As I arrived in front of the crowd once again, I saw around 1000 pairs of eyes settle their gaze on me. I then sensed everyone else coming on stage next to me. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket, and casually bought it out. A new text message. From Ally. 'Ashleigh! Where are you? We're getting worried!' it read. It was sent 10 minutes ago. I searched for Ally, Chloe and Emily, but they were so far back. My fault, I guess. The boys all sat down in a row in front of the long table, and the two girls stood behind two of them, I assumed their boyfriends, but I didn't know.
One of the girls, Alyssa, shouted "Tara! Get over here!" I walked over to where she was and stood there like the out of place idiot I was. "Go stand behind Niall!" she said, and pointed. I walked to where she pointed, and stood there awkwardly. How could I still be going along with this? Soon enough, this Tara girl will be back and I'll be the worst person in the history of the world.
All of a sudden, a voice bellowed "Let the signing begin!". Every person in the crowd began pushing and shoving. I looked at all the boys, and they were unbelievably calm. I was scared, because it looked like any minute we were going to get trampled on. But, after around 20 girls had came and got things autographed, the crowd got into 5 straight lines. It was so, so weird. I heard a girl say "Alyssa, you and Harry are literally the cutest thing ever. I understand why you never get any hate!" Alyssa smiled, went around the table, came up to the girl and hugged her. "Thankyou, so much!" Then, Harry leaned over to the girl, and kissed her hand. "Thankyou, love. I'm the luckiest guy ever" he said. I couldn't help but laugh, as I hated the whole practised speech. Consequently, the laugh earned me weird looks from everyone around me. One of the boys, Liam, said "Tara? You okay?" automatically I said "yeah, thankyou". He nodded and went back to the photograph he was signing. 'I feel so, so sorry for you Tara. Having a brother like that.' I thought to myself.
After around 200 more people came and went, I said to everyone "I just need to get some air, I'll be back soon." They all nodded, and I went out the fire exit door. As soon as I got out, tears started falling. This isn't me, I thought to myself. 'Ashleigh, you do not cry. Ally cries, not you. You're the strong one in our family.' the thoughts continued. I heard someone coming, so I quickly stopped crying (surprisingly) fixed my makeup and headed back inside. Not before I was stopped by Alyssa though. "Tara? Something's not right with you lately." This was only the second time I'd been questioned. It's not like I'd done anything wrong. "It's all just a big misunderstanding!" I said. "What do you mean it's a misunderst-" Alyssa was cut off by a huge security guard. "Alyssa, Tara, people are getting worried. We've got to get you back out there." Alyssa looked at me, then said "yeah, okay. Let's go." Then we walked back to everyone else in silence. I survived through the rest of the signing with a fake smile plastered on my face. 3 hours later, after it had finished, and all that remained was the tattered banners, name badges scattered around everywhere, and millions of pens and markers that covered the floor. But the front door slammed open, and a girl flounced in. The huge security guard who bought me and Alyssa back sprung into action. "I'm sorry miss, but this signing has closed." She said "But I'm meant to be here!". The security guard laughed and said "Sure, and why's that?". The girl replied "Because I'm Tara!"
7 pairs of eyes turned around and settled on me once again.
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