Fly Away || l.h

03

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I woke up to the sound of Michael ordering orange juice from the attendant. He was the only one awake, but my movement startled Luke. He opened his eyes and harshly rubbed them, observing his surroundings. When he looked down at me, his face lit up.

"Well Hello Sleepy Head!" he said, sounding tired. He fell back asleep less than a minute later.

I slowly raised myself out from my seat and made my way to the bathroom. I entered the compartment and fixed my makeup, brushed my hair, and checked my phone.

Turns out that while I was sleeping, Luke and Michael took a lot of pictures, and they all put their numbers in my contacts.

I couldn't stop smiling anymore. I shoved all my stuff back into my little purse, and went out back to our seat. As I walked on forward, I saw the boys all talking in hushed tones together, until some teenager came up to talk to them and asked for a picture and an autograph.

At first I got jealous, but then I saw their look of annoyance, and I quietly giggled, which attracted the attention of an older couple in front of me. I made my way to my seat while Calum took a picture with her. The flight attendant made her sit back down, so she walked back to the end of the plane.

I sat down, and Luke got up to go to the bathroom at the other end of the plane. The second he left, I got mauled by the rest of the boys.

"You know he has a HUUUGGEEE crush on you right, he's falling for you like a little school girl." Calum said, and started laughing.

Michael and Ashton nodded. "He wants to take you out tonight, after the concert." Ashton said, smiling.

Just as Michael was about to add something, Luke came back and sat back down, next to me. "Hey babe, wanna come to the concert with us? You can stay backstage if you want." Luke said, nervously.

"Nah, I'm good. If there is possibly any way you can score me a floor ticket, I'll love you forever." I said, laughing.

"Well normally no, but I think your special enough. I can manage that." he replied.

*****

"Attention Flyers, We are Experiencing Some Very Rough Turbulence Due To Strong Winds, Please Stay In Your Seats. We Will Be Arriving To New York, New York in about 2 Hours, Enjoy Your Flight! Thank You." The words echoed over the overhead speaker, and Luke started to tremble.

"Luke! Oh my god, are you ok?" I asked in shock.

Ashton leaned over across Michael's lap and whispered in my ear, "Isabella, don't tell anyone about this, but Luke is pretty scared of flying, especially when it's a rough flight.

The plane started to shake, the lights flickered, and Luke started to whimper as he dug his face into his sweater. Calum looked at me like I should do something, but I had no idea how to handle it.

Should I hug him? What should I do? I thought.

I gingerly wrapped my arm around Luke, and stroked his soft, blonde hair. He gave me a big hug and buried his face into my jacket. He looked up, and I saw him tearing up. "I'm so so sor sr-sorry, Isabella." he said, with his voice shaking. I looked at him, right in the eyes, and he froze. The plane started shaking again, more violently than the last time.

He groaned again, and right when he was about to scrunch up again, I kissed him. I have no idea how I managed to work up the courage to do it, but I did. He stopped shaking and looked at me again, and smiled.

"You know your a real special something, huh?" he managed to say, his Australian accent making me melt.

Smiling again, I said "I know." and leaned my head against his.

He closed his eyes as the plane began to toss around even more, and I felt my stomach drop.

"What are you thinking about?" I asked, holding my breath.

"I'm just imagining that I'm flying high in the sky with you, escaping the world and making the two of us loop into our own little infinity." Luke said, still keeping his eyes shut.

Michael was watching us, and he made a funny face. "Y'all nasty." he said, but me and Luke just laughed.

The turbulence eventually stopped, allowing Luke to relax. He sat up straight again, and drank some water. We decided to watch a movie on the built in TV for the rest of the flight.

"Have you seen that one?" I asked, pointing at The Fault In Our Stars.

"No, but I know that lad Ansel." he said.

"Well shit, you need to watch it then."

"Ok."

We played the movie, and at first he seemed pretty bored, but once he actually payed attention, he was interested. Mikey looked over at us cuddling up in front of the screen, whispered something to Ash and Cal, and started to laugh.

Luke took out his phone and started tweeting about the movie, but then his phone wouldn't stop blowing up, so he turned it off and continued to watch the movie.

I was getting bored since it was my fifth time watching it, but he was getting really absorbed into the story, and I just watched him.

We just kept on watching the movie, and then when it got sad, I was surprised to see that Luke was crying. Michael saw him and just started laughing his ass off, and fell of the seat. The flight attendant walked over and told him to shut up, but It just made him laugh harder.

The movie ended right when the plane landed, and me and Michael started to dance to the music, and Ashton took out a ukulele and started singing Pizza at the top of his lungs.

We knew we were pissing the hell out of the flight attendants, and we just kept on laughing. eventually we got to exit the plane.