Ch. 20 - Proud

                                    

                                          
*Ashton's P.O.V*
                          
"Jace likes All Time Low and You Me At Six doesn't he?" I ask Calum, smirking at him.
                          
"Uh, yeah?" Calum replies, raising an eyebrow in confusion.
                          
"You know they are doing a concert here in LA on Jace's birthday, right?" I say suggestively.
                          
"Hmmm" Calum indicates for me to continue.
                          
"Do you think he would want to go?" I ask.
                          
"Of course" Calum nods.
                          
"And Michael & Luke aren't going to let us take him, are they?" I ask him.
                          
"Nope" he replies simply, shaking his head.
                          
"But we're going to take him anyway, aren't we?" I ask. Calum smirks at me.
                          
"Oh, hell yeah!" He tells me, smiling evilly.
                          
Well our plan was to tell Michael & Luke that we were just taking Jace out for a few hours. Now this plan was working, that was until we took Jace backstage and Mr. Alex Gaskarth unintentionally blabbed us out by texting Michael, asking why we were here with Jace but they weren't.
                          
We got a call from a very angry couple, wanting to know why we took their 7-year-old son backstage to a concert without their permission.
                          
But Jace is having the time of his life, so Michael & Luke aren't going to kill us... This time.
                          
"Again, I'm sorry, I didn't realise that they didn't know" Alex apologises, for the millionth time.
                          
"It's okay, they promised not to kill us" I laugh.
                          
"What do you think of my hair?!" Jace practically shouts at Rian, who was using two pens to drum a beat on the edge of the table they were sitting at.
                          
"It's awesome" Rian laughs, looking at the blue Michael had put in Jace's hair for his birthday.
                          
"And you got your ears pierced" Jack points out, tapping Jace lightly on the ear as he walks past.
                          
"Yeah!" Jace cheers. Jack chuckles and sits down beside Calum & I on the couch with a small tub of yoghurt.
                          
"I'm starving" Jack tells me as he takes a spoonful of yoghurt and shoves it in his mouth, only to pull a disgusted face straight after. "Yuck! I like the flavour of passion fruit but the seeds, oh god, I hate them" he complains.
                          
"Same" I chuckle as Jack forcefully swallows the mouthful of yoghurt.
                          
"Alex" Jack whines, holding the yoghurt out to Alex. "Can you throw this in the bin?" He asks.
                          
"Fine" Alex sighs as he walks over from the table. Before Alex could take the yoghurt from Jack, Zach literally appears out of nowhere and takes it from him.
                          
"Don't waste it" Zach mutters, yanking the spoon out of Jacks hand.
                          
"Sorry" Jack laughs, watching Zach take a seat beside Jace.
                          
"You came out of nowhere" Jace points out, causing us all to burst out laughing.
                          
*Calum's P.O.V*
                          
I'm just laying in bed listening to Marianas Trench, staring up at the spinning fan above me as I sip my vanilla coca-cola that I got after the concert.
                          
"And I'm begging you,
                          
Bring me back to life,
                          
I just can't stand leaving you hear tonight.