Long Way Down

Lads Holiday

Troye’s POV

As soon as I had woken up from the fun yet exhausting night I had with my friends yesterday, the boys and I got ready to start our road trip. Before we went anywhere further, seeing how starving we all were, we stopped by a sushi restaurant to have a quick lunch before heading to Genova. Right after we had finished, Louis and Marcus got going to the airport to rent our cars, and with our cars ready, after getting my forgotten credit card in the restaurant we had gone sooner, we finally headed to our first location.

Between many songs played during the drive, entertaining chats with my friends, infinite scrolling down my dashboard and a quick stop at the grocery store, we made our way to Genova. We got to the hotel before the other car, and even though I assumed that they would have some food before they went to bed, I was too tired to move an inch outside my hotel room.

The next day after a great breakfast to start out our day, we checked out of our hotel and headed to our next location, La Spezia. Within 2 hours or so we got there, and as soon as we did, Louis parked so we could get our train to the city. As both cars had parked beside the other, I sighted Tyler waving at me from the other car, my heart fluttering lightly at his adorableness as I smiled and waved back at him quickly before we got out of the car.

After a quick snack, having the hardest time to stop myself from checking Tyler out innumerous times seeing how specially gorgeous he was looking today, we got our train to Vernazza and started our sightseeing. The city itself was already incredible, all the colorful buildings made everywhere we looked stunningly beautiful. Our first stop was at this amazing place with huge rocks around, in conjunction with a beautiful view from the sea.

While the other guys filmed and took pictures of the place, Tyler and I, after we had taken our own, caught up with each other while sitting down on one of the rocks, giving that he was in the car with Marcus, Joe and Caspar while I was with Loius, Connor and Alfie.

“Wait, Troye…”, Tyler cut me off grabbing my downer arm, as I defended myself after he called me an idiot for forgetting my wallet at the restaurant earlier today, in his own giggly way that made my heart melt. He pulled me away from the rock I was sitting on and turned me around, sketching a smile as he did so.

“Oh, shit”, I said turning my head around to look at my own butt, realizing that I had just gotten myself soaked sitting down on a very wet rock.

Tyler and I couldn’t help but burst out laughing, him staring and pointing at my wet bum as his laugh became even louder. Still cackling, he called Connor to show him what had happened, with the memory of when it was Tyler who soaked himself with bier in San Francisco on a trip we had a few months ago. We were still between fits of laughter, when Loius came along with his vlogging camera to join the party.

We were all still giggling at my idiotic self, and after Ty and I took the most adorable picture of us laughing, we got going to our next sight.

Feeling breathless for climbing so many stairs along the way, with cameras in hands, we arrived at an open place entirely built with pavement stones, with an enormous fort right in the middle of it. Caspar, Joe, Tyler, Connor, Louis and I got into the fort, with a promise of having a great view of the city from up there. We were not disappointed when we realized that it was indeed stunning.

“How do we get to the bottom though?” Connor asked after a moment of silence of us enjoying and recording the view, watching Marcus and Alfie seeing the city through a big binocular outside the fort, not being sure whether they were in the same place as we arrived or somewhere else we hadn’t been yet. Knowing that it was the same place were before, pointing to the stairs in the center of the fort, I was about to tell him to go down them when Tyler spitted out before me.