TESS'S POV
"We clearly won that twitter war yesterday." I chuckled, as we walked down the long corridors of what is known as, Madison Square Garden.
"Because of me.'' Rose smirked, as I give her a high five right there.
"What were you talking about by the way?" Cara asked.
"I read that way back on twitter, that Calum and Luke dated the same girl, which makes it really awkward. I think it was a rumor, but whatever. It'll get them to act up." She chuckled.
"Well look who it is!" I hear an Irish accent at the end of the hall, as I look up, immediately knowing who it was.
"Girls Like Boys." He spoke dramatically, doing a hand gesture as we laugh.
"Hey, Niall!" Jenna waves, as he runs over to us.
"You girls as pumped as we are?" He grinned, giving us all hugs as I nodded.
"Oh my god, this isn't really our show, but I can't believe we're still playing for over ten thousand people.. It's insane." I sighed, happily.
"We were just a bunch of losers, three years ago honestly." Cara agreed, glancing at me.
"Yeah, we really were. We honestly can't thank you enough for all you've--"
"You girls are really talented, don't thank us, thank yourselves for being really good musicians.'' Niall smiled, cutting Jenna off as I aww'd.
We group hugged Niall right there as he laughs at how ridiculous we all look, and we finally decide to pull away.
"Hey, we wanted a group hug too!" I hear Liam argue from afar, making me laugh.
We all say hi to the boys who approached us.
"What's up with the twitter drama between you and the 5sos boys?" Louis chuckled. "I was laughing my arse off yesterday just reading the tweets.''
"Yeah, you girls definitely put some sass on it." Zayn snickered.
"You guys know the past we had with them." I groaned.
"Yeah, yeah we remember. But don't you kind of see that.. You guys are actually kind of alike in a way?" Harry rose his eyebrows.
"What? No!" We all started to protest as I shook my head.
"Why would you say that?" Jenna holds a hand to her heart, faking hurt.
"Like how you guys look for instance. Jen, you dye your hair, just like Mikey. Cara, you're all punk, but you're a real softie like L--"
"Don't even say it!" Cara cut Niall off, pointing a finger at him.
"Don't tell me you girls didn't notice, anything."
"We aren't alike, end of story." Rose pointed. "They're judgemental about girls in bands, and we love boys. It's all in the band name."
I stifle a laugh at that, I had no idea why I found it funny though.. It just was.
"Well okay then." Liam waves us off. "Anyway, what songs are you guys performing?"
"We've got five of our originals on the song list, plus our cover of Teenage Dream."
"Ooh, I'm excited." Harry wiggles his eyebrows, making me smile.
Pacing back and forth, I chewed the tips of my fingernails anxiously.
"Tess."
I still continued to bite my nails.
"Tess!"
"What is it now, Cara?!" I blurted out in a panic.
"I was just gonna say that you shouldn't be nervous."
"What if I screw up? What if Jenna breaks a string, what if Rose loses a drumstick.. What if your voice somehow malfunctions in the middle of the show, what if--"
"What if. Remember these are all what if's, and it won't become a reality. We've rehearsed, we've gone through soundcheck. We can pull through." Cara reassured, nudging me.
I sighed, as I slowly put my hand down. "Alright. We're going to be alright."
"Mmm!" Jenna skips into the room, sipping from a Starbucks frappuccino.
"Where did you get that?" I gasp, Cara pouting.
"Starbucks.." Her voice trailed, as she squints her eyes slightly.
"I'm afraid you're coming down with a white girl disease." Rose says from behind her, but then snatches the drink from her and takes a sip herself.
I laugh, as Jenna groaned.
"Rosemarie!" Cara teased as she glances at her.
"Don't call me that." She whined, as she sits down next to me.
"Tess is the best." She attempts to rhyme, and she succeeds.
"Aww." I set my head on her shoulder.
"By the way, twitter is blowing up." Jenna brought up.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, the 5sos fans are fighting for the boys while our fans are fighting for us.'' She mumbled, scrolling on her phone.
"Read us some." I insisted, as she nods once, clearing her throat.
' @carafeels : 5sos honestly needs to back the f*ck up. '
' @tess_feat_rose : Wow, arent 5sos a bunch of assholes get a life '
' @5soswhat : tbh girls like boys suck, they deserve all the hate their getting from the fam and from the boys '
' @lashtonbtw : those girls honestly need to realize they arent as good as the boys. their fanbase sucks as well so '
I shudder, Jenna frowning.
"We knew this was coming. Actually, I knew this was coming. We should've just ignored them!" Cara sighed.
"Again, we should've listened to Cara." I agree with her, following her actions.
"Well we couldn't just go down without a fight." Rose shook her head. "They deserved every tweet we sent."
"Exactly." Jenna shrugged. "Just let it settle in, after tonight I'm sure the drama's going to be cleared up. I mean, our single comes out at midnight, after we open here at the Garden. Drama on twitter is the last thing the fans would worry about after that."
"Yeah. Jenna's right." Cara agreed.
"I'm already nervous, I don't need another reason to have even more anxiety about--"
''Theresa Stevens!" Rose silences me. "Relax, alright?"
Anxiety wasn't great for me, seeing I used to have social anxiety back then, until I met the girls though. We all had so much in common that they actually helped me overcome my social anxiety.
Soon, we decided on a band when we realized how much we could do, when Cara could sing, Jenna had some sick guitar skills, I wasn't so bad on the bass, and Rose was amazing on the drums.
One day, Jenna called me up nearly at midnight and said "Let's make a band."
I actually laughed for a good five minutes over the phone, but turns out she was serious and we all met up the next day.
Who knew we'd be playing the Garden three years later? Dreams can definitely take you somewhere, no doubt.
"Girls, you're on in ten minutes!" Paul called from the other end of the hall.
"Thanks Paul!" Cara yelled back as he waves us off and disappears down the corridors.
We all pile into the dressing room, the boys in the room next door as Rose closes the door behind her.
"Does my hair look alright?" I mumbled, as Jenna shakes her head.
"It looks too normal, how about this." She ruffles my hair, as I chuckled.
Cara smiles. "Wow, can I just say that I love you girls? We've made it to the big leagues."
"Aw, Cara!" Rose said in a kid voice, cooing at her as she walks up to her and gives her a big hug.
Jenna and I eventually join in as I wrap my arms around them in a squeeze.
' @Tess_Stevens_GLB : Performing in MSG in less than five minutes.. Couldn't have done it without you guys, thanks for having us! '
' @JennaGLB : HOLY SHIT, ARE YOU READY TO ROCK OUT NEW YORK'
' @CaraGLB : Wooow, huge crowd tonight. :o '
' @Rose_GLB : Let's rock guys! thanks for having us, msg (: '
We were literally all standing in a circle around stage just quickly tweeting, two minutes before we were on. I could hear the crowd going completely wild out there and I was honestly hyped.. All the anxiety I had about ten minutes ago, just vanished, knowing I'd be up there with my three other best friends that I'm actually proud to call my sisters.. Wow.
"Alright, good luck girls. Kick arse out there!" Niall nearly hollered, over the screams from the crowd.
We all thanked the boys and gave them brief hugs before we were ridiculously pushed out by them, making me laugh hysterically once we stumbled out.
The screams got louder if that was even possible, as I wave at fans who were holding up a bunch of signs and posters of us. Well not as much of One Direction signs, but we still had fans here which made me entirely happy.
CALUM'S POV
"No way, they're opening at the Garden tonight." I frowned, shaking my head.
"What?" Luke looked at me disbelievingly. "Good thing we performed there before they did."
"Yeah." I chuckled. "No way they can do it better."
"They are honestly messed up." Michael pouted, still upset about how they brought up his hair and how he would go bald.
"They got lucky," Ashton shrugged. "Simply, lucky. Without the One Direction boys being so nice to them, they would've gone nowhere."
"And how about us? We went on tour with them, just like they did." Luke brought up.
"Still, everyone knows we're the better band. They just basically got a whole self promotion kind of thing going on the whole tour." I say, as they all seemed to agree.
"Cal's got a point."
"So what are we going to do about them?" Michael sighed.
"Nothing, we can't do anything really. We'll leave it to the 5sos family."
"There's a war happening between our fandom and theirs, you know? I think we just started something crazy." Luke mumbles, lying on the couch, right next to me.
"It's just a couple tweets. It's not like this whole scandal. We can delete the tweets and make it look like they're the bad guys." Mikey smirked at his suggestion.
"That's a good idea." I realized, glancing at him.
"Right?" He grinned, taking his phone out. "Alright, let's do this." He mutters, as Ash and Luke curiously peer at what he was doing.
* THE NEXT DAY *
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ROSE'S POV
I yawned, obviously really tired from last night. But wow, that was the best night of our lives..
Cheering loudly, I start to jump on the bed as Tess groaned from beside me.
"Rose, it's too early for this!" She whined, grabbing more pillows and bunching them over her ears dramatically.
"No, no it isn't! We just had the best freaking night of our lives last night.. Everything changed last night, and--"
There are knocks at our hotel room door, loud ones might I add.
"ROSE! TESS! OPEN UP!" It was Cara and Jenna freaking out, outside.
"I'm coming, hold your freaking horses." I giggle at my saying, ruffling my hair as I swung the door open.
"We hit number one on the US iTunes charts." Cara tried to say calmly, but she soon shrieked excitedly, Jenna grinning widely.
"We hit number one?!" Tess yells from behind me as I was so shocked to even process.
"WE HIT NUMBER FUCKING ONE" I finally come to my senses, as we're all freaking out completely as I take Jenna into an embrace first before pulling Cara into one as well.
"Tess come over here!" Cara laughs, as she runs over to us and attacks us into a hug as well.
"Oh my god this is amazing." She beamed, on the verge of tears. "It's early in the morning and you guys are making me cry. What is this even."
Jenna laughs, as I smiled.
Cara was still on her phone, but it took a moment before the happy look on her face turned into a frown.
"Shit." She sighed, running a hand through her hair. "Great. This is just great!"
"What? What is it now?" I groaned. We were seriously all celebrating for barely a minute before something else had to come up.
"Is it good or bad?" Tess asks.
"Well what do you think?" Jenna hit back sarcastically.
"Okay, okay it's way too early for sarcasm Jenna." I say seriously, shutting them both up.
"You know how we performed Teenage Dream last night?"
"Yeah, sure." I motion for her to continue.
"Well.. 5 Seconds of fucking Summer, performed it too. Now there's this whole thing happening on MTV, and E!. There's a voting thing started on their websites and on television, asking who did the better performance." She sighed.
"Wow." Tess had this sour look on her face. She sighs, running a hand through her black hair.
Jenna starts to poke at her nose piercing, her lips pursed. "Wow." She sides with Tess.
"Oh joy." I say sarcastically, as Cara rolled her eyes.