Multi-fandom Imagines/Preferences

Cold - Part Three

"This has been really amazing, but I need to get home." I sighed. "I told my uncle I'd be home for dinner."

Michael sat up and threw a pillow at me. "No! Can't you tell him to let you stay?"

"Michael, she just came in from America, she should probably see her uncle within the first 24 hours." Luke pitched in. "Not that we don't want you here. You should hang out more often. Here, gimme your number." He handed me his phone and I gave him mine. Michael in turn offered his, then Calum and Ashton, and once I finally got my phone back I asked for a ride home.

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"So who was your friend?"

"Ash...Ashley. Ashley Irkle." I caught myself. I don't know why, but revealing that I'd been with the boys of 5SOS didn't seem like a good idea. "She was a foreign exchange student during senior year."

"Oh, really? That's wonderful!" Annie said, ruffling her husband's shaggy blond hair on her way to bringing the rolls to the table. "Right Jason?"

He looked up from his papers and adjusted his glasses. "Uh, yeah, sounds great."

"Jason do you even know what we're talking about? For heaven's sake, we're only going to be here for two more days, don't you think you should-"

"What do you mean you'll only be here for two days?" I interrupted, putting my fork down.

Jason glared at Annie. "Well, we'd meant to tell you this in a better way, but Annie's sister is getting married in France. We tried to call and see if they could accommodate an extra person but Amber can be, uh, tense. So you could come with us, but we'd have to put you up in a hotel for two weeks and pay for the flight and that's quite expensive so..."

"Of course if you're at all uncomfortable staying here by yourself then we'll simply take care of it." Annie reassured me.

"Uh, no. That's fine. I mean, I have my friend...Ashley. I'm sure she could show me around if I need anything.

Jason and Annie shared a relieved look. "Are you sure?"

"Absolutely. You two enjoy yourselves! I'll be fine." I put on a smile.

"Well if you're positive then I guess you'll have the house to yourself for two weeks. That'll be fun, huh?" Jason said cheerily, marking an F on one of his student's papers.

"I'll have more fun than..." I read the name on the essay. "Daryl Quinn."

"He's gotten F's this whole semester and I can't even lead myself to feel bad about it at this point. I'm sure he's used to it by now anyway. Enough about my students though, we've got to get you properly acquainted with London now since you'll be on your own. Tomorrow after my 9 am lecture we can go down to the coffee shop on the corner and I'll show you around. How's that sound?"

"Sure!" The rest of our dinner was dedicated to London 101 and I eventually retired to my room stock full of knowledge that would probably never come in handy. I flopped down on my bed and checked my phone, procrastinating on all the unpacking I still had to do. There was a text from Michael.

"we all had a lot of fun hanging out today. you should come over more often :)" I put my phone down and sighed. I still couldn't believe this was all happening. I mean, one of my favorite bands who I'd been trying to get to notice me for years and I just stumble into one of them at the airport.

I text back "I'd love to! Apparently I'll have the house to myself for the next two weeks starting Friday so I'll be free pretty much whenever :P"

Speaking of trying to get them to notice me...There were a lot of embarrassing tweets I should probably delete now. I opened my twitter and discovered that all four boys had already followed me. "Shit." I hissed, scrolling quickly and deleting tweets left and right. I suddenly got a notification of a retweet from Calum. "Went to see @5SOS in concert last night! I want to makeout with all of them." His added comment was "We met this girl today. She resisted the urge to kiss us, haha."

"Oh god." I groaned. I started deleting more frantically, skipping that one since the entire world had already seen it now and it'd be more embarrassing to delete it now.

"sounds great I'll text you later then and you can come over. thanks for not kissing me today btw that would've been pretty awkward"

"Good lord, that tweet wasn't meant to actually seen by anyone. Shut up about it and stop stalking my twitter."

"fine fine ok. I mean, did you actually wanna kiss me?"

"...Michael how do you think that's an appropriate question?"

"just curious. who's your favorite?"

I rolled my eyes. "Ashton."

"really??? no fair, I gave you my jacket."

"He's cute though."

"I'm cute!!!"

"Yeah, but he's all mature or whatever and he's got those arms. Yum." I replied, half jokingly. I mean, he was my favorite. "Don't tell him I said any of this, obviously." He just sent me a wink face back. "MICHAEL DO NOT. PLEASE."

"what do I get for my silence?"

"I dunno, what do you want?"

He didn't reply and I shrugged it off, unpacking my carry-on.