Welcome to My Life
Summary – Jake and a manager of another band team up for a world tour. At first McFly and the new band don't seem to get along. It seems that the other band is hiding something, and is taking out their anger on McFly. But what happens when they open McFly's eyes to the world that they've been hiding?
A/N: for the story, I changed McFly's ages. Tom, Harry, and Danny are 17. And Dougie is 16.
Chapter One - The Bands Meet
"All passengers onboard the plane, please buckle up the safety belt beside you. The plane is preparing for take off."
"Danny, would you stop flirting with the flight attendant so we can go?" Tom asked as he slapped his friend on the arm. Danny said something to the flight attendant, which caused her to laugh as she walked away. He turned back to his band mates and saw that they were all staring at him.
"I can't help it if girls throw themselves all over me" he said as innocently as he could.
"You mean you can't help it that you're a man whore?" Harry shot back and the other laughed as Danny punched him in the arm.
"I am not a man whore" Danny declared loudly, not caring if anyone was staring at him, which most of the plane was doing. Dougie and Tom gave him stern looks as Harry tried not to laugh. "Ok, maybe I am a little"
"Finally you admit it" Tom said and gave a small laugh.
"Well, at least I'm not so shy that I can actually get a girl to kiss me!" Danny teased Dougie as he pushed his shoulder. "What really happened at the end of that date you had last week?"
"Oh, you mean the one with that girl who had that nasty mole on her cheek?" Harry asked, remembering. "Wow, you really know how to pick em', Dougs"
"I only saw her profile before I asked her out" Dougie protested, his face turning red and he looked down at my hands. "And I would have felt bad if I broke the date because of it. I mean, I'm not as…what's the word I'm looking for…um…shallow! That's it; I'm not as shallow as you guys"
"I'm not shallow" Tom protested.
"Then who was it that made that rule about dating girls who-"Tom cut Danny off as he remembered what Danny was talking about.
"I was making a joke. Who knew that you would actually listen to me for once?" Tom asked as he made a face.
"Could you guys quiet down, you're disturbing the peace" Jake pointed out as he leaned across the aisle to talk to them.
"What peace? There's like, no one here, we're in first class" Danny said as he looked around.
"Just tone it down," Jake replied. "Now, as soon as we get to Australia, we're going to the hotel you're going to stay at to get checked in. And then we're going over to the studio to meet the band that you're touring with"
"How did you make it so that we'd tour with another band?" Harry asked.
"I'm friends with the manager of the band" Jake replied. "We met at a conference once, and we talked over lunch and things snowballed from there"
"Jake, are you sure you're not gay?" Dougie asked, causing Danny, Harry, and Tom to burst out laughing. Jake smiled and shook his head, settling back in his seat as the plane took off.
"Patrick, you need to raise the pitch on that note"
"Got it"
Riley Jackson went back to tuning her guitar as she listened to her father, and her manager, give out orders. She, and her twin sister, Rhuben, her twin brothers Patrick and Noah, and their baby brother, Sydney, were all apart of the famous Australian band called the DarkElements. They were waiting for the band that they were going to tour with to get to the studio so they could go over their itinerary for concerts, and charity events, and the press and stuff like that.
"Hey Riles, betcha(1) you can't keep up with me on the new drum solo I invented" Rhuben said.
"Buckley's!(2) But, if I do keep up, you owe me big bikkies (3)" Riley replied with a sinister grin.
"Don't do that, you know that you'll lose, right?" Patrick asked Rhuben. In response, she banged her drumsticks over his head.
"Knock it off you guys, you need to concentrate on this new song" Robert Jackson, their father/band manager said as he handed Sydney his violin, checking to make sure he didn't have to change the strings.
"But we've been working on it for days" Sydney said dramatically. "Let's get some brekkie.(4) I'm starving"
"Yeah, me too!" Patrick and Noah chorused.
"Remind me to shoot myself the next time I volunteer to be your chaperone, or your manager for something else, all right?" Robert said with a chuckle. To anyone, it would seem like an amused chuckle. But to the Jackson kids, they knew it was a threat.
"Kids being a little too…high maintenance?" a man asked as he walked into the recording studio.
"Hey Jake, how are ya?" Robert asked and gave him a friendly slap on the back. "Kids, this is Jake, he's the manager of the band that you're touring with."
"G'day(5)" The five kids said in unison.
"Hey." Jake replied with a small wave as four boys walked in behind him. "Oh, this is McFly, the band you're touring with. This is Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter, and Harry Judd" he said, pointing to each in turn, who gave a nod in greeting.
"And these five are the DarkElements, Riley, Rhuben, Patrick, Noah, and Sydney Jackson" Robert said, motioning to his children. "I'm their father and their manager"
"Must be rough if your dad is chaperoning you all of the time" Danny commented.
"It's not that bad, he helps us get even more famous. I don't mean to brag, but we're famous half around the world" Sydney commented and then he cocked his head to the side. "You have an accent, what is it?"
"British" Harry replied, and you.
"We're aussies(6)" Patrick replied as if it were obvious.
"We're Australian" Noah added to clear things up.
"How old are you two?" Tom asked, turning to Riley and Rhuben, who turned back to them with suspicious looks on their faces. "And how can you tell each other apart?"
"Why does it matter?" Riley asked I a cool tone. Robert cleared her throat and she rolled her eyes. "I'm Riley and that's Rhuben. You can tell because I have a red streak of hair, and Rhuben has a purple streak. We're 15, almost 16"
"I'm 12" Patrick and Noah said in unison "Almost 13"
"And I'm 7, almost 8" Sydney added with a cheeky grin to McFly's shock.
"You must be….really talented" Dougie said slowly. Sydney shrugged and looked down at his hands, as an uncomfortable silence went throughout the room.
"Uh, well, I think that we should go to breakfast or something so you guys can get acquainted. You're going to be with each other for a while" Jake said nervously.
"Great" Rhuben muttered as she rolled her eyes…
Australian Words/Phrases
1. Betcha: I bet
2. Buckley's: No Chance
3. Big Bikkies: A lot of money
4. Brekkie: Breakfast
5. G'day: Standard Australian greeting
6. Aussies: Australian reference to someone who is of an Australian nature