Without You I'm A Lost Boy

Australia Bound

We pulled up in Liz's car at the airport around seven in the morning, there is almost no one here. Cal, Ash, Luke and I are all crammed in the back of the small car, we sleepily get out of the back seat and the Liz pops open the trunk, we remove our four suitcases and start to walk into the huge building with Luke's mom shuffling behind. As we make our way to the gate we walk slower not wanting to say goodbye to the woman who has taken care of us all every since we moved to America, finally we make it as far as we can with Liz and we turn to her, with tears in her eyes she hugs each of us separately but stops at Luke and just stares at her baby boy.

She wraps her arms around him and whispers to him, "Be safe baby, call me when you land and when you get to nana's. I love you Luke."

"I love you too Mum, I'll call as soon as we land and when I get to nana's" Luke says back in a low voice.

After Liz makes her way back to her car we pass through the metal detectors and to the gate where the lady checks our passports and gives us all mean glares. "You know you have to be eighteen to fly without a parent right?"

"We're all eighteen or older ma'am, we just look young." Ashton tells her, only gaining ruder looks from the woman as she checks our ages.

She tells us after she makes sure for the third time that we're old enough that our flight isn't for another twenty minutes so to have a seat, and we all make our way to some old blue cracking seats. We sit in silence as we wait for the gates to open for us to board the plane, it seems like hours before the mean woman behind the desk says the flight is boarding, we jump up eager to get seated and make the fourteen hour flight back home. As we pass through the gates Luke begins to have a small panic attack, he hates flying, Cal gets him to his seat and gets him his anxiety medicine, Luke begins to calm down as more people begin to take their seats.

"You alright mate?" Asked a slightly familiar voice, we turned and it was Louis Tomilinson from One Direction. We aren't huge fans but we know who they are, everyone knows who One Direction.

"Yeah, just not a fan of flying, I'll be alright but thanks for the concern mate." Luke reply's in a calm voice even though a famous singer is concerned with his well being.

"What are you doing flying to Sydney, If you don't mind me asking." I ask, Always too curious for my own good.

"Holiday with my girlfriend actually, the whole band is taking some time after our tour. I also seen a group of boys on YouTube that live out there, they did this amazing cover of teenage dirt bag and I wanted to check them out while we're out here. You lads sound Australian, you might know them?" Louis said, unaware that he was talking to the band he spoke of.

I decided to play a bit of a game "We might, what is there name? We grew up in Sydney, and are returning home for a visit with our mums." I almost couldn't keep from laughing, we all look pretty rough right now and barely like we did in the videos, we also filmed in very dim light, something Luke insisted on.

"Um...I believe their name is '5 Seconds of Summer' They're really talented." Louis chirped, excited to learn more of the band.

"Oh, those lads, their alright." I almost laugh "We're not to bad ourselves, we're a band as well." The others begin to catch on as I speak to Louis.

"Oh really? I'd love to hear you lads sing, we're currently looking for an opening act for our next tour. After we land how about you lads set up and I'll have a listen?" Louis still hasn't caught on but we agree and he goes back to his seat in first class and we take our seats.

The plane lands a long fourteen hours later and everyone begins to pile off the plane, we make our way inside and I see my mum, I run to her and hold her tight, its been too long since I hugged her. I tell her about talking to Louis on the plane and the others call their mums and let them know we landed safe and would be leaving the airport soon. As we all stand huddled together we see Louis and the crowd of girls, he notices us and waves. I see him tell the group of crazed fans to quite down as he has an announcement, "Girls, shhh...I have something to say to you all. I met some lads on the plane who are going to preform for me and if you can all stay quite and be nice you can come listen too."

The girls all nodded excitedly and remained silent as he walked over to us, Ashton tells him that we are going to set up outside in the grass so there is room for everyone and to give us ten minutes to get out there before he brings the girls out, he agrees to hold off the crowd as we go set up. In ten minutes Louis and about sixty girls file out of the airport front doors.

"Everyone please have a seat anywhere you want while we tune up." Ashton's voice booms over the girls.

All the girls have a seat in the grass as Luke, Calum, and I tune our guitars, a few girls begin to notice us as we work and I give them a finger to my lips and shush them. I tune my guitar and look to Luke and Calum to see if they're ready and they are.

"Hi, I'm Michael, this is Luke, Calum, and Ashton" Louis begins to notice who we are. "We're 5 Seconds of Summer" Louis gives me a smile "We are all originally from right here in Sydney and we're going to preform a few songs that we wrote." My fingers begin to play the chords as we sing our songs.

After we finish we pack up our stuff as we let Louis sign things and take pictures with fans before he comes up to us. "You lads tricked me, but great singing. I'm going to talk to the other guys and our manager and see about getting you guys as our opener, if you want. I'll get one of your numbers and I'll text you later, think about it though guys!"

I couldn't believe it, Louis just offered to take us on tour, but I still needed time to mend over Alison. I give Louis my number and tell him we'll think about it but it would be a while before we were ready to tour. "You see the reason we're here is because we just someone very close to us, and we really need some time with our families. It has been very hard and it's only been three weeks since we lost Alison, my girlfriend, the boys were like her brothers and we just need time to heal. If the tour is before next year we wont be ready, but after we have healed enough we would love the opportunity to open for you guys."

Louis was very understanding of it all and told us to take as much time as we need to heal and when we're ready the One Direction guys would love to have us. We parted ways as the four of us loaded up into my mums van, since we all lived close together my mum and dad dropped Calum off at his sisters since his mum wasn't at home, Ashton at his mums, and Luke at his nan's. We then began to make our way home, I told my parents that I'm pretty jet lagged and I want to get some sleep when we get home, but when I wake up I want to spend the whole day together. We pull up to the house and I jump out and gather my things and go straight to my old room and go to sleep.