Safe | Jonah Marais x Corbyn Besson

Chapter 5- Zach Herron

[Jonah's POV]

I went to pick up Zach from the airport in Jordan Besson's car, he let me borrow it since he was at the gym with his friends. It was about a 30 minute ride, 40 with the snow everywhere. I was listening to Ed Sheeran and Camila Cabello, knowing the words to all the songs. I couldn't wait to see Zach, I was heartbroken from Corbyn being hospitalized and I really needed someone to comfort me. Zach is like my little bro: I can depend on him whenever but he's extremely stupid sometimes. I still love him though, that's why I wrote our song :I Depend on You" about him.

When I got to the airport, I called Zach and asked him which terminal and gate he was at. He said he didn't know, which annoyed me, but I expected that from him so I forgave it. Since Zach didn't know where he was, I told him to put on his sunglasses and hat and walk around. We had to disguise ourselves since our fans would bombard us asking for pics and autographs. I was in disguise too, but one of our fans immediately recognized me. I recognized him too, his name was Canyon. I followed him on Instagram cuz I felt bad for him, and I played Fortnite with him once. Apparently now he's stalking me and following me everywhere I go. He asked for a picture and a video message to some girl named Kennedy, and so I did it and hugged him like 4 times, and then he said that he got a video message from Zach too. I asked him to lead me to Zach, and so he did the craziest thing: he picked me up, and gave me a piggyback ride all the way to Zach's terminal. Once I saw Zach in site, I thanked Canyon and hopped off. He was breathing heavily, I asked him if he was ok and he had the audacity to say "I- I think I'm gonna pass out. You may need to give me mouth to mouth resuscitation" and fainted. I couldn't tell if he fainted for real, or just wanted a lame excuse to kiss me, but I gave him mouth to mouth. In the middle of a crowded airport, and Zach stared in awe and started recording. After 20 seconds of blowing and chest compressing, Canyon woke up and started laughing maniacally, and ran off.  That little psycho tricked me into giving him a kiss! I don't even give our girl fans kisses anymore, I felt weird but it's whatever, no homo right? Zach walked up to me and started laughing super hard, and I punched him in his arm. "Don't say ANYTHING" and he shut up for a little, giggling occasionally.

Once we got in the car, Zach turned the radio on and God is a Woman by Ariana Grande started playing. He started belting out the notes and pretending like he could hit the notes that Ariana did, I laughed and started to sing with him. After a couple of mainstream radio songs, we heard our song "8 Letters" on the radio. When Corbyn's part came on, Zach and I sat in silence, listening to the voice of our band-mate. I started to tear up, and I could see that Zach was feeling emotional too. I turned the radio off and asked Zach to tell me about his plane ride. He said that some old lady started yelling at him on the plan for playing his music too loud in his headphones and I laughed. Next thing we knew, we were back at Corbyn's house. Zach went in and unpacked. I slept in Corbyn's room, while Zach shared Jordan's room with him. After unpacking, we went to get lunch at McDonalds since they had free wifi and bomb ass fries. Corbyn was currently undergoing spinal surgery, so we couldn't visit him quite yet. We were trying to get the whole rest of the band down here to visit him, but Daniel was in Europe and Jack had been MIA for the past 2 weeks, probably on a hike with no service or something. It was just me and Zach. And Canyon of course, he was sitting two tables behind us, pretending like we didn't notice him eavesdropping on us. After I called him out, he begged for us to bring him with us to visit Corbyn in the hospital. After saying no a couple of times with him still insisting, I finally said yes, and he immediately took his large fries and brought it to our table, then sat down next to me and Zach. Not gonna lie, I kinda regret doing that, but he was a fan, so it's whatever. He was keeping Zach busy anyways, so I could text my girlfriend Tate and ask her how her day was. After exchanging a few texts with Tate, I got a call. It was the receptionist at the hospital; she said Corbyn's surgery was complete and that we could visit him now. So after smacking down a couple of fries, Zach, Canyon, and I put on our disguises and headed to the car.