Always You

30. Soundcheck

Harry's phone rings and he gets up off the sofa to answer his phone. "Hey, yeah no worries. See you in two minutes. Bye."

I look at him and wait for him to speak first.

"The vans here to take us, Lou, Niall and Liam first." Harry tells me and I nod my head then stand up too. I get my handbag and quickly run into the bedroom to take one last look in the mirror.

"Do I look okay?"

Harry looks at me nonchalantly "you're seriously asking me that?"

I nod.

"Hailey you look fantastic. Like always. Now come on, you ready?"

"I am."

He grabs the key card and hands it to me. "Can you please keep hold of that."

I take it from him and put it in my bag. "Of course."

We leave the room and go downstairs to the lobby. On the way down the lift stops at level two. The doors open and in walks two tall, buff men.

They look at Harry and I with monotone expressions. The one on the left nods at Harry.

"Come on guys don't scare her. Hailey, this is Travis my body guard" Harry points to the one on the left. "And Liam's body guard Paddy."

"Hi, nice to meet you I'm Hailey." I move closer to Harry because they're scaring me. I know they're not going to hurt me but their appearance is very intimidating.

And Heather wants me to have one of my own. I'll be running from my own body guard. I'm sure they're nice guys but I can't help but feel slightly frightened.

"I haven't seen you before but I sure have heard a lot about you. Nice to meet you Hailey." Paddy says to me.

I look at Harry and then to Harry. "Oh, have you?"

He nods. "Yeah, but mostly from Liam because this guy is hard to get personal information out of."

Harry is easy to have a conversation with but things that are personal to him he will only tell people who are going through something similar or if he trusts you completely.

We get out of the elevator and that's when an "oi oii" sound can be heard.

"Oi oii" Harry repeats the sound and I look to where he is looking. Louis is standing next to a girl with brown hair, his hand in hers. Beside her is a girl with long blonde hair and she is carrying a small blonde girl.

Hi love, I'm Louis." He jogs over to me and I wave at him. "Hi Harold" he pats Harry on the back and then hugs me.

"Hey Louis, I'm Hailey."

After we hug he looks me up and down. "Gosh, you're quite tall aren't you."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I am taller than him. I feel taller than him. "Haha yeah, I'm 173cm. How tall are you?" I ask curiously.

"I'm five nine."

"No you aren't." Harry shakes his head. "You always say that but look" he grabs my hand and moves me closer to Louis. "Turn around" he tells Louis and we stand back to back.

"Hailey is taller" Paddy says and Louis stomps his foot on the ground.

"Oh she is not. Are you wearing high heels?" He looks down at my feet and sees that I am wearing flat converse. "Well, fuck."

I laugh at him. "It's okay, I am taller than a lot of guys. Don't worry."

"You're just tall. I'm not short."