'Buttt…' I asked.

'But I love you, and your spontaneous attitude.' He said setting me down. 'Now come on, we've got to go or I'm going to be late.' He added pulling me down the corridor to join the others.

Part 8:

'Introducing: Tom Parker, Nathan Sykes, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran and Jay McGuiness!' announced the voice over. We should have been in our seat by now. The boys were bout to go on stage. But we weren't yet where we were meant to be sitting; we were still backstage, hand in hand with the boys. They were walking on stage with us, leading us down the walkway on the stage to the front platform and we were standing right by the stage. Tom and Nikki walked on first, hands grasped tightly in each other's. Nathan and Sarah followed after exchanging a quick hug. Max kissed Louisa on the cheek before joining Nathan and Tom. Siva pulled Priya in to a hug before taking her hand and following. As the voiceover said Jay's name, he pulled me in to a hug, nuzzled my neck whispering 'I love you', in my ear before giving me a quick kiss and leading me out with his arm wrapped firmly round me.

As I stepped on stage with Jay, the screams of fans were just, deafening, there's no other word to describe it. Jay took up his place in the centre of the group, between Max and Siva, still with me by his side. He lifted his microphone to his lips, and a hush descended across the crowd.

'Hey guys.' Jay said, his voice amplified and spread across the stadium. 'You're all probably wondering who these lucky girls are, standing by our sides.'

A huge scream of 'YES!' erupted from the crowd.

'Well,' Jay continued looking at me and winking, 'these lucky ladies are actually our very first VIP guests ever. But,' He said, looking at the other pairs spread down the stage, then he looked at me, his eyes getting softer as he gazed down in to mine, 'but they're more than VIP guests. They're more special than, any of us deserve, they're beautiful, kind and caring. They're, amazing, and they're just perfect.' He ended, before wrapping his arms around me and lifting me up to hug him. A huge round of applause and cheering erupted round the stadium as Jay set me down. Then the lads led us down the walkway, lifting us down in to the arms of the security guards waiting for us, before jogging back up the walkway to the main stage.

Just before the interval, the music slowed, Max lifted his microphone up to his lips as they walked down the walkway to the platform we were standing by.

'We're guna slow it down a little now.' He announced as they reached us.

'This ones for you girls', Tom announced as they began singing Heart Vacancy. We could feel the eyes of everyone in he crowd upon us as the big screen cameras panned to get us in the view. Our faces flushed, but none as much as mine when Jay jumped down next to me. The screams of the audience almost drowned out his amplified words to me as he reached out his hand to me.

'Hannah?' He said reaching for my hand and intertwining his fingers with mine. 'Can one of you guys give us a hand?' He asked one of the security guards, and together they lifted me on to the platform. Jay jumped up beside me and got down on one knee in front of me, taking my hand in his.

'When I, talk to you, on the phone, listen close.' He sang before kissing my fingers. The others were now following suit lifting Sarah, Louisa, Nikki and Priya on to the stage behind us as they moved in to their next chorus.

'I hear your heart, cry for love, then you act like there's no room, room for me,' they sang as Jay wound me in his arms. The crowd was loving it, screaming and screaming, cameras flashed as Jay whirled me around and the other boys spun the girls across the stage.

The song ended and as the screams subsided and the voiceover began to announce the interval, Jay began to frantically wave his hands, signally the others to stay on stage and the voiceover to stop. It cut off and the others looked at him, confused. Jay turned to the audience.

'I'd just like to say, before I forget, that today, I met someone, who has changed me, I couldn't stop thinking about them this whole time I was on stage, and I'd just like to tell you all something.' He turned to me and took up both my hand in his. The crowd was so silent, if a pin had dropped, I would have heard it.

'I would just like to say that, Hannah Cooper, I am in love with you, I don't think I can go a day without seeing you, please, be my girlfriend?' My mind went in to overdrive, I couldn't speak, my breath caught in my throat and I just nodded.

'Thank you.' He whispered to me, then he swept me up in his arms, and kissed me, right there, on the stage. Cameras flashed, I could see them behind my eyelids.

Part 9

None of us could really believe it. It felt just like a dream, to me, to all of us. We'd turned in to instant celebrities overnight, literally. It was almost scary for us to wake up the next day.

The girls had slept over my house that weekend, from the Saturday night till the Monday morning. Well if you could call it sleeping. We'd stayed up both nights, adding the boys on Facebook, following them and getting follows back on Twitter, then changing our relationship statuses. Well the boys changed their first. Within seconds of them changing their statuses to being in relationships with us, we had tons of friend requests and followers asking what it was like to date The Wanted and people saying they were fans.

Monday morning I was woken at 6am by my phone ringing loudly, waking us all to the sound of Heart Vacancy.

'Hannnahhhhh!' Sarah moaned, 'who the HELL is ringing at 6 in the morning?' She added, hitting me awake. I reached for the phone, fingers fumbling on my bedside table. I hit call accept button without checking the caller ID.

'Hello?'I moaned groggily down the phone.

'Hey baby...' The voice of Jay came down the phone, sounding bright and alert.

'Jay?' I mumbled, aware of all the girls looking at me.

'Yes Jay.' He giggled down the phone. 'You awake love?'

'Well, I am now.' I answered back.

'Aww sorry...well...anyway...what school do you girlies go to?' Jay asked.

'We go to...Woodcote?' I replied suddenly worried what the boys were planning.

'Awesome we got the right school.' Jay said, his smile passed through his voice. 'See ya later babe. I love you.' He said before hanging up.

'Wait. Jay. NO!' I yelled down the phone, jumping to my feet of my bed. My only answer was the long, continuous *beeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppp*.

'Oh. My. God.' Louisa said. Suddenly realising what the conversation had been about.

'Oh my God. What the hell are they planning?' I asked, flopping down on my bed again.

'I have no idea, but whatever it is, can't be good' Sarah Nikki replied.

'Oh well. Guess we'll just have to go get ready.' I said standing up and casually walking across the room to the door.

'Hannah…what…?' Louisa asked standing up and walking towards me. I shoved past her and out the door laughing.

'SHOTGUN SHOWER!' I yelled leaping down the stairs two at a time to the bathroom.

'Hannah! That ain't fair!' the sounds of the girls scrambling to chase me only made me run faster. I leaped down the last two stairs as the scramble reached the top of the stairs and Priya broke free, leading the other 3 down the stairs. I laughed loudly as I ran in to the bathroom, slamming the door and throwing my whole weight against it as I smacked the lock across. The thumping downstairs ended and the next sound I heard was banging on the door, and nails being clattered on the door.

'Hannah. Hurry up then.' They moaned from the other side of the door as I turned the hot, cascading water on and climbed in under it.

'10 minutes!' I yelled back as the sound of defeated footsteps started travelling back up the stairs. I laughed again and stuck my head under the water.

Part 10:

The 5 of us, walking down the road to school, arm in arm, giggling, felt no different to any other day. Cars whizzed past in either direction and people ran past us, rushing to get to work. It was when we turned in to the small road for school that we noticed the difference. There were vans parked up and down, on both sides of the road, men and women sporting cameras and microphones interviewing people in school uniform that we didn't know.

'Oh my God. What's going on?' Louisa asked, stopping suddenly and causing us all to stop.

'I don't know maybe there's been an accident?' I asked starting to walk again and pulling them along with me. It wasn't until we got halfway down the road that we suddenly realised what could actually be happening. We slowed, all of our minds thinking the same thing. Suddenly a shout went up from a couple of girls being interviewed.

'There they are!' They shouted pointing in our direction. Every camera and microphone bearing person turned on us. We froze, like rabbits caught in headlights.

'Oh crap.' Nikki whispered. We nodded as they started to run towards us. We turned in away, in fear and shock as to what was actually going on, and started to run, back the way we came.

Our skirts flapped around as we ran past the junior school and tried to avoid as many people as possible. As each of us kicked off the pumps we wore to school and caught them in our hands we stepped of the pavement and started to run down the centre of the road. Sarah and Priya leading the way at the front, Louisa and Nikki close behind and me bringing up the rear. Suddenly, my shoulder bag, slung over my right shoulder and stuffed to capacity, split, spilling the contents across the road. It had been close to breaking for months, but I never thought it was actually going to split. I screamed and Louisa turned back to help me.

'No. Don't worry. I've got it. Keep running.' I yelled and crouched down to grab all my books. A screech behind me told me that one of the press vans had caught up with us. I ignored it, gathering the last of my books in my arms and pushing off on my bare, right foot to continue running. But an arm around my waist prevented me from running away again as it pulled me backwards, in to the back of a van.

Part 11:

'What the hell are you playing at?' I shrieked as I kicked and screamed being pulled in to the van. 'This is against my human rights! Let me GO!' I shrieked. I could no longer see the rest of the girls, they'd turned the corner and fled down the road.

'LOUISA! SARAH! NIKKI! PRIYAAA!' I screamed, grabbing the edge of the door with my free hand that wasn't clutching my books. I felt another pair of hands grabbing at my waist, and another grabbing my thighs, turning me almost horizontal as I gripped the door screaming. Now there was a set of arms wrapped around my waist and two sets of hands grabbing me, pulling me backwards in to the van.

'Hannah come on let go, and stop shrieking or we're going to be arrested. Now let go so we can grab the others and get out of here!'

I'd been ready for anything, any interview, any questions thrown at me. What I hadn't been ready for was for Jay's voice in my ear telling me to let go.

'Jay!' I squeaked, letting go of the door. We flew backwards, the pulling force on me suddenly greater than the force I was putting in the opposite direction now I'd let go of the door. We flew backwards, hitting the far wall and landing in a heap.

'Hannah. Umm not to be rude or anything. But could you errmm, maybe get off of us?' The voice of Nathan asked from below me somewhere.

'Ye Hannah you're squishing us.' Came the voice of Tom, sounding very muffled, presumably he was squashed against the wall somehow. Jay laughed, his laugh sounding very close to my ear. I guessed the person I was practically sitting on was Jay. He grabbed me around the waist with one arm and pushed off the wall with the other, lifting me up and away from the others. He moved us across to the other wall, and flopped down on the floor and wrapped his other arm around me too.

Jayne turned round from the driver's part of the van as it screeched off.

'Which way Hannah?' she asked.

'Umm right at the end of the road and you'll probably see them running up the hill.' I laughed, pointing the direction we needed to go.

'Ok, you're the boss.' Jayne grinned at me. I grinned back before twisting in Jay's arms so I was facing him, cross legged on his crossed legs. He grinned lop-sided at me as I pouted at him.

'You utter mug.' I said, folding my arms across my chest and pouted at him. 'You couldn't have told me it was you at all could you. You just grab me and attempt to pull me in to your van?' Jay nodded.

'Well, I was just expecting to be able to grab you and pull you in with no trouble at all. Considering I'm a lot bigger than you.' Jay grinned.

'Yes well, I'm not your average girl, I go to army cadets remember?' I replied, grinning back.

'I know and I love you.' Jay grinned, pushing his face close to mine for a quick kiss.

'Jay, get a room you idiot.' Max yelled across the van throwing my history text book at his head.

Suddenly the van screeched to a halt again. We flew backwards, all of us crumpling on one wall. I jumped up, throwing open the doors. The girls span round and looked at me.

'Hannah!' They shrieked running towards me.

'Get in!' I yelled standing back to let them all jump in. They leaped in after me and I slammed the doors. Jayne turned to me.

'Where to Hannah?'

'Why you asking me?' I grinned. 'You're the boss.'

'Haha that's true.' Jayne laughed. 'I take it that's pick up your mother and head for the TW flat and lie low for a couple of hours?'

'Ye that sounds great.' I smiled, carefully making my way over to Jay, picking my way through the others, spread across the floor in each other's arms. Jay grinned at me, opening his arms and patting a space between his legs for me.

I threw my blazer across the van to join the pile of bags and books stacked against the far wall and flopped down with Jay on the floor. He wrapped his arms tight around me and whispered in my ear,

'The journey's about an hour and a half now. Including picking up your mother.' I nodded as Jay nuzzled my ear with his lips and kissed the spot under my ear lobe. I giggled and turned sideways slightly to kiss him on the corner of his mouth. Then I snuggled down in his arms that wrapped tighter around me, drawing me in to a tighter hug. I looked around briefly at my friends; every one of them snuggled together on the floor. I grinned at Jay before settling down to sleep. He pulled his hoodie off over his head to wrap over me as I cuddled up against him in his Converse t-shirt. He grinned back and kissed the top of my head as the van fell silent except for the steady breathing of everyone as they fell asleep one by one.

Part 12:

I was woken, very rudely and suddenly by a history textbook thrown at my head. I jump started awake and glared around the back of the van until my eyes rested on the pair right next to the pile of books. Sarah twitched her head in Nathan's direction, and shuffled away from him as fast as possible. Nath feigned mock innocence.

'Who? Me?' He asked, looking around the van at the others. He placed his hand over his heart, 'I would never...' He cut off there. He didn't really have a choice. I leapt straight out of Jay's arms, he slightly restrained me but let go of me quick enough. I jumped straight across the van at Nathan yelling,

'I'm going to KILL you SYKES!' I screamed leaping on him and tickling him to death.

'Stop...No Hannah stop...please...I'm sorry...STOP!' Nathan yelled out, gasping for breath as Sarah joined in the tickling.

Jay sat and watched for a minute before climbing over the other couples and hooking his arms around my waist and pulling me up and away from Nathan. I growled at Jay.

'Jay. Let me at him!' I growled, fighting against him as he pulled me away around the waist.

'Hannah you've tortured him enough for the time being. We're home anyway.'

'Home?' I asked.

'Well, our home.' Max said, throwing open the doors to the van. Max lifted out Louisa and Siva, Priya, Tom and Nikki followed. Nathan stood and pulled Sarah to her feet and they jumped out the van. Jay pushed Nathan out the way and climbed out, reaching his hand up to me.

'May I give you a hand me lady.' Jay said, feigning a cocky accent. I rolled my eyes, taking his hand then jumping out myself and feeling a searing pain. I looked down and realised I'd never put my shoes back on, and I was still in my school uniform.

'Sarah!' I yelled lurching forwards to grab her arm before she followed the others inside. She turned to me.

'We're still in school uniform!' I gasped frantically.

'OH MY GOD!' She shrieked in my ear.

'SARAH! Calm, it's just school uniform, anyway my mum has brains, she'll have bought us clothes.' I said leaning on her shoulder and lifting my foot up to have a look.

'Bugger.' I exclaimed. Jumping out the van, combined with the running away from the press had ripped a large hole in my tights straight over the ball of my foot. And now there was blood dripping form a rather large slice across my foot from where I'd jumped out the van.

'EWWWW!' Sarah exclaimed, slipping away from me so fast that I lost my balance. A pair of arms caught me and whipped me up from the floor. I grinned and Sarah winked at me before skipping ahead to join Nath, who was holding the door open for her.

'Let's get you inside.' Jay said kicking the door open and walking down the corridor to an apartment.

Tom closed the door after us and Mum smiled at me, holding up and pair of jeans and a black t-shirt.

'Yay! I love you Mum.' I said, attempting to escape Jay's clutches. Max grabbed my clothes of Mum and looked at Jay.

'Your room?' He asked, holding them up and gesturing towards a small, staircase that clearly lead up to another floor. Jay nodded and Max stuck out his hand to Louisa.

'Come on, Jay's room on the way to mine. You can get changed and meet my dog.' He grinned, his face lighting up with excitement. One by one, the other couples dispersed, splitting off through other doors, all except Sarah and Nath, who were clearly waiting for us. Mum and Jayne headed for the kitchen, deep in conversation about how the press knew what school we went to. Jay looked at me.

'Come on Missy, let's get that foot sorted out and get you out that school uniform.' I grinned and leaned up slightly in Jay's arms and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. There was a loud tut from Nath behind us, followed by a loud thump of a fist hitting a stomach. I giggled as Jay began to carry me upstairs. I peeked over his shoulder to see Sarah and Nath right behind us. Sarah winked at me, and then opened her mouth in feigned shock as she pointed at Nath, who was slightly in front of her, leading the way up the stairs.

'I know!' I mouthed back.

'What do you know?' Nathan asked. I rolled my eyes as Jay pushed open a door that clearly lead to his room and Sarah hit him again.

'More than you do!'I called as the door shut behind me.

Part 13:

Jay plonked me down on his bed and wandered off in the direction of the bathroom to get a first aid kit. I looked around his room, completely awestruck by what I could see. The single bed, where I was sitting, sat at the side of the room under the window, a large, glass tank stood at the side of the room on the blank wall. It took up most of the room and contained branches, a large heating lamp, leaves, a food bowl, and, seated on one of the branches, directly under the heated sat...

'Neytiri!' I shrieked, crawling across the bed and down on to the floor. I pushed my face right up close to the tank, eye level with Neytiri. She opened one eye lazily and stared right at me. A sudden voice right beside my ear made me jump.

'I think she likes you.' Jay whispered, laughing as I jumped, clutching my heart.

'God you scared me!' I whined thumping him on the shoulder as he scooped me up in his arms placing me on the bed again. He lifted my foot up to inspect it and I shrieked.

'Jay I'm wearing a skirt!' He rolled his eyes and laughed.

'Let me do this then you can get changed. I'm, not looking you silly girl.' He added peering at the blood running down my foot.

He gently prodded it with his little finger and I winced.

'Don't do that!' I whined, pouting at him. He rolled his eyes at me again.

'Hannah, if you don't let me touch it I can't get all the gravel out of it and it'll get infected.' He said very slowly and patronisingly. I pulled a face at him and dug my nails, what was left of them being very bitten and destroyed, in to his shoulder and gripped tightly.

'Ow ow, Hannah nails, hurting.' I smiled mischievously at him.

'Ow ow Jay foot, hurting.' I mocked his voice. He looked at me as if to say 'don't mock me.' And touched my foot again, this time harder and I squeezed his shoulder hard. He squeaked slightly before grabbing an anti-septic wipe and wiping it over my foot, cleaning all the blood up and cleaning the cut. The he reached down and pulled out the tweezers, pinching them together menacingly in front of my face.

'This may hurt, just a little.' He said before pinching the loose skin on my cut and pulling it gently to reach the gravel stuck in it.

Part 14:

I was still limping an hour later, dresses in my jeans, t-shirt and one of Jay's hoodies, when Jayne called us all to the living room for an emergency meeting. Jay offered to carry me, but I refused, hopping my way to the living room. When I reached it I noticed that Sarah, Nath, Tom and Nikki had taken up the sofa, Siva and Priya, Max and Louisa were squished together on the two armchairs and my Mum and Jayne had pulled in to dining room chairs and were sitting on them. I plonked myself down on the floor by Sarah's feet and leaned back on the spare part of the sofa. Jay came running down the stairs with Neytiri on his shoulder.

'Jay seriously. What have I told you about letting that lizard loose in the house?' Siva moaned.

'She looked lonely.' He pouted flopping down beside me on the floor and pulling me close to him. Neytiri wandered down Jay's arm onto my lap and curled up there. I grinned, gently running my fingers over her body. Jay grinned at me before turning his attention to Jayne.

'Right, we need to discuss the situation with the press waiting at your school. They clearly aren't going to leave you alone until you give them answers. So we're not going to give them the opportunity to get answers.' Jayne said, taking control of the situation. Everyone's eyes swivelled to her, listening intently as she devised her plan.

'Ruth and I have discussed it and phoned all of your parents and we all agree that we've come up with the best plan for you.' She sounded serious and around the room all the boys tightened their hold on the girls. Jay pulled me tightly to his side but it was Tom that voiced what all of us were thinking.

'We are NOT going to leave the girls if THAT'S what you think!' Max said viciously.

'No way!' Jayne replied. 'Why would you think that?'

'Sorry Jayne, carry on.' Max replied, slightly loosening his grip on Louisa.

'We've decided that the best thing to do would be if you girls stayed here for a couple of days, we'll set up a room for you obviously, so you don't have to sleep in their tips of bedrooms.' She laughed. 'Then, when you have to go back to school, we'll set you up with a couple of the boy's bodyguards so if anyone hassles you, they're there in the background to make sure that no violence will break out.'

'Jayne. Have I ever told you how much we love you?' Tom asked grinning and hugging Nikki hard. Jayne rolled her eyes and stood up.

'So I take it you're all happy with that decision?' We all nodded violently and Jayne and Mum nodded to each other and headed towards the kitchen.

'Jayne wait!' Nathan yelled. She poked her head back around the corner.

'What?' She asked.

'Can you put the kettle on?' He asked.

We all laughed as Jayne threw him a dirty glance before nodding.

'Why can't you ever do it yourself?' Max asked. Nathan threw a shoe at his head and war broke out in The Wanted's living room as Jay ran upstairs to put Neytiri back safely in her tank. I joined in, leaping through the air to attack Tom as his lying shoe clipped me in the side of the head. Thumping footsteps downstairs and a huge battle cry indicated that Jay had joined the tangle of people on the floor. I laughed as someone started tickling my foot and lashed out with my hand as another shoe flew at my head. I could hear Sarah and Louisa's muffled squeaks from somewhere at the bottom of the pile as Max jumped and landed on me. I yelled out and fought back 10 times harder, poking someone in the eye in the process. There was a loud scream and everyone jumped up and away from the centre of the room.

Part 15:

Louisa was sitting in the middle of the floor, in the centre of the outer circle of the rest if us, clutching at her face. The rest of us looked at each other, completely confused as to what was actually going on. Sarah crept forward, very slowly and very cautiously. She put her hand on Louisa's shoulder and crouched down beside her. The rest of us just stood still, unmoving, waiting for the verdict.

'Louisa?' Sarah asked carefully and quietly, 'what happened? Are you ok?' Louisa slowly looked up at Sarah, her face contorted in a mixture of pain and anger, her hand still firmly clamped over one side of her face.

'Get away from me.' Louisa said fiercely. Sarah looked up confused. We shrugged.

'Louisa?' Sarah asked again. 'What's wrong?'

'Get away from me you obnoxious BRAT!' Louisa screeched, pulling her hand away from her face. We all gasped.

Her eye had turned red, swollen and puffy and there were tears dripping out of it and down her cheek. There, the tears mixed with blood that was dripping from a large gash under her eye. However there were also scratch marks down her cheek. Sarah jumped back, alarmed. Max ran forward and put a comforting hand on Louisa's shoulder, crouching down behind her.

'Who did this to you?' He snarled n her ear. Louisa raised a shaking hand, finger pointing, at Sarah. Sarah gasped,

'I would never! Why would I do something like that?' Sarah asked, sounding shocked. Nathan moved forwards, gripping her hand in his and trying to comfort her. Tears ran down Louisa's face as she growled,

'Nikki told me, she overheard you talking to Hannah about me the other day. Saying how I can't understand anything you complain about your siblings because I'm an only child, and how I always have to be the centre of attention and how you wish you could treat me the way I treat you without me screaming at you. You were just waiting for an excuse to hurt me.' I turned slowly and menacingly towards Nikki who looked as though she wasn't sure whether to run or whether to stand up to me.

'Whatever you've heard from Nikki,' I snarled, pulling my arm away from Jay's restraining hand which he reached out to hold me back, 'is a load of complete and utter rubbish.' Tom reached out towards Nikki; she ripped her arm away from him.

'Leave me to deal with this.' Nikki growled, beginning to circle me, like a western stand off.

Part 16:

I dived at Nikki, screaming like a banshee. Nikki jumped backwards in shock, but not quick enough. I leaped at her, stretching out my foot as I jumped. My foot connected with her stomach with a satisfying thump. Nikki clutched at her stomach, completely winded, and staggered backwards. Tom grabbed Nikki as she started to sink to floor. I landed lightly on my feet and bounced on the balls of my feet, ignoring the stinging sensation ripping through my foot from my cut, and raised my clenched fists in front of me.

'Come on then. Think you can spread stuff about me and Sarah without me knowing?' I shrieked. 'Come on!'

'Hannah! Stop it! It doesn't have to be this way! I'm sure it was an accident.' Nathan yelled across the room. Out the corner of my eye I saw Siva grab Priya and pull her to the side of the room. Max was still behind me on the floor, comforting Louisa. I was still braced in a fighting stance, standing over a cowering Nikki, Tom with is arm wrapped around her, hauling her away from me and behind the sofa, using the sofa as cover incase I leaped at her again. I couldn't see Sarah, Nathan or Jay, so I assumed they were standing behind me somewhere. Out of my line of sight, Nath waved at Jay across the room to attract his attention. He pointed at me, then at Jay then upstairs. Jay nodded, understanding immediately. They wanted me upstairs, and out the way, so I couldn't hurt anyone else when I lashed out. Jay crept up behind me as I began to relax my stance. He grabbed me around the waist, hoisting me up and over his shoulder so that I was facing backwards. I screamed at him, beating my fists on his back demanding to be put down again. The living room was silent, watching Jay carry me upstairs from their various positions around the room.

Jay didn't put me down until he'd got me safely barred in his room. He threw me across on to his bed and turned around, not once looking me in the eyes. He shut the door and dragged Neytiri's tank across to block the door, preventing anyone coming in, and most importantly, me from leaving. He turned, finally looking at me. Confusion, hurt and a bit of anger crossed his face as he folded his arms and stood still by the door. I shuffled backwards, to the corner of the bed, wrapped my arms around my legs, hugging them to my chest, out my head on my knees and burst in to tears. Jay's face changed, he ran across the room, climbing across the bed and pulling me towards him, rocking me gently to comfort me.

'Shhh Hannah it's ok.' Jay whispered soothingly to me. 'It's just an argument.' He said, sounding slightly panicked when my sobs turned to hic-cups.

'I know. It's just we've been friends for so long and none of this.' I gestured at him and his room, 'would even have happened without them. And now I've lost some of my best friends, just because of a stupid accident.' I said between huge, slightly hysterical gulps of air and hiccups. 'And now I'm being stupid ruining your shirt with my tears.' I said pulling away. Jay just pulled me back towards him even tighter; he wrapped his strong arms around my back, moulding me perfectly to him. I rested my head on his shoulder, my face pressed in to his neck.

My sobs gradually subsided, but the guilt of what I'd done to Nikki stayed with me. And we stayed like that, in the middle of the bed. The apartment building fell silent hours ago, and we jus lost track of time. We stayed there, tears running down my cheeks, staining his shirt, until it had been dark for a long, long time.

Part 17:

(Nikki's POV)

I honestly don't know why Hannah had to get involved. I mean, it wasn't even her argument. Fair enough that it involved her, but in honest truth, I hadn't done anything wrong! All I'd done was pass on to Louisa what I'd heard Hannah and Sarah discussing the other day. I mean, she's meant to be one of their best friends; it's fair that they should be able to talk behind her back like that. She deserved to know. I still sat, curled behind the sofa where Tom had dragged me away from Hannah. I was upset, hurt and angry all at once; I didn't really know what emotion was more dominant right now. Tom sat beside me, his protecting arm still around me, as if he was protecting me from the hurt that they had caused me. But even Tom couldn't protect me now. It was too late, the damage had been done.

(Sarah's POV)

I can't believe Nikki told Louisa all that. I'd been discussing that with Hannah, in confidence. But not in a mean way though. We were just meant to be talking about how different each other's lives are right now ad then it turned to Louisa and the subject of her not having a sibling and all that. I didn't realise that Nikki had overheard all of it. Anyway, I understand why Hannah had got involved, it does involve her, but I am capable of fighting my own wars. I stood with Nathan, across the other side of the room to where Nikki was still huddled with Tom behind the sofa. Nathan stood, his arms around me, my head resting on his chest, tears dripping out my eyes, rolling down my cheeks, to rest on his shirt. I was shaking, but I wasn't entirely sure whether it was from sobs, or from anger. I clasped my hands behind Nathan's back as a fresh wave of sobs came over me.

(Louisa's POV):

Sarah and Hannah are meant to be my best friends, yet they were caught talking behind my back. I mean how unfair is that? I would have accepted that maybe Sarah had scratched me on purpose, I mean it was just a bundle on the floor, no one knew where anyone else was. But Nikki told me last night that Hannah and Sarah had been talking about me, so I jut assumed that maybe, she had done it on purpose, and it is very possible. I sat on the living room floor still, with Max. He was holding a dressing to my eye, trying to stop the bleeding, one arm was around me, and one was holding the dressing on my eye. I don't know where anyone else is and I don't care. I don't know whose fault it is. It could be Hannah and Sarah's for talking behind my back, or it could have been Nikki's, for telling me what had happened. Who cares now though? What's done is done; we can't change what's been said.

(Priya's POV)

I'm actually quite glad Siva dragged me out the firing line. I hate it when the group argues. And it's always the same two people on each side, and it's always the same people that cause the arguments. It drives me that tiny bit more insane every time it happens. They normally make up within a couple of days, but this time, I can tell, is different, very different. Two people got hurt in this argument, I guess that Louisa getting hurt was an accident, but Hannah definitely meant to hurt Nikki. I have no idea how long this argument could go on for. And this time, the boys are involved, whether they want to be or not. I peeked round the kitchen door where Siva had pulled me in to. Jay had obviously taken Hannah upstairs; I mean I could hear her screaming as he carried her away from Nikki. Wow she's loud. Anyway, I was going to do what I normally did, stay out the argument and try and wait till it blows over. I smiled at Siva, but in my mind, I didn't know how long I was going to have to wait.

Part 18:

(Hannah's POV)

I'm guessing that I'd cried myself to sleep in Jay's arms last night, when I don't know, all I know is that when I next opened my eyes, the sun was streaming through the window. I squinted my eyes against the sun and looked down at myself. I was still wearing the t-shirt and jeans I'd been wearing yesterday when Jay had bought me upstairs. I groaned and rolled over, intending to go back to sleep, that plan went out the window (metaphorically of course as the window was actually closed). Jay was asleep next to me, pressed up against the wall to give me a bit of space on his small bed, he was asleep on his side, facing me, his right arm draped over me, his left above his head on the pillow. His hair was all over the place, and I dreaded looking in a mirror to see how bad mine looked. As I lay there for a brief second, looking at Jay, he looked adorable asleep, like a 10 year old boy, he stirred and opened his eyes a crack. I shut my eyes quickly, pretending to sleep, I didn't want to face the day just yet.

Jay smiled, I knew he knew I wasn't asleep yet I still pretended, just like I was 7 years old again and my parents were checking if I was asleep late at night. I grinned as Jay gently kissed my cheek, 'I know you're not asleep Hannah, you can stop pretending.' He whispered in my ear. I opened my eyes and pulled a face at him.

'Can't I just sleep for the rest of the day so I don't have to face anyone?' I whined. Jay laughed and wrapped both his arms around me.

'No you cannot. Think about how I'm going to feel. They'll bombard me with questions.' Jay said matter of factly. 'Besides, I rather like having my own personal soldier.' He grinned, winking at me. I rolled my eyes at him and giggled quietly.

'Silly Jay.' I grinned, poking him on the nose, 'you're my personal soldier.' He laughed and squeezed me gently kissing my nose. I shut my eyes again and laid in his arms as he began gently singing to me.

'I'll be your hero standing strong, who'll protect you from any fights. And if your battles are piling on I'll take them on with all my might.' He sang, I relaxed and shut my eyes, falling asleep again to the sound of Jay's gentle voice singing to me.

I woke up again a couple of hours later as a sudden chill rushed over me. I started awake. Jay was halfway across the room, attempting to move Neytiri's tank away from the door. From behind the door I could hear thumps, screams and the occasional shout from one of the boys.

'Jay, where are you going?' I whined. He stood up and looked at me.

'Sorry babe. I didn't mean to wake you, but everyone's at it arguing again.' I groaned and rolled on to my back, covering my eyes with my arm. Jay smiled and walked back over to the bed; he knelt down beside the bed and pulled my arm off my eyes.

'I'd much prefer if you didn't cover your face.' He whispered. I groaned again and pulled a pillow over my head. Jay sighed, pulling the pillow off my head and pinning my arms down.

'You know I'd much prefer to stay here, hugging you, than sort out another fight.' I stretched my arms out towards him for him to come back; instead he picked me up off the bed.

'I might need your help to break up any violence.' He said placing me on the floor and throwing me a hoodie from the end of his bed. I pulled it on before mentally bracing myself. Jay must have seen my grimace as he shot across the room, pulling me towards him in a huge hug, and gave me a quick kiss.

'You'll be fine, just DON'T start the violence this time missy.' He said, poking me on the nose before opening the door and beckoning to me. I nodded and followed him out the room, taking his outstretched hand and lacing my fingers through his.

Part 19:

No sooner had I stepped outside the room, hand in hand with Jay; than I was shoved back though the door by Nath. He pushed backwards on me and I fell back in to the room, tripping over my foot and landing on my butt. Nath pushed Jay back in to and stepped in after us, shutting the door behind him and leaning against it.

'Hannah, Jay, trust me. You do NOT want to go out there right now. Even I don't know if I want to get involved. And Sarah might kill me if I don't take her side on this.' He grimaced at me. I nodded, I knew only too well what he meant by that. Jay looked at me, then back at Nathan.

'Ok, I'm confused.' He announced, looking between us again.

'Jay, I've got to go out there. If Sarah has no support, she'll go insane, she'll start hurting everyone.' I said heading towards the door and trying to push Nath aside.

'No wait!' Jay yelled, diving across the room and throwing himself against the door, just as Nathan moved out the way.

'Hannah, I don't want you getting hurt.' Jay said, taking my hand and pulling me back in to the centre of the room. Nathan looked uncomfortable, unsure of whether to leave the room, or to stay and be safe.

'Jay.' I sighed, 'I'm not going to get hurt. Unarmed combat training, remember?' I giggled. He placed his hand flat on my cheek, stroking his thumb gently under my chin.

'I know, but what if what happened to Louisa, happens to you?' Jay asked, his face contorted with conflicting emotions. I sighed, unsure of whether it was unnecessary protection, or if it was because he really, truly did love me.

I gently pulled his hand away from my cheek.

'Jay, I'm going to be fine. I doubt none of them could attack me anyway. I mean, my friend has taught me so many ways to hurt people. They just wouldn't dare try and fight me.' I grinned at him, lacing my fingers through his, 'but if it makes you feel better, you can come with me. But it means your taking sides, which could cause major infighting and could actually affect the band. And truthfully? That is the last thing I want. I could never be the one to cause The Wanted to break up. I could never come between you as a band, or more importantly, as friends with the guys.'

Jay listened carefully before looking at Nathan. Nathan looked conflicted too. I knew how hard this was on both of them, they were trying to decide whether to take our sides with us girls and risk losing the boys as friends, or stay out the argument and stand back, watching from the side lines, as the argument got worse and progressed further. They would be watching us get hurt, something they didn't want to live with.

Jay looked at Nathan again and they both nodded, decision seeming to cross their faces.

'Ok.' Nathan said to me, hugging me hard.

'Ok.' Jay repeated, lacing his fingers through mine and hugging me even harder.

'Ok?' I asked, confused.

'Ok, we're taking your side. I can't stand to see Sarah get hurt.' Nathan said pulling open the door and stepping out in to the hall.

'And I can't stand to see you get hurt.' Jay said in my ear as he stepped out, pulling me out after Nathan. He kissed me quickly before pulling me down the stairs, towards the screaming and shouting.

Part 20:

Entering that room was like entering a war zone. Things were flying left right and centre, books, shoes and even a chair flew around my head. I shrieked and threw myself to the floor, I mean; come on a chair flying around a room is going to scare anyone. I looked around the room; Nikki and Louisa were standing on one side shrieking and throwing things across at Sarah who was standing behind the sofa, ducking every time something flew at her head. Priya, Siva, Tom and Max were nowhere to be seen. I guessed they were trying to keep out of it, smart people, but I thought when they realised that Nath and Jay were involved that they would not be very happy. I was almost dreading them finding out, I mean, we could be the reason for infighting within The Wanted for heavens sake. Then, rather a lot of the TW Fanmily would sort of, most likely, for sure, hate our guts.

I jumped up from where I was crouched with Jay and Nathan on the floor. I felt two pairs of hands trying to pull me back but I ripped my arms out their grasp and ran towards the centre of the room, ducking, weaving and jumping over anything in my way. I stood up straight in the middle of the room.

'Girls! Seriously! Fighting like this isn't going to solve our problems!' I yelled, the screaming subsided. I gulped; at least I had their attention, right? Well, even if the arguing carried on at least they'd decided to listen to me. Well, you can't blame me for trying.

'We've been best friends for years, we've never let anything, not even bys, come between us. We can't let something as stupid as a tiny scratch be the thing that breaks us up.' I said, my voice sounding calmer than I felt, I could see Jay and Nath, carefully standing up from where they were crouched. I guessed that meant the girls had lowered their 'weapons'.

'Come on guys,' I pleaded, 'remember our motto, Live Well, Love Much and Laugh…' I waited for someone to complete the motto. I kept waiting, feeling more and more stupid as I waited longer and longer.

'Hannah, that motto died when my friendship with you did!' Came a yell from Nikki and Louisa's side of the room.

I heard the whistle of the book flying through the air rather than saw it. It knocked me backwards and to the floor. I made a mental note to tell the boys to get rid of their encyclopaedias from the living room when I heard the sound of a hand slapping skin. I looked up to see Jay and Nath pulling Sarah away from Nikki, who was on the floor, a look of shock on her face as the red handprint on her face became more prominent. Jay and Nathan managed to pull Sarah away as Louisa grabbed Nikki and pulled her out the room, towards Max's room. I groaned and lay back on the floor, feeling light-headed. It wasn't going to be long before Max and Tom heard about this. Great, now I'd done it. Sarah plopped herself down on the floor beside me as someone, presumably Jay, gently helped to push me upright. Sarah had blood dripping out of a large cut on her arm.

'Sarah. Your…your bleeding.' I said pointing towards her arm, sounding a bit confused.

'So are you Hannah.' She replied, gently poking a spot on my head.

'Ow.' I whined, suddenly aware of a throbbing on the side of my forehead, and the blood running out of it and down my face.

'Crap Hannah are you ok?' Jay asked, pressing his top sleeve against my head, trying to stop the blood.

'Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, it's nothing, don't ruin your top.' I said, trying to push his arm away. He took a good look at the cut and grimaced, wincing.

'It's it pretty deep gash my love, we might have to take you A&E and get it looked at.'

'What about Sarah's?' I asked, feeling light-headed again as I saw the blood spreading across Jay's top.

'Yeah we might get that one looked at and all.' Nath said, grabbing some tissue and pushing it against it. I looked over Jay's shoulder as he grabbed tissue, pushing it against my cut.

'Ok fine, take us to A&E. I said, 'but you may want to wait until this is over.' I added pointing at the doorway. Jay and Nathan turned around. Max and Tom were standing in the doorway; arms folded across their body's, Louisa and Nikki standing just behind them. And honestly? They did not look happy.

Part 21:

Jay leaped up off the floor and stood in front of me, Nathan whipped round next to him and they began to advance on Max and Tom, who in turn advanced on them. It reminded me slightly of a western stand off...Focus Hannah. Anyway, Jay, Nathan, Tom and Max were advancing on each other.

'Don't. Touch. Her.' Jay growled menacingly at Tom and Max.

'Wouldn't. Dream. Of. It.' Tom growled back, his Boltonese accent growing thicker with his growling, a menacing and slightly scary smile.

'Especially after she DIDN'T hurt Nikki.' He said, feinting to the left, Jay followed his move precisely, 'oh wait. That's a lie, because she did, so now, I'm going to hurt her.' He said running forwards quickly, Max followed. Jay and Nathan ran forwards to, grabbing each of them round the waist and pushing back. Tom locked his arms around Jay, grinning maliciously,

'Silly Jay.' Tom said as Max grabbed Nathan and began to drag them away. What was going on? Then I realised...

'We're not hurting her physically; we're hurting her, and Sarah, by hurting you and Nathan.' Tom said, pulling them from the room. Sarah and I leapt up from the floor.

'No!' I shrieked, ignoring the sickened feeling I felt in my stomach and the pain in my head. Louisa and Nikki laughed, following them down the corridor and shutting the door after them.

Sarah and I ran after them, banging on the door screaming.

'No! This isn't fair!' I screamed, before slumping down the wall and bursting in to tears of frustration, anger and hurt. Sarah slumped down beside me and buried her head in her knees, both of us listening to the sounds coming from behind the door, and wincing at the sound of fists connecting with flesh. The blood from my head had started to trickle out again and I could feel it running down my face and mixing with my tears. Sarah's gash on her arm was starting to look worse with more blood dripping out the large gash. We just wanted them to finish beating up the boys so they could get us to hospital. My tears came thicker and faster as Jay groaned from behind the door.

Part 22:

An hour later and the door eventually opened, Jay and Nathan staggered out, a laughing Tom and Max closing the door behind them. Me and Sarah leapt up off the floor, I ran to Jay and hugged him tightly, tears falling thick and fast once more. Jay squeezed me back; Nathan and Sarah hugged beside us. Jay lifted me up to look in to my eyes.

'Let's get you to hospital my love.' He said. I squinted through my tears and saw his eye.

'OMG JAY!' I shrieked, his eye had turned purple and was swollen up, restricting his vision through it.

'Hannah, I'm fine honestly. Let's get you two to hospital and get you stitched up.' Jay said, gently kissing the spot just above the cut on my head. I winced, imagining the needle stitching up my head.

'You'll be fine, honest.' Jay said 'I'll hold your hand the whole time.' He said, placing me down on the floor, gesturing to Nathan and Sarah and walking out the apartment.

We got to the TW van and Jay pulled open the doors, lifting me up inside. The driver was already inside, waiting.

'Hospital right guys?' He asked, turning on the engine. Jay nodded.

'Don't even ask.' Nathan said, pulling Sarah in after him and closing the doors.

'Okay Dokey.' The driver replied, pulling out the car park outside the apartment block and heading towards the hospital. Me, Jay, Sarah and Nathan huddled together in the back of the van. It was cold now, my cut stung badly and the blood down my face wasn't drying. If anything, the tears still pouring from my eyes just kept mixing with it, causing it to run farther down my face and drip to the floor of the van. I couldn't bring myself to look at Jay's eye, even though he'd tried to convince me he was fine, I still blamed myself. I mean, if it wasn't for us, none of this would have happened at all would it?

We arrived at the hospital and the driver said he'd wait for us to come out. Jay pressed the sleeve of his top against my cut again and led the way in to the A&E room. He walked over to the desk, ignoring the stares from people at the state of us. The receptionist looked up, bored, when we reached her.

'Hi.' Jay said to her, leaning close so no one else could hear him as they were all listening in. 'My girlfriends had a bit of a run in with her friends and has had a book thrown at her head. I think she might need stitches. And my band-mates girlfriend also might need stitches in her arm.' He added pointing to Sarah and Nathan.

'Ok sure that's fine. You're those guys from The Wanted aren't you?' She asked. Jay nodded, pressing a finger to his lips. She nodded understandingly, sliding the paperwork over to him.

'Just fill in this paper work for the two girls,' She said to him, 'and ask the nurse to look at your boyfriend's eye to love.' She added to me as an afterthought. I nodded and smiled to her, tears still dripping from my eyes.

'Don't worry love, you'll be fine.' The receptionist said giving my hand a squeeze.

'It's not me I'm worried about.' I sobbed to her; Jay squeezed me gently round the waist.

'I'll be fine if you are my love.' He said. 'Thank you.' He added to the receptionist before picking me up and carrying me over to the plastic chairs, gesturing to Nathan and Sarah to follow. Jay sat me on his lap and began to fill in my form while I helped, between shaking violently with sobs.

Part 23:

No matter how much I'd cried, and moaned nothing had managed to convince Jay to see the nurse about his eye. He'd sat and held my hand through my whimpering and squeaking, but when the nurse had asked him about his eye he'd said it was unimportant and had left with me, Sarah and Nathan. I was still wincing as we walked out in to the setting sunlight. Jay led us back over to the van and opened the door for us. He helped me in and stood back for Sarah and Nathan. The driver started the engine and pulled out the car park. Jay sat down in a corner and opened his arms to me. I crawled across the floor from where I was sitting and tucked myself in to his arms. He wrapped them around me and gently kissed the stitches on my forehead; I stuck out one finger and gingerly stroked his blackened eye.

'Jay, why didn't you let the nurse look at your eye?' I asked him, tucking my head against his chest.

'Because it's just a black eye love. It's nothing. Honest. I'm more worried about Nathan really.' He said, jerking his head in Nath's direction. He obviously had some bad bruising on his ribs as Sarah was trying hard not to lean too hard on him. I nodded against his chest before closing my eyes and resting. His hand lifted up and started stroking my hair. I smiled and I guessed he was to.

Jay shook me awake gently when we got back. Nathan flung open the doors of the van. Next thing, Nathan had shrieked in a not very manly way, jumped backwards in to us, and Jayne had stepped in to the van and closed the doors.

'What, may I ask, is going on with you all?' Jayne asked, blocking the doors and looking around the van, taking particular note at my head stitches, Jay's black eye, Sarah's arm stitches and Nathan clutching at his ribs.

'Well errmm.' Jay said, looking around at us for help. It wasn't difficult. All myself and Sarah had to do was burst in to tears, which we did, very easily.

'Tom...and...Max...and...Louisa...and...Nikki...Beat up my Jay Jay and Nath...and...' I sobbed dramatically to Jayne, collapsing in to Jay's arms for added effect. He buried his face in my hair and whispered, 'you're really good, you should be an actress.' I grinned, made the tears fall faster before turning to Jayne again. She smiled sympathetically at me,

'You'll be fine, they're in trouble, I've already seen them and asked where you were, they said hospital, and it worried me that they weren't hurt in any way at all. So I assumed that they'd had something to do with your injuries. Anyway, you girls are going back to school tomorrow.' She ended. I looked up from Jay's chest and across at Sarah, the look of horror and shock reflected on her face.

Part 24:

'No Jayne please.' Jay and Nathan begged. 'They can't go back with Louisa and Nikki.' Jay added.

'They'll kill them.' Nathan ended.

'Now boys.' Jayne said firmly. 'The girls need to finish their education, and they have a bodyguard with them all the time, I can give them separate ones if necessary, through the agency.' The said. 'Besides, they can come here after school and on weekends if that makes you happy, or you can all go to one of their houses.'

'Ok.' Jay moped, 'and hey Jayne? I was thinking, could we maybe ask the girls to come on our tour to Germany in a week?' Jay asked, his face lit up by his smile again. Jayne grinned at his smile and looked at Nathan. Nathan pulled a puppy dog face at her and she softened.

'Of course they can, as long as everyone's made up by then the I see no problem with it, we can get an extra 5 shelf beds put in for you girls.' She smiled.

'Thank you so much Jayne.' The four of us gushed, 'we'll do our best to make up with everyone else we promise.' I added.

'Yeah, I mean we want to come on the tour sooooo bad.' Sarah chipped in.

'We promise Jayne.' Jay and Nathan said together as Jayne allowed us to leave the van and go inside.

We stopped outside the front door of the apartment.

'I think we need to just go in and go to our rooms.' I said, grabbing the door handle to stop everyone on their way in. They nodded and I opened the door. Nikki, Tom, Louisa and Max were curled together on the sofa. We stepped through the door and Jay grabbed my hand, lacing his fingers through mine and gripping tightly. I saw Nathan wrap a protective arm around Sarah. Nikki and Louisa casually shuffled closer to Tom and Max. Siva and Priya were still nowhere to be seen. Jay started to lead me across the room, towards the staircase, and as we passed the sofa Tom and Max uncrossed their legs, ready to stand up if necessary.

'I'm not going to hurt them.' I sneered at Tom and Max. Jay ripped his hand out of mine, spinning round and facing them off.

'You know what, I'm sick of this!' He yelled in their faces. I grabbed Jay's arm and started trying to pull him back.

'Jay leave it, please babe, it's fine, honest!' I begged and pleaded, trying to pull him away and out the room.

'No, Hannah, it's not fine!' He said soothingly to me. He turned back to the boys again,

'Seriously, Hannah is not going to hurt them. It was a stupid accident, neither of them meant for it to happen. You are taking this way too far, seriously, I only joined in because Hannah got hurt and I didn't want to see her get hurt anymore. Look at her HEAD!' He yelled, pushing me forward, towards them, gently but firmly, and pushing my fringe up from my stitches. Everyone on the sofa flinched from the state of them. 'And Sarah's arm!' He added pointing towards where Sarah and Nathan had disappeared in to the kitchen.

'I think that's enough now baby.' I pleaded to Jay, continuing to tug his arm. He finally gave in to my pleas.

'Yes I think I got my point across pretty well.' He said turning and facing me to lead my upstairs.

'Jay, wait...'Tom's voice sounded, and we both turned back to see Tom and Max rising from the sofa.

Part 25:

Jay grabbed me, pushing me behind him to protect me from them. Tom and Max backed off a little, raising their hands in the universal symbol for surrender. Jay looked over his shoulder at me looking around the side of his body, his face twisted in a bit of confusion and I shrugged at him. He turned back and faced Tom and Max, relaxing is defensive stance.

'Jay mate.' Tom spoke up, dropping his hands and stepping towards us slightly. Jay instinctively backed up a little, pushing me gently with him. Tom stopped again, now he was in the middle of the room and I was backed against a wall with Jay standing in front of me.

'Jay mate. I'm…' Tom continued, before looking around at the rest of the group behind him. 'I mean we, are really sorry. The only reason Max and I got involved in the first place was because you and Nathan got involved on Hannah and Sarah's side. I never meant for it to go as far as it has done and neither did Max, it was a total accident. And we're both completely sorry.' Tom finished. Max nodded stepping forwards and stretching out his hand to Jay. Jay stepped forward and they met in the middle, they gripped hands briefly before letting go and stepping away from each other. Tom reached his hand to Jay and Jay gripped Tom's briefly too. They all stepped away from each other