Pasting chapters is quite tiring, and boring. I read them as I write a lot and then have to read them again... But I love writing, or readdin after
a long time. I might read the whole thing one day.. But not now, because I have to work on the sequel.. Anyway hope you like it.
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The next day was all about relaxing. I guess we wanted to forget and have a bit of fun before the tour. Beach, treats, swimming in the sea. I got to enter the water! I couldn't swim, because I had to have my boot on, but
it was okay, I managed to have a bit of fun. Ross helped me. We walked into the water holding hands.
'It's cold!' I wined.
'But at least you are allowed to go in.' He said.
'I'm really proud of you.' He added. I gave him a questioned look. But I couldn't help but smile. This was really sweet. I saw his eyes and my cheeks blushed.
'You really tried, and you really got the courage to walk. And you succeded. I'm really happy.' He explained. I squessed his hand, not taking my eyes of him.
'I'm really happy too. And thank you for everything. For being here for me. For still being my best friend.' I said, and he looked up into my eyes.
'We will always be best friends. But to be honest, what we have got is even more precious than that.' We both smiled. I never knew he was such a romantic.
We walked forwards and suddenly boys ran torwards us and started to splash us with water. I didn't want to let go of Ross just in case I fell, but we still
splashed them. We were all soaked.
'Rydel! Even you are against us?' I asked laughing.
'Sorry, forgive me!' She said also laughing. We ended up having to get out, and dry ourselves with towels. It was too cold. We had really amazing time at the beach.
I just couldn't help but wait for another disaster though. I smiled, and was happy, but Ross also became a bit over protected. Everytime I went somewhere, he would
walk wirth me, holing my hand in case I fell. And my leg was still hurting, so he ended up picking me up.
Once it was just the two of us leaving the beach. We wanted to go for a coffe together, Ross and me, me and Ross. I like the sound of that.
'You look like you are struggling.' He said, as he looked down at me. I was walking next to him, holding his hand, but it was tiring to walk after such a long
break. And obviously my leg didn't heal completely yet. It was hard work.
'If we could slow the pase down.. that would be good.' I said.
'Come here..' He said, as he picked me up. I automatically put my arms around his neck. I wasn't ready for anything.
'Thats unnecessary Ross…' I said.
'But do you know how much I love carrying you?' He asked me and winked. I rolled my eyes, and didn't argue with him. It was nice. More than nice. I felt secure with
him. I felt like I belonged with him. And I wanted to be close. We walked and Ross was wispering something. It was normal things, no sweet talk, but it gave me
shivers down the spine, and was tickling on my neck. Thats because he was breathing on my neck and I'm ticklish. And because my body always behaves differently when he is around.
'So where do you want to go?' He asked.
'Anywhere.' I replied. He smiled.
'Thats not helping. But we'll find something.' He said, and eventually, we found a nice cafe, and ordered some fancy ice coffe. It was delicious. We were talking about anything and everything. I really did enjoy it. We laughed and acted like we used to.
'I don't think we had enough time. Three weeks went really quickly.' I said.
'Yeah.. But now we have the tour and thats fun. Tomorrow we have the performence, and we need to do rehersals after lunch, then the next day we are starting. Getting
everything together, few days of more rehelsals.. We need to practise putting it all together, make sure we know whos singing what.. But we can play your songs so
thats done.. And then we start the shows. We have them about 4 to 5 times a week. Two hours of dancing, singing, playing. Can be exhausting. But believe me, you'll love it.'
'By what I heard so far..' I started teasing.
'No, I'm serious. It's the best thing in the world. I can't wait. Its so exciting, and when I see everybody out there, watching us enjoy ourselves, it's just
awesome. And I'm happy you'll be there too.'
'I'm excited too, but mostly nervous. What if they don't like me? What if someone tries to hurt me? What if I wont be able to sing, or forget the words, or play the
the wrong way..'
'Stop panicing, you'll be fine. We will all be there with you. Before you go on stage, I'll get you from backstage, and we will walk together. Everyone will love
your songs.'
'How can you say that?' I asked.
'Because they are awesome! Really great, trust me.' He said.
'Thank you, I know you like them but..' I said.
'You need to believe in yourself.' He didn't let me finish. 'By the way, do you have any more?' He asked, getting excited.
'I do, but we might not use them, because theres no much time, and we already have a lot ready.' I replied. We drank in silence, but it wasn't akward. It was a good
kind of silence. Peaceful. I looked at my watch.
'We should probably get going.' I said, and he nodded.
'But I don't want to go back to our parents and everybody else. We never get time alone.' He said. 'Lets go somewhere together.'
'Okay, fine..' I said, looking for my purse.
'You didn't forget it again did you?' He asked and chuckled. I rolled my eyes.
'No. It's here.' I said.
'But I'm paying for you.' He said and paid. Then we left.
'How much was that?' I asked. He laughed.
'Not much.'
'You wont tell me?' I asked.
'Nope.' He laughed.
'You realise I still didn't pay you for the last time.' I said.
'It's only money.' He said, and took my hand in his. 'Lets go.' I enjoyed walking like this, hand in hand, it was amazing, and enough. For now.
'Where are we going?' I asked.
'I don't know.' He said.
'Do you want to walk away into the sunset?' I asked giggling as we were heading torwards the beach.
'Why not.' He replied, looking torwards the water.
Ross' POV
We walked, and laughed. Melanie picked up shells by the sea on the way, and we didn't really care where we were heading. We had to be at least fifteen-minute-walk
away from our bus, but if we went too far, I would call Riker to pick us up or get a taxi. Melanie wil be tired soon. And I could cary her, but I will be tired too.
'Is your leg alright?' I asked.
'Yeah..' She replied. 'Don't worry, I'm fine.'
'Be careful.' I replied.
'Isn't it beautiful here?' She asked, obviously changing the subject. 'I wish I had my guitar with me. We could write a song or something. That would be nice.' She said.
'Yeah. But sit down for a bit anyway.' I said. She nodded and we sat down on the sand.
'There are not many people here.' She said.
'That is a good thing. Nobody is disturbing us.'
'But it's nice to meet fans right?'
'Yeah. But it's not nice to meet paparazzi.' We stayed sitting down. Melanie sat back resting on my chest. I played with her hair.
'How do you deal with it?'
'I don't. I just try not to focus on them. But it's not bad. Thats the price of my job. It was cool at first, but now it is getting a bit of a problem. But
we are not recognised everywhere. Most of the time we can go anywhere.'
'Yeah. It didn't seem that bad.' Melanie said.
'How do you write songs so easily?' I asked suddenly.
'Sometimes it is easy, sometimes I have song writers block. If I have an inspiration, then it happens nearly by itself. But I had times when I didn't write for months
and it took me hours to come up with someting. She sat up again, and looked at me.
'It's really nice here, isn't it?' She asked. I nodded and started playing with the sand.
'Do you think we could build a sand castle?' I asked. Melanie laughed and said
'Sure. I'll help you.' She said and we began building.
Melanie' POV
I looked at Ross playing with the sand, and I smiled ear to ear. He gave me that effect. I helped him. After few minutes a little boy ran torwards us. We both
smiled at him.
'Could I help you?' He asked. We both said yes at the same time. He seemed happy to play too.
'Is your name Melanie?' He asked. I was suprised he recognised me and not Ross.
'Yes.' I said. 'This is Ross.' I said.
'I recognise you. My sister met you before. She said you were opening a show. She is your fan. That was a year ago.
'Really? I thought you recognised me because I was seen with R5.' I said.
'R5? You know R5?' He said. I laughed.
'Ross is one of the members.' I said. Ross smiled at him.
'Ohh! That probably means that I should get an autograph from you for my other sister. She loves R5. You know each other? No way!' I laughed. Ross signed something
for him, and I did too. Then the boy said he had to go back. When he went, we burst out laughing.
After an hour we decided it was time to go back. It was dinner time, and we promised to be back by five. My parents are leaving today evening. We walked back a bit,
but it was too tiring, so we got a taxi. When we were back, everybody was already waiting.
'Melanie and Ross! Where have you been?' My dad asked jokily.
'Everywhere.' Ross replied. We were in Lynch's apartament, with everyone else. I talked to Rydel.
'I think I could have walked too much today…' I said.
'Where have you been?'
'Beach, Cafe, Town… we met a little boy and he built a sand castle with us. He was so cute.'
'Not as cute as Ross.' She said and I chocked on my drink. Rydel laughed. I rolled my eyes. I'm pretty sure Ross heard our conversation, but he didn't turn around.
He was talking to his brothers. It was increadibly lucky because my parents were there and if he said something, it would be really akward. I ignored my thoughts
and heard Stormie saying she cooked dinner. Lynches invited everyone around. We ate, and everyone joked around and I felt really happy that our parents are
close again. It was a relief. At first I wasn't sure how it would go. And if they liked the 'us' idea. But everyone seemed to enjoy themselves when we were alltogether.
I loved it myself, but it was also nice to spend some time with just Ross.
'Ross and Rocky, put the plates and cups into the dishwasher, everyones finished eating.' Stormie said. They did as they were told, and then we went into the other
room to practise some songs.
'I will show you all of the songs I wrote for the tour, but I might write some more. I have old songs too, but they wont work.' I said.
'Okay.' Riker simply said and I smiled, and began playing.
'This is called Can't back down.'
We can't
We can't back down
(8x)
Don't close your eyes
We're all in this together
Wherever they draw the line
We're not gonna straddle, we'll cross it
Or lose it
CHORUS
We can't back down
There's too much at stake
This is serious
Don't walk away
We can't pretend
It's not happening
In our own backyard
Our own home plate
We've been called out
Do you hear your name?
I'm not confused
Let's win this thing
We can't back down
There's too much at stake
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
Don't get me wrong
I don't like confrontation
I'd rather we all just get along
Music should be undivided, united
Chorus
We got a situation that we can't ignore
'Cause ignorance is not bliss
We know not to take this, no
With every big decision
Comes an equally important share of the risk
We gotta take this on
Chorus
CHANT
We can't back down
We can't back down
Not right now
We can't back down
'Rydel hugged me.
'This is so fun to sing!' She said.
'Well done.' Rocky said. I smiled.
'It's really good.' Ross said.
'Really?' I asked. Riker nodded.
The next morning, I woke up and I felt cold. I wonder why? I looked around. Rydel was at the kitchen. She looked up and smiled.
'Hi!' She said.
'Where is everyone?' I asked.
'I sent them to the shop to buy food for the tour. We are leaving this evening, after our mini show.' She said. Then I rembered. It was the day of their performence,
yesterday my parents left, and tonight we are leaving for the tour. Well, to rehelsals at the first place we have out concert. I signed and got ready. Then I joined
Rydel and we had breakfast.
'You know what? I got used to everything now. You know what I mean..' She said and I laughed.
'Yeah and what about you and Ratliff?' I said. She didn't say anything, just blushed. I rolled my eyes and soon boys came back.
'Rydel!' That was Ryry. 'Mum said that you need to be at rehelsals after lunch. We are going to the beach for few hours for the last time. They are waiting outside!'
'We are coming!' Rydel said. I took the bags with shopping from them and Riker helped me to put the things in the fridge. Then I asked.
'Where is he?'
'You mean Ross?' Rocky asked. 'He is with our parents. He is waiting for us.' I nodded, and Rydel and I headed outside with our handbags. Three of them were waiting
for us. I smiled as I saw Ross. We headed to the beach. Stormie and Mark had lunch with them. It was around ten. Few hours before the rehersals. We spent
some time at the beach, for the last time.
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