Destiny

Chapter 23

Beau's POV

"Beau, I'm worried about Ruby." Danni said quietly as we climbed into bed. We had booked our own room which was nice, meaning we could have a lot more privacy.

"Why? What's happened?" I asked, trying to rack my brain for the possibilities but failing.

"Well, the mystery phone calls, the texts, the way she completely avoided talking about her party. I think something has happened. I did try to ask her but she wouldn't let me in." She said, concern growing on her face.

I sat up and wrapped my arm around her shoulders, pulling her body closer to mine. "Do you want me to tell Luke?" I asked.

"No," She said looking up at me. "I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I really couldn't keep it to myself. I just want to know what's wrong." She said, pulling the covers up over her shoulders.

I slid down into the lying position and joined her, facing her back than faced me. "Night." I whispered as I held her closely.

"Night." She returned, I could see a smile creeping onto her face in the darkness.

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We were woke up by loud knocking at the door so I pushed myself up and out of my bed. I walked over to the door, opening it to be presented with all of the others stood together, holding their suitcases behind them.

"The fuck? Are you not ready?!" Luke asked with anger, looking past me into our room.

"Why, what time is it?" I asked, scanning each of their faces.

"9am, we have to be at the airport in an hour and it takes half an hour to get there." James said, laughing slightly. I wasn't amused.

"Do you want us to come in and help?" Ruby smiled. I nodded and led them all in, Danni didn't seem too happy to be awakened by these 5 but oh well.

The others all rushed around the hotel room to get everything packed, although there wasn't too much, whilst Danni and I got ready. I could get used to having my own personal slaves.

"Done, are you ready yet?" Jai asked, popping his head around the corner of the bathroom door. Danni and I nodded, washing the toothpaste off our toothbrushes and putting them into our bags.

We all ran down the hall, pulling our suitcases behind us which slowed us down a little. We were about 15 minutes late and we knew our car was outside so we made sure we ran as fast as possible to get in.

There were fans outside, blocked off by barriers. We didn't have time to talk to any of them which kind of sucked but we waved to them anyway.

We climbed into the car, Ruby, Luke and Daniel in the front, me and Danni in the middle and James and Jai in the back. Ruby's phone started ringing, which she answered almost instantly.

"Hello?" She said as if she was already impatient with whoever it was.

I looked at Danni who was looking into the back of Ruby's head, obviously listening as I was.

"Can I call you back? I'm kind of busy." She said sharply into the phone, pausing for a couple of seconds. "Okay, I'm going to hang up now. Bye." She whispered as if she knew we were listening.

The car went silent as we were all unsure of what to say since Ruby seemed so annoyed at whoever was on the phone. Danni looked at me, a look of confusion and worry on her face as she shrugged her shoulders slightly.

We pulled up at the airport and jumped out, Ronnie, Jacob and James pulling everyone's suitcases out of the boot and handing them to us.

We headed into the airport entrance, checked in our bags and got our boarding passes at the desk. We made our way to the duty free area to relax and wait until our flight was called over the speaker.

"Can I talk to you quickly, Luke?" I smiled to my brother, I couldn't help but spill the secret about Ruby.

He nodded and followed me around the corner into a nearby shop. "You alright?" He asked as he scanned the shelves we stood by.

"Not really - it's just, well, I don't really know where to begin to be honest. Me and Danni are kind of worried about Ruby." I confessed, looking from the floor to Luke.

He smiled with confusion, as if he thought I was joking. "Why?" He asked rather casually.

"Well she keeps getting all of these mystery phone calls and texts, have you not noticed how weirdly she's been acting about them?" I stated.

"Erm, no?" He said unsurely. "She told us who they were. You're just acting over the top." He continued quickly.

"What about when Danni asked her about her party, she seemed so reserved about it." I replied, certain there was something wrong.

He looked down and bit his lip, I could tell he was thinking the same as Danni and I, or at least similar. "Right, I'll ask her when we get to Belgium then. Just to shut you up." He smirked.

We made our way back over to the others who seemed to be in mid conversation about something.

After another hour and a half our flight was called over the speaker so we all collected our hand luggage and walked over to our plane. We boarded and took our seats, Danni, Jai and I on one row, Ronnie, Luke and Ruby opposite us and James, Jacob and Daniel behind us.

The flight went past as if it only lasted for a few minutes, although I was asleep for most of it.