I am baking hot as I wake up. I can feel myself sweating as I roll over and I hit something hard on my head. My eyes slam open to see a naked chest next to me. Trying to rack my brain from last night, I look up to see pink hair. Oh that's right. Natsu stayed last night in my bed! He is still asleep snoring lightly so I get a chance to see him relaxed. I try not to wake him as I get out of bed. I manage to succeed after much struggling from an unconscious Natsu who somehow tightened his hold on me as I moved so I managed to replace myself with a pillow and escape from my bunk. I look back to see Natsu is still sleeping but holding onto the pillow like it was his lifeline. I'm guessing that the girls slept in the bunks last night and probably saw us since we didn't have the little curtain that goes across the bunk shut…. This was going to be interesting.
I walk downstairs and I see the girls looking at me with a collective 'I know what you did' smirk on their faces. I immediately try to nip it in the bud.
"No." I say answering their unanimous silence question.
They answer with a frown. "Oh come on. Something must have happened otherwise Natsu and you would not have slept in the same bed last night."
"Yeah something did happen." I answer
They look back at me with hopeful eyes. "Which was?" Erza prompts.
"I was thinking about something which got me upset so I decided to go back to the bus to think, Natsu came in after his gig and offered to warm me up since I was cold and we both fell asleep." I protest. The girls look back at me with weird stares. Levy-chan was looking at me with a 'what the hell' expression and Juvia and Erza were looking at me with a 'we don't believe that for a second' expression. They surprisingly didn't press the matter any further.
"Anyway." Erza said to change the subject. "The guys know that Natsu is here and that we have our interview in an hour. We both have stopped at the radio station so the guys will wait outside until we are done and we will go off again together"
We all nod and got up to get ready. Surprisingly Natsu stayed asleep the entire time. We weren't exactly quiet either thinking that it might wake him up. Instead while we were getting changed we just drew the little curtain across and kept an eye on him so he didn't see anything indecent.
We walk into the radio station with minutes to spare as the DJ welcomes us and gives us headphones and microphones so we can talk to him.
"Welcome everyone, today we have a very special guest. It's The Mages! They are currently on tour with All Fired Up so don't miss them! So girls care to introduce yourselves for those who don't know who you are yet."
"I'm Levy and I play guitar"
"I'm Lucy and I sing and play guitar"
"I'm Erza and I drums"
"Juvia and Juvia plays bass guitar"
"Welcome ladies! Glad that you can join us"
"Thank you for having us" Erza says being the ever so polite one.
"So girls tell us, what is it like being on tour with the boys from All Fired Up"
"It's great fun. The guys are really nice and were very welcoming and helpful in showing us the ropes on touring" Levy answers.
The DJ just smirks "Of course they are. So girls we're going to get right into it. There are rumours flying around that there might be a bit of 'mingling' between the two bands on tour. Is any of this true?"
"Absolutely not. We're all just really good friends and of course spend a lot of time together on the tour. We see each other every day so friendships are bound to happen." I blurt out hoping to cover for Juvia. I look at her for a few seconds and she smiles at me as if to secretly thank me.
"Of course. But do you think that the friendship could ever be anything more with them? Rumour has it that you Lucy, are a massive fan of All Fired Up before you started touring with them"
I look back at the DJ stunned but I manage to keep my cool. "Well every one of our fans knew that I was a massive fan of All Fired Up before we met them."
The DJ laughs. "I'm sure that if the boys are listening now, they will be shocked to hear that."
I laugh back "Probably not since I have only told Natsu and Gray but not the others yet. But it doesn't matter, it's been amazing working with them and I'm sure that I speak for all of us when I say that we hope to work with them again once the tour is over."
The girls all nod in agreement with me and I smile secretly patting myself on the back since I'm hoping that I managed to avoid the questions all together.
"So all in all, the tour has been good for you all."
"Absolutely, Juvia believes that this tour is our favourite so far since we all are recording our album soon" Well done Juvia for deflecting!
"Brilliant, when it your recording going to happen?" The DJ asks
"In the next few weeks" Erza answers.
"Well. You heard it here first folks, The Mages are officially recording an album soon! Now before you guys have to go can you give a big shout out to everyone listening please"
We all shout out a collective hello to the audience and the DJ thanks us and we are shoved out of the building into the bus again. I check my watch. That only took and hour and a half! No wonder the boys were quick when they did theirs. It surprisingly was not that horrible to endure. Mira Jane sat us down on our bus as we start moving again.
"Well done girls. That was fantastic! Now. While we are still here together, you all are going into the studio in two weeks time. I have booked you girls three weeks in the studios to record twelve tracks and the tour will stop for those three weeks. The boys are taking that time off to do a few solo shows and will probably be joining you in the studio a few times. Just don't get yourselves distracted now! I don't mind if anything happens, just a - don't get distracted, b- get the album done on time so it doesn't mess up the music producer's time and c- don't mess it up! Are we clear?" We all nod quickly. As much as we love Mira-Jane we all fear her a little. We never say no to her…ever! Surprisingly that was why we made her our manager. We needed someone to kick ourselves in the butts when we need motivating and Mira-Jane was the one who could do it.
That was it for me. Hearing Mira-Jane say it outloud confirmed it. We were recording our first ever studio album! I am so excited it is ridiculous! We have already recorded a single that is out right now but we have never spent a long time in the studio to record something as major as this! It is going to be awesome!
Those two weeks leading up the recording session went surprisingly quick! We were well into our tour and have got more comfortable with the touring lifestyle. It pretty much consisted of waking up, band practice, interview, practice with the boys, watch them practice, practice ourselves, song write if inspired, sound check, gig, hang out, party or go to bed and repeat. Honestly.. we didn't want it to end. This is our dream and we are finally doing it! The more that we talked about it, the more the guys wanted to help. We were getting separate lessons from the guys who played our respective instruments on how to maximise the sounds of our instruments the best. Vocal training with Natsu was hilarious. We normally practiced upstairs in my bunk area since it was always the quietest whenever we didn't have a gig that night. But with this, it meant that we ran late into the night meaning we kept everyone up, so instead of telling us all to move, the rest managed to find a resolve. Juvia would spend her time with Gray anyway since they both were still dating and happened played guitar, so she stayed in his bunk with him and Levy and Gajeel would always have a separate jamming session together along with Jellal and Erza so more often than not, you would find the four of them crashing on one bus or the other on the sofas or the bunks, meaning that Natsu and I got ALOT of time alone together. Don't get me wrong, the more practice I did with Natsu, the better singer and performer I became. I became more confident and it showed at our gigs. Honestly the more and more we practiced with the guys, the more confident we grew as a band on stage! It was great! We even started to write more as a band and we were evolving as a band should do!
One sad thing about Natsu and I spending a lot of time together was that I was allowing my crush to grow more and more, and I got to indulge in it even more as Natsu made a snap decision one night to sleep in my bed with me under the principle that my bed was 'more comfy than his' and he 'slept better' when I was there aswell, not like I was complaining really. I know that I am setting myself up royally to get hurt but right now I really don't care.
I would sometimes kid myself that he liked me back from wanting to stay in my bed with me but I would always snap out of it straight away telling myself that it was my crush talking. The girls even asked at one point if something was going on since we were both together a lot. I did confess to them that I liked Natsu but nothing ever happened with it. We would sing together practically all day unless we were spending time with everyone else and when we sung meaningful songs, I swear that I could feel his emotions shooting right at me. By the end of the session, we would end up facing directly at each other and almost only 3 feet apart, to then fall asleep in the same bed with his arms around me. We tried sleeping in separate bunks one night and it didn't work. Even when we all moved out of the buses and into hotels for the three weeks that we are recording for, Natsu still slept in my room that I shared with Juvia, while Juvia stayed in Gray's room that he shared conveniently with Natsu. We couldn't sleep at all so we resolved to sleep in the same bed together, which really didn't help my crush on Natsu. I have been wrestling in my head for a good week or so that I could tell him that I liked him but again I stop myself. I don't want to delude myself to be shot down as soon as I say anything. As far as the guys and our fans were concerned, since the girls knew how I felt, Natsu and I are just best friends.
Say hello to chapter 10! Thank you all so much for staying with this! I had no internet until today for a week so I will upload chapter 11 tonight to apologize! Please review and follow like always :D I've written up to chapter 26 so far and I'm really finished writing the story I can't wait for you all to read it :D Love to you all!