"Hey Vi wake up! We're leaving soon." I opened my eyes and faintly could make out Luke and Michael sanding in the doorway.
"Luke? Where's my mom?" I ask slightly frantically.
"Oh... She left..." He tells me. I feel my heart immediately shatter. I put my head in my palms and close my eyes, now on the verge of tears.
"Can you guys just leave please...?" I ask trying to choke back tears.
"Of course, maybe you should call her?" Luke suggested.
"No. I don't want to talk to her." Tears now falling down my face.
Michael pushes Luke out of the way and sits next to me.
"Violet don't cry." He pleads and wipes the tears off my face with the sleeve of his sweater.
I look at him. His eyes look sincere and almost red.
"I don't want to see you upset. Please, come to breakfast with us. It'll be okay. I promise." My cheek is now under his hand.
"Yeah, okay." I nod and force a smile. He pulls me into a hug and I immediately relax under his grasp.
He gets up and walks towards the door.
"Wait Michael!" I say. He turns around and smiles at me.
"Yes?"
"Thank you, for everything." I tell him. He really has made this a lot better.
He smiles at me and nods. He closes my door as he leaves.
I decide to wear black skinny jeans and a shirt with a cat wearing glasses on it.
Haha.
That's a silly cat.
I walk down stairs after I finish getting ready and decide to wear my hair natural, wavy.
I see 4 boys in the living room, 2 of which I don't know. They both wave and say hello when they see me.
"Okay guys this is my cousin Violet," Luke tells the boys. " and Vi this is Calum and Ashton."
Calum has dark brown hair and tan skin while Ashton is pale with curly dirty blond hair all above a bandanna.
Calum and Ashton both stand up and great me with a hug. It was sweet. A little confusing, but sweet. We all pile into Michael's car and All Time Low still playing from last night.
He switches to the radio and "Turn Down for What" starts playing. All of us cringe at the same time and Michael pulls out a Mayday Parade CD.
On the way there we all discuss how terrible music is now and everything on the radio is atrocious. Finally we all agree that either Green Day or Blink 182 are our favorite bands.
We soon pull into an iHop and get out.
"Party of 5?" Luke tells the waitress.
"YEAH PARTY!" Calum says and start to dance around the waiting area. We all burst into laughter, including the hostess.
After Calum's attempt to start an "iHop party" as he called it, we all sat down at a large booth.
"So Violet where are you fro-" Ashton asked but was cut off by Calum.
"Where the hell do you think she's from?! A womb!" We all laughed really loud and got odd stares from everyone but we didn't care.
Finally after we all laughed until there were tears in our eyes and Luke pissed his pants a tiny bit, our food came.
Michael poured all of the syrup flavors on his pancakes.
"Eww Michael that's disgusting!" I tell him while laughing.
"So you assume, but if you taste it, it's like an angel itself cam down and made me pancakes with angel syrup."
"Dude, that's gross." Ashton says and we burst into laughter.
"But seriously, try these pancakes." Michael says while stabbing a chunk of pancakes and holing it out to my mouth. I take a bite and my mouth fills with multiple sweet flavors.
"I can't tell if that's disgusting or the best thing I've ever put in my mouth."
"I can change that!" Michael says and we all laugh at his insanely inappropriate joke.
The waitress came back with our check and handed Calum a little folded up paper.
"It's from the hostess." She said and shrugged. Calum's face lit up as he unfolded the paper.
"It's her number!" He said excitedly.
"Dude! She's like 50!" Ashton, Luke and Michael all said in unison.
We all laughed as we left the store and got in the car. When we pulled up I thanked all of them because 'they would never let a girl pay for anything' which I thought was really sweet but told them I would at least get the tip.
This morning was great. I got all the boys numbers because I knew we'd hang out again because they're the only people in this town who are my friend and not related to me (besides Luke). I don't want to check my phone but I need to update to Alice and Brooklyn and let them know I'll probably survive the summer.
15 missed calls from my mom.
"Hey mom, Sorry I went out with Luke and his friends" I tell her once she answers.
"It's okay. I didn't want to wake you this morning but I left a note and a present in my room. I hope you didn't think I forgot about you or anything."
"No, of course not." I lie.
"Well I'll let you go, I'm still driving. I'll call you when I get to my hotel. Love you."
"Love you too."
I walk down the hall to her room and find a letter on the bed.
Violet,
I'm going to miss you so much. I hope this can make up for me leaving you for the summer.
Love Mom.
I open the rather large bag and find jumpers and flannels but at the bottom of the bag I see something slightly confusing.
A map.
A map with places marked on it with a sticky note attached.
"Go to these places with a friend ;)"
Why though?
I pull out my phone to text my mom but I already had a text.
"Don't ask questions, just do it. I'll explain later."
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Dark Paradise (A Michael Clifford fanfiction)
Fanfiction"All I have is you guys, but I couldn't ask for anything more." I rose my glass to the people I thought I would hate and realized they're the ones I love the most. The place I used to dread became my dark paradise. The bitter sweet taste of my world...
