Lost In The Dark

Chapter 2

I watched as Dora and Maria left, I sincerely wished them the best from the bottom of my heart. Around me, everyone was starting to pack up and move things into the bus. Jayy was leaning on the door frame watching all the work, but doing nothing himself. I shook my head and walked over to him. 

"Hey Jayy" I greeted him with a smile. 

"Hey Dahv, what's up?" 

"Nothing much, aren't you gonna help?" Jayy looked at me as if I had suddenly grown an extra head. 

"Bitch please, when have you ever seen me help?" I thought about it, come to think of it, I never really had seen Jayy help out with packing. I was not gonna stand for that! 

"Listen here Mr. Monroe! You better get your ass moving before I count to five or I'm gonna take all your alcohol and pour it down the drain!" Jayy looked at me, his face was contorted in a look of mock terror. He quickly ran to the nearest packed box, picked it up and began to haul it onto the bus. 

"See Dahvie, I'm helping! You see, you see!" I chuckled decided to do some helping of my own, I took the black box that held the microphones and other stuff like that and carried it out to the bus. Salt Lake City's November air was cool and crisp, there was half a moon grinning down at us and the sky was speckled with icy stars. I took a deep breath, enjoying what was left of the night. 

"Dahvie!" Someone called my name from somewhere behind me. 

"Coming!" I shouted back, I put the box in the bus and rushed back inside, the guys were practically done, there was only a couple of boxes left. I looked for the person who had called my name, I saw Jayy and Jeffree off in a corner taking some shots of Jack Daniels, it had to be one of those two. 

"Who called me?" I asked and accepted a shot of whiskey handed to me by Jeffree. 

"This bitch." Jeffree said and pointed a clawed finger at Jayy who was taking a huge swig from the bottle, he finished and put the bottle down. 

"I was just wondering where you were." He said. 

"Well I actually help around the bus, so I was helping with the packing." 

"Oooh, okay." Jayy smiled and took another swig of Jack Daniels, I swear sometimes he was like a giant child who loved to drink. 

"Come on Jayy, time to go." 

"Awww...can I bring my bottle?" I rolled my eyes at him. 

"Yes Jayy, you can bring the bottle." He held onto the bottle as I guided him up onto the bus and onto the couch, Hailey was in the small makeshift kitchen drinking some orange juice, when she saw me walk in with Jayy, she set down her glass and went to get the makeup wipes from the bathroom. I got myself a glass of water and sat down to wait for Hailey, Jayy had put down the bottle and was softly singing, or at least trying to sing, Bitches Get Stitches. Hailey returned and sat next to me on the couch, 

"How was the show?" She asked while she began to clean the makeup from my face, 

"You were there weren't you? But if you must know, it was great, I met a couple of really cool girls, one of them had a wonderful voice." 

"Really, what was her name?" 

"Maria." Hailey handed me some wipes and I began to clean Jayy's face. 

"Yeah!" Jayy suddenly shouted. "Her voice was really sweet, bitch had some talent!" Hailey and I laughed. Soon our faces were clean. I took Jayy and guided him to his bunk. He tossed for a few minutes trying to get comfortable, then he sighed and closed his eyes.