The Intern // 5 Seconds of Summer

Oh hush by My Genuine Find

"Oh. Yeah." I jump out the car and close the door quietly, looking at Lou who's approving of my effort to be calm.

She knocks on the door hard and we stand there, just glancing at each other for a minute before I turn away from the door and face the street. It's nice here, not in the ghetto like with my house.

"Hello?" I hear someone say. I brace myself quietly, hoping no judgement.

"Hey boys!" Lou says, throwing her arm around Ashton into a quick hug that seems to last too long.

"Who's this?" A boy with pink hair says, pointing to me. It's Michael.

"Ryan." Lou says with a smile. I give them my hand for a shake, but no one takes it up.

"Uh.." Michael says, turning his body to Ashton. "I thought Ryan was a boy name.." He says quietly, but not quiet enough.

"Excuse me?" I say, glaring at him. He's much taller, but I'm not intimidated.

"Ryan. Be nice." Lou says, patting my back.

"No, I wanna hear."

"Enough." She says to me and turns, giving them a sweet smile.

"Come in?" They move aside, letting us in.

The house is much nicer, and cluttered like I thought. It's the home of 4 boys, of course it would be so. I kick off my Vans and hold on to my back tighter, keeping my back facing the wall. This house is bigger than mine back home so I walk in looking down the hallways that lead to, from what I can see, huge rooms. I can tell already this is a bad start.

I have no sympathy.

"You like?" A dark haired boy comes in, asking. Damn Calum looks good.

"I love it." Lou says, coming in. "This is Ryan." She says, I give him my hand but he declines.

"Oh." He says back. "Sweet." He says, being a tad nicer than others.

"So.. Where's Luke?" She asks.

"In the pool."

"Ah." She says back. "Well, go get him?" She says and all the boys scatter.

I find myself a chair and sit down, glaring quietly at Lou who's playing on her phone. I cough so she knows I'm looking at her.

"You okay?" She asks.

"Do you think so?" I say, biting my lip and letting my wall down a minute. "They're my fucking favourite band and they hate me already."

"Language." She says and I roll my eyes. "They don't hate you."

"K." I say back as they all come in, whispering to each other and glancing at me.

I just stand there, observing them.

"So.." I say, quietly.  They just look at me and begin talking to Lou.

"I'm so excited for this tour!" Michael shouts.

"We're gonna take over the USA!" Luke says, clapping.

"More fans to see!" Ashton says grinning.

"Are you coming over to the party tonight?" Calum asking Lou, nearly jumping.

They all break into their own little discussions among each other. I sigh and get up, holding onto my bag. I wave to Lou who gets up to stop me but the boys keep talking. I walk out, going to sit in the car. Why the hell do they hate me? Are the uncomfortable with being with a girl in their bus? Do they think I'm gonna kill their buzz? Is it my hair? Well, I am a tad rude. but they haven't experienced it to know and hate me yet.

I pull out my phone and put in my headphones. Somewhere in Neverland by All Time Low comes on and I turn it up high, letting the music practically blast my ear drums. I lift my knees and rest my head on them and sing quietly.

I see someone open the door beside me, but I ignore. I look the other way, but quickly someone yanks out my headphone.

"What the hell?" It's Ashton.

"Hm?" I say, turning down my music.

"You're embarrassing Lou." He says, scowling at me.

"Awh, I'm so sorry.. Wait, no I'm not." I say back, shrugging

"Yay. We get to spend a long time with you." He says, slowly closing the door, giving me a rude look.

"I would say the same for you but you're actually favourite band. Well.. You were, you know? You actually saved my life. Well, that was until you guys just treated me like shit." I snap back,

"Oh.." He says, sitting beside me in the drivers seat.

"Now, if you let me, I would like to go back to my own self loathing episode." I say, putting my headphone back in. "Oh. By the way, if you're going to complain to the band that I made you feel shitty, let them know that you guys just did the same to me. K?"  He just walks away.

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After what seemed a while, Lou finally comes out to the car. She doesn't say anything. I pull out a bud from my ear and just watch her. She doesn't seem angry, nor happy. She starts the car but then quickly turns to me.

"So, the boys say they're sorry." She says to me.

"Great." I say with a sigh. "Anyways, where to now?"

"Home. Well, the hotel. I'm done for today." She says and pulls away from the house.

"Thank god." I say and take out my headphones.

"Are you gonna apologize to them?" She asks me.

"What the hell for?"

"Overreacting." She says with a slight groan.

"You know what? I'm sorry that it hurt that my favourite band just treated me like I was shit and I got maybe a tad offended. I literally lived for them and now what?" I just roll down my window and look outside.

"Ryan... Don't say that.."