social casualties | 5sos au

Chapter 03 {By Ramey}

Neptune was in a black bikini that I had picked out for her a few weeks ago. I was in a dark blue one piece that I had bought myself.

"There's no way you're wearing a one piece to this cute guy's pool party." Neptune says.

"Why not?" I ask.

"Because you want to impress them, right?" She asks.

"well obviously. It's just a little too..revealing for me." I sigh.

"Remember how you dared me to sit on their table?" Neptune asks, a smirk spread across her cheeks.

I nod.

"Well it's my turn. I dare you to wear a bikini." She raises her eyebrows.

"Ugh.." I groan as she tosses me one almost identical to hers, except it had Ruffles across my chest.

I enter the bathroom, shutting the door behind me before changing.

I change into it and leave the bathroom to see Neptune on her phone. She looks up at me and smiles.

"You look great." She says reassuringly.

"Thanks." I say, even though I wasn't convinced.

She throws on some loose black flowy shorts, and I throw on a pair of high-wasted Jean shorts.

We grab a few hair ties, sunscreen, and our phones.

We walk to Ashton's house and stand there for a moment, unsure of if we should ring the doorbell, and who should do it.

I push the doorbell without thinking and I mentally facepalm.

A moment later, we hear footsteps and the door is swung open, revealing a shirtless Ashton. In fact, he only had a white bath towel hung from his hips.

I noticed Neptune staring at his lower region a bit, so I nudged her arm and cleared my throat, which caught her attention.

"Oh uh. Sorry. I thought you were going to be Calum. Uh. Luke and Michael are downstairs. I'll be down in a bit." He says, rubbing the back of his neck. 

He hops up the stairs before saying.

"Oh! Luke and Michael are my friends by the way. sorry, I forgot you guys never really met." He says.

"We know-" Neptune starts but I elbow her.

"Okay, thanks" I say quickly and drag her down the stairs.

"They can't know we stocked them online." I whisper.

"No! You should pretended to love their band! It'd be hilarious." She laughs quietly.

"That's actually a good idea. But if I'm doing this, you're coming down with me." I smirk.

"Deal." we high five.

We reach the bottoms of the stairs.

Luke and Michael are recording a video!

We stand behind the camera and Michael glances up at us from his guitar and he looks nervous, along with Luke.

Luke begins singing a little quieter and stares down at his lap.

They're eventually done, and they kind of sit there. Still. Unsure of what to do.

"Uh, hi?" Michael says, removing that guitar from his lap and getting up to greet us.

He puts his hands in his pockets.

"Hi." Neptune and I say in unison.

Luke gets up and puts back the books he used as a tripod for their computer which they were recording on.

"Uh I'm Luke." luke says, extending a hand towards me.

I stare at his hand for a moment before looking into his eyes, which was sort of like looking into a mirror. Me and him had a lot of similar features.

I grab his hand and shake it.

"I'm Rylie." I smile

He moves on to meet Neptune.

"Hi, I'm Luke." He says and extends a hand.

"I know." Shee says and shakes his hand. "I'm Neptune."

"How did you know?" He asks.

"We listen to your music on YouTube." She says.

Michael moves on to greet me.

"Hi I'm-"

"Michael. Yeah I know." I smirk. "I'm-"

"Rylie. Yeah I know." He smirks back and raises one eyebrow.

"How did you know?" I ask, tilting my head to the side.

"My friend used to talk about you a lot." He shrugs.

"Who's your friend?" I ask.

"Lucca. Lucca Costa." He says. "To be honest, I'm pretty sure he likes you. I don't know. I don't get into year nine drama much." He shrugs.

"You're a year ten, right?" I ask.

He nods, "Yeah. Luke is too."

An awkward silence falls between us, leaving us to listen to Luke and Neptune.

"So you like our music?" He asks.

"Yeah I love it." I smile.

"That's cool. Didn't know we actually had fans to be honest." he laughs and I can't help but obsess over his Australian laugh.

More silence.

"Are you from America?" He asks.

"What gave it away?" I ask laughing. It was obvious that he was referring to my accent.

"Where in America are you from?" He asks.

"Uh. I was born in Virginia. Then I moved to Ohio, then Florida, then here." I say.

"Uh. I think I know what Florida is." He says. "It's the place where Disney land is right?"

I laugh "Disney WORLD"

"There's two?" He asks.

I nod.

Ashton comes downstairs in swim trunks.

"Are we going to swim or what?" He says excitedly, "Calum is here."

"Yeah, let's go." Michael says.