This One's For You (Of Mice & Men Fanfiction)

Chapter 4

Delilah's P.O.V

The first show was in Utah. I'd never really been anywhere outside of Florida before, except for grade 8 school camp, when our whole class went to New York. The majority of the class went to some broadway musical, but I stayed at the hotel and played Angry Birds on my iPod. That was a fun time. I was sound asleep in my bunk when a rush of light blasted in my face, causing me to roll over until I slowly woke up. It only took a few seconds, since i was used to getting up and rushing to safety from people like Dad, and when I rolled over again so I could crawl out of my bunk, I saw Austin sitting on the floor with a cheeky grin on his face. He'd opened the curtain to wake me up. "Fuck you." I groaned, before grabbing a pillow and shoving it over my face. "Noooo Delilah you have to get up now! I have to introduce you to everyone!" He said cheerfully. I was too tired to notice that the bus had stopped and that we'd reached Utah. I managed to drag myself out of my bunk and Austin helped me stand up, since both of our bunks were on the floor. It took almost two days to get here, and I'd been sleeping for the majority of the time, probably why Austin was so eager to wake me up.

By the time I'd gotten dressed and had breakfast, Austin was jumping around excitedly to show me everything. The rest of the band had already gone out, except for Alan, who was peacefully sleeping in his bunk. "So.. Who knows about the situation?" I asked Austin, referring to my suicide attempt and his promise to help me. He wore a serious thinking face before answering me. "All Time Low, Sleeping With Sirens, and Pierce The Veil. Those are the guys that I'm closest to anyway." He said with a smile. My expression was blank."Do you call people by their band names here?" I said jokingly. "Yeah pretty much. Whenever I want to talk to Alex I'm just like 'Hey All Time Low #1.'" Austin said seriously. I had no idea if he was joking or not.

At each venue for warped tour, there was one day allowed for the bands to arrive at the venue and for everything to be set up, and the next day a show would be played. The bands would spend three days at each venue. Since there were about forty venues, I could only go through a quarter of the tour before Austin would let me leave. Until then, I had to stay with him, and wasn't allowed to leave his sight. It kind of sucked, because I might have wanted to go off and do my own thing, maybe watch some of the bands play, but Austin wouldn't allow it. He'd said that if I went off somewhere without someone babysitting me, then I could end up doing something stupid. "You've taken everything sharp that I own, and there would be way too many witnesses here for me to act like an idiot, so how can I do something stupid?" I'd said to him before we left the bus. "Have you met the kids at warped tour? You could be hooked on drugs in a second!" he exclaimed. I wasnt that stupid, Austin.

I was taken to meet one of Austin's closest friends from Warped Tour; Kellin Quinn. He seemed like a pretty cool dude. His band was one of the ones that I'd listened to before leaving for tour. It was Sleeping With Sirens. His voice in incredibly high, like his balls were being twisted or something. Not a bad thing, it was awesome. After talking to Kellin a bit more, I learned that he was Christian, and he had a daughter. That's enough to know about someone when you first meet them, right? Kellin, Austin, and I were sitting against Sleeping With Sirens' tour bus, on the floor. I didn't even understand how Austin's legs could stretch across the ground like they did. They were so long, he was so tall, and all of the buses were literally about a metre apart. It was insane. We were all having a grand old time, until Austin decided to change the subject from Kellin's daughter, to me.

"Hey Kellin, I told you why Delilah's here didn't I?" Austin said, a bit too happily. I groaned and put my head in my hands. This wasn't going to be the best conversation.

"Yeah you did, and I reallly love what you're doing." Kellin smiled, and shot a sad look at me before Austin started talking again. "Do you reckon you'd be able to stay with her when I'm not around?" Austin asked Kellin, who nodded quickly. Okay, have a full conversation about me when I'm right here. Cool dudes. "Absolutely! I'd be happy too." Kellin said with a smile. I rolled my eyes at how eager he was, but at the same time I was grateful. It's not very often that people offer to make sure you're safe, and two people had done it within a week.

"Okay good, cause I have to set up, unless some kind human would like to do it for me.." Austin said, looking at Kellin and raising his eyebrows.

"Nope, fuck off." Kellin laughed, and Austin got up to leave. "Don't let her out of your sight!" He said as he walked off. Kellin waved him goodbye and shuffled over so we were sitting next to each other, since Austin was in the middle before. We talked for a while about the tour and Austin, until that backfired and Kellin started asking questions."I don't mean to be nosy or anything, but why did you do what you did?" Kellin asked, avoiding the words suicide, and jump. I ended up telling him everything, up to what happened only days before I'd left home. He was a good listener, I'd give him that, but at the same time he didn't have the same sense that Austin did. I guess because he was a completely different person, but still.

"What about your mother?" He asked me. Woah, I hadn't told anybody that part of the story yet. This was new. "I'm not allowed to talk about that." I said bluntly, looking Kellin directly in the eyes. His face softened.

"If it's because of your dad, well he's not here and he won't be able to do anything to you ever again." He assured me. "Well when this tour's over I'm gonna have to go home aren't I? I'll have to see him then." I complained. "Austin and I will make sure he's dealt with." Kellin's words stuck in my head for a few seconds. What does that even mean? How does he know Austin wants to deal with him? I looked away from Kellin before answering. "Dad killed her when I was thirteen.." I murmured, and out of the corner of my eye I could see his hand raise to cover his mouth. I explained that he didn't go to jail because he had forced her into suicide, just like he'd almost done to me several times before. There was no evidence of his forcing her into it, so he couldn't go to jail, just like he couldn't if I had ended up killing myself. We were both silent for a few minutes before Kellin spoke. "I used to have a dad like yours, but he left us. I always thought it was a bad thing, but hearing what you have to say makes me think otherwise." He said. We went silent again, and he enveloped me in a big hug, which must've lasted at least two minutes. Our hug was interrupted by Austin, who'd finished setting up and was coming back to take me somewhere. He didn't tell me where, I just had to find out when we arrived.