Love Will Save You // Ryan Follese

Chapter 18: We're Dancing on the Edge of the Hollywood Sign

-Melanie-

The next morning, after our shift ended, Danielle and I went to go talk to Eli.

"Good to see you girls back," he smiled.

"I'd like to say it's good to be back, but then I'd be lying," Danielle joked.

"But it is great seeing you again," I said, to which Danielle happily nodded in agreement. "So, about why we needed to talk to you," I said.

"Let me guess," Eli smiled, "You guys need the next couple weeks off because the boys want to take you to California as your belated birthday presents?"

"How did you-"

"They came in yesterday and talked to me about it," he laughed.

"They must really be excited about this then," Danielle said.

"Why would they be though? We only turned 19. It really wasn't that big of a deal," I wondered out loud.

Eli grinned and shrugged, "I don't know." "

You know something," Danielle laughed.

"You're right, I do – but I'm under strict orders not to speak a word of it."

"Can you at least tell us whether or not we're going to like it?" I asked.

"Oh, you're going to die of happiness and then come back to life to enjoy the awesomeness," he smirked.

"I'm cool with that," Danielle clapped.

"Alright, now go home and rest. You worked hard today," he smiled at us.

"Thanks for everything, Eli," I said, hugging him.

"Yeah, I feel like we don't say that enough. You seriously don't understand how much you've helped us these past couple years," Danielle added, hugging him as well.

"Both of you are like my sisters. Of course I'd do anything for you," he smiled.

~

*One week later*

"Welcome to beautiful Los Angeles, California!" Ryan exclaimed as soon as we stepped off of the plane.

"Wait," Danielle said, "If we're all already here, does this mean I can't sing Come Back to California?"

"That depends. Do you have some secret lover back home you've been cheating on me with?" Jamie joked, hitting her arm lightly.

"No, I'm pretty sure Nashy came with us," she winked at Jamie.

Jamie looked at Nash, who just shrugged and said, "We were trying to find the right time to tell you, but it'd be too awkward."

Jamie laughed, unable to keep a serious face, "I am friends with such weird people."

"But you love us anyway," Danielle smiled.

"I know," he said, wrapping his arm around her waist and kissing her cheek, "But that doesn't make you any less weird." She simply shrugged as we all chuckled, finding our bags and heading to our hotel.

"So, what is there to do around here?" I asked, taking a pair of shorts and a t-shirt out of my bag to change into seeing as the weather was a lot warmer.

"Well, it's L.A.. There's a lot to do," Ian laughed.

"We don't have a show for another three days, so today we could just walk around for a while, then come back and rest up for tomorrow," Ryan said.

"Why? What's tomorrow?" Danielle asked.

"Your birthday present," he smiled at us.

"What is it?" I asked excitedly.