where your love lies

Luke strummed lazily at the strings of his unplugged electric guitar, his feet up on Michael's coffee table, even though Michael had shoved them off twice already. The 5 Seconds of Summer boys had agreed on the track list for their fourth studio album, and there wasn't much else to do now other than wait for their manager to turn up and listen to the final arrangement and agree that everything was in good order and it was ready to be mastered - which meant promotion would be starting soon. Groaning with the thought, Luke started to sink down the arm chair, the bottom of his converse dirtying Michael's coffee table. Luke loved his band more than anything, but he couldn't help but wish sometimes that something new would fall into his life, something - someone for him to put his love into.

Violetta tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear as she hummed happily, looking over the top of her laptop to her bandmates, a small smile tugging at the corners of her lips before her eyes lowered to the screen once more, still reading through the comments of their uploaded video, a cover they'd done. The girls were determined for their band to take off, but as easy as it was to dream, it was difficult to get noticed, to get their music head. "Should we make a Twitter?" Violetta spoke up then. "I feel like, to get seen, we need to make social media. What do you think?" Looking to Alyx, Rosabel and Gracie then, Violetta raised her eyebrows in curiosity. "The comments are great so far though, you wanna read?"

Ashton copied the link that Lauren had sent him into his Internet browser with curiosity, and before he pressed enter, he decided that the boys needed to see this. "Oi, you lot!" Ashton called. "Get in here!" And hearing Luke's second groan, Ashton shook his head in amusement, pressing enter anyway, not wanting to wait any longer, his curiosity getting the best of him, as it always seemed to. Lauren had sent the link to the YouTube video, saying that the girl Ashton used to babysit for some extra money as a teenager - Alyx - had started a band and was posting covers to YouTube, something that Ashton used to do with Luke, Michael and Calum before 5 Seconds of Summer were discovered by One Direction. As the video started, and Alyx introduced the band, Ashton couldn't help but smile, his eyes finding the girl with honey coloured hair and a shy smile - and he knew he had to find Alyx again, wanting to help them along. "You're missing it!"

Gracie looked up from her notebook as she heard Violetta's question, looking to Alyx and Rosabel then, shrugging her shoulders lightly. "Well, maybe a Twitter isn't a bad idea, we could definitely reach a better audience." Gracie offered with a grin, tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear as she reached for her beloved bass. "Hey, Alyx, didn't you say a guy you knew got famous by YouTube?" Gracie asked with curiosity, sipping at her Red Bull, deciding to take a moment away from writing lyrics before her brain scrambled within her head.

Harry put YouTube into his search bar as he used his free hand to put the kettle on, Louis sat at the table, correcting some lyrics for Harry, at Harry's own request. "Cuppa coming up, Lou" Harry hummed then, approaching to place his laptop onto the table, before going and grabbing two cups - Harry liked sugar, Louis did not, and Harry somehow always got their cups mixed up when he wasn't concentrating enough. Harry had been living on cloud nine recently, and he couldn't deny it. Of course, he was a solo artist now, but with the release of his second album having come and gone and fans loving each single he put out, Harry was eager to work on some more music, knowing that Louis was doing exactly the same, in the same studios in Los Angeles and London - what were the odds? Sitting Louis' cup down in front of him, Harry nursed his own cup as he browsed through his suggested videos, eyebrows raising as he saw a video from Eliana & Elora, clicking on it from sheer curiosity, the two blonde girls in the vidoe preview enough to push him further. "Oh, look."

Elora sat on the sofa with her feet kicked up into Eliana's lap, scrolling through her hundreds of notes on her phone, each full of random lyrics she had thought of while out and about with Eliana, the both of them contributing to the content of their music. "Alright, so I've already deleted like, fifty notes." Elora sighed, handing her phone to Eliana. The app was so full it had been causing Elora's phone to run slow. "Your turn - delete whatever you find boring."

Alyx hummed out as she listened to Violetta and Gracie, stretched across a sofa as she thought. “Twitter would be good. Maybe an Instagram, too? Dedicated to band photos, of course,” she suggested, looking over at her friends, “We could do live streams, too, like Q and As - live streams get bumped to the top of priorities on Youtube, it could attract more attention from people.” She lifted her shoulders in a shrug but stood up and made her way over. “Let’s look at those comments.” She blinked, though, looking to Gracie. “Yeah, he’s in some band - 5 Seconds of Summer, I think. They’re pretty big these days, I’m sure we’ve heard their music on store radios and such.”

Rosabel listened to the others and made a face. “If we do those, we could take turns controlling the Twitter and Instagram,” she suggested, lifting her shoulders in a shrug, “Though I don’t think I’ll be much help in Q and As…” She was far too shy for that, but she knew her friends knew her well enough that they’d know that. Shifting, she stood up from her spot on the floor, where she’d been tapping at her shoes in rhythm, bored, and headed over. “Are they at least good comments?”

Michael made a face when he saw Luke’s feet on the coffee table again. “Oi, how many times do I have to tell you not to do that?” he chastised, moving over to shove them off once again, rolling his eyes slightly as he watched him. “Next time, I’ll just steal your shoes and toss them in the pool.” He heard Ashton, though, and sighed. “Fine, fine, we’re coming!” Kicking at Luke’s leg gently, he moved past his friends to go join Ashton, curious to what had him calling them in there all of a sudden. “What’s got you so riled up, mate? Not even showing an ounce of patience, shame on you.” He moved over to sit down, arching a brow as he watched Ashton, though he blinked when he heard music playing and moved closer. “What’s that? What’s going on? What are you listening to?”

Calum could admit his curiosity was piqued when he heard Ashton calling them all over to him. He arched a brow and grinned at Luke, but quickly stood and rushed to get to the others, determined to beat Luke there - it wasn’t like Luke was budging yet, anyway, and he got a bit of satisfaction with knowing that Luke would be the last one to know whatever was going on. “Oi,” he said as he entered the room Ashton and Michael were in, arching a brow. “What are you going on about?” He could hear Michael as he’d entered, which caused him to grow all the more curious and he moved to sit down close to the others. “Who are they?” he asked when he saw the girls on the screen.

Louis nodded slightly as he took the cup. “Finally, took you long enough,” he joked lightly, amused, as he was sitting down, scrolling through his phone boredly. He didn’t have much to keep him busy right now, so hanging out with Harry for a bit seemed like a good idea - it’d been a while since they got to hang out at all, and he figured now was as good a time as any. “Thanks, mate.” He held up the cup in thanks and set his phone down, but he arched a brow when Harry tried to get his attention. “What is it?” Lifting his gaze, his eyes landed on the screen, and he immediately found himself curious. “Oh, what’s this? You heard of them before?” Because he certainly hadn’t.

Eliana offered an amused look when she heard Elora, arching a brow in surprise. “See, this is why I write my ideas out on paper,” she teased lightly, “Then I never have to delete them.” She was sure she had boxes full of song ideas and pieces of lyrics by this time, but she never wanted to get rid of any of them, because she was sure that either she could use them at some point or that they would eventually inspire something else, something better. Still, she took Elora’s phone to scroll through her notes.