Never Is A Promise

Aly and I ran around the house straightening everything, we had the first concert tonight and then the tour kickoff after party was at our house before we started our traveling legs of the tour. I tossed clothes into my bag as we cleaned setting up for the crazy after party that was going to just be us the girls and the boys like always. I was glad it would just be us, only Liam Louis and Aly knew about the Darren incident. They had decided that I should take use of a counselor, I refused having buried the memory under work, and ignoring the aching hole it had ripped in me. But Niall had his suspicions that foul play was involved that night. I sighed wondering if I would have to pull Louis off Darren again tonight. Louis had been adamant in making Darren suffer for that night despite my protests. I finished straightening up the room as music started playing from the other room; I looked over at the kitchen as I walked out seeing Aly dancing around with a bottle of raspberry vodka making shots. I laughed as the doorbell rang “Come in!” I screamed as I joined Aly in the kitchen with a measuring cup of hot jello mix pouring it into the half full shot glasses then topping them off with a peach schnapps.

“Hi girls.” Simon said, from the entry to the kitchen the boys slipping past him to give us hugs before the meeting started, the rest of the band and security came in to stand around the room as the boys had situated themselves around the room. “Alright so this is the first show of your world tour,” Simon started going over rules and making it clear that we had rule over all publicity and that the boys should behave and not make things too difficult on any of the staff. He went over the schedule and where we were when and for how long, it was mostly common sense stuff but it was good to hear again. I looked around at the boys all were nodding, suddenly all their faces changed as they glared at the door, I looked over at the door Darren had just walked in. I forced a smile as he walked over my stomach dropping as he gave me a kiss putting a possessive arm around me as I fought off the hole in my chest feeling from resurfacing. I could have sworn I heard one of the boys let out a low warning growl and I was about to turn around when Simon caught our attention again. “Also I don’t want any unapproved relationships that have been rumored, MJ, Harry, as we all known MJ is dating Darren but we still are getting the rumor that its only a cover up.”

“Well maybe it shouldn’t be,” Harry said from his place on the counter behind me.

“What’s that supposed to mean Styles!” Darren hissed turning on him.

“You know exactly what I mean, I don’t think your good enough for MJ.” Harry said hopping off the counter.

“Well Styles to bad cause I have her and you don’t” Darren said gloating.

“We’ll see about that by the end of this tour.” Harry said. Hopping back up on the counter.

“You little-!” Darren yelled lunging for him, I grabbed Darren’s wrist pulling him back.

“Darren stop!” I yelled. “Don’t forget we work for them.” I said trying to calm Darren down. Before glaring at Harry who was looking smug about getting Darren to loose his cool, and saying ‘not okay’ to him without a sound so Darren wouldn’t catch me. Harry rolled his eyes but nodded that he understood.

“Ok then Darren, you are not allowed in the same dressing room as MJ’s boys, we don’t want any fights.” Simon said after watching the two boys interactions and seeing how all the boys were cold and glaring at Darren. “Everyone is dismissed except Aly, MJ and you five.” Simon said. Everyone nodded and headed out to finish getting ready for the tour.

I walked Darren to the door giving him a kiss as he left to go finish and approve the light show for Little Mix. “What was that?” Simon asked Harry as I walked back into the kitchen. I glared at him and shook my head.

“I don’t like Darren. I get a bad feeling about him.” Harry said not breaking eye contact with me.
“I don’t like that he’s coming on tour with us.”

“Well you won’t have to see him since he’s not allowed in your rooms.” I said taking my spot
against to counter back leaning next to Harry’s legs.

“He’ll still be in your room,” Louis said under his breath.

“Well we’ll just deal with that when it get there.” I said ending the conversation about Darren before the boys revealed too much. “Alright so plans for the night, meet n greet, concert, after party here, crash on the floor, hop on the bus early tomorrow and drive to Ireland and stay Niall’s for the weekend before we get on our way to Sweden.”

“Sounds about right, lets get you boys back to the venue,” Simon said, the boys nodded running out. Simon turned to me “I really don’t want to deal with the press of them getting in a fight with Darren it won’t look good for anyone.”

“I know I’ll try and keep the kids separated as much as possible.” I said as Simon smirked nodding.

Aly and I finished cleaning the apartment before we headed over to the concert. I was standing back stage when Darren came up resting his head on my shoulder since he wasn’t quite as tall as Harry and couldn’t rest it on my head. I swear Darren threw me more and more every day, some times he was a complete ass and in the running for worst person in the world, and some times he was actually almost sweet. To say he was all bad wouldn’t be completely true, of course I would never forgive him for a few nights ago but I’d make do. “Mick, are your boys ready?” Simon called.

I looked over at him with confusion “I don’t know ask Paul, but I hope so since they are on in two minutes.” I told Simon allowing Darren to pull my body closer to his as he lead me toward the edge of the left back stage area. Simon nodded to me before heading toward the dressing rooms.

I sighed as I watched the boys run out onto the stage I covered my ears as the strobe lights flashed on the stage lighting up the boys as they moved into the concert numbers. They looked like they were having the time of their lives singing and jumping around and dancing to the songs. I smiled as a took video swaying to the songs as Simon tossed Aly, myself and Darren ear phones to help cut down the noise that was linked to the sound board so we could hear the boys and not all the screaming girls. I smiled nodding to him as I slipped the headphones on, Simon pointed to ours we had microphones on our head phones, ‘For the twitter session,’ Simon mouthed, I nodded smiling knowing how the boys had a tendency to let on too much. I smirked before texting Simon ‘Do I have God power for their mics?’ He looked at his phone rolling his eyes before walking toward the sound techs, and getting a silver gadget from them as I watched them write something on it. Simon walked over to me and handed me the silver device with nine little buttons, one for myself, one for Aly, one for Simon, one to cut out all the boys mics and one for each boy. I smiled at him as I pocketed the remote clicking the lock feature up so I didn’t mess with the concert until the twitter part of the concert that the boys had kept in because the fans loved it so much. I felt my phone vibrate as I received a text it was from Simon ‘When you turn on the blue button your only talking to Aly, the boys and myself, the red button you’re talking to the entire audience.’ I read the text and showed it to Aly. Before Darren nodded to me mouthing that he was gonna leave with Little Mix to head out to Ireland, I nodded giving him a hug and kissing him goodbye, texting him that I’d see him in Ireland tomorrow.

It was finally time for the twitter portion of the concert, I was ready with the mute button for the boys as I clicked the blue button and spoke into my mouth piece, “Hey guys its MJ, don’t give away too much, I do have a God switch to each of your mics and if anything is uncomfortable you don’t have to answer it.” I said all of them jumping slightly as they hear my voice. They all jerked their heads slightly to let me know they understood.

Aly and I moved out to the audience so we could see the twitter responses. I still had the mute remote on hand at the ready. I felt Aly tap my shoulder and showed me a text from Simon ‘We have a lot of ones coming in about girlfriends so be ready, Darren is picking out 5 tweets to put up. So just be ready, and the mute button is only from the audience we’ll still be able to hear the boys.’ My eyes shot open as I looked at Aly who had the same worried expression.

I grabbed Aly’s phone and typed back to Simon. ‘You’re letting Darren pick the tweets, after you saw how much him and Harry don’t get along?!?!? I’m picking the tweets from here on out in the concert! Not cool, your making Aly and I look bad, - Mick’ I sent it back before letting the boys know. “Hey boys remember you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to, for some reason Darren got to pick the tweets for this concert, it won’t happen again. Just giving you a heads up.” I saw a few shoulder sag in response and two shoulders tighten in worry. I was with them on that one.

I heard Simon chip in from backstage “I’m ready to veto tweet if needed.”

“Alright sounds good.” I said, “bring up the tweets.”

We watched as the first one came up. “Can any of you do any impressions?” Zayn read the first one.

I heard Aly chip in “Can all of you just imitate Zayn and his Bradford bad boi and Vas Happen?”
I bust up laughing as the boys all smirked at Zayn, who’s eyes had gone wide, and started walking like Zayn and doing different catch phases and typical Zayn moves. Louis walking around doing the Bradford bad boy impression Harry and doing the dance moves off one of Zayn’s videos as Niall and Liam yelled Vas Happen’ Zayn just glared at us.

“Well I’m gonna imitate Mckayla Maroney.” Zayn said putting on his best ‘I’m not impressed’ face, shaking his head at his band mates. I heard Simon chuckling in the background.
The next tweet flipped up on the screen as the boys quieted down from messing with Zayn.

“Can you play Ninja on stage with a few fans?” Niall read, the boys laughed nodding as Niall screamed, “YES!” as loud as he could.

“Each of you grab one fan from the audience or just grab a group of five girls.” I said as they all smiled before picking a group of girls that had come together out of the crowd. They explained the rules since the girls didn’t know it. The game went pretty fast ending with two of the girls and Louis with on hand still in and Harry with both some how. By the end of the round the girls had gotten each other out, leaving Louis and Harry each with one hand.

Harry looked around the stage Louis was right next to one of the two couches on the stage. I closed my eyes shaking my head as I realized what Harry was doing, I raised my hands to cover my ears motioning for Aly to do the same. She gave me a confused look but followed my lead. In the next second Harry had launched himself at Louis tagging his raise hand and tackling him onto the couch behind him. The girls immediately went crazy, as Harry sat up straddling Louis smirking at him before yelling “I Win!” The girls were still screaming as he got up and pulled Louis up off the couch they kept their arms wrapped around each other before going to hug the girls and help them back into the crowd.

As the screaming girls quieted down a bit a new tweet switched up. “Do you know any line dances besides the Macarena?” Liam read looking around at the boys Aly and I bust up laughing before starting to sing Wobble and do the line dance to it. “Actually we don’t but our PR managers know a line dance called the Wobble” Harry said smirking at us as we froze.

I switched my mic to audience “Not cool Mick Jagger Junior” I said getting a few laughs from the crowd as the boys fell over. “We could teach you though, I guess, if that’s what the audience wants.” I said smirking at him; if we were dancing he was going to be doing it with us. My proposal was met with screams as Aly and I walked over to the stage Harry and Louis helping me up, Niall and Zayn helping Aly I grabbed my iPod out of my bag and handed it to the crew after grabbing the song that I wanted Aly and I moved the couch back as Simon laughed backstage. I pointed off stage at him. “Watch it or I’ll get you out here too.” I said smirking as the boys laughed. He just smiled shaking his head at my antics “Alright so this is a pretty easy line dance” I said “Jump forward jump back lean to the right lean to the left salsa basic, freestyle quarter turn repeat. Simple, the fun is in the styling.” I said “So we’re just going to start and you boys can follow along you’ll pick it up fast” I said “And if you’re good we’ll teach you some variations.” Aly and I took opposite sides of the stage I was front left she was back right so the boys could see us at all times, I turned off my audience mic waving for the music. Aly and I smiled counting in with our hands 5, 6, 7, 8, we jumped forward wobbling our hips for 4 counts as we started the dance the boys followed along catching on pretty fast I smiled “Aly wanna break it down?” She smirked nodding moving to the front with me I flipped the mic on for the audience “These are just a few variations some are with a partner some you can do alone.” I said as Aly and I took off on our own mixing in our own style. Before teaching the boys how to do a few of the simpler ones.

“How do you start that Jump back one?” Niall asked

“Yeah the one where you keep going back after the jump forward?” Harry continued I smirked.

“We’ll do it with you. Its easier to show you than tell. Keep your hips and legs behind you though.” I said he nodded as we jumped forward Aly paired with Niall, As I paired with Harry.
We jumped so we were close enough to grab the belt loops on their pants. As the four count for the jump forward ended Aly and I grabbed the belt loops on their pants before jumping backward four times yanking the boys back with us for the next four counts. Both boys yelped as we pulled them off balance, I smiled at Aly as we caught them to keep them from falling over as the next four count started.

“You couldn’t have given us any warning?” Harry said.

I laughed “And ruin our fun, not a chance.” He shook his head.

“Alright give it up for our PR Managers Aly and MJ, who can dance better than any of us boys.”
Liam said, we waved grabbing our bags as the next tweet flipped up.

Notes

Thank you all or reading, let me know what you think i'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas!!! I love to read your comments!!

Sorry for the delayed update i was on a road trip to see two Ed Sheeran Concerts in Seattle and Canada!!! It was amazing and I ended up front row and dead center of the Canada. He played my favorite song off the album for the first time live!! Best day ever!!! Icing on the cake was that during You Need Me I Don't Need You, I finally got to do my Crow after he says Ruffio!!! He heard it!!! and his face lit up like a 6 year olds when they see snow on Christmas!!!

For those who don't get that reference, Hook is a movie about Peter Pan grown up, one of Ed's favorites, and oddly enough one of my favorites too before I even knew who Ed was. When Pan left Neverland he left Ruffio in charge of the lost boys, who never grow up. The line Ruffio asks Pan when he returns to Neverland to save his kids is 'Can you Fly? Can you Fight? Can you Crow?' So in Ed's song the line is "Never growing up call me Ruffio." in the live version of the song there is a lull in the song here for him to take a breath, I took that as my opportunity to crow like Ruffio. He spun and looked straight down at me eyes wide and the biggest grin on his face like christmas came early! it was perfect!!!