I like it that way | Michael Clifford

Chapter 3

"Is it just me or are you basically asking me how big is my... uhm... man part?" Calum is still laughing.

"No, I would never do that!" Lia says dramatically and even puts his hands over her mouth, Michael and Calum are watching her with curiosity.

"But since you mentioned it up, yeah you can tell me that." She stick her tongue to Calum, Michael eyes widens, he doesn't like the stuff, that's going on between Liam and Calum right now. He feels, that they have a connection, like they have known each other for ages.

"What? You didn't just do that!" Calum pokes Lia in her arm and they both laugh, Michael is still processing, what is going on.

"Oh yeah, but I did." She answers, feeling proud of her comment.

"Yup, by the way, it's true." Calum says and winks to Lia.

"If I was you, I wouldn't believe that, you know?" Michael decided, that it's time for him to jump in between their weird conversation. Both, Lia and Calum look at Michael, they almost forgot, that he is walking next to them.

"Oh, really and why is that?" Lia challenges Michael.

"I've seen "it" before, and I wasn't impressed." Michael smirks.

"Yeah man, way to go, she will thought we are some kind of weirdos, showing each others our dicks." Calum says like he is offended, but he's joking. Lia giggles.

"It's not my fault, that you spend more time naked than dressed." Michael waves his hands in the air, but quickly looks over, to see Lia, giggling like crazy, her left hand covering her mouth.

"I feel free!" Calum different himself.

"Free my ass." Michael quickly answer, they walk in the silence for a few seconds, then they all started laughing.

"Well, that was fun." Lia comments, then she realizes, that Luke looks like he is almost hitting on Em, she is not completely sure, because she walks a few feet behind them, but the way Luke moves towards her anytime he got a chance... it seems suspicious.

"Hey, what's going on over there?" Lia asks for an expert opinion.

"Oh, that is just Luke, trying to get the girl." Calum answers, like it's not a big of a deal. Lia stops and with her hands stops Michael and Calum too. They both look at her, with surprise clearly visible on their faces.

"What now?" Michael asks.

"He is trying to get Em? Okay now spill it, how is he like, is he like a good boyfriend, does he have a lot of girls, is he serious, how many girlfriends did he have till now, why he doesn't have a girlfriend now, why did he brake up with his ex's?..." Lia is out of breath, when Michael interrupts her.

"Wooow, hold your horses. They are not going to marry tomorrow, you know, you have the time to know all this stuff about our Lucas." Michael tries to calm her down.

"Yeah and beside, Luke is not like a guy who will meet a girl and hook up with her the next second, that's Michael part." Calum tries to help Michael, calm Lia down, at that moment Michael coughs awkwardly.

"Why that doesn't surprise me?" Lia turns to Michael.

"Oh, I'm nothing like that... oh lookie, we are here!" He quickly changes the subject, lucky they are in the scene of the music video. Lia decide to drop this for now, but she won't let Michael go off the hook that easily...

Emily comes to Lia and they look around, all they see it's a bunch of people walking up and down and some teenagers, who look about Lia and Emily's age, they are standing in the middle of the scene, talking. On the small stage, next to Ashton's drums, they finally see Frankie, talking with a few older man.

"So, do you like it? It's like a club in the middle of a beach." Ashton says happily. 

It does looks like a club in the middle of a beach, there is like a small wooden dance floor and a stage with drums and some guitars on and lights are everywhere, they even made a bar in the middle of the beach.

"It's awesome." Lia and Em both say.

"This are our dancers, it's actually the first time, we will have a really professional dancers in our video, so that's exciting." Michael says.

"Yeah for you, you fucked almost all the girls here, except of Ashton's girlfriend." Luke says and looks at Em, Lia notices that and she looks at Emily too, but Em is looking at complitly other direction, away from where Luke stands, then Lia looks over at Luke, to see a little disappointment on his face. She is already preparing a plan in her head, how to get Luke and Emily together.

"You are not like that, ha?" Lia raises her eyebrows at Michael.

"People change you know." He answers and all the other boys starts to laugh. Michael looks at them: "Really guys? You are not helping!" He says loudny.

"And Ash, you have a girlfriend, which one is it, let me see." Lia changes the subject.

"Let me guess." Emily says, before Ashton could even opened his mouth.

"I bet she's that one." She says and points at a blonde girl, with a beautifull beach waves and brown eyes. Ashton's eyes spirkle..

"Yeah, Michelle." He says, looking at Michelle, Lia high five Emily and they hug a little.

"So listen, tonight we are having like a hangout eve at my place, do you want to come?" Michael asks the girls.

"Yeah, you two have to come, we will love to get to know, you guys more." Ashton backs Michael up and Luke and Calum nod in agreement. Emily and Lia look at each other: "We are in!" they say.

"Okay awsome, so at 9:30 at my place." Michael looks at Lia and she nods. At that moment Frankie calls everybody's attention.

"So everybody, today we made a plan, tomorrow we start shooting at 11 a.m, everybody is here on time! And for tonight." he pauses, all eyes are on him... "Go and have fun." he says and they all cheer. "Oh and Lia and Emily, you two come here please." he looks at the girls.

"See ya latter." Lia says and walks over to Frankie, following by Emily.

"So, I see that you are already meet the band." He says calmly and they nod.

"Okay, that's fine as long as non of you have nothing to do with Michael, if you know what I mean, he is known, to get every single girl he sees and I don't want that for you two, okay?" he looks at them with concern visible in his eyes. Lia, the girl she is, is now, more than ever, interested in Michael, she is wondering if he is really such a tough guy, who can get any girl.

"Oh and can we go tonight at... ughm.... well... at Michaels house.. they are having this hangout night and they want us to come, so we can get to know each other a bit more?" Emily asks with a puppy face.

"Of course and Em I didn't say you can't hang out with Michael, I just said that... no other stuff, just hang out, get it." Frankie blushes a little, he is kinda embarrassed to talk about "that" stuff in front of his niece.

"Got it." Lia says with a smile.

"So now, are you going home, or?" she asks, her and Em weren't even at their new house yet, so they don't even know where Michaels house is, since he said that their are neighbours.

"Oh yeah, here's the key, the luggage should be in already, and it's that house, go and knock yourself out, I still have to do something." he says and points to a big, white house with a pool. The girls look at each other and run to the house. Emily is the first one to go inside and just about when Lia almost closes the front door someone shouts after her.

"Be ready for tonight!"