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Back to the story!
A loud beeping disturbed the quiet environment. Opening his eyes, the sunlight coming through the thin curtains, Ross stretches his muscles, turns off the annoying sound and scans his hotel room. When he came last night he didn't look around much because of the events that night and went straight to bed.
His room was big, no suite, but definitely luxurious. White walls with creamy colour details surrounded him, light brown lamination with a thick chocolate coloured carpet laying around his king sized bed. A desk, a medium sized couch and some chairs were placed around the room and a big TV hung on the wall, facing his bed.
Checking the time, he sees he has about 30 minutes left to get ready and meet the rest at breakfast. Not being the quickest in the morning, he realizes he better hurry. Entering the bathroom, a small shining paradise with big mirrors, two large sinks and a shower large enough to do a cartwheel in, Ross checks his reflection in a quick glance. Large, dark circles are noticeable under his eyes and hair as messy as ever as a result of a night of getting barely any sleep.
Jumping into the huge shower, he quickly freshens up while thinking back about the past evening. Was it awkward? Yes. Did Laura feel the awkwardness too? No doubt. Did he enjoy it? Absolutely. They were always messing around, what did it make different this time? The only hope he had, was that they could forget about it. They needed to focus on the movie and this wouldn't help them focus.
After getting dressed, making his hair look acceptable and collecting his stuff, he had ten minutes to spare. Thinking about going downstairs already, his eyes fall on a single closed door that he didn't notice before. Curious, he walks towards it, realizing it's not locked and opens it. A tiny room appears, filled with multiple racks with all sorts of clothing, a closet with a dozen pair of sneakers and a table filled with make-up and hair products in front of a large mirror. Scanning through the racks, he finds the typical 'Austin Moon' style he knows. V-necks, ripped jeans and, of course, his famous red leather jacket.
After five minutes of looking through the clothes he'll be wearing for the movie, he figures he should head downstairs. While waiting for the elevator to reach the right floor, he checks his phone for the first time since they left for New York. Immediately he gets thousands of notifications. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, it looks like every social media exploded.
Opening twitter, the first thing he sees is a picture a fan, named WeAdoreRaura, tweeted him. He remembers playing connect four with her a year ago and immediately recognizes the name. Opening the photo, he stumbles backwards, his back connecting with the silver elevator wall roughly. The photo is a screenshot of the trending topics list, the worldwide one, he reads at the top. At the bottom he sees hashtags involving famous bands like One Direction and 5 Seconds Of Summer, a little more up some involving an, apparently, important football game. But at the very top he sees a hashtag that sounds familiar. Very familiar.
#RauraIsReal2015
With a shaking thumb he taps the highlighted hashtag, not really knowing what to expect. It leads it to the page that shows dozens of different accounts tweeting the same hashtag over and over again, followed by a caption in caps lock, describing how happy they are. Scrolling upwards, he sees that the trending is still going on, tens of tweets coming in per five seconds. Looking at the section that shows the photos that are most tweeted, he sees some old pictures of him and Laura, in the time they still did multiple interviews together, and some selfies of the four cast members, Raini and Calum cropped out sometimes.
But one photo is new. Seeing it's the most used picture, he figures it's the one that lighted the fire. Tapping on it, enlarging it, he sees a boy with dark blond hair covered by a yellow beanie and red head phones, sitting in a plane seat. Next to him, a girl with dark brown, large curls tied together in a high bun. Her head lays on the boy's shoulder and her hands are clearly grabbing his arm. A dark blue hoodie is draped over her shoulders and you can clearly see her having a small smile on her pink lips.
''Oh shit.''
Entering the breakfast hall, he quickly spots Raini sitting at a large round table, drinking a big glass of orange juice. When seeing him walking her way, she greets him cheerfully.
''Hey! How did you sleep? Aren't the rooms amazing, I-''
''Did you post this picture on Instagram?'' he asks her, rudely interrupting her, while holding his phone in front of her face.
''I might've.'' she answers him with an innocent look in her eyes.
''Raini!'' he snaps at her and takes a seat next to her.
''I'm sorry, okay? You just looked so adorable, I had to share it.'' Raini tells him apologetic. Ross sighs heavily, knowing Raini really couldn't help it and he can't be mad at her. He takes place next to her and hands her his phone. She grabs it hurryingly and quickly scrolls. Her eyes get wider with every tweet she reads.
''RauraIsReal2015 is trending as we speak.'' He reported while playing with his utensils, slightly irritated.
''Oh my god, I'm sorry, Ross. It wasn't my intention to start anything with it.'' she immediately apologizes while looking at him with sad eyes and hands him his phone back. From the corner of Ross's eyes, he sees Laura and the rest of the cast and crew walking towards him.
''It's alright. Just forget about it, okay? Not a word about it, I don't want Laura to feel awkward.'' he quickly whispers just before Laura takes a seat next to him. Raini gives him a small nod before starting a conversation with Calum, who's seated next to her. Ross turns to Laura, who is laying the snow white napkin on her lap.
''Awesome room, right?'' he engages a conversation with her. Her hands freeze and she turns her head to look at him. A nervous smile lays on her lips, giving a sign she still feels awkward about what happened last night. Wanting to reassure her that they're still the same as they always are, he turns to conversation into the playful kind they're used to. After a few minutes of laughing and their normal bickering, it seems like they are on the same page and the past event is forgotten.
''Okay, everyone, quiet down. We're gonna use this moment we have together to discuss business. Today we'll be filming the first scene, the four arriving in New York. You'll be dressed up by the stylists and made ready in your hotel rooms. Memorize your lines, know your part. We'll see you at 9:45 in the lobby.''
After breakfast, they all go upstairs to get ready to shoot. Laura enters the small make-up and clothing room with her stylist and gets her outfit handed. It's a black skinny jeans, red top and black suede boots with high heels. On top of that, she'll wear a grey winter coat with a grey belt that l emphasises her waistline. Her hair is being styled in the big curls she's used to and some natural make-up that includes pink lip gloss, some mascara and a thin line around her eyes. She thanks her stylist and leaves her room.
Entering the hall, she sees Ross standing in front of his closed door, his back towards her. He seems to be scrolling through his twitter page. He's wearing a long, black coat and it looks pretty good on him. His messy hair is styled the way Austin wears it and around his neck hangs a dark red scarf. She silently closes the door and walks up to him, looking over his shoulder, pretty impossible since he's way taller than her, but by standing on her toes she can read some stuff. Only a few words stand out; Finally, I've been waiting for this my whole life, my two baby's finally together.
''What's that?'' she asks him curiously. He clearly jumps and quickly presses the lock button on top of his phone so the screen turns black. He turns to her as she looks up astonished seeing him so startled.
''Nothing, just twitter.'' He assures her and changes the topic quickly. She didn't need to see the whole twitter trending topic, it would just stress her out. She probably hadn't seen it yet, looking at her reaction, he thought. Together they walk towards the elevator to meet with the rest in the lobby.
In the elevator, Laura subtly checks her twitter page, as she hadn't checked it in a few days, she immediately sees what Ross was looking at and what he was so nervous about. The trending hashtag had taken over twitter and the photo that was coming back in every tweet, she knew. It looked like one of those hipster Tumblr photos of a perfect couple. But this wasn't posing. This really happened.
Looking at Ross, she notices the nervous look in his eyes. He was definitely stressed about this and, honestly, she was too. Putting her phone away, she knew that they had to discuss this one day or another.
''So, Laura-'' Ross starts talking at the exact time Laura's phone rings. She looks at him apologetic and holds up one finger, signalling for him to hold the thought. When looking down at her phone, he sees her face light up when she quickly answers the phone call.
''Hey! Sweet of you to call me.''
''…''
''It's amazing here, the hotel is beautiful and we're gonna shoot the first scene today. How's it there?''
''…''
''You did? That's so cool, I knew you could do it!''
''…''
''Of course, I wear it all the time. Hey, I gotta go, I'll talk to you later. Give Velvet a big kiss from me.'' And with that she ends the conversation. A big smile on her face hadn't left during the whole talk, while Ross walked next to her, on their way to Central Park.
''Sorry about that. It was just Andrew, he got his driver's licence yesterday.'' Laura tells him while putting her phone away. ''What did you wanna say?''
''I just wanted… I-I forgot, I guess.'' Ross lies to her while looking at his feet. Something inside of him tells him this isn't the best time to tell her about the twitter thing. Not after she talked to a guy that, apparently, calls her from her home town, gave her something she wears constantly and knows Velvet, her dog, enough to drop by her house.
''That happens, tell me when you remember it again.'' she laughs as they arrive at the fenced off part in Central Park that they'll use as a set today. Directors, writers, extras and the two other co-stars are preparing to shoot. As Laura runs toward them, Ross looks at her, trying to figure out what kind of part this Andrew plays in Laura's life.
Ooooooh drama..
I feel like, even though it has the same amount of words as usual, we covered quite a lot of new stuff, am I right?
Tune in later to see the result of this xxxxx