SOS || a.i.

Chapter Five

Chapter Five-

The orange clock on Ella's dashboard read '2:34am' as we sped down the freeway a day before 5 Seconds of Summer's Concert at the Hordern Pavilion.

I moved to a different position to try to fall back asleep in the uncomfortable passenger seat when all of a sudden the car swerved, making my head crash into the arm rest.

"Ouch!" I mumbled sleepily and turned to watch Ella, whose eyes were drooping slowly as we swerved again, almost hitting a large blue van.

"El? What's wrong? Why are we swerving?" I asked worriedly.

"I can't...seem...to...stay....awake," Ella mumbled.

I laughed, relieved it was nothing serious. "Okay sleepyhead why don't you pull over? There's a gas station over there and we can fill the tank and switch drivers. Fair enough?" I asked.

Ella just gave me a thumbs up as we turned into the parking lot of a gas station which glowed fluorescent purple and blue.

As we parked, Ella went in to use the restroom while I filled up the tank. I waited as the numbers climbed rapidly on the machine that pumped the gas into the car. Suddenly a large black bus pulled into the lot, and drove around the station to the back.

'That's funny,' I thought. 'Why wouldn't they just pull up in the front? There's no one here besides El and I.'

Suddenly the quiet veil of the night was shattered by a scream.

"Come on mates! Only three minutes to wee and stock up on junk!!" A boy said with a thick Australian accent, just like mine. He sounded vaguely familiar... It couldn't be.

As soon as the last echo of a footstep disappeared, Ella walked out of the store carrying two large grocery bags filled with a variety of soda and junk food.

"Hey Lay!" Ella called as she walked closer, "do you want this crap in the front with us or..." She stopped when she saw my index finger pressed against my lips, to silence her. She set the bags down and gave me a questioning but excited look. The two of us were always getting in trouble somehow.

I pointed to the back of the station and we carefully tiptoed around until we faced the large black bus.

Ella's eyes buldged out of her head as I motioned our next step;get in the bus. It seemed empty as we circled around it, and so, after some quiet, but firm convincing, we both sprinted inside, trying our best not to be seen.

This bus was like no other bus I had ever seen. All the interior was red or blue, from the plush loveseats facing each other in the front of the bus, to the drivers seat. Piled on the couches were several controllers hooked up to xboxes and wiis that were plugged into the 64" flat screen TVs on the walls next to the couches, that jutted out to surround a small kitchen with a fridge, a microwave and a miniature oven.

Past the appliances were were cabinets filled with every junk food, sweet or soda you could think of.

"Whoa," I said looking at the large bag of gummi bears presenented in the front of the red cabinet, "I think I'm in love."

Plastered on the walls opposite the couches were four large stereos and dozens of golden records, with print was too small to makeout.

As I tried to get a closer look at the type on the records, the front door of the bus opened and the night was filled with more screaming.

"They're coming!!" Ella hissed and we immediately ran to the back of the bus.

In the next large room (past the bathroom and shower) were two bunk beads, pressed up against opposite walls. Each with queen matresses and blue and red plaid sheets. A guitar lay on the top bunk of the bed on the right, and a bass lay on the mattress under that.

Drumsticks were strewn around the room and another guitar was placed neatly against the right-side wall. Sheet music littered the mattresses along with multiple notebooks and pens.

"Under the bed!" Ella murmured, practically shoving me under the bunk on the right side and diving under the left side bunk just as the voices entered the bus.

"Hey Calum, play me that bass riff again," a deep Australian voice said, different from the one I had heard earlier.

"Yeah mate sure," a higher pitched, quirker voice said as the two walked into the room followed my two more sets of feet.

"Ash! Stop leaving your drumsticks everywhere! I keep... ah!" A new voice said as the person attached to it tumbled to the ground.

"I keep doing that..." The same voice grumbled, earning a loud laugh from the last boy in the room.

That laugh... I knew it... It's attached to the voice I heard earlier. Could it be?

"Ash?" I said louder than I meant to.

"Who's there? The deeper voice who I had heard first asked. And I clamped my hands over my mouth.

"Check under the beds. Maybe a monster is looking to eat Ash since he leaves his drumsticks everywhere," the higher pitched one teased.

"I'll look," the voice attached to the boy who tripped said playing along.

I tensed up as I saw a mop of bright pink hair that looked like candy floss go down to look under the bed Ella occupied.

"Oh god..." He muttered grabbing El by her hand and pulling her from under the bed.

"A stowaway!" The higher voice exclaimed loudly.

"There's gotta be another one," the boy with the familiar voice said and I saw his head come down and reach for my arm.

"Out you go love," he said pulling me from under the bed.

"What the hell do you think you're..." Started the candy floss one.

"Wait a second..." Ash said interrupting him. He looked confused and then excited as the realization set in.

"Lay?" He questioned, he'd been the first one to give me that nickname.

"Hey Ash," I said smiling...

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5SOS is now a part of this story! I know y'all have been waiting so here they are!

I decided to give Michael pink hair right now because I actually kind of like candy floss Michael. But you can comment on what you want his hair to look like next😂

Anyway sorry I haven't updated in a while. I just got busy but I'm here now!

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