Adopted by R5 - My story

Chapter 32- Challenges

Lunch proceeded really well between laughs and shared stories. Despite the ridiculously big amount of time spent all together, we were never lacking memories or fun facts to tell, and this continued to surprise me everytime. I had always thought that life being in a touring band was relatively boring and monotone, and only now I came to realize I was wrong (which was a nice surprise, really).
Between our laughs, I could see Michael glancing at me from the corner of the eye, but at first I thought I was just imagining things. Then he clearly looked at me, right in the eyes, when the others were choking on their food because of a joke or something, and time seemed to stop.
It was just a couple of seconds, but it was enough to build an indescribable tension between the two of us.
You see, there is this mysterious thing where two people can be in any strong relationship (best friends, lovers, enemies...) but suddenly become awkward and shy while in public together.
It is exactly what was happening between Michael and I, our gazes would meet but hurriedly wander away.
I couldn't tell if the others noticed this growing tension, but they looked too focused on their conversations.
"And then he jumped like 5 feet in the air" giggled Rydel.
From what I catched from the ongoing story, she was talking about that time they pulled a prank on Mark scaring the shìt out of him. I am sure he didn't enjoy that.
It was decided that we should all go home, since R5 had another writing session and 5sos needed to record their new song.
As we went into the parking lot, I felt an arm gently pulling me from behind. I turned around and I saw Michael, who was leaning closer to my ear.
"You busy tomorrow?" He whispered.
I shook my head smiling, already knowing was what going to come.
"Then wanna come over to, like, watch a movie?"
"Of course I do!" I replied happily.
"Good" he said placing a kiss on my cheek. I felt my face heat up, both from not expecting the kiss and from realising only now how much I craved it.
When I got in the car, I turned my head so that the boys couldn't see my face, since I didn't know if I was still blushing or not.
They dropped Ryland and I home then headed to the studio.
"I'm going to stay in my room" I announced.
"I guess I'll be downstairs watching a movie. If you wanna join just come". I nodded and entered my room.
I scrolled through twitter for a while , then got bored and went to join Ryland, who was watching the latest Iron Man movie.
I sat next to him and randomly asked
"You haven't told the fans about me, have you?"
"Not yet, but we wanted to do a livestream with a few announcements, so we will tell them soon, if that's okay with you."
"Of course it is." He nodded then, after a few minutes of silence with only the movie playing, I added,
"Do you think there'll be a lot of hate?"
"There always is" he sighed "but you have to learn not to let it bother you. And never believe what they say, because it is buļlshit"
I knew it was going to be hard, so I was somehow prepared. Also, I had read some hate comments on Twitter directed to different people and I found most of them pathetic and even ridiculous.
And life is made of challenges, isn't it?