Playing the Player | 5sos

○ chapter fourteen ○

"Chula Vista, California" Michael said while they all walked out of the tourbus. "It's too early." Cassie groaned and walked back in to the tour bus.

It was seven in the morning and they had just arrived at the Sleep Train Amphitheatre, where they would be preforming the next night. Cassie sat down on the couch and got her coffee in her hands. She was still wearing sweats and a hoodie, and it was a little early for her liking, but at least they stopped driving for a little while.

"How did you sleep?" Laura walked in and asked Cassie. "Pretty well, I had expected it to be worse than it eventually was." She said, taking a sip of her coffee. "Well, I'm glad." Laura smiled. "I wanted to go through today's planning." Laura then said. "Straight to business." Cassie smiled, Laura nodded. "Where's Luke." Laura started asking. "Here's Luke." He answered while walking in. The other boys were still outside. "I was just planning on going through your planning for the day." Laura said.

"You kids are going to have breakfast in the mall in a few hours, then you're going to stroll through the park, and you'll be back before noon so Luke can join the rehearsal." Laura said, explaining. "Well, okay." Cassie said, surprised with how much was planned out for her. Laura smiled and nodded, getting up and walking away.

Cassie got up as well and walked over to the bunks, getting her stuff ready to go in to the bathroom. She started brushing her teeth and then there was a knock on the door. "Yeah?" She said, the door opened and revealed Luke. "Sorry just had to grab something." He said, walked over to one of the cabinets and then walked away again.

Afterwards she continued getting ready again and when she was finished, she left the bathroom. Luke was sitting in the main area, chilling with Michael. "Hello there." Michael smiled at Cassie. "Hey." She smiled back and sat down opposite from him. "Luke you can go on the bathroom if you want to." Luke nodded and got up.

"Have you by chance seen my snapchat today?" Michael asked after it had been silent for a little time. Cassie furrowed her eyebrows "No, why?" She asked and grabbed her phone. She opened snapchat and clicked on Michael's story. There was the video of Luke and her cuddled in bed. "Oh god, Mike." She groaned and let her head fall back.

"So why did that happen?" He asked her and stared straight in to her eyes. "I don't know, Luke said I had fallen asleep after taking that picture and he didn't want to wake me up because I was so tired." Cassie said, playing with her hands. "That's nice of him." Michael answered. "Yeah, I guess." Cassie told him.

"I thought you guys hated each other." Michael said and Cassie grinned. "I thought so too, I think in Las Vegas I saw a completely different Luke." She replied. "It's very rare to see those kind of moments with Luke." Michael started saying, "Especially with Luke."

"I don't know, I still find him a little annoying every now and then but I've come to accept the moments a bit more." She went through her hair with her hands. "I just realised that this is my life right now and nothing will change it, so I better just get along with him." She shrugged. Then Luke came walking in to the main area again.

"I'm ready." He smiled, going through his quiff with his hand. "Okay great." Cassie smiled and got up to get her bag from her bunk. "Laura just called a cab." Luke said when Cassie walked back over. "By the way, we're sleeping in a hotel tonight so do you have your carry on ready for when we get back?" Luke asked Cassie. "Yeah." She smiled.

"Bye Mike." Cassie said, walking towards the door and outside. Calum and Ashton were playing with a football. "Have fun eating breakfast!" Calum yelled. "Thank you!" Luke yelled back. There were a couple of fans surrounding the gates, so immediately Luke grabbed Cassie's hand. She looked at Luke questionable for a second until he whispered "Fans."

They walked over to the cab that was waiting and got in. "Good morning." The cab driver said, they replied and then said they wanted to get breakfast in the mall. After a short drive they arrived in the mall and got out. Luckily there were no paps, which means Laura did not call anybody. "Nice and quiet for a change." Cassie grinned while they strolled around, looking for a breakfast spot.

Eventually they found one, ordered and sat down. It first was quiet for a while, but Luke politely tried to fill the silence. "So how was your first day and night on the tour bus?" He asked Cassie who was sipping her smoothie. "It was pretty good actually. I had expected it to be more uncomfortable but so far so good."

Luke grinned. "This'll be the upcoming three months on and off, so it'll probably get more uncomfortable eventually." Luke laughed and ate some of his breakfast. "Well I'm not coming to Canada so that gives me enough time to detox before you continue the US." Cassie grinned, thinking about the upcoming schedule.

"I'm wondering if they're going to give us separate rooms in the hotel or if we have to sleep in the same one." She then questioned. "I think they'll give us one room." Luke spoke, looking around for a second. "Honestly isn't it all a little too much? If you were actually dating somebody you would never be so open about it to the public." Cassie said, whispering so no strangers could hear them talk.

"Well they want to show the public that I am in a relationship and that I am very loyal so they want us to show as much as possible." Luke said. Cassie thought about saying something about the 'loyal' thing, but decided not to.

"And in a bit, we'll stroll through the beautiful park just to be seen."