Distance // Ashton Irwin

29. Backstage

I woke up at 8am the next day to Cleo smacking me in the face with a pillow.

"Time to get up!" She yelled.

I moaned and rolled over to the other side of the bed.

"Seriously!?" She yelled again. "Get your lazy ass out of bed! We've got plans!"

I stretched my arms and sat up.

"Are you going to tell me what plans?" I asked.

She shook her head. "No it's a surprise."

I finally crawled out of bed and stood up.

"Alright, get ready we have to leave in an hour" said Cleo as she walked out of the room.

I pulled out a good pair of jeans and a loose band tee from my suitcase and got dressed.

I did my hair into a loose fish tail braid and walked out into the lounge room.

"Ready."

Cleo smiled. "Good, because we need to leave."

She grabbed her car keys and we walked outside and hopped in her little red car.

As we drove off, All Time Low was blaring from the speakers.

Neither of us said anything for the whole drive, instead we just listened to All Time Low as Cleo drove to wherever she had planned to take me.

"Here" she said as we pulled up at a parking lot.

A few meters away stood a huge stadium.
What was going on?

"Come on let's go" said Cleo pulling my arm towards the stadium once we had hopped out of the car.

Instead of walking to the main entrance of the stadium, we walked around to the side of it. A few security guards stood there infront of one of the side entrances.

Cleo held out two bits of paper and the security guards nodded their heads and let us through.

Cleo was still pulling me by the arm. She knew exactly where we were going and what we were doing and I was just tagging along clueless.

"Almost there" she said as we took a turn and started walking down a narrow stretch.

We walked roughly 50 meters and were greeted by four familiar faces standing at the door.

"Holly!" Screamed Luke as he came bolting towards me and wrapped his arms around me tightly which made it hard for me to breath.

"Hi Luke" I spoke.

Luke loosened his grip and stood back smiling. "It's good to see you" he said.

As Luke walked over to Cleo I felt a pair of arms grab me from behind and wrap their arms around my waist. He planted soft kisses on the back of my neck which sent shivers down my spine.

"Hey beautiful" he whispered.

I smiled. "Hey Ashton."

I turn myself around so that I was facing him and wrapped my arms around his waist.

I didn't want to let him go.

"I missed you" he whispered as he kissed my forehead.

"I missed you too" I whispered back.

Michael cleared his throat and began to speak.

"Okay guys so how about we all go in the room instead of just standing out here" he said.

We all nodded and walked into the room.

The room we had walked into was the boys dressing room. Clothes were lying about everywhere and I could see a couple of pizza boxes lying about.

Cleo walked over to Michael and smiled.

"Okay" she started to speak. "Who's going to give them to her?" She asked, looking around at the boys.
Give me what?

Calum giggled. "I might aswell since I'm the one who actually has them" he said smiling at Cleo.

Calum walked up to me and placed something in my hand. As I looked down at my hand in shock, everyone around me started to laugh.

What I was holding in my right hand was concert tickets for tonights show.

"I can't believe this" I finally spoke.

I had never been to a concert in my life and now I was going to one tonight.

"You better believe it" said Ashton placing his arm around my shoulder.

A big grin appeared on my face.

"Once Cleo had told us that you had never been to a concert we just had to make sure you came to one, even if we do suck" said Luke.

I glared at him. "You don't suck!" I yelled before huddling everyone together and forming a group hug.

"I'm glad I met you guys, I couldn't ask for a better group of friends" I said.

Ashton quickly turned his head to face me.

"And boyfriend" I quickly corrected myself.

I was hoping that tonight would be good, afterall I would be going to my first ever concert and I would be not only seeing my favourite band play, but a group of boys that meant the world to me do what they do best.