Chapter 27

(POSTED PICS OF CHARACTERS SO YOU CAN HAVE AN IDEA)

*Payton's POV*Brooklyn goes and sits down next to me, and I sigh and Matt gives me an 'are you okay' look. I told him what happened between me and Brooklyn earlier, so he knows why I've been acting weird lately.

I get out my phone and text Sean who's sitting opposite of us.

•Pap•Pleasseeeeeee switch seats w me

He looks over at me and then back at his phone.

•Sean•No! Do you not see the hottie I'm sitting next to right now?!

•Pap•Matt's sure a hottie

Matt's reading over my shoulder and he bursts out laughing.

•Sean•I'm sure he'd look real cute in the dress the hottie's wearing rn. Shows off his football legs. Sorry pay😪

I give him a glare and he gives me a 'what can I do' shrug.

I look around to see who else I can switch with.

"Please take your seats, and buckle your seat belts. If you could, turn your electronics off or on airplane mode, we will be taking off shortly," the flight attendant says.

Ugh. Missed my chance. Great. I sit down.

"Can we talk?" Brooklyn whispers in my ear.

"What's there to talk about? Honestly," I say annoyed.

Matt's completely oblivious to what's going on, because he plugged his headphones in to watch Brooklyn Nine-nine.

"Look I'm sorry, I know why you said what you did.. and I get that you still don't trust me. I did screw up, but I want to get past that. There was nothing going on between me and the girl from the party.. I didn't even get her name! Please believe me.. I love you so much Payton and I can't lose you over something so stupid," he studied my face to look for a reaction.

"Brooklyn, I forgive you. But we're staying friends," his expression dropped, "I need to know that I can trust you again, and that's gonna take some time. We can start dating again once I feel like I can trust you enough," I explained.

"When will that be?"

"Ask me after the tournament in 3 days." I said and he nodded his head. I stole one headphone from Matt and put my head on his shoulder to watch the show.•••I woke up when I heard an overhead voice, saying something about being on a plane and landing soon..

I realized that I was sleeping on Matt and he was asleep too. I looked over at Brooklyn and he was paying attention to his phone. I started poking Matt's cheek, trying to get him up. He groaned and continued sleeping.

"Matt, get up! We're landinggggg," I whined, shaking him. His eyes finally opened.

"You irritate me." he said and I laughed at that.

"No you loveeeeee me." I said laughing.

"More like tolerate," he joked. I rolled my eyes and got my phone out and texted Sean.

•Pap•How's it going w hottie over there?(;

•Sean•Boyfriend.

•Pap•That's unfortunate😂😂

I couldn't help but laugh, and so did Matt and Brooklyn who were looking over my shoulders.

Our plane landed and we were walking through the airport when the paps somehow caught Brooklyn, Kaden, Matt, Sean and I. Well that was convenient for them. The five of us were walking slightly ahead of the team, so they wouldn't be bombarded with flashes and such.

"Payton! What are you doing to prepare for the London show?"

"Brooklyn, is it true you cheated on Payton?"

"Kaden, are you and Payton together?"

"Payton! How was your birthday spent?"

We just kept walking and ignored every comment. Kaden put his arm around me and pulled me close to get me away from the paps. Flashes always make me really dizzy. I could sense Brooklyn tensing up and out of the corner of my eye I saw his jaw clench. Well we're not dating right now or anything.. This is how I feel when he's with other girls, so he should get over it.

The magcon guys are in San Diego right now for a tour stop, and I've heard that we're staying at the same hotel as them. Since the security's good enough for them, it would be for us too.

We all claimed our luggage and got into shuttles that took us to our hotel. Once we pulled up, I saw Taylor and Cam waiting outside by the doors, with security of course. They were smacking each other, for god knows what, but stopped when they saw the cars pull up.

I got out and ran up to hug Cam and Taylor.

"How've you been Pay?" Taylor asked.

"And Matt," Matt butted in from behind.

"And Sean,"

"Carter too.. been your best friend for a while now?"

"Well obviously he's too in love with Payton to care about that right now," Matt joked and I punched him lightly.

"Nothing's really happened in the last 24 hours since I've last seen you.." I explained.

"Well we're all hanging out tonight, K?" Tay asked.

"Okay," I smiled. This is good, I've missed the guys tons.

We walked in to the front desk to check into our rooms.

"Reservations made for Arsenal," coach said.

"10 rooms, right?" The lady at the front desk asked.

"No.. There should be 11. I called and reserved a room for a last minute joining," coach explained. He was talking about me.

"I'm so sorry, there must of been some confusion, we have you down in the system for 10 rooms, and we're completely booked," the lady apologized.

"That's okay, I can just room with one of the guys," I explained.

"Again, I'm terribly sorry, this type of thing rarely happens here," the lady apologized again.

"That's alright, was just a misunderstanding is all," coach said and the lady gave him the room keys. Turns out a whole floor was just gonna be the team and magcon, for security purposes.

"You can room with me if you'd like," Taylor said.

"Nope," Sean butted in before I could agree to it. Sean's never trusted Taylor since Taylor kissed me once when we were younger. Nothing happened, it's just one of those things that happen when you're younger that don't mean anything.

"You're rooming with Kaden, I trust him more," he said the last part quieter to me.

"Sure," I smiled and we got up to the 43rd floor.

He opened the door and him and Brooklyn came in before me. Wait he's rooming with Brook? Just my luck today isn't it..

"I can sleep on the couch and you can have my bed," Kaden offered.

"No, that's okay, you can sleep on the bed, I don't mind," I laughed.

"With you?" He asked.

"Yeah, why not? I mean we've literally had dozens of sleepovers by now.. what's changed?" I asked, wondering what the big deal was. We're just friends!

"Uh.. yeah you're right," he says. Kay then..

"I'm gonna go hang out with everyone else now, I think they're in Cam's room," I say heading towards the door.

"I'll join you in a little bit after I unpack somewhat," Kaden adds and begins to unzip his suitcase.

"Bye guys," I said finally and left the room. I looked at previous texts and saw that Cam told me that he was in the room all the way down at the opposite end of the hall.

I made my way there, and knocked on the door. Hayes opened the door smiling.

"Hey Payton," he greeted with a hug. "We're all making a YouTube video for Cam's channel," He let me in.

Walking in, I saw Lox, Cam, Nash, Taylor, Sean, Matt and Hayes that led me in all sitting down on the beds and couch scrolling through their phones.

"What video are we all making?" I asked, proceeding to take a seat on the corner of a bed.

"Truth or dare, we all just tweeted out questions." Nash responded.

After a while we sat down and started filming.

"Hey guys, it's Cameron, today I'm here with some people you may or may not know," he laughed and everyone introduced themselves. Kaden walked in mid sentence and walked right into the video, sitting down next to me.

"I'm Kaden." He said extra loud which made me laugh and hit his chest playfully.

"We're gonna be doing truth or dares that you guys sent in, and Nash is gonna be choosing them randomly.. and btw we didn't read through them yet so... probably should have. Anyways lets get to it!" Can continued.

"Alight, first one, Sean," Nash asks.

"I know you have it out for me right now so I'm gonna pick truth," he chuckles. Apparently Sean smack cam'd Nash before we started filming and I missed it somehow.

"Truth: have you kissed another youtuber," he read out loud. "No," Sean said and I was surprised a bit. I love my brother and all but he's a bit of a man whore sometimes, especially when it comes to my friends.

After a few more dares, Carter and a few more guys joined us, and gladly, I haven't been picked on yet.

"Okay this isn't directed toward anyone, but Dare: pick two people to kiss for 10 seconds or longer, make some OTP's happen, counting on you Nash," he laughed as he read it and that humorous expression quickly became a devious one along with everyone else.

Hmmm, I'm thinking Lox and Cam, now that's a power couple.

"I say Payton and Kaden, they're always trending even though they aren't anything," Lox says.

I glare at her before saying anything.

"How about Lox and Cam?" I offer up, hoping people would forget about her suggestion. Kaden agrees with me, but everyone seems unconvinced.

"Nah, I think the people would more rather see Payden happening," Nash smirks and everyone says something along the lines of agreeing with him.

"Fine." I give in. Kaden's my best friend, we wouldn't ever change because of some kiss, not that it matters or anything.

I turn my head to face Kaden, ignoring everyone chanting for it to happen, and we both lean in just until our lips connect.