A/N
Ok, so school started again. I'll try to update as soon as possible but I will have school and homework and stuff now. :(
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot line…
I open my eyes slowly and see Austin. Why is he here? He leans down and kisses my cheek gently. He's sitting cross-legged next to me on the edge of my bed.
"'Morning Als. I stayed, just like you asked."
"Thank you, Austin."I say remembering.
"I have to leave tomorrow for a performance so how do you want to spend today?"
"Mmm…I just wanna be with you. Maybe we could check in with Dez and Trish and see if they want to do anything." I prop myself up on my elbow, "And I'm going with you tomorrow. It's in Chicago right?"
"Ok, that sounds good. Yeah, it is, cool! I can't wait for you to see me perform!"
"Yeah, me too!" I smile. "Say we go downstairs…"
Austin cuts me off with a groan, "But I'm not ready to go downstairs, can't we stay like this a little longer? I like sitting and talking here with you."
I shrug, "Ok, we can stay here for another five minutes." Austin smiles and we just sit there for a little longer enjoying each other's presence. When I feel like time's up I say, "Now, before you cut me off, I was going to say let's go downstairs and make some pancakes."
His face lights up like a Christmas tree, "Pancakes!? Let's go, let's go, let's go!" He jumps off my bed and runs downstairs. I get up and follow him downstairs. Austin's standing in the kitchen with pancake mix, milk, a pan and oil already out. I grab a bowl and spoon to mix and hand them to him.
"Go ahead and start mixing it all together." He nods vigorously and sets to work putting the ingredients into the bowl. In his excitement he stirs the flour too hard before it's fully mixed in and it gets all over him. I laugh at his pouty face. "You have to go slower, you goof!" I take a wet rag and wipe the flour off his face and chest and then out of his hair.
"Thanks, Als."
"No problem." I start pulling out blueberries, strawberries, bananas, chocolate chips, syrup, powdered sugar, sprinkles, whipped cream and peanut butter to top the pancakes.
Austin's eyes enlarge at all the topping supplies. "Whoa. Can we put the blueberries and chocolate chips in the pancakes?" He asks excitedly, almost begging.
"Of course! That'll be awesome! Knock yourself out with as many toppings as you want Austin." I chuckle. Gosh, this guy makes me laugh a lot and I love him for it. When we finally have all the pancakes made, Austin stacks his plate with ten and piles everything on. I smother my two with peanut butter, sliced bananas and syrup and then we dig in. Austin inhales out his entire mountain of pancakeness in five minutes flat while I take longer, enjoying the pancakes rather than just inhaling them.
Soon I find out that everything is fun with Austin, even doing dishes, which I hate. When I accidentally splash him, he places bubbles on my head. "Hey!" I splash back, dowsing his entire front.
"Oh, no you didn't," he says in a girly voice.
"Oh, yes I did!" I respond in the same voice while grabbing the sink nozzle and spraying him. He grabs cups in both hands, filling them with the soapy dishwater and dumps them on my head. Our little water fight continues until we're sitting in a puddle on the floor, both sopping wet and laughing hysterically. "You…make me…have the most fun…EVER!" I gasp out in between laughing.
"Good." Austin chokes, having as much trouble as I am speaking. He shakes his head like a dog; flinging water and making me break into another round of laughter.
"I…s'pose…we should clean…this up."
"Yeah…I guess." He stands up warily and once he has his balance, pulls me up alongside him. We finally get control of our laughter and get back to work.
"I'll grab some towels to dry all this up while you finish the dishes, kay?" I tell him, already going to get the towels.
"Um, sure." I come back and Austin must be a master dishwasher because the dishes are already done. He helps me mop up the water on the floor and then stands up, stretching, "I'm gonna go home, shower and change. I'll text Dez and then meet you back here 'kay?"
"Ok." I go upstairs and wake up Trish; luckily I didn't have to dump water on her this time. Once she's started getting up I go to my room, shower and change into a red t-shirt and jeans. I go downstairs and see Trish and Dez sitting next to each other awkwardly on the couch and Austin on the other end waiting for me. His messy hair looks tame compared how it was after sleeping in a chair all night, getting flour in it and then a water fight. He's wearing a black t-shirt, black leather jacket and white skinny jeans.
"So, what do ya guys wanna do?" Dez asks.
"I saw this pamphlet for the Miami Zoo, we could go there. They have baby tigers and dolphins!" Trish suggests.
"Aww! Let's go!" Austin says, "I'll drive!"
"Ok!" Outside we pile into Austin's car; him driving, me in shotgun and Dez and Trish in the back together. Austin turns on the radio and I can't help myself, I start singing with it. He smiles and sings along too.
Looking for the one tonight
But I can't see you
Cause I'm blinded by all the lights, ooh
And I can never get it right
I need a breakthrough
Why are you so hard to find? oohI've been searching every city
Never giving up
'Til I find my angel
Diamond in the rough
Looking for a signal
Baby turn it up tonightCome on get loud loud let it out
Shout it out from the rooftops
Come on get loud 'til they shut us down.
Come on get loud loud let it out
Show me everything that you've got
Come on get loud loud I need you now
Baby let me hear it loudNa Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na NaaLooking for the light to shine
To start a fire
Girl I'll be the first in line ooh
And baby when our stars align
We can't get no higher
You just give me a signCome on get loud loud let it out
Shout it out from the rooftops
Come on get loud 'til they shut us down
Come on get loud loud let it out
Show me everything that you've got
Come on get loud loud I need you now
Baby let me hear it loudNa Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na Naa(Na Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na Naa
Looking for the one tonight
Na Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na Naa
I've been looking for the one tonight)Come on get loud loud let it out
Shout it out from the rooftops
Come on get loud 'til they shut us down
Come on get loud loud let it out
Show me everything that you've got
Come on get loud loud I need you now
Baby let me hear you loudNa Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na NaaBaby let me hear it loudNa Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na NaaBaby let me hear it loudNa Na Na Na Na Naa
Na Na Na Na Na NaaI've been looking for the one tonight
"I thought you have stage fright." Austin says.
"I do but I guess when I'm singing with someone it's ok. Also, I'm not on a stage in front of an audience!"
"Well that's great!" We fall into a comfortable quiet, still listening to the radio. I look in the rearview mirror and see that Dez and Trish are holding hands. As discreetly as possible I nudge Austin so he sees too. His eyes get big and he mouths, "What the heck? Dez and Trish together?" I just shrug in response. We get to the zoo and thankfully not many people decided to go today so the parking lot is fairly empty and there's no line for tickets.
"Where to first?" I ask
"Let's go through the water animal section, that way we can pass by the baby dolphins and then we can go to other animals."
"Alright, that sounds good." We walk down and see fish of every shape and color. Sharks circling in their marine world, rays and seahorses and jellyfish swim around in their tanks. I notice that Dez and Trish walk next to each other but are a foot apart like they want to be together but don't want anyone to know. We get to the dolphin exhibit, there are three or four adults swimming around and two smaller ones who must be the babies staying close to a female.
"Awww! Look at 'em! They're so adorable!" I say.
"Yeah! I wanna ride one!" decides Dez.
"You can't." Trish scoffs.
"Why not?"
"One, we're at a zoo. Two, I don't think they like carrots or clowns."
"Hey! Don't judge the shoes!" Dez says, I look down and see that he is indeed wearing clown shoes again… Trish rolls her eyes and walks away from the dolphins. Austin and I follow, holding hands while Dez trails behind, still in a huff. We continue to explore the zoo, visiting the birds of prey, big cats where we saw the tiger cubs, meerkats, monkeys, marmots, elephants, polar bears which I'm not sure how they survive here and canines. Dez and Trish bicker the entire time but Austin and I have a good time looking at and talking about all the animals. His favorite we visited were the baby dolphins while I adored this little snow leopard. For lunch we all got hamburgers from a concession stand, they were surprisingly good. We're looking at t-shirts in the gift shop when Austin gets a text and looks alarmed.
"What?"
"We gotta leave. Our flight was changed from tomorrow morning at seven to ten tonight."
"What time is it? I had to turn off my phone because the battery 's dying."
"It's six. Let's find Dez and Trish and go."
"Ok." We find them and leave hurriedly. I did the math in my head; we should be able to make it with an hour to spare if we time everything correctly. When we get back, Austin and I say good bye to Dez who has to take care of his llama and Trish who's going to the movies or something and go to our separate houses to get packed. We're only going to be there for one night, so I just pack a carry-on. There'll be the concert but also a fancy dinner with R5. I pack torn jeans and the purple R5 t-shirt Austin got for me to wear on the concert day, another outfit for the next day, Austin's hoodie, my pajamas, a sparkly, formfitting black dress and some matching silver heels. There's just enough space left to stuff my toiletries and book. I force my suitcase closed and check the time: 7:30. I go out and there's a white limo waiting, a chauffeur takes my stuff and puts it in. I get inside and see Austin; his warm smile makes me feel comfortable even though I find it weird we're riding to the airport in a limo.
The driver looks at us in the review mirror and asks, "Is everything satisfactory Miss Dawson and Mr. Lynch?"
"Yes, thank you Victor." Austin replies formally. "We'd like the privacy screen please."
"Of course Mr. Lynch." Victor says. A shaded glass window slides up in between him and us.
I scoot closer to Austin and take his hand in mine. "Mr. Lynch? What's that about Austin?"
"Since I'm going to perform, all the service, fans and other people will know me as Ross Lynch. It's kind of like if I were a super hero and Austin Moon is my 'secret identity' or regular person while Ross Lynch is my hero/popular singer name. You'll know me as Austin and you can call me that but everyone else will be calling me Ross and it'll be better if that's how you refer to me in public too."
"Ok, Ross." I giggle a little because it sounds so weird not to call him Austin.
"We're not in public now you know."
"Oh, right. What if I get confused, Austin?"
"You'll do fine."
"So why aren't you Ross Moon?"
"The Lynchs kind of adopted me when I joined their band so when they gave me my stage name they thought that I should just go all the way and be part of the R5 family."
"Ah. Ok. Driving always makes me tired. What about you?"
"Sometimes but I'm not now because it's already 8:15 and we're stuck in traffic 30 minutes away from the airport." Uh, oh. I sit up, no longer tired.
"What if we don't make it in time? What if we miss our airplane? Oh, no. Oh, no." I say starting to panic.
"Als, chill. We'll make it…probably."
"That wasn't helpful!"
Austin puts his hands up, halfway in the surrender position and halfway in a defensive posture, "Sorry! Sorry! Let's do something to keep your mind off it okay?"
"Sure. I hope you think of something." Austin knocks on the glass, it rolls down and he asks Victor for something and then it rolls back up.
He holds up a little pack, "How 'bout Uno?"
I shrug, "Ok."
I really get into it and both of our competitiveness has us playing and playing until Victor rolls down the glass and says, "We've arrived. I hope you have a good trip Mr. Lynch and Miss Dawson." The game ended in a draw of ten to ten wins for each of us. Victor gets out our luggage and we rush off me with my suitcase and Austin having to haul his guitar in its case as well as his other carry-on.
"Time?" I ask slightly out of breath from rushing to security.
"9:30, we're cutting it close. Luckily we have VIP status so we can go to that line." He says nodding at an almost empty one. We go over and get through security in 15 minutes. With only 15 minutes until take off we're literally running through the airport to our terminal like in Home Alone. We make it just in time, section three is just being called but we get in and take our first class seats.
We sit down and buckle up and the intercom comes on, "Hello, this is your captain, Michelle speaking. Thank you for choosing Frontier Airlines, we hope you have a pleasant flight. Refreshments will be provided as soon as we have reached the cruising altitude." I feel the plane moving. "Please keep your seat-belts on until the lights turn off. Once they are off, please keep them on whenever you are in your seat. No more than one person can be waiting for a lavatory at any time. There are two lavatories in the back of the plane and one in front. There is no smoking in the plane at any time or in the lavatory. The emergency exits…" I tune her out; she's just going over the regular plane rules. I content myself with looking out the window as the plane lifts off. She stopped talking finally and the screens on the back of the chairs came on.
"Do you want to watch a movie?"Austin asks me.
"Not really, I'm gonna sleep."
"Ok. I'll sleep too." We lean our seats back a little and I rest my head on his shoulder. After the long day at the zoo and then the stress with getting on the airplane on time I fall asleep quickly, happy to be going with Austin to see him perform.
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