One by One || 5sos • au

Chapter 8

"Television dreams are tomorrow, we're not the ones who are meant to follow, for that's enough to argue."

The car ride to the festival was silent except for Luke and Ali's small conversation and the quiet sound of Michael singing under his breath.

"You have an amazing voice, Michael." I said nudging his shoulder. He looked up and blushed. I could tell I embarrassed him.

"Thanks, babe," he winked, suddenly regaining his confidence.

Holy flying fuck. He just called me babe.

Babe.

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We finally arrived at the musical festival and it was beautiful. There were firefly lights strung all over the place and I could already hear music.

Michael took my hand in his and led me through the entrance, Luke and Ali following behind.

We walked around the festival stopping at a few stands, just to check out what they had. My mom had given me 50 bucks to "buy me something nice." At least that's what she said when she gave me the money.

The stand we were at had a bunch of necklaces and other types of jewelry. It wasn't really interesting so I went to a different stand while they all stayed at the jewelry one. I guess the jewelry was so amazing to them.

The next stand I went to had a bunch different graphic tees. Now this is the stand for me.

I saw a Led Zeppelin one that I couldn't pass up. it was $20 dollars. As I was handing the guy the money a guy around my age walked up next to me in line. I didn't think much of it until he grabbed my ass. 

"What the hell? Did you just touch me?" I said in a rude tone.

"Yeah, did you like it?" he was getting a little too cocky for my taste. I tried to walk away but he grabbed my arm and pulled me back.

"Please stop, I have a boyfriend," I said referring to Michael just to get him away.

"So he's not here right now is he?"  he smirked and winked.

"Think again," he turned around to be faced by Michael. His grip tightened on my arm as I was trying to yank away.

"Let me go you dick!" I screamed.

"She said to let her go!" he also yelled grabbing my arm away from the guys grasp.

"Oh so this is the infamous boyfriend?" he smirked. I didn't say a word but Michael didn't do the same.

"Yes, now leave before things get ugly."

"Fine. I don't want to cause any trouble," he said putting his hands up in defense. We started to walk away but he grabbed my butt again. Michael noticed and did something really unexpected. He turned around and punched him.

"You better keep your fucking hands off my girlfriend or I'll do it again!" he sneered.

The guy was knocked down on the ground with a bloody nose. He got up and stumbled away not saying a word.

"What a fucking dick," Michael growled.

"Yeah," I said simply.

"Sorry," he apologized. I was confused as to why he was apologizing.

"Why? It's not your fault, Michael."

"I just should've stayed with you and I'm sorry about the girlfriend boyfriend thing. I made it kind of awk-" I cut him off.