Through the Lens

After all the craziness that had happened on Friday night, I had told myself it would be best to not act on anymore feelings. I almost kissed Tony Perry! Or, he almost kissed me. What was going through my head at that time didn't matter anymore. Sure, the feelings were still there and I thought he was still sexy as hell, but acting on those thoughts would probably just make things awkward. More awkward, I mean.

It was now Sunday morning and I had to head to the airport to meet my fate... I mean, go on this European tour with the guys.

I laid in my bed, warm under my blankets. My eyes shot open as an alarm went off on my phone. I reached my hand over to shut it off, swiping my finger across the screen a few times and missing at first. Finally, it was silent.

"I'm going to Europe today..." I sighed. I wasn't too sure if I was looking forward to this tour anymore, having made an embarrassment of myself in front of Tony.

That night at the hotel, after we almost kissed, we stayed quiet and mostly apart from each other the rest of the time I was there. Vic was always the first to notice something was wrong. I told him everything.

'Just give it some time... Who knows what will happen.' His words rang in my ear.

I sat up in my bed, my hair was a mess. I had already packed the previous day. There were just a few final things I had to pack, but that was it.

I looked over at my phone again and pressed the home button to look through my notifications to see if Tony had texted me. Nothing.

"I messed up." I sighed.

My phone rang and immediately looked at the screen. It was Vic. I answered.

"Morning." I said, rubbing my eyes with my hand.

"I didn't wake you, did I?" Vic asked.

"No no no. I woke up a few minutes ago." I replied.

"You sound like hell. You're not still bummed about Friday night, are you?"

"Better get used to it, I'm not a morning person... And stop mentioning Friday night. I'm trying to pretend like it never happened..."

"You can't go and pretend you don't like some one just like that. That's not good for you. You'll explode keeping those feelings inside." Vic laughed a bit, trying to keep things on the light side.

"Look, we were drinking and we almost kissed. That's it." I fell back onto my bed and looked at the ceiling. "It's not like we almost had sex or anything..."

"... But we all know you'd want that..."

"VIC!" I laughed at him. He could always cheer me up.

"Hey, just stating the obvious. Anyways, we've got a tour to do, and we can't do it without you. We'll meet you at the airport, alright?" He said.

"Alright. See ya in a bit." I said.

"See ya."

I hung up and looked at the time. It was 10:46am. Time to get out of bed and get ready to go. We had to be there early since it was an international flight.

I sat up once again on my bed and looked to my already packed bags sitting in the corner of my room.

"Here we go, I guess."

After getting ready, doing double and triple checks to make sure I had everything, I brought my 2 bags into the car, keeping my purse and camera bag by my side.

The drive to the airport was short. About 15 minutes. I parked in one of those ridiculously priced lots for long term stay, went through security and finally arrived to the terminal. It was now noon.

Instantly I knew where the guys were due to the small crowd of paparazzi that was gathered by some seats. Camera shutters clicking and flashes flashing, murmuring and a bunch of questions for them about their big tour. I walked over smiling to listen in on the mini interview going on, hiding behind the crowd.

"Vic, there's a rumor going around that you'll be accompanied by a young female photographer on this tour. Can you tell us about her?" A voice said from the crowd. Secretly, it was me. I giggled a bit and couldn't contain myself.

"Rax?" Vic laughed, trying to look through the crowd.

I moved myself to the front and waved to them. "Hey!"

Vic pulled me over and hugged me tightly, swinging his arm around my shoulder. More camera flashes happened and I couldn't wait to see what they made of that.

The crowd of paparazzi began to disperse, thank goodness.

"So, you got here alive and packed lightly. 10 points." Mike smiled.

"Well, I almost didn't make it past that pack of jackals." I laughed, referring to the paparazzi.

The guys all chuckled, even Tony. My eyes looked to him for a moment, but then looked back to Vic.

"You guys eat already? Or are we waiting for airplane peanuts?" I asked, hinting that I really didn't want to be stuck with shitty airplane food.

"Well, we set up something sort of last minute... Actually, Tony did." Jaime started.

"Huh? Okay, so tell me how you're going to poison me." I was definitely skeptical on what was being planned behind my back.

"The flight is private. The kitchen staff is as well. We know your favorite food is Japanese food, sushi in particular. Sooo, Tony wanted to set up something special and out of the ordinary. All you can eat sushi?" Vic explained.

I looked back to Tony, a little confused. "Tony? Why?"

Mike nudged Tony a bit and finally he stood up and looked at me. "You were right when you said you're a photographer. You're our photographer and we appreciate all you're going to be doing for us. You're also our friend now too, so yeah..."

I smiled and started laughing. "So you spoil me with sushi?"

Tony nodded and smirked. "Just don't make me eat any octopus."

Things weren't as bad as I thought they were.

I had sat down with the guys, sitting next to Tony. Things were back to normal. We talked and joked back and forth for a bit. Some passerby fans wanted to take pictures with the guys. I offered to take pictures of them as well and they were all so excited. It's just like how I was when I first met them. I was starstruck. Now it was just normal, like they've been my friends for so long. Funny how that all works out.

Finally, our plane was ready to board at 1:30. Our luggage was taken to under the plane and we began to board, walking down the foldable hallway to the plane. I stopped for a moment and powered my camera on and looked through it, the four guys walking in front of me. I clicked for the shutter to close and then open again. I smiled and continued to skip along behind them as we boarded.

We entered the cabin that had a huge area with some comfy looking seats, some tables, TV's.
I nodded in approval. "Okay, okay... I can work with this." This was pretty awesome.

We all took our seats as we were notified that the plane would be departing shortly. Tony immediately sat next to me, smiling. I leaned back in my seat and looked at him.

"What are you smiling about?" I asked.

Tony leaned over and whispered in my ear. "I'm sorry... About the other night. Just wanted you to know."

"I already forgave you, Tony." I whispered and smiled back.

"Thank God. I didn't know if the sushi was going to get me on your good side at this point." He sighed in relief and leaned back in his seat.

I giggled a bit. "Just a fact about me, sushi will ALWAYS win me over."

"We will departing from the terminal soon and will be on our way to London, England. Please make sure everyone is seated and seat belts are fastened." Our captain announced over the speakers. The plane began to move and back up and got ready for take off. Once we were in position, we accelerated forward and finally the plane lifted off the ground. We flew higher and higher into the sky.

We were on our way.

Notes

Looks like Tony got on her good side... for now! Hope you liked the update and much more to come soon! <3