Downtown Idea

47. Up All Night

The next few weeks were a whirlwind of activity. 5sos was going on a tour at the end of the month, which I had no clue about until like a week before they were leaving. Ashton and Zoe were fighting on and off because he wanted her to come with him but she had a job in LA to do instead. Jonas went home to Glasgow because he was sick of mine and Zoe's boy drama and he wanted to hang out with our younger siblings - who were less dramatic and screwed up. He didn't say that but I knew that's what he meant.

I was getting calls from my agent about going back to work. I honestly didn't have to do anything if I didn't want to. I was set with enough money to get me through life comfortably with Brodie. But I was super model status, thus I was in high demand.

I also had a whole baby and no Calum to babysit him while I was off doing shoots. A lot of them were out of the country and I couldn't just take a whole infant with me. Leaving him behind that small was out of the question. I had to tell my agent that I had to wait a little longer - at least until Calum was back from touring to do the out of town shoots. I could do local shoots though. I had Crystal very willing to babysit and Zoe was there to help if she wasn't working herself. Not to mention Bryanna volunteered a couple times too. I had some great friends.

5sos were on tour for eight months. They were doing a whole world tour and about half way through Calum called me asking me to come to Australia with Brodie.

"Are you out of your mind?" I asked loudly into the phone. Brodie was napping in the nursery so I was safe to speak freely at the moment. "I can't just pack up my baby and hop on a plane just because you-"

"Reece, calm down!" Calum cut me off and I growled at him. I hated when he did that. It had been a bit rough between us recently. Ever since that kiss he hardly even seemed to want to be friends. He just ground on my nerves all the time now. "My parents kinda wanna meet him, that's all."

"He's still so small." I said, actually very worried about his development. He was little when he was born and he was growing consistently, but he still wasn't as big as he was supposed to be by his age. Five months old at that point and he was still really little.

"It'll be another four months before you'd be coming." He insisted. "He'll be fine. Please, Reece. They just want to meet him. He's they're first grandkid."

That got me a bit. He was right. They had a right to meet him at least. I just hadn't ever met them before and I was a bit scared of it. What if they hated me? What if they thought I was some kind of floozy who got knocked up? What if they hated Brodie because of that?

"I dunno, Calum." I said softly. "It's so far. Can't they just come here?"

"We're already gonna be there." He whined. "Plus you promised you'd bring him to see me."

"Yeah to like London or one of the other locations I have a house in!" I laughed, "Australia is..."

"Please?" He begged. "Please, Baby, please?"

Baby.

He knew that'd make me crumble. He knew that turned me into goop. He knew that even though he probably hated me and didn't actually mean it, that I'd do anything he wanted if he pulled that little pet name out.

"God Calum!" I groaned and rubbed my eyes. "I'll think about it."

"Yes, thank you!" He said sounding happy. He knew I'll think about it more than likely meant yes.

So four months later, I was dragging Zoe to Sydney with me because I didn't wanna face Calum alone and Ashton wanted her to meet his Mum. She moaned and groaned the whole time. Honestly she was worse than Brodie and he was a baby who had never been on a plane before.