Chapter Two

Tom and I agreed not to meet on Thursday because it because it would be too rushed for him. His plane was to land at four in the afternoon and he wanted to spend the rest of the night sleeping. I didn't mind so much because I know I would want to sleep after a long plane ride too. We agreed to meet the next day for lunch. As a security reason, I was bringing Ashleigh and he was bringing his band-mates.

Friday morning I woke up with a feeling of butterflies in my stomach. Tom had been one of the nicest guys I had ever talked to and I knew I couldn't let him get away with my lyrics. I had to do this. Although my intentions for meeting him weren't to be friendly, I still wanted to look good. I decided to wear my favorite pair of blue jeans and a black fitted t-shirt. I added my usual leather star bracelets to accessorize. My hair was another thing altogether. Every time I would start to straighten my hair it would do the opposite and start to puff up. After fighting for a half hour, I gave up. I pulled my light brown hair into a black hair tie and just let it fall from it.

I couldn't resist looking at his screen-name before I left my room. I sat down at the laptop figuring I'd see that he was still sitting at his computer waiting for me to send him an instant message. But to my surprise he had an away message on: Today's the day I get to see the beautiful face of a beautiful person. My heart skipped a beat, not just any could say something like that and do that to me. But I had to remember he wrote things like that all the time so maybe it was just a song lyric.

I met Ashleigh in the kitchen to find her in a mini skirt and a red tank top. She looked good; I know she was going so she could get a date. Don't get me wrong, she's not a slut; she's just guy crazy. We did last minute checks and we headed to the hotel the guys were staying at.

When we arrived there were four guys standing in the lobby holding a piece of paper each. As we went into the lobby, I could read each piece. They spelled out Audrey and the last piece of paper had a heart on it. It was hard to place which one was Tom. Each one had the face of a Tom. But I had narrowed it down to two of the four men. The youngest looking had to be no more than 18, while the mullet proved to be not as sophisticated as the Tom I knew. The two that were left was a tough call. The one with the brunette hair was smiling as if anticipating someone important. The blonde looked nervous as if he was going to lose the lunch we had eaten yet. I had no time to go through all the facts that I knew about Tom to figure out which one he was so I took my best bet. The guy holding the paper with heart had to be Tom. I went up to him and let him have it.

"Who do you think you are? I trusted you, okay not completely, but I did. Why did you take my lyrics?" The guy was just standing there with a confused look on his face. "Well?"

The blonde guy, who was holding 'Au,' and looked nervous, came over and stepped between me and 'Tom.' "Audrey, I'm Tom. That's Danny. Can I talk to you a minute to explain?" I looked at Tom, the real Tom this time. He was taller than me by about seven or eight inches. He had on black jeans and a black button up shirt with pink stars on it. I could tell it was him after looking him up and down based on just talking to him. I followed him to one of the couches to talk.

We sat relatively close to each other considering it was the first time we were meeting. "Well, let me apologize for the way I acted back there. I was just so annoyed by the fact that you stole my lyrics."

Tom laughed, "Don't worry about it. If I thought someone stole my lyrics, I would have reacted the same way. But before you freak out again, let me explain. I figured since we were coming out here anyway, I'd ask you in person. I wanted to know if you would give us consent to use your lyrics. See we released it because we were pressured to put a song on the radio. But we would give you credit for it on the record and paid for it. Now I know it's been played on the radio already, but we will pull it from airwaves if you don't want us to use it."

"Why couldn't you have just told me before you came? Why couldn't you have mentioned something regarding that you and your band were considering of using my song and then maybe things wouldn't have been so bad? I mean there were so many things you could have told me, that you should have told me. I didn't like that you didn't mention that you were coming here until two days before you were actually going to be here. Do you realize that you are very bad at communicating?" Okay, maybe I was being a bitch, but I knew better than to be easy with him. He seemed like the kind of guy that would just get close to you just to screw you over.

He took one of my hands in his and held it, but not in the romantic kind of way in the movies, but more of the trust me I'm not going to let you fall and hurt yourself. "I know you must think I'm a loser and have no intentions of being a friend of yours for the long run. But I want you to know that you're wrong, if that's what you are thinking. I never mentioned us coming here because I didn't want you to not to meet me. I figured that if you had enough to lay out all the good points and all the bad points you wouldn't agree to meet me. I just wanted to get to know you in person. I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused you in last several days."

"Oh, um…since you put it that way, yeah, sure. I was mad because you never said anything. But I'm glad you did the song because its way better with your voices than mine."

Tom hugged me. His arms around me made the butterflies come back. When he let go, I felt sad for a moment but Tom lightened the mood. "Well, let me formally introduce myself. Hi, I'm Tom Fletcher or GuitarGeek717 as you know me. It's nice to finally meet you."

I chuckled quietly. "Hi, I'm Audrey Douglas or FallingStar727. It's great to meet you." We hugged again. I liked having his arms around me. As we were together my stomach rumbled quite loudly. I could feel my face get hot. I was so embarrassed.

"I guess we should get to lunch," he laughed. I couldn't say anything; I just nodded my head. He wrapped on arm around my shoulders and we joined the group again.

After clearing the air with Tom and Danny, we all went out to lunch. I had a really good time talking to the guys and not just because they have great accents. Tom and I acted as if we had known each other for years. We were finishing each others sentences. I was going to like having Tom around. I wouldn't have to ask him how to put the right words to the right music and wait hours to get an answer. He was here and I was going to take advantage of this time. I was going to have fun with him. And apparently so was Ash. The few hours that we spent with them she seemed to really connect with Dougie. Dougie, like Ashleigh, liked to change his look.

This had the looks of a promising summer or at least what was left of it. I couldn't wait to see what else was to happen. All I knew was that it was going to be a summer of music.