It Started With A Follow.(Ashton Irwin)

@The Pick Up

My eyes dart open, but it still takes me a moment to fully wake up, Ashton lightly snoring in my chest. I check my phone.

“Shit! Ashton!” I push him off.

“Mmmm.” I moans and rolls over.

I push him again. “Ashton its 11:45! Jackies flight will be here in 15 minutes!” I practically shout while hobbling around the room trying to put my pants on.

“Oh shit! Why didn’t you set an alarm!” He asks jumping off the bed and running into the closet.

“I thought I did, I must have been super tired and forgot. Fuck I hope the others are awake!” I pull my hair up into a high ponytail and run out of the room to see where the others are. All the rooms were empty, I run down the stairs freaking out, but luckily I find them in the kitchen. “Why didn’t you guys wake us!?” I ask eyes wide, I probably looked like a maniac.

“Hey, calm down, it’s okay. Jackie called me and said they had to make an emergency landing do to the weather and they would be about an hour behind. We decided to let you sleep.” Toni says calmly, earning a sigh of relief from me.

“I’ll be right back.” I say and run up the steps to the room. “Ash, their flight is on layover and is going to be an hour late, so they decided to let us sleep, no rush.”

His body instantly relaxes and he falls backwards on the bed, still shirtless. “Well shit.” He looks over at me. “Is everyone awake?”

“Yeah.” I sit on the edge of the bed. “They are all in the kitchen eating.” I flop over beside him and he turns to look at me, “That was crazy, hopefully it will be the only crazy thing today.”

“Probably not. Remember, she tweeted about coming, so odds are there will be a crazy crowd there.” He drapes his arm over my side lazily.

I sigh. “I should shower and change into something that won’t be shit on.” I get up and walk into the bathroom.

“You always look fine babe.” I heard him say as I closed the door. I stood in front of the mirror and was so glad for the extra hour to get ready, my hair was a mess, and my clothes didn't even match. I laughed at my appearance and got ready to get in the shower. When I got out the bathroom was foggy from how hot of a shower I took and when I walked out of the bathroom the room was empty. I wrapped my hair up in a towel and walked into the closed to look for something to wear. Picking a ripped pair of black skinnies and my Of Mice and Men sweatshirt, I dried my hair and went downstairs.

“I made you some toast and eggs.” Ashton says pointing to the plate on the island.

I give him a kiss, “Thank you.”

“I had Matt call the airport, and there are already people waiting outside. So after you eat we should go on and go so that we can be there to warn Jackie and Niam.” He laughed.

I took a bite of my toast, “Jackie is going to freak out. She’s only been there for a few fans, never a crowd.”

“Shes in for a surprise.” He laughed placing a cup of coffee in front of me.

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Thankfully, when we go to the airport there were only about 20 people out. The boys took pictures with all of them, some wanted pictures with Toni and I, others wanted some with Calum and Toni and Ashton and me. It was very calm and very organized,  but I knew as soon as they posted about us being there on Twitter the crowd would grow.

“According to the big time board. Jackie and Niams plane will be here in like 20 minutes.” Michael sighed. “Aaand Callys won’t be here for another hour or so. But I’m perfectly fine with waiting, I like all the gift shops.” He laughed.

We had to go through security, which took about 10 minutes so Ashton and I went to wait for Jackie and Niam while the others walked around a bit. By the time we found their gate, the plain had already landed.

“Oh. My. God. I can’t believe we are in fucking London!” Jackie screamed and tackles me into a hug.

“Right, wait till you go outside.” I said laughing as she let go to hug Ashton.

Niam walked up, giving me a side hug. “What do you mean?”

“Well,” Ashton laughed, “You’ll see.”

“Where’s everyone else?” Jackie asked as she slung her bag over her shoulder.

“Shorty!” Michael yelled as he ran over and picked her up.

“Hey Mikey.” She laughed as he put her down. “Lucas!” She said giving Luke a hug.

“How was the flight?” Luke asked.

Niam gave a dry laugh. “Horrible, there was a screaming baby, the layover was crowded with people from many different flights, and I’m pretty tired.”

“Cally’s flight should be here soon so after that we can leave.” Luke answered.

“Okay, wheres Toni and Calum?” Jackie asked while we walked to baggage claim.

“Right here bitchlit!” Toni laughed.

Suddenly Luke jumped up from his seat. “Cally is here!” And he ran down to another gate.

Once everyone was back together we headed out. As predicted the crowd had nearly tripled in size.

“Shit.” Jackie said even before we got out the door.

This time though, the crowd wasn’t nice, there was even some paparazzi out there. Ashton grabbed my hand, and I grabbed Jackies, we weaved through people. Some people were screaming for us to look at them, others crying and freaking out. Thankfully the boys security guards had been waiting outside for us and helped hold back everyone. When we got to the van Jackie and Niam sat silent with wide eyes.

“So.” Michael laughed. “That was fun huh?” They didn’t even reply they just looked at him, causing him to laugh even harder.

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“So you guys get to sleep in my studio.” I said as I helped them take their bags out.

Niam laughed “Sweet.”

“We have dinner plans at around eight. Matt is using it as a way to talk about the set plans for tour.” Ashton said as we walked into the studio.

“Awesome, should we dress nice?” asked Jackie.

“Eh, nothing too dressy, just something simple.” Ashton answered. “We will let you guys get settled.” He said taking my hand and leading to the house.

Toni was sitting in the living room with Cally so I joined them while Ashton joined the boys  in their studio.

“How have you guys been?” Cally asked.

“Eh, pretty good, had a few bumps along the way, but its been okay.” Toni answered for us. “How about you?”

She smiled and let out a sigh. “I have missed being here, being with Luke and you guys. Its always fun, Florida was fun.” She pushes her sandy blonde hair behind her ear. “It feels good to get away from Australia sometimes. I know Liz is excited to meet you guys, but I also heard that Anne has no idea that you will be with them. Liz said that he wants to keep it a surprise.”

“Yup, only his siblings know, but his mom doesn’t.” I laugh.

“Joy said she was probably the most excited of all, she was at Liz’s house last time I was there. Calum had sent her some pictures, and she couldn’t stop talking about his surprise.” She stopped talking and her eyes grew wide.

“Surprise?” Toni asked confused.

“Oh, I have to take this. Sorry.” She got up and ran out of the room.

Toni looked at me, “What was she talking about?”

“I have no idea.” I said turning to look where Cally walked out.

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I'm sorry this is short, love you anyway

xxAlli