Icing on the Cake

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***Flashback to February 2013***

We were just about to leave for our first major tour, opening with One Direction. All four of us were in a car, headed to the airport to meet One Direction, get in our buses and start this new adventure.

The energy was high and the excitement and adrenaline was more intoxicating than I had ever felt in my life. We really were kicking off our dream.

Calum’s arm was around me, and I had my head rested on his chest. We drove by my old house on the way out of town, and I thought of my parents, and everything that had happened. I tried not to think of it because I didn’t want anything to take away from this moment.

But that perfect moment was soon going to be shattered as the brutal reality was going to hit us.

We walked into the airport and boarded our plane. This plane was where we were going to meet One Direction for the first time.

Calum and I were holding hands, and it felt so good to hold his hand. We walked on the plane and saw the five of them. We greeted them, they greeted back, we exchanged hugs and hand shakes and fist bumps. But the moment was very uncomfortable. All five band members exchanged awkward glances when they saw Calum and I holding hands.

When our plane landed, we meet Megan for the first time. She was introduced to us as our manager, marketing director and public relations supervisor.

“This isn’t going to fly.” She said to Calum and I, referring to us holding hands.

We were perplexed, and rather disobedient at first to her commanding us to not let anyone know we were dating. We had a moment of freedom, but then it was mercilessly taken away form us. I had quite a few pictures of Calum or Calum and I on my Instagram. Megan told me to "delete some" so it wouldn't be obvious we were dating. I took advantage of the vague request and deleted one. That's why there's so many pictures of Calum right away on my Instagram, but only the occasional one after 2013.

It was that February I posted a picture of Calum “groping” my chest from behind. Megan came and freaked out at me for five minutes over that picture and ordered me to delete it. I did, but then immediately re-uploaded it with Ashton and Michael photo shopped in there to make it look like it was just 5SOS being dysfunctional when really it was Calum and I being a young couple. It’s still on my Instagram to this day.

***END OF FLASHBACK***

Notes

Guys I'm on vaca with the fam. I'm at Medora, famous for its musical that is put on every night every summer, which is rested in the GORGEOUS Badlands of North Dakota. Guys I'm not kidding it's so beautiful. It's almost as beautiful as Luke Hemmings.