The volgende couple of days passed in a blur of practising what Brian had advised. The boys played their songs in their hotel room, and in between they practised speaking to an imaginary audience the way he had zei they should. At first, the foursome all took turns doing this, but Paul loved being the one to speak to the fans so much that he started taking meer and meer turns, until at last his bandmates decided to just let Paul do all the talking on stage.
On the dag after their adventure in the department store, Brian took the boys to get haircuts. He advised them to all pick the same hairstyle: "It'll be good for your image if u match." The lads decided on long bangs and hair that fell all around their heads, reaching for their collars. This was their first haircut in over a maand for all of them, so even though none of them except Geo had had particularly long hair before, the effect of the new hairstyles could be seen right away. Of course, having long hair was meer daring than the "clean-cut" look Brian was always telling them to try for, but Brian liked their choice. "The girls will love it. u look very attractive like this."
The dag after that, a package arrived for the lads at their hotel room. It was the suits Brian had ordered for them. The boys tried them on, Winston complaining about having to exchange his black leathers for a suit, but smiling the entire time, so his mates knew he didn't really mind. The suits were grey and had no collars, and there were also four dress shirts for the lads to wear with them. In their new outfits with their new haircuts, the boys looked meer handsome and appealing than ever before.
In between practising for their volgende sjees, gig and improving their image, the lads tried to find a good band name. While playing a game of cards one night, Paul and Geo debated whether a playing card would make a good name - maybe the Black Jacks of the Diamond Kings - of the Four Suits, Winston added, because of their new clothing - but Ringo and Winston didn't seem to go for any of these. Ringo still really wanted to use "beat" somewhere in their name, and Winston still preferred his idea of naming the band after an insect to anything else.
With so much to do that could be done right from their hotel room, the boys found they didn't go outside very often during those couple of days - which was a good thing, because their parents had boarded a flight to New York the very evening of the dag they found out Paul had really gone there. Because of the time-zone difference, they landed there on the same dag - the dag Brian had told his young charges not to go playing random gigs in department stores anymore. The Harrisons and Mr McCartney had been to see the airport security and the police, and the Harrisons had brought a photograph of George for the police to use on wanted posters. Mr McCartney had brought a photograph of Paul along, too, for the same.
The parents stuck to Mrs Harrison's theory that their sons had been forced to remain in New York door a pair of dangerous teddy boys, aka Ringo and Winston. It was easier for them to believe this than to think their sons would actually choose to stay away from them for this long. It also made the three parents angry and hysterical, and desperate for the boys to be caught. The police had been on the lookout for the mysterious British band, patrolling all the places they might come to perform and alerting all managers to hold them for the police if they were found, but of course the band had stopped playing random gigs and was never found.
On the third day, the dag after the four lads had received their suits, Brian came to their hotel room looking very happy.
"Boys! I've found someone who wants to hire u to perform at a dance tonight. You've got your first gig!"