Downtown Idea

7. Hold Me Down

Zoe walked off the stage. I sighed and beat out a long drum roll as Jonas followed her quickly. They could walk off if they wanted. I had a thirty minute slot and I was gonna fill it.

"Okay, so!" I said into my mic, "You all just keep at it with your booing! Be as loud as you want. I'm just gonna play until 5 Seconds of Summer gets their turn!" I grinned at them knowing they'd hate it. The booing continued and I created a bit of a beat to it. I was having fun, which wasn't usually how I defined my time on stage recently. It was actually pretty shitty. I barely even liked looking at my drums anymore.

For about fifteen minutes, I played by myself, beating out drum rolls and just generally rocking out until Jonas and Zoe came back.

"Alright!" Jonas said as I came to an end of my drumming. "Nice...okay so we're gonna play a couple songs!" The crowd got louder with their booing. I laughed into my mic and Zoe glared at me. She was clearly very unhappy about this.

"You guys can boo all you like," I said rolling my eyes. "Just let us know how shit you think we are!"

The crowd started screaming something in French at us and I sighed. We jumped into our more hard rock songs, which didn't make the crowd happy and then we got off stage.

I flopped onto the couch in our dressing room and groaned. "I hate this fucking tour." I shouted, not even caring that Lobster heard me. Usually he was uptight about cursing and being inappropriate.

"Reese," he scolded quickly. I rolled my eyes and collapsed into a pillow. "Language."

"Whatever...." I grumbled getting up. "I'm going back to the hotel."

No one responded and no one followed me so I got a car alone. I sat in my hotel room by myself for nearly three hours. Zoe finally appeared looking unhappy, but not as unhappy as she had been.

"Calum is looking for you." She said before she walked into the bathroom. I frowned and got up from my bed. I hadn't seen him all day, and I was starting to wonder if he'd forgotten about me.

I walked into the hall and found Ashton walking into his room across the hall. "Ash!" I said before he closed the door. He turned and grinned at me. "Where's Calum?" He smirked at me and I rolled my eyes.

"Calum!" Ashton called in a sing-song-y voice into the room, "Your girlfriend wants you." I scrunched my nose and Calum suddenly appeared.

"Hey Baby," he said waggling his eyebrows. I laughed at him and he grabbed my hands and pulled me close to him. "Wanna go get some dinner?"

"Don't you usually eat with the guys?" I asked, putting my arms around his neck.

"Yeah, but you sort of ran off after your set." He shrugged and started pulling me down the hall. "Anyway, I spent my free time with Zoe earlier and I want to explore Paris."

"It's way too late for that." I said pulling him to a stop. "We can go in my room and order room service?" I pursed my lips and he laughed.

"What about Zoe?" He asked as Michael walked by. I grabbed his arm and he made a face at me.

"Get Zoe out of my room for a bit?" I smiled at him nicely and he laughed.

"What for?" He asked. He looked like he wanted to, but then again he didn't seem to want to put the effort into convincing her to hang out.

"I don't wanna."

"Just do it, Michael." Calum said pulling me into my room. Zoe was coming out of the bathroom in her pajamas. Calum swiftly pushed her into the hall and closed the door, locking it quickly. "Simple. I'll call room service, you set up a movie." I laughed at him and turned on the tv and looked through the listings to rent. Calum picked up the phone and ordered us some food. We cuddled up on my bed watching movies. We ate burgers and drank milkshakes. It was a pretty good dinner.