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Luke pov:
I woke up because the light from outside was shining directly on my face. As far as I can remember, I closed the blinds last night. Thats weird. I let out a big yawn before opening my eyes, I moved on the bed and it made a little screech. I tried to sleep again, but I couldn't, so I decided to get up. I sat up in bed, opened my eyes lazily and looked around me. I opened my eyes very wide and realized that we were not in the hotel, but in a room that I had never seen before. I get out of the blankets as fast as I can, falling onto the wood floor in the process. Where the hell am i? Maybe a fan kidnapped us last night and brought us to their house. But I don't think so, there are no posters of us anywhere in the room.
A knock on the wooden door brings me out of my thoughts.
"Luke you better be dressed, your father is already going to work, come down so he can drop you off at the university"
"Mom?"
"Yeah?" Liz my mom, my mother, my real mom opens the bedroom door to stick her head in and look at me on the floor.
"Did you just get up?! I'm sorry sir but your father won't wait as long as it takes to get ready you'll have to take the bus or ask Cal to pick you up"
The strange room is no longer strange, it's my old bedroom at my parents' house, maybe I came to visit and forgot, but why weren't there half-open suitcases on the floor? And why did my mother mention the university? I was in the middle of a tour I couldn't just disappear.
"What are you talking about? Why am i here?, Last night I swear i was in my bunk on the tour bus"
"faking insanity won't help you this time, get ready and go to school, you're on your finals, you shouldn't have studied late" She say and close the door behind her.
A vibration between the sheets brings me back to reality, I look for my cell phone between them. 3 missed calls from "Cal-um" I call him back as soon as the vibration stops, he answers on the first ring.
"Please tell me I'm not crazy, and something strange is happening only to me" I say as soon as I put the phone to my ear
"I don't know what the hell is going on, I just woke up because Mali says I'm late for college, COLLEGE?! I'm not going to school, I'm starting to freak out, last night I was in my bunk in the middle of a world tour and today I woke up in my teenage room and I have 32 followers on Twitter!!" I move the phone away from my ear when I hear how his voice was rising as he spoke, desperation filtered into his voice
"Listen this is what we're going to do you get ready and pick me up we'll find the guys and figure it out maybe that's just a collective nightmare"
"Okay, sounds like a good idea I'll pick you up in 5 minutes" he says before hanging up
After 5 minutes, I go down the stairs a little afraid to know who we are going to meet now. Everything looked normal, my mom had this weird look on her face as I moved around the kitchen.
"Calum will come for me, to go to the university, where I go every day, it's not like I have another job or life, right?"
"Eat this sandwich, they're waiting for you outside" Liz mentions leaving a bag with a sandwich inside in my hand as she left the kitchen muttering to what she couldn't understand.
I plop down on the passenger seat of Calum's mom's car as he looks over at me to grab the sandwich bag and take a bite.
"I'm scared I don't know what's happening" is the first thing he mentions when I close the car door. "Mike don't answer his phone"
"We're going home, drive there" I say "I thought it was just a bad dream of mine, but if it happened to you, it happened to him and Ash too."
"ok you're right, maybe it's just a one day thing and tomorrow we'll wake up on the bus and laugh about this, right?" he asks not sounding so convinced
"I hope that's it, you just have to breathe and think about what to do when we're all together"
I stretch my arms to turn on the radio trying to distract us a bit — 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 5𝘴𝘰𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘺𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘵 — song begins to play after the announcer is silent.
Calum looks at me with wide eyes pointing at the radio.
"It's us, if we exist! Why do we go to school?! And if someone is looking for us? Do we have a concert today?" he asks as he carelessly stops in front of Michael's parents' house.
"I do not know"