I'll Run to You // Awsten Knight

Chapter 7-Sight Seeing

October 6th, 2017

Everyone heads out of the venue and Hope is taking Nicole to her own house. The tour bus isn't very big, but at least they don't have to use a trailer on the back of the bus like they had to for Warped Tour, which was a plus.

This one was slightly bigger and enough to fit all they brought. There were 8 bunks, 4 on each side of the bus across from each other. The last one on the bottom of each row is where they store their suitcases and bags.

When you first enter, to your right is a couch, storage, mini fridge, tv, and a tiny "kitchen". To your left are the bunks, and if you pass those, is the door to the bathroom.

Otto insisted they had mattresses you could change the covers on, so they had to buy it, but it wasn't all that bad.

Awsten wanted to make sure everything was perfect for when Hope came back so he got everything in order, including everything in his bunk, and everyone was getting suspicious of him.

"Why are you cleaning your bunk," Geoff asks, then with a smirk he says. "Expecting company in there tonight buddy?"

"What th- no! No, no, no, NO." Awsten shouts. "I'm just..cleaning up is all. There's nothing special about that, okay?"

"Alright, suit yourself then." Jawn jumps back on the couch.

"Must you do that every time you get on here? This isn't a bouncy castle and we paid good money for these cushions." Lucas complains, he would be the one to nitpick about these types of things.

//

One hour has gone by and everyone is now in bed, except Awsten. It's almost 1 am and luckily they have a day off tomorrow, or you could call it today.

Awsten hears the bus door open and sees Hope coming through the doorway. He lets her close the door behind her before coming up and hugging her.

"Awsten, we only haven't seen each other for almost 3 hours, why do you want to hug me?" She hugs back.

"I don't know, just happy that you're safe. Oh, and tomorrow we have to take your car to your apartment, we can't leave it in the parking lot." He breaks away from the hug.

"Yeah, I kind of figured that." She laughs slightly.

"Can y'all shut up and go to bed? I'm trying to sleep here." Otto pokes out his head and sounds extremely tired.

"Yeah, yeah, give us a few minutes and we'll get out of your hair, now go back to sleep dumbass." Awsten retorts.

"I should get ready. Where did Lucas put all my stuff?"

Awsten points to the bunk with her stuff in it and says "And there's the bathroom." He points to the back of the bus.

"Thank you." She whispers.

Awsten just goes back to the couch and goes on his phone. He's usually never tired, but has had a spark of energy for the last month or so. Maybe from her?

//

She comes out of the bathroom in a tank top and sweatpants and Awsten keeps his eyes focused on her.

"What?" Hope laughs.

Awsten turns red from embarrassment and clears his throat. "Nothing- uh- nothing." He turns back to his phone.

She walks up to him and sits next to him on the couch, placing her head on his shoulder. "Thank you for all of this." And she smiles.

At this point Awsten is speechless and his face is as red as a tomato. "I- um.."