The Herron twins /// book 1 // completed

Chapter 17

Zach's Pov
Today was the day I was going home to surprise Lauren
I can't wait I'm genuinely so so excited.
I managed to talk to the principle and he let me come back to school for the day, I've missed school and having so much social interaction and being judged by everyone around yo...... Never mind. I do not miss that place one bit. But Lauren needs help so I get her timetable and the principal agreed to let me come so I'm happy

I was waiting to get on my plane right now, I'd said bye to the guys last night as right now it's 1 am, I wanted to be there as she's waking up and tell her I'm coming to school with her so this seemed like the best option. I am so tried tho but the Adrenalin pumping through my blood was keeping me wide awake.

I was so excited to see my baby sister. I miss her so much.

"Flight 3704 to Dallas now boarding at gate 7," said the monotoned voice over the intercom

I collected my bag and headed towards the gate, texting my mom to let her know I was about to get on the flight.

This was the first time I've travelled alone and I'm kinda scared. Actually no. I'm a lot scared. But it's for Lauren so I can do this.

I went and took my seat on the almost empty plane, there was probably most 30 people on board right now, there were a couple others in the queue but from what I can gather it's gone be a pretty empty flight, no screaming kids, no seat being kicked and the thought of being able to hug Lauren very soon made me quite the but happy.

I got a message from jack saying 'enjoy your flight buddy (:'

I quickly messaged back with 'thanks J see you soon x'

He must have stayed awake or woken up to be able to message me, this made me reallllly happy

I'm trying so hard to hide my 'gayness' for Jack because who would want me as a boyfriend for a start, second off I've seen how homophobic us teens can be and let's be honest, Jack is about as straight as they get, if I were to tell him how would he take it? Probably badly, he'd tell the rest of the guys and then I'd be out of the band and their lives. So you know what, I'm going to keep this off my mind.
I sigh to myself knowing I'm going to have to get over this kid soon and also due to how hard it's going to be

Maybe I should tell Lauren? I know I can trust her? What if she's like the rest of them Lauren is my sister she would love me no matter what are you sure about that? SHUT UP I yell at the voice in my head.

I take a deep breath in and put in my headphones, playing one of Jack's songs, liar. I do feel bad for him this song has so much emotion, every time I hear it I just want to cry and hug him but right now I can't, so I skip the song to the next on my playing and Lauren's favourite song came on. I started humming along to the lyrics completely forgetting I was on a plane until the pilot started talking telling us the fastened seatbelt sign was off and we were free to move about yadda yadda

I opened My camera roll to have a look at some photos from the past week and smiled so much looking at all the fun we were having together, this whole band thing is going to be so amazing and fun I really hope it lasts.

I keep scrolling and I see a photo of jack hugging me from behind pulling the goofiest face you could think of, I smiled and laughed a little at the photo catching the attention of the person sat next but one away from me (they kindly left the middle seat free) who looked over, she was a middle-aged woman who spoke softly asking "Aaaahh is that your boyfriend?" Her smile kind enough to warm a million hearts

"I wish" I blurted out mentally facepalming at my idiocy "he's my bandmate / best friend"

"You should talk to him, tell him how you feel, I can see by the way you're looking at that picture you like him" she laughed a little

"What if he doesn't want to be my friend anymore?" I asked

"Well he is no real friend then is he?" She smiled

"Thank you" I returned the smile "that means a lot"

"Your very welcome dear"

"How come you're not like the rest of them? Like hateful towards people like me, everyone I've met seems to hate me" I sigh

"Well you can't have met very many decent people then can you" she laughed "my son is bisexual, he liked boys and girls, You just have to support everyone, having him has really opened my eyes to that"

"That's awesome" I smiled "thank you so much for everything, I'm Zach by the way" I stuck out my hand

"Lisa" she smiled shaking my hand

"Thank you for making me feel comfortable to talk to you, the world needs more people like you, I don't know if you could tell but that was the first time I have ever told anyone about my sexuality" I smiled awkwardly

"You shouldn't be afraid or ashamed of who you are. If people ask to to tell them, don't hide it, it makes you-you."

"Your right" I smiled

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but your a young lad right?"

"Yeah I'm 15" I smiled "I'm going home to see my sister and bring her out to la with me and my band, she is really struggling with bullying at school so I'm taking her with me to look after her"

"Your the nicest young man I have ever met, keep it up, Zach"

"Thank you"

And after that we continued taking, I ended up following her Instagram and I found out her daughter was a huge fan or Jonah so I said next time she was in la with her daughter we'd come to say hey.

We exited the plane and parted ways. I'm only staying a day so I didn't bring a suitcase, just my rucksack. I slug it over my shoulder and went to go hop in the Uber I ordered to be here for now.

I'm coming Lozzy.