Chapter 10

It was eight o'clock, and Liz was jittery with excitement. She was sitting in the front row all by herself, and about a million screaming, hysterical girls were behind her, restricted by the policemen on duty.

Liz couldn't decide whether George had fixed it so that she was by herself, or if the seating was already arranged like that. It didn't matter as soon as the show started anyway.

Ed Sullivan introduced The Beatles quite enthusiastically, and the boys looked nervous, but as soon as George stuck the opening chords of "All My Loving", everything seemed to go smoothly. When the song was over, every girl screamed as the boys bowed, and went straight into, "Till There Was You".

Liz tried her best to watch all of them, but her gaze kept wandering back to George. Every time she looked at him he had the best grin on his face, and it made her laugh. Every once in awhile, one of them would grin or make a face at the audience and screams would erupt from the crowd.

The song ended, and very abruptly, The Beatles went into, "She loves you". When they got to the part where they went Oooh, if the crowd could've gotten any louder than it was already, they definitely succeeded. It made Liz giggle at how every girl in the Ed Sullivan show theater went nuts when their hair went flying.

Liz saw Ringo flip his hair, just to see if he would get some sort of reaction, and was surprised to hear loud screams in response. She turned her attention back to George and saw him grinning in her direction. She smiled widely at him and he wiggled his eyebrows at her, also getting screams for the reaction.

When the song ended, the Fab Four bowed again and Ed Sullivan steeped onto the stage, and told every on about how The Beatles were going to be on the show for the next two Sundays the next one being in Miami the following week. There was more shouts and yell from all the girls when he introduced the boys for the next set, and they went into "I Want to hold your Hand". Liz cheered along for a while, and she saw George smile at her silliness. When the song ended, the crowd of screaming girls got louder than Liz expected, and could barely stand the girls directly behind her. John, Paul, George, and Ringo all bowed again, and they all made there way over to Ed Sullivan. He shook all of their hands and he thanked them for playing, even though nobody could hear over all the noise.

Pretty soon after that the theater was cleared out and the only girl that was left was Liz. She was waiting for Brian to come and get her to go back to the hotel quietly, when some random girl walked up and started yelling at her.

"How dare you!" she screamed, "George is MY Beatles, and no one else's!"

Liz was confused at what was being screamed at her, "I'm sorry, but I don't think I know what you're talking about…" Liz said trying to keep the confusion out of her voice.

"Oh, I'm sure," the girl said rolling her eyes, "I saw you get out of the taxi with him, and I wont stand for it!"

Liz was now trying hard not to laugh in her face, "Stand for what exactly?" she asked a giggle escaping her.

The girl was going to respond when a hand landed on her shoulder. She turned around slowly and saw George Harrison standing there.

She screamed with excitement, and George just watched her freak out. Liz started to laugh and George grinned at her.

"Hello, miss, but could you leave my friend alone please?" he asked, his Liverpudlian accent thick.

The girl could barely speak now and just nodded before George motioned for a security guard to come and escort her out of the building.

Liz was still laughing at the poor girl when George took her hand and pulled her backstage.

"Liz," George giggled, "Will you calm down?"

"Sorry," Liz said taking a deep breath to calm herself, "But did you see her face when you walked up?"

George laughed at her, "Yes, Liz, I did." He said rolling his eyes as they entered their dressing room.

"George, I thought I told you no girls in here?" John joked, "Oh, no wait, it's just Russo."

"Hey!" Liz said putting her hands on her hips, "I am so a girl! And I thought you said you weren't gonna make fun of my name!?"

John just rolled his eyes and grinned childishly as George stood behind her and pulled her hair up into what was an attempt of a bun. She turned around and looked at him.

"What are you doing?" she asked pulling it back down.

"Well, since you're recognizable we have to disguise you." George shrugged turning her back around. He put her hair up again, and this time it looked much better. When he was satisfied with the results he dug around for a hat and put that on her head.

"George," Paul said, "That's not gonna work, you need something to hide her figure."

Liz looked down at her body, and looked back at George. He was looking her up and down with a look of realization that she was very curvy.

Ringo walked by casually and cleared his throat loudly handing George his coat, "Here George use your coat."

"But then I'll freeze!" George said dramatically.

"Better you freeze than Liz get beaten to a pulp." Paul said sternly.

"I know, I was just kidding." George helped Liz pull his coat on, and pulled the hat farther down so that her face was hidden. He proceeded to hide her by pulling the collar up around her ears and he picked up her hands and put them in the pockets of the coat for her, causing her to giggle.

"Ok, you four, lets go find Liz and get out of here…" Brian took one look at Liz and frowned, "Who's that?"

John grinned, "Good it works, let's go Eppy." He pulled Brian out the door and the rest of them followed. George put his arm around Liz when they got to the lobby and Brian opened the door.

"Ok, remember, no eye- contact, and don't stop for anything!" Brian said pushing John a head of him.

Though, most of the girls were forced to leave, there were still quite a few girls were waiting for them. It was getting dark and it was in fact chilly out side and Liz felt bad that George didn't have a coat.

They forced their way through the small crowd of now extremely loud girls. Ringo was in front of Liz and was swatted at by a few girls, but managed to dodge them. One of those girls knocked Liz's hat on the ground and her eyes got wide with jealousy.

Suddenly Liz was surrounded and being swung at and hit all over the place. Brian said not to stop for anything, but she couldn't move anywhere.

"Liz!" she heard George yell for her.

"George?!" she screamed back and blocked her head from being hit.

She barely hear a thing with all the screaming around her, and she barley noticed George had pushed through the crowd and was pulling her to the car that was waiting for them.

She only come to realize she wasn't being beat up anymore until they were about a mile from the theater. George had his arm around her and she had her face buried in his shirt. She was breathing extremely hard and she looked up at George, and saw he had a rather worried expression on his face.

"You alright Liz?" he asked quietly. She nodded quickly and put her head back against his chest. She felt him sigh and she closed her eyes for what seemed like a few minutes, but before she knew it George was poking her and shaking her shoulder to wake her up.

"C'mon, Liz, we're at the hotel." George said in a low voice.

"Are there girls here too?" she asked still half asleep.

"Yes there are girls here too, but Brian's asked the police officers to clear them off so we can go in."

Liz nodded and sat up, so he could get out of the car. They were the last ones out of the car, and Liz stumbled a bit as she stood up.

George steadied her and put his arm around her until they were in the building. She yawned and followed him up to the room without a word.

She collapsed onto the couch and cuddled up to the pillows and went back to sleep. George giggled at her and pulled a blanket over her before yawning himself.

"Guys, try not to wake her up, alright?" George said mostly to John.

"Why? Will she go all sea monster on us?" he asked his eyes flashing with excitement.

"It'll just be better for all of us," Paul said before George could put in a smart comment. "She gets extremely grumpy."

"How come you two know some much about her, and I barely remember her?" John asked crossing his arms in curiosity.

George shrugged, "I dunno, you never really paid a lot of attention to her I guess."

"I know that," John said, "But I remember you bringing her to Paul's house when he had practice and things, but I don't think I ever really had an actual conversation with her."

"You don't have to think John," Paul smirked, "I know you didn't. You even made an effort to ignore her."

"But my question is why?" George asked also remembering those days he missed so much.

"I don't remember, really," John shrugged, "I just remember being mad because you brought some little girl to the practice."

George laughed, "She wasn't a little girl, John." He said.

Ringo looked at him and frowned, "How old is she then?"

"Well, she's s year younger than me, so she'll be turning 20 in November if I remember correctly." George said digging into his memories when he went to Liz's birthday parties.

"So that makes her thirteen when you brought her to my house for practices?" Paul asked with a snigger.

"So yes," John said, "She was a little girl, and you were a little boy."

"Hey, I was not!" George said, "I was fourteen. Sure that's a little young to be hangin around you two, but I was not a little boy."

"What ever you say, Georgie…" John said yawning and walking into his room.

George rolled his eyes and didn't wait for anyone else to say anything about it; he just went into his room and went to bed.

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