the five band members walk into the studio for another session with their producer aspen. "what's up my famous friends!" he exclaims as they walk into the dimly lit room.

"penny!" leilani exclaims, tackling aspen in a bear hug, making them both fall over onto the couch. "damn girl, what are you made of? bricks?" he jokes, pushing her off of him.

leilani gasps lightly, putting a hand over her heart. "that's just low aspen. too low." she says in mock offense.

"get over here you two." eva laughs, taking her zip up jacket off and getting comfortable on a fluffy bean bag. as dylan goes to sit next to her, karly plops down just in time, stopping dylan in his tracks. he gives her a blank look, and she gives him a sarcastic smile, showing that she knew his intentions.

"go strum your guitar, lover boy." she says sweetly, making evangeline chuckle. dylan huffs, going to grab his black guitar off of the wall, and sitting on a couch across from them.

"what are we doing today, aspen?" cierra asks, looking at the boys producing computer, and the thousands of files on it.

"i'll tell you as soon as someone tells me where the hell tommy is?" aspen questions, a confused look on his face.

"it's his day to buy everyone coffee." dylan sighs. aspen gives the group a look that asked "are you dumb?" and they all just looked away, not wanting any judgement from the boy.

"you know it's gonna take that boy an hour to go down the street for coffee." aspen points out.

"yeah we do. we tried to tell him that he didn't have to, but he insisted, so we just went with it." karly explains their conversation from dylan's house.

"dear god, someone call the boy." aspen shakes his head as evangeline goes to pull her phone out.

<••••>

that leads us here. with tommy at their local coffee shop. he was standing off to the side, waiting for their order of six coffees and one cookie (evangeline's usual pre session cookie).

his phone rang, and he pulls it out to see evangeline's contact pop up. "i got your cookie angel, you don't need to call and make sure. i forgot ONE time." he answers the phone, rolling his eyes.

there was an incident where he forgot to get her a cookie, and they had a fifteen minute argument over it. it wasn't pretty, and it took the whole rest of the band to shut them up. after that, tommy never forgot her cookie ever again.

"i'm not calling about that smart ass. aspen said to hurry back, we're starting a new song." she says, sprouting her usual tommy based insult.

it might seem like those two hate each other, but in reality, they loved each other to bits. they had your typical older brother-younger sister relationship: tommy bugged eva to her wits end, and she would yell at him in return, but at the end of the day, the two were always there for one another.

"oh okay. i'll be there in five." he says, seeing the workers finishing up their drinks.

"okay—oh and tommy?" eva stops him before he hung up. "yeah?" he responds, waiting for what she was going to leave him with.

"don't forget my cookie." she finally says, making the boy on the opposite side of the line sigh. "you know, i might just accidentally forget to grab your cookie." he says matter-of-factly.

"wouldn't be a smart choice on your end tom, you know that." evangeline says to him, a serious, get familiar tone to her voice.

tommy's face drops, and he sighs again, rolling his eyes at the younger girl. "bye evangeline." he lightly chuckles before hanging up.

"love you tommy." eva says, before hanging up on her end.

"order for tommy!" the barista yells, catching tommy's attention. he perks up, quickly making his way to the front of the line.

"thanks." he nods his head at the young woman, making her blush slightly. even thought it seemed like tommy was quite an awkward, outgoing kind of guy, he was also quite the lady's man, believe it or not. his infectious smile usually made girls swoon, and he wasn't even trying.

as tommy was adding sugars and such into his coffee, a tap on his shoulder averts his attention. "hey, can you hand me—" a soft voice, matched with beautiful face caught the boy off guard, making the coffee cup in his hand slip away from his finger tips, and onto the girl.

this is why they didn't send tommy on coffee runs.

oh. did i not mention that girl was alexa demie? well yeah. alexa. freaking. demie. "oh my god! i'm so sorry— i- um— you're alexa demie." tommy stubbles over his words in awe.

okay i know what you're thinking. "this is the lady's man you were talking about??" i mean cut the man some slack. it's alexa. freaking. demie!!

"uh, yeah. this coffee's really hot though." she chuckles, looking down at her coffee covered chest. tommy notices, and immediately starts to move towards the napkins. he hands her some, and tries, respectfully as possible, to watch her clean her shirt off.

"hey, you're tommy mackie right? from the dream? i love your guy's song so much." she says, throwing the now dirty napkins away.

"yes! i mean, yeah. that's me, and thank you, i love you in euphoria." he compliments her, loving the smile she gives him at his words.

"thank you so much! yeah i've had fade on repeat since it came out, and your instagram is really awesome." she says.

tommy couldn't believe what was happening. he never openly admitted it, but he had had a crush on alexa for some time now, but he never mentioned, because well, a year ago, he didn't expect to be in a semi famous band, much less talking to the alexa demie. he was completely star struck. not just because of who she was, but because of how incredibly stunning she was in person. her dark hair being pulling back into a slick ponytail, her light make up. everything about her looked absolutely perfect.

tommy noticed the time, and knew he had to leave, but he didn't want to leave alexa there with a stain on her shirt. "here, take this." he says, pulling his sweat shirt off, and handing it to her.

"oh no, you don't have to." she waves him off. he shakes his head, insisting that she take it. she laughs, taking the black jacket from his hands, and pulling it on.

"i know it's not so glamorous, but it's the least i could do for spilling coffee on you." he laughs, making alexa smile.

"thank you. hey could i maybe get your number? we could hang out sometime if you aren't busy." she asks, catching tommy totally off guard.

he pulls his phone out, handing it to her, as she puts her phone number in.

she thanks him again, grabbing her sugar, and leaving the coffee shop, also leaving behind a shocked tommy.

<••••>

after ordering another coffee, tommy finally made it to the studio with everyone's usually orders, a goofy smile on his face.

"took you long enough, we could've recorded the whole rest of the album while you were gone." aspen complains, spinning around in his swivel chair.

"uh uh. what's with the goofy ass smile on your face?" cierra asks, reading tommy's body language almost immediately.

"i couldn't care less, just gimme my cookie." eva says half-heartedly, gesturing towards tommy. he rolls his eyes at her, but tosses her the cookie, getting a kiss blown to him in response. "i'm kidding tommy, why're you so perky?" evangeline asks genuinely this time.

"i may or may not have just gotten alexa demie's number." he reveals, making everyone in the room's eyes widen.

"i'm sorry. what??" leilani exclaims.

"the alexa demie?" dylan asks in disbelief.

"you're sooo bullshitting right now! it's not okay to bullshit people thomas." evangeline warns him, pointing her finger out at him.

"i swear i'm not." he raises his hands in defense. he then tells them all about the coffee shop fiasco, making them all believe him, because let's face it. spilling coffee on someone is just something tommy would do.

"dude! that's huge! you just got alexa demie's number by ruining her outfit." dylan laughs.

"and you gave her your jacket? thomas mackie jr. who are you?" cierra jokes, slapping his shoulder, making tommy smile.

he loved how supportive his best friends were. this was a moment in his life where he was genuinely excited, and they were right behind him with the same energy.

"we'll let's take this good energy and channel it into the music people, let's get to work!" aspen exclaims, bringing the band back to earth.

as they all begin to work, tommy's phone buzzed, and the notification that came across the screen made him smile from ear to ear.

hi, it's alexa :)

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*large crowd* oh tommyyyyy

hehe i'm gonna have too much fun with this

also im behind on pre writing so until i get my schedule back together updates might be a little slower than usual<33