Luke woke up the next morning too early. It was 7:00 in the goddamn morning.
He realized that what had caused him to wake from his not so innocent dream about Rosemary was his three bestfriends jumping on his bed and banging pots and pans in his ears.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?" he screeched at them. They answered by jumping into a painfully bad rendition of "Happy Birthday". You'd think that, being in a band, they would have learned how to sing properly. No.
"You're growing up too fast, Lukey!" Ashton fake sobbed.
"My little baby boy is 17 already!" Calum joined in.
"Where did the time go?" cried Michael.
"Buncha idiots," Luke said, smiling.
He rolled over and grabbed his phone. He had several messsages; three from friends back home, one from his mom (who was touring with them and in the next room over), and, there it was, one from Rosemary.
He felt his heart sieze up, and he opened it. "happy birthday!!!!!!!!!" she had written, with what must hve been 300 chicken emojis. He laughed and scrolled all the way down to the bottom. "text me when you wake up, i have a few suggestions as to where you should spend your birthday."
Luke looked up to find three faces focused on his silly grin.
"Well?!" Calum said.
"What did she say?!" asked Michael.
"She, uh, just texted me a bunch of chicken emojis," Luke replied truthfully. "And she says she has some suggestions about where we should spend my birthday."
"Well, what arre you waiting for, mate? Text her back! We're not wasting another minute of your birthday!" exclaimed Ashton. He tended to get a little to excited about things.
"Okay,okay," Luke said.
He texted Rosemary, and after a little back-and-forth they agreed to meet at a doughnut shop downtown.
"She says the doughnuts are killer," said Luke to the boys. "We're meeting them at 8:30."
The boys all went to get ready. After much consideration, he decided to wear his favorite Green Day t-shirt. He pulled on his only pair of jeans and black vans. Luke stood in front of the mirror for much longer than he usually would have, fidgeting and adjusting himself. Was his hair too messy? Was it time to buy another pair of pants? Rosemary liked Green Day, right?
He sighed, giving up. This was what he was going to look like today. He was too lazy to change into something differtent, anyway.
The boys gathered together and walked down to the lobby of their hotel. They had gotten the OK from John the previous night, so they were good to go by themselves.
They walked the short distance to the doughnut shop, laughind and joking the whole way. They earned a few looks from the old folks out for their morning walks.
When they approached the shop, Luke spotted Rosemary. She looked even better than she had yesterday, if it was possible. She was wearing a deep green top tucked into some very retro, very high waisted, very sexy striped shorts. Her golden hair was twisted into a knot on the top of her head.
(this is what she was wearing sorry it sucks i was in a hurry http://www.polyvore.com/crush/set?id=92512062)
She and Emily were deep into a conversation, and didn't notice the boys. Luke walked up behind Rosemary and tickled her sides.
She burst into a fit of giggles, gasping for air.
"Please stop! Please! I'll do anything! I'm begging you!" she cried.
Luke stopped tickling her. She stumbled around and then leaned up against the wall with her hand clutched to her chest.
Everyone started laughing.
"Tickling is a very serious matter!" she yelled over them.
Once they had all collected themselves, Michael declared that he was hungry and everyone agreed and went into the doughnut shop.
Luke felt a small hand slip into his as he placed his order. His heart startd pounding and he stuttered as he finished the order. When he was done, he turned towards Rosemary.
"Happy Birthday," she said. "I didn't get a chance to tell you before, when I was being attacked."
Luke laughed nervously. "So what are we doing today, other than getting doughnuts?"
"I'm not telling you," she answered.
"But it's my birthday!"
"Most people like surprises on their birthdays!"
Luke sighed and gave up. He was sure anywhere that she was was where he wanted to be.
ya sorry em i decided to just post this ahaha swag
