#5sos pr stunts

[lashton-is-my-drug]

i was at the fonda (night 1) when luke referred to sierra as his wife. however, no wedding band. i'm sure someone else has mentioned that, but i haven't seen anyone else talking about it. this weekend's fashion display by luke in milan..sierra nowhere to be found. he does have a ring on his left hand, but it doesn't seem like a wedding band to me. and if it were, why didn't he have it on at the fonda? rhetorical question. anyhow, this is a very lengthy way to ask your take on it all, and do you think they are married or was it a planned "announcement"..which he didn't seem to make mention of night two?

OK, ready?

Luke saying “my wife Sierra” at his solo show at the Fonda in LA

Pardon the delay in my response, I wanted to wait a beat to see what happened after.

First, Luke was wearing his matching ring with Ash. Ash was wearing his the prior couple of days of events and with fans. Luke hasn’t ever worn a matching ring with her, which therefore there’s nothing to construe as a wedding ring for them. Ever. Luke and Ash have been wearing theirs ever since the band Twitch stream. Check out my various black onyx ring tags. Also, since Youngblood era (stars rings), Luke and Ash have worn various matching rings. They’re sneaky about it. Sometimes they both will wear it, sometimes only Luke, sometimes only Ash. Ash doesn’t wear any rings when drumming.

Released his album with Sony (known for using stunts and people’s personal lives as promotion. Example: all of the Spidermen and Mary Jane’s have “dated”). He’s also managed by Matt Emsell/Ben Evans, who have managed the boys all throughout Modest days.

No article or anything afterwards, which would typically happen with these things…. instead there’s a mystal pregnancy announcement to overshadow it. (Which don’t even get me started on THAT whole thing….)

Luke hasn’t mentioned it anywhere else or made a formal announcement. There was a big deal made about the engagement (along with the standard PR article in People, Ben earning his money) so if the marriage was real, wouldn’t there be one? Luke said some lovely words in his ig post but nothing about any marriage? HELLO?

I truly 100% don’t think they’ll ever get married. Luke and Ash remain devoted to one another. The time is ticking on the Lierra breakup. (Side note: Notice how Ash nor any of the other boys nor anyone on their team nor family members have acknowledged it either??)

Another side note that I find entertaining: I find it very reassuring that the fans actually don’t favor the duet (Older), which was supposed to be this beautiful love PR move between the stunt. Caramel is intensely much better of a song. The gays tend to do a much better job at it. (Hello Elton John and so many others.) Ash would never think of trying to overshadow Luke, like S tried to at London ONO.

Luke’s been flying solo to events ever since the guys were in Aussie. She wasn’t at Fashion Week either. (I’m including video clip proof he was solo.) [Theory: A couple fellow Lashies believe it was some sort of trade off that he had to say the marriage thing at his show so he could be sans Sierra at Fashion Week. Fashion is his. He wants to be himself whenever he can. One day Ash will be next to him though, cheering him on proudly.] Luke has been at events with bandmates, family members (his brother), or is solo ever since they were in Aussie at the end of Take Me Home Tour? Which we need to acknowledge how much Luke absolutely SLAYYYYYED at Fashion Week!! Multiple of different outfits! Get it!!

[Camera flashing warning]

Ash needed to be next to him. 🥺❤️

There’s just so many reasons it was a flat out lie. 

Hey Siri, play “Lie to Me”. Actually, seriously, stream Lie To Me, it’s a banger. Writing credits of Luke and Ash, so, of course it is.

[watermelonsugacry]

2013 Blurbs

It's Not That Simple

YN and Harry being oblivious idiots and lie to their mums on the set of filming their new music video, Story of My Life (2.3k)

Publicist

YN’s character in the Best Song Ever music video.

Risky

Moments where YN and Harry get a little too touchy on stage.

Contagious

YN takes care of Harry when he has the stomach flu.

Jealousy Jealousy

A few moments where YN and Harry were jealous of one another and fans noticed.

Satisfied

Harry asks YN how her night went after seeing someone come out of her hotel room.

Almost

Moments where YN and Harry could have had their first kiss together while still in the band.

LM Discography

Songs YN helped write and produce for Little Mix over the years.

Try That

A little friendly competition between YN and Zayn.

Beanie

YN surely isn't jealous of Harry dating Taylor Swift.

English Love Affair

YN’s PR stunt with the drummer of 5SOS.

MOVE

The story of how YN and her boyfriend (and future fiancé) met.

Mirroring

Mirroring moment between Harry and YN over the years.

Stockholm Syndrome

The origin story of the song and its growth since then (3.1k)

[calum-hood-could]

The Mystal Tarot Reading

So I did a tarot reading for both Michael and crystal in this situation, and they mirrored each other greatly... however I’m going to share from Crystal’s perspective because boy is it insane.

✨To do the tarot reading I used smoky quartz and obsidian for seeking the truth, green aventurine in order to channel the heart chakra, and rose quartz for love as well as pink salt candles for protection.

✨So I did the Celtic cross layout and the question I asked was: “what is the future of Michael Clifford and crystal Lauderdale’s relationship?”

✨So first on the list of things is the situation which was the 4 of swords reversed, meaning that the situation is shrouded in precaution, circumspection, and economy based 👀

✨Next comes the challenge which was represented in the king of swords; this means the law, authority and judgement are challenges for her.

✨The basis of the situation is the 6 of cups reversed which means renewal and something that will come to pass.

✨Then we have the past, so what we have seen so far basically, and that was represented in the page of swords, this means secret and vigilance as well as watching closely and overseeing on her part 👀

✨Now we have the present, so what’s currently going down, which is the fool reversed; this means she is experiencing vanity, carelessness and negligence.

✨The near future was represented by the knight of pentacles, so this is what’s going to happen soon; this means responsibility and finding utility. Like something to use 👀

✨Then the power over the situation is what she is benefiting from in the relationship, this is represented by the 5 of wands which means imitation and the struggle to find riches.

✨The effect on others is depicted by the ace of cups reversed, so basically the effect on Michael. This card reversed means false heart, instability, and even mutation of self.

✨Crystals hopes were represented in the strength card, which simply symbolizes power and triumph.

✨Lastly, the outcome is a 10 of pentacles reversed. This means chance, loss, fatality and games of/for power.

✨Think and view this reading however you like but I’m over here like 👀☕️🐸

Kisses 😘

[lashie-nation]

Lashton Update:

Ashton is alone and Luke married Sierra?? We have the truth here 👇

19 February 2022, Monday

Ashton posted a short video of him cooking pasta along with other posts to his story. The amount of pasta looks like a portion for one. Ashton is cooking for himself therefore he must be alone. Right?

Well today,

20 February 2022, Sunday

Luke posted this TikTok. The video begins with a voiceover of the text at the top of the screen, “When you marry the girl that wrote this banger”. Then Luke sings us four lines of Little Do You Know by Alex & Sierra.

Alex & Sierra was a pop duo made of Alex Kinsey & Sierra Deaton. The duo were dating throughout their career. Even got engaged. This song was written about their relationship falling part. Alex & Sierra not only called off the engagement but also ended the group. Sierra struggled to keep her music career going until she was linked to Luke.

But weird that Luke would choose a song about a failed relationship to “announce” his marriage to Sierra. Especially since it’s from SIERRA’S PAST FAILED RELATIONSHIP!! But not only is the song choice interesting but the lyric choice.

“Little do you know

I’m still haunted by the memories

Little do you know

I’m still tryna pick myself up piece by piece

Little do you know

I need a little more time”

Not exactly the most romantic lyrics of that song Luke… but I digress.

At the end of the day I think it’s safe to say that yesterday and today were just damage control for the single that’s on it’s way. We got a clip of it yesterday so of course Luke and Ashton had to damage control. Luke and Ashton are probably at home cuddle on the couch watching the fandom go up in flames over the clip of the new single. Stay calm & relaxed my friends this is only the beginning but @lashton-is-my-drug & I will be with you every step of the way to help you see the truth of it all.

[honeyedlashton]

So anyway, Ashton exposed PR culture. Almost like he knows from first-hand experience because of kashton, lierra, and mystal?? Guess that’s none of my business though...

☕️☕️

[cliffingzdeluxe]

when luke said "coachella was a shit" there was no point to discuss, the facts can’t be questioned

[lierrastunts-blog]

-After doing some more reading, I’ve found some more information shedding light on the reality of the PR world via Elite, a pretty reliable source.

-They also talk about how celebrities are found; just to show that popular and unpopular celebrities can have the paps called. So you all can debunk that whole argument that they don’t call the paps on themselves.

I’ve listed the link for the whole article:

[grxcisxhy-wp]

𝖼.𝗁. | 𝗁𝖾𝖺𝖽𝖼𝖺𝗇𝗇𝗈𝗇

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pairing ; calum hood x bi!5sos!reader (MAIN), mention of previous harry styles x bi!5sos!reader, mention of unrequited/pining ashton irwin x bi!5sos!reader

summary ; Prequel ish headcannon of bi!5sos!reader based on this blurb

warnings ! my humor (so bad)

word count ; ~700

a/n ; guys, this is probably so bad, but bare with me. also, so sorry to anyone who is straight, but being bi is going to be part of the story later

I’m forcing you to be Australian, deal with it

When you were younger (about 11 years old) you moved into Calum’s neighborhood right across the street from him

And you know, puberty be hitting hard, so this man instantly gets a crush (cause you’re beautiful duh) and befriends you

But of course, he doesn’t say anything (for another few years)

You guys are each other’s closest friends, and you end up being each other’s first kiss (a classic)

The two of you will just play music together on the weekends or after Cal’s soccer practice

You play piano and guitar (and sing but we’ll get into that later)

The two of you meet Luke and Michael when you go into high school and you guys form the beginnings of 5sos

Luke and Michael quickly begin to feel like brothers to you

Then Michael Facebook messages Ashton

When you meet Ashton, you are a complete MESS

Like stuttering like an idiot because his humor just tugs at your heart strings and you’re crushing HARD

You tell Calum about it, obliviously hurting his feelings

poor fetus Calum :’(

but he still supports you

eventually your puppy love with ash goes away and you meet someone

someone that’s a GiRl (yes, you’re bi curious and we’re living for it)

you’re all confused that you feel this way about a girl and questioning your sexuality (as most do in high school)

nothing happens with the girl (nothing ever does… I’m not crying you are)

but you do confide in Calum that you find girls attractive

poor Calum is thinking you're gay, but you reassure him that you do still in fact find guys attractive too

Calum is super supportive and eventually convinces you to tell the rest of your band mates

they’re all supportive too

someone definitely makes a joke like “I don’t blame you. Girls are hot”

would probably be ash or Mikey

we love a good coming out story

anywayyyyy

you and the boys are making youtube covers and becoming quite popular

then the one direction tours

you practically melt when you meet Zayn and Harry (at least I would)

during the tours your management and 1d’s management decide to do a pr stunt with you and harry of a will they won’t they situation

ngl you and harry did hook up a few times after you turned 18 (sorry to those of you who do not like harry styles, which should be none of you)

calum is pretty much over his crush on you by the time the first album comes out (at least that’s what he says)

fans of the band kind of speculate that you might be bi when you sing lyrics like “you’re like the perfect mixture of megan fox and katy p” (greenlight underrated bop imo)

ofc the question comes up in interviews but you and the boys dodge ‘em like ninjas

you came out to the world on your terms during sounds live feels live tour

and this is frat 5sos era so just like them you’re pulling the ladies AND the gentlemen

you’re more discreet abt it tho cause we know how the media be about women who have multiple partners (the media is disgusting)

then there’s the hiatus

during this time, you get back to writing pieces with piano aka you’re the genius behind ghost of you and lie to me’s piano melody

during the writing process of youngblood is also when you and calum start becoming more than friends

you write why won’t you love me about him cause you’re oblivious that he likes you too

you show a demo of wwylm to luke (who is almost as close to you as calum now) and he convinces you to play it for the rest of band and put it on the album

this leads to feelings being confessed and you and calum end up together

you and calum date for about a year and a half before the unfortunate when will you be back blurb comes into play

and then you’re a mess, which is where I’ll be starting this series(??)

so yeah, lmk what moments you want to see like interviews and just relationship things and I’ll do my best to write them well

[ghost-of-you]

We just danced backwards into each other - CH - Part 1

Paring: Calum Hood x Original Female Character.

Warnings: Swearing, Lena's favorite word may be fuck for all I know lol, also drinking, if you're from the US is technically underage, but they're not so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Word Count: 7k

Authors note: okay, one day I woke up and I had this idea in my head, and it was all coming in flashes and I was writing things down as they came and whatever this is happened, actually is still happening I'm not done writing but I kinda wanna post this so, here lol. The whole thing happens in 2 timelines, there's the main one and there are flashbacks where I think they should go, the flashbacks are the italics. If you read this and think it's confusing, please tell me and I'll try to make it better. The story is basically childhood friends to friends with benefits and also feelings to shit we fucked up the friendship to now we are a pr stunt to lovers. The main timeline starts in the shit we fucked up the friendship, and it starts at the end of slfl and the flashbacks will start after the take me home tour and are mostly after that, so we are in "canon" (can I even use this word?) timeline here. Also, this starts with a bit of an exposition dump interview, just to situate things. Also, I have a thing for "I don't deal with feelings Calum" cause he's an Aquarius and I don't trust Aquarius men even tho I'm obsessed with them lol. Oh and the **** means it later on the same day.

The title is from There's No Way by Lauv and Julia Michaels and I will borrow this song for the fic in the future.

Read it on AO3

Part 2

Masterlist

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"So, Lena, you've been opening for 5 Seconds of Summer," the interviewer asked and she smiled as the crowd roared at the mention, she knew she would be answering questions about them for a while. It was her first talk show appearance and she was slightly freaking out.

"Yes."

"But you knew them before you got called to do that?" He continued and she nodded.

"I did, yeah."

"How did you know them?" He finally asked and she smiled at the memories flooding her head.

"Oh, I was in the same class as Luke, Calum, and Michael, so I have known them since I was, maybe 10? It's been a while. Michael and I also shared a guitar teacher for a while."

"And that's how you got the deal with them?"

"Not at all,” she chuckled awkwardly, “I was actually sure that when they found out it was me, that the whole thing would fall through," she laughed and he frowned at her.

"What do you mean?"

"Okay, so, I was renting some studio time 'cause I was gonna put out this song one way or another," she joked and felt encouraged by the laughs she heard, "and the guy that owns the studio said that a band was looking for a female voice to open for them and potentially sign and that he had sent my recording to them, and I was like, okay amazing. I thought it would be just some concerts back home, and I really didn't think much about it until someone from their team reached out to me because they wanted to see me perform, and when I had a gig at a cultural event at my university so I sent them the information."

"And up until then, you didn't know it was 5sos?"

"I had no idea until Calum told me they would be back home and asked if I wanted to go check this show out with them," that was hilarious for her to think about even months after it happened.

"He invited you to your own show?" He asked, laughing along while she nodded.

"He did!" She exclaimed, trying not to laugh and just continued the story, "and when I noticed I was like, yeah there's no way this is happening now, cause the final choice was theirs, like, I went through a whole process and their team was okay with me, but there were other people they were also okay with, so it was up to them, to 5sos I mean, and I was convinced they were not going to choose me."

"Why did you think that?"

"I don't know, my brain had just decided that they wouldn't, obviously, I was wrong, I think that that little gig was one of the best I ever played and Sylvia, my manager, she was talking to me about signing with the management anyway, even if I didn't get the opening spot, and that they would find something else, and it was a whole situation until they decided to offer it to me."

"And I wasn't just a few shows back home," he said and she shakes her head.

"Oh my god, no, one hundred and one concerts worldwide, and up until then I hadn't even been on a plane, it's crazy."

"And the album was done before you went out on tour?" He asked and she frowned, doing a maybe motion with her hands.

"Mostly, we tried to work things out to have it come out right before it started, but that obviously didn't happen, and I wrote a few other songs on the road that ended up in the final version, so we had to work around the first leg of the tour to make the release happen," she explained and he nodded.

"How did you even make it happen?"

"Well, I just decided that sleep was optional," she joked, "and then I found out that vocal rest is actually a great excuse for me to just fall asleep on a couch somewhere."

______

Lena can’t believe that once again she’s standing backstage dreading what will happen after the show. If she knew that this was what she was getting into she wouldn’t have agreed to this, the record deal, the opening spot. Actually, no, that was a lie, no matter what was about to happen, she wouldn’t give up the opportunity for anything. She just wished getting all she ever dreamed of didn’t come at such a cost.

She hates that it’s the last night of the tour and that she can’t focus on that, that she can’t remember what she said or if she sang the words right or if she didn’t mess up any chords. She’s pretty sure at some point she checked to make sure she was wearing the right shoes because she couldn’t even remember getting into her dressing room that afternoon. She doesn’t know how the night is gonna end and as Carry On marks the beginning of their set, she’s not really there. Her mind is somewhere else entirely.

Lena was desperately trying to ignore the panic she was feeling. She wasn't even nervous about the show, but she wished she was. Calum wasn't supposed to be there. And all she could think about is how she was about to play a song she wrote about him on top of all the "actually you belong with me" covers while he was in the crowd reconnecting with her.

That wasn't how she hoped her first gig was going to be. Calum was supposed to be there only in her mind, not somewhere she could get distracted while looking at him. The fact that she managed to land a show the one week he would be home seems insane to her. So she was avoiding the corner where he was standing, the smile that showed her how proud of her he was, making her want to scream just as much as the jealousy she was feeling when he leaned closer to Kate.

It would be a miracle if she walked out from that place with Calum still oblivious about her feelings, the risky glance she gave to him while playing the song she wrote making it obvious something was clicking inside his head. And not only his, considering the glare Kate was giving her. When she noticed that they had disappeared by the time she was playing the final song she knew she was fucked.

The faint screaming guided her to where she shouldn't go once she walked around backstage, trying to figure out if he had gone back there.

“She’s in love with you, Calum," Lena overheard, stopping just short of the door, the words gluing her to that spot, "and I’m not gonna wait around for you to figure out that you feel the same way,” Kate walked out, eyes shooting daggers at Lena when she noticed her.

Calum was standing there watching her leave, only noticing Lena when Kate walked around her. He was looking dumbfounded as Lena walked in so she could get closer to him.

“I’m so sorry,” she apologized, watching him carefully.

“It’s not your fault,” he shrugged, and she scoffed at the thought.

“She was yelling at you because of me, so it kinda is,” she said with a sigh, sitting down on the sofa next to them and he shook his head.

“She’s getting things wrong,” he said, turning to look at Lena, his eyes on hers making the thought of lying to him about this unbearable.

“No, she’s not,” she admitted, looking down at her feet because she couldn't face him.

“What?”

“She’s not wrong about me, you know, being in love with you and all,” she said, still looking at the ground, the impact of saying those words out loud making her start to bounce her leg while she waited for him to react.

“What?” he repeated after a second that felt like forever.

“I just don’t wanna lie to you anymore,” she sighed, risking a glance up at Calum, who looked like his world had been completely altered.

“You’re in love with me?” he asked and all she could do was nod.

“It doesn’t change anything, you don’t live here anymore, and it will go away,” she started, voice going higher as she rambled trying to make the situation seem less terrible but he cut her off.

“How long?”

“It doesn’t matter."

“How long, Lena?” He repeated with certain anger in his insistence that made her run a hand through her hair, trying to stay calm.

“It doesn’t change anything,” she whimpered, and he gave her a disbelief look.

“Of course it does,” he said, the anger starting to show in his tone and making her want to disappear.

“Calum, are you still leaving tomorrow?” she asked, mimicking his tone, which seemed to disarm him, the frustration in his face being replaced by something she can't read while she matched his glare.

“Yes," he answered, determined and yet defeated, the heat in his words completely gone.

"Then nothing has changed."

As the last chorus of She Looks So Perfect played, Lena wished she could tell her younger self how wrong she was. She had asked Calum if they could talk after the show and she still didn’t know what to tell him.

Why did they ever think it was a good idea to do this whole friends-with-benefits thing? Why did he think that that was the way to go on about their whole dynamic when both of them knew she would always want more? Why she had agreed to it was another mystery, but she just knew she would take anything she could from him, no matter how bad it was for her sanity. The sanity she could feel slipping away with every passing second as she sits alone in the dressing room. The sanity that’s almost completely gone when Calum opens the door, still glowing in his post-concert high and all she can do is stare at him.

"I need to tell you something," Lena blurts out the second Calum closes the door behind him.

"What's wrong?" He asks, narrowing his eyes at her, moving closer to where she’s sitting by the mirrors.

"I'm staying here," she tells him, watching him waiting for a reaction.

"Here?" He asks as if her words didn't make sense and she sighs.

"I'm not going to LA," she explains and he huffs, giving her a disbelieving look.

"So you're just giving up?"

"No, of course not, but if I stay I can get my degree," she starts, but he interrupts her.

"Didn't you drop out?"

"Not exactly, I changed things around and I've been taking the classes online, but if I go back now and finish the practical stuff and my thesis, I can get my degree and be done with it in 6 months and I can still make the dates in my contract," she explains and the confusion in his face is slowly being replaced with hurt.

"Why didn't you tell me you were still in school?"

"I didn't tell anyone," she defends herself, and he gives her a pointed look, "you never cared much about school, so I didn't wanna bring it up."

"That's cool, Lena, I gotta go," he says, coldly and starts moving back to the door.

"What? Why?" She asks, getting up to get closer to him.

"This just got a hell of a lot more complicated," he tells her, and she snorts, thinking she should've expected this reaction.

"Nice," she grunts, rolling her eyes, "we're back to it's complicated. "

"You’re gonna stay here and I’ll be all the way across the world, so yeah."

"Woah," she sighs with a skeptical look in her eyes.

"You can't just spring this on me and expect me to be thrilled about it," he protests and she shakes her head.

"But I kinda did, yeah, this is important to me."

"You should've talked to me."

"Yeah, well, last time I checked you are not my boyfriend so I don't need to ask for permission," she snaps and he takes a step back.

"We agreed on that," he argues and she rolls her eyes.

"No, you agreed."

"So you're putting half a world between us again because we're not in a relationship?"

"No, I'm doing this because I have no reason not to do this for me, and it's the easier solution."

"Great, tour is over, things were about to get too complicated anyway, it's better like this," he starts to brush it off and she's trying not to get worked up.

"There it is," she says, moving her arms in defeat.

"What? I'm telling you to do what you want."

"No, because this is when you give me a reason," she exclaims and he stops, understanding what she's asking for and dropping his shoulders.

"It's too," he starts to say another excuse and she stops him.

“God, you’re so infuriating!” Lena’s screaming and part of her thinks she should tone it down, but she’s suddenly just too angry to care. “Don't say it’s complicated, you either have feelings for me or you don’t, just be honest with me for fucks sake."

She didn’t know what to expect from her demand, but to watch as Calum walks closer to her, takes his necklace off, takes her hand, and lets it drop into it like it’s nothing was not something she would have predicted even if she did.

“I don’t feel anything for you, I never did,” he says, almost whispering, avoiding her eyes and she scoffs.

“I don’t believe you,” she glares at him, shaking her head as he continues to avoid looking at her.

“You can believe anything you want, that’s on you,” Calum’s walking away now, ready to leave her alone.

“Then how come you woke up with me for half the tour?” Her words make him stop but he doesn’t turn around.

“You were there and I didn't want to be lonely,” he says, after what feels like forever, still looking forward, hand on the doorknob and she feels the air being knocked out of her lungs.

“Fuck you, Calum." She cusses him out, way too low for her anger, and she doesn’t even know if he heard her, when he opens the door and leaves her there.

_____

“Andy, stop hoovering,” Lena snaps as he follows her around their apartment. She knows she’s lucky to have him, lucky he agreed to drop everything and go on tour with her, lucky he agreed to go back to where they were before it all and just help her get her degree, help her write her music. And she’s not angry with him. She’s just angry. And she wants to stay angry because if she lets herself feel anything else, she’s not sure she’ll ever recover.

“I’m worried, you haven’t said a word since we got off stage, Le,” he says, apologetic, and she groans.

“I can’t,” she whimpers, and he frowns at her.

“What’s so bad?” He stops, before changing the question, “What did he do when you told him?” He asks but she just shakes her head, “you did tell him, right?” She nods and he seems to be getting more confused by the second, “what happened, Le?”

“Not yet, I can’t face it yet,” she shakes her head, moving her hand to clutch the necklace that's now around her neck. No matter what happened between them, it was like it was always a sign that things would be okay. She had given that to Calum almost five years before when they booked their first gig.

“Calum, Calum, Calum,” Lena called his name repeatedly as she got closer, practically bouncing while she ran to him through the schoolyard.

“What?” He chuckled when she reached him.

“You’re not gonna believe what I found,” she said, breathlessly, leaning down on her legs and he continued to smile at her.

“What did you find?” He asked and she took a deep breath before standing straight again and matching his grin.

“Here,” she handed him a bag.

“I didn’t get you anything,” he mocked and she giggled, rolling her eyes.

“Just open it,” she smiled as he pulled the little jewelry box out of the bag.

“I was walking to school today and I saw it and I just had to get it,” she started babbling waiting for him to get as excited about it as she was when he opened the box and pulled a silver chain necklace from it, “It’s a bass and it matches my guitar, how cool is that?” She continued, shaking her wrist next to the hand he was holding the chain for him to see the similarity in the two charms and the grin on his face grew.

“We match now,” he pulled the necklace around his head, “thanks, love.”

“Do you like it?” she asked, adjusting the chain around his neck.

“Do I like it? Of course I do,” he said, wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her into a bear hug, lifting her from the ground.

Lena can’t think about what happened. She can’t think about what it means, she can’t explain what happened, she can’t deal with the consequences, she needs to get out of that stupid outfit, burn it and pray she can burn the memory of that day along with it.

“Andy, I’m fine,” she tells him, whose hazel eyes that somehow matched hers are carefully watching her, “I just wanna break something or burn something so I’m gonna go to bed and hope I’m still just angry in the morning.”

“Okay,” he nods, moving out of her way, and she moves blindly around the apartment, robotically showering and putting on clothes comfortable enough for her to sleep. And she’s not sure why she’s padding through the apartment and stopping at Andy’s door until he notices her there.

“Le, what’s wrong?” he asks, shutting his laptop and sitting up.

“Can I sleep here with you today?” She asks, feeling silly, but the only thing she’s sure of at the moment is that she doesn't want to be alone.

“Yeah, come here,” he agrees, scooting over and patting the space beside him.

“What were you doing?” she asks when she’s settled beside him and he chuckles, opening the laptop again.

“Gaming,” he shows her, and she manages to smile at him.

“Okay, I’ll watch you lose then,” she jokes and he looks at her, faking outrage, before starting the game back up.

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People always seemed to say the worst day is the first one, that things get easier with time, and Lena wants to find each and every person that ever said or thought that way and scream at them. The worst day is all days. Every time she thinks about what happened, every time she thinks about him, every time her stupid phone rings and it isn't him, every time she forgets and almost calls him. Every single little thing just makes her feel worse. And every time she thinks it can’t get worse than it already is, a new wave hits her and she’s being pulled deeper. She doesn’t even know how to begin to get over this when they weren’t even a thing to begin with.

The only good thing is that not knowing was working wonders for her productivity. She just throws herself at everything else, her degree, her writing, every time Lena thinks about Calum, she does something else. The problem is he's all she thinks about. So she's spending every waking hour avoiding how much she just wants to call him and then every sleeping hour dreaming about the good days, or about him showing up at her door. She can't take it anymore.

At least she's better at avoiding it than the last time. A week was what it took for her to break the first time. Sure the mess of her telling him she was in love with him when he was back for a week and about to leave again felt like nothing compared to what she’s feeling now.

"Can you just get him on the phone, please?" Lena was begging Michael, the only one who made the mistake of answering her and the one that was too nice to just hang up on her after he realized it had been a mistake.

"He won't take it," he told her, and she groaned. She knew that. The number of calls and texts he ignored made that pretty obvious.

"Put me on speaker then."

"L, maybe another," he tried reasoning with her but she was beyond reasoning, Calum would talk to her even if she had to find a way to get to him.

"He can't keep ignoring me," she screeched to the phone.

"L, he doesn't," he tried again, but she interrupted him again.

"Michael, I'll keep calling all of you until someone gets him to talk to me, don’t make me find a way to fly to fucking London, because I will," she told him and he sighed.

She waited, listening while Michael said "Just take the fucking phone, mate, please."

"Hello?" Calum’s voice came through the phone and Lena had hoped it would make her feel better, but it actually only made her angry.

Lena’s not cracking this time. No, she won’t call. She’ll think about calling, she’ll write about calling, hell, she’ll walk into the studio one day with a crumpled-up piece of paper in her hands and convince everyone there that opening the album with a song that reads like a voicemail is the best idea she’s ever had. And it works. She writes, she studies, she lets the label convince her she’s ready to put out a single, she lets the label talk to her about performances that can work around her school schedule, she puts out a music video, she gets invited to perform the song in an award show and she doesn’t crack. Sure, she picks up the phone to call Calum every time anything happens, she types and deletes texts, she stalks his Instagram, but she doesn’t actually try to reach him. Not once. She would be proud of herself if every song she wrote wasn’t about him, if he wasn’t always running around in her mind. Not that she could really remember a day where he wasn’t in the background of her thoughts. Sure it was easier when they were teens and she could find a new boy to pretend to be obsessed over during recess and act like she never felt anything other than friendship towards Calum. But now? Now she couldn’t even look at someone else. And she tried. Going out and finding a body to get lost in. But everyone just felt wrong. She could still feel him under her skin all the time. And it didn’t help that not long after Calum left the “Calum Hood from 5 Seconds of Summer Spotted in LA with *insert the name of the woman Lena refused to learn here*” headlines started to appear on her phone. She just wants to stop feeling this way.

But every bad day, every thought, every song, couldn’t make her feel as bad as she’s feeling right now, static ringing in her ears, as she walks back to the dressing room.

"Fuck, I can't do this," Lena’s properly panicking. She had never felt this nervous before in her life. Sure, she agrees to do one performance because it wouldn't mess with her school schedule and he's there. She should've seen that one coming, the universe seemed to have a sick sense of humor when it comes to her.

"Le, it's okay, the rehearsal was great," Andy says, thinking it can help calm her down, watching as she’s almost hyperventilating when she sits in the chair and drops her forehead to the makeup counter.

"That's not why I can't do it," she groans when her breathing evens out and Andy moves closer to her, frowning.

"Then why?" He asks, narrowing his eyes.

“He’s here,” she chokes on her words and he stares at her in confusion.

“Who?”

"Calum, Calum's here," she screeches at him, and he scoffs, rolling his eyes.

"And?"

"I can't do this, I can't sing a song I wrote about how I'm still in love with him with him sitting there somewhere."

"You can't be serious," he's looking at her like she's crazy and she can't help but kind of agree with it. It does sound crazy.

"I can't."

"Lena Alisson Summers you will not miss out on this because of him," he tells her and she feels the air escaping her again.

"Andy, I," she begins but he interrupts her.

"No, I've sat with you crying for weeks, we're writing a kick-ass album and you're going to go out there and you're going to sing that stupid single. I don't care that you haven't seen him since that day, I don't care that you're still in love with him, you worked too hard for this and he's not going to fuck this up," he pulls her up to her feet, forcing her to look at him.

"But," she tries again.

"No buts or I'll go out and I'll kick his butt like I've been wanting to do for months now," he tells her, narrowing his eyes and she starts laughing.

"Did you just say butt?" She asks in between breaths, laughing so much and he rolls his eyes.

"Whatever, I made you laugh," he shrugs.

"Thank you," she tells him, throwing her arms around his neck.

*****

“Shit,” Lena definitely should’ve seen that one coming. Of course, they would come to the after-party, why wouldn’t they come to the after-party? She was downing the, what shot was she in now? She had lost count after the 10th, or the 12th, or maybe the 15th, but she had just put the shot glass down when she heard Michael’s laughter, followed by Luke’s voice, and then her heart stopped when she heard Calum’s. And now she’s in flight mode, roaming the halls, mind hazy, looking for a place to hide. She pushes a door open, finds a room, and moves around blindly looking for somewhere to plug her phone. She plugs it and leans her forehead on the wall trying to get the world to stop spinning so fast.

"You okay?" Calum asked, turning his head at a weird angle so he could try to see Lena. She wasn't exactly thinking straight, she needed comfort and at that moment, that was Calum, so she had just walked into the room, made a straight line to him, who was standing there doing something she didn't bother to check, and leaned into to his back, her cheek against the soft cotton of his shirt and closed her eyes, breathing him in.

"I'm just so tired," she mumbled, and she felt more than heard the soft chuckle he let out. They'd been back out on tour for about a month now and it was killing her. Four concerts a week was not something she was handling well. She thought that the occasional recording session she had to do during the first leg of the tour was the worst it could get, but she was wrong. "How the hell have you managed to do this for years?"

"You get used to it," he shrugged and moved a hand to pat her head.

"I was in college, I stayed up for two whole days once and I wasn't as exhausted as I am right now," she said, letting her arms fall to his hips, leaning more heavily into him.

"Can I turn around? Or will you fall if I do that?"

"If I fall just leave me there, maybe I can take a nap," she joked, leaning back on her feet as he turned to face her. Not that she gave him the chance, she dropped back into him the second he stopped moving, her forehead against his chest and her arms wrapping around his waist, and he laughed, his chin resting on the top of her head and his arms wrapping around her.

"Lena, what the hell are you doing?" Something snaps Lena out of her daydream and for some reason, she had thought that in her state of intoxication Calum's voice wouldn't have any effect on her. Oh, was she wrong. Hidden between the bed and wall, and not sure how she got on the floor, she's happy she's sitting down because the sound still makes her knees weak and her heart speeds up, the sight of him standing by the end of the bed looking at her making her forget how to breathe. She’s just waiting for her phone to charge enough for her to get an uber and get out of there before he could find her, so she could avoid having to face him. Of course, she didn’t have that luck. He looks so good, with a black button-down shirt, and his hair looking longer, curlier even, and disheveled just the right amount for her to lose track of what she was planning to say. Why did he have to look so good it made her forget everything else all the time? It wasn't fair.

"I'm leaving," she mumbles, only thinking about how she needs to get away from him, pulling the charger out the wall, shoving it in her purse, and getting up on wobbly legs, holding on to the bed frame, before sitting down so she can take her heels off when she keeps feeling like she’s going to fall.

Calum watches as she gets up struggling to not help as she moves less than gracefully, her dress riding up her thighs and her phone and shoes hanging precariously on her hand, but being unable to not hold her up when she trips on her feet as she tries to walk around him. She pushes his hands away from her, looking up at him with glazed eyes, the hurt evident in the way they’re glistening as tears begin to form and he sighs. He had definitely never seen her that drunk before.

"And you're leaving how?" He asks, so softly her heart aches and she blinks a couple of times chasing the tears away.

"I'll get an Uber," she answers, her voice barely a whisper, walking away.

"Come on, love, you're too drunk, let me drive you," he pleads, turning around and grabbing her wrist to stop her from going further.

"Don't fucking call me that," she shakes her head, yanking her arm away and he frowns at her, looking puzzled at the sudden anger in the movement.

"What?"

"Love," she replies through gritted teeth, and his head dropped, "last time I saw you, you were making a point about how you were only using me, so you don't get to call me love."

"Lena, I," he pleads, looking back into her eyes, not knowing what to do about the hurt he’s seeing there.

"What? You're feeling lonely again? Or you're just upset you're seeing the damage you've done?" she barks, glaring at him and he takes a step back, pressing his lips together.

"That's not fair."

"Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry, the fact I have loved you for half my life and you were only using me because I was there is not fair to you?" She snaps at him, stepping closer to him and staring him down as he opens and closes his mouth looking for an answer.

"I-" he starts but doesn’t finish, his shoulders falling and looking helplessly at her.

"You what? Huh?" She barks at him, the anger in her voice not replacing the hurt in her eyes, "You what? You're sorry? You didn't mean it?” She feels the fight slipping away from her, looking up at him she wants to hug him just as much as she wants to punch him, maybe more. “What the fuck do you have to say to me, Calum?" Her voice cracks saying his name, and he tilts his head, looking sadly at her.

"I just wanna make sure you get home safe," he tells her, and she purses her lips, feeling defeated as she nods at his words.

"And I don't want anything from you," she says, walking away and ignoring as he calls her name, going down the hall and the stairs as steadily and as fast as she could.

'Lena, wait," she’s already out the door and is standing on the porch waiting for the phone to turn back on when Calum snatches it from her hands.

"What?" She snaps at him, trying to grab the phone back and he holds it out of her reach.

"Let me drive you," he pleads and she groans.

"No, now give it back," she reaches for the phone again and he moves it to his other hand.

"Please."

"No!” She all but screams at him, but he continues to look at her with pleading eyes.

“Lena,” he starts, but she interrupts him.

“Stop, just leave me alone, I don’t want to see you, or talk to you, or let you drive me, I don’t fucking need your pity, just leave me the fuck alo-" she’s getting worked up and she desperately wants him to stop looking at her like that when she gets cut out.

"Are you guys okay?" Michael asks, emerging through the door, looking between them, and Lena groans.

"I just wanna go home, but he won't let me just get a fucking uber," she complains, taking advantage of the fact that Calum’s distracted looking at Michael to take her phone back.

They seem to have some sort of telepathic communication going on because Michael nods slightly at Calum, whose shoulders visibly relaxed, the pleading look in his eyes being directed to the floor when Michael speaks.

"I can take you," he offers and Lena sighs.

"No, Mike, it's fine, there's no," she starts to brush it off but he interrupts her.

"No, no, I insist, come on," Michael says, throwing an arm around her shoulder, taking her shoes from her with his other hand. Lena looks back at Calum and watches as he mouths a "thank you," and Michael nods again before guiding them away.

_____

It probably sounds crazy but Lena feels him before she sees him. She feels the pull that used to make her feel warm inside and she gives into it before she could realize what she's doing. She's in an event she doesn't want to be in. Her heels are hurting her feet and her dress is itchy and uncomfortable and she's alone. Sometimes she wondered if the reason Andy didn't want to start a band was to avoid this side of the obligations. If it's just her name on the poster then he can get out of anything he doesn't feel like doing.

That means she has no one to stop her from slowly turning, looking around from her place by the bar in the back of the very expensively decorated room, and spotting Calum and Ashton shaking the hand of one of the many executives in that place.

She giggles to herself at how their button-down shirts matched, Ashton's white with black stripes and Calum's black with white stripes, before she fully registers Calum's outfit. She doesn't know if she absolutely loves or hates whoever is responsible for the suit he's wearing, the jacket fitting just right and the shirt with just enough open buttons so that he looks casual but put together, making her breath get caught in the throat and she needs to press her lips together to stop her jaw from dropping. That outfit was a far cry from the cutout band tees and flannels and it was bad for her health. He has a new haircut too, shorter on the sides and straight all around. Yeah, she's definitely not over him. She turns around before she can get caught staring and asks for a refill when someone says her name.

"Ash, hi," she screeches, before clearing her throat and awkwardly giving him a hug when he steps closer to her.

"It's been a while, how have you been?" He asks, leaning his hip into the bar beside her.

"Okay, busy, you?" She manages to answer, kicking herself internally for not being able to form a full sentence, and he raises an eyebrow at her.

"I've been great," he replies when the bartender slides Lena a new glass, "what are you drinking?" He asks, casually, and suddenly she's struggling to figure out why she feels so awkward.

"Just coke," she chuckles, "I have a final tomorrow. The last one," she adds when he gives a questioning look, "a final final. That's a weird sentence," she frowns at her own words and he smiles at her.

"So you're done with school?" He asks and she nods, sipping her drink. She knows he's probably fishing for information but she doesn't mind, she's too uncomfortable there to not appreciate his friendly face.

"Pretty much, yeah."

"And how's the album coming along? I liked the singles so far," he gives her a knowing look and she rubs her neck. She had put out 2 songs already and the label wanted to set a release date for the full album soon.

"They're trying to convince me it's done, but I feel like something is missing," she tells him. No one really understood why she wasn't fully happy with what she had yet, but Ashton seems to get it, nodding slightly.

"You'll find it," he tells her and she nods.

"How's the hiatus going? Already climbing up the walls because you need to make music?" She jokes and he chuckles.

"Yeah, I don't think I need any more downtime."

"I figured," she smiles and he points behind him from above his shoulder.

"I have to go back now, but it was great seeing you."

"Yeah, it really was."

"I'll see you around then," he winks at her and she smiles while nodding as he walks away.

She's still feeling awkward, moving around the room, greeting people she thinks she's supposed to know. She honestly can't remember. She's just wandering around waiting until she's been there long enough so she can leave. Maybe that's why she ends up in a corner with Calum standing in front of her.

"Lena," he greets her and she's too in her head to do anything other than just stand there, staring at him and letting the smell of his cologne invade her nostrils while he studies her. God, she misses him.

"Calum," she breathes when she finds her voice, after a moment where they just looked at each other, "I gotta go," she tells him, trying to move around her but he steps in front of her, grabbing her arm.

"Wait," he tells her and she sighs, stopping and looking into his eyes, while his gaze drops to her wrist. She pulls her arm away, but he just keeps looking at it. Or more exactly, looking at the bracelet hanging there.

"Love, can we-" Calum called Lena, motioning to the side of the room. She frowned at him but nodded and he moved to the corner he pointed at, with her following.

"Something's wrong?" She asked when he stopped. He was making her anxious. To be fair she had been anxious since he told her, practically bouncing with excitement, about how he got into the football training thing. In Brazil. She hoped she looked excited for him. Because she was. She just didn't want him to go away for a full month.

"Nothing is wrong, I just got you something," he told her, pulling a little box out of his pocket.

"Why did you get me something?" She asked, accepting the box, but looking at him with confusion.

"You know why," he shrugged, and she nodded. She did know. He'd leave for Brazil soon and that meant he'd miss her birthday. "Just open it."

She smiled at him and then down at the box in her hand, pulling the lid out and finding a silver chain bracelet with an acoustic guitar charm. She'd been learning how to play and she felt her heart swell with affection towards him.

"It's amazing, thank you, I'll never take it off," she promised, pulling it out of the box and putting the box in her pocket. She struggled with the clasps for a few seconds before looking at Calum, who was watching her, amused. "Can you help me?" She pouted, reaching her wrist for him, who clasped it easily.

"There," he said, fixing the charm and her smile was so big her cheeks hurt.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you," she chanted, throwing her arms around his neck.

"What?" She asks when he doesn't do anything else, and that seems to snap him out of the trance he's in when he shakes his head and looks back up at her face.

"I didn't plan this far ahead," he tells her rubbing his neck and she makes a noise somewhere between a laugh and snort and looks at him with disbelief.

"What?"

"I didn't think you'd actually listen to me," he explains and she cocks her head, furrowing her eyebrows, trying not to laugh at the situation.

"Right, I'm gonna go then," she moves around him and he turns around following her movements.

"Lena," he tries again and she stops, turning to him.

"Yes?" She asks, sounding more annoyed than she actually feels.

"I miss you," he finally says and she stands there, looking at him watching her with anxious eyes and she purses her lips, nodding slightly and sadly as she sighs.

"Yeah, me too," she tells him, turning around to leave for real this time. And as she's walking away she's not sure if she meant that she misses him or if she just misses her old self.

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I don't have a tag list but you read this and feel like reading the rest when i get to it, feel free to hit me up and i'll tag in the next part.

[fallingsunflower]

disclaimer: sending this to multiple blogs!

so planned parenthood put out a statement about roe v wade being overturned and dozens upon dozens of celebrities who are supporting were listed including kendall jenner, phoebe bridgers, paul mescal, selena gomez, madison beer, olivia rodrigo, joey king, dylan obrien, mistki, ariana grande, billie eilish, demi lovato, hailey bieber, miley cyrus, madelyn cline, shawn mendes, wallows… LITERALLY ANYONE YOU CAN IMAGINE. name them and they’re on there. not just a-list celebs but d-list and c-list as well. of course not everyone is on there which is understandable. gotta remember there are people actually work. lol.

but since olivia cockburn is so girlboss, feminist… why isn’t her name on there? if anything, i expected her name to be on there… has she even made an effort besides her little ig stories? she made max. 10 ig stories about it like the women’s activist she believes she is but why not engage in these organizations like these other celebrities (who are far busier with ACTUAL work? juggling multiple projects at a time i mean billie??? ariana??? olivia fucking rodrigo??? madelyn cline who is literally filming a whole tv show right now??? are on there lol ????)

it’s just so odd to see her skipping around europe with (pr stunt or not) boyfriend and seeing her blatantly ignoring this situation that most definitely affects her lol. unless she thinks her skin color protects her from old white men wanting to control a woman’s body… and that boyfriend who we all know and love - also does the bare fucking minimum. and yeah im calling him out too. harries ate up that single post he made and think he’s doing more than what actual activists are doing.

and no he’s not “working on the promo of his new album.” he’s galloping around rome and italy with another incompetent human being who is equally ignoring this situation bc again i believe it’s their white [celebrity] privilege that lets them parade around carelessly.

if he was working then we wouldn’t be seeing him at all, huh? if she was working, maybe we’d actually know who she was before this stunt.

and no i’m not asking him to drop everything and give a national speech but consider this 1. olivia, ur harry styles’ “girlfriend”, right? that’s a thing on it’s own babe lol remember camille rowe? yeah. 2. harry, ur fucking harry styles. open ur mouth. i know u said u left school at a young age but critical thinking skills?? do better with the voice you have. your fan base are 95% women who will suffer from this issue and 100% listen to what you have to say.

harry styles [and olivia wilde] is not the type of person we should be supporting imo. i don’t support him as i did before but ofc still care about him and love him (although i’ve unfollowed him, pleasing and anyone related + disconnected from him completely besides tumblr bc im on here 24/7, and pretty hard to scrub him clean lol)

but to each their own! i hope to know yalls thoughts lol if you wanna share ofc.

I got this last night. sorry I'm just getting around to posting it now :) also thanks for the disclaimer!

I hate to say it but I agree, specifically about Harry. I suppose it's an interesting issue though since this is mainly a US thing with Roe v Wade possibly getting overturned and Harry isn't a citizen. I already criticized him for sponsoring Biden. But this is slightly different. All he posted was the same thing Pauli did (I also did as well). I appreciated that. But I agree there's room for more.

Not to compare, but take 5SOS for example. They posted today about pro-choice rallies across the US. One was happening right up the road from me and because of them I was able to stop by for a little bit. Now imagine if someone who has 43 million instagram followers posted that info.

Harry doesn't have to say anything. But he'd have a lot of power if he did. I think his fans give him too much credit in places where it's not applicable.

Olivia's a different story. I don't care much to talk about her. She's a lost cause imo and not worth my breath

[sayamenseph]

just looked through my entire log of messages from 2017 to when i became inactive and let me just say…..what the fuck was that bitch on??? we really sent ESSAYS about 5sos ships, larry, PR stunts. don’t even get me started on the fact that several popular muke blogs got all their info from me and my digging skills 😭😭

[lashton-is-my-drug]

5SOS “Older” promo observations

September 7, 2022 - Today the new 5SOS song “Older” drops, Ashton reposts only the promo videos with Luke and doesn’t include any tags. This morning he also posts a Peter Gabriel song “Sledgehammer” (which albeit an iconic song with great musicality) which is about sex and the lyrics are loaded with phallic symbols. The title of the song and various other references throughout it are a euphemism to the male genitalia.

Luke’s posts regarding “Older”. Posts clips of acoustic Luke only performing the song. Only reposts the videos (which don’t include her voice anywhere) and doesn’t tag her anywhere.

Compared to Michael, who has pushed the stunts numerous times and has brought up the stunts even when not asked about during interviews, includes S in his tags. Luke, Ash, or Cal don’t tag her in anything. The videos are of Luke singing acoustically by himself, which is so pretty on its own merit, and full on I wish that was the version we got on the album. S’s voice just wasn’t necessary, imo. The boys Like Sierra’s ig post but none of them put it to their own ig stories. There’s so much shade in this song drop!

Crystal (Michael’s supposed wife) is the reason Sierra was brought into the picture. Crystal’s profession is PR. She is the one who setup Luke with Sierra, Ashton with Kaykay (also applies with Marg, no longer narratively together yet she still stays friends with Ash’s work friends, this is weird because typically when you breakup with someone they don’t stay in your friend connections, which supports those whole “relationships” were a PR/bearding stunts contracts. They seem to stay connected with the other women because it’s all business, albeit toxic business.).

Then Sierra on HER OWN IG ACCT makes a post trying to convince us that this is her choosing to “stay behind the scenes” and letting the fans use a story about how Michael told them to finish a song that she and Luke had started on a voice note of Luke’s (which Luke had shared as a joke *hint hint* meaning he didn’t feel much of an emotional connection attachment to it) Luke shared it as a joke and now she’s narratively putting it across as a very meaningful Lierra love song. HONEY. Stop trying to make fetch happen 😂

She’s saying she stopped pursuing an artist career (doesn’t discount the amount she has used Luke’s career as solo and with 5sos for a paycheck and PR for herself), yet since she was put together with Luke, she has written and/or appeared on EVERY RECORD LUKE IS ON INCLUDING HIS SOLO. The engagement was announced at the same time his solo record was announced (even though supposedly it had happened months before. Why wait? Oh yes…. The PR for herself! Use the attention for his projects to gain attention to yourself.)

S making this type of statement for this song sounds so disingenuous. She’s insisting she wants to stay Behind The Scenes yet she’s one of the songwriters and her airy vocals are mixed so high in the track that hers pretty much overshadow Luke’s. The title of the song is “Older (featuring Sierra Deaton)”. If you want to stay bts, this doesn’t look like how you would do it. This is such irony. And again, her narrative of the song uses the PR relationship for attention.

[watermelonsugacry]

Would yn have spent a lot of time hanging out with the 5SOS boys during the 2 tours they did together? I feel like she would for some reason

She definitely did! The 5SOS guys were all super cool, sweet, funny, and overall got along with everyone in the band.

She'd also be lying is she said she didn't fancy the drummer of the punk rock band just a little bit more than the rest. But can you blame her? A 19 year old girl surrounded by a new group of attractive guys--musicians at that--who didn't turn away her playful flirting?

On a rare day off (and sneaking around her strict management representatives), Ashton actually took YN on a date to her first baseball game. They had a lot of fun but they both knew that it was going to be better overall to keep each other as friends for the sake of a whole bunch of complications: her management finding out, rumors being spread, they work together, if they date and break up while they're still on tour together it's going to get very messy and awkward.

But the day after her date, it should come to no surprise that her management did find out and instead of giving her the lecture she thought she was going to receive, they actually wanted to turn their relationship into a PR stunt--so they did.

Against their will, the two pretended to date while on tour and after a month, they would "break up" publicly. Not only did this bring even more publicity for both bands, their tour, and get every social media outlet posting about the "couple," it also brought on new music inspiration.

YN vividly remembers the day where 1d and 5sos were all sat along a long, mahogany table in a conference room while their management, record label representatives, and publicists were all stood along the walls as they listened to English Love Affair.

It wasn't the first time someone wrote a song about YN (and it certainly wasn't the last) but this felt very off. It's a given that she's a very strong-headed person, never showing if anything got under skin, confident and overall didn't give a flying fuck about what people said about her. But hearing this song about her and Ashton's relationship that was 100% false made her feel dirty, icky, and humiliated.

She couldn't even look anyone in the eyes, keeping her sight on the shiny table in front of her.

Harry remembers staring daggers at Ashton across the table as the drummer looked apologetically, shameful towards YN.

But Harry's gaze turned soft the second he saw her. He couldn't do anything but sit there as he watched her squirm in her seat, her hands nervously tucked into her lap as she twisted, and twisted, and twisted at her rings. He wanted to caress her jaw to make it unclench, to thumb over her sorrowful eyebrows until they relaxed, and kiss her frown away to see her golden smile.

Years went by and they both knew that there were no hard feelings, they were just teenagers manipulated by bad people.

Since then, her and the 5sos still keep in touch every now and then, she helped produce a handful of songs on CALM.

[taleofharrison]

Why | Michael Clifford

Summary: You and Michael are on a relationship but he's forced to be in a PR for the album.

Warnings: language maybe??? kinda inspired in why by shawn mendes and secret love song by little mix ittalics mean twitter post and headlines on the tabloids.

Requested: Yes by an anon

Word Count: 1134

A/N: i know i haven’t written anything in a while but I was procrastinating both school work and writing and nothing got done and then The Irregulars came out and became my new obsession but if you are not going to spam your followers with your latest obsession then why do you a blog here? anyways enjoy.

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“Now with us in the studio 5 Seconds of Summer!” Jimmy announced and the guys appeared and sat next to him.

The guys had just released a new song, and this would be the first they were performing it live and talking about it.

“First off I want to start this by saying that this song is amazing, and I have had it on repat since it came out” Jimmy told them “now what was the inspiration for the song?”

“We kinda wanted to go old school on this one” Ashton began explaining “going back to some classic rock ballads. I think our main influence were bands like Journey and of course our experiences being in love.”

“Speaking of being in love Michael” Jimmy continued “you just recently were seen with Chloe Graham, the newest sensation on the modeling industry.”

“Yeah, we been dating for a couple of months now and it’s been great I’m really happy.”

After a couple of questions and some fun games Jimmy had prepared the guys finally performed the song, you were watching the whole thing on TV since Michael and you had agreed to keep the relationship on the down low. You felt beyond proud and happy to listen to the song that was written about you. Even though the world didn’t know it was about you.

“I love the song, but I smell bullshit. Chloe and Michael are clearly a stunt they became a public couple after the song was released??? a love song??? I mean come on.”

“No hate to Chloe but I believe the song is bout Y/N look at how they look at each other.”

“Can we stop talking about Chloe and just talk about the beautiful performance the guys gave us??”

You had been scrolling through comments like that from fans on twitter though you sometimes found weird how they found something to read between the lines all the time it was nice to know that if you came out with Michael as public after all this song release and all you’d have the support of the fans.

“Do you want to come with me to the pet store?” you asked Michael over breakfast putting your phone down “I thought we could choose some toys for Moose. Have some lunch.”

“I don’t know Y/N.”

“Come on! We haven’t had a hang out outside the house in ages.”

“I don’t think being seen just the two of us would be a good thing” he shrugged “I mean the fans already know something’s up.”

“But your fans think we’re friends and they know we’re roommates” you said slightly hurt “friends hang out together. Our relationship won’t be leaving these four walls.”

“I-I don’t know.”

“Fine” you huffed “I’ll just ask Luke I don’t feel like going by myself.”

“I’m sorry” he said “you know it’s the…”

“Label” you finished “it always is.”

“Michael Clifford seen at a jewelry store. Is he ready to tie knot?”

“Are Chloe and Michael getting engaged soon? 5SOS guitarist seen buying jewelry.”

“This isn’t going to stop, is it?” you said as you read the headlines on your phone as Luke sat down with your coffee order “the pr stunt.”

“It has to end Y/N” Luke assured you “we never thought our management would put us in something like this but here we are.”

You sighed. “We tried to talk Michael against it, but you know how companies work.”

Luke was trying what he could to cheer you up the guys knew how upsetting this was for you. You didn’t really have a problem with that because as long as you and Michael were real who cared about the world? But the last weeks and headlines had taken a toll on you.

“Hey! it’s just for the lead single” Luke tried to cheer you up “then everything will go back to the way it was.”

How you wished Luke were right. What was just for a song became a promo stunt for the whole album you didn’t know how it happened between Instagram that seemed to be written by someone else and not Michael and strategic public appearances to get paparazzi photos you were not only were you losing your boyfriend to the media you were also losing your best friend.

“Don’t you guys think is suspicious that all the content from Michael and Chloe comes from paparazzi?”

“I don’t like talking about the guys’ private life but there’s something about C & M that I don’t like.”

You sighed closing twitter again and putting your phone back in your pocket. It was your birthday and it felt like shit. Not the feeling you wanted that day.

“Happy birthday babe!” Michael exclaimed “I think you saw on your phone about the jewelry store, but I still hope this can surprise you.”

“Thank you, Mike” you smiled opening the box with a beautiful necklace “I love it.”

“Later I’m going to show you the song I’ve been writing” he said, “it’s about you but first what do you want to do?”

“I don’t feel like doing anything to be honest.”

“Come on! It’s your birthday” he pushed “I know I haven’t been there for you completely and today I’m all yours.”

“Wow” you dried laugh “I have my boyfriend all to myself for one day what a gift.”

“You know this will be over soon.”

“Soon when?” you snapped “soon when you have to go on tour? Soon when the album earns a billion streams?”

“It’s just promo nothing is real.”

“I’m tired of the promo” you told him “You told it was just for the lead single and I was okay with that now the album is out, and you still are in a pr stunt and not with me.”

“You know this is out of my control!”

“It is under your control. You are selling a lie” you cried “you know I think the song would’ve done great in the charts without this you have passionate fans they would do anything for you. For the band, yet you had to go there and build an act. I don’t know if you mean anything anymore.”

“Don’t be so harsh with me Y/N” Michael begged “You know every song I write is about you. You are my muse.”

“Am I? Then why don’t you put an end to this hell? Why do you keep hurting me?” you asked, “why do we still have hide?”

“I don’t- I don’t know.”

“I do know” you said “you and I both lost and forgot what was real. I think it’d be better if we take time to ourselves you figure the things with the label out and I’ll just try to fix my broken heart.

You kissed him on the cheek. “Bye Michael.”

[lierrastunts-blog]

So where do I stand in my side of stans/exposers/both?

Honestly, from what I seen I think that they did start a public relations contract, and sometime recently started actually dating within their contract.

But keep in mind, a contract is a contract, and you have to follow through with what you sign. Meaning they can be actually dating, but they can also be under contract at the same time.

Allow me to put this into example; seeing that a good chunk in this fandom is young and may not understand some things.

A Contract is a piece(usually pieces) of paper that states what you are signing up for over the course of whatever time is stated on the paper. There are guildlines and rules you have to follow once you are “under contract” by signing it. And getting out of contracts are pretty difficult.

Say you don’t want to deal with the contract anymore, well that’s kind of too bad unless there’s reasonable requests to get out of it. Because “I don’t want to do this” or “I don’t want this anymore” isn’t going to work. You’re stuck with whatever you signed up for.

A Car is the perfect example(yes contracts are made for cars too). Say you get a car, and since you’re not buying it out completely, you have to sign a contract stating that you agree to make payments on it every month for however long the contract states. If you don’t want the car anymore and want to turn it in, by all means you can- but you still have to pay for it. But why would you still have to pay for a car even if you don’t have it anymore? Well, because you signed a Contract stating that you have to make payments every month until the contract expires.

-This is how every contract works, no matter what type it is. And by saying all of this I mean that Lierra can be together irl, but that doesn’t mean that they are free from not having to do PR stunts...and I fully believe that Sierra is using Luke and every part of the PR for fame and attention. I don’t think Luke is, but she’s definitely seemed to become comfortable with getting all the attention she has been.

[5secondsofrumorsblog]

They do it because no one cares or calls them out. You don’t even need to go to twitter to see it. 5sos tag is fulled with same 5 pics and people saying they are so happy for them. It is clear that this whole wedding thing is a pr stunt. Why else would they wait for a year and sell their pics to people? It’s either they don’t care that it is promotion or they don’t see it.

i think that the way they live says a lot about them. not only their friends but their actions as well and it’s really sad. maybe they really should go back do 2011 and be better people.

yes, this whole marriage thing is SO pr. luke posted on his instagram story that pic with sierra and it’s from michaels “anniversary”. also, luke and liz waited days or even a month to post something about liz visiting him. perfect timing AGAIN.

it’s all about pr. this is sad.