Life on Tour (3) [Discontinued]

Chapter 5: Day One Concluded

The show ended up selling out and you had to go out to sell merch between each band's set as well as after the show. But a lot of the people at the concert were buying shirts and CDs and posters. Most of the poster sales were after the show while people were waiting in line to meet We the Kings. When you were finally able to get on the bus after the last fans had left and you had packed everything up, you were starving. Fortunately, Scooter had ordered pizza and it had just gotten there when you walked in. You gratefully accept a paper plate from Hunter and wait for your chance to get a couple pieces of pizza. Once you get your pizza you sit down on the bench area and look up at the tv, they're watching a rerun of Duck Dynasty, you give the TV a weird look but just go with it. Everyone from your school, and even your parents, watch the show, you find it interesting, but strange,  not one of the shows you'd keep up with on a regular basis.

You had been sitting between Colesby and Yoshi, but not long after you had sat down, Yoshi finished his pizza and got up, Travis quickly walking over and taking his place, handing you the second can of soda he was holding. You both sit there absentmindedly eating and chatting while semi-watching the show. By the time everyone has finished eating there's half a pizza left and when nobody wanted to eat it Nerd Rock declared it "Tomorrow's breakfast." So the slices got placed on plates and put in the little fridge and all the empty boxes taken out to the dumpsters by the venue, along with the now full trash bag. A couple minutes after they came back on the bus you felt the bus start up and slowly start to pull out of the venue parking lot. 

Everyone just hangs around talking for a couple hours in the front lounge. Some people go on the Internet and watch some videos or check twitter and facebook. After an hour someone would leave every few minutes, deciding it was time for them to go to sleep. Finally around 12:30 you and a majority of the people who were still up decided it was time for bed. You give Travis a kiss good night before you each climb into your bunks and shut the curtains. 

But as you lay in your bunk staring at the bottom of Charles' bunk above you, trying to sleep, you can feel the bus moving and every bounce and it makes it hard to sleep. So you pull out your nook as you listen to music and try to read a chapter or two of the book you had started at the airport this morning. 

After about an hour of this you quietly slide the curtain open and slide out of your bunk. First you carefully peek into the front lounge, no one is there anymore. So you decided to walk into the back lounge and just hang out in there until you felt like you could fall asleep finally. You weren't in there for five minutes when Travis walks in. "Can't sleep?" he asks. You give him a small smile and make an affirmative sound in reply, you were definitely tired, but you just couldn't fall asleep. "That usually happens the first couple of nights on the bus, it takes a bit of getting used to." he says, the corner of his mouth pulling upward slightly, not really a smirk, but kind of one at the same time.

He sits down on the couch and you lean your head into his chest, a comforted feeling instantly settling over you as you assume this familiar position. You had only put the lights up a little bit when you came in, but you could still make out Travis' eyes when you looked up at him. "Can we just stay right here for tonight?" you ask, no longer willing to get up and feeling like you could fall asleep easily now. "Of course," Travis whispers as you bury your head deeper into his chest and shut your eyes. You feel him recline into the couch a little more as he starts to stroke your hair. Sleepily you mutter "I love you." You feel his breath close to your ear as he whispers "I love you too." And with that, you fell asleep.