Alan’s point of view
It was 2pm when everyone walked out of their bedrooms. Well, everyone apart from Austin and Victoria.
“You guys slept in!” I winked at Aaron, Tino and Phil as Aaron sat on the lounge chair on the left of me and Tino and Phil sat on the lounge opposite me.
“We needed it.” Phil said yawning.
“Why? We all went to bed at like, 6am.” I said, “Usually we get up around 11am, or noon.”
“You didn’t hear what went down in Victoria’s room at like 8:30 in the morning?” Aaron said, rubbing his eyes and stifling a yawn. I shook my head slowly, signifying that I had not heard.
“Panic attack, big one.” Aaron said sadly.
“Poor thing was shaking like a leaf, she didn’t even know she was shaking until Jen pointed it out to her.” Phil said solemnly as well.
“But the worst part, the worst part was the tears. Her eyes were all like, wide and panicked, like extremely panicked, and these tears just would not stop.” Tino said, as he put his head in his hands.
“Her voice though, that was pretty bad as well. We were all woken up by screaming, I thought one of the other guys was doing it with his girl but then I realized that the scream was like, the screams, man, I don’t know how to explain it, I could just tell that they were out of fear. So I woke up the rest of the guys and after a bit we realized it was from Victoria’s room so we ran in there and it took ten minutes to wake her up.” Aaron said with such a sad voice, his heart was breaking for Victoria.
“The worst for me was when Austin was trying to tell her to breathe, but she was trying to talk but she couldn’t. But eventually she said she can’t” Amanda sat down on Aaron’s lap.
“I hope she’s okay, Austin stayed the night in her room.” Anouk said as her and Jen sat next to their boyfriends.
“Holy fuck, that’s rough. I don’t know how I slept through that.” I said, rubbing the back of my neck awkwardly. Truth is, I did hear the screams, I just thought that they were in my dream.
“So dude, Lauren? What’s the deal there?” Tino asked me.
“I-” I started to speak but I heard footsteps coming down the hallway and I just knew that they belonged to Lauren. Fucking hell! I needed to hurry up and tell the guys that I didn’t like her, she’s threatening me with suicide! I mouthed ‘later’ to the guys and they nodded at me as Lauren came skipping into my lap.
I don’t think I could feel my legs. Lauren turned around to give me a big suffocating kiss. She hadn’t brushed her teeth yet and I gagged.
“What’s wrong baby?” She said in a baby voice with concern.
“Just feeling a bit sick.” I said, with no emotion.
“Off to bed with you! Can’t have my Ally-Cat getting sick before his show!” She said, once again like a child as she tried to drag me off of the couch.
“No, I kind of want to see Victoria when she comes out.” I said to Lauren, who’s face morphed into anger.
“Victoria?” She spat out in disgust, “Why?”
“Because she wasn’t feeling great last night and I want to see how she is.” I said angrily back, causing Lauren to turn on her heel and walk away to our room, slamming the door behind her.
“Speaking of Victoria, we’re gonna go check on her.” Amanda said as she and the other girls got up to see Vic. Which left me alone with the boys.
“Is it ‘later’ yet?” Tino asked me.
“You guys have to fucking help me.” I said quickly.
“You drunkenly agreed to be her boyfriend?” Phil asked.
“Not exactly.” I said slowly and shamefully.
“What happened then?” Aaron asked.
“Well I know Lauren because of a friend of mine that lived in Orlando and so when Lauren heard that I was going to be in Orlando, she got my number off of my friend and started messaging me so I messaged back, trying to be nice. She wanted to meet up in Orlando but I kept on giving excuses. Then when we went out, I saw her and I was a bit bummed because Victoria has been giving me the cold shoulder ever since we slept together so Lauren was just there and I was alone and vulnerable and not to mention very drunk, so when she started flirting with me, it felt nice to flirt back and to be wanted so I ended up taking her back to the bus and we slept together. Then when I finally got her off of the bus, Victoria came back from the BMTH bus and then Lauren started messaging me and basically I agreed to be her boyfriend, but only because she threatened to kill herself, and I don’t want to be the reason for someone to kill themselves.” I explained to the guys.
“Wait, you slept with Vic?” Tino asked.
“When?!” Phil asked.
“How come we didn’t know?” Aaron asked, offended.
“She wanted it kept a secret!” I said in defence.
“Holy shit man, but what are you going to do about Lauren?” Tino asked.
“Fake your death?” Phil laughed.
“I have a good idea!” Aaron said.
“Care to share?” I asked.
“Buy a ticket back to Orlando, pretend to have a massive fight with all of us, leave, tell Lauren to board and that you’ll be there in a second, because one of us will call you and then she boards, you don’t, plane leaves, you’re safe.” Aaron explained.
“That could actually work.” I nodded my head.
“Or why don’t you just dump her?” Tino asked.
“Because I don’t want her to threaten me with suicide! So when she gets on the plane, I’ll just say that was the boys calling, they need me back on tour, I have to do it for my fans. And then I’ll tweet her saying that my phone was stolen and then I’ll never talk to her again!” I rubbed my hands together evilly.
“Shall we start arguing?” Phil said, “Need to cause some tension, cause if we have a fight out of the blue she will get suspicious” We all nodded at Phil as I shouted something random;
“I DON’T CARE IF YOU DON’T APPROVE OF LAUREN, I LOVE HER!” I screamed out.
“ALAN, YOU’RE NOT THINKING STRAIGHT. LAUREN ISN’T YOUR TYPE AT ALL!” Phil joined in.
“I DO HAVE A TYPE: MY TYPE IS SMART, BEAUTIFUL, FUNNY AND LAUREN IS ALL THOSE THINGS!” I screamed back.
“ALAN! WE’RE TRYING TO STOP YOU FROM MAKING A MISTAKE!” Tino yelled. I picked up an empty glass from the table and threw it on the floor, causing it to smash.
“I DON’T CARE. LAUREN IS BEAUTIFUL, SHE’S THE ONE. I LOVE HER. AND IF YOU GUYS CAN’T UNDERSTAND THAT THEN FUCK YOU!” I grinned as I silently thanked the boys and ran to my room and saw Lauren sitting on the bed.
“You love me?” Lauren asked.
“Yes baby!” As I kissed her.
In reality I was kissing Lauren, but in my mind, I was kissing Victoria.

Notes

not 100% happy with this chapter but I wanted Alan to start figuring out a way that he could ditch Lauren!