... and it all started with a tattoo (COMPLETED)

Hide and seek for adults

Warning! This chapter contains some mild sexual content in the end.

We had an amazing weekend together, messing around and, to be honest, we acted childishly but none of us cared.

On the surface, it looked like nothing had changed but, if you looked closely at all of us, you'd catch a glimpse of a smirk or a secret handhold, all of them subtle, blink and you'd miss them moments. I'm not even sure if I noticed them all!

Unfortunately, 5SOS had to go back on tour and we had to go back to school/university. It was a teary farewell, made even worse by the fact that now we had an even stronger emotional connection to them all. Even Anna was teary-eyed, a rare sight that surprised all of us because she hid all of her emotions deep down.

When they'd left, we were forced to go back to our mundane lives, plod along as if nothing amazing had happened.

Even though we face-timed them every day, I still missed Mickey terribly. Although I got to see his beautiful face and listen to the guys demo their newest songs, which are amazing by the way. It was never enough, you can't kiss a picture, you can't bury your head into the chest of a couple of pixels.

None of our relationships has been made public at this point, but the fans had started to guess, because of 5SOS's positive mood and their manager, John, kept mentioning us while they were live streaming.

By June, I'd had enough and I wasn't the only one. The girls were struggling with their first real relationship being a long-distance one and also not being able to run into the street, proclaiming their love to the rooftops. For Ellie, it was either that or become a full-on groupie stalker.

We needed to see them, BADLY. If we didn't, I think someone would have exploded. Thankfully, our saviour came in the form of John. After a lot of parent persuasion and a little preparation on both ends, we arranged to join the lads for ten days while they toured Europe. We'd live with them on 'Gus', spend whatever free time they had with them and have front row seats to any of the shows they do while we're there.

It was the opportunity we were waiting for.

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We left WAY too early in the morning for a normal person to join the boys in Italy. It was like a special brand of torture, forcing us to wake up and forcing me to corral three very tired teenagers and their luggage into my car. Us being there was a surprise present for the boys and we wanted it kept that way.

When we were picked up at the airport by John, we were told that the boys would be in the studio all morning, so we could sneak in and hide around a house they were staying in instead of the bus. John is an absolute legend! He came up with this great idea. "We'll leave a note saying there's a present for each of them hidden around the house and they're pretty obvious. If you find someone else's present, you can't tell them where it is. The first one to find their present and bring it to me gets a bonus prize, and the second and third place get a little prize as well."

We all loved it and hid in really obscure places around the house. I don't know where everyone else hid, but I hid behind some towels in a little storage cupboard on the top floor, next to the washing machine.

It'd been a cramped hour and, just when I was about to get out and stretch, I heard them downstairs, shouting, laughing and a thud as someone fell on their face (probably Ashton), which was an impressive achievement because this house we were going to be staying in was 4 storeys high. "What's this? -arranged a game! On your marks, ..." The shouts and pounding footsteps that followed made me want to laugh hysterically, but I had to keep hidden.