Friend, Please

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Alissa's POV.

I look in front of me and am met with grey-green eyes. I stare at the pair of orbs in absolute confusion. His irises search my own. I feel somehow exposed.

"Alissa?" I tear away from his gaze to turn to the familiar voice of Taylor. I feel so hot right now. I can feel my hands getting damp from sweat. "Ali hey." Taylor wave's her hand in front of my face. I blink then look at the floor.

"Uhm," I try to form words but they are clogged in my throat.

"Alissa what are you doing here are you an interviewer now or something that's sick." I hear another familiar voice. Calum. I look up at him and smile softly. Moving a strand of my hair behind my ear.

"Actually no I don't work here." I say softly. It's strange at how civil the five of us can be now after four years.

"Well then what are you doing hear?" Calum asks. "Not to sound rude or anything." He says ruffling his hair back into place.

"Well I was here for an interview." I say.

"For a job here?" Calum asks.

"No uhm-" I am cut off by Taylor

"Do you four not know that Alissa is one of the biggest up and coming artists of this year?" She asks with a surprised tone. All the boys look at me in what is a mix of shock, amazement, and slight... fear? "Oh my god you four do listen to the radio haven't you heard of Alissa May. She's the girl who sings with just a ukulele and writes all her own music, except for the covers of course." Somehow the boys eyes all widen even more.

"Wait." Luke says holding his hand up in a stop position "You are the cool youtuber that sings the fam has been talking about?" Luke seems to be asking more towards Taylor then me.

"Damn right she is." She smiles triumphantly. All the while I am zoning off into space.

"But wait we are taking Alissa May on tour with us-" Luke starts but Taylor quickly interrupts.

"Shut up she wasn't supposed to know yet." I can feel my eyes bulge almost out of there sockets.

"What did you just say." Funny I sound a lot calmer than I am. I look at Luke with an eerily calm gaze. He gulps he looks terrified Ali please don't get mad." Taylor stops I hold up my finger at shut my eyes.

"Luke Robert Hemmings what did you just say." I ask this time slightly more irritated.

"We were uhm, well, we were, told, that uhm, Alissa May, uhm is our uh opening act for our upcoming tour." He says screwing his eyes shut tight and tensing up as though he was about to get beaten down by John Cena himself.
"Thank you Luke." I say calmly then turn to Taylor who is now trying to avoid any eye contact with me whatsoever.

"Taylor when were you planning on telling me?" Once again my voice calmly smooths over my tongue. Her eyes slowly look at me. She blinks and then straightens herself out.

"After this interview, honestly I just got off the phone with the boy's manager and I didn't even know they were here. And it's not a done deal until you agree to it." She says to me with careful phrasing. I nod my head slowly at her. I then turn to the four boys who all but one are standing together watching me.

"Have you mentioned it to your fans yet?" I ask looking at the three of them.  Ashton opens his mouth but before he even can inhale Luke speaks.

"Yes we told them you were going on tour with us." Calum smacks Luke's chest and glares at him.

"Calum it's okay," I say. "What was their reaction?" I ask rubbing my arm. This time Calum answers.

"Really excited. They were the ones who kept asking for you to come with us on tour." He says scratching the back of his neck.

"Well then it's settled I am going on tour with 5 Seconds of Summer." I say and this time my voice comes out shakily. This is when Calum takes his chance to speak.

"Ali we really missed you," He makes his way towards me and I tilt my head in confusion. His arms start to open as he gets closer to me. I look at him with frantic eyes. "Well, I at least, missed you, a lot." He says. "I'm sorry we didn't talk that much after we left I tried to make time to text you at least once a day but it was really hard. Please forgive me." He then gestures me to give him a hug. I look at his hands gesturing to give him a hug then his eyes. Calum really never did anything wrong, It was him, who just up and left me.

"Calum you didn't do anything wrong, however I forgave you already." I say smiling. His smile grew like the Grinch's heart on Christmas.

"Oh just come here." He says pulling me into him. I at first stood stiff but then quickly hugged him back. His long but muscular arms hold me tightly around me in a bear hug. My head rested just below his collarbone. "I really missed your hugs." He confesses I laugh at this because I'm far too awkward to express emotion.

"Hey I want a hug." Luke says clumsily walking towards us.

"Aw yay group hug." Ashton says squeezing us three into a makeshift sandwich. I of course was In the middle of the jumble of lanky arms.

"Uhm, guys?" I say breathlessly.

"Hmm." Luke hums.

"I can't breathe." I say with my lungs squeezing themselves to their brink.

"Oh oops." Ashton releases his tight grasp.

"Our bad." Luke let goes as well. Calum however doesn't let go yet. I pat Cals matted head.

"You alright Calum?'' I questioned him. He looks up at me with a lazy grin on his face.

"I just missed you." He admits hugging me tighter. I laugh, he hasn't changed a bit.

"And I missed you too." I then look up to meet my eyes with Taylor. Her face has a smirk of content smeared on her face. She then opens her mouth.

"Well, boys are you here at the station to announce the news of Alissa coming on tour with you?" She looks at the boys.

"Yes." I turn my attention to the voice of the speaker. Low and behold there stands, Michael Clifford. I breath in but it gets caught.

"We already knew she was being interviewed here today. But we had zero clue it was, her." He says staring directly at Taylor and no one else. It's as though he's avoiding my gaze. I don't mind though, he doesn't deserve my eye contact after what he has done to me

A/N

Just little FYI I will be updating most likely every Thursday or Friday at least. This does not include if I get bored and I just want to update to update. Anyway if you're new to my writing, my name's Katherine. I have one other story that I am re writing right now as well called Under the Table and Dreaming. It's a Harry Styles fanfiction. But I have a lot of  ideas for this story so I just hope you stick around as I go on this "Journey"  of writing.

xoxo

-K