Tino pulled me into a huge hug and then hugged Beth. The look of familiar shock came over my face, it hadn't disappeared all through the house.
"I'm so confused." I looked around at the faces smiling at us.
"About what?" Alan giggled, giving my hand an extra squeeze.
"Everything. How did you know there was a Starbucks around the corner from my apartment? And why did you bring me and Beth to your house?" I ignored the laughs coming from the rest of the boys.
"Well um.. uh, Austin?" Alan flapped his arms around, he was still cute even when I was mad at him.
"Uhhh, well the.. is that your phone?" Austin gestured to my phone which was now loudly playing 'the depths' The guys from Of Mice & Men now smiling at their own song.

"Hello?" It was my mum.
"Stacey where the fuck have you been, I specifically told you to be home for 7, it's 7.25 and you're not home. Where are you?"
"Um, I'm over a friends?" I wasn't very good at making excuses up.
"Be here for 8 or you're grounded."

I hung up the phone, annoyed. I was 18 years old, living under my mothers roof and she gave me a curfew of 7pm every night. And she threatened to ground me. Fuck this, I'm staying out all night. I'll deal with the consequences tomorrow.

"Austin I'm sorry but is it okay if I stay here tonight? My mum is being a bitch as usual." I never ever asked people if I could stay at their house. Especially not someone like Austin Carlile.
"Um, yeah I mean sure?"
Alan now had his arm draped over my shoulder, hearing every word I said to my mother and he could hear her words too.
"You were explaining something to us Austin." I smiled at him, tapping my foot impatiently.
"Oh yeah well um.." He was mumbling. I never seen Austin look so uneasy.
I looked back up at Alan, he knew I was going to ask him to explain instead but he shook his head violently, letting his cheeks wobble dramatically and made me laugh lightly.

Phil stood up and walked over to me and Beth.
"Fine, I'll explain!" He grinned at Alan and Austin.
"Basically, we have an apartment purely for song writing across the street from you. Austin and Alan spend most of their time there, writing songs and stuff. They came across an Of Mice & Men fanfic on twitter, and since they stayed across from your house, they recognised the character picture was you. And your friend was in the fanfic, and when they seen her as well, they knew it was Beth. They waited for you to post a new chapter and decided to piss around with you and make it real by paying for your pizza and following you. But now they really like you, because they never bring girls back to this house."

Me and Beth stood there, taking every little detail in.
"Jesus christ how long have you had the apartment? I've been writing the fanfic for about 6 months now!" I was relieved that it wasn't some hoax. This was genuine. I trusted Phil like a brother, I only just met him, but I seem to trust him a lot.
Austin had eased up by now, noticing I wasn't pissed off at him nor Alan.
"We've had it for about 2 years now, but we only started using it about 2 months ago." Austin squeezed Beth into his side making her smile.

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We stayed awake until 11pm, getting to know the Pierce The Veil guys better as well as the Of Mice & Men. Pierce The Veil had always been one of my favourite bands. If not the most.

"We seen you about 3 years ago, it was honestly the best night of my life. You guys really did save my life!" Alan had been practically feeding me alcohol since I calmed down but I had started to feel sick.
"That's the best part about it! We didn't save you, our music made you build the strength up to save yourself." Vic smiled shyly at me, he had the most beautiful hair and eyes I had ever seen. And that damn smile was to die for.
"We have another two sets of VIP packages if you want to come to the show next week? We never know who to give them two so we just end up throwing them out. But they're yours if you want them!" Mike stuck his hand in his back pocket of his jeans, revealing 2 laminate cards with 'VIP' written on the front.

Me and Beth squealed excitedly, practically snatching the tickets off of Mike and giggling to each other. I felt 15 again. It was such a good feeling, sitting with Alan Ashby hanging his arm over my shoulder and Vic Fuentes on the other side of me. It was a dream come true.

"Oh, and All Time Low will be there, so they'll keep you company while we're on stage." Jaime rolled in, handing me another glass of whatever the alcohol was. I accepted it with wide eyes looking at Bethany.

All Time Low, Pierce The Veil and Of Mice & Men? This was just getting better and better.

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