Alicia’s POV:

The morning sun hit my face through a crack in my curtains, causing me to wake up in irritation. Groggily I looked over to my side, finding Trixie sleeping peacefully with Jasper at the foot of the bed, curled up into a ball like a cat. I wiped the sleep dust from my eyes and tried to remember what had happened last night but upon coming up with nothing I shook my head and got off the bed. There was no noise coming from the entire flat so I decided to have a shower. Whilst I was in there I tried again to remember what had happened the night before but my brain couldn’t quite grab onto anything that happened after I started dancing. Had I really gotten that drunk? Usually I remembered bit of what happened the morning after but never did I forget everything. I got out of the shower to find Letha sat on the counter top, swinging her legs and examining her long white hair.
“You know it hurts me too when you get hung over.” She whined, throwing her head back dramatically and peeping at me through her eye lashes.
“I’m so not in the mood right now Leth! I just want to take some pain killers and rest okay?!” I mimicked her tone, not having the patience for her antics. I began to brush my teeth as she continued to watch me.
“I wouldn’t take any pain killers. At least not until you’ve spoken to Danny.” She warned. I finished brushing my teeth and looked at her, staring into her purple eyes. Ignoring her I walked out of the bathroom, got changed into a baggy black sweatshirt and purple leggings. When I opened my door to walk out I almost tripped over the sleeping figures of Ben and Sam outside of my door, stepping over them I made my way into the kitchen. There was a shuffling noise in the kitchen and I peeked round to find a person stood there. This person had their back to me and the only distinguishing feature I could see was their long black hair. Grabbing the nearest thing to me I wasted no time in throwing it at the stranger, causing the said person to turn in shock. It was my turn to be in shock for I was staring at Jeremy Ferguson, most commonly known as Jinxx. He looked down the floor and picked up the object I threw at him.
“Did you just throw a spoon at me?” He asked, his American accent pulling me out of my state of shock.
“Maybe… Maybe not.” I shrugged. Still having no Idea how he got here I moved around him with caution, grabbing myself a bowl for cereal. “So uh… whatcha doing in my flat?” I tried to sound casual but I’m sure it didn’t come out that way. Luckily he just laughed.
“We decided to come to England early before Download fest, called up Danny saying we needed a place to stay and here we are…” It was the simplest explanation I’d ever heard. My mind went back to the text Jasper had sent me last night, telling me about the ‘surprise guests’.
“Yeah, I remember Jasper sending me a text last night. Sorry I freaked.” I apologized, feeling quite bad now. Especially since I was a huge Black veil brides fan.
“Speaking of last night; what do you remember of it?” There was a slight hint of caution in his voice, as if he was being careful with his words.
“Not a lot… why? What did I do?” Alarm rose in me, fearing I’d done something incredibly stupid to embarrass myself.
“You didn’t do anything, I was just curious! I better get this to Sammi.” He gestured to the cup of Coffee that was in his hand and scampered off to the guest bedroom. With a shrug I continued to get my favourite cereal, cookie crisp.
There was no space to sit in the living room. We had two sofa’s, both of which were occupied by CC and Ashley whilst Andy and Jake shared the double blow up bed. Since I was blaming this on Danny I made my way into his room with my breakfast. He was sprawled out on his stomach, snoring loudly with Cameron and James on his floor. I plonked myself down on his bed and ate my cereal, munching loudly and staring at him; immediately I was joined by Lucy and Bella. It took a few minutes until he began to stir, lifting his head to look at me in morning confusion.
“What the fuck are you doing A?” He grumbled, moving himself into a sitting position.
“Black veil brides are taking up the space in the living room and I threw a spoon at Jinxx.” I told him, my voice sounding quite formal.
“You’re a special kind of weird.” He looked at me strangely before hugging me. “How are you feeling? What do you remember from last night?” He bombarded me, taking my face into his hands and looking at me with concern.
“I’m okay, just achy all over and not a lot really. Both you and Jinxx are acting weird D.” I pulled my face from his hands and finished my bowl as he got up to put jogging bottoms on over his boxers. “Why does it matter what I remember from last night? I just got drunk.”
“Was just wondering.” He came and sat next to me again, pulling me into his arms. “I was thinking we could travel down to sea life today? Get everyone out and show then what London’s all about.” Danny suggested. Recently Danny and I hadn’t really spent much time with each other, what with him being busy with the band. Unfortunately I had no job, the only thing I did was take dance classes and also teach them. My illness meant that, right now, I couldn’t hold a job down so Danny was our main income whilst I had ESA payments.
“Okay, I’ll start waking people up.” I bounded of the bed in excitement. I grabbed my laptop from my room, waking up Jasper in the process and then moved silently to the living room. Quietly I hooked them up to the huge speakers we had. Once everything was working I put everything on full volume, got comfy on the floor and watched havoc commence as I played ‘Dear insanity’ by Asking Alexandria. CC fell to the floor in shock, Ashley scrambled to his feet and shot into the corner whilst Andy also flew to his feet, posing like a ninja and Jake just looked up at the speakers in approval. Andy was about to say something when Ben and Sam came running down the hallway.
“The fuck is going on Al?!” Sam panted. Jeez they were out of shape.
“Danny asked me to wake everyone up.” I told them all innocently with a shrug off my shoulders.
“Do you always wake people up this way?” Andy grumbled, sitting back down on the bed. Ashley came out from the corner and CC looked up from the floor.
“Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. I could have been cold water but this seemed more sufficient.” I smiled evilly. Andy looked at me horrified, he leaped over the sofa and made a cross out of his fingers to me.
“No cold water! Bad short thing!” He hissed at me.
“Well aren’t you happy I took the music route then.” I asked as I wandered into my room to get dressed; leaving them to figure out how to stop the blaring music.
I decided on my ripped black skinnies, red tank top with a black and white cheque shirt that used to be Danny’s over the top. Only a light coat of mascara and eye liner was applied today whilst I let my hair fall naturally in gentle waves with a simple black knit beret on. After checking I had everything in my shoulder bag I grabbed my combat boots and walked into the living room, watching the guys clamber over themselves to get to the bathroom.
“Hurry up Andy!!!” I heard Sammi yell as she pounded on the main bathroom door. There was no one else in the hallway so I felt it safe to tell her that she could use my en-suite. She hugged me in thanks and scampered off. I walked in to find Ashley trying to straighten his hair without a mirror so I took the straighter from him and worked my magic.
“You could have burnt yourself Purdy boy!” I scolded him, doing the back of his hair.
“Not my fault that Andy’s taking forever in the bathroom and Danny’s breathing down our necks to hurry up!” He grumbled. “And at least I’m not trying to put eye shadow on without a mirror!” I looked over to CC who was failing miserably.
“Christian, put the brush down!” I demanded, turning off the straighteners. “Sorry for waking you up so brutally but it had to be done” I apologized to Ash, finishing his hair with some hairspray.
“That’s alright sweet cheeks.” He said, causing me to blush as I shuffled over to my favourite member of the band. After removing CC’s attempt I gently applied the eye shadow again, smudging it into his eye lids and a bit under his eyes.
“Not even I can put on eye makeup without a mirror Chris” I finished up to find him looking at me in a way I couldn’t quite place.
“How are you feeling?” He asked with concern. What is it with people asking me this today?
“I’m okay, how about yourself?” I played it out.
“Jet lagged and now we have to move.” Chris yawned and stretched.
“Well if we let you sleep then you’re sleeping pattern would get out of whack! Plus Sea life is my favourite place. So everyone has to come.” I beamed, dancing on the spot with excitement. At that moment Andy came out of the bathroom and chaos ensued again as everyone dived towards it. Not waiting to see how this played out, I squeezed past them and made it safely to my Bedroom. Trixie was sat at my vanity table doing her full face of makeup whilst Sammi was deciding what to wear. Suddenly I felt very self-conscious with only my mascara and eyeliner so I joined Trixie and put on foundation. I get this a lot. Trixie was flawless, someone who didn’t even need make up and Sammi was perfect, with this natural punk beauty. Together she and Jinxx made an amazing couple. Just then Andy burst through the bedroom door and stood next to me.
“You’re short. Practically half of my height.” He deducted, measuring where I came up to on him; turns out I come just below his bicep.
“No, you’re just freakishly tall!” I quipped back, used to people mentioning my height.
“From now on I shall call you half pint!” Andy announced before leaving the room when he saw Sammi was only in a towel and glaring at him. She finally decided what she was going to wear and skipped off to the bathroom.
“I don’t think my brain has processed that Black veil brides are in my house…” I confessed to Trixie who smirked in response
“Don’t you mean you can’t believe CC is in your house?” She teased, knowing that I found CC extremely attractive. I flipped her off as I left the room, her laugh following me down the hall. They guys were now sitting on the sofa or in the kitchen. Not in the mood to sit on the floor I plonked myself onto the nearest person’s lap. That person just so happened to be CC. His hands went around my waist, causing me to immediately relax into his slender frame. His breathe was on my hair and I curled in his lap. James caught my eye and raised an eyebrow in question at me, I blushed for the second time that morning and sank even more into CC. His embrace was relaxing, it made me feel safe. Once Sammi was ready we all left, I liked the feel of CC’s touch so I took his hand as I skipped out of the house, dragging him behind me. We were going to take the tube instead of driving, I liked taking the tube. Danny and I grew up in York but would often take trips down to London with my father and sister, Kasey, taking the tube was always my favourite part of the day.
The tube was quite busy but nobody recognised the boys and soon I was taking in the streets of London as we walked from the tube station to the aquarium. As we walked over Westminster Bridge I began to dance through the people, laughing my head off. I could hear the group behind me, also laughing. Hands grabbed me and Ashley danced with me, people had to move from our path but that didn’t matter. Moments like this where what I clung onto; these moments of pure bliss. If I didn’t, then I would have nothing. We stopped once we were off the bridge and waited for the rest to catch up. I could feel my high mood building up and by the time we reached Sea Life it had taken over me. Well this was going to be fun!

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