Hey guys! I'm sorry, I've been spending all day yesterday on writing two new chapters with the thought of updating the same night, but I forgot so I'll be updating now at this early hour
Sorry for my American bae's, but it'll be like a present when you wake up..
Shout out to the sweet gals who let me use their twitter name in this chapter!
''Happy birthday!'' Laura's eyes snap open and reveal her three best friends sitting around her on the enormous bed. She rubs her eyes and looks at them, smiling widely. Ross stands up from the bed and pulls the curtains open to reveal an, again, snow white city. Laura opens her thick comforter and jumps off the bed to stand next to Ross. Silently enjoying the view, she's grateful to spend her birthday in this beautiful, snow covered city. Turning to Ross, she hugs him tightly and returns to the bed to give a big hug to her other friends.
''Thank you guys, this is already the best birthday ever!'' Laura exclaims and looks around. Thinking for a moment, she looks at them questioning. ''How did you get into my room?''
''We went to the reception and asked for it nicely. When we said it was your birthday, we got a spare key handed.'' Raini explains, in which Laura looks worried.
''If that's all it takes to get a spare key to a room, I'm not feeling that safe anymore.'' she says to herself in which the rest just laugh, telling her not to worry. At the same time, they turn to each other.
''Present time!'' Raini takes first turn and hugs Laura again before giving her a package wrapped in red wrapping paper with a cute, white bow. ''Happy birthday, bestie.''
Laura carefully pulls on the string to untie the bow and neatly detaches the tape, not wanting to rip the paper. Underneath the wrapping, she finds a shiny red vinyl record player.
''Oh my god, Raini, I love it! How did you know?'' Laura tells her while opening the lid, admiring her perfect present.
''You've been telling me your old one broke for months. That's not all, play the record.'' Raini points at the player and Laura realizes a vinyl record is laying inside the player. She raises the needle to carefully let it land on the very outside of the record. A song starts, which she recognizes immediately from listening to it constantly.
''The new Taylor Swift album!'' Laura squeals and hugs Raini again, loving that Raini knows her so well.
''My turn!'' Calum interrupts them, not being able to wait for her to see his present, and he reveals a soft package. Laura curiously takes it from him, scanning and touching the present with her hands, guessing what it may be.
''Don't feel, open it!'' Raini hits her playfully and Laura quickly unwraps the package. It's a big, blue shoulder bag with the title 'WALK THE MOON' on the front, just like the sweater she owns.
''Calum, it's so cute, thank you!'' she wraps her arms around Calum once again.
''Look inside.'' he teases in which she opens the bag. In the small pocket on the side, she finds two small pieces of paper.
''Tickets for the February show, yay!'' she shows the other two, smiling widely. She thanks Calum one more time before turning her attention to Ross, who looks at her uneasy.
''You'll get my present later.'' she looks at him, grinning.
''You forgot my birthday, didn't you?'' she asks him judgingly. He shakes his head, defending himself.
''I wanted to buy something in New York, I just haven't had the time to do it yet.'' he explains to her and promises she'll get it soon. Laura smiles at him understanding and looks at her presents gratefully.
They hang in her room for a bit until Ross speaks up, showing them a twitter page on his phone.
''Look what the fans trended last night.'' they gather around him and take turns to look at his phone.
''#HappyBDayLauraLivestream.'' Laura reads from the screen and smiles. ''They're so cute.'' After thinking for a moment she looks at the other three. ''Are you guys down?''
They exchange looks and shrug, agreeing with the idea.
''Let's give them what they want. Wait, isn't it super early on the West Coast?'' Calum asks them and looks at his phone to check the time. ''Eleven pm, means it's eight there. That's not too early right? Besides, it's Saturday, there's no school.''
''Let's do it, everyone announce it on twitter!'' and they open their own twitter profiles. The writers had given them the morning off, since it was Laura's birthday, to give her the opportunity to celebrate it with her friends. As soon as Laura's teasing tweet was posted, dozens of fans retweeted and added their own comments, mostly in caps lock. After the other three made the event official, Ross tweeted the link to the livestream site.
Taking their place, Raini and Laura let themselves fall on the couch as the boys leaned their backs against it, sitting in front of them. Ross adjusts the laptop so everyone is visible and leans back, waiting for the fans to gather on the site.
''This is so impulsive, we didn't even prepare anything.'' Laura laughs which reminds Ross of something. He quickly tweets the fans to send them questions, using the hashtag they trended last night.
''Everyone ready?'' Calum asks them and hits the record button.
''Hey guys!'' Laura greets the viewers and waves at the camera. Comments start flooding under their reflection screen, too fast to be able to read. A few shout outs to countries and people, which they speak out loud in the camera, a few questions but mostly happy birthday's directed to the happy brunette. After some fans reminded them of the Happy Birthday Song, they quickly sang it, including the occasional 'cha cha cha's'.
''Thanks for joining us on such an early hour, it was pretty random. Let's answer some questions.'' Raini comments and opens her twitter app, directly going to the hashtag page.
''What can you tell us about the movie, asked imweirdR5.'' she asks and looks at her co-stars. Laura's eyes widen, immediately taking her chance to answer the question.
''Great question! Guys, what can we tell them?'' she asks them, laughing. ''Oh, you can expect a new location. Ehm, some songs, of course, you might recognize. What else?''
''Auslly, you can expect some good Auslly.'' Ross teases while he reads some other tweets and he looks up, his eyes connecting to Laura's. She laughs at the mention of the seemingly unavoidable subject.
''Of course, Auslly, can't forget that.'' she takes her turn reading some comments and finds the same word being mentioned multiple times. 'Instagram video? Why are you guys talking about an Instagram video?''
Her co-stars freeze and look at each other nervously. Confused, Laura looks in the camera.
''Yeah, we made a video yesterday. Of you sleeping.'' Raini admits, figuring she's most responsible, since it was her Vine. Laura's eyes widen and she hits Raini with a pillow.
''Guys!'' she laughs and takes a turn to hit the boys too. When the pillow hits Ross's shoulder, he grabs it and tugs, making Laura almost fall over, laughing loudly. ''Can I at least watch it?''
''Now?'' Ross asks while now looking nervously himself. The comments on the site all tell them 'YES', but he isn't so sure it's a good idea.
''Yeah, why not?'' Laura doesn't realize the impact the video has made on the fans but will also have on her, probably. Raini sighs, knowing they can't make an excuse, and hands her her phone. As Laura watches it, smiling widely at the first part, Calum looks at Ross worried. At the last few seconds, Laura's smile falls and her eyes widen again.
''Wow, I was really tired that day.'' she laughs nervously at the camera, trying to hide her shame but failing. Raini tries to drop the awkward subject by reading another question.
''Ehm, R5Smiles asked, What do you do when you're not filming?'' the four do their best to jump to the next subject, even though the fans make sure they haven't had enough of the last one.
''Well, my room kinda turned into the hang room, like Calum's is on the set,'' Laura points at Calum who smirks in response, ''even though our rooms are exactly the same. Also, instead of filming, yesterday, we went to do something else.''
Laura gives Raini a look, silently asking if she could spoil about the photo shoot, in which Raini nods, knowing the writers were okay with it.
''We did a photo shoot for the film poster! We already saw the photos that are being used for promotion and I can tell you, they're really cool.'' Laura gushes in which the rest nods, agreeing.
''We don't know what the actual poster will look like, though, so that's a surprise for us too.'' Calum adds, winking at the camera. Ross remains silent during the following questions, just scrolling through other questions he could use.
''Oh, and the night we arrived, we explored the city!'' Calum remembers. The girls laugh, retrieving the memory from a few weeks ago.
''Right! We went shopping for a while, until Laura and I found this huge Abercrombie so we took the opportunity and took a photo with two of those cute models.'' Raini tells the fans enthusiastic. Laura sees Ross look up and faces the computer with an irritated look, looking down again when he sees Laura looking at him through the computer. Raini continues to describe how the night went on, subtly leaving the part about Laura and Ross's dance out.
''What presents did you get, Laura, by ItsAlly_Dawson'' Ross reads a tweet from his phone and looks at her. Laura's face lights up and starts to add up every present she got for her birthday.
''Okay first of all, amazing username! This morning, these guys,'' Laura says while pointing at her three friends, ''woke me up and gave me their amazingly thoughtful presents.'' She grabs the two presents she got that morning to show to the camera. ''Raini got me a new vinyl record player, since mine broke a month ago, WITH the new Taylor Swift album, which I absolutely adore! Look, it's my favourite colour!'' she hugs the player like it's her baby, stroking it lovingly.
''And from Calum, I got this super cute Walk The Moon bag, to match with my sweater. Isn't it pretty? And also two tickets to one of their concerts this February, which I'm super excited for!'' Laura tells enthusiastic, patting Calum on his shoulder. He smirks in the camera and holds up two thumbs.
''And Ross…'' Laura slowly starts while holding her laugh. Ross interrupts her, defending himself and not wanting to give a bad impression to the fans.
''Okay, I didn't get her anything yet, BUT it will be worth waiting for.'' He brags about his, still unknown, present while looking in the camera, raising one eyebrow. Laura and Raini look at each other impressed while Calum raises his eyebrows.
''So you already know what you're gonna buy?'' Laura asks him, wanting him to release something.
''That's classified.'' he drops the subject. Laughing about Ross's secret, Raini grabs Laura's hand, holding it closer to the camera.
''And what's this bracelet I suddenly find here?'' Raini fakes her surprise in which Laura widens her eyes.
''Oh yeah, I got this one too, from a friend just before we flew to the location.'' she tells them while admiring the silver accessory around her pulse. This makes Ross look up from his phone, looking closer at the screen in front him.
''From who?'' Raini teases, wanting her to spill the name to the fans.
''Andrew, if you're watching, thanks again, I love it!'' Laura waves at the computer, smiling widely and shaking her pulse to show her shiny present.
So, I'm not sure if you guys are up to date with spoilers, but I've accidently seen one that literally made me cry. It was a photo and let me tell you, I wasn't at my strongest that night
I'm kinda sad I scrolled over it, I mean, I'd rather not have seen it. You guys know which one I'm talking about?
bnstand chapter 12
This was perfect! Today's my bday so this was the best bday present! Thank you for the shout-outs and compliments! You are awesome! I'm glad I can make ya happy by reviewing! And congrats on 100 reviews! You totally deserve it!
Ok this chapter was great (As they all have been)! I thought it was super cute how laura feel asleep! One question though, and maybe it's cause I'm exhausted right now that I'm thinking this) but weren't they already in laura's room? If i'm mistaken, then I HOPE its ross who carries her back to her bed! ;-) can't wait for the next update! - Ugh again such a long review, I can't with you. Thanks, I'm so happy! Oh, you're totally right, they're in Laura's room, only Laura has to be carried to the right side of the bed, get tucked it by two strong arms, gentle hands…. what were we talking about?
RikerxDove chapter 12
This was so adorable and so many feels and oh God, I'm sobbing.
One of my favorite parts of the story is how you can kind of tell that Raini and Calum ship Ross and Laura. Pretty similar to real life, honestly. And aww, Raura moments, yes. More feels equals more tears, jussayin'.
I can't wait until your next update! You're an incredibly talented author and I'm actually finding myself rereading this story and your others multiple times. xD - You're too much, I can't believe this story actually made you read my other ones too! Do you have a fav? They're all pretty different, but I feel like I'm bettering myself with every story I finish YAAAY
I actually feel like I'm just having separate conversations with you two hahaha. I noticed I didn't get many new reviews for my last chapters, but a lot of new follows and favs, meaning new people! HEY! I don't know many of you and I'd love to get to know you
XXXXX