Play the game // l.r.h

Chapter 20 - The airport

I woke up the next morning in the last position I remembered being in,

A heap on the floor.

I stood up slowly and picked the feathers off of myself and walked into the bathroom.

We left to go back to the UK today. We still had a few conventions to go to but they weren’t for a few weeks and we had nowhere to stay until then so management decided to send us home and bring us back in a couple of weeks for the conventions.

I got into the shower and tried to forget what had happened last night. All I wanted to do was go home, I didn’t want to be in America anymore, I wanted to go home and lie in bed and cry about everything. I just wanted to have a meltdown and break things and hit things but right now I couldn’t do that.

I had to keep it together.

And I couldn’t tell anybody what had happened last night.

It’s not that I didn’t trust my friends, it’s that I was afraid of what was going to happen to Luke if she found out that I knew what she threatened him with. I didn’t want him getting hurt, and I didn’t want to get hurt either, it was just so much easier to stop talking to him. Cut them both off and Luke would be safe.

I heard the hotel door open,

“Hey Adi, I’m back, sorry I le- HOLY SHIT” I heard Lori from the room, and then I remembered the feathers, I had forgotten to get rid of them.

“Adi!” she yelled, “What the hell is this?!”

I turned off the shower and stepped out, wrapped a towel around myself and walked out of the bathroom,

“Sorry, I um, I threw a pillow and it burst” I half lied
“Why did you throw a pillow?” she raised an eyebrow
“I couldn’t sleep and got frustrated so I threw the pillow…” I tried, it was something I did quite often actually so Lori believed it.

She was still wearing what she was wearing the night before because she had stayed with the others. She started to put away her stuff, packing it tightly into her case.

“Ready for the flight?” Lori asked,
“Yeah” I replied quickly and I grabbed some clothes to change into.

I decided on my ATL hoodie and Aztec leggings, I found my bag and headphones out of my suitcase.

I decided to keep my headphones around my neck, I wasn’t about to sit through the torture of being in the middle seat and having no music, again.

I finished stuffing my belongings into my suitcase and I zipped it up. Lori and I walked next door and found Sam and Violet ready to go.

They all seemed pretty sad to go. I admit, the entire playlist experience was incredible and I loved every second of it, the part that I was happy to leave was my experiences OUTSIDE of playlist.

We got down to the lobby to see many YouTubers leaving and others saying goodbye, I spotted Jake accrss the room, looking lost.

I left my suitcase in a corner and ran over to him, when he saw me his face lit up and I threw my arms around his neck in an embrace. I was really going to miss him and I was annoyed that we didn’t get to spend more time together because we had been talking for so long over twitter and stuff.

“I wish you didn’t have to leave so soon” he said as I pulled away from the hug,

“Me too. We just have a lot of stuff to do over in the UK and we don’t have anywhere to stay over here so it kinda sucks…” I sighed

“Hey! I bet you’re excited to go home though!”
“Oh definitely, I just want to sleep for days”
“I’m going to miss you”
“I’ll text you when I land okay?”
“Definitely!”

We hugged again and I went to say goodbye to everyone else. Some people were crying, some people were smiling, some people just didn’t know how to react.

I looked over to my suitcase to see Sam stood uncomfortably, nervously looking at her phone every now and again.

I frowned, confused and then realized that today was the day we were leaving Ash. And she hadn’t seen him since the argument a couple of nights ago.

I walked over to her and put my arm around her shoulders.

“Hey” I smiled at her, she replied with a weak smile and rested her head on my shoulder, “You’ll see him again soon okay?”

She nodded, still not saying a word.

I grabbed the others and we stood at the front door, waved goodbye to everyone and walked out. There were a lot of fans about, screaming and cheering.

I waved goodbye to them too as I got into the car and we drove to the airport.

The car was silent, nobody wanted to go.

More to the point,

Nobody wanted to leave the guys.

We go into the airport and went to check in. I had to act like the mother of the group, Sam was upset about leaving Ash and he hadn’t so much as even texted her, Lori was upset about leaving the fans behind because she didn’t get to meet them all and Violet was just angry.

I felt like that had something to do with Calum not asking her out.

We got through check in and security and to the departures gate with no trouble.

All I had with me was my bag and headphones, so did the others.

Sam had her head rested on my shoulder, she looked like she had cried so much that all the tears were gone and she couldn’t cry anymore.

I felt horrible for her, absolutely horrible. We were all so miserable.

I had my music full blast and it seemed like, no matter how many times I pressed the skip button, I was listening to a sad song.

I hummed quietly to One Day by Kodaline and held Sam.

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A/N - I understand it's a little weird that i keep telling you what songs everyone is listening to but usually, when i write, i'm listening to music and i was listening to 'One Day' when i wrote this. It made me feel kind of sad. I thought it would help with the chapter if i told you the song.

ANYWAY, it sucks that the guys never showed up to say goodbye...

let me know what you think please!

I'm writing this story in advance so i have something to update for you guys and I'm SO close to finishing but it's all moving way too fast at the end so I'll have to see how long it takes for me to get an ending I'm happy with. I've never actually finished my own story before so this is a first...

I'm talking way too much, sorry

peace

-angrysos