Baby Steps (Marianas Trench fanfic)

Chapter 6

A/N: I'm sorry this took so long guys :( I've been sporadically working on it for freaking ever, plus a lot of the later chapters are already done. This is a fairly long chapter I think so hopefully its okay for now. Also, wow! 600 READS??!? You guys are amazing, thanks so much!! As always please comment and let me know what you guys think. Love ya <3

Aaaannnnd I didn't really look this over so I don't know what the grammar/spelling is like so I apologize ahead of time but it's 1am right now :p

Mel's POV

I swear to God if I saw one more bit of construction happening along the road I would stop in the middle of the road and walk to Montreal. I had spent all night and well into the morning driving. What was supposed to be a 9 hour drive had been 12 hours of Hell and I still had some more driving to do. Once it seemed like I was out of the mess of construction I pulled into the first motel I saw and crashed.

"And now with the day's number 1 hit, it's Marianas Trench Fallout," the radio announcer's voice boomed out. How could anything be the day's number 1 hit at 10am? Stupid radio. Nevertheless, I sang along.

Another hour and a half of driving and I finally arrived at the venue and parked the car. I let out a sigh and rested my head on the steering wheel. 

Don't fall asleep yet, get inside and fall asleep in the waiting room, I thought to myself, but I was still very tired so I decided to just stay like this for another moment. Just one moment...

I was startled awake by a tapping on my window. I relaxed when I saw Ian and Mike standing there. I slowly pushed my door open and let my legs dangle out.

"Hey guys," 

"Hey Mel. Enjoying your car nap? And your cat pyjamas?" Ian asked, seeming more than a little perplexed.

"Very much, thanks, though I should probably go nap elsewhere. And me and my Hello Kitty PJ's are very comfortable together. We've never been separated and we sleep together every night. Actually not, but it's an open relationship and she's fine with my escapades with other pj's and never gets mad at me."

"Are you high?" Mike poked his head in front of Ian only to be shoved out of the way by him.

"No, very, very tired. I didn't end up sleeping until 7am and then woke up at 10 to drive here and now it's 12 and I want to take a nap before soundcheck,"

Mike poked his head back in front of Ian again, "Are you insane?" He and Ian exclaimed at the same time. It was almost comical.

"Let's go, you're going to nap on the bus. You can borrow my bunk." Ian said. I opened my mouth to protest but he cut me off. "Jesus Mel, our bus driver sleeps more than you do and he's awake all the freaking time."

I guess it wouldn't hurt to just take a nap in their bus, what was going to happen? Ian led me onto the bus whispering that Matt, Josh and Andy were still asleep.

"Alright, this one is mine. It's across from Josh's bunk." He said patting his bunk. I looked up at him.

"Ian. How do I get up there? If you haven't noticed, I'm not as tall as you guys are."

He smirked and put his hands together to give me a boost up. I climbed up, almost hitting my head on the ceiling of the bunk.

"Thanks. You're great, Ian. Can I ask you to wake me up for soundcheck?"

"For sure. I'll have to wake up Josh too. Now give me your keys so you don't stab yourself in your sleep." He held his hand out and I dropped my keys in his hand. Stifling a yawn I said, "Remind me to thank you again once I've actually slept." I lay down, not bothering to close the curtains, and fell asleep.