drowning | l.h.

6

That night, I stayed in the hotel while the boys played and used the time to skype my best friends Larry and Jaime, who were still the most awesome couple I knew.

The two boys got me really excited for the last show of the "tour" where the boys would be playing in Sydney once again and Larry and Jaime would come to the concert and stay at my place for a day afterwards.

I stayed up until Luke came back from the concert. I couldn't help but smile at the handsome boy, who looked exceptionally great in his black ripped jeans, the black shirt he was wearing and his lipring, which he wore about everyday now just made him look even more perfect in my eyes.

"Hey honey" Luke smiled, looking kind of exhausted, his hair hanging in his face.

I walked up to Luke and hugged him despite the sweat from the concert glistening on his skin.

"Ash told me that you've been feeling jealous because of Mila" Luke said quietly and I groaned a little. I thought I could trust Ashton with my issues without having to tell him not to tell anybody - I thought you stopped having to do that once you graduated primary school.

"Hey - I'm the last one to blame you for being jealous, but I promise you that there's nothing to be jealous about."

I let go of Luke a little to be able to look at him. "Pinky promise?" I asked and Luke smiled at me and linked his pinky with mine. "Pinky promise that you're the only girl I see and the one I love and that you never ever have to worry about other girls" Luke said and I pulled him down to me to kiss him.

"I love you" I said, resting my cheek against his chest.

Luke repeated my words and then let go of me, telling me that he had to take a shower before he fell asleep standing up.

I wasn't feeling sleepy yet, so I decided to take a walk as I had been sitting and laying around all day long.

Somehow my walk ended in front of Ashton and Calum's room, who decided to share a room to save money and I knocked carefully in case one of them was already sleeping.

"Bella!" Calum exclaimed after just one knock. So much to any of them sleeping.

"Thank you, I think you just about saved me from having to hear how great Mila is for the millionth time." Calum said quietly so that Ashton didn't hear him.

I rolled my eyes. "Don't worry, I will not tell you about her greatness at all. Though her hair is pretty cool."

Calum groaned jokingly and led me into the room.

It was quite impressive how messy the room was considering that we only checked in late noon and the boys barely had time to trash the room but somehow they still made it look like a tornado had taken place in there.

"Deciding on what to wear on stage is a difficult thing" was the excuse Ashton came up with.

Ashton, Calum and I smalltalked about this and that for a while until we heard noises from the other room, in which at least two people unmistakenly were having sex in.

"Great neighbour you guys got there" I said, wincing as I heard a loud bang - probably one of the lovers punching the wall.

Calum started playing with the fabric of the sheets he was sitting on and Ashton looked at me as if he was ashamed of the words that left his mouth next. "Michael is our neighbour."

"What?" I exclaimed as the moans from the next room got louder.

"Sorry guys, but I can't listen to this anymore" I said, leaving the room and almost running back to the room I shared with Luke.

I didn't like to think about Michael having sex and hearing him do it was kind of like walking in on your parents - just a terrible experience.

Luke was wandering around in the room, brushing his teeth as I walked in and when he saw my shocked expression he furrowed his eyebrows and went to clean out his mouth.

"I just heard Michael have sex with someone and I think that might scar me for the rest of my life"

Luke laughed so much at my words, he almost choked on the remains of toothpaste in his mouth.

"Luke, this is serious" I said, pouting a bit but unable to keep from grinning a little.

"Sorry, honey, it's just the way you said it. But who's voluntarily having sex with Mike?"

I shrugged. Michael usually wasn't the guy to just sleep around, in fact I only knew of one girl he ever slept with and there was no way that she was the one he was with right now because she moved across the country two years ago.

"Bella? I think Michael just made his first groupie"

"What?" I asked, staring at my boyfriend with wide eyes.

"Seriously, there was this girl at the show and Michael kept on talking about how hot she was, but I thought he was joking when he said he'd take her back to the hotel."

~~~

The next morning at breakfast, Michael seemed happier than usual but I didn't like the fact that he was sleeping around with girls he didn't know, it just didn't seem in character for my best friend, so I confronted him about the last night.

"So you can get some whenever you want but i'm not allowed to ever have some fun?" he answered, already sounding annoyed at me.

"Mike, I'm just worried. In all these years I've know you, you've never been the type of guy to meaninglessly sleep around."

"What if I am that guy now? I do not need you to babysit me, Gabriella."