just the way you are

chapter eighteen: columbus, ohio (week thirteen)

"damn it!"

bailey could hear her younger brother from four rows in front of him.

"brody cameron," bailey scolded. "watch the mouth!"

"sorry!"

"what's up with him today?" molly asked. she was across the aisle from bailey who was stretched out on her seat. there weren't a lot of people on the social bus on this rainy morning, so people didn't have to share seats unless they chose to.

"he's watching the recording of the missouri state basketball game from last night," bailey rolled her eyes as she read a book that stephanie had leant her. "we lost to illinois state."

"oh boy," molly shook her head. "he's going to be like this all bus ride, isn't he?"

"probably," bailey sighed. "i didn't let him watch the game last night because him and skylar weren't packed at all, so now we have to deal with him watching it."

"fun."

"i'm freezing."

"where's your rain jacket?" molly asked her friend.

"in my trunk," bailey grimaced. "when i packed the trunk the weather app did not say it was supposed to be raining and shit."

"oh yeah, blame it on the weather app," daisy came over to the two girls. she had been on the quiet bus with melissa, who was also walking over, while molly and bailey were on the social bus. "we're driving through the midwest, boo, you should know better than anyone to expect the unexpected."

"yeah, yeah," bailey rolled her eyes. the four women were inside chick - fil - a picking up their orders. the four had been smart enough to place mobile orders since they had stopped for lunch at noon. "thank you, ms virginia for that lovely information."

"don't be rude because your wet, charlie grace," melissa sighed jokingly. she had started calling bailey by the nickname charlie grace after she tripped up the stairs for the fifth time in two days.

"yes, puddles," unlike bailey, melissa loved the rain so chaz had dubbed her as puddles and it quickly caught on. "i'll attempt to be nice."

"why would you want ice cream it's like 30 degrees?"

bailey was sitting in the green room between shows the next day with ben, josh, sky, brody, and demarius along with wren who she was babysitting for meredith and steve to have a lunch date.

"ice cream sounds good," josh complained. "hey bails, are there any ice cream places around here?"

"and why would i know that?" bailey looked up from where she was coloring with wren. "it's like 30 degrees or something."

"exactly," demarius agreed. "it's too cold for ice cream, joshua."

"there's a place like five minutes from here if we walk," sky answered josh's original question. "it's called toft's grand scoop."

"they're going aren't they?" demarius said. "no matter what we say."

"yep," bailey nodded. "hey wren wren, do you want to get ice cream?"