She turned to her dark haired male companion Greg who was still sleeping away next to her and give him a hard shake "Greg you got to get up now, c'mon get a move on, we are late"

Greg grunted, not appreciating being woke up in such a manner, but hazily realising that it was too light in the day to be 6 oclock in the morning so opened his eyes.

"What time is it?" he asked

"Eight thirty" Sandra replied now hurriedly dressing, we were suppose to be there at nine, and we still have to finish packing" she exclaimed in dismay going over to the wardrobe and flinging the doors open.

"I will phone Jake tell them we got held up and we will be late" Greg swung his legs out of the bed.

"This is not a good start" Sandra frowned as she fidgeted with the locks on the suitcase on the floor to get them open. "Here we are getting ready to tour Europe with a U2, and we are screwing it up on our first day what a great impression to make.. I can't believe this is happening.. I told you we should have left that club before two oclock this morning"

"Stop whinging Sandra, we will get there, like U2 are really caring anyway if we are late or not Greg told her as he dialled the number on his cell phone of their tour Manager Jake Morrison.

Sandra just snorted then shoved what clothes she could hurriedly in the suitcase.. deciding she could sort them out later, and was glad at least she had packed the majority of her stage outfits and send them on a week ago.

She had been a high state of excitment when their rock band Lutra got the chance to tour along with U2. It would be brilliant exposure for them as up and coming new band on the scene who were getting ever more popular their last single getting into the top ten and their latest album also doing well, the critics loved them too. The last four years of slogging to make it in the music business was now starting to pay of.

Now she had to make sure her boyfriend Greg Stanton, who was also the lead singer with the band didnt get too carried away with all this fame going to his head already, with booze and clubbing to all hours of the morning ruin it for them when they were just starting to get of the ground.

She had just closed her case and started on Greg's listening in on what Greg was saying over the phone, there was a lot of Greg apologising and promising they would be there as soon as they could, when Greg hung up he turned to Sandra we will more likely miss our flight by the time we get to the airport.. but Jake has organised that we go on the next one.. it leaves at eleven oclock so we won't be too far behind"

"Great" Sandra snapped in dismay "Thats us rushing to rehearsals when we get there Mike is going to go nuts, you know how he wants us to make a big impression, espicially now when we have this chance"

Mike was the lead guitarist and brains and force behind Lutra, and although he and Greg were best of friends, they were complete opposites which caused some friction, which left Sandra and the other two band members Tony and Zak to always play go between if it wasnt for the fact that Greg was a good singer and front man, Sandra got the feeling Mike would have got rid of him long ago, but in their professional music capacity they needed each other so learned to put up with each other.

"Mike can go to hell and think himself lucky we turn up at all" Greg replied in irritation

"My head is aching, I don't need all this nagging so just get on with the packing will you" and with that he went into the bathroom slamming the door

Sandra sighed this was going to be a loooong hard day.

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"So you finally decided to get here, very good of you" Mike Harrison's blue eyes were filled with disdain as he greeted Greg and Sandra five hours later in the hotel where they were staying.

"I'm so sorry" Sandra apologised with sincere regret whilst Greg shot Mike an obstinate sullen look, "But we are here now, so no good giving of about it and wasting more time"

"Yeah well you had better hurry up and get sorted we were suppose to be down at the stadium rehearsing by now, but we decided to wait for you" Mike replied meaningfully.

"Once we leave our bags in our rooms we will be right down" Sandra promised.

The last thing they needed right now was Mike and Greg starting to get into a scrap so she nudged Greg forward "C'mon no time to waste" she told him briskly, and was relieved that Greg seemed to agree with her and followed her towards the Elevator to their room.