Something New (5 Seconds of Summer and Before You Exit)

Day 5: How Could I Forget? (Part 1)

Taylor's POV:

I woke up the next morning with my phone going off on my nightstand. I get up half awake and see that it was Riley calling me.

"Hey Riley," I mumble.

"He-shit did I wake you up? I'm sorry this was just really important but it is 9:30am so I assumed you would be up," He rambles on.

"No no it's fine I should be up anyways. What's up?"

"Just check your email and text me when you do," He says simply and hangs up.

Well that was strange...

I walk over to the big desktop on my desk and open my mail and find the email from Riley.

'Hey Tay! So you probably saw the band tweet from last night and I'm sure your mad that we didn't tell you that we would be in town tonight but you really shouldn't be. Here are 2 tickets for our show tonight. They are VIP so make sure you are there 2 hours early. Our security guard will be at the main front doors so I need you to go up to him and show him your tickets and he will let you in before everyone else.

See you later!

-Riley'

Wow. That was extremely detailed. But I'm not going to the show. Toby lied to me! And right now he isn't the boyfriend of the year and I don't want to have to face him right now. I don't wanna punch his beautiful face.

I sigh and grab my phone and compose my message for Riley explaining that can't go to the show tonight.

'Hey Ri thanks for the tickets and everything but I really can't go...I don't want to face Toby...Idk but I feel that we are growing apart. We barley talk now and he didn't even tell me that you guys were coming. I'm sorry but I hope you guys have a great show❤️'

As I send the message I feel a single tear roll down my cheek. This past week has been shit and it keeps getting worse. It has really been triggering a lot of sadness in my life and I know it's not healthy. Right now the only thing I can think of the make things better is to stay in New York and break up with Toby...I don't think I would do that yet though there is just too much going on to even think about that.

I hear my phone go off again and it was a message from Riley.

'Look outside.'

What?

I walk over to my window with a small bench and I see Riley standing on the grass looking up and me and waving happily.

"You wanna let me inside so I can explain?" He yells from the bottom. I giggle and run down the stairs to open the door for him.

"Hey what are you doing here-well a better question would be how do you know where I live?" I ask confused.

"Well...I have my ways. Just trust me ok? But the better question is why you won't go to the concert? Toby doesn't hate you or anything like that. There is a reason for all of this craziness. Now I need you to go upstairs and get ready and then you are going to call one of your friends forcing them to come to this concert ok? ok!" Riley exclaims and pushes me towards the stairs.

Riley, Ros and I were in a taxi on our way to who knows where! Riley just told us that this will explain everything but he won't give me any hints and Ros was just totally confused.

I know it seems bad to be out while my sisters and some of my best friends are missing but I can't be depressed for another week. I don't want to become a sad person that harms myself because of this situation and my dad agrees that I need to get my mind off things for the night and just live my life and they would contact me immediately if they get any news about Vik.

We finally hit our destination which was The Best Buy Theatre. Well I guess I'm coming to the concert whether I like it or not.

Once we get into the theatre we saw people in black shirts walking around with equipment and setting things up on the stage.

"So we have to do sound check in about 15 minutes so you guys can go across the street for lunch and be back here for 5 cause the show starts at 6," Riley explains. We nod and we go our separate ways.

We were in a small café eating sandwiches and drinking smoothies and Ros speaks up.

"You know I think Riley planned this all I mean why would he randomly come to your house Tay," Ros questions as she sips on her strawberry and banana smoothie.

"Dude Riley is 18 and I'm only 16. It's kind of a big difference plus were just besties and nothing more and I know that for sure," I say with certainty.

"Whatever you saaaaay," Ros says rolling her eyes playfully.

We were back at the theatre and there was a huge line-up of girls and almost all of them were giving up judgy looks as we skipped the line and got into the venue 30 minutes earlier then them.

Once we found our seats in the middle of the third row and all the other fans were piling in there was another message on my phone...from Toby

'Really hope you like this. I really care about Tay and I hope you never forget that?