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ZOE

"So I've been thinking." Laurel said. We were three weeks into summer vacation, and so far it'd been great. We spent 87% of our time with the boys, and the other 13% sleeping. As of right now, I'm running 71 hours without sleep. It has been an eventful summer so far, to say the least.

"And?" I asked, and then yawned.

"We should go on a vacation with the boys."

"What kind?" I asked.

"I don't care, somewhere fun." Laurel smiled.

"I mean, I'm down. I'll start a group message with them."

Zoe: let's take a vacation

Luke: lol what

Michael: IM IN BUT IM KINDA BROKE

Calum: where we goin guys

Laurel: just come over we'll discuss this further

Ashton: already on my way :D

"Your boyfriends a creep," I laughed.

Laurel shrugged and said, "I know."

The boys were all there within ten minutes. We went down to the basement, our usual hangout spot, to discuss this. Laurel and I brought our MacBooks down there to look up places to go.

"Okay, start throwing out ideas." I said.

"Italy. Spain. Greece. Mexico." Michael said.

"Oooooo what if we went on a cruise?" I asked.

"That would be awesome! I've never been on one!" Calum said.

"Let's do it."

"Okay here's a 7 day Eastern Caribbean one. It goes to Half Moon Cay, The Bahamas; St Thomas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Grand Turk. It sails from Miami." I said.

"So we'd have to fly all the way to America for this?" Michael asked.

"Yep." I said. "Then maybe after we're off the cruise we can hit some places in the U.S. you guys have never been."

"There's no way I have the money for all this." Michael added.

"You don't need it! Our dad pays for us to go on vacation with friends every once in a while." Laurel smiled.

"I would feel bad having your dad pay for our vacation." Luke said.

"Don't." I laughed. "He blows money on dumb shit all the time. This is something good. Besides I just bought our cruise tickets. You all need your passports. I'm assuming you have them already?" The boys all nodded. "Good. We leave in three days."

"Three days?" Luke asked. "I still have to talk my mum into letting me go!"

"Momma's boy," Mikey whispered.

"I heard that, dumbass." Luke said.

"I don't care." Michael laughed.

"Okay, go talk to your parents. If they wanna talk to us or our dad or whatever just let us know."

LUKE

"Hey mom, can I talk to you?" I asked.

"What's up, sweetie?"

"Well, Zoe and Laurel's dad pays for this whole trip for them and their friends to go on," I took a deep breath and continued, "and they planned this cruise for all of us boys to go with them on." Another deep breath. "So I was wondering if I could go." I spit all of that out so quickly, I'm not even sure she understood all of it.