I feel mean counting down the days, but tbh it gives more tension/suspense if you get me? So it kinda like prepares you because lets face it when it gets to a double digit number you're all going to be in hysterics aren't you? Haha.

Disclaimer: I do not own R5, The Vamps, or the song "Somebody To You" all rights go to who own them.

Chapter 3

1 Year & 168 Days

They arrived in London after a long 12 hour flight from LA and soon enough they all made their way to the hotel they were staying in. By the time they had gotten to the hotel, it was almost 3 a.m. in the UK so nobody that they knew over in the country would even be up. And they all needed sleep anyway, so they all made their way to the rooms with who they were sharing with.

Rydel and Savannah, Laura and Maia, Rocky and Ellington, Riker and Titus, Ryland and Brandon, Stormie and Mark. Which left Ross on his own. Originally he was supposed to be sharing with Ellington and Rocky, but the hotel got confused and they ran out of a room with three beds. Ellington said he would have the room on his own, but Ross said he would. They were both almost putting up a fight about it, Ellington because Ross and Rocky are brothers and it would be okay, Ross... for god knows whatever reason.

When they all got in their hotel rooms, they didn't bother to unpack. All they done was unzip their suitcase and pick out the closest pair of pyjamas they could find and went to sleep until whatever time they woke up at. Of course, it had to be before three because they had a show to do that night and had to sound check and everything.

It was at least 11 a.m. when Stormie decided to go round to everyone's rooms and wake them up so they could get breakfast, because if she never woke them up she's afraid they'd still be asleep when the R5 show is suppose to be going on.

Titus came back into his and Riker's room, letting out a huge sigh. Riker turned to the door when he heard the sigh, when he saw Titus stood there he sighed himself because he knew what that meant "She's still sick?" Riker asked. Titus nodded. "She's not going to be able to perform tonight if she keeps being sick," Riker sighed in frustration, sitting down on the edge of his bed "Laura can't fill in for her either because she's not well. I know she won't admit it, but you can see she's ill. And the only instrument Maia knows how to play is guitar." Riker sighed in frustration again before putting his head into his hands.

"Relax, Riker," Titus said, walking over to the bed and sitting down next to him "I'm sure she'll be fine by tonight. As long as she gets plenty to eat and drink, I'm sure she'll be fine to perform. I don't think she's going to let a little sickness get in the way of her performing. Do you?" He asked, knowing fine well Riker knew that too "I mean, we're talking about Rydel Lynch here. If her hands were hanging on by a thread, I'm sure she'd find a way to pull through."

Riker nodded, feeling a little more relaxed now "Yeah, you're right," he stood up "I'm going to go see if Rocky and Ellington are ready."

Riker walked out of the hotel room, shutting the door behind him where he stood in the middle of the hallway. He turned his head to his right, down the hallway, where he could have sworn he heard someone going into Ross's hotel room. He shrugged, ignoring it before walking down the opposite way to where Rocky and Ellington's room was. It was probably Ross coming back from downstairs or someone else's hotel room.

Rocky and Ellington's room was round the corner from where Riker's was, it didn't take him long to reach there. When Riker opened the door to their room, he saw that both boys weren't even dressed and they were too busy laughing about something. "GUYS!" Riker shouted, grabbing their attention and slamming the door behind him, immediately making Ellington jump off his bed from where he laid "We're ALL dressed and ready to go get some breakfast near enough, and you guys aren't. Rydel's sick, and even she's dressed and ready to go."

Both boys stood there, not really knowing what to make of being told off like they were kids. All they did was look at each other before they burst out laughing again. "Sorry," Rocky said, still laughing "you don't understand. We'll explain later. But we are going to get dressed, so stop being a stress head."

"I am not- you know what forget it." Riker said, turning round to leave.

"Wait, Riker," Ellington said calming down his laughter, Riker turned back round to face him "me and Rocky were thinking about going out tonight after the concert, seen as though we're all near enough legal to drink over here. Apart from Brandon, Savannah and Ryland. We're going to ask everyone else, do you wanna come?" He asked.

Riker sighed, rocking back and forth on his heels "Hmm... Sure, why not. Could be fun," he said, shrugging a little "maybe we could ask Brad, Tristan, James and Connor to come too if they're up for it."

Ellington nodded "Sure - but aren't they going over to America soon?"

Riker nodded "Yeah, on the day we go back... weird..." Riker said, now that he was thinking about it, it was a little bit weird and coincidental. Riker shook his head, bringing himself back to the conversation with Rocky and Ellington "Anyway, I'm going to go see if anybody else is dressed. I don't think Ross is, so I'm going to go try Laura and Maia."

Riker walked over to the door and swung it open, only to jump out of his skin and scream. "What the hell are you two doing here?!" Riker asked, bending over and putting his hand on his heart. He really did get a shock from them.

"Good to see you too, Riker."

Ellington and Rocky looked over to the door where they saw Tristan and James stood there, but with no Brad and Connor. They also looked amused by how they'd almost given Riker a heart attack, in fact they were amused by it. "You okay there?" Tristan asked, looking down at Riker.

Riker stood back up straight, taking a deep breath "Could have been worse, the four of you could have been there and then I think I might have died," that was when Riker noticed only two out of four were there "where's Connor and Brad?"

"I think they both went to your room," James said, pointing at Riker "and then they were going to Ross's room."

"What made you guys come here?" Rocky asked, walking closer to the door.

Tristan shrugged "We're all bored so we thought we'd all come say hi."

"Guys!" a voice said from behind them.

Riker, Tristan and James looked down the hallway where they saw Connor coming up to them. "Um... aren't you supposed to have someone else with you?" Tristan asked, almost sarcastically.

"Yeah! But he's done a disappearing act on me," Connor said, sounding slightly irritated by Brad ditching him but also wondering where the hell he went "literally... we were on the stairs, I dropped my phone, bent down to pick it up... he was gone! Don't know where."

"Ever thought of checking Riker or Ross's room?" James asked.

Connor shook his head "No. I decided to find you two instead. I'm sure he'll catch up."

"What? Then you're going to interrogate him about where he's been?" Riker asked, seen as though it was the most typical thing for someone to do.

Connor shrugged "Doesn't everyone do that with their friends?"

"Yeah, just come in. All of you, I'm sure Brad will make an appearance somewhere." Riker said, getting out the way so they could all go in.

Connor and Tristan went in but James stayed put "No, you know, I'm gonna go find Brad. Incase he's got lost." James said, beginning to walk back down the hallway.

Riker nodded, watching him as he went "Okay.." Riker shut the door, leaving in the opposite direction as he did say he was going to Laura and Maia's room next.

Ross laid on his bed. He'd been ready for almost half an hour now and nobody was coming to get him for breakfast, he would have gone to go get someone else but he was tired, so the more sleep he got the better if he was honest. But knowing his luck, if he tried to go to sleep someone would come knocking on the door and he would have to leave the bed. The big, warm, comfy, double hotel bed.

God, he'd never known comfort like it.

And the bed was all his.

It was so comfy he didn't want to leave. He just wanted to stay here all day. But unfortunately he couldn't. He had a show to do tonight, and he groaned.

Deciding he'd been laid there long enough Ross got up off the bed quickly, getting a little head rush as he done so. After standing up he made his way into the bathroom where he had strangely left his hoodie this morning. He had it in his hand ready to put on, but he went into the bathroom to do his hair and he left it on the counter. Good one.

As Ross went into the bathroom, he heard the door open to his hotel room. But nobody called out, and that scared him.

Normally if it was one of his family members, Ellington or friend they'd call for him when they walked through.

Oh god, what if some random stranger or obsessed fan just walked into his room?

Slowly, Ross made his way towards the bathroom door and slowly peaked his head out to see who had walked in. Boy did he get a rush of relief when he saw it wasn't a stranger or an obsessed fan.

It was Brad.

Brad turned around quickly when he heard one of the floor boards creek, and he sighed with relief when he saw Ross stood there "Thank god, I thought I was going to walk in on an old lady or something."

Ross let out a small laugh "Well, you never. So good guess."

Brad shrugged "I suppose it's close enough to an old lady, right?"

"You're older than me, how does that work?"

"I was trying to be funny."

"Well it failed."

"Obviously."

Both of them stayed silent until they let out a small soft chuckle each. "Anyway," Brad said, taking it away from that small banter "how have you been?" He asked.

Ross shrugged "Same really," He said, slipping on his hoodie and walking over near his bed "what about you?"

"Yeah, pretty much. Couple concerts with the band here and there, and what not. Probably the same as you really."

Ross nodded "Great."

Again, they let the silence take over them both. It wasn't an awkward silence, it was a good silence. They didn't know why they were acting awkward talking when they both know they have a lot to talk about before either of them leave the room, but you know.

Ross sighed, looking over to Brad who was looking at him. He took one step forwards to get closer to him so he could do something, but he was stopped by someone knocking on the door. "Never mind then." Ross muttered.

He walked over to the door and opened it, to reveal James standing there "Hello."

"Hey," James said, he looked further in the room where he saw Brad there "there you are. Connor came back and said you'd ditched him."

Brad shook his head "Nope," he said, popping the 'p' (and also lying, if you couldn't tell by his body language and the way he leant against the bed) "he's just a slow walker and too lazy to catch me up."

"Sure about that?"

"Oh, I'm sure."

Ross looked between James and then to Brad "Anyway," Ross said, cutting off the atmosphere that seemed to be creating itself "maybe we should get going. I'm going to go meet everyone to get breakfast, are you both coming?"

"Sure." Brad said, walking over to the door to leave.

Ross grabbed his hotel key off the small table near the door, once all three of them were out, he locked the door.

Sally smiled, almost mischievously "What were you going to do, Ross?" She asked.

"Oh, hush."

After a day of spending the day together, it was finally time for the show to start. They'd spent a couple hours going round London, getting something to eat, accidentally bumping into fans, Rocky whinding Ross up about his mystery girlfriend in front of everyone.

Everyone meaning the members of his family who didn't even know he had a mystery girl and Brad, Connor, Tristan and James. They all thought it was hilarious, all four of them did. Some friends they are, right? Everyone thought Ross was going to kill all four of them for laughing about it, and for also whinding him up back. That was no fun at all.

Rydel stepped out of the dressing room, with both hands over her mouth and looking full of regret of what she had just done. She wasn't going to be sick, it was what she said. She turned her head, looking for Ross. She needed to speak to him now before it was too late and Rocky found him first and she couldn't pre-warn him.

She turned her head where she thankfully saw him, Brad and Connor talking near some boxes. Once she saw them she picked up on her feet and ran over to them "Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross, Ross." Rydel chorused, with obvious regret and worry in her voice.

Ross turned his head in the direction the female voice was coming from. He stood up when he saw Rydel and the way she was looking. "What's wrong Rydel?" Ross asked, slightly concerned.

"I've done a bad thing." She said, sounding like she was going cry "a bad thing I didn't mean to do."

"It can't be that bad." Connor said, finding it a little dramatic the way Rydel was acting.

Rydel nodded "Oh, it is," she turned to Ross "I told Rocky."

Ross's eyes widened "You did what?!"

Brad looked at them both confused "What's she done?"

Ross faced Brad "Oh, I told her who my 'mystery girl' is, and now she's gone and told Rocky."

"Oh.." Brad said. He fell silent a little bit before letting out a small laugh.

Ross turned back to Rydel, looking furious and full of absolute worry. Rydel put her hands on Ross's shoulder "It's okay," Rydel said "I only said I know who your 'mystery girl' is. I didn't say their name!"

"You know," Brad said, shrugging his shoulders "do we have to call this person a mystery girl? Can't you come up with something better. Because... I'm pretty sure if they were here, they would prefer not being called a mystery girl."

Rydel nodded, completely ignoring what Brad had said to her "Seriously, though. I'd prepare yourself because he's going to come looking for you and you know he's going to interrogate you about it!"

Ross put his hands on Rydel's arms "Rydel, calm down. Stop over exaggerating for goodness sake. It's not that big of a deal, I thought you meant you'd told him who it was," Ross said, trying to calm her down before she passed out from being a complete drama queen "its okay. He knows he won't find out."

Rydel nodded "You're right," she took a deep breath "I need to sit down and relax." she turned around and made her way back to the dressing room.

Connor took a step closer to Ross and Brad, watching as Rydel walked off "What's up with her?" He asked.

Ross shook his head "No idea," He said with a sigh "she's been ill lately. Something tells me it's starting to affect her mentally now."

The three of them sat back down on the box they were sat on. Connor slid closer to Ross, which Ross found a little bit weird so he went to scoot away but realised Brad was there, meaning he couldn't move anymore. "So, who is this girl your family keep whinding you up about?" Connor asked.

"Yeah, Ross," Brad said, looking at him like he was intrigued to know who this girl was also "who is she?"

Ross glared at Brad, shaking his head at him. Brad grinned, giving him a nudge "C'mon, Ross," Brad said, putting his arm around him "you can tell us. Can't you?"

"Yeah, you can trust us." Connor said, having near enough the same facial expression as Brad did. Except there was a reason Brad was grinning, and there was no reason for Connor to be.

Ross turned to Connor, seeing he was as close to him as Brad was to the point he was feeling claustrophobic "Okay, I think I need to leave." Ross said, squeezing from between both boys and walking off.

Brad and Connor knocked into each other a little as Ross moved, they laughed together as Ross walked off. Connor knew that by the time R5 and The Vamps had finished spending time with each other here in the UK and over in the USA, everyone would probably know who it is. Because with the way Rydel's acting, accidentally letting things slip, he's almost certain she'll tell Rocky who.

And boy Connor would not like to be Ross or the girl he's dating when she does.

Everyone came out of their dressing room and stood by the stage, watching as Brandon and Savannah were starting their last song for the night and were about to let Ryland take over for five minutes before R5 would go on.

They all watched from the side smiling, attempting to sing along or dancing. "Wow, they're really good," Tristan said "better than they were last time. And they haven't even been on a tour by themselves?"

Rocky shook his head "Nope. I don't think they have the confidence too for some reason." he jumped down from the steps and went over to his guitar to get it all sorted out for the show and before they had to go on stage.

Rydel walked over to everyone casually, wiping her mouth as she went over and stood between Titus and Laura. She smiled "So, they're almost done?" Rydel asked.

Riker nodded "Yeah."

Laura rubbed her head as the music thudded through backstage. Ellington caught her rubbing her head in the corner of his eye, he turned to her and put his hand on her shoulder "Are you okay?" He asked.

Laura jumped "Er... yeah... just a little headache, that's all." She said, smiling a little.

"Then why don't you go in the dressing room for a little while?" Rocky suggested "go get a drink and come back out when you feel better. Or better yet, sleep."

Titus gave Rocky a puzzled look "How is she going to sleep with live bands performing?"

Rocky shrugged "Beats me, but she's got Brad, Tristan, Connor and James to watch her until they have to come on stage. And you as well as Maia." He added quickly. He put his guitar down and stood back up.

At last, Brandon and Savannah finished their song and were swapping their equipment back round to normal and with Ryland's DJ stand in the middle. Riker grabbed Ryland by the arm before he went on "Make your set a little longer, please?" Riker asked "don't ask, just do it."

Ryland nodded, saying nothing more before going onto the stage and welcoming the crowd.

Riker turned to Laura "You need to rest, you look like you're about to pass out."

Laura shook her head "I'm f-fine." she said, sounding tired.

"Don't bullshit me, Laura," Riker said, getting deeply concerned for his friend "now go rest."

Laura sighed, turning around and giving in as she didn't feel like arguing with Riker right now. She made her way towards the dressing room. Riker grabbed Maia by the arm "Watch her." He said. Maia looked up at Riker and in the direction Laura went and followed her back to the dressing room.

Ellington wiped his face with his hands. When he removed his hands from his face, he looked over to where James was and he saw that he looked confused and he didn't know where he was "You alright there James?" Ellington asked.

James nodded "Yeah, I just um.. have a couple questions I don't suppose you all mind answering."

Everyone nodded.

"R5, five members right? That's what makes them... R5?" James asked.

"Right..." Rocky said, not quite sure seeing where this was going.

James nodded "And the Vamps? Four members... that's what makes them... The Vamps...? Am I right or am I wrong?"

Tristan seemed confused for a moment as to what James was going on about and if these questions even had any relevance to anything "Sure..." Tristan said, in a tone that would be spoken to a child when trying to amuse them.

"Right. Follow up question..."

Almost everyone sighed. Wondering what he was going to ask next. Not that they found the questions stupid, they were stupid, but they were just.. weird. Why would he ask them at a time like this? Especially when he's met R5 before, he's in The Vamps and they're about to go on stage.

"Where's Ross and Brad?"

Immediately everyone's heads turned around to see if James was being correct about Ross and Brad not being there with them. And he was correct. Ross and Brad were no where to be seen.

That WAS a very good question...

Where the HELL were they?

Disclaimer: I do not own R5, The Vamps, or the song "Somebody To You" all rights go to who own them.