Bliss || Reece Bibby

15

chapter fifteen; real life

"Come on Reece!"

I laugh as he rolls over in the bed, not wanting to get up.

"Reece Jamie Bibby they will leave without you."

"Fine. I'll get up." His voice is muffled from his face being buried in a pillow, which only makes me laugh.

"Good. I'll be waiting."

He stands up, walking towards the bathroom and shutting the door behind him. I hear the shower turn on almost immediately.

The hotel door opens up and Blake walks in, Olivia following him with a camera.

"He finally get up?"

"Yea. I'm surprised you were the one to text me saying that you guys needed to get to the studio in a little bit."

"Yea, I'm pretty bad at waking up in the morning." He looks at the clothes on the ground. "What the hell did you guys do last night?"

"We snuck off to the pool and swam until 2am."

"So that's why he isn't waking up."

"Yea." I raise an eyebrow. "You were thinking of something else, weren't you?"

"Maybe?"

I grab a pillow and throw it at him. "God, you boys are pathetic."

"I'm not the only one who thinks that!"

"That's why I said boys plural."

"Oh."

"Yeah, 'oh'. Maybe you should listen."

"Call me crazy, but it sounds like Blake is- oh, he really is."

Reece walks out of the bathroom with just his jeans on, drying his hair with a towel in the process.

"How the hell are you up before me?"

"I wasn't swimming until two in the morning."

"Yea, that played a big factor in me not wanting to get up."

Olivia laughs from behind the camera.

"So what's this one gonna be called? A surprise for the boys?"

"Well I didn't get you surprising Reece on video. If I did, it would definitely be titled that."

"We could reenact it."

"Me hiding out in a closet just to text you?"

"Yea."

"We could just do it here, say that I won't open up the door until I'm done having a conversation with her."

"Gosh, we're pathetic." I say, trying to hold in my laughter.

"Go. Get out."

Reece pushes me, Blake, and Olivia out of the hotel door, locking the dead bolt behind us.

"And he went all out."

"Yea, well Reece isn't the best at acting." I say quickly. "I wonder what his reaction is gonna be like."

"You never know, it could look real since it involves you." Blake says with a shrug.

"Wait, why don't we just do this when I leave America?"

"What?"

"He would be genuinely surprised that I'm still here. I could say I'm leaving a day earlier than I really am and surprise him at the venue. Again."

"Won't he want to see you off on the plane?"

"I could say that my flight is during a show."

"That would work." Olivia says. "Shit, the camera just died."

"Well now we have an excuse not to do it."

I knock on the door.

"Reece! The camera just died!"

The door swings open.

"Seriously? I was just about to get into character!"

I chuckle.

"We better get down there." Blake says to Reece.

Reece nods and presses a quick kiss to my lips. "I love you."

"I love you too. I'll see you when you get back."

"Are you gonna be back at the hotel by then?"

I shrug. "It's just coffee with Emily. I'm sure I'll be done before you guys are."

"Have fun."

"I will."

I walk back into the hotel room, grabbing my things and walking towards the elevator.

ugh I missed a couple days of school last week because I had a stomach bug and it's hell trying to get all caught up