Somewhere Else

sighed as he signed another autograph, and posed for another picture with some girl whom he’d probably never see again after the day was out, but it would make her smile for years to come. He rolled his eyes as he again sat down onto the cold plastic chair which he’d been sat on for a few hours, and his wrist was beginning to ache from the repetitive movement of signing an album cover. He looked up as a song began to play on the radio, which filled the shop, and smiled, knowing that it was by one of his first ever friends favourite band, he carried on signing autographs before he looked up as an iPod headphone dangled precariously close to his nose, a hand held out in front of him which he knew that he recognised from somewhere, and the song, the song which he’d heard earlier – Somewhere Else, by Razorlight – being played at such a loud volume that could only mean one person – – his best friend of 16 years, the first person who he’d ever written a song about, the first person who he’d ever let listen to one of his songs, and the person who’s parents that he’d dodged by hiding under her bed on numerous occasions when he’d sneaked around to ’s house to let her listen to a song that he’d just perfected. He looked up at her face; it hadn’t changed in the sixth months since he’d last seen her. Her features were still soft and delicate, a much bolder amount of eyeliner lined her eyes, drawing him into their depth, her lips a deep colour, were begging to be kissed, her brown hair fell just over her shoulders, and she wore a black t shirt with a band logo, cut into a much more of a figure hugging style than it was supposed to be, and a denim skirt which sat just above her thigh, a guitar bag on her back contained her most prize possession – something which had brought her for her eighteenth birthday – a Cherry Gibson SG. She rested down two pieces of paper in front of him, one with a picture of the two of them together just after she ripped open her guitar, with her lips pressed firmly against his cheek, and her arms wrapped around his waist, a moment which knew that he’d treasure forever, and a second, a picture of McFly at their first album launch party which she had taken just over sixteen months previous to then.

He watched as she pushed the small piece of paper that he’d ripped off of the table covering into the pocket of her pocket, and walked away from him. He watched as her hips swayed from side to side, her hair following their movement, he shook his head as kicked him with the heel of his trainer “ man, what was that with that chick all about?” he asked inquisitively, as turned, and smiled at .
“Oh, just someone, I’m, er, not feeling very well, can we finish this soon?” asked Fletch as he walked over to see what the fuss was about
“Yeah, I’m bored anyway. You’re going back to your mums yeah?” he asked as nodded “Remember you have a few days off, so, I’ll organise a car to pick you up on Friday, from your mums at 5pm”
“Cool, cool” smiled contently, and signed a few more autographs before there were no more to be signed.

As rested her guitar into its stand, she felt a piece of paper move against her leg and dug into her pocket, slipping her shoes off of her feet, before sitting cross legged on her soft quilt. ‘Hey Zo, sorry I’ve been so busy, call me on…’ she smiled, and giggled slightly, before texting , , and [i]‘hi guys, ok if I bring someone along to the Razorlight gig tonight, he’s one of the gang ;) or, well, more correctly used to be before he buggered off… text back, kuffels to you all xxx’[/i] she smiled, before almost immediately, text back [b]‘Ooohh, is it who was in town with his band today? Cause, if it is, dude, he can come…’[/b], rolled her eyes, and replied [i]’You can find out later with everyone else thank you miss :P’[/i]. smiled happily, and went to the small fridge in her room, and pulled out a can of Pepsi max. She dialled the number that was on the piece of paper, and held her phone close to her ear
“Hey you,” she smiled, and returned to sitting cross legged on her bed
“Heyyy, wasn’t expecting you to phone back so soon!” laughed “You haven’t moved house, or room have you?” he asked, moving to his window
“Nope… why?” she asked, wondering what on earth the boy was thinking
“Go to your window…” he said with a laugh, and smiled as she looked right in his direction, he shyly waved to her “surprised you didn’t remember our window flashlight chats” he mused
“Ohhhh, I do…” laughed, “What you doing tonight, the rest of the gang and me are going to see Razorlight later, have a spare ticket after me and my ex split”
“I’ll be around in 10 minutes” he laughed
“So, that’s a ‘yes , I’ll come to see Razorlight with you’ then, is it?”
“Naturally” he laughed, and hung the phone up.

“So Nat, missed me?!” asked in his deep accent, before jumped, turned around, and threw her arms around
“You complete and utter tool, you scared the living daylights out of me man!” exclaimed “Oohh, fuck, I forgot the tickets,” said quickly “I’ll run back and get them quickly” smiled, and turned around
“You want me to go and get em?”
“No , they’re in my underwear drawer” she said with a sly smile, and a wink
“Damn, I’ve always wanted to get into your underwear” he laughed, and turned to who gave him a sly look as ran down the street
“You like her, don’t you?!” asked as perched up against the wall
“Hmmm,” he mumbled, and looked at the floor with a content smile on his face
“ likes , likes …” chanted childishly
“I’ve missed you, you nutter!” laughed, and watched run back down the road “now shoosh”
“Shoosh about what ?” smiled, looking at oddly as she jumped from foot to foot “And for fucks sakes; stand still!”
“I need a pee!!” she mumbled, “, your keys please!” moaned, still jumping from foot to foot, groaned, and fished the keys out of the pocket in her skirt, and threw them to
“Hurry up! If the bus comes when you’re not here, you’re buggered…” explained
“I’m gone, I’m gone…” she muttered, and jogged off down the road in the direction of ’s house
“Useless…” laughed
“She hasn’t changed, not one bit, it’s a good thing though” smiled, looking up at ’s features with a glow to her cheeks “neither have you, you’re still the old , just with a couple hundred females that never leave you alone!”
“Urgh, tell me about, it hardly feels like I’ve left this place, just the same as when I did… except from you” he said with a laugh at the end
“Eh?” asked, confused
“Doesn’t matter, anyway, there’s , and here’s the bus!” smiled, changing the subject “3 singles to Station please, mate” asked the bus driver, the bus driver waved him onto the bus, and allowed , , and to get the bus for free. They sat down as the bus doors shut with a ‘pssst’.

As the girls left the venue, I looked over to the bar to see being passed an envelope, before pushing it into his rear pocket, and pulling a pint of larger to his lips before picking up my glass of vodka, lime, and lemonade, and holding it in his left hand. I smiled, and walked over to ,
"You want to go after this drink?" I asked, taking the glass off of him, before pressing the cool glass against my lips
"Uhhhh, well, I kind of had something planned" explained, resting the pint glass onto the bar surface, and reaching into his pocket
"Ooohh?" I questioned him, seeing the same envelope which he had pushed into his pocket being pulled back out again, and handed it to me
"what is it?" I asked, holding the brilliantly bright, white envelope in my left hand.
"Well, I know how much you like Razorlight, and when you invited me, I rang Fletch up, and he phoned around, and managed to get us those..." he smiled, and opened the envelope, handing me two back stage passes.
"Ohmygod," I smiled "Thank you SO much, !" I smiled, and went to press my lips against his cheek, before he turned his head quickly, so as my lips pressed against his. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a camera flash, and turned to see a photographer
"Great," mumbled,
"I'm sorry..." I whispered, he shook his head, and ran his warm hand down the side of my face
"It wasn't your fault," he sighed, and took my hand, leading us towards the backstage entrance. We stopped just inside the door,
", there's something I need to tell you..." trailed off, before he felt a hand smack up against his back
"What are you doing here man?!" smiled,
"Not now, ..."
"Oh, well, I'll see you on Friday then..."
", I..."

"What were you trying to say? Sorry " I smiled, taking a sip of my drink
"I, IthinkI'mfallinginlovewithyou" said quickly as there was a loud noise, preventing me from hearing him
"You what?" I asked, frustrated
"Argh!" moaned, pulling my body into his, and pressing his lips firmly against mine,
", say something..." sighed as he pulled away
"Woah" I muttered, after a few minutes of looking directly into 's eyes, "you want to go for a walk?"
"Peel Park?"
"Read my mind..." I sighed, taking 's hand, and leading him through the room of Razorlight fans.

"Soo.." mumbled, as he sat down onto a park bench, and pulled me down next to him
"Sorry," we both said together, looking at each other, a smile rose to our faces.
", I'd love to take this further, but, I have my A Levels in a few weeks, you're SO busy with McFly, that I'd hardly ever see you, maybe if I get into Westminster, then we could see each other?"
"Zo, I've been fighting this for so long, I don't want to any longer..."
", I just can't ok, I just can't, not at the moment..."

“And in Showbiz news today, from McFly has announced that he is to marry short term girlfriend Heidi Hanssen in a civil ceremony in his hometown of ” looked up from the bowl of ice cream that she was pushing around in her bowl
“What the fu?” she muttered as her mobile rang out the tune of a random Razorlight song
“Ohmygod. Are you watching Newsround?!” gawped
“Duh. Oh my god, I can’t believe him!” I moaned
“Want me to come around?” asked
“Bring chocolate, lots of it” I sighed, and sat cross legged on my window sill, looking constantly at ’s window, I groaned as I felt the air around the house cool, and rain pattered against my window. I stirred as I heard a car pull up – [i]his[/i] car. Why did this happen to me? “Oh, bloody hell!” I muttered as I heard ’s voice shout ’s name, before the whole commotion began. I ran down the stairs, and flung open the door, allowing it to slam against the brick work in the porch, as turned around, a tuft of ’s hair still held in her right hand as her knee rose to ’s jewels. I stared at , before she dropped her knee, and patted ’s head sarcastically, before walking over to me, and walking through the door to walk up the stairs.

"Well, today is the day... from McFly is getting married, setting to break hundreds of young girls hearts in doing so" the radio buzzed happily, before I groaned, and got back into bed, pulling the covers over my head. "We'll let you know how things go throughout the day, but lets kick off our weekly request day by asking you to request what you want to hear..."

"And here is our first request of the day - Thru and Thru by The Rolling Stones..."

You know that we do take away
We deliver too
Open 24 hours babe
Just waiting on a call from you
Waiting on a call from you

Well I'm in the yellow pages
You just take a look
Look me up under services
You know it's just an open book
Babe it's just an open book
It's just an open book Well baby

Any minute, any hour
I'm waiting on a call from you
And you know this heart is constant
I'm your lover, baby
Thru and thru
Lover, baby, thru and thru

I only found out yesterday
I heard it on the news
What I heard really pissed me off
Cause now I got those fucking blues
I got those awesome blues
Babe I got those nothing blues

Any minute, any hour
I'm waiting on a call from you
And you know this heart is constant
I'm your lover, baby
Thru and thru
Lover, baby, thru and thru

You know that we do take-away
That we deliver, too
We're open 24 hours, baby
We're waiting on a call from you
But any minute, baby, any hour
I'm waiting on a call from you
You know that this heart is constant
I'm your lover, baby
Thru and thru
Lover, baby, thru and thru
Lover, baby, thru and thru
Lover, baby, thru and thru

I looked at the message which I'd just typed 'I know you listen to this station - so this is for you' I quickly pressed send, and searched for 's number, before watching as the message sent through.

"Latest news on Mr ' wedding here people; 's fiancé has turned up at the alter with no sign of ..." I looked up at the radio, and heard a knock at my door...