The Intern // 5 Seconds of Summer

Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade

"So, what're the plans today?" Lou asks, handing me a cup of tea.

"Hm." I say. "Well, do you have any work to do?" I ask and she nods. 

"You can come help. But I thought Beat was coming?" She asks.

I jump and nod. I start sprinting out of the lobby of the hotel and run towards the boys room. I hurry up the stairs on knock on their door multiple times.

"Calum? Calum?" I knock more. I hear a grown and the door unlock.

"What?" Calum says, opening the door to reveal himself in nohting but his boxers and messy hair.

"HAHA." I burst laughing and he closes the door a tad, feeling self conscious.

"What do you want, Ryan?" 

"I was wondering if Beat was here?" I asked, trying to poke my head into the room.

"She'll be here around 12, I think she said.." He says and quickly closes the door on me.

I assume that they were out late partying last night. Not only is he a mess, but he must of been sleeping like the dead. Drool marks on his face and every time he talked, the smell of cocktail mix lingered out of his mouth. 

He will thank mouth wash and coffee later.

I hurry back to my room and sit on the bed. I reach over and grab my phone. I had left it here and I could of texted her instead of waking up Calum. Ooops, too late. I look over my texts briefly but there's none. Not from my mom, none from beat.. but, 

2 New Messages from Izack The Rad Drummer(;

I open it up and just see loads of emojis and letters. Is he o-

3  New Messages from Izack The Rad Drummer(;

What? Why is he texting me so much? I open the texts and after all the emojis, there's just more random letters but the last one says :

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Don't hate me, okay? Or him. Really, we were all drunk. 

I furrow my brows and spring out of bed. What does he mean? What? They were drunk? Why would Izack be sorry? What did he do? Does he mean something for Ashton?

Wait, okay. No need to freak out. I'm not even dating Ashton. And after being rude to him, I can't all of a sudden claim him as my own. Even though that would be nice, it isn't going to happen.

I don't know what room he's in. Maybe, just maybe, I'll stay in my room and hope Beat will come see me before Calum. She always have the logical answers. Or, she isn't clinically a tad insane. Yeah. Okay. That sounds good.

I just set my phone down on the corner table. I quickly text Beat the story and how I need her to see me first then turn my phone to airplane mode before jumping onto my bed.

I sigh and plug in my iPod. I close me eyes, and nap.

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"Hello?" I hear a knocking.

"YOO!!" I hear a near shout and more knocking.

I sit and sigh, thinking its the boys before I turn over and see the clock. 12:39. I jump from my bed and remember Beat. I leap across the room and rush over, opening the door.

Before I can say hello or even introduce myself to the two other girls standing aside, Beat nearly jumps into my arms and wraps her arms around her neck.

I stand there with Beat nearly tied around me before quickly wrapping my arms around and patting her back. I'm not someone to hug, or touch in general but this isn't too bad.

"Uh.. Let go please.." I say, trying to pull away.

"Oh! Sorry, Ryan!" Beat says, jumping away and grabbing her luggage. "Can we come in?"

"Oh, yeah. Bring all your stuff in, girls." I say, holding the door open. "Whats up, guys?" I ask.

"Oh, nothing. We just got hear." One of the girl says, jumping onto my bed, the other girl following her.

"Well, I'm Ryan." I say, sitting on Lou's bed before going over and picking up my cell phone.

"Kailyn." Says one girl, wearing a maroon skirt and white crop top and some brown sandels. "Ryan.. Wow, I really like your hair!" She says, smiling.

"Lily." The taller one of the two says. She's wearing an All Time Low shirt, a light high waisted skirt along with a stereotypical flannel, knee socks and black Doc Martens. I could get along with this girl. "Don't call me Lil, or anything. Just Lily." She says sternly before bursting into giggles with Kailyn.

"Uh.. Okay." I say and move their bags a bit to the side. I sit down and make myself comfortable.

"So." Beat says, sitting beside me but quickly turning her body to face me. Her smile taking up her face. "TELLMEABOUTASHTONINEEDTOKNOWOHANDWELLIZACKTOOIMEANTHEDRUNKTEXT." She says in one breath.

"What?" I ask, furrowing my eyebrows. "Say that again, and slowly."

"Tell me about Ashton, I reaaally need to know! Oh, and well, Izack too. I mean, this drunk text or whatever." She says, running her hand through the ends of her ponytail.

"Oh. Well, here." I hand her my phone and Lily and Kailyn instantaneously jump over and look over her shoulder, reading the texts.

"Well, shit." Lily says. 

"Hm." Beat says, squinting as though she's focusing hard. "I'm stumped."

I just nod and sit there, I bring my knees up to my face. I sigh and bite my lip. Since when am I so involved in drama? I just need to tell him my feelings.

What are my feelings? 

Do I love him?

Or do I like him?

What would I do if I had never met him? 

Did he change me?

Uh.... No? Yes? 

"Go see Calum." I say to Beat and once I do, she smiles widely and jumps up and down in spot. She's like a puppy, just like Calum. Wow. Weird and creepy. But cute.

***

"And... You're done, Luke." I say, finishing his hair with hairbrush. 

"Thanks." Luke says, standing up. He towers over me and I smile and he returns it for once lately.

I sit down in the chair he was just sitting, finaly done their hair. There's only 3 more towns and as much as I'm tired of their boyness and dorkyness, I'm really going to miss them. So much.

"Hey guys." I turn around and face them. They look up from their phone a minute, sighing as thought as I'm interrupting them. "I'm going to miss you guys." I say and they kinda burst into smiles.

"Awwh." Luke says. "We're going to miss you too." 

I get up and Luke gets up too. We meet halfway and he wraps his arms around me, tightly. He squeezes me, nearly forcing me into his chest. I try and pull my face away but he keeps squeezing me.

"Luke.. You're... Squeezing.. Me.." I say, pulling away and staggering back when he lets go.

"Oh. Haha, sorry." He says, ruffling his hair.

"Show time guys." A worker says, coming in and all the boys standing up.

They all make their way out but seeing Ashton is the last one to the door, I grab his hand and turn him too me. Courage, Ryan. Just 30 seconds and don't waste it.

"I like you, Ashton." I say and get on my tippy toes, kissing him. "Go get 'em." I say smiling and pushing him out the door. He walks out, his eyebrows raised, his jaw dropped but with a huge grin on it.