Complete Mess; C.H.

9.

Aria's Pov.
"What do I wear," I say urgently to Crystal.
She grabs my hand and pulls me into the guest bedroom.
"I have a few dresses that my stylist brought in, her look through," she says and I look through about 8 or 9 formal dresses.
A white long sleeve dress caught my eye, it was lace I liked that because it was soft and innocent, but it was also backless which was mature and bold.
"What about this one?" I say to her.
She smiles. "Try it on"
I slide the dress on the walk over to her mirror.
"You look, gorgeous babe," she says.
"I love it," I say
"We have to leave in 3 hours, so I'm gonna hop in the shower," she says.
I walk into my bedroom where I'm shortly met by max.
"Hii Maximus" I joke.
"Hi Anariri," she says back.
"Let me see your dress," I say.
She shows me a tiny champagne-colored dress, it complimented her tan skin and bright blonde hair perfectly.
"It's gorgeous Max," I say to her.
"Ok bitch so me yours" she jokes.
I lift up the white dress and her jaw drops.
"You're gonna look gorgeous Ari, are you going with ash?"
"Uh, no actually Cal asked me," I say and blush.
"No.FUCKING.WAYY" she hypes.
"I know, I know" I try to hide the blush on my cheeks.
Ari turns on some music, occasionally one of the boy's songs would come on. I love their music.
I loosely curl my hair, watching the ringlets fall perfectly.
I put on mascara and highlighter, I usually wear a lot of makeup, but flashback would not be my friend.

I hear a light knock at the door.
"Uh Cal and Luke are here," ash says. I give him a weird look, like ok dad you didn't need to let us know.
"Be down in a sec" I say choosing to not be a dick to my brother.
I lace up my heels around my ankle and I and max walk downstairs. I see Calum with a gorgeous bouquet of white roses. Luke has some light pink roses with forest green accents.
I smile down at them, I notice Crystal and the girl from the Beach holding flowers that also complemented their blue and lilac dresses.
"How did you guys know what we were wearing?" Max jokes.
"A little birdie told me," Michael says, I instantly knew Crystal had spilled the beans, only in our best interest though.
I look up at Calum.
"Thanks, Cal," I say and hold the huge bouquet in my arm.
"Anything for you Ari," he says and kisses my head, "you look gorgeous"
I blush at him.
"You don't look bad yourself hood," I say.
Calums opens the door to our Uber.
They were very particular about their arrival order.
Mikey and Crystal are already there, and Luke and max are on their way. Then Ashton and then us.
I never understood the point of a grand entrance, but what do I know about the industry.
I and cal take a few pictures and then finally head on our way.
We start our drive to the venue, it's some red carpet dinner event for Australian Celebrities.
"Don't be nervous, theirs gonna be a lot of cameras and flashing lights. I'm gonna get out first and stand in front of you, I know you like your space but it's so they don't get any up the dress shots, because if they have them they will use them" he says and grabs my hand. The thought of being exposed to the internet made me way more nervous.
"Hey you got this," he says and smiles at me, I smile back at him and I look forward, I can already see the flashing lights.
The door is opened by a tall man.
"Calum over here?"
"Who's that girl?"
Calum grabs my hand standing directly in front of me as he said. I cautiously get out of the car and the door is shut behind me.
I wrap my arm around Calums, I'm gonna be honest I kinda feel like an accessory to Calum.
"Calum over here"
"Ok just turn like that, and look over there," he says and points at Vogue photographers.
I start to notice there are very few specific brands cal would acknowledge, I assumed it was because of fake news, or bad press. Who knows.
We walk a way down the carpet and we enter the live interviews.
Calum looks scared and gives Ashton who is ahead of us a concerned look.
Ashton quickly wraps up his interview and sends their publicist to us.
"Hey guy" she starts "Honesty is policy you guys know how I am"
She gives me the most radiant and honest vibes.
"Whatever they ask answer honestly, if you don't feel comfortable answering just beat around the bush," she says and kisses our cheeks.
"I have to go, Luke is apparently leaking song titles to TMZ," she says and scurries off.
"She's not a very good publicist, just a great person," he says and smiles.
"We got this" he adds.
We walk up to a gorgeous girl dressed in orange.
"Good evening Calum, and who is this gorgeous lady," she asks him, usually I'd be annoyed that she didn't address me about the question, but I understand he's the celebrity.
"This is actually Ashton's sister Arianna," he says and smiles.
"Hello it's amazing to meet you," I say to her, and she smiles at me.
"You look gorgeous tonight darling, tell me what you're wearing," she asks.
"Oh this, I actually last minute stole it from Crystal, I believe it's mark Jacobs," I say, she smiles at me.
"The bond this group has is just incredible," she says to the camera.
"It was nice to meet you, Arianna, hopefully, we'll get to see more of you," she says and the cameras cut.
"Arianna," the woman says and me and Calum start to walk off.
"You're incredible darling, so gorgeous and that was incredible for a first press appearance. You're going places babe" she says and kisses my cheek.
"Thank you so much," I say and hug her.