2 Days later

Chris' POV

I walked around the large house desperate to find something to distract myself.

Over the weekend everything had been alright, I had pretty much spent every waking minute doing fun stuff with the kids and then dropping into my bed at night right away. I couldn't even have a night talk with Jonny because of the timezones, causing me to avoid thinking and try to fall asleep.

But now that Gwyneth was working and the kids were at school I was left with nothing to do but worry and miss Jonny. I poured myself some cereal into a bowl and sent Jonny a text message.

Hey Jonny Boy💚
I miss you😭💔 Do you have some time to talk or are you busy at the studio?

I put my phone on the table next to me and continued eating my breakfast.

Jonny's POV

I instantly jumped when I heard the beep of an incoming message on my phone. I was supposed to be putting all my concentration into the music but I had been anything but focussed all day. I just wanted to see Chris again, feel his body and lips on mine...

I looked at my phone that was laying on the table a few meters away and then at the others wondering if they would notice me not working right away. I knew I should be focussing on our album and trying to make up for Chris missing but right now I wasn't able to concentrate on work for more than a few consecutive minutes. 

I walked over and a glance on its display told me right away that the message was coming from Chris. 

I opened and replied to the message while going outside, ignoring Will's questioning glance.

So do I love:(
Yes, sure, I'll call you.

According to all the work that was supposed to get done I actually didn't have time of course but I couldn't care less. Maybe at least being able to talk to Chris would make me miss him a little less.

Chris answered my call in a matter of seconds.

"Hi Jonny Boy."

Only hearing his gentle and lovely voice made me tingle. I loved it when he called me like that, no one else did.

"So, are you making great progress in the studio now that I'm not here to disturb you?"

"Yeah... it's going good."

In truth I didn't really have any idea what I ha done the last two days in the studio. But certainly not making any progress if pulling a few strings on my acoustic guitar wasn't called making progress.

But I of course didn't want Chris to worry, it would be so unfair to ruin his fun days with the kids.

We talked for a while until I realized what time it was and that my bandmates must be wondering where I was by now.

Once again, saying goodbye and going back to sitting around in grief, waiting for the day to be over and go back to my empty house.

A few months ago I had been perfectly fine with that, why was it bothering me so much now?

Chris' POV 

I put my phone down again. 

When Jonny had said he had to go back to work all I wanted to do was cry "Don't leave, I NEED you here!", but of course I couldn't do that. Jonny actually had things to do and apart from that I was the one who had left him. I couldn't let him know I missed him that much.

I should just be enjoying the time here.

Trying to think of something productive to do while I was alone I decided to go to the recording studio in LA I had already done quite a bit of work for this album at. Maybe I could at least get our new song somewhere closer to what it was supposed to be like.

An hour later I arrived and was greeted by some familiar faces not expecting me here.

"Chris?? What are you doing here? I didn't even have any idea you were in town!"

One of the producers we had worked with before here spoke up first.

"Um, I was just visiting my kids and thought I'd sneak in to maybe get some fresh ideas for our new song. I'm sorry for just bursting in like this, I can leave again if it's too busy here."

"Oh a new song? That'll be interesting! I thought you were almost done with the album?"

I explained him everything, how we wanted something more happy and what we had done on the song so far.

"...You know, a while ago I've been at this music festival with lots of DJs and there's just this indescribable energy about it, it just makes jump and let the music carry you... Well, that's what I want this song to feel like."

After thinking for a few seconds he suddenly got up.

"Give me a second."

***

Two hours and many phone calls later I found myself having arranged a meeting with Tim Bergling aka the world famous DJ Avicii.

This was all going way too fast and felt super unreal. I had met him one or two times before but getting the chance to work with him was a whole different thing, we were way too uncool for that actually, I had no idea why he had agreed. 

Probably my bandmates would say this was crazy but I couldn't help getting way too excited.

What made me even more excited, I had sent him the demo of A Sky Full Of Stars. What if he thought it was awful and didn't want to work with us anymore??

This was too thrilling, I just had to tell someone so I decided to call Jonny once again.

I expected him to answer right away like he usually did but to my surprise he still didn't pick up after letting it ring for a few times.

Well, probably he was just very busy at the studio, I told myself. Nothing to worry about.

***

Jonny's POV

Kind of depressed I picked up my phone again and scrolled through some random pages, not really paying attention and the screen being a little bit blurry in front of my watery eyes.

Suddenly something caught my attention. I couldn't believe my eyes. I slowly let the mobile sink down in my hand.

My ears kind of took in its ringing as it started but my mind didn't seem to be able to process it and answer the call. I was way too in shock.

A/N: Sorry, I know this chapter is an awful mess.