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Chapter 14

"..And then after we leave Derby, we will go to Birmingham where we will meet up with my friend Zayn, and he's going to take us to see the Warwick Castle. Then we will go to Oxford and meet with my friend Michael who will take us to see the Blenheim Palace, then after, we will go to London, and meet with my friend Liam who will show us everything."

I smile up at him.

"And Liam, has decided to be very generous and he has offered to let us stay as long as we want so when ever you're ready to go off to Australia, we'll go."

I look at the map and blink a few times. There was one thing about his schedule I find hard to understand.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Why are we on our way to Derby instead of going straight to to Birmingham? There is nothing for us in Derby."

"Well," he sighed. "I figure, we're going to be stuck with each other for quite some time. And I think we should just dedicate some time just to you and I, you know? We should just get to know each other."

I tried not to smile, but it was a hopeless effort. "Really?" I asked.

He nodded with a small smile. "Yeah."

It was impossible to look cool with the huge geeky smile on my face and I nodded. "Cool."

~*~

"Finally! We have a motel with heat!" Luke exclaimed throwing his bag on the ground.

I sit mine on the ground as well and he ran on top of the bed, and began to jump childishly.

"Come on Nezzy, jump with me!"

I smiled and shook my head. "You're acting like you're drunk again."

"Jump!" He demanded.

I chuckled as I got onto the bed and stood while he jumped. He grabbed my hands and pulled my arms up, "Jump or I tickle you!" He threatened.

My eyes widened and I immediately began to jump.

We both laughed, and this went on for about ten more minutes. Throughout the day we went on a walk, we ended up in a garden of dasies, and talked most of the day just about ourselves.

"Okay," I say eating the grape that we got from the supermarket. "How are all your British and Australian friends in America?"

"Well, so Calum, our friend Michael, our friend Ashton, and I, we all had a band. And then one day, I was like, why don't we travel the world it would give our band more publicity blah blah. " He said. "But our friend Ashton was like 'no that will never work we should get real jobs' and he just was really lame and nagged and stuff. So Calum, Michael and I were like, fuck Ashton, we're leaving. So we traveled to.. here, and we met Niall's band at a band war, and blah blah we wanted to collaborate."

I continuing to listen to his story with terrible details and exaggerated mocking voices.

"After we collaborated, Louis was like 'We all should become one huge band!' And Liam was like 'No.' And Zayn didn't like the idea too much either. But he wanted to move to where we were going along the way, so the next day when Harry, Niall, Zayn, Louis, Michael, and I all had left, Michael said that he was starting to think Ashton was right, that it would never work. Calum and I were really mad at him."

I nod.

"So Michael stayed and the next day, we made our final stop in the UK and that's where we left Zayn." He clears his throat. "Then when we went to America, we stayed at this frat house, and the next morning, Harry and Louis were like, 'College is awesome, we should stay.' But Calum, Niall and I were all like ' No, we can pass', but then we only had three members and Niall was like 'Fuck this." And he left Calum and I. By then, Calum and I gave up on the whole band thing and just decided we would travel with each other. But then he met Sarah and you know how it goes from there."