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“Man, I’m hungry.” Seamus complained as he, Jordan and Eddie slumped over their textbooks. They’d been studying all night and in their panic to ensure they’d learnt everything, they’d forgotten about dinner. Now, at 3am, Seamus’ stomach was making sure he was paying for it.

“I’ll go get you something.” Eddie piped up as he quite happily dropped his pencil.

“What do you want?” Jordan asked at the same time and Seamus missed the glare the two shot at each other. The blond shrugged as he nibbled at the end of his own pencil.

“I don’t know, I just fancy food – you know?” Seamus murmured.

“I can cook you a pizza, I’ve got some in my freezer.” Eddie said as he jumped to his feet.

“No one wants your leftover pizza Eddie,” Jordan said snidely, “I can order us some take out.”

“But I don’t have any money.” Seamus sighed, he’d emptied his bank account earlier that week and he didn’t expect any money anytime soon.

“I’ll pay.” Jordan and Eddie said in unison.

  Seamus laughed at their eagerness and he shook his head,

“If you want, I promise to pay you back.” Seamus grinned. Both of his friends scoffed.

“Don’t worry about it.” Eddie said as he patted Seamus’ knee. Jordan frowned at the contact.

“Consider it my treat.” Jordan smiled as he leaned over to wrap an arm around Seamus’ shoulders.

“All right, all right – just hurry up and order it before I die.” Seamus complained as his stomach vocally cried out. Eddie laughed and tickled Seamus’ stomach playfully before he stood to leave so that he could grab a menu he knew he had left in his dorm.

“Eddie, where are you going?” Jordan asked as he pressed something on his phone.

“Uh, I’m going to get the menu?” Eddie scoffed.

“It’s all right, I’ve got it here.” Jordan lifted his phone, “Seamus, what pizza do you want?” Jordan asked and Eddie scowled at the back of his head.

  oOo

  By the time the pizza came, all three boys were ravenous. Jordan received it from the delivery guy and paid, called it his treat. Eddie frowned at the gesture but he quickly smiled when Seamus looked at him. In one hand, the blond held a piece of pizza and he moaned around the bite he’d already taken from it.

“Is it good?” Eddie laughed as Seamus crawled towards him. Seamus nodded.

“It’s so good, here, try some.” Seamus ordered as he thrust the pizza towards Eddie’s face. Jordan watched jealously as Seamus balanced himself with a hand upon Eddie’s chest and slowly fed him a piece of his pizza.

“Hey, I want to try some!” Jordan cried out as Eddie chewed around his bite of pizza and flashed Seamus a thumbs up. Seamus looked at Jordan oddly.

“The box is right in front of you dude, just take a piece.” Seamus laughed as he fell on his ass and into Eddie.

  Eddie casually wrapped an arm around Seamus’ shoulders and pulled him close. The blond hummed in content at the warmth and the tastiness of the pizza. Jordan was enraged as Seamus settled against Eddie with a smile.

“Let’s not study anymore.” Eddie suggested as he stared forlornly at their books.

“Yeah, let’s watch a movie.” Jordan suggested and Seamus’ eyes lit up.

“Yes! We should watch that one horror you and I watched, fuck, what was it called?” Seamus looked to Jordan for help. Jordan, of course, remembered the movie because Seamus had got so scared that he’d ducked under Jordan’s arm and hadn’t returned from underneath it until the movie was over.

“You hated that movie.” Jordan laughed.

“Yeah but Eddie hasn’t seen it.” Seamus shrugged and Jordan sighed, of course he’d been thinking of Eddie.

  oOo

  As the movie started, the three boys huddled together. Seamus, of course, was in the middle by request. He still had the pizza box upon his lap and he was picking at it idly.

“I can’t believe I’m letting you make me watch this again.” Seamus groaned and he leaned against Jordan’s shoulder. Jordan scoffed and rolled his eyes at the boy.

“We’re watching it because you wanted to!” Jordan reminded him and Seamus shrugged.

“Yeah, but stil.” Seamus muttered and he wriggled to get comfortable. Eddie was a little annoyed he’d chosen Jordan’s shoulder to pillow his head but he daren’t say anything when Seamus was so content.

“Am I going to get scared?” Eddie asked because he wasn’t always so good with horror movies.

“Definitely.” Jordan smirked unkindly.

“It’s okay, I’m here.” Seamus murmured and he grabbed Eddie’s hand.

  “You’re not going to be much help if you got scared last time too.” Eddie pouted but he curled his fingers around Seamus’ hand all the same.

“We’ve got Jordan.” Seamus said tiredly as his eyes began to droop. Perhaps he wouldn’t make it through the movie after all.

“Like Jordan would comfort me.” Eddie scoffed as the title credits began to roll. He shuffled just a little closer to Seamus when the eerie music started to play.

“Of course I would,” Jordan offered nicely, “I’d just comfort Seamus first.”

“Don’t be mean,” Seamus hit Jordan’s shoulder. “Maybe you should be in the middle to comfort us both.” Seamus suggested and Jordan and Eddie shook their heads adamantly.

“No, I’m fine.” Eddie murmured.

“Yeah, we’re perfect as we are.” Jordan said into Seamus’ hair.

  “No, really – it’d work out better. You could comfort us both then.” Seamus beamed and he untangled himself from the two other boys.

“Seamus,” Eddie whined when Seamus dropped his hand, “really, I’ll be fine.” Eddie said as Seamus blocked the laptop they were watching the movie upon.

“Nope, c’mon – Jordan can be a pillow for both of us then.” Seamus laughed and he bent down to push at Eddie’s thighs to encourage him to move closer to their friend. “Jordan.” Seamus pouted when the other boy made no move to readjust so that they could sit as Seamus had planned.

“Fine.” Jordan sighed and he shuffled into the spot Seamus used to occupy. Seamus clapped his hands ecstatically. He jokingly pushed Eddie’s head onto Jordan’s shoulder.

“Aw, you look cute.” Seamus giggled before he settled himself on the other side of Jordan.

  Eddie didn’t move because, no matter how much he hated to admit it, the position was comfortable and he was still a little scared of the movie. Jordan didn’t force him off as Seamus settled on the other side of him. Seamus linked his and Jordan’s hands before he leant across him to link Eddie and Jordan’s hands.

“Seamus, what are you doing?” Jordan huffed as Seamus forced him to hold hands with Eddie.

“Holding hands is a comforting gesture.” Seamus told them, which explained next to nothing. When he was sure that Jordan wouldn’t pull his hand away from Eddie’s, Seamus settled back down. But not before linking his own free hand with Eddie’s so that they were all connected.

"Then let’s do something," Jordan hopped off the bed and headed for the bathroom to brush his teeth for the third time that morning. "Oh, I know! We should go sight-seeing! Get a good view of Florida! It’ll awesome, come on Ze, please?"

Ze hummed loudly, “What time is it, exactly?”

"About 8:30, why?"

"WHAT? YOU WOKE ME UP TO GO SIGHT-SEEING AT EIGHT IN THE FUCKING MORNING?! THE CONCERT ISN’T EVEN ‘TIL TEN AT NIGHT!" Ze screamed from the bedroom.

Jordan chuckled. “I thought we could do more stuff before than.”

"Fuck that, I’ll go around eleven. Also, fuck you, Jordan." 

Jordan pouted as he put his shoes on. “Fine. I’ll go have fun on my own.”

"Be back before noon so we can have lunch." Ze mumbled, already beginning to fall back asleep.

Jordan grabbed a key to the hotel room, his wallet, phone, and a camcorder as he left, making sure to slam it particularly hard. He giggled as Ze’s yells could be heard through the thin walls.

He knew Florida was different from Colorado, hot mostly, but he didn’t know it would be this humid. The air felt sticky and despite a small breeze sweeping through, it was still hot as ever.

The heat didn’t stop him from filming every location he went to though. He took some pictures he thought James or Dan would like, filmed himself next to landmarks for Ze to view while they went out to lunch later that day.

It was around 10:30 when Jordan stopped at a dinky little gift shop to rest before heading back to the hotel. He was examining some hats when he heard the cashier gasp and scream.

Immediately he thought she was being robbed. He turned his head to ask what was wrong, but stopped dead in his tracks when he saw who stood at the door.

Sly, lead vocalist and founder of Stuck in Your Radio, was standing not even five feet from him. Jordan was speechless.

"Hey, I haven’t been here in a while, and I’m a little lost, could you show me where the Miami Center is?"

"O-oh, yeah, w-well…" The girl began to shake and her face grew red. "I-I’m sorry! I’m just really n-nervous."

Sly laughed, and wow, hearing it in person is an experience all on its own. “Hey, don’t be so nervous, you’re doing fine.” He hugged her and she began to cry.

She gave him the directions along with a selfie together, and as Sly walked out the door, Jordan began to follow without really thinking about it.

"Uh…" Sly stopped about half a block down the street. "Can I help you, man?"

"I-I just. You’re-you’re-" Jordan stuttered.

"Do you know who I am?" Sly asked.

Not wanting to make an even bigger fool of himself, Jordan simply nodded.

Sly laughed and Jordan was starstruck.

"It’s good to see a fan, but if you wanted to talk to me, you just had to ask." And he smiled at him.

"Yeah, sorry about that.."

"No problem, man. You coming to the show tonight?"

"I dern sure am! Me and my friend have been waiting for this trip all year!" 

Sly squealed. “Ahhh, that’s so cool! I hope you guys enjoy the show; and here,” He handed Jordan two VIP passes. “I was gonna give them away before the show, but you can have them. I can get more to hand out. Go ahead and take them.”

"Th-thank you! Oh my God, this is amazing! Is there anything I can do to repay you?"

"Just show up to show, give me a hug, and take a selfie with me!" Sly smiled.

Jordan was totally going to rub this in Ze’s face.