One by One || 5sos • au

Chapter 3

His stare could put me in a trance.

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"Hi. Let me thoroughly introduce myself, I'm Michael," he smiled and put his hand out for me to shake it.

I obliged, "I'm Becca," I couldn't erase the smile off my face, he was beautiful, "how are you?"

"Great. Well, I am now at least," he smirked and I thought I was going to faint.

"Me too," I giggled, "I mean, now I am," I added still smiling.

"Becca? I think you're drooling."

"Shut up, Ali," my face grew red of embarrassment.

Michael smiled, looking down at his feet. He was absolutely breathtaking.

"So," Ashton said to break the awkward silence.

Luke was talking to Ali and I couldn't help but smile. I walked over to them and I nudged Ali.

"You makin' a move?" I whispered, but apparently not quiet enough because Luke heard me, bit his lip, and laughed

Ali pulled me away and started lecturing me.

"Becca you can't just interrupt like that, and yes, I was making a move thank you very much!"

I put my hands up in defense, "I was just curious. You embarrassed me so, call it even."

"Oh, whatever," Ali whispered yelled at me.

She walked back over to Luke and I heard her apologize to him for my behavior. Making me roll my eyes.

"Who wants to go to the mall?" Ashton asked everyone.

We all exchanged glances and then nodded in agreement. I still had the left over money from shopping yesterday, so I was good.

We all piled into two cars.

Ali's car was Michael, Ali, and Luke and I. perfect. And Ashton's car was just him and Calum.

We arrived at the mall 10 minutes later.

"Okay we are here," Ali said. The silent car ride finally came to an end. For some reason, no one talked the whole way there. Just the sound of the radio playing quietly in the background.

We parked next to Ashton and got out of the car.

Ali pulled me aside to talk to me privately. I pretty much already knew what she was going to ask.

"So you like Michael," she said more as a statement than a question. And that's exactly what I thought she'd say.

"I mean I don't know, he's cute. But I barely know him," I blushed and she obviously noticed and smiled.

"You do. I can tell," I just blushed not knowing what to say. She continued, "Aweee how cute."

"Shut up, Ali," I said with no expression.

"Sorry, can't help it," she said with a smirk.

We walked into the mall and made a plan. Well Ali made a plan. Great, this isn't going to end well.

"We're going to split up and meet back at this spot, okay?" she asked. I started to reply but she didn't give anyone time to, "Okay," she answered for us.

"So here's the plan, Ashton and Calum, Luke and I and, last but not least, Michael and Becca," she ended her sentence with a smirk, "Sound good? okay good," again not giving anyone time to respond.

"Let's go!" Ali practically screamed. Does she have to do this?

I turned to Michael and smiled, "I guess we are shopping partners. Where do you wanna go partner?"