the princess and the gang ❦ l.hemmings

ii

Aria's pov

I went downstairs as I heard talking, I went to the kitchen seeing the guys. They stopped talking right when they saw me, so I turned around to leave, but got stopped.

"Stay." Luke said grabbed my shirt pulling me towards him.

"But I interrupted your conversation." I said as he pulled me on his lap.

"We were done talking anyways. Are you hungry?" I nodded.

"I want pancakes." He nodded and looked at Calum.

Calum got up and went somewhere. I looked back at Luke to see him looking at me.

"We need to talk." I nodded.

"I'm the leader of the, um, gang." He stammered while not making eye contact with me.

"Are you nice to the others?" I questioned.

"Yes, it's only the four of us and we're all best friends." He nodded.

"Why are you the leader?" I asked as Calum came back in and sat back where he was before he left.

"We kinda got taken this one time and the person asked who the leader was and I said I was. Now since that's happened I do leadery stuff." Kinda? Okay.

"I'll be back." I ran upstairs and got dressed. It was early! Don't judge!

I ran back down to just see Luke. I went over to him and sat beside of him and looked at him. He's really cute, no, he's pretty. I don't get it.

"Tell me about yourself." I said after I noticed I was staring.

"Tell me everything." I said, pulling up my legs.

He shifted so he was facing me. He told me the basics like his birthday, what he liked to do which was sing, he was in a band with the rest of the guys on the side. That's actually what they did for a living before the gang.

"Why are yous in a gang?" I questioned with my eyebrows furrowed.

"It just happened, we were at a party and someone started messing with us so we, um kinda killed them." He explained while scratching the back of his neck.

"Kinda?" I asked, smiling.

"We killed them." I nodded as the door opened.

The guys came in with bags of food. I ran out to the kitchen and for them to the put the bags down. When they set the bags down I took everything out of the bags, finding mine on the bottom. I quickly started eating mine as the boys watched me in shock. I never had pancakes back home, I wasn't allowed to.

"These are so good! Why are these pancakes so good?" I asked with my mouth slightly full.

Slightly? I'm surprised they could understand you.

"Slow down, you're gonna choke." Ashton chuckled.

I ignored him and was done in seconds as the boys started eating. I got bored after a bit so I went in the living room, laid on the couch, and got on my phone. Eventually Michael came in and laid on the other couch, soon the others came in. Luke was the last to come in so I lifted my legs up, he sat down letting me put my legs down on him. Ashton turned the tv on and the news came on.

"Princess Aria has been missing for about 10 hours now, if anyone has seen her please call the police." I rolled my eyes.

"Why hasn't anyone called you?" Calum asked causing everyone to look at me.

"I blocked everyone last night and turned my notifications off." He nodded.

Every tv station Ashton turned to was just me missing. I grabbed the baseball that was on the coffee table and threw it at the tv, breaking it.

"Wanna do something?" Luke asked quickly as I sat up.

"Teach me." I said as I looked at him.

"No, no, no."

"Yes!" I said loudly standing up getting in front of him. He slumped back on the couch.

"Teach me, now." He got up, grabbing my hand, and went downstairs with the guys following.

"Are you sure?" He questioned.

"Yes, Luke. I want you to teach me." He nodded and looked at the guys. This should be fun.