Riley's POV
A familiar sound wakes me up from a very short night.
Shit, did I forget to charge my phone overnight again? That must be the annoying noise. I search for my phone when I realise Alison is laying next to me. Oh, right, we fell asleep during the movies last night.
It takes me a while to find my phone because my eyes aren't used to the bright light in the room yet. When I finally got it, Alison wakes up with a very tired face.
'What? Did I fell asleep last night or something?' She asks me.
I chuckle
'Yeah, we didn't make it until the end of the 5th movie or so'
Alison laughs 'yeah, I always fall asleep during movies. Remember when we went to that very popular movie and I fell asleep?' She laughs again. 'When was that? Like, 5 years ago or something? Man, time flies'
I smile, it's nice to think of all the weird and funny things we did together. All the sleepovers, movie nights, prank calling and much more. Man, I hope I'll never lose Alison.
I look at my phone to see if it died yet, when I find out it's charging. It was not the battery yelling for a charger, instead, it was a text. The text was sent yesterday, I guess my phone wasn't really working or somethig, because I only received the text a few minutes ago.
With little hope I open it. It doesn't have a name, only a phone number. Every single contact in my phone has a name, so I suppose this must be a text from Luke.
"Hey"
With a grin on my face, I send a text back. A simple hey will do since he didn't say anything else either.
"Hey"
Alison notices me smiling at my phone and she immediately grabs it out of my hands.
'You are texting with Luke? Luke Hemmings?' She shrieks.
'Well, we only said hey. You know that I suck at starting conversations so I'm just gonna wait until he texts me again'
'Nooo, you should definitely send him another text. Or wait, then you sound desperate. So don't text him. But who knows when he will text you again?' Alison says.
I smile, how stressed my friend always can be about such stuff is just hilarious.
'Yeah well, I'll just wait for him to text.' I tell Alison. 'Do you want to grab some coffee outdoors and shop or something? Sitting here doing nothing all day is annoying and it's already 2 pm'
'Sure' Alison agrees. 'I need to get some stuff from Target anyways so let's go'
Luke's POV
'Dude, your phone, why did you have to choose such a loud and annoying sound for an incoming text?' Ashton complains.
I look up from my seat in the car. We are driving to the arena again, where we will be playing tonight. Yesterday was only a soundcheck, tonight is the night. I wonder if there will be some people that I know in the crowd.
'W-what?' I yawn. I must have fallen asleep or something, because we are almost there and I don't remember the drive being this short.
'Open the text or something mate, your phone keeps making that annoying sound when you don't read it' Ashton says again.
Yeah I'm sure I fell asleep because I haven't heard a thing.
Without any thoughts of who it could be, I unlock my phone.
It's Riley.
'Hey'
'Hahah Calum! She texted back!' Mikey screams into my ear. He is leaning against the back of my seat, looking at my phone.
'Really?' Calum says with a surprised expression.
'Duuuudeee!' Mikey yells into my ear again. 'Text her back!'
'What should I say?'
I have no idea what to do right now. We said hey, that's it. I'm not good at starting conversations. But since Mikey and Calum texted Riley, she must think I've got something to talk about, otherwise I wouldn't have said hey.
I sigh. Mikey looks at me with a hopeful expression. 'So?'
'So what? You texted her first, I don't know what to say' I tell Mikey.
'Hmmm. What about..' Mikey rubs his chin.
'About what? Come on, tell me. Don't give me your 'I'm-being-very-mysterious' look.
Mikey laughs.
'Hey paul, are there any like, VIP or backstage tickets left?' Calum asks paul.
'I think so, why?'
'Can we like, give them away? The show is tonight and we still have them left so...?'
'I'll have to talk to someone about that' Paul says.
'That's gonna be a yes anyway' Calum whispers.
'So what does Riley have to do with this?' I ask my friends.
'Dude, are you stupid? Don't you get it? You're going to text Riley, and ask her if she wants to come to the concert tonight' Ashton laughs.
Without replying to Ashton, I start typing.
'Hey...'
'Wait, do I say hey again or nah?' I ask.
'Whatever just do something' Calum tells me.
'Would you like to..'
'Can she bring a friend?'
'Of course she can, idiot. I'm sure she wouldn't even agree to come to the show if she would have to go on her own' Mikey says.
'Okay' I sigh. I'm just gonna give it a try. We'll see whether she agrees or not.
'Would you like to come to our show tonight? You can bring a friend if you want to. I'll text you the rest of the things you should know later on'
