Kira: Up At Night

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I slowly sipped my smoothie as I watched my boys practice. They were all sweating up a storm on this overly warm day in Wisconsin while I was sitting in a chair in what would eventually become the front row of their concert tonight. I had been wandering around out in the city for a little bit with Kent just a couple of minutes ago. I felt all trapped and cooped up inside the venue and had managed to convince Kent to get smoothies with me. Well, I got the smoothies. He was there to keep me company. When I got back, the crew was setting up the better part of the stage and had begun hauling out large racks of chairs. I asked if I could take one down to sit which they said was fine.

"You don't have to ask." Tyler said with a laugh. "We're not going to get mad. These need to go out into the pit anyways." Yet, whenever I try to help them set things up they tell me just to sit down and watch the boys practice. But I get bored watching them prance around stage. I'd rather set up chairs and talk to Tyler and Karly to stave off my boredom.

"Alright, Alright. Take a ten minute break and stop complaining." I heard their rehearsal director shout. The boys heaved a collective sigh of relief. I watched Luke put his guitar down and run one hand through his hair, glancing down at me. I waved lightly and he half frowned.

"You got a smoothie and didn't bring us back some?" He asked with a pout. I giggled.

"No I did!" I said. "They're in that fridge backstage. I can get them." I said, standing.

"Don't worry!" Ashton called down. "We'll get them." He grabbed Michael's arm who started to complain as Ashton dragged him down the stairs at the back of the stage. Luke smiled and hoped off the stage gracefully before walking towards me.

"It's hot as fuck." He murmured as a light breeze blew through the open air venue. I laughed as he bent down and kissed my cheek, watching as Calum casually vaulted off the stage as well.

"What do you have?" Calum asked me, grabbing my drink from my hand and taking a sip.

"Your favorite." I said with a grin. Calum smiled, handing me back my cup. The two of us share a love for peach and mango smoothies that started around high school when a Juice it Up opened up near our houses. Sometimes they two of us would head there after school and just hang out. When Luke and I started dating, sometimes he would come with us. 

"Please tell me you got the same kind of smoothie for me."

"Nope. I got you a banana smoothie because I know how much you love bananas." Calum cringed.

"I swear Kira, if you got me a banana smoothie..." he half threatened as I laughed.

"I didn't, promise. I got you the same one as me. They have your names on them so I hope those idiots aren't randomly drinking from them to see which one is there's. I got you your strawberry banana babe." I said, nudging Luke. "Ashton has his horrible cucumber kale one and I got Michael something called the strawberry shortcake since they didn't have his peanut butter banana. Its supposed to have actual pound cake in it so I'm sure he'll love it. On cue, Ashton and Michael came forward with two drinks in each hand. Ashton handed one off to Calum and Michael handed off his second to Luke. I checked to make sure they all had their drinks with their names on it and smiled.

"These are amazing Kira." Ashton says. "And I know Michael hasn't stopped drinking for even a second since he saw that that was his drink so I assume he likes his too." I laughed as Michael gave me a thumbs up.

"Well I'm glad. Now can you all grab some chairs and sit. It's intimidating have four tall boys stand above me." They laughed and grabbed some chairs, creating a mini circle of the five of us. Luke sat on my left side, his long legs stretched out in front of him and I smiled staring at him.

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