A few days later

It was Friday, the day before we were due to leave for London, and I, being me, had already packed and organised everything I would need for the week.

While Hanna, being Hanna, was a complete and utter mess, which is why I was now lying on her bed with Aria and Emily underneath her entire wardrobe, being suffocated.

"HANNA!" I yelled.

"What?!" she yelled back. Packing lulz.

"We're only going for a week, you don't need to pull your entire clothing collection apart for things to bring!" I stated matter of factly.

"I need outfits Spence, OUTFITS!" she stared at me.

"I understand that but the fact that I just pulled a FEATHER out of my mouth, suggests you need to take it down a notch." I wasn't kidding, I now had blue ass pieces of feather in between my teeth.

"Okay okay, I think I'm done." She said, standing back admiring her choices.

"Excellent now pack them so we can go and get pizza."

"Right. You guys go, I'll catch up in a minute when I've thrown everything in."

Aria, Emily and I (somehow) got up from Hanna's bed and made our way outside, toward my car.

"Okay guys, back to mine and then pizza?" I suggested.

"Sure, are we staying over tonight?"

"I think it will make it easier tomorrow, we can just go straight to the airport that way. So will we go and pick up your stuff and then head back to mine?"

"Sounds great." Emily and Aria said in unison.

-XXXX-

After collecting both Aria and Emily's luggage and texting Hanna to bring hers with her when she is coming to my house and receiving a very disgruntled reply, we final got to order the pizza I had been craving all day.

"Happy now?" Aria smiled as I munched on my 5th slice.

"Very." I said happily, with my mouth full.

We were all laying around comfortably on the couch as we watched movies when my mom walked through the door.

"Hi girls, all set for tomorrow?" she asked, sitting on the arm rest of the couch Aria and I were cuddled up on.

"More or less. We got there in the end anyway." I said as I stared at Hanna. Aria, Emily and my mom all looked over at her as she sat and ate happily, before feeling eyes on her and slowly turning her head, wide-eyed, mouth packed full of food.

"Hmmmph?!"she asked, irritated.

"Nothing Hanna." I laughed.

"Be nice Spencer." My mom said light-heartedly. "Do you need a ride to the airport tomorrow?"

"I was gonna take my car, I put all of our suitcases in it already so we just have to get up and go in the morning."

"And straighten our hairs, don't forget straighten our hairs!" Hanna squeaked.

"Yes Hanna." I rolled my eyes.

"Okay sweetheart, I have an early meeting so I'm going to have a shower and go to bed. You should think about doing the same, you all have a long day tomorrow."

"Yeah, we're going up as soon as the movie is over."

"Okay, I won't see you in the morning so have a wonderful time girls, and be careful. Spencer, call me when you get there and every day okay? I won't sleep if I don't know that you're okay." My mom said, putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Of course, I will." I got up and gave my mom a tight hug "thanks so much for this, I really appreciate it, and everything you do for me." I said, pulling away.

"We're so proud of you Spencer, we just want you to know how much, and how much we love you. This is just a way for us to show you that. Goodnight sweetheart." She smiled and went upstairs.

I sat down, content, and wrapped my arms around Aria once more, pulling her close and giving her a tight squeeze and nuzzling into her neck. She sighed happily and interlocked our fingers.

I couldn't wait to spend a week in London with her.

-XXXX-

I woke up the next morning and hit my alarm, to stop it ringing so god damn loudly.

Currently 5am. Flight is at 10am. 8 hours on a plane. Arriving in London at approximately 11pm GMT time. How does 8 hours on a plane equate to London being 5 hours ahead of Philadelphia?

Nope, it's too early for math. And Geography.

Unravelling myself slightly from around Aria's body, I gently stroked her hair and tried waking her up.

"Aria, baby we have to get up…" I whispered.

"Bleugh, 5 more minutes she said, turning to lie on her stomach.

"Aria, we're going to London today, wake up sleepy." I whispered into her ear before placing kisses down the back of her neck and her back, running a hand up her leg and underneath her body, slipping it deep into her shorts.

"OKAY I'M AWAKE" she jumped suddenly.

"I thought that might work." I smirked, very smug my plan had worked as I moved to get out of bed. I felt a hand on my wrist, pulling me back down onto the bed.

"Where'd you think you're going?" Aria said seductively, before pulling me on top of her.

"To shower and get dressed?" I raised a curious eyebrow.

"Nuh uh, you're staying here…" she whispered, pushing up into me before attacking my lips with hers and pulling at the thin material of my top.

"Guys, we have a country to go to, there's plenty of time for hanky panky when we get there now get out of bed and get a move on!" Hanna stated bluntly before removing herself from my room.

"How does she get in here without me hearing her, I swear she's a ninja." I laughed.

"She's a special kind of talent." Aria said, smirking.

"She sure is… alright, we better get ready."

-XXXX-

After an hour in the car, and 3 in the airport, we were finally on the plane. Much to Hanna's delight and my sanity's delight. Morning Hanna was annoying. Come to think of it, so was afternoon Hanna. And evening Hanna. Hmmm.

After taking our seats, and moving toward the runway, I noticed Aria gripping her seat tightly.

"Hey babe? Are you okay?" I asked, slipping my hand in hers.

"Yeah. I just don't like take off. Or landing. Or turbulence. Not that great of a flier to be honest." She smiled weakly.

"Did you know that more people are killed by donkeys each year than in plane crashes?"

"O.K, so what's your point?" she asked confused.

"Have you seen any donkeys lately?" I asked.

"Um, no?" still confused.

"Exactly…" I winked.

She burst out laughing. Disturbing some of the other passengers who were idling chatting, and now giving us dirty looks. Namely Hanna and Emily. Ooops.

"You're crazy." She whispered.

"About you." I whispered, smiling at her.

"You big cheese."

"Say cheese again and you'll make me hungry."

She smiled at me and took my hand, interlocking our fingers and holding on tight as we prepared for take-off. As we took off down the runway I placed my free hand on top of our interlocked hands as Aria took deep breaths.

Once we were in the air, she loosened her grip on my hand and rested her head against my shoulder, while I let mine fall gently on top of hers. Before I knew it, sleep had taken over me.

-XXXX-

I woke up a while later and looked at my watch. 2pm. Just another 4 hours to go. I noticed Aria had left her seat and was sitting across from Hanna and Emily with lots of pens and paper surrounding them, since business class was pretty empty, I moved over to take a seat next to her and see what they were up to.

"Hey, what are you guys doing?" I asked sleepily as I sat down next to Aria.

"Were writing down everywhere we wanna go while we're in London, and we're trying to organise it."

"You guys are trying to organise plans and times. On a trip. And you didn't think to ask me?" I asked, holding back a laugh.

"Well, smarty pants we thought we could it without you."

"And?"

"We can't."

"Thought so, give it here." I said, and Emily handed me a piece of paper.

"Okay, where is it you guys wanna go?"

"Trafalgar Square, Camden Market, Buckingham Palace, London Zoo, The London Eye, the Tower of London…" Hanna trailed.

"Aaaaand the word 'London' has lost all meaning." I joked.

"Well I didn't name them, did I?" Hanna said sarcastically.

"Where else?"

"Oh! Can we go to UAL?" Aria chimed.

"What's UAL?" Hanna asked.

"It's the University of the Arts in London, but they have exhibitions every year and they show the best student pieces at the events and they auction them off, it's really great exposure for them, when they're still learning, it gets their name out there. I think it's really cool." Aria said smiling.

"Sounds great, I'll add it to the list." I said, giving her a chaste kiss.

"Okay, I'm gonna study the locations and underground tube map."

"Spence, this is a vacation, why are you studying?" Hanna asked laughing.

"Because I like to be prepared, have you seen this underground map? It's gonna take a hell of a lot to try and get us all around using this as our only guide." I said, holding up the small piece of paper my dad had given me.

"What?!" Hanna said panicking. "That's not a map, that's a child's scribble! A child who has an extensive crayon collection…" she said exacerbated.

"It's okay, guys, I can figure it out. If I can understand AP Chem, I can understand a simple map of line drawings." I said reassuringly. I can do it. Can't I?

-XXXX-

O.K so after 30 minutes spent getting OUT of Heathrow Airport and 15 minutes trying to figure out this map, I had come to the conclusion that I couldn't, in fact, do it.

"Okay, I think we need to get the Picadilly to South Kensington and then interchange to get District to Sloane Square, and then get a taxi from the station to the hotel. Sound good?"

"I'd like to say yes but I have no idea what you're talking about." Hanna said sighing.

"Okay, let's just go with this and see how it goes, I'm pretty sure about it." I said, pretending to be confident when in reality I was bricking it. Would you look at that, London was rubbing off on me already.

25 minutes later

After a lot of moaning and whining from Hanna and my jet-lagged pals, we arrived at Sloane Square tube station. After hailing a black cab, we piled in and headed towards the Berkeley hotel my mom had booked us into.

We arrived a short cab ride later and made our way inside. I checked us in and we got our room keys.

After making our way up the elevator with great difficulty, we got to our rooms.

"Okay guys, we'll see you in the morning." I said, opening Aria and I's room while Emily opened her and Hanna's.

"Okay, night guys."

"Night." We said, walking through the door and dropping our suitcases on the floor.

Aria ripped off her clothes and fell on the bed, pulling the large blanket up around her. I stripped down to my underwear and climbed in next to her, pulling her into my arms before whispering a laboured 'goodnight', followed by an 'I love you' before we both let sleep pull us under.