REQUESTED
World tours were always great. They gave fans from everywhere the opportunity to see their favorite band live. The only downside to it was what it caused for you. It had been a few months since you last saw Ash . It wasn’t like the two of you hadn’t talked – you had endless Skype call logs and late night phone calls to prove that much – but not being able to see him in person was starting to take a toll on you. At this point of the tour, whenever you’d wake up, Ash would be ready to go to sleep after his show, but he always managed to stay up long enough for you to get in a few sentences before you forced him to go to bed because he needed his rest.
That’s why you came up with the idea to surprise him on tour. With help from the rest of his bandmates, you scheduled a flight to the next country they were headed to. You made sure nobody gave ash so much as a hint that you were coming to visit, and did your best when texting him to sound like you were still miserable that he was gone even though you were actually excited to see him.
You’d planned everything out perfectly so that after his show, you’d be waiting backstage to surprise him. Just the pure thought of seeing him powered you through the mundane days leading up to the date you were scheduled to leave for Norway, the country you’d meet Ash in. When the day of your flight came, you couldn’t even contain your excitement. Of course, when it was morning your time, Ash was asleep, meaning you didn’t have to explain why you didn’t reply to his messages for nearly 12 hours. When you landed, it was 6 pm in Norway.
After rushing to the stadium, where doors opened at 7, you had to send a text to Calum for him to let you backstage because the security guards were skeptical of a girl claiming she was the girlfriend of Ashton Irwin. You apologized for nearly causing him to be late to the stage to start the show, but he shrugged it off by saying that Ash will finally be out of the slump he’d been in now that you’re here.
At the end of the show, the boys said their goodnights and headed backstage. You were already there, as planned, with your back facing the exit of the stage. Calum was having a conversation with Ashton, but you heard their talking cease when you assumed he had spotted you.
“Vicky?” His voice was quiet and held a disbelieving tone, and you were sure he wore a face filled with incredulousness. You turned around then, and watched his face turn from shocked to positively joyful. You mirrored that infectious smile of his and before you even got a word in, he rushed forward and wrapped his arms around you.
“I missed you so much,” He murmured into your hair as you two embraced. Neither one of you actually wanted to let go, so when you two finally did release, you stayed in each other’s arms. His scent was just as intoxicating as you remembered it being months ago, and his face was in a permanent smile that the screen of a computer didn’t do justice to.
“I missed you, too,” You managed, almost choking on tears of happiness. His smile somehow got wider and he leaned down to press a much needed kiss to your lips. That kiss felt like the embodiment of everything you’d been feeling for the past months had simply vanished and was instead replaced with the overwhelming fluttering pain that made it difficult to breathe around him.
