Running.

oh fuck no!

present day

'Riley! wake up!' Alex's voice echoes through my head and I hear incoherent mumbling. I roll over and fall face fucking first onto the floor. Just as I accept my new location for slumber, cold water finds its way down my back, not to mention four shrill laughs coming from from all around me. I'm surrounded.

''Time to change the fucking locks again, where are you guys getting keys?' I ask.

'Our Emma has Ethan wrapped around her skinny little finger. Now shut it and get up.' Replies Skyler as Hyland trickles more polar caps temperatured water in my ear.

'I'm up!' I yell as I walk towards my bedroom door to start my decent to the kitchen. My only problem is the stairs, oh how I hate stairs.

'So what's on today's agenda?' I ask as we stuff our faces with Belgium waffles.

'Party at Carley's. We're meeting at Mason's at two and them suffering the hang-overs at ours tomorrow.' Hyland replies.

'Your parents okay with that?' I ask the twins, remembering the last time we showed up unannounced.

'Out of town.' Skyler smirks.

'Let the shopping begin.' I yell as we toast our orange juice.

We decided on two cars, my white Range Rover and Skyler's black, due the size. We arrived at the mall in record timing due to the fact that we had no idea what the fuck to wear and our time limit. Emma literally sprints to Forever 21, not even casting a look over her shoulder to the poor fucking child she knocked over in her mad dash, leaving me, Skyler, Hyland and Alex just standing there.

After apologising to the child and the child's mother who might I add was not in the least bit impressed with my friends behaviour we too found ourself at the entrance to Forever 21.

'Okay now that that's over and done with anyone for food ?'Alex's voice rings through my head an hour and a whole lot of cash later, breaking me from the trance I was in, with one last glance at the poster of the four boys I didn't want to see again, I agreed and we made our way to the food court.

If you were wondering, no they did not keep in touch with me like they promised. It was going well, for the first two weeks of the tour they kept in touch everyday either by messages, calls or Skype and then one day it just stopped, they stopped answering my texts, my calls my everything.They went as far as stop following me on every social media site they could.I was devastated, I cried almost every single day for 2 weeks because of those boys until one day I decided I wasn't go to cry over people who clearly didn't care about me. So Alex being the great friend she is introduced me to her friends who have been my best friends ever since.

After settling on outfits for all, we split and go to our separate homes to ready ourselves. We had all bought dresses for Carley's 18th, mine a beautiful black number.

After 2 hours of makeup, curling hair and choosing shoes, I was ready. Prepping myself for an intoxicating night.

I hear a car horn and look out to see Carter waiting for me.

Uhg stairs.

I take a last glance at my reflection and smile, pleased with my appearance. Who the fuck am I kidding?? I look hawt!

I take the stairs two at a time and stop when I reach the kitchen. Anne Irwin, Liz Hemmings, Joy Hood, Karen Clifford and my mom are standing in the kitchen drinking tea.

'Riley honey, you look so beautiful!' Liz exclaims. I never understood how such lovely women had such assholes as sons.

I mumble a thanks and hug everyone hello. 'Okay well I'm about to head out, so bye.' I say over my shoulder as I walk into the lounge area, just to see four pairs of eyes staring at me. 'Riley?' Calum asks uncertain.

'Oh fuck no!' I yell in disbelief. This can't be happening.