/// hi there's a semi important author's note at the end just thought i'd let you know ///

My eyebrows scrunched together in frustration when my music (which happened to be Sex by The 1975, in case you were wondering) faded out, and my phone started ringing in my ears as I walked home from work at 10 at night.

"Hello?" I spoke.

"I've got a proposition for you," Calum started, sounding a bit rushed. I raised an eyebrow.

"Oh?" I tugged at the sleeves of Michael's flannel - which barely left my body I might add - getting slightly nervous due to the tone of Calum's voice.

"Yeah. Luke and I were thinking we could fly you out to the UK."

I stopped walking, almost choking on air.

"Fly me out to the UK?" I repeated blinking repeatedly.

"Yeah! We talked to Ash about it and he thinks it's a great idea. Mike just... he's, oh what's the word..."

"The most clingy when it comes to girls," I sighed, remembering hearing or reading that somewhere.

"Exactly. See, you already know what's up! We could have you surprise him, y'know?"

"Is that a good idea? What if he doesn't want to see me? I mean, after everything I did to him," I waved my hands everywhere as I talked and walked. Cal sighed.

"He's been kind of weird lately. I don't know, he seems sad? He's just kind of out of it. I think he needs some physical affection."

"Well, I can definitely understand that," I chuckled. "We've known each other for nearly 9 months and I lo-, erm, like, him a lot."

"Yeah, sure," Cal scoffed. "'Like'."

"Shut up," I mumbled, my face heating up as I walked up my driveway. "That's not the point."

"I'm pretty sure that's the entire point," he pointed out. I rolled my eyes, waving to my mom once I walked in the house.

"Hi sweetie," she greeted from behind her book on the couch. I grinned at her.

"Hi mom."

"Hi mom!" Cal yelled into the phone, making me yank one of my earphones out cause he was so loud.

"Calum said hi," I rolled my eyes again and my mom laughed.

"You and those Aussie's," she shouted out when I made my way to the kitchen, pulling out some leftover mac n cheese from the fridge. I pulled out my headphones and put my phone on speaker, setting it on the counter.

"Those Aussie's actually want to fly me out to the UK."

"To surprise her boyfriend," Calum added, making my face heat up again.

"He's not my boyfriend!" I squeaked as my mom walked in with her arms crossed over her chest with a smirk on her face.

"Might as well be," she shrugged, making her short brown hair touch her shoulders briefly. "The UK?"

"Yeah," Calum replied before I could.

I bit my lip nervously as I waited for my food to heat up.

Would she let me go?

Technically I'm 18 so I could do whatever I want, but the UK is pretty far away and I'm not sure I'd go if she didn't feel comfortable enough with it.

My mom nodded, pursing her lips and debating.

"The UK," she pondered, squinting her eyes in concentration.

"We promise to take care of her, Ms. Robins," Calum jumped in. "Hell, I'll take care of her myself. We'll pay for everything so you don't have to worry about anything."

"Well," my mom forced a chuckle, which made me even more nervous cause that normally meant something bad was going to come out of her mouth, so to speak. "I do have to worry about my only daughter's plane possibly crashing. I have to worry about her getting bombarded by fangirls or whatever they're called, I have to worry about her getting lost and not having any way to contact anyone. I have to worry about-"

"Mom!" I shouted out, retrieving my mac n cheese from the microwave. "Enough with the Debbie Downer crap, jeez."

"I'm being realistic, Meredith. Those kinds of things could happen!"

"But they won't," Cal interjected.

"You don't know that," my mom snapped at him, then sighed. "I'm just being a mother. I worry, it's my job."

"I know," I nodded, understanding.

"But," she continued. "You are an adult. I can't keep you in this house forever, as much as I'd like to."

"Mom," I whined, rolling my eyes.

"What? It's my job as a mother to keep you safe, and I can't keep you safe when you're all the way in London or something."

Tears pricked my eyes.

She's gonna say no.

And I'm gonna cry.

Cause even though I'm terrified of planes, I'd do anything to meet Michael.

My mom sighed again. "So, I'm putting my faith in you boys to keep my baby safe."

I gasped, clearly not expecting her to be okay with this.

"Holy shit, what?!" I exclaimed, nearly choking on my food. Calum woo-hoo'd in the background, making my mom laugh.

"Just call me when you get there and make sure you take lots of pictures," she said, pulling me in for a hug. I wrapped my arms around her tiny waist.

"World's greatest mom right here," I mumbled, smiling hugely.

I'm going to the fucking UK, holy balls.

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so much for the uploading schedule i had set whoops

hey hi hello holy SHIT we're so close to 9k like i have no words this is amazing kajlaljalfvbgv

•tbh i was kind of thinking about doing maybe a character q&a (including mae, michael, ash, cal, luke, and me!!!) when we hit like 15k????? would you guys participate or like that or something?? IDK LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS THINK•

also if you haven't noticed i changed the cover again and i like this one better i'm happy with this one and i hope everyone else is too

okay so i have AMAZING NEWS!!!!

ALittlePartOfMyHeart has offered to translate this story into french! isn't that awesome?! i'm legit so excited y'all have no idea omfg. she'll be starting it pretty soon (monday-ish i do believe) so i will let y'all know when she starts that and i'll also put the info on the bio thingy of the story when she does start publishing it

some of y'all might have an idea of where the next three(ish) chapters are going tbh i mean it's kind of obvious oops

but can i just say i LOVE reading everyone's comments/messages cause y'all are so funny and make me so happy like it brightens my day when i see you guys comment on the chapters

anyway it's like 1am and i'm exhausted from work and i have a wedding to attend to tomorrow (or today if you wanna get technical) so i hope everyone is doing wonderfully!

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