Brooklyn
There was awkward silence between us. Luke was looking at me but I ignored his stare.
"So..." Michael said breaking the silence.
"Who wants pizza?" Michaela asked, looking around the room. I appreciate what they were doing, trying to stop the awkwardness between us.
"I can't I need to go to work in an hour." I said, standing up from my seat.
"Oh yeah, say hi to Ashley for me." Hannah said. I nodded and started to make way to my room. It was 10:25 now and I have half an hour to get ready.
My job isn't really that easy to find. 4 months ago I went to a festival with Michaela and Hannah. There, we met Ashley. Most people know her as Halsey. Michaela and I knew who she was. We've listened to her music and we were practically obsessed with her. Anyways, ever since then we became friends.
About 6 weeks ago, she was looking for an assistant. Michaela already had a record shop and Hannah already worked for a reptile shop. I was the only one in the house who didn't have a job. I did some babysitting but I wasn't really earning enough money from that so i figured why not take the job.
I opened my bedroom door, walking inside and throwing my phone on my bed. I made my way to my closet and pick out some clothes. I took a black crop top and an acid-wash high waisted jeans. After I went to the bathroom and got changed.
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I walked out of the bathroom fully changed and had my makeup done. I didn't wear that much makeup considering I was too lazy to spend hour on that.
My phone vibrated from where I throw it earlier. The called ID was Ashley's. I grabbed my phone and quickly answered it.
"Hey, I'm sorry I might be a bit late toda-" She cut me off.
"Stop talking. Michaela's brother is back isn't he?" She asked. My eyebrows frowned in confusion as to why she wold care.
"Yeah, he decided to bring his band mates along with him." I said, sounding a bit annoyed. She chuckled.
"Look I would understand if you couldn't make it today. I mean according to you and Michaela, he is practically family to you. And I'm sure you guys need to catch up on a lot of things." she said.
"No. I can make it today. I can't stand being in one roof with any of them right now."
"Why not?"
"Because Luke is here as well." I said followed by sigh.
"Oh." She said. She knew about what happened between me and Luke. I felt like I could trust her enough to let her know some of past.
"Yeah. Listen I'll be there in a bit. I'll talk to you later." I said in a rush. I hung up the phone before she was able to say a word.
I placed phone on the back pocket of my jeans. I slipped on my plain black vans and walked out my room with my car keys.
Calum's laughter echoed through the hall along with the other's. I smiled at the thought of them having fun without me. In all honesty, I was fine with it. I would probably cause more awkwardness which would lead to boredom. That's not really fun. I walked pass them and waved goodbye.
"I have no idea what time I'll be back so do wait up if I'm back late." I told them.
"I'll miss you little faggot." Michaela shouted.
"I'll miss you too little shit." I said, chuckling at her childishness.
"What about me?" Hannah asked.
"I'll miss you too monkey." I winked at her. The others just looked at us as, probably judging how weird we were.
"See yah." I said before marching out of the door.
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"You know, today is just a writing session so we won't really be doing much." Ashley said as walk down the hallway that led to her recording studio.
"Yeah, I'd rather be here than be at home with Luke."
"What will you do now though? I mean you live with him for a couple of months, you can't just ignore him." She had a point. Ignoring Luke for the next couple of months would be hard. But I don't really feel like talking to him.
"I'll just keep trying to ignore him as much as possible. I don't want to be rude to him but I'm not ready to face him yet." I told her. We've reach the end of the hall way and the door already open. We walked in finding an empty studio.
"Where's Mason? Isn't he supposed to be here?" I asked her.
"I told him I wanted to have a private writing session so I'll just send him what I've come up with by the end of the day." she expained, grabbing a piece of paper and a pencil. I nodded slowly and sat down in silence. My phone vibrated from my pocket indicating that I got a message.
MikeyG: WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME U WORK FOR HALSEY!!
Brooke: U didn't ask.
MikeyG: You're luck you know that.
Brooke: yeah 😊 I need to go now douchbag.
MikeyG: Aww 😩
Brooke: Bye. I'll tell her u said hi.
MikeyG: yay!!
Brooke: Bye 😘
I put my phone back to my back pocket and looked up to find Ashley smiling at me.
"What?" I asked her.
"Was that Luke?" She said, smiling.
"No! It's a guy who has a crush on you." I said.
"Oh, who was it?" She said, sitting up from her seat.
"My unrelated older brother." I said, watching her eyes widen a little bit.
"Really? Michael Clifford likes me?"
"I don't know. He just texted me about how lucky I am to be working with you."
"Oh, well I really like his band." She said, turning her attention back to writing.
"You know what, I think you should meet him. He's really nice and sometimes annoying but hems really nice." I said excitedly.
"That's a good idea, You can take them to me show tomorrow and we can all hang out at the after party." she said, agreeing with my idea.
"Sounds like a plan."
