I woke up the happiest I'd been in a long time, I put on the clothes I had put aside the night before and rushed to get ready. In an hour I would be sat in English Lit begging to have Radio One on. Mum gave me a lift into school. "You look happy." My Mum said as we pulled up to the gates.
"Last night wasn't a dream right?" I asked.
"No, it wasn't."
"Then of course I'm happy!" She shook her head fondly, I met up with Susan and we walked into English Lit together.
"You look strangely happy." Susan commented. Why is everyone questioning my happiness? Am I usually a bitch? You know what, I don't think I want to know the answer.
"Am I not allowed to be happy?"
"Not on a Wednesday when we have English Lit first period."
"Whatever." I replied, sticking my tongue out at her. We went into the room and took the seats at the back, where you can get away with anything. I put my hand up before the lesson started. "Sir, can we listen to Radio One today please? Just for the first half hour."
"I guess, as long as you're working. We are finishing the essays." Our teacher replied, I smiled and sent Ryan a text saying 'Plan is a go. I'll be waiting for elephants.'
"Who are you texting?" Susan asked, trying to read my phone. She tried to grab my phone, but I quickly dodged her. "NINJA" She shouted, karate chopping my hand and making me drop the phone.
"Susan. NO shouting. First warning." Our teacher told her with a stern look. Susan and I started giggling.
"Absolutely no-one." I replied, before picking it up and reading the message I had received. 'Do you mind if people know?' I smiled, why would I not want them to know? That boy is crazy. 'Write it on the rooftops.' I replied smirking at my musical reference. Suddenly the radio was turned on, with Grimmy saying "In five minutes we'll be talking to Ryan Tedder, lead singer of OneRepublic. But first, here is a song he requested." Then Impossible started playing, I chuckled at him as I sent a message saying 'Jeez I love you, you big ball of cuteness.' Only Ryan Tedder would get the radio show to play the song I referenced, he is honestly the sweetest person in existence. Susan turned to me.
"Now I see why you wanted the radio on. I like them too." She smiled. "How was the show?" Susan asked, after nudging me to get my attention.
"It was unbelievable, we can talk after the interview." I said quickly. Susan looked a bit upset at that, but I couldn't bring myself to care. I just wanted to hear his voice. 'XXXXX Love you' He sent back.
"Here we are; Ryan Tedder everyone!"
"Hi guys."
"So you played the O2 in London last night, how was that?"
"It was insane, that concert will be important to me for a long time for so many reasons." I sent him a message back, 'I Love you too Mr Tedder. XOXO''.
"I heard that you took a fan on stage."
"Yeah." He laughed. "Her name is Amy, one second let me just ask her something…" 'What are you dong right now?' Kinda weird Ryan. 'In English Lit with Susan working on an essay.' I replied. He laughed. "She's actually sat in English Lit right now with her friend Susan, Hi Susan! They are definitely not doing their essay." Grimmy and Ryan laughed. Every single person in the room is staring at me right now, mouths wide open. Even Susan was shocked. 'You are an absolute twat :P Everyone is staring.' I sent as he talked.
"So, you gave her your number? Do you give every fan your number?"
"Nah, she's my girlfriend so of course she has my number."
"OMG! Breaking news right here!" Grimmy exclaimed.
"Yep, you heard it here first. I asked her out last night after the show, so it's pretty new. She says everyone's staring at her now, sorry babe."
"Are you really texting during this interview?"
"She just said the same thing. Not anymore." He laughed.
"Well. That was a bombshell. Anymore news?"
"We have a new single out next week, it's from our album Native and it's called 'Life In Colour'. And in about 5 minutes we are going to perform a song for you guys."
"That's great! I heard, that you are working with Adele right now. How is that going? What can you say?"
"She is an absolute sweetheart, really, and so talented. I can say that the next album is going to be great and that we have finished working together."
"You write a lot of the hits these days, what's it like? Balancing your band and your writing?"
"Well, it's always hard. But the guys really understand why I do it and we always have songs on the go for us. Plus they get to meet more people, just the other day we were chilling in the studio with Ellie Goulding, who has an awesome single coming and an even greater album."
"Fabulous! Juicy hints there, I like it. You go get ready for the song, while we play the old single 'Love Runs Out'."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Susan asked finally.
"Surprise!" Everyone was staring. Every single person.
"Why would Ryan Tedder want to date you?" Someone said from the other side of the room. It was Emma, the fucking bitch. If someone else gets any attention, she has to try to do one better; which means she is jealous.
"I asked myself the same thing. But he just announced it on the radio, so it isn't an elaborate joke. I have a couple of pictures I guess, but it's not proof we are dating." People gathered around my chair to have a look at the pictures, somewhere from backstage and we took a few at the meal. But there was one that I didn't know about, it was me and Ryan and we were dancing; that must have been when he asked me out, my Mum must have sent it to me. 'Cause I definitely didn't take this picture. It seemed to convince them that this had at least some truth behind it.
"We are gunna play a chilled out version of 'Life in Colour' for you guys. I hope you like it." I couldn't help but smile, everyone had been sent to their seats and we were 'working'. In reality, Susan was death staring me and I was listening to my boyfriend sing beautifully. The others had either moved on or where whispering about it.
FYI this is what it would sound like ;) watch?v=Ytc7IxU9kq8
After he finished the radio was turned off. "Work now everyone. The radio might come back on in 20 minutes if you work hard." Great. My phone lit up, Ryan had texted again; 'Stay at school, we will be there in 3 hours.' During lunch – perfect. "He isn't even that good a singer." I froze, that was Emma, I hate her and she obviously hates me.
"Look. I'm not making you like me. I don't even give a shit about what you say about me. But seriously don't diss Ryan, he is more talented than you could ever be. And if you fucking diss him again, I will beat the shit out of you." I replied, I was so angry at her. I will admit, that was slightly uncalled for, but damn, she is so irritating.
"Wow! Don't be so defensive. His voice was weird, I'm allowed an opinion." Snotty bitch.
"I'm sorry, he sang for 2-3 hours last night and did the same thing the night before. You're right his voice isn't perfect today, but hell you hear the potential."
"Maybe you are wrong. And he is just isn't talented."
"Yeah. Because un-talented nobodies work with Beyoncé, Adele and Rihanna. Go fuck yourself." I shouted.
"Amy! Outside now." Mr Matthews demanded. I knew I shouldn't have replied, I grabbed my phone and stood outside. Mr Matthews joined me outside looking concerned. "Amy, just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean you can be so rude and aggressive."
"I'm sorry Sir. She just rubs me the wrong way. Can I have 10 minutes to calm down?"
"Of course." Works like a charm. The good students get away with everything. So I did what any emotional girlfriend would do and called my boyfriend.
