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Giordana

Melbourne (September 2015)

From Luke: I miss you so much baby girl, I'll see you in a couple of weeks. I love you, and I can't wait to see you and hold you, even if it's only gonna be for a little while; it'll be worth it. Anything to see your beautiful face again. I love you Dana, remember that xxx

I just remember re reading over that text, he sent that Friday afternoon. It was now Sunday morning in Melbourne. The tour had now ended, Luke and Ashton had gone back to LA from Miami. Ash went to see Bryana, and I think Luke just tagged along, as Michael had told me that him and Calum were going to be getting their drivers licences, while they were still in Miami.

I had heard from Luke, here and there through out the weekend, all his messages relaying the same thing. How much he loved me, and how much he missed me. My replies saying the exact same.

Those messages slightly reassured me after I woke up Thursday morning felling like something bad was going to happen. It had happened so many times before, the most recent apart from the other day? Two days before Michael caught on fire at their show.
For some reason, nothing could shake that feeling I got.

September 20th Melbourne

So much happened this afternoon. I wasn't prepared in the slightest for it. Nothing would ever prepare you for what I experienced that after noon.

It was a usual Sunday afternoon, I was just chilling on the beach, listening to music and reading a magazine. My boyfriend of just over ten months was in LA with his band. Usually I'd spend the time on Skype with him while he was away; but I knew that he was busy doing whatever he was doing. I honestly had a feeling over the last few days, that something bad was going to happen. My mood changed drastically; and I knew from experience that when my mood suddenly changed, something was going to go wrong.

My friend and song writing partner Monti was in Bali with her family, and for some reason my best friend Anna, had become distant over the last few days. She kept telling me that everything was fine, and that I had nothing to worry about. I decided to give her a call, hoping she'd answer. She did, I thought she'd be with her boyfriend like she usually was
"Hey doll, what's up?" She asked
"Nothing, just at the beach," I told her, "I haven't heard from Luke since yesterday,"
"Dana, he's probably just busy, didn't he say he was going out with Feldy, Ash and Bryana?"
"Yeah he did," I sighed, realising she had a point, but it still didn't stop the sickening feeling in my stomach.

We continued out conversation for a few minutes more, when my phone vibrated, thankfully I was wearing my headphones, so I could still read messages while I was on the phone. I was shocked when I saw it was from Ashton. Luke's band mate. Funny, I thought to myself, Luke can't even take two minutes to send a quick text, but Ash can? I opened the message, and was shocked at what it read

From Ashton: hey, so I'm not going to tell you not to go on Twitter or anything, because I know you will, but I'm just letting you know, that if you do, you'll see something that upsets you. I'm sorry that I had to be the one to tell you. If you need to talk, give me Bry or one of the guys a call. Stay strong babe x

"Dana, everything okay?" Anna asked, after I hadn't spoken in a while
"Um, I have to check Twitter," I told her. I opened up the app
"Dana, don't,"
"Why not?"
"No reason," she said, rather quickly and in complete denial of something
"Anna, what do you know?" I asked
"Nothing," she said quickly, too quickly for me to believe her, "look doll I have to go okay? Mark's coming over, I'll call you tomorrow,"
"Yeah, bye," I said, but she'd already hung up the phone.