Adopted by a band...

Compromises?

Ashton P.O.V

*an hour ago*

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I got a call from Sarah, one of our managers, saying we needed to come in for a very needed talk, about how we're a lot like kids. I was trying to get everyone together to tell them about it, but as usual, Michael was focused on his video game while Luke was chasing Calum around the hotel room trying to get his plush penguin back. I just rolled my eyes at them and seized the Penguin from Calum as he ran past me. I handed it to Luke and placed him over by Michael, who was still playing his game. Calum had disappeared into the kitchen possibly to get a piece of pizza that we had ordered over an hour ago.

"Calum! We need to talk now!" I yelled taking the remote out of Michaels' hands and pausing his game

"Hey, I was playing that!" Michael growled at me.

"I don't care!" I rolled my eyes as Calum sat next to Michael. Calum had almost a half of the pizza on his plate. I opened my mouth to speak after Michael was done groaning, which he was doing very loudly.

"I just got off the phone with Sarah an-" "You're always talking to Sarah. Why don't you two just date already?" Calum butted in before shoving pizza into his mouth.

"Because I don't like her. As I was saying, She wants all of us to go a meeting. The room filled with playful groans causing me to roll my eyes again. "Shut up I don't want to go either!" I laughed as I turned off the TV.

"But my game!" Michael whined standing up.

"No more. Get your shoes on so we can go." I laughed throwing a pair of shoes at Mike. They all got up and walked to wherever their shoes were and put them on. Luke was the first one done.

"Is this gonna take long?" Luke asked opening the door to the hotel we were staying in.

"A couple hours, I don't know. Sarah likes to talk." I shrugged and watched the rest file out behind Luke before stepping out the door

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After getting there and comfortable in our seats Sarah came out.

"C'mon, boys. Let's get down to business," she said gesturing for us to come into the room. We stood up and walked into the grey conference room and sat back down.

"Okay, why are we here this time? I mean we haven't been up to any trouble lately," Calum said with a small smile on his face.

"You boys aren't in trouble," Sarah said rolling her eyes. "But you do have some issues in the paper about you guys being too immature. And we aren't so happy about that. So we're going to give you a mission," she said as she smiled widely.

"Like what? Adopt a little child," Michael laughed and Sarah nodded.

"Actually, yes. Here's the address of the orphanage." Sarah said handing me a piece of paper with an address on it"The age limit is your choice. But don't go too young due to you guy's always having to work. They need to be able to take care of themselves while you are in the studio," She explained as she watched us.

Michael groaned and leaned back in his seat. "I was kidding!!"

"Sadly I'm not. Get going. I already called them to tell them you're coming." Sarah said smiling at Michael. "Shoo now, I have actual work to do."

We all filed out of the room and headed back out to the van. That was one of the shortest meetings we've ever been.

"What age do you think is best?" Luke asked quietly as he got comfortable in the van.