Love Will Save You // Ryan Follese

Chapter 5: The Distance is What's Killing Me

-Melanie-

Beep. Beep. Beep.

I slammed my hand down on my alarm clock. It was 7am, and Danielle and I had to go to work. I faintly heard her alarm beeping through her door. I groaned, standing up and walking over to her room. I opened the door, walking in and shutting her alarm off, shaking her.

"Danielle, come on," I said, "We have to get ready for work."

"No," she said, burying her face in her pillow.

I sighed, "I know you don't like getting up early, but you love your job."

"Correction: I love our boss, not my job."

"Well, do you think Eli would like it if we were late?"

"Probably not, but I know he wouldn't care."

"Come on. What's really going on?"

She sighed, "I wanna see Jamie."

"And I want to see Ryan, but they'll be back in three months. It'll go by like that," I said, snapping my fingers.

Danielle sat up, "I'm going insane. I haven't known him for a week and I already feel like one of those stupid clingy girlfriends."

"Girlfriend?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.

She smiled sheepishly, "Yeah. He asked me to be his girlfriend last night when we were in the park."

I threw my arms around her, "Congratulations! You know, if we marry them, we would be sisters-in-law."

"Are you and Ry and thing now?" I nodded and she hugged me, "Told you." I laughed and she pushed me off of her bed, "Get out of my room and go get dressed. You look like a homeless person."

"Oh, look who's talking," I teased, walking out.

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We were ready in about 10 minutes and, after grabbing everything we needed, were out the door.

"Hey, Eli!" Danielle said when we walked in the back door of the local diner we waitressed at Monday through Thursday.

"Hey, girls! How was your concert?" he asked with a smile on his face.

"It was only the best thing ever!" Danielle practically yelled.

"Yeah, I wasn't the only one eyeing a member of the band, you know," I giggled.

Danielle pushed on my shoulder, laughing, "Whatever." We both looked at each other and started singing the chorus of Whatever.

We all laughed and Eli said, "Well, we've got four guys already waiting out there, so, why don't you girls get to work, huh?"

"Yes, sir!" we saluted, still laughing.

When we walked out to the front we saw the last four people we expected to see that day. We looked at each other and signaled Nash and Ian to be quiet, seeing as they were the ones facing where Danielle and I were standing. We walked up behind Ryan and Jamie and put our hands over their eyes. They both jumped as their hands found our wrists.

Nash and Ian were laughing as I whispered in Ryan's ear, "Guess who."

"Um, Megan Fox?" he smirked.

"You wish," I laughed as I removed my hands from his eyes and he turned around to look at me, smiling. Danielle still had her hands over Jamie's eyes, making him guess who she was as well.

He kept throwing out hilarious guesses and she finally said, "No, it's the most amazing person you've ever met in your entire life."

"Demi Lovato?" he chuckled. She moved her hands away from his eyes and crossed her arms over her chest and Jamie turned around to see her pouting. He chuckled and pulled her into his lap. "I'm just kidding, Danielle. I could never forget you," he said seriously, kissing her nose. She smiled and wrapped her arms around him, burying her face into his neck.