Shaun’s POV
’Love you’
‘Love you too’
’See you soon?’
‘Can’t wait, Bye’
‘Bye gorgeus’ my voice cracked at my last words. I was seeing her tonight but I wanted her now. I was relieved that the baby was gone, she had been so scared about it. Now she was all mine. In the corner, Jumpnow was asleep and Nax was being his usual formspring whore self. I had no distractions, I didn’t want to go on twitter and see all the hate on us for having girlfriends. I didn’t feel like watching TV. I didn’t feel like lying around doing nothing. I didn’t feel like writing music. I felt like running. Running until I left everything behind. I wasn’t usually the type of person who ran for a distraction but I needed to get rid of some of my excess energy before we got on the plane out of Perth and met the girls in Cairns.
It was only just after 9:30 in Perth but Now, I was awake and excited about seeing Ashley. There was no chance of me sleeping again. I pulled on my shoes and random clothes to minimize the chance of being recognized, only problem was I was in Perth and had no idea where to go. Deciding to risk it, I pulled the door shut behind me and took the elevator down to the ground. Outside, it was already hot but I kept going, keen to run this energy out. I started down the road concentrating on the steady rhythm of my feet hitting the ground, the rhythm of my breath. I imagined I was running towards what I wanted most, which at the moment was to be with Ash again. When your running, the burn in your muscles just boosts you to push harder supposedly emptying your mind. But there was something else on my mind. Imogen. How did I still have feelings for her. I had Ash, Imogen had Jumpnow. This was how I wanted it to stay, or was it?
I kept running, pushing myself faster forward trying to leave all my thoughts behind. I kept running until I tripped up and fell forwards, breaking my rhythm. I leant forwards, breathing hard to get my breath back, looking around I had no idea where I was but a vague idea of which direction I had to go in. I headed back towards the people I had left behind, back to where I wasn’t sure I wanted to be. After getting lost a few times, I managed to find the place we were staying. Back in the room I had slept in, Nax was half asleep still sitting on formspring, Jumpnow was still snoring.
I claimed the bathroom first, turning the water up hard, relaxing my muscles after running. I washed my hair, the smell of the shampoo I used reminded me of Ash all over again which made me smile, it reminded me that she cared about me and not just because I was famous. A loud banging on the door interrupted my daze and Jumpnow’s voice came through the door telling me to ‘hurry the fuck up’ because I had been in the shower for nearly half an hour. He sounded grumpy so I shut off the water and got dressed. I put on the shirt I had been wearing when I first met Ash. I started on my hair just to annoy Jumpnow and take more time in the bathroom.
When it was the way I wanted it to look, I opened the door to see Jumpnow’s face scowling back at me. Smiling to myself, I looked over towards Nax, who had fallen asleep even though it was just after 11. Seeing Ash this afternoon had lifted my spirits and now, I was in a mischievous mood.
Packed in my suitcase, I had a can of glittery silly string that I was saving for our final show of the tour but I decided to use some now, it was just on 11:11 by the time I found it so I crept up behind Nax and shouted right in his ear ‘Make a wish, Naxy’ before squirting some of the silly string in his face. He jumped up rubbing at the stuff on his face, dropping his phone onto the floor. After a few seconds, he focused on what was happening and started yelling at me. I couldn’t help but laugh at him, which probably wasn’t the smartest idea I had because he grabbed the first thing he could reach to squirt me with. He chased me around the room, I was squirting silly string at him and he was squirting shaving cream at me, making a huge mess of our room. Jumpnow appeared from the bathroom looking confused and smiling for the first time since Imogen left with Ashley. There was a knock on the door and Andy came in; he burst out laughing at the site of Jumpnow with his hair dripping and a towel around his waist, nax covered in glittery silly string and me with shaving cream in my hair. He grabbed his phone and quickly snapped a photo of the scene.
’This is what happens when your girlfriend’s leave you for a few days. What happens if you break up?’ he spat out between laughs before slamming the door and leaving us alone in our messed up room. Cleaning up was the boring part, and it took me another 15 minutes to get all the shaving cream out of my hair and to fix it up. After lunch, we had to face the fans, which wasn’t as bad today because Ash and Imogen were missing, just to get on our flight to cairns. By the time we landed in Cairns, it was late afternoon, the sun was setting and we managed to avoid the obsessed fans. While I was waiting for my bags to come through on on the luggage carousel, I saw 3 familiar girls, 2 of them blonde and one with black hair. I was sure it was them, except ash wasn’t wearing all black. Imogen turned around and caught my eye and it was then, I was sure that the girl was my Ashley. I crept up behind her wrapping my arms around her waist and kissing her neck. She smelt amazing. She untangled herself from my arms and turned around throwing her arms around me tightly. She looked happier, I felt happier just being around her. I wanted to keep holding her but our bags came so we had to let go and pick them up, but I kept one arm around her waist. I didn’t care who saw, I wanted to protect her from all the hate
