And we were just kids in love,
The summer was full of mistakes, we wouldn't learn from
The first kiss stole the breath from our lips,
Why did the last one tear us apart?
~Mayday Parade, "Kids in Love"
Luke's POV
It’s early in the morning when I, the designated responsible band member of the week, wake up my band mates and tell them to all get ready. We’re moving out today, so we have to move fast.
Ashton goes to try and make breakfast, although he’ll probably end up burning it and we’ll eat breakfast at the airport. While he’s cooking, Calum, Michael and I rush around and pack our things. I’m going double time and packing Ashton’s things too. He hates when our clothes get mixed up, so I have to be extra careful.
When I hear Ashton moan in distress in the kitchen, I know it’s an airport-breakfast kind of day. I go out to the kitchen and hug him from behind as he stares miserably at the blackened eggs. I can’t help but giggle a little.
“Don't laugh,” he says grumpily. “It’s not funny.”
“Of course it’s not,” I reassure him, sobering up quickly. “It’s just--how did you manage to ruin eggs? I didn’t know it was even possible.”
“I don’t know,” he says, pouting. “I turned away for a minute, and it turned black.”
He’s usually cheerful in the mornings, but his mood can swing when it’s this early, so it isn’t that odd for him to be upset over eggs. I tell him that we’ll just get breakfast at the airport, not to worry. He eventually relaxes, especially after I point out that his suitcase is all packed.
We finally grab our suitcases and get ready to go. We’re all in travel clothes--skinny jeans, hoodies and sweaters (Calum's wearing his Drop Dead one), and various assortments of shoes and beanies. The taxi ride is a little quiet, since it's just getting light out and we’re exhausted. There’s some quiet chatter scattered here and there. Calum falls asleep halfway through and Ashton’s almost silent, nodding off on my shoulder. Michael’s intensely focused on his DS, and I’m battling him halfhearted my on mine. We pull up to the airport and Michael and I wake up Calum and pull a sleepy Ashton out of the taxi.
I do most of the checking in and then we go to eat something at an airport Starbucks before we catch our flight in an hour.
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Calum’s POV
Jody texts me that she’s on her way to the airport.
Me: How soon u gonna be heeeeere :(
Jody: idk, 10 minutes?
Me: I can’t believe the guys get to meet u before I do D:
Jody: why do they have to, just find me first and then we go find them. Assuming I don't have a panic attack first
Me: y would u have a panic attack??
Jody: meeting someone from a band isn’t the same as texting them.
Me: you’ll be fine. can we meet, then?
Jody: yea, where? Im coming through security check rite now.
Me: uh, theres a bookstore nearby. See it?
Jody: yea, meet me there.
Me: k, be there in a minute : D
I excuse myself from the table (not like they notice, Ashton’s fallen asleep in his cereal and Luke and Michael are still battling it out on their Nintendos) and practically sprint around all the corners.
I don’t know what Jody looks like, and I’ve never talked to her in person, so I’m nervous and excited at the same time. I’m praying I made the right decision to ask her on tour.
I skid to a halt at the brightly-lit bookstore. I don’t see anyone in front of it, so I pull out my phone and start to text Jody.
“Who you texting?” I hear a familiar voice say, and I spin around. There’s a girl standing behind me, definitely Asian, with black hair and red tips, tall, with nerd glasses.
“Jody?” I ask uncertainly.
She smiles. “Calum.”
“Is it really you?” I ask, poking her arm.
She slaps away my hand. “Yeah, it’s me.”
I grin and go in for a hug. She seems a little surprised but relaxes quickly and hugs me back. When I pull back, I ask, “How have you been?”
She does a little happy-dance. “Good. I love airports. I was so excited my mom asked if I could shut up about this for ten minutes.”
“And did you?’
“No, of course not,” she says. “I got up at 4, ate all the chocolate in the house, and then I was bouncing off the walls for like two hours. I couldn’t shut up.”
I check my watch. “Hey, we should go find Michael, Ashton and Luke. We’ve got like, half an hour before we should be at our terminal.”
“Okay. Which direction?”
I glance around. “I think I came that way. Let’s try it.”
Jody rolls her eyes. “I hope you know where you’re going.”
“I really, really don’t.”
She giggles and we hurry down the way I may or may not have come from. I hope we don’t miss the flight.
“Calum, I don’t see the terminal,” she says, and stares up at the sign. “You must have come a different way.”
I sigh. “Okay, fine, let’s go back and try to find the terminal from where we started.”
She leads the way this time, and we go back to the book store and look up at the signs.
“See, it must be that way,” I say, pointing up at one sign. “I swear I came that way.”
“Wrong terminals,” she objects. “Look, those are the wrong numbers. It’s that way.”
I let her take control and we hurry back the other way.
Unfortunately, she’s right, but fortunately, we do find the rest of my band. Management would rip me apart for missing a flight.
“You should pay better attention to your surroundings,” Jody says with a smirk before Ashton pulls her in for a hug.
I throw up my hands in surrender. “Guys, this is...Jody. Jody, this is...guys.”
“We have names,” Michael says, and Luke lets out an irritated huff and throws down his Nintendo.
“Fuck you, Clifford,” Luke says. “You’re out of the band.”
“You’ll never beat me, I’m unstoppable,” Michael says with a wink.
“Guys,” I say louder, exasperated. “Guys. This. Is. Jody. You know what, I give up, Jody, I don’t know why you like our band when half of the members are dicks.”
Luke looks up. “Hi,” he says meekly. “Michael’s a gloating twat.”
“Jesus Christ, Michael, can you put away your Nintendo for a minute?” Ashton says. Michael snaps it shut and flicks at Ashton’s face. Ashton slaps at his hand. “Quit it.”
“You got cereal on your face.”
Ashton scowls at him. “Why do you have cereal on your face?” Jody asks quizzically.
“He fell asleep in it,” Luke supplies with a snicker.
“Not my fault Michael snores like a horse,” Ashtons snaps. “Which reminds me, Michael. When’s your girlfriend coming?”
Michael checks his watch. “I don’t know. Soon.”
“Well, the flight leaves in twenty minutes.”
“Ahhh, fuck.”
“So, you’re the Jody Calum goes on and on and on about,” Luke says, idly tugging at his piercing. I glare at him. “It actually gets quite annoying, sometimes he doesn’t shut up for ages.”
“Oi, Luke, you’re a prick,” I hiss.
Jody grins mischievously. “Wow, Calum,” she remarks, smirking. “That’s certainly...interesting.”
“You can all shut up now,” I mutter, folding my arms, glowering at the ground.
“Aw, is Calum upset?” Jody teases.
“It’s okay, we won’t tell anybody about your little crush,” Ashton giggles.
Well, fuck.
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Michael’s POV
“Uh, hello?”
We all turn around and there’s Mariah.
“I was beginning to think you were going to back out,” I say, sighing in relief. “Hey.”
“I wasn’t sure if it was you, but then I saw your hair,” she says, peering up at it. “Sorry I’m a little late.”
“It’s all good,” I say. “Uh, guys? This is...Mariah.”
“Hey, you didn’t care when I introduced my fake-girlfriend,” Calum argues. Jody elbows him pretty hard squarely in the gut, and he chokes and corrects, “Girlfriend. Girlfriend.”
“Hi,” Luke says, smiling. “Mariah?”
“Yeah, that’s me,” she says, reaching out to touch his hair.
“Oh, this is Jody,” Calum says, gesturing to her.
“Nice to meet you,” Mariah says, high-fiving Jody.
“Time to go to the terminal,” Ashton interrupts. He grabs Luke’s arm and starts pulling him.
“Jesus Christ, Ash, I’m coming,” he protests.
“Hurry up.”
Slowly, we all make our way to the terminal.
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(A/N) So this is another throwaway chapter becaaauuuuse I've been working on something else. Sorry.
Anyway, I know it seems like these chapters aren't that important right now but there's got to be some plot development, can't just jump right to the point, can you?
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