Redesign

THREE

James

"They can't complain we are late this time" West cheered as we approached Studio A with the other guys. The girls told us to meet them there in 30 minutes, but for some reason we were early and do our surprise the studio was not empty

"Liv" A voice none of us recognised said making Olivia look up from her phone as a tall brunette made his way over to her
"Your early? Where are the other boys?" She asked
"We needed to talk first, Josh and Ben aren't far behind" He explained, I guess this must be one of the boys they told us about yesterday
"And what do we need to talk about exactly Grayson" Olivia questioned crossing her arms across her chest

"Guys I don't think we should be listening into this" I warned them all
"Oh please, don't act like you didn't know we did this all the time with you and Riley" Hunter chuckled

"How about the fact you ignored me for 48 hours and then when you needed something you went to Josh first?" Grayson offered
"Thought you would be too busy, since you've got Ellie clinging onto you like a leech" Olivia scoffed moving away from him trying to keep herself busy
It's the same avoidance tactic Riley had whenever we had a blip or an argument 
"So that is what this is about? Ellie?" He asked
"I don't give a rats ass about her. I'm just saying, I'm not bothering you anymore simple as. Can't be deemed a burden" She said taking a sharp intake of breath in 

"Who told you that you were a burden Liv?" Grayson asked
"Nobody" Olivia muttered but I think we all know it was game over for her the moment that she said that comment
"It was Ellie wasn't it?" Grayson asked taking a step towards her taking a hold of her hand

"What are you lot doing?" A voice said making all of us jump out of our skin
As we turned we saw all of the girls stood their with their arms crossed against their chest
"Eavesdropping just like old times. Charming boys" Stephanie said eyeing what were previously watching 
"Well we didn't want to interrupt so you know?" Hunter said scratching the back of his neck but every single one of them rolled their eyes 

"Oh love birds! Have we made up now?" Another voice said grabbing our attention
"Looks like Josh is here and if he's here then-" Riley started
"Josh i think Livy might actually kill you with that glare" Another voice said
"Ben isn't far behind" Riley laughed
"Nah she wouldn't, she loves me too me. Ain't that right Livy" Josh said throwing his arm over her shoulder
"The jury is still out on that one" Olivia muttered pushing his arm off of her making us all chuckle as we walked into the room

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It didn't take us long to get all the introductions out of the way, the boys were warming up before showing us that they could actually dance. But since Riley knows them, I don't doubt that they can 
"Ready?" Olivia said to all of us grabbing out attention again looking to see the boys stood there with grins on their faces making all of us slightly worried about what we were about to witness 

Well shit... 
"They remind me a lot of you boys you know" Michelle teased but in reality I knew exactly what she meant. If these boys had been around when we were here they would have given us a run for our money
"Okay so now we know you can all dance, we only need a minimum of 6 people but ideally 8" Emily explained
"Good luck with that, anyone we could suggest Livy here would skin alive" Ben teased while Olivia rolled her eyes
"Not my fault your choice in company is worse then dog shit" Olivia retaliated
"Language" Riley added
"Yeah Livy languageeee" Ben continued to tease
"Benjamin" Riley warned him making his eyes widen
"Look at little Riley being so motherly" Hunter said making us all chuckle

In retrospect, out of all of us if anyone was going to be a parent it would be Riley. I think it's something she has truly always wanted
I did too, I always had it visioned that it would be Riley and I trying to raise the latest A-Troupe but that suddenly changed

Truth is, no matter how many people ask me why we broke up, I won't ever be able to given them an answer
Because I don't even know..

I glance over at Riley who had her eyes closed for a second, if memory serves me well she was trying to avoid remembering something

"How about we all come back to ours for pizza?" Olivia offered
"Is that not something you should be checking with Riley first Liv?" Emily suggested, all Olivia had to do was turn to Riley offering her puppy dog eyes and she was practically putty in her hands

"The boys would have been coming back anyway, you guys are always welcome" She said directly the last comment to us
"I thought you said Em had to make it known first?" Olivia said making the boys snigger

"Livy darling, I don't think that was known" Josh laughed throwing his arm over her again as we all walked out of studio A