Long Day

"Dad...! How long have we got?" you asked impatiently. "Erm...about 2 more hours! Why?" your Dad replied smiling back at you in the rear view mirror. You smiled back and said, "Cos its boring in the car and I wanna be there-NOW!" He chuckled. "You'll get there in time. Don't worry." You sat back in your seat as your eyes rolled round to look at your best mate . She was asleep "It's taking aaaages Dad. I didn't know travelling from to would take this long." You were nervous and excited at the same time. It was about half 4 in the morning and you'd been travelling for about 2 hours. You closed your eyes as you tried to remember the day. The day that you received the best news in your life....ever!

2 weeks before

"! !" your mum shouted up the stairs. You woke up with a jolt and looked across to your clock. It was 8am. You were lay in bed wishing that you didn't have to get up. It was a Saturday morning and once again your mum and dad had decided you were going out somewhere with them. She shouted again. You hauled yourself out of bed and out of your room. "What!" you yelled downstairs. Your mum appeared at the bottom of the stairs. "I thought you were coming out today with me and your dad." she questioned. "Well I was but....." you replied sleepily. "But what ?" she asked. She sounded annoyed. "Its just that there was something on TV that I wanted to watch" you replied cautiously. 'I should have just said OK and gone with her' you thought to yourself. "Typical! Me and your Dad want to take you out somewhere but oh no-you've got something better to do!" she said as she turned around and stormed off towards the kitchen. 'Oh no. Id better go and apologise otherwise she'll be freaking on me all day.' you thought to yourself. You dragged yourself down the stairs and as you rubbed your eyes you saw your Dad sat in an armchair watching TV. 'Its not just me who wants to watch TV' you thought to yourself and laughed quietly as you continued to walk into the kitchen. You sat down in the kitchen whilst your mum carried on with her cleaning. You explained to her that you did want to spend some time with her and dad because you do value quality 'family time'. Its just that there was something in particular you wanted to watch on TV. It was Blue-your favourite band and they were performing their new single for the first time on TV. You played your mum with your manipulating explanation-it worked. She smiled, hugged you and told you that you could spend 'family time' with her the following Saturday. "Oh by the way-you've got a letter. Its on the kitchen table." your mum told you pointing to a brown envelope. "Oh thanx." you replied. As you sat down and began to tear open the letter you wondered who it could be from. 'I never get mail.' you thought to yourself. You pulled at the paper inside the envelope and as it rose out from the envelope you saw the words. You were so surprised. It had been ages since you'd thought about it and now here they were. You read the letter that was enclosed and smiled. You ran into the living room waving them about whilst yelling, "Yes! Yes! Ive finally got them! Tickets to !! Im finally gonna see Blue perform!" You ran upstairs clutching the tickets tight to your chest.

You dialed 's phone number and as she answered you squealed excitedly! "Ive got them! The tickets!" you screamed down the phone! She squealed in response. "So when are they for? What date is the show?" asked you. "Erm....the -next week!" you replied excitedly. You and squealed with happiness. "I sent off for these aaaages ago. Im so happy that Ive finally got them!" "I know so am I! D'ya think your dad could take us down?" asked you. "Yeah probably. The letter says to get at the studio for 8am so we are gonna have to leave for pretty early in the morning wouldn't we?" "Yeah..." You both squealed again. You were so happy!

"! We're here!" was nudging you. You'd been asleep and now you were bleary-eyed. "What time is it?" you asked drearily. "Its about quarter past 6" your dad replied. "Come on. You've gotta get ready haven't you?" "Oh yeah!" you jumped up.

As you and finished putting on your make-up in the toilets of BBC studios you both started to talk about what could happen on the show. You knew that Blue were definetley on the show but you weren't sure who else was. "Come on you two" your Dad shouted from outside the toilets. "Come on then ! Its finally time!" you said nudging her out the door. You'd been told to go to Studio 5 at 8am so off you both went. Your Dad said he'd come back for you at about 1pm. "Have fun! Cya later!" he shouted as he walked through the doors to the car park. As you got closer to the studio you saw a bug queue of people. Mainly girls, some boys but they were all about 14-18 years old. You and giggled as you walked towards the queue. You started chatting to a group of girls next to you and found that they had been to four times already! At about half past eight two men appeared from behind the studio doors. "Right. You can come in now. If you just make your way over to the stairs or the stage and someone will tell you what's gonna be happening!" one of them shouted as they held open the doors. You could hear the excitement as you shuffled slowly into the studio. You looked around and you were amazed by what you saw. There was hundreds of cameras, lights all around you pointing at different parts of the studio and people-loads of people. They were all running around sorting things out with cameras and lights, some were talking into walkie talkies, others moving stage furniture around. You couldn't believe all the preparation that was going on around you. As you and moved towards the stage you spotted from Blue standing near the stage talking to . Your jaw dropped. He looked gorgeous. Even sexier than usual. You nudged and pointed in his direction. She gawped at him. "Wow! Where d'ya think the other lads are?!" she gasped. looked over to you both and waved. You and squealed and started jumping up and down in excitement. People around saw you jumping and looking and pointing at something and suddenly they knew why. The audience started to go crazy once they realised that was there. He waved to all the audience but then he looked at you again. You smiled at him and he smiled back. He started to walk towards you and was just about to say something when a crew member stepped in front of him and started telling him something. His face fell. He nodded at the crew member and patted him on the back. He looked at you, shrugged his shoulders and winked. You smiled and waved at him then he turned around and headed behind stage. You told what had just happened and she didn't believe you. "No really-he winked at me. I know he did." you insisted. "Nah he was probably just winking to everyone." she said. You shook your head knowing that he had winked at you. Not everyone-you.

About 10 minutes later all the audience was in the studio and you were now waiting for the Floor Manager to come and talk to you about what you'd be doing. Finally she came to talk to you all. She explained who was going to be on the show (a big cheer went up everytime a band was mentioned), what was going to be happening and also that four members of the audience had the chance to take part in a Blue competition live on the show! You were determined that you was going to be one of the 4 people. Finally it was and and were stood on the stage in front of you. The Floor Manager counted down from 5 and that was it-the show had started and it was live. The camera above you swept over you as it showed the audience cheer to the millions of TV viewers. You were buzzing with excitement. and had finished with the show introduction and were now introducing . They were about to perform their new single and as instructed by the Floor Manager before you, and the rest of the audience began to cheer. As you danced away to nudged you. "What?" you whispered. "Look. Its him again. And . You looked over to where was pointing and it was true. There he was stood with chatting away. The Blue competition was going to start in 10 minutes and you just had to be in it. You walked over to the Floor Manager who was stood talking to . "Excuse me." you quietly said. They looked at you. "Can I help you?" she asked "Yeah you can. I was just wondering whether I could it be possible for me to be in the Blue competition later on." You waited for a response. "Well there's a lot of girls waiting-you can't just expect to be in the competition just like that." she explained. Your face fell. "Oh alright. Thanks anyway." you continued. She smiled and then continued talking with . As you walked away you felt something-an urge to do something you wouldn't normally do. You spun around and strode over to the Floor Manager again. "Yes did you want something else?" she asked. "Yes. I know that you said other girls were waiting to be entered into the Blue competition but I really want to be entered. I mean really want to be entered." You looked at her in the eye determined that you were going to get the response you wanted. She smiled and then looked at . They smiled aswell. "Well. You seem pretty determined." she said. "I am." you stressed. "Well....that's good. We need that in the competition. Your in." You were surprised. Even though that was the response that you wanted-you were surprised. "T-t-thanx." you stuttered. slapped you on the back. "Go girl!" she said. You laughed. "So what do I have to do?" you asked the Floor Manager. "Well-d'ya see that man over there?" You nodded. "Well if you go to him he'll show you where to stand and what you're gonna be doing. Okay?" she explained. "Yeah that's fine! Thanx again!" you gasped. "No problem." she smiled back and with that she picked up her walkie talkie and off she went muttering something into it. You turned around and looked at who was just as shocked as you. She grabbed your arms and started squealing. "Oh my God!" you're in the competition!" was all she kept repeating. "I know!" you squealed back. "Id better go and see that man then!" And with that you walked over to the man and listened to what he had to say.

It was finally time for the competition. As introduced the game you felt your heart pounding in your chest. Blue were introduced and as they appeared on stage the crowd started to scream for them. You looked at hoping that he would notice you. He did! He looked at you and smiled. The 3 other girls around you were screaming but you weren't-you were just staring at him. 'In less than 20 seconds Im going to be stood right next to him.' you thought to yourself. introduced you and the other girls and on you walked. explained the game. Your challenge was to choose a lad and dress him up in anyway you wanted. Then from would choose the winner. As told the girl in front of you to choose a lad you prayed that she wouldn't choose -she didn't! She chose instead. Then it was your turn. You chose and walked over to where he was standing. As part of the competition kissed you on the cheek. As his lips touched your skin it felt as if an electric spark had hit you both. You hoped he would just kiss you on the lips but obviously he didn't! You were ecstatic and you just wanted to scream but decided you'd better not! Finally the competition began. You decided to dress up in comedy 70's gear. You'd been to the One Love tour and just loved the way he had looked in all his 70's stuff. On went the wig, the flares and the flowery shirt. The crowd cheered you and the other girls on as narrated what was happening. You'd just finished putting on the shirt when the buzzer sounded. The audience cheered and and walked past each of the lads. The girl in front of you had dressed in clown gear-he definetley looked funny but no where near as good as you thought. She scored a 7 out of 10. Then they started to judge . The crowd thought he was the best cos they cheered soooo loud! You scored a 10 out of 10. As they judged the other 2 lads nudged you and whispered "I think I look pretty dashing-don't you? We should definetley win!" You laughed quietly. You couldn't believe it- from Blue was talking to you! Suddenly everyone was cheering. You snapped back to reality and realised that they were cheering for you! Your jaw dropped and you started to squeal with happiness. "Come here ! You've won the competition! You have won a romantic dinner for two with !" told you. "Oh my God! I can't believe it! Thank you so much!" you said managing to hold back your screams of happiness. and the other boys walked up to you and hugged you. As you hugged each of them your happiness grew. Finally hugged you and as he did you thanked him. You felt a connection between you. Then he whispered something into your ear. "No-thank you. And if you don't mind Id like to do it in my own way." As he pulled away he looked you in the eye and said "I'll speak to ya later okay?!" Shocked and surprised you quickly nodded. "K! I'll see you later!"

As you walked around with you chatted about what had told you. "Well where is he then?" asked you. "I dunno. He just said 'I'll see you later...' that's all. He didn't say where or when." Just then someone tapped you on the shoulder. 's jaw dropped as she saw who it was. You spun round and there he was. "Oh hi!" you mumbled. "Hey. Ive been looking for ya-can we go somewhere to talk?" said. You looked at and she just give you a look as if to say 'Go on then! I'll be fine!'. "Erm yeah sure." you replied. "Great. C'mon then!" He turned around and started to walk away, you quickly followed. As you walked with him he explained something. "You see it'd look pretty suspicious if I was stood talking to you for ages-people would start talking." You hesitated. "Well...aren't they gonna talk if we're spotted alone talking?" "They won't find us!" he whispered. He was right. lead you down a corridor and into a room. It was obviously a dressing room-probably Blue's. "You can sit down y'know." said. "Yeah I know..." you joked nervously. "What did you want?" "Well....ever since I saw you before near the stage I wanted to do this. But you just gotta promise not to go and tell everyone. Okay?" "Sure" you nodded. "What is it?" stroked your face then placed his hand behind your neck. You felt the warmth of his hand and held his other hand. You leant in close to each other and kissed. The electric spark from before came back as you kissed. You ran your hand through his hair and pushed you back onto the sofa. You stopped kissing to find him lying on top of you. His face was just so sexy and you could feel his pounding chest. You grabbed his shirt and pulled him in again to kiss him.

After about 10 minutes of passionate kissing you and stood up and sorted yourselves out. Your jacket was on the floor and his hair looked-well messed up! He kissed you gently and placed something in your hand. You looked down and it was a piece of card with a phone number written on it. "Thanx." you whispered. He smiled and then walked you back to the studio. Once you were in the studio you went different ways to make it seem un-suspicious. As you walked up to the stage area you spotted . She spotted you aswell. She came running over squealing "How was it? What happened?" "Nowt...he just introduced me to the lads and showed me his dressing room." Her face fell. "That's it. Aaahh well. At least you met him!" "Yeah. I suppose..." you smiled. "Oh look. They're about to perform." pointed at the stage. You spotted as he came on stage with the lads. You looked at his hair-you had messed it up! You giggled. "What?" asked. You shook your head and started dancing to Blue as they started their performance.

At quarter to one you and went to collect to things from the BBC cloakroom. sighed and said "Wow. That was good wasn't it?" You nodded. "I know it's not even 1pm yet but it feels like Ive had such a long day." You nodded again. As you walked out of the studios you spotted your Dad waiting near the car. "Any good then?" he said jokingly. "Yeah it was excellent wasn't it ?" squealed. "Yeah-excellent!" you mumbled as you climbed into the car. "Absolutely excellent!"

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