Bringing Them Back- An R5 Fanfiction

Chapter 7- Getting Somewhere

The storm was over by noon. Riker headed downstairs first, and everyone was expecting the worst. Everyone went down as slowly as they could, delaying the time until they had to look at the damage. The whole bottom porch was covered with thin mud, which blew through the screen. However, the second we got inside, everyone was so ecstatic they could scream. Not a thing was damaged. It looked exactly as it did when they left it; empty.

"This is awesome!" Riker called over to us. He hugged Rocky, who was closest to him, and Ellington hugged Rocky from behind. Soon enough, it turned into a group hug, and even Ryland joined in when he found his DJ equipment- which was too heavy to carry up the stairs at the time- perfectly fine.

After they broke up the hug, Ellington jokingly shooed me out of the studio so they could write songs. "Seriously we need Ross to pay attention for once." He laughed. "See you later though!" Class was cancelled because of the storm. Instead of just laying around the apartment all day, I headed out to the mall and hung out for a little. I grabbed a smoothie, caught a movie, whatever. I was just about ready to go when I heard someone call my name from behind me.

"What-" I turned around only to be greeted by an old friend of mine.

"EEEP! HEY!" Things obviously haven't changed. "What brings you out here? I'm a professional actress, how bout you?"

"I'm working on a secret project. Still in college." My R5 necklace glinted around my neck, and she directed her attention to it.

"Still stuck on them, huh? Shame they broke up. Oh well, they weren't that good anyway." I was almost about to wring her neck. I held myself back, however, and made an obvious forced smile. "Oh...still a tough topic for you? What a shame." She smiled at me, obviously trying my nerves. Just then, a shadow fell over me from behind. In fact, six shadows.

Ross put his hand on my shoulder, and Rydel stood next to me. "Is that-" She didn't finish before Rocky answered.

"R5? Yes, and we'd appreciate if you didn't make fun of our new manager." She shrunk.

"Sarah? You're their manager? You couldn't even keep a twenty dollar bill in school."

"Things change." I answered.

"Well, I gotta go! Nice seeing you girl! Call me sometime, okay?" She whipped around and left before anyone could comment. Smart girl. Ellington mocked Rocky's stone faced expression behind her, and they both joked about how dumb she was.

"So, when did you guys get here?" I asked Rydel.

"Just a couple minutes ago." Ross moved his hand from my shoulder to my hair, lifting it up and down and just playing with it. "We came in the back entrance. No one noticed who we were. Makes me wish your job was easier."

I sighed. "Tell me about it. Ross, what are you doing?"

"Braiding your hair."

"You sure?" Rydel giggled behind me, and I reached to the back of my head to feel a tangle of hair where Ross's braid should be. The whole time he had been tying knots in my head. "Doesn't feel like it."

"Well, you see, I kinda don't know how to braid things, so I improvised." I left the mall with Ross, Ryland, and Riker, while the rest stayed.

I went on my laptop and pulled up a list of venues for a tour. All of them were about the same size-not too small, and not a full size arena, medium sized. Ross and Riker looked through the list, checked off the ones they liked, and we all voted. I pulled out my cell and started the long list of calls. Within an hour or less, Ryland set up the base for a new website, and all new social media pages. Meanwhile I finished booking a quarter of the venues. This could take a while.