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XXXI // Paris Royalty

The tour was going really well, I had performed in three countries and I had one panic attack in the course of those shows. So you could say life was looking a little brighter. I could feel myself growing a stronger relationship with Dani again so I tried to focus on Kelsey and mine for a change. 

"So what are you going to do about the house?" Kelsey asks as I set up my laptop to connect to the TV. Today was the Royal Wedding of Harry and Meghan and the boys had run out to grab some cliche Paris dinner. Well, they were and then realised eating snails was a no go. So I think they searched for a different solution. 

"I guess I really wanna keep it. Like we grew up there," I explained. My laptop screen popped up on the TV. My head turned to Kelsey on the floor painting her nails black. She sat over a white hotel towel probably not the best idea. 

"Yeah, we did. It is crazy to think why your dad would, like do you know why?" She asked not looking up from her nails. I turned back to my laptop to try to find the live video feed of the wedding. 

"I don't have a clue but I think I will stay there in Toronto. LA was a lot to handle for me and I think with my brother running the old Cafe and his wedding and Norman going to High School. I also thought about going back to school," I did think about all of this. What and where I wanna be in five years. And my brother reminded me there are other options than Youtube and who said I couldn't do both?

"Woooo wait, what?" She stood up and began blowing her nails as she walked towards me, "What about Dani? You think you guys are going to get together again?" 

I looked up to my best friend, she looked the same, she acted the same, "I think Dani and I are having progress but after-"

"You haven't told him to have you?" She could read me like a book, she knew everything about me, it was hard not to let her and Dani go when I stay in Toronto. 

"That is why I haven't tried to you know, tried to be his girlfriend again even though I still love him," the truth was finally coming out and I didn't feel like holding it in anymore. I do still love him. 

"Who said you can't be a long-distance couple?" she asked. She was true we could be but I don't know why I felt like we just couldn't. We fell silent for a while or what felt like a while. Both of us had been thinking faces on, I didn't know what was happening in that brain of hers but she suddenly burst into a smile when she reached the end of her thoughts. "You know what, I am moving back as well."

I stood up shocked and stared at her blankly, "You love LA though, you love the skate parks and the beaches and the random ass people on the street. Why come back to Toronto?" 

"That exact reason. I love those stuff but I also love waking up in the same house as my best friend, walking my dogs to the waterfall, family and my best friend. Yeah LA is good but Toronto is home and I can travel again with you or by myself and I can't keep living on that stupid smelly couch. Corbyn and I can be long-distance as well as you and Daniel. If my scrawny ass can be long-distance I'm sure you two will be great,"  Kelsey's plan was crazy and out of the bloom but I did miss rooming with her and she was right. 

"You and Corbyn? Are you finally official again? And also where would we stay?" I asked a lot of questions. I mean I was curious. 

She grabbed my hand and dragged me towards the towel and nail polish sitting on my room's floor. I sat as she told me to. She patted her knee for my hand and I followed that too. "Corbyn and I are something. And we are going to live in your house because we are either going to buy it or stop your dad from selling."

"Wha-" I was interrupted as the door swung open. The boys all came in one by one and Kelsey started painting my nails. Jonah was holding two plastic bags of food and sat them on the bed. Jack went passed and brushed his hands through my hair messing it up to look worse. Corbyn slid down and sat by Kelsey. 

"I am just saying the point of the Eiffel tower was for a rocket to shoot the famous people away when an apocalypse happens," Zach could never pronounce that word right. I looked around for his blue eyes but I couldn't see them. 

"Where is Daniel?" I asked ignoring the stupid history lesson coming from Zach's mouth. Everyone turned there head to one another and I am not joking all of them scratched the back of there head. Trying to hide where he was. I felt the sudden feeling of deja vu. Even though we weren't anything I felt myself get jealous and scared. 

"He is in his room wit-" Before Zach could finish Corbyn threw a pillow towards his face. Zach stumbles backwards falling onto the floor right in front of us. "HEY!" 

I stood up pulling my hand from Kelsey's knee and started walking towards the door. "Where are you going?!" Jonah says running after me. I ignored him as I created a fast pace towards his room 2 doors away from me. "Noah I don't think you sh-"

I pulled the doorknob down trying to open the door even though I saw the sign telling me not to. "DANIEL OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!" I slammed my fist several times on the door. "IF YOU DO-"

The door swings open, Daniel shirtless leaning on the door not showing me what or who was directly behind him. "Hey, Noah." 

"Don't you hey Noah me," I say pushing him to the side, I shoved as hard as I could to see if anyone was in there. Like she was. On the bed. Stop it, Noah. "Please don't do this again Dani."

"Do what Noah? You are confusing me," I felt him walk up to me as I turned the corner to see his bed empty with just his laptop. 

Fuck since when did I become that person. "Noah?" I stood frozen looking at the empty bed realising I was jealous of my ex-boyfriends future. "Nugget," He grabbed my hand and turned me around towards him. That nickname gave me deja vu as well but this time I felt safer than before. 

He moved the strands that now covered my face, "I thought there was someone, Zach sai-" he cut me off by covering my mouth with his hand. 

"Ruins the surprise but, you can come out!" He yells, the bathroom door opens and Norman comes hooping out. His crutches supporting him. 

"Nor? What are you doing here?" I asked my brother who wobbled towards me. He breathes in deeply and then exhales out of breath once he reaches me. 

"I remember at the beginning of the year you said you wished that your brother could experience his birthday in London because we were in London at the time. So I brought your brother to London," his words made my heart pound. He really listened to me. 

Norman grabbed my hand and tugged me towards him, "You loooooveeee him." His words ran through my ear and my body didn't instantly fight back to tell him he was wrong. And I think I knew why.

I pushed him slightly, not too much in case he falls. He jumped onto the bed, "so do I get this whole bed to myself or am I rooming with one of you guys?" 

I looked away from my brother and up to Daniel, "I c-"

"No, you can have it to yourself," I explained. Daniel's eyes shot to me and his eyebrow raised. My body moved to him and I whispered, "You can stay with me." As I pulled away from him, a smile fell across his face. 

"Goodnight Norman," I begin to walk off as a hand slides into mine, intertwining their fingers with mine. I kept walking with him beside me, the door was still open from where Jonah left it. We didn't speak as we walked to my room but our bodies were close. So close I could feel him breathing heavily by my ear. 

I opened my door to my room and to my surprise, no one was there, "They must have left to there rooms." I pulled my hands away from his and looked around at the empty room. Before I could spin around to see him, the door shut and arms wrapped around my waist. He kissed my neck and hugged me tightly. 

"Oh, how I missed us Nugget." 

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AN: I MET THEM!! I went to the boy's concert as they finally came to my country! And I met their tall asses and pretty faces. BTW Not gonna lie, Zach gives the best hugs. But ugh I wasn't starstruck until I saw my Nuggets face and I was like uhhhh heyyyyy. 

Anyway. New chapter! uGH, I missed my babies together. 

- P