Chapter 9;

I was walking through the woods of an odd but almost familiarly looking trail. It was night time and very dark outside, with the foggy haze that covered the air it made it even harder to see, the full moon shinning was the only light available.

I heard familiar strumming and I ran towards the sound, it was a low pitched almost scary sound that came out of the bass but I knew it had to be Paul’s.

“Paulie!” I yelled but it came out in a muffled voice. He got up quickly and put his bass down smiling at me an coming at me with open arms his eyes were what scared me the most they were hungry, angry and even had a devilish tint to them not matching his smile at all.

“I’ve missed you darling.” he says hugging me grabbing me tight, but he felt cold, empty and hard. That’s when I felt something sharp being pressed into my back, and through my skin. I yelped

“Paul.” I say trying to breathe evenly but failing and coming out all mumbled and broken. A tear came down and onto my cheek he pulled away from me his hands on my shoulders.

“Emily, I’ll never hurt you.” Paul said not sounding at all like he did the first time and he began to become warm again he silently kissed the tear away and as I was about to grab him tighter to me he disappeared with the knife too. But this time I felt it in my heart making me gasp for air sobbing, trying to breathe in the thick air.

“Emily, Emily!” I heard Georges voice call for me in what seemed to be far away.

“I love you Emily why can’t you see that?” George says coming up behind me his cheeks stained with tears and his eyes all red and puffy. I grabbed him pulling him towards me into a hug feeling his hug made most of the pain go away and I sighed from relief, but then he disappeared right through my grip just as Paul had.

“No!” I screamed falling onto the ground and crying harder not even being able to think because of how hard I was crying.

“Emily! Emily!” I heard both Paul and George calling my name from an even farther place. I’m going fucking insane! I kept thinking and then closed my eyes hard and opening them back again finding myself laying in my bed with Paul, George John and Richard surrounding me, at my bed with the lights on and myself sweating they all had worried looks on their faces.

“Are you o-okay Emily?” Paul said grabbing my hand and touching my forehead a worried look across his face.

“I’m fine. I-It was just a bad dream.” I said sitting up getting worried looks from the boys

“Anyways how’d you guys know something was wrong.” I say throwing the blankets off of me forgetting I wasn’t wearing any pants or shorts but glad the shirt I was wearing was big enough to cover me and my underwear.

“You were screaming” George starts to tell me looking down at my uncovered legs.

“We all heard you darling.” John says himself too having a face of worry.

“I’m fine.” I say to them and giving them a reassuring smile.

“Are yo-you sure?” Richard said to me and I noticing he was the only one who hadn’t talked.

“I’m sure. Do any of you fine gentlemen happen to know the time is?” I said laughing a little bit and making sure to remember to talk about my dream with Ringo or George later.

“It actually happens to be 9:27am.” John says looking at the clock on the wall above me.

“Gear! Let me go get ready okay.” I said making them all get up and leave pecking Paul lightly on the lips and going to get ready. I decided on a plain black v-neck, a sweater/cardigan to wear over it since it wasn’t summer anymore, actually getting into late August near my birthday! I put on straight leg faded jeans and left my hair wavy.

“Hello darling, feeling better?” Paul says smiling and kissing me again on the lips.

“Yes, thank you.” I say smiling and giggling as Paul hands me a cup full of coffee knowing I was looking around for the pot of coffee.

“So I was thinking…” Paul started saying raising his eyebrows mysteriously.

“Yes Paulie?” I say taking a sip of the coffee and noticed it was vanilla my favorite and knew he remembered.

“Your birthday’s coming up soon and I’d like to take you out on a date tonight.” Paul says actually sounding nervous pouring himself coffee in his mug.

“I’d love too.” I say smiling and grabbing his hands after he put the kettle (Coffee pot) back down.

“Great!” He said sounding excited as ever wrapping his arms around my waist, I wrapped my arms around his neck and he bent down to kiss me, I stood on my tippy toes and kissed him back more than just a little peck feeling 100% better from the little butterflies that he brings.

“Awhhhhhhhh!” Ringo and John say in unison watching us from the door which we hadn’t even noticed the were there. I blushed and unwrapped myself from his arms blushing and going to my coffee mug.

“So you guys have a date tonight? How adorable.” John says smirking and walking inside of the kitchen ruffling Pauls hair and then taking his coffee.

“Where are you planning on taking her?” Ringo said acting like a father or brother making sure everything was perfect for me, making me laugh a little.

“Oh well that’s a surprise!” He says smirking at the boys and giving me a little wink.

“What’s a surprise?” George says coming into the kitchen all dressed up like the rest of the boys, but his white button up only half buttoned.

“Emily and Pauls date location.” John said smirking at me and I just laughed a little and stuck my tongue out at John.

“Oh…” was all George said in a kind of sad, envied, mad voice and just looked away from us. It makes me feel horrible seeing George like this, but he wouldn’t even let me talk to him about it.

“Um, how about you guys go whatever you guys do and I’ll make some pancakes.” I suggest with a smile, remembering those smiley face and heart-shaped pancakes my dad taught me how to make. They all agree but before they leave Ringo starts talking to me.

“Would you like me to help? Because I can.” Ringo says being friendly smiling at me but with still a worried expression.

“No, I like to cook to clear my head Ritchie, now run along.” I say to him laughing a little bit and pointing to the direction to were the boys were walking out to.

I started to mix all of the ingredients and put the first few pancakes in the pan letting them cook while I cut up strawberries, pineapple and other fruits, then flipping the first batch of heart shaped pancakes taking them out and then starting on the first batch of the smiley faced ones. After about 3 batches of each I set the plates carefully. 3 hearts for Paul and a smiley, 2 of each for George and for me, John and Richard we have 1 heart and 3 smiley’s. I made sure that they wouldn’t go to someone else’s plate so I sat them all at their favorite places and with their favorite fruit on top.

“Boys breakfast!” I called out from the kitchen knowing they wouldn’t have left because I made them food. They all came rushing in with smiles on their faces as I poured out 5 glasses of orange juice.

“George right here.” I say sitting him down on my left with Paul on my right and Richard and Johnny sat down with their favorite fruit.

“This looks amazing. Thank you.” George says kissing me on the cheek and then starting to eat as the other boys have already done so. I ate slowly, watching the boys as they thanked me and ate quickly and silently, without even saying a word to each other.

“I’ll do the dishes.” Ringo said getting up and taking his plate to the sink. I stayed in my seat and nodded to him and thanked him. Paul took his plate over to Ringo and walked back over to me.

“What’s wrong love?” He said grabbing my hand and as soon as he did that I could feel a smile crawl to my lips.

“Nothing at all. When are we leaving?” I say smiling and kissing him on his cheek feeling happy again, like I said, I love that effect he has over me.

“At about 12 if that’s fine with you.” Paul says squeezing my hand a little and looking at me smiling.

“Sure that’s fine. I’m going to go into my room to be alone for a while if that’s fine with you.” I say to Paul still smiling at him feeling content.

“Of course babe.” He says flirtatious and kisses me on the lips lightly while I’m getting up to leave.

I walked to my room with my lips tingling a little bit still, were he had kissed me. I opened up my door looking behind me to make sure nobody was there and went over to my guitar, I picked it up and laid it down on my bed. Going over to open my big window seeing as today was a nice day with a little breeze and went over to my guitar and starting fiddling around with it playing cords similar to the song soon to be, ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’.

“THAT’S GREAT NEWS!!!!” I heard John yell a little bit after hearing a few rings from a phone.

“Of course we do!” I heard them all yell over the phone, I decided to set my guitar back in the case and go over to see what all the fuss was about, as I was getting up I heard George say my name “What about Emily?” George asked sounding skeptical, then the rest of the boys agreeing and asking about me. What about me? I thought long and hard about what it could mean for me to be there with them?

“Yes! That’s great news! Thank you so much Brian! And we’ll be sure to tell Emily!” John said into the phone as I crept out of my room and into the living room where they were all still huddled near the phone with huge smiles on their faces.

“Oh now what’s the good news?” I said smiling at them and giving puppy eyes so they’d tell me.

“Come on Emely, I’ll tell you out on our date!” Paul says walking over to me and grabbing my hand making me happy and blush a little.

“I’m ready if you are.” I say smiling up at him, not knowing whether to be excited or scared and I decide on excited as he gives me a reassuring smile.

“Well we’ll be off then, see you boys later.” Paul says pulling me along with him and by the boys chuckling a little bit.

“Bye!” I shout to them as Paul shuts the door behind me after they yelled their goodbyes at us.

“So where are you taking me too?” I ask him smiling up at him and play with his fingers a bit while holding his hand and walking in the direction he was leading me too.

“To the bay. Hennery’s going to pick us up at the corner so we won’t have to walk.”

“Okay. So are you going to tell me the big news at the bay?” I say smiling as we walked and I could see more and more people starting to notice me and Paul so I was very relieved when Hennery came up.

“Hello Mr. McCartney. And Ms. Emily.” Hennery says to us as Paul opens the door for me, letting me slide in and then sliding in after me.

“How do you do Hennery?” I say to him trying not to smile too hard or my cheeks will start hurting.

“Great, that’s very big news for you and your band Paul, I bet it’s exciting to be-” Hennery starts saying to us but Paul cuts him off before he can say anymore.

“Shhhh, I haven’t told her yet.” Paul says excitedly and chuckling a bit, I really didn’t have a clue they’re this close.

“Oh that must be what tonight is for, Johnny didn’t tell me that. I‘m sorry.” He says laughing still driving along the coast.

“No needs for worries just get us there in one piece.” Paul says laughing and pulling me closer to him so I’m leaning against his chest as they continue on with their conversation, filling the vibration from Paul’s vocal cords and his sweet voice and accent I start to drift to sleep.

“Emily we’re here.” Paul says to me shaking me alittle bit and stretching his arms.

“Oh okay.” I say remembering where we were going a huge grin spreading across my face. Paul opens the door for me letting me out and taking my hand in his.

“Thanks again Hennery!” I call shutting the door and waving.

“Okay where to now?” I say smiling at him walking over to the sidewalk to start walking.

“Over to that peer.” Paul says to me pointing at a long peer with the waves crashing against it with some small boats docking near it because it was so far out.

“How’d you know I’ve always loved the sea?” I say to him still smiling and walking to a little beat I’ve had stuck in my head since I’ve played it this morning.

“I read your diary.” He says chuckling at the though.

“Actually sir I do not own one. Have you been following me?” I say laughing and covering up my face with my hands and forgetting that we were holding hands.

“Hey! Well you’re the one who stole my hand!” He says laughing at me as I take my hands from over my eyes and stick a tongue out at him, now being about half way down the peer.

“Stop right here.” He says to me and walks me over to one side of the peer so we’re looking out at the sea.

“What do you see?” He whispers lightly in my ear and I try to think of something artistic to say.

“I see, the sun streaming in through the clouds, making them a rose and yellow color even though it’s only afternoon. I see the waves hitting the peer making it seem as if we’re floating out in the ocean and I see you here with me, breathing in my ear, giving me chills just by your touch.” I say to him and turn around to him wrapping my arms around his neck and kissing him on the lips once and start to pull away smiling at him until he grabs my face and brings it closer to him so we’re kissing. His kiss had so much passion in it, I couldn’t breathe for a second, making it deeper than I had done the first time. He put his tongue against my lips, asking for entrance and I agreed opening my mouth for him. I could feel him smile into the kiss as he pulled me closer, letting his tongue explore my mouth before someone shouted “Hey get a room!!!” which made me laugh after I pulled away.

“Paulie.” I said to him playing with his nice and soft hair.

“Yes darling. Oh, now I remember, I have to tell you something important!” Paul said excitedly his eyes looking even brighter shinning from the sun.

“So do tell me!” I say and let go of his grip and get untangled from his arms so we can walk and talk.

“Our movie ’A Hard Days Night’ is coming out soon, actually right after your birthday we wanted to see if you’d come to the premier.” Paul says to me smiling, obviously very proud of himself and the boys for making a movie.

“Of course! That sounds great.” I say smiling at him and walking at a slower pace.

“Okay well that’s not it.” He says to me becoming even more excited and I gave him a look that says ‘Go on! You’re going to kill me with curiosity.’

“Well we’re going to America on the 7th of February!!” Paul almost shouts because of how excited he is.

“Really! That’s great for you guys!” I yell back at him giving him a hug and kissing him on the cheek. This is great news why does this make me feel so sad? I think to myself and then remember that they’ll be going to America without me.

“Emily! You’re coming too!” He screams back at me engulfing me in a much larger hug catching attention from a large group of people.

“I’d never leave my beautiful girl at home! You think I’m crazy?” He whispers in my ear still holding my in a large tight hug. It starts to pouring rain and he grabs my hand and runs with me till we reach a small waffle house, which was right outside of the peer.

“Oh God, I guess the weather men were right.” The old lady says and starts shaking her head.

“Ma’am if you don’t mind me asking, what did the reporters say?” I say and she looks at me and Paul-well mostly Paul in disbelief.

“Oh well, um, that there might be flooding and a big storm is coming. We’re just going to have to close up shop.” She said and sighed, like she was sick of this weather.

“Do you know the closes Hotel? This obviously isn’t driving weather.” He said asking her and directing the last part to me and Hennery who wasn’t even here anymore.

“It’s a pricey one, but it’s the closes. It’s about a block and a half and there’s a general store right beside of it, if you’ll be needed things.” She said pointing in the right direction.

“Thank you so much.” I said smiling at her and looking up at Paul waiting for him to lead me in what to do.

“We’ll be on our way now, be safe.” Paul said smiling at her and leaving with me and into the storm, knowing it’ll only get worst.

We stopped by the general store and bought 2 shirts, shorts and night pants for us and other things that we’ll need. We paid and checked out seemingly we were the only people in there and went over to the Hotel.

“Hi may we have a hotel room?” Paul said trying to cover his face up and hiding his accent.

“Yes we only have queen beds available, but they seems to be fine.” The hotel worker said to us motioning to our hands together making me blush.

“That’ll be fine. Just needed to escape this weather.” Paul says coughing and handing over money.

“Floor 16, room 1620, the last one on the hall way. Goodnight.” He said to us and pointed us in the direction of the elevators, it took forever to get too the top floor but we had finally gotten to our bedroom.

The room was simply a light purple-pink color on the walls, a queen bed with light blue covers, a couch, a tv, a fire place, a desk with a phone and a huge bathroom with a big shower/bath.

“I’m going to go change out of these wet clothes okay?” I asked Paul and started walking over to the bathroom door slowly.

“Sure, let me call these boys and Hennery and tell them where we are and what happened.” Paul said and kissed me on the cheek as he walked over to the phone in the opposite direction. I go into the bathroom and take my dirty and wet cloths off putting them out to dry and get into the shower. I wash myself and get out and that’s when I notice I forgot my clothes. Shit, what do I do now, walk out there naked, wait towels, no these towels are stupid they don’t even wrap all the way around, I’ll get Paul to bring them over to me that’s it. I wrap the towel around the front and letting it hang in the back.

“Paul!” I whisper shouted out from the cracked door.

“Hold on a minute” Paul said into the phone and then looking over to me “Yes beautiful?” Paul said to me with those ‘I’ll do anything for you’ eyes. Paul don’t even look at me like that, I’m in a towel and not prepared for this, stop it! I think to myself before answering him.

“I forgot my clothes. Can you bring them to me?” I say with puppy dog eyes

“Hmmm, are you just trying to get me too see you naked?” Paul said smirking at me, almost sounding exactly like something John would say.

“No, I’m trying to get my clothes not take them off.” I say giggling at him “Now please, I want to get dressed I’m getting cold.” I say to him with pleading eyes.

“Fine.” He says rolling his eyes, making us both laugh and bringing over my bag of clothes.

“Thank you!” I say kissing him on the lips and then pulling away and before he has time to pull me back in I close the door on his face, not rudely though. I put my clothes on and look at myself in the mirror, I’m so glad Paul bought me a big shirt to wear, I put my hair up in a pony tail and walk out of the bathroom Paul talking on the phone with one of the boys.

“Yes she just got out of the bathroom. Oh yes, yes, you can talk to her right now I need to take a quick shower in change, here she is.” Paul said to me handing me the phone and letting me sit down as he goes into the bathroom.

“Hello?” I said into the phone watching Paul walk into the bathroom, wondering who wanted to talk too me.

“How are you dear is everything okay?” Ringo. I knew it’d be Ringo.

“Yes, Ritchie, I don’t melt when I get water on me.” I say laughing and hearing him chuckling and calm down a bit.

“Would you like us to come get you?” Ringo said and I can hear shuffling and whispering in the background.

“No you guys must be crazy! It’s horrible here they had to put us in at the top floor.” I say to them knowing something must be up.

“JOHN! Stop it! Okay okay EMILY HERES JOHN!! BYE!!” Ringo yells into the phone and I laugh about them fighting over who gets to talk to me like children.

“Hello yes Emmy?” John says in his adorable accent.

“Yes this is me John.” I say laughing at him.

“Is Paul still in the shower?” John ask me making me suspicious even more so.

“Um yeah, why?” I ask him slow and soft so Paul wouldn’t be able to here me even if he wasn’t in the shower.

“Just do us all a favor and don’t sleep with Paul you know how heart broken Georgie would be, I mean you two are so cute and I’m only saying this because George is gone at the moment, just please Emmy.” John says to me, almost pleading, I have no clue what’s going on at the moment.

“What are you talking about John?” I say whispering just like John had done.

“Do the Do. Don’t do the do, no sexual intercourse.” He whispered to me making me laughing even at the thought.

“John that’s nothing to even worry about!” I say laughing a little bit, not even believing this is happening.

“Is that her?” I hear George call out not in the phone but close by.

“Yes. Would you like to speak too her.” John says obviously still holding the phone to his face.

“Oh, yes please!” George says sounding excited and I didn’t know whether he was being sarcastic or not.

“Hello?” George says into the phone, without sarcasm.

“Hi George.” I say, so you can hear the smile through my voice.

“How’re you? Is everything okay, I’ll come and get you if you need me too.” George says to me sounding happy and worried, a weird combination.

“I’m fine Georgie, we’ll be home whenever the storm stops. And I heard the great news! I’m excited for the trip and The Beatles that’s great news! I haven’t been to America in forever!” I say to him, visualizing him scoffing at how I said “We’ll” and changing the conversation into a happy one.

“Okay, that’s good love, it’s getting late, I think we’re going to have to go to bed soon. The boys say goodnight. Goodnight beautiful, I can’t wait too see you tomorrow.” George says to me almost whispering into the phone and I could see the boys getting mad at George because they didn’t get to say goodnight.

“Goodnight Georgie, See you tomorrow.” I say back to him lightly and then say “Goodnight boys!” Louder so Ringo and John can hear me.

5 or 10 minutes later as I’m sitting on the bed, looking through the TV stations Paul comes out in just night pants, his hair still wet and his chest glistening because of the water droplets and it being still a little wet.

“Emily?” Paul says sitting down right beside me on the, on the huge bed where he didn’t need to be right beside me. I turn off the TV and direct my attention towards him.

“Yes Paulie?” I say looking at him, not even noticing he was that close to me or my lips. And his lips crashed against mine, his lips were soft but also firm and manly. His body and lips just melted into mine and went with me. Since we were in an awkward position, he picked me up and sat me back down on the bed, never breaking the kiss. He starts to kiss my cheek , then my neck and down his way to my collar bone and playing with the bottom of my shirt. He goes back to my neck making me moan a little and slipping up the shirt little by little making me moan. What the fuck am I doing. I’m not going to have sexual intercourse with Paul McCartney. Doing the Do won’t be done.

“Paul” I tried saying to make him stop even though it sounded more like a moan. I almost started crying because I couldn’t say anything but he stopped and stared at me.

“Oh my God Emily what’s wrong did I do something wrong?” Paul asked me concern filling his eyes, grabbing my hand while I tried to speak.

“C-can we just stick t-to kissing Paulie..” I ask him trailing off, trying to suck up any tears and turning so I didn’t have to face him.

“Oh of course, of course, darling we don’t have to do anything.” Paul says kissing my hand and squeezing it a bit.

“Well how about we talk about your life? You never told me much about it.” Paul said smiling, most likely thinking that it’d make things better but not that much could come from it. So we stayed up till 1am just talking about me and my family.

I told him how my mother had breast cancer and we were living in upper Connecticut, were she was born, and how she died when I was 6 and my father had always loved Liverpool and my grandfather lives here. How my father taught me how to play the guitar and it was an outlet for both of us and then how he died right when I was 19 and I was in college. We talked about my parents and growing up in America for awhile, about his mother, who is also dead and how John doesn’t really have parents. How they all met and our excitement to be going to America.

“It’s already 1 in the morning.” I said yawning, getting tired.

“I could just listen to you talk for hours though.” Paul says playing with my hair because I had my head I his lap.

“I couldn’t do it tonight though.” I said smiling at him as he smiled back to me.

“Come on, let’s go to bed then.” Paul says and I get up crawling to the top of the bed and getting up under the covers.

“Where are you going?” I say to Paul as he gets up from the bed.

“You want me to sleep in the same bed with you?” He questions me with uninsured eyes.

“Of course.” I say smiling at him and he gets under the covers with me. I go over next to him letting him put one of his arms around my shoulder and I snuggle even closer into this chest, and feeling his warmth falling asleep cuddling with Paul.

A/N: I HOPE YOU GUYS LIKE THIS!!!! I really like this chapter, and you get to know the characters more yay! And it's longer (I think) If there's anything I need to improve or change, tell me! Please give me feedback! I hope you enjoy!(: