Michael Clifford Imagines/Preferences

The Guys Comfort Him

Michael was sitting in his room, he hadn't come out for a couple hours. He stood in front of a full length mirror, he kept switching from looking at himself to looking at comments online. People kept making jokes about him being larger than the rest of the group. Although it typically didn't bother him, he was starting to feel more pressure to become more fit. The rest of the guys were just sitting around chatting about where to go for dinner.

Calum realized they hadn't seen Michael in a while, "anyone seen Michael today?"

Luke shrugged, "He said he didn't want to be bothered, you think maybe he wants to come to dinner?"

Ashton walked over to Michael door and knocked, "worth a shot."

As soon as Michael heard them knock he quickly pulled his shirt back down and started messing with his hair. Ashton walked in and glanced over at Michael, thinking he was just playing around with his hair as usual, "hey mate, we're going to dinner, you coming?" Michael turned around with a fake smile spread across his face, "nah, not too hungry, thanks." Ashton didn't think anything of it, sometimes touring got tiring, and when they were tired they didn't get hungry. He shut the door to Michael's room and walked back over to the guys, "said he's not hungry."

Calum and Luke both grabbed their jackets and walked out the door, Ashton still needed a minute to finish putting on his shoes. However, when the door shut, Michael thought that all of them had left, and he figured now was his only time to let it out. He started letting out quiet sobs, not knowing that Ashton was only a few feet away from his door. At first, Ashton thought maybe someone had left the t.v. on, but after realizing it was Michael, he went outside to call Luke and Calum back inside.

When they came back inside, they made sure to close the door quietly, so that Michael wouldn't have time to pretend he wasn't crying.

They tiptoed over to Michael's door and Calum slowly opened the door, "hey, we heard you."

Michael quickly locked his phone and wiped off his face, "oh, just feeling a bit homesick, you know."

Luke tossed him a towel, "no you're not, when you're homesick you like to be around us more and you call your mum a lot, you don't cry."

Ashton grabbed Michael's phone, which he could tell he was hiding, "what were you looking at?"

Michael took his phone back, "nothing, I was just reading."

Calum snatched it from his hand, "I don't want to invade your privacy, but I will if I have to."

Michael flopped onto the floor and looked up at them, "I just, I want to be more fit."

Ashton crouched next to him, "okay, but why are you crying?"

Once again Michael felt the tears start to fill his eyes, "You know how embarrassing it is to have people baby you just because you like food? It's like they look at Ash and he's this amazing drummer, and then they look at Luke and he's this great singer, and then they look at Cal and he's this awesome song writer, and then they look at me - and I'm the one who likes food. It's like I'm only my body, nothing else matters because I don't have abs."

Calum sat Michael up, "then tell them that."

Michael stared at him blankly, "what?"

Luke tossed him his phone, "tell them that you don't like only being seen as your body. The fans love you mate, you know how bad most of them would feel about you crying? They'd start a trending hashtag to apologize."

Ashton grabbed the phone and opened up snapchat, "so tell them, because you have nothing to be ashamed of."

Michael refused to do anything so Calum took the phone and started recording, "hey guys. I just wanted to quickly say, please stop commenting on our bodies, we're not pieces of meat, love you all!"

When he shut off the phone and tossed it back to Michael he plopped onto the floor next to him, "there, now nobody knows it was about you, and they will stop doing it. Michael, if you want to lose weight for yourself, that's fine, we'll go to the gym more with you, we won't eat Macca's after every show, but none of this skipping dinner stuff."

Luke pulled them to their feet, "feeling better Michael?"

Michael laughed and wiped the rest of the tears off of his face, "yeah, I'm fine, I think I just needed to get that all out in the open, but we'll still get Macca's right?"

Ashton laughed and opened the door, "yeah, just not for dinner right now, how does pasta sound?"

Michael took a glance at his phone and saw that fans were tweeting #5sosisbeautiful, "sounds great, I'm starved."