Our reality //m.g.c//

Twenty eight

"My whole world
Was revolving around you
Why did you choose
To collapse it?"
~Jyoti Patel

It was 20th of October and Ava wasn't able to celebrate her boyfriend's 20th birthday with him. Instead she sent him a cute message as soon as she woke up and spent her day like any other day with more occasional thought about her boyfriend. Michael on the other hand woke up and did some press things before a show. There, yet again, the crowd sang happy birthday to him and someone even baked him a 3 story cake which he had brought on stage alongside with the cute fan that did it. The show ended at 9pm and the four boys got ready for Michael's party and headed out. They were in New York and they picked the best club in the city to go celebrate in.

"Did you text Ava back yet?"

"No, she's sleeping anyway."

"Don't you think she'd want to talk to you on your birthday? She is your girlfriend after all or does that slip your mind occasionally?"

"Fuck off Ashton. I told you, she is probably sleeping and I'll text her back once we get back. Now I just want to party."

Ashton looked at Calum and the brown eyed boy shook his head. Neither of them really liked Michael's recent behavior. Ever since the start of the tour, Michael spent less and less time talking to Ava to the point where they didn't chat at all for days. No matter what either of the boys said, Michael didn't see what wrongs he could possibly be doing so he ignored them entirely.

In the club, the four boys drank and talked and danced up until Calum felt so sick and Ashton took him back to the hotel, leaving Michael and Luke out on their own. They sat down near the bar and talked and talked and moved closer and closer to each other until their faces were less then an inch apart and a kiss that happened minutes later became inevitable. After it had happened, they were just staring into each other's eyes and basically remembering all the memories they shared. And before they knew it, they were hooking up in the bathroom of the nightclub. But like that wasn't enough, as they arrived to the hotel, Michael pulled Luke into his room and the two spent the night half hooking up and half sleeping. Sure, they were both wasted out of their mind but their actions were just a long awaited explosion everyone knew would happened eventually.

"You must be joking me!"

Michael vastly opened his eyes and met a furious Ashton standing next to his bed. The scene was just as awful as it seemed. The two teens were lying in bed naked and asleep as the drummer walked in.

"This isn't what it looks like-"

"Don't even start with me Michael. Do you need to be reminded you have a girlfriend? And an amazing one at that."

"No, no I know that-"

"So you know that and you still hook up with Luke who, let's remind you both, also has a girlfriend!"

Luke looked at Michael and then back at Ashton and tugged on his lip ring. Sure, there was sexual tension between him and Michael for a long time but only crazy amounts of alcohol would make Luke actually act on it. And the weirdest part was, he wasn't sorry he did. He enjoyed every second of the previous night and if anything, he felt bad because he didn't feel bad.

"You are both disgusting me right now."

"Don't tell Ava. Please."

"And why the hell not? So that you can make up some damn good excuse that will make her still hang onto you after this? The poor girl is so tangled in your web she is literally ignoring all the red lights all the time. And you go and do this?"

"No, because I want to tell her."

Ashton scoffed and pierced though Michael.

"And when the hell will you do that?"

"I will, I promise just...just give me some time. She has her midterms soon and I don't want to be the cause of some unnecessary problems with that."

Ashton still wasn't convinced but he didn't want to be the one telling her she had been cheated on. So he agreed to that and consequently agreed to Luke not telling Arzaylea since if she found out, she'd flip the world upside down and Ava would found out as well.

"But be damn sure Michael, if you don't tell her soon, I will not just tell her but bring it up in an interview. Maybe it would destroy our band but there is no fucking way I'm gonna let you get away with doing shit like this. Again, if I might add, or should we call up Abigail and ask how she felt when you did the exact same thing to her?"

Michael stayed quiet which was the only smart option considering Ashton would probably beat the living shit out of him if he would have said something. So Ashton stormed out of the room and went straight to tell Calum while Luke and Michael remained in the same position awkwardly. Neither of them knew what to say so they didn't say anything but they both secretly knew just how much they liked what happened between them.

As November turned into December and even that one was slowly ending, Michael was taking to Ava as if nothing was happening while he was sneakily hooking up with Luke from time to time. As the year was ending, the boys were getting ready to go on a Bali tour and since Ashton remembered that Ava's favorite memory was being on Bali with her dad as she was younger, he told Michael to invite her. There was the not so secret agenda to Ashton's invite as well, because since the midterms were over, Michael could tell Ava what he did on his birthday. So Michael invited Ava on the tour, Luke invited Arzaylea and Ashton and Calum invited some friends and the friends of their friends just to make things interesting. They had no idea then, but they tour would end up to be a massive atomic bomb and would fuck up everything surrounding it. But it seemed like a good idea as they were getting ready to go.