Anxiety • part 1

47 • reality

"I slept so good." I said as I stretched my arms and legs. Ashton had just woken me up as we were about to land in LA and somehow he had been able to talk me into trying to sleep at the beginning of the flight. We both slept through the first part of the flight and I was allowed to go out with Piper during the layover to let her run but Ashton just turned his head around and slept further. I think it took me not longer than a minute to fall asleep again once we were up in the air and a stewardess had to wake up Ashton when we were about to land.

"I don't even remember half of the flight. I have never slept this good on a flight before." He said with a chuckle.

"Sorry for interrupting again but I just wanted to say I tried my best to keep people from taking pictures but there might have been a few taken from people's seats. You were both so fast asleep that you didn't notice." The stewardess that woke Ashton up said as she stood beside me.

"It's okay, thank you for trying." Ashton said with a smile before looking at me.

"You're welcome, I hope you have a nice stay in LA." She said to me before leaving again.

"Now we just got to survive going from the plane to the taxi zone." He said with a sigh as he checked his phone and twitter was full with pictures of fans at the airport.

"Just great." I said with a sigh, we were allowed to unbuckle our seatbelts so I held Piper in my arms before getting up. Ashton gave me my backpack and took Piper from me. Piper was getting a little heavy to hold and I could manage holding her for short periods but holding her from the plane till the lugage pickup was pretty long.

"Piper needs to go on a diet." Ashton said with a chuckle as he walked behind me to the exit. I looked behind me and smiled as I saw the way he was holding her. He was holding her on her back like you'd hold a baby and Piper was just looking around excited. She's weird.

"She is perfect for her size. She just got a bit bigger than we expected." I said to defend Piper.

"Ofcourse" he replied with a laugh. We walked uninterrupted to the lugage pickup and Ashton put Piper down he held open his arms for me and I stepped into them happily. He hugged me thightly and we were both still so exhausted. "I will be so glad when we get back home."

"Same. We can still sleep another 2 to 3 hours without messing up our sleeping shedule." I replied before looking at the luggage that was coming up.

"How did we just sleep for 14 hours and are still so exhausted?" He asked and I shrugged my shoulders

"Atleast we still have the weekend before we have to get back to work." I replied with a smile and he nodded happily before going over to take his suitcase. It took a little longer for my suitcase to come up and once we had them we started heading outside.

We had put the suitcases on a luggage cart and Piper was sitting ontop of them so neither of us had to carry her. Ofcourse she has her own feet to walk but it was so crowded and I was just scared someone in a hurry that might not have seen her might step on her so its either on the cart or being carried.

"And here it starts." I said as I already heard a group of fans singing before we even saw them.

"Just stay close to me, airports are usually a lot worse than being stopped on the street. And if you need to, just walk out without me and wait outside." He said to me and I nodded.

"You do know I've been at an airport with you before, right?"

"Not like this." He warned me and as we turned the corner, about 30-40 fans were standing in the waiting area. We had to pass right through it and they had seen us quickly. I could see Piper got freaked out by the sudden screams so I picked her off the cart and held her against me which calmed both of us down.