Calum's POV
"We're what?" Michael exclaims. "On tour. We are now officially the opening act for One Direction! We're meeting them at the show here in a week. Can you believe it!" Luke squealed. Michael engulfed him and kissed him. Luke kissed back and I shielded my eyes, laughing. "This is awesome!" I say. Ashton laughs. "How long are we going to be away?" Ashton asks, smiling widely.
I look down, finding myself no longer smiling about the news, but about Ashton's smile. "Um, its says here that we'll be with them for the rest of the tour, which is North America and here. So, I think that's a couple months," Luke says, Michael's arms around his waist. "M-Months?" Ashton asks. We nod. "B-But. Matthew.. I'll be right back guys," Ashton says, grabbing his keys off the counter and racing out the door.
"Babe, I'll be right back," Michael says, running after Ashton. "What's that all about?" I ask. Luke shrugs. "Wait, why don't you have a problem leaving Josh?" he asked. "I guess Ashton's just obsessed with his boyfriend and I'm not," I shrug. Luke rolls his eyes. "Do you even like Josh?"
Ashton's POV
I run out the door and down the stairs, almost tripping on a few. "Ash! What are you doing?" Michael says, running after me, actually falling flat on his ass on the last step. I laugh and, eventually, help him up. "I'm going to tell Matt," I say. "But.. Ashton, you can wait a bit. C'mon you can tell him later," Michael says. "Dude, your boyfriend's in the band, you don't understand. Look, I'll be back in a bit, okay?"
Michael sighs. "Fine. Just don't crash," he says. I get in my car and drive to Matt's building. I run up to his unit and knock, brushing down my wild hair as I wait. He opened it. "What's the big news babe?" he asked. "We're going on tour as an opening act!" I exclaim. He squeals happily and hugs me, kissing me. I squeeze him and kiss him back. "Ash, this is incredible," he said. I wrapped my arms around his waist. "Yeah, but. I'm gonna be away for a couple months. We leave in a week," I say. Matt's smile drops a bit.
"A-A week? Ash, can we sit down?" he stammers. I sit next to him and keep my arm around him. "I know its short notice Matty. And I don't want to be away from you for so long, but.. I mean, I can't not take this opportunity. I'm the drummer," I say. Matt nods. "Sleep here tonight, I don't wanna waste a minute," he said. I kissed his forehead. "Why don't you come with me and meet the boys before we become famous," I say, "Then I'll grab some clothes and come over here." He nods and grabs his key.
I drove back to Luke's place, listening to Mayday Parade and singing along at the top of my lungs to all the songs. Matt laughed at me, but occasionally joined in. "You're fun when you're hyper," he laughed, kissing my cheek as we walked inside. "Hey Ash. Hey.... uh," Luke said, raising his eyebrow. "This is my boyfriend, Matt," I say, my arm draped around his neck. "Nice to meet you Matt. I'm Luke, and that antisocial dick is Calum."
Matt laughs and waves at Calum in the couch, who flipped Luke off for calling him an antisocial dick. "Okay. I've got a few more things to tell you guys. Let's get settled in the lounge," Luke says. I sat by Michael, and Matty sat between my legs, nestling his head on my chest. I played with his hair while Luke talked. "So, we're heading to the stadium Friday night before the show, and we head backstage to meet the boys. Then, we stay for the show backstage. But, they did give us the option of preforming before them or just waiting until the next show."
"I dunno, Calum, what do you think? You wanna play there?" Michael asked. Calum shrugged. "I think that'd be pretty neat," Matt commented. I intertwined our fingers. "Yeah. Our first performance, that'd be sick," I add. "Well, then we better get practicing. You guys okay with that?" Luke said. We all nod. "Can I watch you guys play a song?" Matt asked. "Uhhh, Luke?" I start, messing with Matt's hair. "Yeah. Why don't you stay here and we'll discuss a song for you," Luke said. Matt smiled.
We got our stuff and played the first song we'd written called 'Try Hard'. As we practiced it, Matt smiled at me, but also glanced at Calum. When the song ended, I told the guys my plan, so me and Matt left back to my place to get some clothes for me. While I was grabbing clothes out of my closet, I asked Matt a question. "Why were you glancing at Calum every now and then?" I asked.
He raised his eyebrows. "You're telling me you didn't see?" I shake my head. "See what?" "Calum was smiling at you."
