northstar - cashton

Chapter 7

I woke up in an unknown room, then the events of last night replayed hazily in my mind. The room was a dark grey and everything in it was white, giving it a sleek look. I walked out of the room to see Luke at the bottom of the stairs in the house.

"Welcome to the bachelor pad!" he screamed, waving as if there was something spectacular behind him. I walked down the stairs and the only thing I saw was Calum eating pizza and a messy unfurnished house.

"Y'all need jesus. This place is a mess." I said looking at the boxes everywhere.

"Yeah, Calum and I are trying to get it cleaned up but we get distracted easily," Michael said from the kitchen.

"Hey, Mike!" I said attempting to fix my hair without a mirror.

"Hey Ashton! Glad you woke up." He told me while picking up boxes and taking them upstairs.

I walked in further to see the house in the worst possible state it could be. There were boxes everywhere, some were open and some were still taped shut. I walked back up the stairs and went into Michael's room, labelled by a piece of painters tape with MICHAEL on it. It was so clean I was so surprised.

"Woah, your room is cool" I said before walking into his room completely.

"Oh yeah, thanks" he said laying on his bed looking down at his phone.

"Why is your room so perfect but everyone else and the whole house isn't?" I laughed a bit at the end of my sentence.

"Because I like my room clean and the rest of the house is a group effort. Even though none of us are going to put in the work." He smiled.

"Well, I'm gonna change that cause if I'm gonna hang out here it cannot be filled with boxes," I said looking around his room at all of the posters, there were Blink-182 and All Time Low posters above his bed.

"Good ha." He laughed and got up to go out of his room. I followed him and went downstairs to see Luke and Calum just lounging.

"This will be fun," Michael said smiling.

"Hell yeah, it will be." I think I finally found my place.

"We need to start cleaning," Luke said looking around. We all nodded our heads in agreement.

"Alexa, play 5 seconds of summer playlist," Luke said.

"OKAY, 5 seconds of summer playlist playing." said a robotic voice around the house, echoing in the empty high ceilings. Big guitar sounds filled the space around us.

"These are a bunch of songs we want to cover for our band," Michael explained going to the closest box and opening it.

"You guys are in a band?" I grabbed another box and started unpacking it.

"Yeah, we all sing, Luke and I play guitar, and Calum plays bass." He told me. I looked to Calum and he was mouthing the words to whatever punk-pop song was on.

"That's so cool, I was in a band a little bit ago so I can play the drums if you need a drummer. Luke sing for me!!" I commanded with a laugh.

He sang perfectly along with the song playing. He was air-guitaring too. I just laughed, forgetting the events of the past couple of days. Michael started singing along with him and Calum just smiled and sat on the one chair they had out. Even with the 3 boys distracting me, Calum was the only one I was looking at. His smile lit up his eyes and showed more emotion than any words could. He was actually happy. The way his eyes scrunched up in the corners was adorable. I couldn't stop looking at him and smiling.

    After a while I got the kitchen done and they did the living room without my help, surprisingly. There was still rock music playing throughout the house. They were all on their phones when I walked into the living room.