Playing the Player | 5sos

○ chapter nineteen ○

Cassie walked in to her home, letting out a sigh while dropping her suitcase and backpack to the side. She immediately kicked off her shoes and threw her jacket down as well. While walking in to the living room she was shocked.

Shocked to see her best friends sitting there. Good shocked.

"Surprise!" They yelled and came running over to Cassie. "I missed you guys so much!" Cassie yelled while giving them both at the same time a big hug. "We missed you too!" Ruby yelled. They stood there in that hug for probably longer than most hugs lasted, but Cassie and her friends obviously did not mind.

"Well sit down, I'll get you a drink and we'll have to hear everything!" Willow stood up and ran over to the fridge. "I'd love to tell you but it are a lot of long and sometimes complicated stories and you might get bored." Cassie grinned a little. "Bored? This is Luke Hemmings we're talking about, I don't think anything that has to do with him can be boring." Ruby said, raising an eyebrow.

"Okay, just don't fall asleep." Cassie laughed. When she started to speak she got a phone call. "Oh sorry hold on a second." Cassie said and answered it. "Hello." She said casually. "Hello there Cassie Thomas this is Luke Hemmings do you remember me?" He said, trying to sound serious but he already started laughing mid-sentence.

"Oh my god I have no idea who you are." Cassie started laughing too. "I am guessing you are home again?" He then asked, in a normal voice. "Yeah, Willow and Ruby surprised me." Cassie said while smiling, even though he would not be able to see that smile.

"Okay great, I just wanted to see if your flight went well but I guess so." Luke replied. "Yeah, it went well. Hey are you already in Vancouver?" Cassie asked him quickly. "Yeah, we just got here like fifteen minutes ago." He answered her question. "Okay well I'll speak to you soon, you go enjoy your time with your best friends." Luke said. They quickly exchanged goodbye's and then hung up.

Willow and Ruby just sat there looking at Cassie. Willow had her eyebrows raised, she looked very surprised. And Ruby just sat there with a slightly opened mouth. "Luke Hemmings is friendly!" Willow said, laughing. "Can you guys just say Luke, his full name makes me uncomfortable." Cassie laughed and held her head in her hands.

"Sorry we're just surprised, we only see what everyone sees because you don't want to update us through texting or phone calls, which we get because what if those get hacked or something," Ruby started saying. "But we just really are wondering what is going on because for all we knew you still disliked this boy with your entire heart." Ruby said.

"Oh gosh, you're completely right!" Cassie said. "Okay to start off Luke and I currently are friends." She said. Willow applauded, "I knew you would become friends." She laughed. "Well it was a rocky road to friendship." Cassie groaned. "Well I feel like you're about to tell us why." Ruby said, laughing.

"To start off, Las Vegas was so eye opening. He honestly was broken when I found him in that hotel room. I showered him and decided to stay with him while he got sobered up." Cassie started saying. Her friends again looked surprised. Cassie found it quite funny, because if they already were surprised by this, they would be completely shocked by the other things that had happened.

"I mean he looked completely different, like a different human being that needed somebody to comfort him and give him all of the attention he needed." The girls started nodding. "And that next day we had a talk and I really started understanding him a bit more. At least for that moment." Ruby's eyes were widened and she looked so interested in the story, like it was an actually story and not real life events.

"Well anyways then it went well for a little while until the night before the first show." Cassie started saying, she started staring at her hands and playing with them. "Wow okay what happened." Willow responded to the sudden change of attitude.

"We uh-." Cassie said but interrupted herself. "We slept together." She said and held her head in her hands so she wouldn't have to see the reaction she got from her friends. "What!" One of them yelled. "Oh my god!" The other one yelled. "Never in a million years I thought that would happen." Ruby said shocked when Cassie lifted her head up again.

"I'm shocked too." Cassie started saying. "But when it happened, I don't know, it just felt good." She told her best friends that were just shocked. "Are you getting a crush on him or something?" Willow asked her, raising one eyebrow. "Oh no, that was not the end of the story." Cassie said. "Damn you have been gone for like ten days." Ruby laughed.

"So what happened then?" Willow asked. "Okay so that was the night before the show, and then after the show something happened." Cassie told them. "You did it again?" Willow said, this time Cassie was shocked. "No!" She replied yelling. "I'm not that way. But it was the reason we had a fight."

"Luke was really turned on or something, he basically is all the time but whatever." Cassie started telling. "So he wanted to go at it again, and I said no, and he didn't like that and all. The other boys found out and where honestly just as shocked as you were." Cassie said, laughing. "I told Luke he could apologise to me, which he didn't, which made me even more pissed off."

Cassie groaned a little, thinking back to all the things that had happened. "So Ashton talked to him and Luke basically ignored me unless we needed to do something for publicity." Cassie started telling. "And then today right before I had to board he apologised, and I was so surprised but so happy he did. It was kind and thoughtful." She said, thinking back to that little moment they shared.

"I think that was the first time I gave him a genuine hug." Cassie said, smiling a little. "So you guys are friends?" Willow asked and Cassie nodded. "Well that is much better than last time we saw you!" Ruby laughed and gave Cassie another hug.

"How is Mike?" Willow asked, they had met the boys before and they also clicked well with Michael. Maybe because Cassie had the best connection with him so they followed her lead. "He's great. Always the sweetheart he is." Cassie smiled. "We actually went to get lunch the other day and just sat there talking for hours on end."

"I'm so happy you're back, and also about how this entire story will evolve." Willow said and gave Cassie another hug as well. "I think this story will have a great storyline." Ruby nodded while joining their hug.