Against the World |5SOS FF Adoption|

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I'm alive... I know, I've been M.I.A lol

Michael:

I made sure that the girls were alright, by just casually walking past their room about 4 times before I actually went to my room to shower. And damn, did I need a shower..

I grabbed some clean(er) clothes and my phone, and went to my bathroom. I plugged my phone into the speakers and chose a random playlist and started a shower. I was letting what I had of a beard, grow out a little before we actually went into public next, and I stripped down and got into the shower. I quickly washed off and washed my hair, and turned off the water, then got out. I dried off, put on my clothes and washed up again

"MIKE!" Someone called and I grunted as I began to brush my teeth

"WHAT?!" I called back

"COME DOWN IN 15" Another said and I grunted and finished brushing my teeth. I sighed, and dried off my face. I went to my room and began throwing all the clothes on the floor, in a basket, whether or not they were dirty and went to the laundry room. We luckily had 2 washers, and 2 drying machines. I took the open washer, and started a load of my things. I switched over whoever's was in the next washer, into the drier and went back to my room. I picked up all the loose papers of notes, and lyrics off the floor along with shoes, pens, pencils, and other random things, putting them back into their spot. I actually made my bed, and took out all the trash and brought it downstairs, hoping whatever was going on, was ready

"What's going on?" I asked and Ashton stood at his laptop on the island and pointed to it. I walked over and read over his shoulder

"Do we have to get them interviewed for the passport or something?" He asked, biting on his finger and I slapped his hand from his mouth and read closer at the paragraph at the clause on the site.

"I'm not sure" I mumbled and he sighed, rubbing his face with his hands

"Alright, I'll just call... Again... For the 5th time today!" He exclaimed, frustrated and I shrugged as he went into the other room. Brianna came down the stairs, with wet hair and a new outfit

"Hi" She greeted and I smiled, opening my computer

"What's up kiddo?" I asked as she sat next to me, and leaned on my shoulder

"I don't think Jess' warming up to me anymore... It kinda went backwards" She said quietly and I looked at her with furrowed brows

"What do you mean?" I asked and she shrugged

"I don't know, she just seems really irritated with me... I don't know what I did" She said honestly and I nodded

"Alright. Well later, you two and Ash will probably go out to get the passports... I think the guys and I will let just you 3 go, and spend some time together, she's probably just stressed out. You two have been through alot lately" I said and she nodded, playing with the ends of her hair

"Yeah" She mumbled, "I just hope she's okay with being without John... They were literally inseparable.. He would say things, like, 'Oh I'm going to marry her and take her away and make her take care of our kids' or, 'She'll have it easy once I get her out of that place'" Brianna said, mimicking a man's voice and I nodded. This John guy, he's no bueno... No bueno!

"How old is he?" I asked as I logged into my email for Capital

"He's 18...?" She said, trailing into a question, "I'm not sure, at least 17, he's a Senior" She shrugged and I cleared my throat and nodded, "I'm gonna go upstairs and check in with her" She said, getting up and went upstairs. I nodded and smiled as she went up the stairs and Calum and Luke came downstairs as Ashton came back into the room, hanging up with the passport people... I've dealt with them in the past... They're not very nice either...

Once that was out of the way, I went upstairs to try to talk to Jesse. She was sitting on the floor, reading a book, and had 4 journals open beside her as she scribbled down stuff in each of them as her music was blaring through the speakers she brought

"Uh Jesse?" I asked as I knocked on the door and entered in her room. She looked up at me and nodded

"Yeah what's up?" She asked, unamused with us all apparently

"Everything alright?" I asked and she shrugged. I sighed and sat on the floor next to her and then Luke came in the room too and sat with us

"Ashton wanted me to come up to tell you, you have about 20 minutes until you leave for the doctors" Luke said and she swallowed hard and nodded

"Okay" she said timidly and continued writing. She put her head down as she wrote and Luke and I looked at each other, confused

What is she doing? He mouthed to me. I shrugged and he nodded

"Jesse, are you all ready to leave in 20?" I asked, reiterating the fact

"Yeah, everything's fine. It's good" she said in her thick accent. We nodded and cleared our throats and got up to leave. I looked at Luke and we stopped outside of her room

"What's going on with her?" I whispered and he shrugged

"She's adjusting to all this I guess" he said nervously and I sighed

"I wish there was something we could do. It's so weird" I said, trailing off as Brianna came upstairs and smiled at me

"Hi" she said as she walked past us and we nodded to her and she went in her room, shutting the door behind her. I nodded towards the stairs and Luke nodded and we went downstairs to Ash and Calum