Jace

{7}

"Niall wake up!!" There was a jump, a crash landing, and a groan. I peeled open my eyes and turned to look at Niall's bunk.

"Jace I think you broke my spleen with your elbow!" He groaned. Jacelyn was giggling hysterically on top of him. No doubt she had jumped on him to wake the poor boy up.

"I'm gonna wake the others!" She bounced off and Louis sat up quite suddenly.

"I'm awake!"

"Me too!" Harry called from above me.

"Well Zayn's still-"

"NO! No I'm awake too!"

I joined the others in sitting up in a panic before she could launch herself on me. "I'm up!"

She frowned, an then shrugged and leaped on top of me anyways. I groaned as her hip hit hard into my stomach and she kneed my thigh. As she scrambled to sit up she elbowed me in the face by accident and as an instinct, I threw her off. She landed with a splat, face first on the floor, two bunks down.

"I deserved that." She spoke, not moving until a few moments after. We broke into laughter and climbed down to check on her. She sat herself up and leaned against Zayn's bottom bunk, her chest heaving with giggles.

"What are you doing in our bus?" Louis laughed. Jace titled her head up to look at him.

"I made breakfast."

"Ok," Niall shouted, twirling in a circle to look at all of us. "She's got me. That's all I needed lets go."

He lifted her up and they disappeared out the door. The rest of us decided to throw on some sweats over what we wore to bed before going out. Before we could finish and join them, Niall came back in with Jace following sadly.

"Nevermind," he said, going for a tee shirt. "This girl can't make cereal."

"Ok I didn't know it was creamer instead of milk!"

"Wha- it's marked 'creamer'!"

"I only graduated high school because I went to a dance academy. Do you honestly think I read things?"

He laughed and pulled the shirt over his head. "Madison agreed to make pancakes."

"What about catering?" Harry asked as we all filed out of the bus.

"WHAT?" Jace turned and walked into me, her face being buried in my chest for the second time since we met. "There's catering and you didn't tell me?"

"I kinda figured you knew..." He drowned out.

She laughed and hugged me from behind, pushing me to walk again and pretending we were a choo choo train. "I've been living off of popcorn and Gatorade for the past week!"

"It's true," Katherine chimed in as we arrived in the setup of chairs and tables in the center of the semi-circle the three buses formed. "Our bus permanently smells like popcorn and her bed is full of empty Gatorade bottles."

"Morning kids!" Madison poured out of the dancer's bus with a plateful of hot pancakes. The smell wandered into the open windows of the crew's bus and soon they were rushing out and grabbing a paper plate for the buffet style breakfast she had set up with pancakes, bacon, toast, and even some scrambled eggs.

"Oh my God Maddi," I exclaimed, taking my first bite of my high piled plate. "This is delicious."

"My dad was a chef," she smiled shyly and took the seat to my right with only a modest two pancakes.

Zayn sat to my left and Harry next to him with Louis on the other side of the table.

"What?!" Niall laughed hysterically as Jace trailed him over to the table.