HEEEEEY
So excited to be writing again! I literally have been writing non-stop, because we're crawling closer to the big day, but on the way towards it, a lot of fun things will happen. So now I have 6 chapters saved, I finished chapter 14 today :)
Btw, shout out to MaryMallow for being the 50th reviewer I love you!
I have soooo many awesome ideas in a rough sketch, mainly for when Raura starts dating and I cannot wait to work those out. But I have to fill up the space between now and that..
This chapter is probs one of my favs cause it turned out so much better than I expected when I started it, so enjoy! (It's also longer than ususal yaaaaay)
Laura Marano wakes up with a strange feeling in her stomach. She blinks confused and furrows her eyebrows. Something is different. It's not an unpleasant feeling, it's like she is excited for something, like how she feels on Christmas morning.
She opens her bedspread and jumps off the oversized, high bed. She shivers, feeling the cold air covering her bare arms and legs. With her bare feet, shorts and tank top, she walks towards the big windows, shivering when she feels the cold lamination. With every step she feels the nervous feeling in her stomach grow. She grabs the thick, red curtains and opens them.
The feeling inside her wasn't wrong. She was unconsciously aware of the surprise she would find when looking outside. Looking out the window, she discovers the grey streets, sidewalks and buildings have now been covered by a thick white blanket. The New York she saw yesterday had been transformed in a Winter Wonderland in just one single night.
With big eyes and a gaping open mouth she looked outside. She could hardly contain her excitement, squealing and jumping up and down, almost screaming in happiness. Living in Los Angles and visiting their summer house in the south of Italy, snow hadn't been a privilege for her. The times she had seen real snow were able to add up on one hand.
She quickly turns around, not bothering to put on anything over her pyjamas, and runs out the door. She turns right and knocks on the door next to hers rapidly. She hears a loud groaning and seconds later a loud thump of an object thrown against the door. She jumps backwards but doesn't give up so easily and starts knocking again, harder now.
''Raini, wake up! It's super important, open up!'' she yells at the closed door and keeps knocking until her short friend, her big hair hanging messily over her shoulders, opens it with a look that could kill. She walks past her and opens the big curtains for her. Pointing at the snow covered city, she looks at Raini expectantly. A smile appears on her face and she runs over to Laura.
''Snow! This is so cool!'' she agrees with the still jumping brunette next to her.
''Go wake Calum, I'll do Ross.'' Laura tells Raini, who smirks at this comment.
''Sure, Laura…'' she laughs, teasing her, but this goes unnoticed by Laura who already ran out of her room.
Ross Lynch awakes from something else than his alarm for once. Loud yelling is entering his room through his walls and he sits up straight in bed. Trying to listen to the conversation, he understands it's his two female co-stars and they're not fighting. Happy squeals give away who is the most happy of the two and he runs a hand through his hair laughing. Only two seconds later he hears about a dozen knocks per two seconds on his door.
''Are you fucking kidding me.'' he asks himself mumbling and rises from his bed, knowing the knocking won't stop until he answers it. Half a second before he had opened the door, he realises he's wearing nothing but boxers covered by grey sweatpants. Swinging the door open, he reveals Laura with a huge smile on her face and her hand still up in her knocking position. Wearing only a black tank top, red shorts and nothing on her feet, he figures she only just got out of bed, just like him. She looks at him up and down before pushing him out of the way and running to the window to reveal the snow to him, like she did with Raini.
''Look, Ross! It snowed over night! Isn't that amazing?'' Laura is admiring the view, seeing a different part of the city from his window, since their rooms are on opposite of the hotel. She leans on the window-sill with her elbows and looks out the window dreamingly. Ross had given it one glance and returns to his bed, still tired. He had seen snow many times and being an experienced hockey player, he's familiar with the ice too. Laying back on his back on the bed spread, covers his face with a big white pillow.
''Amazing.'' he murmurs sarcastically, his voice strangled by his pillow. Laura quickly turns around and narrows her eyes. She climbs onto the other end of the bed and sits next to his stretched figure. Looking at his body next to her, especially his bare torso, she cocks her head and raises her eyebrows, secretly admiring the view. She doesn't notice Ross looking at her face from one eye and smirking at her.
''Take a picture, it'll last longer.'' He comments and covers his face with the pillows once again. He lays the backs of his hands on top of it to hold it in place. Laura jumps, feeling busted and blushes. Wanting revenge, she grabs the other pillow laying on the side she's sitting on. With a loud thud, she hits Ross's uncovered stomach. She sees him freeze. His left arm rises from its place on the pillow on his head and he holds his index finger up as a warning.
''You did not just hit met with a pillow.'' Ross slowly says to her, his pillow hiding his face. She bites her lip, giggling and holds her pillow with two hands in front of her as a shield, bracing herself for what may come.
''So what if I did?'' she asks him with a shaky voice, caused by her laughter and a little fear. The right arm that laid on his pillow now grabs it as he slowly uncovers his eyes to look at her darkly. He moves his legs up so he turns to sit on the bed in front of her, holding his pillow. She sees the look in his eyes and hesitantly backs up on the bed, inch by inch.
''You really wanna start a pillow fight with me? Are you absolutely sure?'' Ross warns her once again and comes crawling to the other side of the bed slowly, where Laura almost reached the edge and looks around to find a way to win the fight. Because she knows, with only a pillow, it'll be an unfair fight. When she feels the end of the bed she stops moving, being unable to back up anymore. A smirk on Ross's face appears when he notices her not being able to escape, unless she's planning on falling off.
When she sees him crawling even closer, Laura decides to go to a safer place and turns her back to the wall on the head of the bed. At least now she doesn't have any chance to fall of the dangerously high bed. She nervously swallows and looks at him with big eyes while still holding the pillow with two hands. She has her legs stretched in front of her while Ross hovers above her placing his knees on either sides of her.
''If you surrender now, I'll let you go.'' he gives her one last chance and grabs her pillow from her weak grip. She looks at her now defenceless position but refuses to give up and shakes her head furiously. Ross is surprised to see her act so brave, seeing her literally under him, without any defence. He throws the pillows away and sees Laura's eyes getting even wider when he suddenly gets close to her face with his own.
''If we fight, we do it fair. No weapons.'' he whispers and starts attacking her stomach with his fingers. Tickling any spot that isn't covered by her arms, he takes all control with Laura laughing beneath him. She slaps his arms begging for him to stop while getting tears in her eyes from laughing.
''This isn't even half of what I'm capable of, you know it. Last chance to surrender.'' Laura thinks for a moment before Ross touches an extra sensitive spot on her side. As a reflex she comes up, placing her hands on his shoulders to stop herself. There's not more than an inch between them as she looks in his eyes surprised.
''I surrender.'' she tells him giggling. Ross looks her in the eyes and she sees his look drift to her lips for a second before he lets go of her waist and steps off the bed. While she's still laughing, his playful smile has disappeared and a frown has taken its place.
''We should get dressed, breakfast is in ten.'' he comments with an absent look in his eyes and walks towards the door to open it for her. She quietly jumps off the bed and exits the room. Just before she walks past him, she turns around.
''I'm really glad we're okay again.'' Laura tells him with a small smile.
''Yeah, me too.'' Ross agrees with her and adds a heavy sigh when closing the door behind her.
He lied. He was anything but okay.
''Scene five, hotel room writing, take three. Action!''
Austin, Ally, Stacy and Toby enter the large space. The floor was covered with sheet music, random lyrics and some balls of paper, ideas that didn't make the cut. An acoustic guitar laid on the bed and a small keyboard was placed on the desk.
''We normally use my room to work on our songs, sorry it's messy.'' Austin tells the two while they scan the room with big eyes. Laura had taken place behind the keyboard and scans her songbook for ideas. She turns around and looks at the siblings.
''Did you have any ideas we can work with yet?'' she asks them. From her small handbag, Stacy reveals a pink book, very much alike Ally's.
''We did have some. We wanted to work on a song about New York and meeting you!'' she tells Ally enthusiastic. Ally raises her eyebrows surprised and looks at Austin who is also taken back by this announcement.
''That's cool, thanks guys! Let's see what you got.'' They started discussing the song, naming random lyrics that might be appropriate and play the keyboard, trying to come up with a decent melody. It seemed like Toby was working on it more that Stacy, who stayed on the bed next to Austin and rarely spoke. Ally looks at her curiously while Toby talks to her about the second chorus. Austin is listening to Toby with his full attention while Stacy looks at Austin, trying to get his attention by touching his arm constantly.
Forgetting Toby's idea, Ally focusses on Austin, trying to get his attention. When his eyes finally land on her, she raises her eyebrows while nodding towards Stacy. He looks at her helplessly and shrugs his shoulders lightly.
''I think we've done enough for today, I like the idea guys. Let's continue tomorrow, shall we?'' Ally interrupts Stacy's third comment about the song since they arrived in the room and stands up. The others follow her surprised and the two exit, telling them goodbye. ''Bye Toby! Stacy.''
''What was that all about?'' Austin asks her after Ally shut the door rather loudly. She turns around and takes place on the big brown sofa, her knees up and arms wrapped around them.
''I don't like Stacy.'' she admits. Austin takes a seat next to her and lays on arm on the backside.
''I have to agree, she's a little strange.'' he tells her and looks her in the eyes.
''Strange? Austin, she was totally flirting with you!'' Ally looks at him angrily and crosses her arms in front of her chest.
''Flirting? Don't be ridiculous, Ally, she was just nice.'' he defends her and he turns towards Ally while putting a hand on her elbow. She shakes it off and turns her focus on her feet.
''Nice friends don't constantly touch you and only listen to what you're saying to ignore the other people in the room.'' Ally tells him annoyed. Austin smiles at her and pulls her towards him.
''Don't worry about Stacy, I'm sure she doesn't like me like that. If she wants us to write a song with her, that's fine. But you're still my girlfriend. Nothing will change about that.'' he assures her and kisses the top of her head. He feels Ally relax and sigh while wrapping her arms around his waist.
''I love you.''
''I love you too.''
I actually wanted to add a little Austin & Ally scene but I'll do that next time
Cause, besides the Raura story line, we also have that one and sooner or later, those two will get tangled up…. But you gotta wait and see, it'll be quite a few chapters away
Byebyexxxx