We walk down the small hallway into the kitchen area. Ashton reaches over and flings open the fridge.
"Alrighty let's see here. We have some salad, pudding, an apple." He says holding the apple up into my face. I laugh. "We have some leftover noodles from the other day and a power bar. Wow. We really need to stock GUS bus 3.0 up!" He says as he gets up and looks at me. "So what will it be babe?" He asks putting his hands around my waist.
"Actually a salad and pudding sounds kind of good." I say smiling but when I look up at Ashton, he is making a cringe face.
"Eww babe why would you put pudding on a salad?" He asks me. I slap him on the shoulder
"No not together Ash! Gross. I meant I will enjoy them both seperately. I will eat the salad and enjoy a pudding cup afterwards." I say elegantly.
"Well okay then." He pulls out the plastic container of salad which luckily has a dressing packet on the inside and he grabs the pudding cup. He sets it down on the table and I sit down. Ashton grabs one fork and two spoons. I look up at him oddly and he smiles at me.
"Why only one fork and two spoons?" I ask as Ashton hands me the fork.
"Because, I'm not that hungry so I don't think I can eat a salad but you're never to full for pudding!" He says excitedly raising the pudding cup and the spoon in the air. I laugh at him and I just raise my eyebrows as I pour the dressing over the salad and start to eat.
With that, my mind starts to wonder. "Do you really think all of us sound like that?" I ask him.
"All of who sound like what?"
"All of us fangirls?"
"Babe I wouldn't call you a fangirl. Well not anymore." I give him a grin. "And no not all of them sound like that. But it's fun to listen to the ones that do. They say the cutest things. Like when they tell you they're an Ashton girl or a Michael girl. I think that's funny like how could someone be a girl for a certain band member? Like what does that even mean?" He says smiling as he leans back and brushes his hair with his fingers.
"It's hard to explain. It's like you obviously care about all the band members and you think they're all important but there is that one band member that you just have a connection with, that one band member that you can imagine yourself being with, you know like as a friend or more." I say taking a bite of my salad.
I look up at Ash, his face gone straight until he releases an unhappy chuckle. "Oh." He says as he looks down at his hands. Crap. That probably wasn't the best way to explain it considering I wasn't an Ashton girl to start off.
He looks up at me with questioning eyes. "Sooo, would that mean you're an Ashton girl?" he asks nervously.
"No." I say. He looks at me worried. "I'm Ashton's girl." I lean over and kiss him on the lips. As he kisses back, I can feel his growing smile against my lips. I breakaway and Calum walks in.
He looks over at the table we're sitting at and walks over to the drawers to grab a spoon. "Oooh pudding!" Calum says, taking a seat next to Ashton.
"Hey now you two I had this pudding first and it's not big enough for all three of us!" I say.
"Yeah Ashton get out of here so Dani and I can enjoy our pudding together." Cal says laughing. Ashton sends him a funny look as he smiles and play hits Calum with one of the spoons. All three of us are laughing uncontrollably at this point.
"Okay guys simmer down." I say and Ashton and Calum look up at me and Ashton winks.
"Simmer down?" Ashton says smiling. I roll my eyes. They were the only band I knew that caught when people quoted their song lyrics.
"Whatever. I'm sure we can find a way to split this into threes." I say as I open up the small pudding cup. I take a small bite and make an mmm noise. Then the other guys join in and soon enough, we're all enjoying a pudding cup together.
Suddenly I hear Calum talking into the camera and realize he's keeking again. "Hello keek! I'm here with Ashton and Daniella and we are in the middle of a threeway!" Calum exclaims.
"CALUM!" Ashton shouts as I laugh.
"A threeway of pudding of course. Jesus what did you think I meant Ash? Can you believe this guy." The keek ends and we sit there eating my pudding and then Michael and Luke walk in.
"OOOOOO pudding!" Michael says and moves in beside me. "Gimme some."
I giggle at his childish behaviour. "Well go grab a spoon if you want some!"
He pouts. "I have to get up again? Noooo. I don't want to." I laugh and he starts leaning his head towards my spoonful. I pull it away.
"Yuk! No! I don't want germs! Who know what diseases they could hold!"
He pouts. "Why does Ashton get to eat from your spoon and I don't?"
"Because they share much more than just saliva." Luke cuts in. Luke gives Michael a spoon and he happily takes some pudding.
"Do you want some pudding?" I ask him.
"No, I'm good. I don't want to share one pudding cup with all of these guys, who knows what they could have done to it." I drop my spoon and stick out my tongue.
"Ugh. Thanks for reminding me." Luke starts laughing and I can't help but smile.
"Hey, there's nothing wrong with me!" Ashton complains. "Speaking of, why does Michael get to sit with my girlfriend and I don't?"
Michael throws his arm over my shoulder and snuggles himself into my side. "Because Dani and I are dating. We're cheating on you Ashton. I'm sorry you had to find out this way." He says In a jokingly manner.
I laugh and rest my head on his chest. "I'm sorry babe, it's true."
Ashton fake gasps and starts to dramatically cry. "Why!? My own best friend! And my girlfriend! Tell me why God!? WHY?!" Everyone in the bus starts to laugh, including Luke who is leaning on the counter across from the table and has his head thrown back from laughing. I smile, this was good, right? Michael pulls his arm from me and I awkwardly blush.
Ashton stands up, clearly still in this character. He walks over to Michael and continues talking in his weird accent. "You will never steal MY girl!" He then proceeds to slow-mo punch Michael in the face 'causing' Michael to fall to the ground saying "Noooooo" really really slowly.
Once Michael is 'dead' on the floor, Ash stands up straight and moves in next to me. He throws his arm around me and kisses me on the cheek. "You're mine." He whispers into my ear. At this point I had all laughed so much my diaphragms was starting to hurt.
"Remind me never to get on Ashton's bad side" Calum says inbetween laughs.
"Trust me, you don't want to be." Luke says with a slight chuckle at the end. I look at him and he looks back at me. I give him a small apologetic smile because I know what he's talking about. He just smiles back at me and nods once.
"So!" Michael says darting up from the floor. "What do we do now?" He asks.
"Well we have a show tonight and we'll be at the venue in about an hour or so." Luke says.
"So we've got an hour to kill, what could we do?" I ask the guys.
"I know what we could do." Ashton seductively whispers in my ear.
"Eww" Calum says. I blush and Ashton kisses my head.
"Well, if you do that, you'll maybe kill 2-3 minutes so..." Michael says and Ashton punches him in the arm causing him to laugh and say "ouch" as he rubs his arm.
All the other guys leave the kitchen so that Ashton and I are left sitting alone again.
"You excited to see us play babe?" He asks me.
"Of course." I say as I smile intertwining my hands with his.
"But listen try not to distract me too much while I'm on stage." He says smiling.
"Distract you? How could I possibly distract you?" I say giggling.
"Well if I look over to the side of the stage, try not to look to good like you always do or else I'll be mesmerized and forget what I'm playing." He says giving me a wink. I blush.
"I'll try but no promises." I say smiling back at him.
"Okay well we still have to kill about thirty minutes so what should we do." He asks.
"We could just not do anything and just talk." I say and he smiles back at me.
"Sounds good." He smiles as he tightens his grip on my hands.
"So, what was it about me on that day I went to see your show that had you wanting to talk to me, out of all people?" I ask him because I've always been curious.
"You know I have no real answer to that question. I guess it was because you were this beautiful girl, who enjoyed our music, and you were smiling the whole show and your smile was just, I mean it was amazing. And it was the way you moved to the music and the way you sung along to the words and I guess it was just everything." His face goes red as he smiles down at the ground.
"But I mean there were plenty of beautiful girls doing the same exact thing." I tell him.
"I know but there was just something about you. And when I bumped into you after the show I thought to myself 'hey it's this gorgeous girl from the crowd. What are the odds I run into you. I have to take a chance and ask her out. Or I'll hate myself for not taking a shot'" He says getting up from the table and wrapping his arms around me kissing me on the cheek and placing his chin on my shoulder. "Little did I know that I'd fall in love with you." He says turning me head around and kissing me.
I stand up keeping in contact with his lips I wrap my arms around his shoulder and he moves his hands down to my waist and he pushes me in closer. Suddenly the bus jerks to a stop and Ashton stumbles to the floor and I stumble on top of him. He lets out a grunt and grabs his shoulder.
"Ow." he says with the wind knocked out of him.
"Oh my god Ashton I'm so sorry!" I say. I prop him up against the wall and he leans his head back. I lift up his sleeve and I see a giant bruise on his shoulder.
"It's okay it's not your fault. I'm not very sure footed" he says laughing. "It's just a bruise babe." He says noticing the worry in my eyes. I get up and grab ice from the fridge and wrap it up in a plastic baggie. I walk over and lean down and place the bag on his shoulder. He shutters a bit.
"Oooh. That's cold." He says.
"Well keep ice on it." I says as I see him looking into me eyes.
"You take such good care of me." He says smiling as he leans in and kisses me. The other guys walk in. "We're here!" Michael yells with excitement.
"Woah. What happened?" Luke asks as he looks at me holding the ice pack against Ash.
"Ash had a little tumble." I says giggling. Ashton gets up and takes the ice pack from mw keeping it on his shoulder.
"Ready boys?" Ashton says enthusiastically.
"Ready!" Calum says as he and the other guys follow Ashton and I out of the bus.
The three guys go out before Ashton and I. Ash grabs my hand, holding it tightly.
"Ok, I know you've never gone through this kind of thing but just stay close to me and you'll be fine." He smiles at me and I nod. We walk out of the bus hand in hand and I am immediately overcome by the sound of screams. I duck my head and I grab his arm with my other hand. We were being swarmed by people, I felt kind of claustrophobic. We finally get into the venue and I release a breath I didn't realize I was keeping in. He hugs me and says
"See. Was that too bad?" I look at him, still catching my breath. I nod my head a little. He kisses my head "Don't worry, you won't need to get used to that. We'll sneak you out later tonight." I smile and nod, still a little shaken up. He grabs my hand and we walk into what looks like their dressing room. We sit down on the couch with the other guys.
"So how much time do we have until the show starts?" I ask.
"About 3 hours" Calum says looking at his phone. "
Wow. What do you guys normally do before shows?"
"We normally listen to music, chill, do weird shit." Michael says.
"Hmm, seems reasonable." Ashton lies down and rests his head on my lap. I smile and run my hands through his hair. I smile down at him and he looks up at me.
"You have beautiful eyes, you know that?" I tell him.
"Well it's a good thing I've got nice eyes, I need to compete with this beautiful creature." I smile and lean down and kiss him. He lifts his hand and pushes my head towards him. His hand stays in my hair and I smile. "I love you." He whispers and smiles kissing me again.
"I love you too" All of a sudden loud rock music starts playing, causing the both of us to jump.
"What the hell!?" Ashton shouts over the deafening music. I look up and see Luke standing by the stereo.
"Can you turn that down?!" I scream, trying to get his attention. I feel Ashton drop his hand on my lap, annoyed. Luke finally turns down the music. "Thank you." Wow. Smooth move Luke. After two hours of messing around, the guys need to get their hair done.
"I'll be right back babe" Ashton pecks me on the lips and disappears into another room. I take out my phone and go through twitter. Nothing interesting. I feel the couch dip down next to me. I look to my right and see Luke sitting down next to me.
"Nice move." I say rolling my eyes. He looks down at his phone. "Are you sure you're ok? Because you sure as hell haven't been acting like it."
"When did I ever say I was okay?" Luke says harshly.
"Well you didn't but I assumed that-"
"You assumed?" and then in a voice mocking me he continued
"Oh Luke is just gonna have to be okay with it. Maybe if I talk to him he'll be okay with it. Oooh let me kiss my boyfriend in front of him because that'll make him feel okay. Let me be so nice and cute and beautiful all the time around him yeah that sounds like a good idea." He was making it very difficult for me not to start to hating him.
"That wasn't very necessary." I say offended.
"I'm sorry. Are you okay?" He says sarcastically. I turn around and look at him
"You know what Luke I don't understand why this is so difficult for you!"
"Are you fucking serious right now Dani! How could this not be difficult for me?" He yells.
"No I mean I know why but I guess I don't understand why you make yourself miserable over something that's never gonna happen." I say looking into his deep blue eyes and I see his face turn from anger to sadness.
"It almost happened." he whispers.
"What do you mea-" Before he can respond all the other guys walk in the room. I see Luke put in his earphones as he walks over to the other side of the room and slouches down on the couch.
"Do I look pretty babe?" Ashton says smiling twirling his fingers through his hair.
"Absolutely gorgeous Ashton. I'm jealous." I say smiling. I didn't understand how I did that. How could I be angry at Luke and feel tears and anger swell up inside of me and then the next second I felt happier than ever before. I knew it was because of Ashton. But sometimes it felt like I was lying to him. I wish I could talk to him about the things that Luke and I fight about but I knew that would just upset him and anger him.
"Aww don't be jealous babe. You'll look this fabulous one day to I promise." Ash says sitting down next to me and wrapping his arm around me.
"Really Ashton you think that one day I can be as beautiful as you?" I say jokingly staring into his eyes.
"Of course m'lady. One day you will be so beautiful that I Ashton Irwin will be forced to bow down to you." He says as he kisses me on the lips.
"Hasn't that day already come I mean you guys bowed down to each other without clothes on the other night." Michael says and Ashton throws a pillow at him.
"Shut the hell up Michael!" Ashton says laughing. I look over and I see Luke stand up.
"I'm gonna go walk around the venue for a few minutes." He says. Luke was clearly uncomfortable with Michael's comment.
"He's not wrong Ash" I say laughing.
"Wait a minute so you mean. You had sex with me in order to trick me into bowing down to you. Does this mean that?" He says making a fake gasp. I rise up
"Yes! I am now more beautiful than Ashton Irwin!" I say throwing my hands in the air. Ash gets up and kneels down on one knee.
"M'lady. I am not worthy of your presence." he says bowing his head down to the floor.
"I know. I know. I am glorious." I say.
"But can you defend yourself?" Ashton suddenly asks. I looked down at him confused
"what-" Ashton grabs me by the legs and throws me over his shoulders.
"Oh my god ASHTON!" Put me down!" I say hitting my hands against his back.
"I'm sorry. But I cannot accept the fact that you are the most beautiful person i have ever seen! I must take you far away from this land and re-claim my rightful place!" Ashton says as he carries me out of the dressing room and he carries me for a while until we reach the opening of the parking lot where I see the equipment buses parked. He sets me down gently and kisses me.
"You're too cute." I say smiling at him. He leans up against the side of the entrance and I lean in closer to him. He puts his hands on my waist and grabs them tightly.
"It's a good thing you're not heavy or I would've thrown my shoulder out a long time ago." He says giggling.
"Are you not calling me fat?" I say jokingly. He smirks at me.
"I see what you did there." He says as he grabs the back of me head and he kisses me. We kiss passiontaely for a long time. We keep kissing and then I notice someone singing outside. The sound of the voice becomes louder and louder I open my eyes and I see Luke carrying his phone and his earphones walking towards us. Ashton doesn't notice and he keeps kissing me. I pull away quickly.
"Okay. I think we should go back to the dressing room and get you back to focusing on your performance." I say quickly.
"Umm okay babe but we're not done here." He says kissing me. Come one Ashton hurry up I think. I know that if Luke catches he would bitch about it to me later and I didn't want to give Luke anymore proof that Ashton and I are always throwing things in his face. Even if it was accidentally. Ash and I start walking down the corridor.
"I'll race you there." I say as I start to run fast.
"Oh you're on!" I hear Ashton shout as he sprints past me. I run after him giggling as I run. I'm not wearing the right shoes so he's way faster than me. I slow down. 'Damn. I need to get in shape' I think. I stop and feel a hand on my shoulder. I turn around and see Luke looking at me. I sigh.
"Are you ok? You look a little out of shape." I roll my eyes and put my hands on my hips.
"Thanks Luke. That's exactly what every girl wants to hear." His eyes widen and he starts to become really nervous.
"I'm sor-I didn't-No!-you look-great-I-um-sorry."
"What are you doing Luke?" I say annoyed. "You are literally the most confusing person I know." He looks down. "I know this isn't easy for you. I've been trying to ease your pain but there's only so much I can do. I'm gonna want to kiss Ashton. I'm going to want to touch him and hold his hand and tell him I love him." He looks down and puts his hands in his pockets. "Look, I understand that this isn't going to go away like that. And I'm gonna try harder to make it easier for you but I can't stop Ashton. Ok?" He looks up and stares at me. He groans in frustration and runs his hands through his hair turning around and walking away from me.
"Why the hell do you always say the right thing?" He angrily says and walks back towards mw. He holds his hands in between the two of us and quickly shoves them back in his pockets.
"Why are you so figity?" I ask him. He takes his hands back out if his pockets and and leaves them at his sides. He moves his fingers around, nervously. Before I could say anything else I hear a voice behind me.
"Hey! Whatcha doing?" Ashton jogs up behind me and sees me talking with Luke. He looks at me and back at Luke. He decides not to question it and grabs my hand.
"The show's about to start" I turn around and he wraps his arm around ymyur waist. "Luke you probably want to get ready too." He shouts back.
"Yeah! Thanks." Luke shouts and we walk into the dressing room. Ashton turns back to me and leans down and kisses my head.
"You ready to watch your first performance from backstage?" I bite my lip and nod. "Then let's go." He kisses me one more time and we head towards the stage.