(Mackenzie POV)

“If what we had was real…how could you be fiiiiine?” I waited for the pause in the music but only heard laughter from the other side of the shower curtain. I peeked my head out only to see 4 guys laughing hysterically.

“I thought you didn’t like us?” Calum said, doubled over in laughter.

“Fuck off! I don’t!” I went back inside my shower.

“You were singing pretty loud, Kenz.” Ashton chimed in.

I took the bottle of body wash off the shower ledge and looked back around the shower curtain.

“Are you done?” I looked at all 4 of them.

They looked at each other and nodded before all of them burst into laughter again.

“Kenz you know we love you.” Ashton said in between his laughs.

“You came on the radio; I had no choice but to listen.” I rolled my eyes at them.

“You had to listen, but you didn’t have to sing.” Mikey said.

“I said fuck off.” I repeated myself.

“Nah, we’re going to stay in here and wait for the next song, we like listening to you sing.” Luke smirked.

“You asked for it.” I said, giving them a small chance to react. They all looked at each other confused as I started to squirt them with the bottle of body wash, the majority of it landing on Calum and Ashton.

“KENZ!” Ashton shouted as he started to come towards the shower but stopped. “Nope, that’s my sister naked in there.”

“She’s not my sister.” Calum smirked coming closer to the curtain.

“Stand down, Hood.” I threatened him with the bottle.

“Dude come on, she’s my little sister for god sakes.” Ashton groaned, leaving the room all together Luke and Michael on his tail.

“I think I need a shower.” He smirked, taking off his shirt.

“Uhh, what are you doing?” I asked uncomfortable.

“Getting in.” he shrugged as if this was a normal thing.

I wasn’t a stranger to naked boys; I had seen my fair share. I was just sixteen when I had lost my virginity to the boy I thought I was in love with. But this was Calum. My brother’s bandmate. The kid that all my friends knew I had the biggest crush on since they started jamming as a band, 3 years ago. He was shimming out of his pants right in front of me. When it came to boys I usually didn’t have an issue playing them off or being a bitch. I just lost my cool around Calum when it was only the two of us. I got awkward and uncomfortable, two emotions I didn’t know how to deal with well.

“I’m naked.” I muttered.

“I’ve seen you naked before, Kenz.” He chuckled. I loved when he called me Kenz.

“What?!” I shouted. “When?”

“Remember when I came on vacation with you and your family a couple years ago?” I nodded. “You and I got hammered and went skinny dipping. I saw it all.” he smirked at me. “Although, I’m pretty sure some things have changed since then.”

“Like what?” I stupidly asked. “You know what, never mind.”

I quickly turned the water off and reached for my towel, without allowing myself to be exposed. I wrapped it around me tightly and pulled the curtain back. Cal was standing there was a shit eating grin on his face.

“All yours.” I ruffled up his hair. He leaned in close before I was finished.

“Maybe next time we could both be in it.” He winked before dropping his boxers and stepping into the shower.

I quickly headed out into the hall and down into my room. I closed the door and locked it. That was so weird. Sure, I had experience strange encounters with each of the guys. They’ve been around for 3 years now. But nothing that personal. Other than skinny dipping with Calum, but vaguely remembering it, none of them had ever attempted to make a move. Was he even making a move? I had no idea. Calum was hard to figure out sometimes. He was a goofball all the time; it was hard to tell when he was being serious and when he was just being himself. I shook the thought of naked Calum out of my brain and started to get ready.

I had plans to hang out with the girls today. Luckily, all their parents had, reluctantly, agreed to let them come on the trip with me. Ashton insisted he’d make sure we did the school work we needed too because and I quote ‘I’m the dad on tour, I make sure the other guys get their work done.’ It sounded like a load of bullshit bit somehow worked.

It was sort of weird to think that in less than a week I’d be off in some foreign land, experience something I’d never have the chance to if the guys didn’t become famous. I was growing more and more excited each day. And to think, I put up a fight about going. The guys were all so great. I was happy that the fame hadn’t changed any of them. They were all the same old dorks they were when they used our garage to rock out in. They were just richer and more recognizable.

I would read fan boards about how the fandom ‘is watching them grow up right before their eyes and experiencing everything with them.’ That shit cracked me up. I had literally known Luke and Calum for practically my whole life. We all were in the same grade in school, along with the rest of my friends. Michael was a year ahead of us, and Ashton a year ahead of him.

I had known the guys most of my life but once they started the band, everyone really came together. That’s when I developed my crush on Cal. Right after Ashton joined the band. They’d sometimes come over and use our house to practice and when they were done they’d just hang out. I doubted the feeling was mutual but with what just happened, I couldn’t be sure.

I shook the thought out of my head and finished getting ready to go. I ran my fingers through my damp hair. I didn’t feel like doing anything with it so I let it hang. I’d go find a beanie from Ashton’s room when I was done. As weird as this may sound we shared a lot of our clothes. He was way bigger than I was, but I liked the way his old band tees hung on me. We both wore excessive amounts of beanies, so we shared those too. We had a really great friendship on top of being siblings. It was something I really cherished about him.

I slid on a pair of black jeans with a huge whole in the knee and one of Ashton’s old Nirvana tees he had brought home with him from touring. I made my way over to Ash’s room and dug through his drawer of hats. I found the perfect black beanie and tossed it over my messy hair. The girls didn’t care what I looked like, they were used to me dressing like I was a boy.

I made my way downstairs to when the loud laughter of the guys stopped me. I poked my head into the living room where they were all sitting around the coffee table. Luke and Calum were on the couch, Ashton was upside in the recliner and Mikey sprawled out on the floor. I looked between them. It would be an odd sight to anyone else but I was used to it. Even though millions of girls swooned over these guys, they were still dorky as shit.

I made my presence known by clearing my throat.

“Uh, hey I’m going out.” I pointed towards the front door.

“Where are you going sis?!” Ashton smiled at me, still upside down.

“Piper is on her way to get me then we’re going shopping to get last minute things.” I nodded.

“Sounds fun, be safe.” Ash smiled. “Is she here?”

“Not yet, I was just going to go out and smoke before she gets here. You know she hates it.” I shrugged.

“Can I join you?” Mikey asked, sitting up.

“I don’t care.” I tugged the strap of my bag higher onto my shoulder. “What are you guys doing anyways?”

“Trying to write. But we’re at a block.” Cal said, motioning to the notebooks on the table.

“Ah, well don’t let me delay you any farther.” I joked, heading towards the door.

“Kenz!” I heard Calum say.

“What?” I turned around leaning back into the living room.

“You look like Luke today.” Was all he said.

I flipped him the middle finger and went back to the front door. I slid on my old combat boots and headed outside. I took a seat on the top step and lit the cigarette I had in my hand. A few seconds later Michael joined me, lighting his own.

“I’m glad you’re coming on the tour.” he sighed, leaning against the door.

“I didn’t want to come at first.” I chuckled. “But I’m glad now too.”

He nudged me in the side. “Didn’t want to come? Are you insane?”

“Maybe I am. So what?” I rolled my eyes. “I just wanted to finish school and be with my friends.”

“School is lame.” He rolled his eyes. “To be honest, I probably would have ended up dropping out if this band thing didn’t happen.”

“You never really struck me as the school type.” I laughed, taking a drag off my cig.

“Neither do you.” he shrugged.

“I know but I actually want to go to uni.” I said, his eyes going wide.

“What?” he shook his head. “Sorry that was rude. I’m just surprised.”

“Everyone is.” I shrugged, standing up as Piper pulled into my driveway. “See ya later Mikey.”

“Have fun Mackenzie.”

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“Can you even believe our parents are letting us all go?” Skylar asked. “We’re skipping out on senior year.”

“I can't believe my parents, of all people, even agreed.” Piper chimed in.

“It's going to be so much fun. You guys know it.” I smiled.

“I mean I can't wait to spend time with your brother’s hot friends.” Scar added.

“Scar, why would you think that?” I swatted her arm.

“Because um have you seen any of them lately?” she rolled her eyes at me.

“Yeah, only every damn day when they're over my house. Why?”

“I'm just saying they've grown up into some pretty attractive men.” Scar wiggled her eyebrows.

Scarlett was my best friend out of the group. We had known each other since the very first day of school ever. We did practically everything together. She was a little more boy crazy than I was though.

“Scar, think about it they're my brothers friends.” I shrugged. “They’re weird as fuck.”

“So? Who cares, they’re funny and hot. If I’m not allowed to fool around with them what about your brother then?” she wiggled her eyebrows at me again.

“You know Ashton is the weirdest, right?” I laughed.

“So maybe that means he likes to get freaky in between the sheets.”

“Scarlet stop! That is my brother! What I talked about your brother like that?” I raised an eyebrow

“My brothers 12 so I would think you're friggin creep.” She laughed along with the other girls.

“Fuck off I hate all of you.” I rolled my eyes walking towards the counter to pay for the frozen yogurt we were currently dishing into our bowls.

“Hey your Mackenzie Irwin, aren't you?” The kid behind the counter asked me.

“Last time I checked.” I rolled my eyes too many times since entering this store.

“So your brothers in that band right?” he asked, excitedly.

“My brothers in a band?” I opened my eyes wide full of shock. “When did that happen?”

He looked at me awkwardly, scratching the back of his neck. “Your total is 2.87 please.”

“That’s what I thought.” I muttered under my breath after handing him my money walking away, not even bothering to get my change.

Encounters like these are becoming more common. I didn’t want to be known as Ashton Irwin’s little sister. I wanted to be my own person. I didn’t understand why people couldn’t just let me go. If they wanted to talk to Ashton, fine. But leave me out of it.

The girls and I sat at the table in the corner of the store. I didn’t feel like having the register boy stare at me all day. We were talking and gossiping about everything and anything. Mostly about how excited we were to see the boys and world this year. Life was definitely going to get wild.

“So what time do you have to be there tomorrow?” Piper asked.

“We’re leaving from Calum's house at 5:30 in the morning.”

“What?” they all shouted in unison.

“I thought you meant like in the evening when you said 530. Like what? In the morning? No.” Skyler said frustrated.

“I'm not even packed yet and we leave tomorrow.” I rolled my eyes at Scar. She's always the last person to get ready, be ready, be on time, anything dealing with time she was late.

“Whatever.” I shoved a spoonful of frogurt into my mouth. “At least we can just buy things along the way if you forget something.”

“Yeah like I'm going to bring a shitton of money to waste on essential shit, McKenzie.” Piper looked at me.

“Ashton is so excited to have me on this tour that he will literally buy us anything we want.” I shrugged.

“Whatever I'm going to head home and finish packing though. I'll see you guys at 5:30. Remember 530 sharp or you don’t come. Calum’s house. I'll text you the address when I get it off Ashton.” I said, pushing my chair in.


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Ashton POV


“Kind of forgot to mention this but…” I trailed looking at the guys catching their attention.

“What's up mate?” Mikey asked.

“Well McKenzie’s kind of coming on tour with us this year.” I started.

“Dude you told is that like a month ago when you suggested it to your parents.” Michael rolled his eyes.

“She's also sort of bringing three friends.” I said quickly.

“Three friends you say?” Luke raised his eyebrows.

“The hot friends orrrrrr nah?” Calum asked.

“I mean yeah the hot friends; does Kenz have any ugly friends?” I raised an eyebrow.

“That's true dude. I've never seen your sister hang out with an ugly girl.” Mikey laughed, adding. “Besides Cal, why do you need her friends when Kenz will be there?”

“What are you talking about, dork?” Cal quickly defended himself.

“Come off it. We all know you have a thing for her.” Luke chuckled.

“Yeah, okay whatever you say.” Calum rolled his eyes. “She’s Ashton’s sister. It doesn’t matter how cute I think she is.”

“Knew it, you like her.”


“Well Kenz is only like the most beautiful girl in our area.” Calum started. “She's perfect and she's friendly to everyone else but us. God knows why she can't be nice to us. So it’s pretty irrelevant. She probably would laugh if she found out.”

I watched as Calum shrugged. To say I didn’t approve would be a lie. I really like Calum; he was my best friend in the band. I knew for a fact that Kenz also had a crush on him, but that wasn’t my place. Hopefully over this tour, they’d realize they’d be perfect for one another.

“People just like her and I don't get it. She's popular so that means her friends are popular and usually popular people are hot. That's what makes them popular. People like to look at them and wish they were them.” Calum continued.

“So that's why wasn't popular in school.” Luke tapped his finger on his face.

“Probably you troll.” Calum laughed. I rolled my eyes at the pair.

“Whatever. All I'm saying is be on your best behavior tomorrow when we leave, okay?” I warned, looking at everyone.

“Like we’d do anything to the girls! Why would you ever say such a thing?” Mikey scoffed, placing a hand over his heart offended.

“Whatever.” I rolled my eyes.

We heard the front door opening, meaning McKenzie was back from her girls day out. We all looked at each other, knowing it was time to stop talking about her and the girls.

“Ew.” she said, with no emotion. “You guys are still here.”

“Don’t even act like you don’t love us.” Mikey said. “We’re going to be tour buddies now.”

“You love us.” she mimicked. “Yeah you guys are right. How could I not? You’re here all the fucking time. Don’t you have families or something to do?”

“We just toured around the world for year. Excuse us for wanting to sit around and play Xbox before we go and tour the world again.” I eyed her.

“Call of duty. Whatever, I could totally kick your ass.” She rolled her eyes at us.

“You know what I have to take a piss anyways, so here it's all you.” Luke said handing her his controller, putting her on the spot.

She sat on the couch where Luke stood up from between Calum and Mikey. She crossed her legs and intently stared at the screen. She never really hung out with us much before. She’d occasionally come listen to a new song or give us a ride somewhere if we were too drunk but she never actually just hung out with us. I guess we’d all have to get used to this starting tomorrow.

She looked over at me when she noticed I was staring at her.

“What do you want creep?” she asked.

“Just thinking of all the terrible ways we’re going to murder you in this game. That's all.” I shrugged.

“You don't know what I've been doing in the past year. I could have gotten really good at this game.” She stuck her tongue out.

“Kenz, I’ve been home for six months now. I haven't seen you play Xbox once.”

“Whatever you're going down.” She flipped me off.

After finishing fixing the settings to the proper amounts of everything and everyone picking their gun class, we were ready to play. 10 minutes of the round ended and we all just stared at the screen in shock. He looked between one another and then back at the screen. Kenz sat there with a smug grin on her face.

“Jesus Kenz, that’s so hot.” Mikey laughed. “Who knew you could play video games?”

“I told you to watch out and I would win.” She rolled her eyes at us and set the controller down on the table before leaving the room.

“Dude your sister just kicked our ass at Call of Duty.” Calum said laughing.

“I know what the fuck.” We were all still in shock.

“Well I got a head out mate. I'm still not completely packed yet and we have to leave in less than 12 hours so I'll see you idiots tomorrow nice and early at my house.” Calum stood.

“Yeah dude. I'll see you tomorrow.” I said nodding at him.

“I should probably get going to then. I have been to hang out with my family for the last couple hours before tour.” Luke laughed.

“Yeah mine will probably be wondering where I am.” Mikey said.

“No I completely understand. I just can't wait to kick this shit off. I'm excited very excited. I'll see you guys tomorrow.” I smiled, closing the door behind them.



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(Mackenzie POV)


“Fuck this, fuck that. Fuck you.” I mumbled as I tossed my last suitcase in the back of a huge SUV.

“Rough morning sis?” Ashton came over, lifting the bag for me.

“It’s 5 am. Fuck you.” I groaned.

“Jesus.” Ashton put his hands up backing away slowly.

“It looks like someone needs a nice, big hug.” Calum came over to us.

“Cal, I wouldn’t if I were you.” Ashton warned.

Before I had the chance to react he already had his arms around me. He’s a morning person. Great. To my surprise and I’m sure everyone else’s around me. I didn’t shove him off. I wrapped my arms around him and laid my head on his chest. I fit perfectly into the hook of his arms. My head felt so comfortable on his chest. I could have fallen asleep right then and there. I suddenly remembered that there were paparazzi and our friends and family watching us. I pulled apart from Cal and headed towards my friends.

“Cal crush still in full swing?” Scar whispered into my ear.

I nodded my head yes, feeling a blush creep across my face. Scar smirked at me but I just flipped her off and headed for the rest of my bags. I was getting sick of the paps and we had only been here for 10 minutes. Somehow someone got word that we were all leaving, well the guys no one cared about us, today from Calum’s. There were about six of them creeping on the other side of the street. Losers, like get a life.

Ashton always told me I was management’s worst nightmare when I was with the guys, or him and we got caught by paparazzi. I wasn’t exactly thrilled that someone felt the need to take their picture which meant I’d be in it too. They had got me flipping them off, cursing at them, even lighting a joint once. I didn’t care; I wasn’t in the band so why did management even care. At first, the tabloids thought Ashton and I were together, as in dating. He normally didn’t talk about the rumors spread online or in magazines, but he quickly put an end to that one. He was on some talk show and they asked about me, him and the guys couldn’t stop laughing. Eventually, they calmed down enough for Ashton to say I was his sister. It was a nightmare.

I crawled into the car designated for the girls and I. I quickly put my head against the window, waiting for everyone else to join. One by one the girls finished putting their bags into the ‘luggage’ car and joined me. I was going to fall asleep before we even made it to the airport. The guys were starting their tour in South America. I couldn’t wait. I had never left Australia before.

We all sat silently, ready to pass out. The girls and I weren’t exactly morning people. We liked our beauty sleep. Scar was the last one in, slamming the door behind her.

“Here goes nothing.” She laughed.

“Yeah, this is going to be one hell of a year.” I chuckled.

“I can’t wait.” Piper added.

“Shit, did you see how many bags we brought?” Scar laughed. “Half of them are Sky’s.”

“Fuck you they are not!” Skylar defended herself.

An older man hopped into the front seat and smiled back at us.

“Morning ladies, I’m Ted. I’m going to be your driver whenever you need one on the tour.”

“Hey.” We smiled in unison. He seemed sweet.

“We’re just about ready to head to the airport.” He said.

I closed my eyes, ready for this trip to start. I smiled to myself. This was going to be great. I was expecting the car to start moving but instead the back door opened again. I watched as Ashton popped his head in, smiling. Fuck him for always being so awake.

“Hey, Kenz can I talk to you for a second?” he asked. “Outside.”

I rolled my eyes but unbuckled my seatbelt, hopping over Piper to get out. I shut the door behind me, looking at him. He began to walk a little ways from the car.

“So they can’t hear us.” He mumbled, nodding towards our car.

“What do you want?” I snapped. “I’m tired.”

“Hey, calm down.” He raised his hands up. “I just want to remind you that this is like one big huge business trip for us. Sure, we have a lot of fun, we get wasted, go to parties, get high, whatever we want but when it comes down to it, this is our job. We have to keep a level of dignity and respect. So if you could just remind the girls, no funny business and if you go out alone without one of us or all of us, stay classy. No hooking up with random guys, don’t bring them back to the hotels, and certainly don’t get caught doing anything illegal.”

“Ashton, we’re 18 not 12. I think we’ll be okay.” I started to turn to go back to the car. He grabbed my arm stopping me.

“And no messing with any of the guys. Okay? No pranks, no shenanigans.”

“HA!” I laughed in his face. “You think I’m going to go be on tour for a year with you idiots and not pull a prank or two? You have another thing coming, buddy.”

This time I successfully turned around and made it to the car. He’s so silly. They guys were going to mess around with us, obviously. They already did when we were all together. So we definitely were going to mess around back. I got into the car, all eyes on me.

“He’s just a turd.” I rolled my eyes. “No funny business this is our jobs.”

“What? We are the four most well behaved ladies on this planet!” Scar couldn’t even finish her sentence without laughing.

“We’re going to get them into so much trouble. You know that right?” Skylar asked.

“Oh yes, I know.” I chuckled. “But I have a feeling it’s going to be boring a lot of the time for us. If there’s nothing to do where we’re at it’s going to suck. Like we’re going to Oklahoma. What the fuck is in Oklahoma?”

“I don’t even know where that is.” Scarlett laughed.

“Exactly!” I said.

“Well why don’t we make this trip a little more interesting then?” Piper wiggled her eyebrows.

“What are you suggesting?” I cocked my own eyebrows.

“Why don’t we make a bet.” Piper was usually the calmest out of us. We often joked she was the mom, and here she was suggesting we make a bet?

“What sort of bet are we talking here?” she had Scarlett’s interest peaked.

“I don’t know something hot.” Piper smiled as the car began to move. I suddenly remember our driver could hear everything we were saying.

“Uh, hey Ted.” I said awkwardly.

“Yes…” he paused as if asking my name.

“Mackenzie.” I smiled.

“Well what can I do for you Miss Mackenzie?”

“What we say in here…you’re not obligated to like tell the guys managers or anything, right?” I chuckled nervously.

“I won’t say a word if you ladies don’t want me too.” he nodded. “I don’t have a partition but I was young once. I understand. The bet is safe with me. I’ll turn up the radio so I really can’t hear exactly what it is. Then I can say I had no idea if they find out.” He smiled at me through the rear view mirror.

“You are like the coolest.” Skylar said. “I’m Skylar by the way.”

“Thank you Skylar.” Ted smiled at her.

“I’m Scarlett but you can call me Scar. I can already tell you’re gonna be awesome as fuck.”

“Thanks, it’s good to meet you Scar.” He chuckled.

“Piper! I’m Piper!”

“Nice to meet you, Piper.” Ted was so cool. “Now I’m turning that radio up.”

“Dude he’s awesome.” I giggled as the radio volume increased.

“Right? So anyways, what’s this bet going to be?” Scar asked.

“Well nothing that will ruin our friendships or break up the band…” I trailed.

“What 18-20 year old boy doesn’t like sex?” Piper blurted out.

“They all do.” I laughed.

She raised an eyebrow at me.

“Piper. Come on.” I laughed.

“Well I’m just saying, the first girl to land a member of 5 Seconds of Summer, in bed, wins.” She shrugged.

“Fucking Christ, I thought Piper was our good friend.” Scar joked.

“So we just go in and try to sleep with any one of them?” Skylar asked.

“No, we should pull names or something. That way it’s completely fair, no bias.”

“I don’t know about this guys.” I sighed. “One of you would be trying to fuck my brother. That’s weird.”

“And you’ll be trying to fuck one of your brother’s friends, what’s the difference?” Scarlett shot back at me.

“Okay fine.” I rolled my eyes. “I’m in.”

“I’m in too.” Skylar nodded. “Scar?”

“OBVIOUSLY! I love hot boys and sex.” She giggled. “So how do we pick?”

“Ummm…” we all looked at each other.

“I have this old receipt in my purse and a pen. We can write the names and then mix them up and all take one.” Piper said.

“Good idea.”

We watched as Piper wrote the guys names on the pieces she had ripped off of the paper. I was very apprehensive about this bet. I sort of liked Calum so I was secretly hoping to get his name. I wanted to enjoy this trip and I knew the bet would make it interesting. I was just afraid of hurting anyone.

Piper was finished writing the names so she mixed the folded up pieces of paper and set them on the middle console, between the middle row of seats. “How do we decided who picks first?”

“Rock, paper, scissor.” Scar smirked.

We put our hands in the middle, knowing the drill. We did this all the time. We counted down and threw our choice of weapon. Skylar won the first round, meaning she picked first. We watched as she pondered over which paper to take. She finally decided. We all sat, watching with anticipation.

“Michael.” She smirked. I let out a shaky breath, there was still hope I’d get Calum.

We played the second round, which I conveniently won. I smiled as I decided which paper to pick. I had a 1 and 3 chance of getting Cal. This technically could only turn out one of two ways for me, I’d pick Cal or Luke, and if I’d picked Ashton, I’d still end up with Cal or Luke. Those were my only options since Skylar picked first. I smiled, taking the paper in between my fingers. I unfolded and frowned.

“I got Luke.” I said.

“Why are you frowning? Luke is the hottest one.” Piper rolled her eyes. “Ohhhhhhhh….Calum!”

“Shut up, Luke is fine. I don’t even like Calum.” I shrugged; there it was that not caring façade.

Scar won next. She picked her paper up, smirking devilishly at me as she unfolded it. I didn’t even need to ask if she got Ash or Cal. I knew.

“Fuck off.” I said, closing my eyes. She’s the last one I wanted getting Ashton. “Don’t hurt him.”

“I won’t, I promise.” She licked her lips. “Your brother is so friggin hot.”

“Ew.” I rolled my eyes. “Looks like you get Cal, Piper.” I smiled.

“Okay!” she said. Everyone knew I had a thing for him so I was sure she was hiding how she really felt.

“So what’s in it for the girl who wins?” I asked.

“I don’t know. Whoever wins can decide when the time comes.” Piper shrugged.

“That’s fair.” We all agreed.

“I can’t believe Piper masterminded this.” Skylar shook her head.

“Neither can I.” I laughed.

The rest of the car ride was silent. I wasn’t sure what the other girls were thinking, but I was just tired. Ted had told us we were there and we all hopped out of the car. We stretched our legs a bit, watching as the guys walked over to us. With the bet all fresh in our minds, we sort of smirked at one another. Luckily, we’ve all hung out before so it wasn’t like we were throwing strangers at one another.

“Good morning, sunshines!” Calum said as they reached us.

“You already greeted us an hour ago.” I said through my yawn.

“But what if I like saying hi more than once?” he pouted.

“Whatever.” I waved him off.

I fetched my purse from the car, digging around in it. I found the baggie of brownies I had brought with me. I broke the first one into four pieces. I handed each of the girls a piece, they smiled knowingly. We eat them happily.

“Hey! None for us?” Calum asked.

“I mean if you want?” I said, he either didn’t know they were ‘special brownies’ or he was into that, which would be sick.

“Yes, we all want.” He took the bag from my hand. There were 4 brownies left. I watched as he broke one in half and handed the other half to Luke. There was a lot of weed in those. That’s why I split one between the four of us girls.

We all looked at one another as they swallowed. They would be high as hell in about 15 minutes. Ashton finally joined our little powwow. His eyes went wide when he saw the baggie in Cal’s hands.

“Dude, please tell you only ate a small bit of those.” Ashton asked.

“I split one with Luke. They were good. I want another one.” He laughed.

“Cal. My sister made those.” Ashton said.

“So? She bakes, that’s cool.” Cal shrugged. Suddenly, Luke got the point.

“SHE BAKES.” Was all Luke said, looking at Ashton.

Calum’s eyes went wide. “Did we eat a lot? Like are we going to feel it?”

I looked at him like he was retarded. He just ate a full half of a weed brownie and he was wondering if he would feel it. The way I made these brownies, the girls and I could have each split our pieces in half again and still felt it. They were going to be gone.

“You’ll feel it alright.” I giggled. “I don’t make anything weak.”

“I’ve never gotten high before.” Luke ran a hand down his hand.

“Dude, I have but probably not Kenz high.” Calum chuckled, nervously. “There’s only weed in these, right?”

“Probably. I was pretty ripped when I made them so who knows.” I laughed.

“Fuck me.” Luke said. I took this as an opportunity to start the bet.

“Maybe later.” I said in a whisper as I walked past him. I looked over my shoulder to see him staring after me. I added a wink just for good measure. I wasn’t crazy about the bet, but I wasn’t one to lose.

I ran into Michael before I had turned my head back around. “Jesus. Sorry.”

“It’s okay, what’s going on over there?” he asked, chuckling.

“Calum and Luke ate a brownie and they didn’t know it was ‘special’.” I laughed.

“You have weed brownies and you didn’t offer me one?” he looked offended.

“Mikey chill, there’s plenty.” I laughed. “Let’s go get you one.”

We walked back over to the group, taking the bag from Calum. He wouldn’t need those. I broke a piece off big enough to get Michael stoned. Mikey and I sort of bonded over smoking once. It was back when I first met him. I was chilling in the garage before they had a practice just jamming stoned as shit on his guitar. I quickly apologized because I knew I didn’t like anyone touching mine. He said it would all be chill if I let him hit my blunt. I did and after that we sort of just understood one another. The rest of the guys came in to find us rocking out together, blitzed out of our minds. It was one of the nice memories I had of Ashton joining the band.

“So when do we go to Amsterdam?” I chuckled.

“Oh baby sis, how I pray for you.” Ashton laughed.

“I saw you eat a little piece.” I rolled my eyes.

“Fuck you.” he laughed, flipping me off. “Let’s go board this fucking plane and get to wherever it is we’re going.”

“South America.” Michael mumbled. “Somewhere in South America.”

“Who’s sitting by who?” Calum asked, looking at me.

“I call Luke!” The guys looked at me shocked. I suddenly felt like that was a bad idea. They had no idea about the bet. I quickly thought of an excuse. “You know cause he’s never gotten high before and I wanna watch so I can laugh at him.”

Everyone laughed, except Calum, at my lame excuse but bought it. I felt bad, I wanted to sit by Cal too but I just couldn’t. I wouldn’t let my feelings get in the way of this bet. I would stop at nothing to win. It was game on.

Notes

hi pretties, so there you have it. it's on. the bet is on.

don't hate me for not giving her Calum. that wouldn't have been any fun.

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