invitation only // mgc + cth

introduction

It was a particularly foggy morning in New York City. It was barely light out and the city was already full of life. The city was full of people rushing to their nine to five jobs with cups of burning hot coffee. While others were just walking home from their crazy night out. Even though the city was loud and wide awake, inside the small, one-bedroom, studio apartment of Ramona Stiles, it was silent. Well, that is until her best friend and neighbor, Amelia came barging in screaming bloody murder.

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"Ro! Wake the fuck up! I swear to God if I'm late to class again because of you, I won't hesitate to kill you!"

"Five more minutes"

"Ramona! I would give you five more minutes if I could... but I can't! We have less than thirty minutes to get to class! Now wake up and get dressed! I brought coffee!"

Amelia walked over to the bed and ripped the covers off the tired girl causing a groan from Ramona. While the half-asleep girl was adjusting to the light, her friend was raiding her closet in hopes of being even slightly on time. Amelia grabbed a pair of ripped jeans, a white button-up, one of Ramona's university crewnecks, and last but not least, a pair of Doc Martens.

"Okay, Ro! Enough being lazy! There's an Uber downstairs and you have five minutes or I am leaving without you! I've already picked out your outfit so let's go!"

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Ten minutes later, the two girls were headed down to the lobby of their apartment building. Unfortunately, Ramona had taken too long and the Uber had left without them, leaving the already late girls to find a fast source of transportation on short notice. Today could not be any worse.

Amelia ran to the edge of the sidewalk and did her signature New York taxi cab whistle. That trick had never let her down and although today was horrible, it wasn't the day of broken promises. Thankfully, a rusty beat down taxi came to a halt in front of them. The two girls got in and were greeted by two young men arguing about some trivial matter. Amelia didn't catch what they were talking about but she did catch their slight Australian accents.

"Hey, sorry about crashing your taxi but if my friend and I aren't at the Manhattan School of Music in the next twenty minutes, we are royally fucked." Ramona announced to both the Australian boys as well as the driver.

"Also, if you get us there with some time to spare, I'll tip you extra!" Amelia added in hopes of actually getting there on time. Knowing both girls' luck, Amelia didn't have high hopes.

"Wait, are you guys like... students there or something? Because we're headed there for a meeting right now actually" the boy with the best emo fringe they'd seen since 2014 asked.

"Um, yeah we're students. I'm Amelia but you can call me Lia and this is Ramona but she has a bitch fit if you call her, her real name so, I suggest you call her Ro; Who are you? I don't mean to be rude or anything but you boys are dressed way to casually to be professors and you did say you were headed to a meeting."

"I'm Luke," the boy with the curly, dirty blonde hair said. "And this is Mikey. We're in the band 5 Seconds of Summer. We're performing at Radio City Music Hall tomorrow night and we're choosing some students from your Uni to get free tickets to our show."

"So you guys are what? Like famous" Ro asked and before Amelia had time to stop her. In return for asking the question, Amelia elbowed Ro in the ribs. And before both could get an answer, the taxi arrived at the student entrance of the campus. Amelia had shoved Ro out of the car and both were about to walk away when Lia remembered she forgot to tip the driver. To her surprise, the two pretty boys had already covered it for her.

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Later in the day, all the students were called down for a mandatory assembly. To say the auditorium was crowded was the understatement of the century. Not only were there more kids in attendance today than any other day, but there were local news stations scattered all around.

"Okay students! I have an exciting announcement to make! The members of the band, 5 Seconds of Summer have chosen two lucky students to attend their sold-out concert tomorrow night as well as have the VIP package for free! The winners of the tickets are... Amelia Windsor and Ramona Stiles. Please come up to the stage at the end of the assembly to pick up your tickets! Thank you students and have a wonderful day!" the dean announced rather enthusiastically.

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Ramona and Amelia didn't know how to act. It's not every day two broke-ass New York art students get VIP tickets to a sold-out concert. Nevertheless, Amelia and Ro made their way up to the front of the auditorium, where they were met by the two boys they met in the taxi.

The boy remembered as Michael was the one to break the silence, "Hey! Um so basically, we thought you both were super cool and wanted to hang out with you more! So here are your tickets for tomorrow's show! Um, I guess dress nice? I mean you just have to look cool I guess" he laughed awkwardly. "But no, for real... we can't wait for you guys to meet the rest of the band! They'll love you both! Remember, it's an invitation-only so don't forget!"

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A lot can happen when two broke bitches get an opportunity of a lifetime and VIP treatment. Either way, I don't think they were expecting this.