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She's Into Drummers

Chapter 13: Smile Real Wide For the Paparazzi

As we were flying to New York to meet the rest of the band for their show tonight, I couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Maybe leaving to go on tour with Ashton wasn't the smartest decision, but I'm so happy to be doing it. I was staring out the plane window when I felt Ashton grab my hand and rub the back of it with his thumb. I look over and smile at him and he smiles back at me. This boy makes me so insanely happy.
"What are you thinking about?" Ashton asks me.
"I don't know. I started off thinking about my family and then my mind started to drift. Then I started thinking about how happy you make me." I responded, holding his hand in both of mine. Ashton responded by giving me a kiss on the cheek. I rested my head on his shoulder and started to drift off into a sleep. Everything felt so perfect. Where I am right now, is where I always wanna be; cuddling into Ashton, breathing in his sent, and just taking in his presence.

I awoke to Ashton's soft voice.
"Ella, we've landed it's time to go." I opened my eyes and rubbed the sleep out of them. I saw people getting off the plane and for a second I forgot where I was. Ashton takes my hand as we get up and leave the plane. On our way to the baggage claim there were not-so-very-subtle paparazzi around. They were taking pictures of us and following us around the airport. Ashton didn't seem phased, but this was my first paparazzi encounter and it was kinda scary.

When we were walking out of the airport, a small group of girls, around my age, approached us.
"Excuse me, Ashton, could we get a picture with you?" said a blonde girl who was wearing clothes that were way too revealing.
"Yeah, sure" He smiles at the girls, releasing my hand. The blonde girl shoves her phone at me without even asking for me to take the picture.
"Yeah, sure I'll take a picture of you guys, no problem." I mumbled under my breath, but Ashton heard and let a little chuckle. The blonde girl was next to Ashton and getting a little to close to him, if you ask me. It didn't even look like a picture with a fan, it looked like she was posing for a picture with her boyfriend. I gave an uncomfortable looking face and quickly took the picture, returning the phone back to the girl. They said bye to Ashton, each hugging him and giving him a kiss on the cheek. I know I shouldn't be jealous because I was the one dating him, but I couldn't help it. They were all over him; my boyfriend, keyword MY. Once they left, Ashton took my hand in his again.
"I'm really sorry about that. I can tell that was a little weird for you, but they're my fans I can't just say no."
"No, I get it. It's fine, really."
Ashton then let go of my hand to put his arm around me and gave me a kiss on the cheek, which was so comforting and exactly what I needed right now.

There was a car waiting for us outside the airport and we got in before it took us to the hotel we were staying at. Once we arrived, there was paparazzi outside our car, but there was way more than at the airport and this time they were surrounding us. Ashton kept his arm around me the whole way inside as we kept our heads down. They were all in our faces, asking Ashton, "Who's this girl?" "Is this your girlfriend?" "Are you bringing her on tour?" and asking me "Are you the girlfriend?" "What's it like dating a famous drummer?" "Is it true that you met at one of his shows?". We both just ignored all of them and made our way inside.

"Are you okay?" Ashton asked me once we got inside.
"Yeah, I'm fine. That was just a little...different." I laughed.
"It's never been that crazy before."
We made our way to our hotel room and once we were settled we heard a knock at the door. It was Michael. It was still a little weird seeing him and trying not to fangirl cause that would just be weird.
"Hey guys, what's up?" He said walking in and laying on our bed.
"We just got here and the paparazzi was crazy outside. It's never been that many people before." Ashton said as he and I sat down next to Michael. Michael gave him a confused look before going to the window and looking down at the street full of photographers.
"Holy shit."
"I know, there's so many of them."
"There weren't that many when me, Luke, and Calum showed up."
"Really? That's weird, how long ago did you get here?"
"Like ten minutes before you. It's probably because of Ella." I was surprised when I heard my name come up.
"What? Me? Why?"
"Well, Ashton's the only one with a girlfriend. They probably saw you at the airport or something and followed you here." Michael said, still staring out the window.
"That's creepy." I responded causing Ashton and Michael to laugh at my reaction.
"Nah, paparazzi does that kind of stuff all the time." Ashton said. There were more knocks on the door so Ashton got up to answer it and it was Calum and Luke.
"Guys, we have to leave in like 10 minutes for an interview." Calum said when the door opened. "Oh hey Ella." Calum said after spotting me.
"Hey Calum." I responded.
"So fix yourselves, because you're looking at a little scary." Luke joked at Michael and Ashton.
"Ha .Ha. Very funny." Michael yelled from the window. All the boys except for Ashton left the room to quickly get ready.
"Should I stay here? I don't want to be in the way." I ask Ashton.
"Ella, you're fine. I wouldn't have asked you to come on tour if I was gonna make you sit in a hotel room the whole time." He reassured me and giving me a quick kiss.

When we arrived for the boys interview, it was a very similar to when we arrived at the hotel, only this time, there were fans too. Girls all around, asking for pictures and autographs. A lot of them looked confused and/or angry when they saw me and Ashton holding hands. I guess they had a reason to be confused, we haven't really been seen together yet, no one really knew about our relationship. I could hear them talking about me.
"Who's that bitch holding hands with Ashton?" "When did he get a girlfriend?" "She's not pretty enough for him."
I was honestly really hurt by the things they were saying. I've always been a person who didn't really care what other people thought or said, but there words were affecting me.

During the whole interview I couldn't stop thinking about all the things they were saying. No one's ever talked about me like that; that I know of. I could hear their words replaying in my mind until something the interviewer said that snapped me out of my thoughts.
"So Ashton I see you've brought along a friend."
"Yes, her name's Ella."
"And does this 'friend' happen to be a girlfriend?"
"Uh, ya, we've been dating for a few weeks." He said beginning to blush. He was so adorable.
"Details please." said the interviewer, trying to get some info on our relationship.
"Well, we met backstage at one our shows and I knew the minute I started talking to her, that she wasn't just any other fan. So we exchanged numbers and went out, and here we are."
"Really? So she was just a fan who was meeting the band and now she's dating the drummer. That's crazy! That doesn't happen to every fan."
"No, it doesn't, but I'm glad it happened; I'm really happy with her." Ashton said looking over at me and smiling. I was blushing so much, my whole face was a tomato.
"So will she be joining you on tour?"
"Yeah she will." Ashton beamed. "I'm so excited to have her with me for the next few months. It's hard, you know, being famous and going on tour and not being able to see your family or your girlfriend. Saying goodbye is always the worst, but now that she's coming with me I don't have to say goodbye for a long time and that's awesome." Ashton was grinning like idiot by now.
"Well you make a beautiful couple. "
"Thank you."

Once the interview was over Ashton walked over to me hugging me and giving me a long, sweet kiss.
"That interview's gonna be everywhere by tomorrow." Ashton laughed, with his arms still wrapped around my waist and mine around his neck.
"That was really sweet; what you said about me making you happy and being excited about spending time with me."
"Well it's true. And I could tell you thought it was sweet, I could see you blushing from all the way over there" He said pointing to the seat he was previously sitting in. "These next few months are going to be amazing."
With that I kissed him again, soaking in this moment between us.