"Robert Luke Benson" the lady read aloud.
His heart beat fast and sweat had began to roll down his forehead "yes" he replied "that's me"
She raised an eye brow "alright Sir" she stamped his passport "move along"
"Thank you" he said and picked up his passport. He walked through the gate and into the lobby. People walked around him talking into their phones and griping children's hands. He was too busy observing to realize he had just knocked someone over.
"Hey!" A girl said on the ground "watch it"
"Oh sorry, sorry wasn't paying attention" he said extending a hand to help her up.
She smiled slightly and took it.
"I'm Lu- Robert.." He said.
"You sure about that?" She asked.
"Yes"
She examined him "I'm Emma" she held out her hand for him to shake.
"Nice to meet you" he said shaking her hand.
"Australian?" Emma asked.
"Uh..yeah"
She nodded "cool, what's it like there?"
"Uh..um it's like..it's nice" he stuttered not knowing how to describe it.
Emma giggled "okay"
Luke smiled. He made her laugh.
"So what brings you to California?"
He stopped. His mind searched for a reasonable answer but couldn't seem to find anything "uh...family? Family! Visiting my...Aunt and Uncle? Yeah" he decided "I'm actually meeting someone here but can't seem to find them"
"Really? Me too!" She smiled.
"Oh yeah? Who?"
"My cousin" Emma said "what about you?"
"My friend, he flew in but I don't know when he's getting here. Maybe he already is"
"What's his name?" She asked.
"Calum" dammit he thought. He didn't know what Calum changed his name to. Oh well, the chances of her knowing are-
"Hood?" She asked.
His eye brows went up "yeah wait, Calum's your cousin?"
"Yeah! Oh my gosh this is so cool! You must be one of the friends that's staying with us!"
Part of him was happy. The other part was confused like usual "so...you know what happened?"
"No, what happened?" Emma asked.
I should stop talking now
Luke thought to himself "you know what I can't remember""Okay, well we can wait for Cal together of you want" she said.
"Yes! Yeah okay" he agreed.
"So he never mentioned your name" she said "he told me Luke, Michael, Ashton, and Jack. Not Robert"
"Oh...can we start over?" He asked "this has been weird"
She smiled "yeah sure"
"Hey I'm Luke" he smiled and stuck out his hand.
"Hi Luke, I'm Emma" she said shaking it "why did you say your name was Robert?"
Just in the nick of time Calum walked over to them tiredly followed by Ashton and Michael who dragged suit cases along the floor.
"I see you met Luke" Calum said giving his cousin a hug.
"Yep and Robert"
"Michael, Ashton this is Emma, Em this is Mikey and Ash" he said gesturing to them.
"Nice to meet you" she smiled warmly "Calum can you tell me what's happening?" She asked.
"Later" he said "and don't say our names too loudly" he put his arm on her back to guide her to the exit.
"She's hot" Michael said.
"Melissa" Ashton said hitting Michael on the head with his bag.
"Ow, yeah I know" he said rubbing where Ashton smacked him. They started to walk.
"Plus I have dibs" Luke said from
behind them."You can't call dibs" Ashton said.
"Since when?" Luke asked.
"Since like year nine" Michael sassed from in front.