Chapter 12;

I woke up once again in the hospital, it was 11am and I was supposed to be leaving today. John, Paul, Ringo and Brian had come to visit me and George everyday and it made everything okay again. The boys were really gentle around me and I still have no clue what has happened to me, I’m just lucky I wasn’t seriously injured and all my bones have been fixed. I stared blankly at the wall, I could hear Georges soft snores, so I knew he was asleep. When I looked over at him I noticed a note from the boys, they have left me tons of notes lately and I now have a carved box with all types of notes from then, I picked it up and began to read it.

Dear Emily,

We’ll be there to pick you and George up at one. We have all missed you like crazy, especially me. The house seems so drained of light without your smile. I’m so glad you’re feeling better and I’m sorry we couldn’t be there when you wake up. We’ve got something special planned for you this week! But it’s a secret. Tell George we all said hello. John, Brian, and Ringo say hello. I love you darling.

your love, Paul McCartney

Ugh, I love the way he makes me feel, but it also hurts. I mean he’s Paul McCartney and he’ll be going to America, we all will, they’re famous and I’m just some average girl. These types of thought went through my head for a while, until I started to hear George start to stir, stretch and then speak to me.

“Goodmorning, Emily.” George said while yawning and he reminded me of almost a cat.

“Morning Georgie.” I say to him turning on my side to look at him.

“Are the lads not here?” He asked me sitting up and noticing the lack of their presents

“Nope. They said something about a special plan and all.” I told George calmly and got up pushing my back up against the wall in a sitting position and George came over to the bed sitting beside me.

“Ahh! That’s right.” George said loudly as he suddenly remembered something, playing with my hands, that were on my knees as I sit crisscross, tracing the lines in them.

“What’s this plan and why won’t anyone tell me?” I ask him laughing and then giving a pout as he shock his head.

“That is classified information darling.” George said with a chuckle and them matching a gaze with me.

“Are you, um, glad to be c-coming back home?” I asked him captivated by his stare, almost stuttering and then noticing how much like an idiot I must sound.

“I am, but I’ll miss our alone time. I feel as if we’ve gotten really close Emily.” George said moving in closer, until our lips were barely touching and then he went in and gave me a small kiss on the lips, moving away and then kissing me again and this time I actually kissed back more.

And then there was a knock on the door, I jumped up and out of Georges soft grip around

ME and he fixed his hair nonchalantly, scooting away from me as he said “Come in!“ and in came the boys and doctor Roberts.

“well it’s about that time.” Dr. Roberts said to me with a sad smile on his face.

“I’m going to miss my favorite Doctor.” I said laughing at him and giving him a big hug

“Well we’ll visit you sometime!” Ringo said laughing and John chimed in with

“Well lets not hope in the same situation.” We all joked around for our last few minutes as I packed up taking all my belongings with me and George did the same.

“Are you ready love?” Paul asked kissing the side of my check making me blush, I being with him and I’m glad I get to see him again and be with him.

“Are you ready love?” John said in a mocking voice to George and they all laughed but Paul seemed pretty angry about it.

“Awh don’t worry Paulie.” I said and kissed him on the lips. He entwined his fingers with mine and we set out on our way out of the hospital.

“So what have you planned for today?” I asked the boys sitting in the back with Paul and John as Ringo drove with George up front with him.

“Nothing important.” John said smirking.

“Will someone tell me.” I said sticking out my bottom lip pouting.

“Awh just an important dinner and news cast, the big surprise is tomorrow!” Paul said sounding excited.

“Ooh! What is that?” I asked them I’m so glad I’m out of the hospital it feels like I haven’t been out forever.

“Secret!” Ringo and George yelled at the same time and they all laughed except me.

“This isn’t fair!” I said giggling a bit while we drove up to the house.

“God it feels like I haven’t been here in forever.” I said while getting out of the car, Paul in front of me.

“I know doesn’t it?” George said walking inside and we all followed.

“We have a formal dinner to go to tonight Emily.” Ringo said to me. I looked at the clock it was already about to be two.

“Let me go check to see if I have anything.” I said and walked down the familiar hallway to my bedroom, seconds later I was joined by Paul.

“Hello love.” Paul said wrapping his arms around me and kissing my neck softly as I stood at my closet looking for a dress.

“Hi.” I said and turned around to face him he kissed me on my forehead, nose, cheek and then lips. Paul pushed me back up against the wall beside of the closet and deepened the kiss, after a while he asked for entrance by licking my lips and I let him in. I ran my fingers through his hands over and over again as we explored each others mouths. Paul played with the bottom of my sweater, lifting it up a little bit aand putting his hands on my stomach and hips causing me to shiver. Before anything else could happen someone cleared their throat and me and Paul instantly separated. ‘

“Shit” Paul said turning to see who it was and luckily it was only Ringo.

“How’s searching for that dress going?” Ringo asked chuckling.

“Um, actually I wanted to ask you if it was black dress?” I said to him going with the first thing that came to my mind.

“Yep. Do you have any?” Ringo asked.

“I don’t think you do. Do you?” Paul said to me and I turned back to my closet ready to look for the one black dress I thought I had.

“I have this.” I said but it came out as more of a question it was an old dress and I knew it wouldn’t really cut the standards.

“I think im going to have to go buy one.” I said to them after a while of them just looking at me.

“Well we still have to buy our tuxes too.” John said coming into the room joining our conversation. Soon he looked at the dress in my hand then back to me and gave me a weird look.

“Oh come on it’s not that bad, I’ve had it forever.” I said to John rolling my eyes at him and he just laughed in response.

“Where’s George?” Paul said noticing the lack of his presences.

“He went to set his bag and stuff down I told him, we’ll need to get our things for tonight.” John said to us and Ringo looked at me with wondering eyes. ‘What?’ I mouthed to him and he just shook his head at me.

“Well are you ready to go dear?” Paul asked me and I looked down at what I was wearing an old sweater and sweatpants.

“I think I’m going to take a shower and change.” I said and then pushed them out of my room. I walked into my bathroom with just my underwear because I had no clue what to wear yet. I started the shower and once it became hot enough I got in. I love taking showers because it give me time to think, but not this time because I felt really bad about letting George kiss me. I didn’t know how I feel about either one of them and I didn’t know who I liked more. I got out soon enough and dried off. I went over to the dresser in my small robe, it was really short and silk plus I had it open so I could change into whatever I found. I opened my top drawer and started rummaging through all of my sweaters. Without even a knock or warning my door opened, I turned around quickly without thinking and saw George standing there, as soon as he saw me his cheeks burned a bright red colour. I didn’t get it first until I looked down and noticed my exposed body.

“I, um, fuc- sorry.” George said and ran out closing the door behind him. God I can’t believe that just happened, well now I have even more of a motivation to get ready. I quickly decided on a white sweater, a light brown scarf and my favorite bell bottoms. When I came out all of the boy were sitting in the kitchen, I picked up an apple and bit into it.

“Are you guys ready?” I asked after I swallowed what I had bit off, George didn’t even make eye contact with me he just sat on the bar stool awkwardly.

“We are if you are.” John answered back and once I finished my apple we all left in the same position we came in.

“Where are we planning to get our cloths?” I asked as we went down town.

“A place like we went the other day just more in town.” Paul said to me and as if on cue Ringo pulled into the place, no one was there except for a single car.

“Here we are.” John said opening the door of the car and leading us to the entrance.

“wow” I said under my breath as we entered the place it was so beautiful and had an almost cliché look but with more modern 60s clothing.

“Ah! Hi, boys. Ooh who’s she what a pretty lady? You boys are lucky. Hi I’m the owner, you can call me Jean, like the pants.” The man, Jean, said all in what seemed to be one breathe before anyone could even say hello back. He shook my hand and asked me what my name was.

“Oh, my name’s Emily.” I said to him and his eyes lit right up.

“What a beautiful name. You must be from the states yes?” Jean asked me and I nodded my head

“How’d you know?” I asked him as he showed the boys where the men’s section was.

“You’re accent. You sound like you could be from Liverpool but you have something different, an American accent, my boyfriends from the states too I just love his accent.” Jean said to me taking me over to the ladies.

“Oh really? I didn’t even think I sounded that English.” I said laughing but stopped to look at this dress.

“Wow, this is stunning.” I said feeling the fabric in my hands, it was a silk black dress,

the sleeves were barely longer than the shoulders, it was a v neck or sweetheart line as Jean said and it all connected together at the waist leaving a ruffled look and I absolutely loved it.

“Try it on, I bet it’ll look amazing on you. Don’t worry I’ll keep the boys away.” Jean said winking at me and I just laughed and went to the little dressing room section and put the dress on. I didn’t even look in the mirror I just walked out to show Jean.

“You look amazing Emily! That has to be the one, especially for an important event like tonight.” Jean said and pulled me to the front mirror, he was right it didn’t look that bad on me.

“Thank you!” I said to him and he pulled me into a hug, I laughed into his shoulder until he pulled away and I went to put my cloths back on. When I came out Jean was standing there waiting.

“I’ll take that. This is your formal black dress okay. The boys wanted me to help you find

a party dress for tomorrow night too.” Jean said to me taking the dress and showing me t the party section of dresses. Lots of the dresses were very plain and none really stuck out to me. Then I saw this awesome dress it was lacey unlike most of them and red, it was a shorter dress and the underneath one was dark red and strap less with it covered in a long sleeves lacey dress.

“This one?” I asked him and his face lit up again I knew he liked it.

“Go try that one now.” Jean said playfully and pushed me towards the dressing room. I ended up getting that one and Jean wouldn’t let the boys see what we had picked out. Soon we were taken to the back of the store and there were two hair/makeup guys and they had done us up. They curled my hair and then put it up in a really elegant looking way. Jean stayed with me and talking about the boys with me and since they were right there they’d occasionally comment and laugh at me.

“Well it’s getting late you guys we’re going to have to leave soon.” George said and Ringo looked at his watch.

“Yeah. We’ll have to change here if that’s okay?” Ringo asked Jean.

“Of course that’s why we have dressing rooms.” Jean said laughing and we all went to go put on what we had picked out.

“God you look so beautiful.” Paul said to me when we were alone, after everyone decided they wanted to complement me.

“Thank you. You look so handsome yourself.” I said and kissing him on the check smiling.

“I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” Paul said wrapping his arms around me kissing me on the check, temple and neck making me giggle.

“Why?” I said turning to face him, his face turned serious and then a big smile appeared on his face.

“Because I have everything I could ever ask for, awesome friends, my dream job and the most beautiful girl in the whole world.” Paul said and kissed me gently on the lips, when we pulled away I was still blushing I love this stupid giddy feeling he gives me.

“I love you Emily.” Paul said kissing me on the lips again longer this time before I could say anything back as he pulled me closer and when we finally stopped kissing he held me even closer and in the crock of his neck

“I love you too” I said to him and kissed his check trying to escape the grip he had on me.

“Come on love birds we’re leaving.” John said to us.

“I’m here.” I say walking up to Ringo and George but for some reason Paul and John stayed back behind.

“You really do look amazing tonight.” Ringo said to me and George agreed.

“Thanks you guys don’t look to bad yourselves.” I said to them laughing a bit.

“How long are they going to take?” Ringo said annoyed, I think we’ve been standing and talking for about 5 minutes and they never came.

“Come on Lennon, McCartney, we’re leaving with or without you!” George shouted as we walked to the car, and I gave Jean a hug goodbye thanking him. Right after I had closed the car door John and Paul joined me in the back as Ringo was starting the car.

“What’s wrong?” I asked Paul and John. Paul had a really pissed off look on his face then he looked at me and his faced softened.

“Nothing baby.” Paul said and pulled me closer to him letting me lay my head down on his shoulder and he kissed my head. We stayed like this for a solid 25 minute car ride. We pulled up to a nice restaurant and it looked as if there were important people all over the place. All kinds of people were crowding around the front so Ringo pulled to the back and Brian was right there waiting for us.

“Ah good you’re here. Nice to see you two on your feet again.” Brian said giving us all hugs, really tight ones to George and I especially.

“Who all will be here tonight?” I ask Brian as we enter the back door and make a left into the hallway where the bathroom and backrooms are.

“Only the biggest people in music. They want to talk about the boys new album and their up and coming tour and yes you’re involved in all of that.” Brian said excitedly while walking right into the big group of people. Brian ran off to tell the lights people to announce that we were here and we were order to lay low till they said something about us.

“I’m excited. Aren’t you guys?” I say to them with a big smile on my face but they seem to be really quiet.

“Oh yes, terribly excited.” Paul said grabbing my hand and kissing it and keeping it in his own.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d like to present to you The Beatles.” A man with a deep raspy voice said over the intercom and suddenly a spot light was shinned on us, the crowed clapped there were a few whistles but it wasn’t how it would have been if they were fans; they were working men and women. Soon we were thrown into a crowd of people, Paul made sure to keep me close by his side and he did a good job at it. People took many photos of us and they soon noticed me and Paul’s affection towards each other and within minutes we were swept with questions.

“Is this your girlfriend?” The first man asked Paul.

“Yes, yes she is.” Paul said back kissing my head.

“Well she’s beautiful. What’s your name miss?” He asked to me and it kind of caught me off guard nobody had really asked me questions yet.

“Thank you, my name’s Emily.” I said back to him sweetly. Soon everyone was asking us questions.

“How old is she?”

“How long have you been dating?”

“Is it a secrete?”

“Where’d you buy your dress?”

“Does she like the band?”

Me and Paul were being jabbed at with all these types of questions but Brian noticed and said something of only music related questions.

After dinner we were escorted to the stage in front to make the big announcement of the tour, I decided to stand off stage with Brian and all the other tech people.

“Hello everybody.” John said out to the crowd.

“We have something important to announce, very important.” Paul said and I could see George getting more awkward and nervous just standing there.

“Well would you like to know?” George said excitedly and the whole crowd yelled back “yes!”

“Me, George, John, Paul and Emily that little birdie over there that a few of you have met are all going on tour to America at the beginning of next year!!!!!” Ringo yelled out to the crowd and the whole place turned with talking, yes we already went to shoot the TV show but they shouldn’t have broadcasted that till after this meeting, the whole place went insane, excitement filling the air with talk of The Beatles going to America. Brian pulled me on stage with him and made and announcement that we’d only have a time for a few more question and they’d be answered on stage. I drifted off into my own thoughts as they asked questions about the tour for the boys. I couldn’t wait till this whole thing was down so I could go home and put on some comfortable clothes without having to wear heels or a dress.

After it was all over and I was introduced to multiple people that I didn’t know and it seemed as the boys had no clue who they were either. We decided to not drive our car back because we were all pretty tipsy too much so to drive so we had hailed a cab from the back side. It was around 11pm by the time we got home and I ran straight to my room to change tripping over my feet multiple times at that.

“Knock Knock” I hear Paul say as I pull down my shirt

“Come in.” I say and sit down on my bed as he comes and sits beside me putting his hand on my leg right above the knee. I look down at his hand smiling at it and when he pulls me chin up I can’t help but smile anymore.

“You’re beautiful. Whether in sweats or a dress, you’re constantly beautiful.” Paul says in a husky tone almost sounding like a whisper and kissing me gently on the lips.

“I’m so glad I met you.” I say to him forehead to forehead and I kiss him again.

“God I love you.” Paul said hugging me and holding me tighter.

“I love you too.” I say to him and that night we fell asleep, nothing more just holding each other closer than ever before. I’ve never felt more at peace here with Paul but I feel like something’s missing maybe it’s a part of me or something that needs to complete me, but I pushed that thought away and fell asleep to the soft hum of Pauls sleeping breaths.