Here We Go Again

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The rest of February passes by much like January did, with the band's pre-tour schedule keeping us busy with a thousand and one things. The interviews, appearances, photo shoots, brand deals, tour date announcements, meeting with our openers, and social media interactions all seem to bleed together into one big string of pure chaos.

Lizzie's been great about all the long days that basically picked up a few days after the engagement. She's been quite busy herself since filming for Dr. Strange 2 is fixing to start soon, but I'm starting to think that maybe proposing right before the band went on tour and right as she was scheduled to start filming this project wasn't my greatest idea. Because the closer the band's departure date gets the more my stomach churns uncomfortably at the thought of leaving. I don't want to spend any of our engagement apart, especially not for the five months we'll be apart, save for a few holidays and breaks we each set aside for visits.

It's also been a struggle because, now that we have Olivia in our lives, we've had to plan everything around her. We've got a schedule all made up for her to spend the first half with Lizzie, so she can finish out the school year, and then when Lizzie goes to film in London in May she'll be joining me and the band to finish out the last leg of the tour.

We'll be done touring by the end of July, just in time for Scarlet and Colin's wedding, and Lizzie's supposed to be finished with filming in London by then as well. I just know I'm going to miss her like crazy, and I think we're both feeling that this impending goodbye will be a little worse than the first time around we did this now that we're engaged. But I also know that this is our lives, and that there's never really going to be a "good enough" time to start our life together, we just have to go with the flow and do what we do best. Make it work.

Today, however, marks the small break in the chaos. It's the last day of pre-tour press, so when I'm dismissed from the band's final interview to go home and spend my last two days before we leave I waste no time in racing out to the parking lot, avoiding the flashing of cameras that are waiting for me. I don't have to pick up Liv from school until three, and it's just a little past eleven, so I should have plenty of time to visit Lizzie on set for lunch after I send her a text to make sure she's free.

I'm sure I break a few speed limits on my way there, but I arrive at the infamous Marvel Studios gates fairly quickly after picking up some takeout. I've been given a special visitor's pass, courtesy of the one and only Kevin Feige, as an engagement present and security lets me in right away with a smile. I park my bike behind Lizzie's car before jogging off in the general direction of the cast trailers where Lizzie told me to wait for her, and I can't help but smile and think about the last time I was here, and about how much has changed these past few months. Life's fucking crazy.

A few crew members greet me as I finally arrive at the rows of trailers, and I politely return their smiles and kind words before ducking myself into the one with my betrothed's name on it. The sight of her name makes me pause for a second, picturing what it would be like to become an Olsen, and it suddenly occurs to me that we haven't discussed the whole who's-taking-whose last name thing yet. I mean, we haven't really discussed anything concerning marriage because of how busy we've both been, but the thought of taking Lizzie's last name makes me smile to myself, and store that bit of thought away to bring up with her later.

I bypass the couch as I drop the food down onto it and head straight for the messy bed in the back of the trailer, throwing myself down on the matress with a sigh, slinging my arm over my eyes as I try to fight back a yawn. I don't know if it's the mattress underneath me that's super comfortable, or if it's the fact that the sheets and pillows smell like Lizzie, but I want nothing more than to curl up and take a nap. I was up well before the sun this morning and I'm starting to feel my tiredness settle in.

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