I'll Run to You // Awsten Knight

Chapter 18-Suspicious

October 21, 2017

San Francisco, California

"Guys, let's hurry! We have to leave right now!" Lucas comes into Otto and Jawn's room, taking their other things into his own hands and dragging them into the hallway.

"Dude, we don't have to be there until tomorrow, we have plenty of time." Otto grumbles, stumbling out into the hallway.

"Yes, but these next three shows are all sold out and they're your last ones of this tour, so you all need to focus...and wake up." Lucas taps Otto on the face, who's nearly half asleep. "Guys, come on, it's the afternoon, you should not be this tired. Look at me, I'm fully awake."

"And you're also the one who doesn't have to be put under pressure in front of hundreds every show, so chill the fuck out." Awsten explains, he's bringing the last of their bags out into the hallway and locks the room door behind him. "But anyway, that should be all, right?"

Lucas nods at him in agreement.

"Then let's get going, I hate seeing the same dark and empty hallway every time I walk out of these rooms."

"You see the same hallway every time you walk out of you own room, Awsten." Hope explains.

"Well, this one is dark and smells weird and I don't like it." Awsten crosses his arms and pouts.

Hope scoffs with a smile and takes her things into her hands, and gestures Awsten to do the same.

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They all finally got their things loaded into the bus and immediately, Awsten has one of his arms wrapped around Hope's waist on the couch and Otto immediately pulls Geoff to the back of the bus.

"See? I told you something was going on between those two." Otto points toward the two on the couch.

"Otto, that doesn't mean anything, they're just sitting next to each other."

"But he's got his arm around her waist, that doesn't mean anything to you?" Otto whisper yells.

"To me, it doesn't, but you can go ahead and think that it does, none of us are stopping you." Geoff rolls his eyes and walk away, going to check on his phone.

"Alright guys, let's hit the road." Lucas starts the bus and pulls out of the hotel parking lot.

About an hour into watching a movie, Awsten's eyes seem to light up, like he came up with a perfect idea. So he quickly tells Hope that he'll be right back and hurries to get a notebook, a pen, and eagerly hops into his bunk and closes the curtain. The only thing you can see coming from it was a small light peeking through over the curtain.

Hope furrows her eyebrows and gives Jawn a confused look, his only response is shrugging his shoulders.

She decides to get up and go to Awsten's bunk, not opening the curtain just yet, "Aws, you okay in there?"

Awsten's completely caught off guard so he lifts his head up for his forehead to be met with the ceiling of his bunk. "Shit..OW!"

Hope opens up the curtain to see Awsten rubbing his forehead with a frown of his face.

"Aww, are you okay?" She gives him a sympathetic smile.

"I guess so." He hesitates.

Awsten opens his mouth to say something but chooses not to once he feels Hope kissing his forehead, right where he hit it.

"One more?" Awsten pouts.

"Okay, okay, fine." She leans in to kiss his forehead again but Awsten cuts in, moving her face lightly with his hand, "Not there." Then he pulls her in to peck her lips, "There." He smiles.

Hope lets out a laugh. "So, what're you working on there?"

"You'll have to wait to see I guess." Awsten pulls his notebook away so she can't read what he's written in it.

"Man, how long am I going to have to wait?"

"After tour maybe? I haven't thought about it yet, maybe you'll even have to wait until January."

"But both are so far away."

"The last day of tour is in ten days, what do you mean?" Awsten finds her reaction amusing.

"I just don't want to wait that long." 

(HEY YEAH THIS IS A LOT SHORTER THAN USUAL BUT I DONT REALLY HAVE ANY PLANS FOR THIS CHAPTER SO IM JUST GONNA SPEND ALL DAY IN MY NOTES TRYING TO GET AN IDEA)