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Chapter 18 Coming Home

James' POV

I help Piper out of the taxi and then we walk to a restaurant by the pier. I can smell the salty sea water along with some gross seaweed.  Both of us love seafood so I thought this would be the perfect place to eat.

"Piper, Are you ready to go home and see mom?" I ask. "Yea I miss her but I like being with the team too." She replies. "Are you excited to go home?" "Yea I get to sleep in my own bed and I get Riley back." I tell her. "Oh yea, Internationals are over and Regionals aren't till next year so she won't have to work a lot." "Yea that's true but we still have a lot of interviews and plus you guys still will be dancing at the studio." I explain. "I am going to miss being on A-Troupe." Piper says sadly. "I will miss you too."

Riley's POV

I have A-Troupe gathered in the corridor so I can talk to them. "Guys we leave for the airport in 2 hours! I need your stuff packed and your rooms cleaned up by 3:30! That's in 1 hour so you will have lots of time! You guys are dismissed." The teenagers go back to their rooms and hopefully doing what I told them to do.

I walk into my room and start throwing stuff into my suitcase. While I was packing up I found a few of James clothes, someone's left shoe and a phone. I put the shoe and phone on the dresser to give to their owners later. I cleaned up my bathroom and then packed my lab top with its charger and all the paperwork. I rolled my suitcase to the hallway where a few more bags where.

Addy, Olivia and Sophia's rooms looked pretty good. The sheets were off the bed and their luggage was out in the hallway. I finish cleaning my room and then head to James and Liam's room to pack for James. His room was a mess. A mess.

Piper's  POV

"This shrimp is SO good! The only thing that would make this better is a shawarma." I laugh at my brother's love for shawarmas. "We should get back before Riley is worried." I tell James. "Riley's always worried." He says bitting into another shrimp. "No serousisly James, it's already 3:24pm and we are supposed to be at the airport at 4pm." "Don't even worry about it." He says. I roll my eyes it how chill my big brother is.

Riley's POV

The boys are finished loading all of the luggage and now I am checking out of the hotel. James and Piper still haven't showed up but I shouldn't worry because James is always late no matter what, He would even be late to his own funeral.

I asked Cassie to pack Piper's stuff and she agreed, Piper already had everything laid out so Cassie just shoved it all in a bag.

Michelle and Eldon already left for the airport to check in for us and themselves. After waiting for what feels like a long time but isn't, Piper and James finally got here. "What took you so long?" I ask them. "Shrimp!" Piper says and walks by me. I look at James who just shrugs his shoulders.

James' POV

I am waiting to board the airplane with the rest of A Troupe. This week has been insane. We won Internationals and had a really fun week but Riley had a miscarriage. She hasn't really talked about that so i wanna sit her down and talk when we get home to make sure she's ok.

"Whatcha doing babe?" I ask Riley who is on her laptop. "Updating the dancer's parents with the flight and what time we are expecting to arrive." She says looking up at me. "Cool" I say and put my arm around her. I can see her smile while she's staring at the laptop screen.

I look around the airport and see Eldon with Michelle leaning on his shoulder. Richelle is sitting on Noah's lap, Sophia and Mason are doing PDA. Piper is just massaging her foot and everyone else is talking or playing a travel game.