Wake Up Call || 5SOS a.u.

|x nine |x

"Boys, I love your company but we have to close for the night." Susana said as she and Carl stared at us.

"Already? But it's only two a.m." I protested.

"We are a small business plus, nothing good ever happens after two a.m." Carl replied.

It was true, I got this stupid tattoo at 2:23 a.m., it was the only tattoo artist I knew would be open or at least would be in the store at that time.

We helped with the chairs and I saw that Susana was going in the same direction as us, so I asked her to join.

"How come I never saw you around?" I asked.

"I moved here two months ago and I spend most of the time playing portal or on tumblr." She replied.

"Give me your url." Luke intervened.

"Never." She laughed.

"Are you like a smut writer or something?" He asked her laughing.

"You will never know." We all laughed together, forgetting the time and I swear I heard someone in a house yelling for us to shut up.

"Where are you from?" I was curious because she didn't quite look American nor Australian nor British.

"I'm from Portugal." It all added up, her beauty was really exotic.

"Don't you like, speak Portuguese or something?" Luke asked.

"Yea, I do, but my father was British, so I had some family here." She replied, I could see the light in her eyes starting to fade as she spoke of her father.

"Say something in Portuguese." I tried to change the conversation.

" Olá, eu sou a Susana e trabalho no bar durante duas semanas." She said.

"Wow, that sounded hot, what did you say?" I didn't got a word she said but I loved the way she softly spoke and curled up her lips pronouncing whatever she was saying.

"I only said hi and that my name was Susana and I was working at the bar during two weeks." She laughed.

We said our goodbyes and she took the turn to her street.

"Susana seems quite perfect so far." I blushed.

"She almost seems too perfect, I think something doesn't add up."

(Charlotte)

After the dance practice I saw Ashton leaning on the doorframe of the studio.

"Hey, was my mom rough on you? You don't look too well." He asked, I could feel offended but I saw in his face that he wasn't trying to insult me, he was just concerned.

"I'm fine, Ash. Don't worry."

"No, you're not fine. We've been best friends for years, don't you think I can't see when you're upset about something?" He wrapped his arm around my neck and kissed my forehead.

"I don't need you to worry about me."

"Was it that Michael guy? Because I swear that if he laid a finger on you I-"

"He didn't do anything, Ashton."

"But he is getting in your head, I can see it."

"Maybe he is, his words fucking hurt." I started crying against his chest.

"Shhh, babe, don't worry about that worthless piece of crap, he isn't worth it, okay?"

I nodded and buried my head against his neck.

Noémi appeared right behind me and her smile faded as she saw the scene in front of her eyes. She didn't knew about what had happened this morning because we haven't had a chance to talk about it, but I explained it to her as we headed to Ashton's car.

"What a booger face." She said and I laughed from her expression. She always knew the simplest ways of putting a smile on my face.

We decided to go to the new salad palace at the mall before going home and Michael's name didn't cross my mind once as the people I love more than anything in the world cheered me up.

Noémi felt bad about telling me that she was chatting with the guy he was at the bar with, but it didn't bother me that much because from what she was saying he was a great guy, unlike his friend.

-

We had a movie marathon afternoon, that ended up being a movie marathon night, started on "Clueless" and ended on "Saw".

" I better get going ladies. I still have to help my mom with the house. Goodnight." Ashton said as he stepped to the door.

"Stay safe. Tell Lauren and Harry I said hi." I told him and he nodded, while Noémi just waved him goodbye.

She stayed quiet for a while and I caught her staring at me.

"What?" I asked while taking another hand full of popcorns.

"There's something different with Ashton towards you." She took the popcorn bowl out of my hands.

"Nah."

"There is, he used to protect you, as a brother, but now there's something different. You must have gave him the night of his life." She laughed and I hit her with the nearest pillow. "And that reminds me, you still haven't told me about last night."

"What do you want me to say? We did it and it felt wrong and right at the same time, I can't explain it, but he was really sweet to me and I don't regret it." I explained. "But then in the morning I met his friend, the owner of the house, and I had mistaken his shirt with Ashton's so it was quite awkward but he was really nice and let me keep it."

"Was he cute?" Noémi asked.

"His friend? Yeah, he was but now you have your little Luke."

"Shut up."

"Make me."

Our pillow fight continued until we got too tired and fell asleep on the cough.

I really hope tomorrow is better than today.