Southern Belle |M.C|

Chapter 20: Runaway Baby

"Let's do it." Michael grinned. We got home, and asked Savv and Luke to help out with the instruments. Luke could 'play' the drums and Savv told me that she knew about 3 songs on the bass, this being one of them. I was singing, along with Michael and his guitar. All four of us sent out a tweet saying we'd have a video in an hour or two. Savv set up the camera to film and we got settled.

"Hi I'm Michael."

"I'm Belle."

"I'm Savannah."

"And I'm Luke." We each introduced ourselves. Luke continued. "We're, uh, 5 Seconds of R!ot. And we're gonna play a song."

"Nice intro." Michael scoffed. "This is a cover of 'Dani California' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers featuring a very special announcement towards the end of the video."

"Let's go." I smiled into the mic. Luke started up with the drums and Savv followed with the bass. Michael joined in as I sang the first verse. For the chorus, we all sang. It was such a well known song, we didn't need too much rehearsal. "California show your teeth. She's my priestess, I'm your priest. Yeah."

Michael took the next verse in his husky singing voice. I loved watching him perform, especially when he got into it. Anything Green Day he would absolutely nail, like he was the reincarnation of Billie Joe Armstrong. Savv took some back up vocals, but she mostly focused on the enormous bass she was trying to maneuver. It was her dad's but she was doing a pretty good job.

During the second rendition of the chorus, I started dancing around, more comfortable. I was stomping and flipping my hair, letting my inner rock star out. Savv pulled forward to take a bass/guitar solo with Michael. They looked pretty awesome, Savv picking the final notes of the song and jumping in sync with Michael.

Savv grinned and retreated back to Luke, making sure he was okay. Obviously, he didn't play the drums too often. Michael pulled me closer and shot me a quick smile before returning his glance to the camera.

"Thanks for watching 5 Seconds of R!ot, this is Michael Clifford signing off with my beautiful girlfriend of three months, Belle Crawford." Michael dipped down to give me a kiss, slipping his tongue into my mouth to tease the fans.

I jokingly pushed him off of me and waved at the camera, "Bye!"

Luke jumped up and grabbed the camera to stop it and then download the video onto his laptop. "Give me a half an hour. Pretty soon the whole world's gonna know that you're dating Belle."

"Good." Michael smirked, and kissed me again.

The next three hours were absolutely chaotic. Luke uploaded the video on 5sos's youtube channel and sent out a tweet with the link in it. 5 minutes passed, and my twitter started exploding with fans tweeting stuff at me. There were pictures of our kiss, gifs of the kiss, but most of them were asking if I could confirm that I was with Michael. I figured the best thing to do was to confirm it. I selected a picture of Michael and I kissing with a sunset in the background (Savv's idea) and tweeted it saying '@Michael5sos nice kissing babe'. His phone buzzed from across the room and he looked at me."Subtle."

I laughed, "I know."

"You getting all these notifications?" he asked, putting his phone on silent because it pinged every second. I nodded. He adjusted his hair and looked at me, "You're going to get a lot of shit these next few months."

"I've been dealing with shit for years. I'm a big, tough girl, Mikey. I can take it." I smiled and walked over, sitting on his lap.

He cuddled me close, planting an innocent kiss on my cheek. "You're amazing, Belle. Really fucking amazing."