Short Character Stories (Mainly about Johnny Depp)

The Hollywood Vampire Groupie (Part 48)

Johnny Depp, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper and Tommy Henriksen had just finished their recent show in Romania and they were all ready to get into bed on their tour bus. Little did they know that a young groupie had sneaked into their bus and was hiding from them.

"... Boys, that show was epic." Tommy said as one by one, everyone got onto the tour bus.

"I know right." Alice added.

Joe and Alice went to the very back of the tour bus and to sit and text loved ones on their phones. Johnny went to the toilet and then crawled into his little bed and chilled out like Alice and Joe were.

After a while of just chatting and chilling out, the driver stopped the bus so the boys could have some dinner. As the boys got off the bus, the groupie came out from her hiding place under the sofa and looked around the bus. She saw each of the band mates guitars, their beds, suitcases and their empty food packets lying around the floor of the bus. She didn't know what to do, she knew she'd made a really bad choice doing this, but she just loved Johnny and the other vampires so much. She knew that is they caught her she'd be arrested, but she didn't care, she just wanted to be close to them.

After an hour, the boys all came back and got ready for bed. Johnny slept in his bed, Joe slept above him and Tommy slept below him. Alice slept opposite Johnny on the middle bunk. The girl kept hiding under the sofa. Once all of the boys were quiet and snoring away in bed, she crawled out from under the sofa, stood up and tried to stretch her legs for at least a couple minutes.

After a couple minutes of stretching, the girl felt hungry. She knew that she couldn't exactly eat anything in case the boys heard her, but she did grab  a water from the mini fridge and drank some of that. As she started crawling back under the sofa, she heard a light switch turn on and a man jump down from his bunk, it was Johnny Depp.

Johnny rubbed his eyes and didn't notice her at first. The girl froze and then slowly made tiny movements until she felt like she could hide again without making a sound. As she began laying down again under the sofa Johnny walked by and spotted her slightly empty bottle of water beside her. He saw the water bottle, then her eyes blinking at him. Seeing her woke him up like a flash. He didn't want to shout so he kneeled down and stared at her. The girl didn't know what to do so she just stared at him.

"Ma'am?"

She didn't say a word.

"Who are you? This is our tour bus."

No words.

"How old are you?"

The girl pulled her hands out and showed 10 fingers  twice.

"20?" He whispered.

The girl nodded.

"Damn. Are you homeless or something?"

She shook her head.

"Damn it. Get out from under the sofa, please."  Johnny helped the young lady up and sat her down where Joe sat previously. Johnny sat opposite her. "Please speak to me. Do you speak English or Romanian?"

She refused to speak.

"Romanian?"

She shook her head.

"English?"

She nodded.

"Alright. You can't be here. This is dangerous. We can't have random people here. You could get arrested, darling. Erm... I guess at our next stop I can have someone call the cops and have you taken home-"

The girl grabbed his arm and shook her head a lot.

"No? Darling, you can't come with us. You have no passport or anything. We could all get in trouble for trying to smuggle you out of Romania with no passport. You have to go."

"Please?" She said softly. "I'll do anything."

"A young women can't stay with us. We are all old men, it isn't appropriate for you to be here."

"I'll be well behaved. I'll do whatever you want me to do."

"Love, you can't. I'm so sorry...."

*

Johnny stayed awake all night with the young women, just so he'd know she was safe. He waited for all of the other boys to wake up the following morning before telling them separately. Johnny hid the girl in his bunk and explained things.

"Boys, we had a visitor last night."

"Who?"

"A spider?" Alice joked.

"No, a girl. A 20 year old. I made sure she was safe for the rest of the night, don't worry. I've hid her in my bunk for now."

"Jesus. How did she get here?"

"No idea. I feel like I should call the cops, but she seemed terrified."

"Jesus, show us her."

Johnny helped the girl out from his middle bunk and introduced her to the boys. "This is the girl. She's English, but shy. I've made sure she didn't take anything except from this bottle of water."

Once the boys saw her their unhappiness softened. She was only a 20 year old and she didn't seem dangerous at all. They all introduced themselves to her, but agreed that she shouldn't be here.

"Is there anyone we could call to pick you up?"

"No." She said. "It's just me."

"Then Johnny has no choice but to call the police, darl." Joe told her. 

The girl seemed upset, but knew it'd be for the best. "Ok. I'll go."

The driver stopped the tour bus in Hungary and let the girl out. Sean called the cops, but explained that none of the band were going to allow her to get arrested. The boys made sure she was safe and then gave her some Hollywood Vampire merch as a present.

"Goodbye." Alice said then hugged her.

"Bye." Joe said then hugged her.

"Don't do this again, bye." Joe said then hugged her.

Johnny hugged her last, "No more sneaking into tour buses. I know you didn't meant to get into trouble, so no harm done."

The boys gave her multiple different t-shirts, hats, hoodies and even Hollywood Vampire socks.

The girl was put in the back of a police car, not handcuffed, and the boys waved her goodbye.