Dreams Come True (Austin Carlile/Ben Bruce)

Chapter 15

The flight to Paris was long and beautiful. Alan and Emily were cuddled in the two seater in front of Austin and I. Tino and Phil were set playing video games behind us. Austin just slept most of the way, he was so peaceful and fragile when he slept. His knees were brought up as his legs hung over me and his back against the window. So awkward, yet so comfortable looking. His long fingers entwined with mine.

We arrived at four in the afternoon, we grabbed our luggage and headed towards the taxis that would take us to our hotel. I was really excited to meet the other bands, no one would tell Emily and I who we were touring with.

The taxi ride over was eventful, full of oohs and ahs, and multiple "Randi, Emily, we'll look at that later."

When we got there I saw Vic and Kellin in the lobby, Emily smiled brightly. Kellin and Vic were so nice to us, when we went to our first "rocker" party. A night I glorified and stuck out in my memory.

We walked in and hugged and hello-ed our way through to our rooms. Our rooms were so nice, suites that were just beautiful. One entire wall was made of glass looking over Paris, the Eiffel Tower was large in the window, so close. There were three bedrooms; one with two beds, and the other two had one king size bed. I automatically knew that Tino and Phil would want the third bedroom with the two beds; they got their own full bathroom. When you first walked in you found a half bathroom on your left, and then in front of you was the living room, to the right was a full kitchen, and then two doors by the kitchen and a door by in the living room. The bedroom Austin wanted to share with me had its own bedroom and a king size bed, the theme was modern. Black and white everything, and one red pillow and one red towel and one red painting. It was a really minimalistic mindset. I found it absolutely stunning. Emily and Alan's room was the same as ours except it had the one blue towel, pillow, and painting.

We met in the kitchen, "We're going to a meeting, nothing formal, more like a party, but the first two hours will be without alcohol. It's just so we can meet our merch-folks and all of the bands and their crews." Alan said, "you guys don't need to dress up."

Emily blushed, we were still in our sweats from the plane, there was no way we weren't going to change. We rushed to our rooms. We came out ready, Emily was wearing a dark blue shirt with floral designs, and white tights that had Alice (from Alice in Wonderland) falling down the rabbit hole. I had on black tights with white stormtroopers on them and my storm trooper shirt/dress thingy. My black vans had white laces, which tied everything together. We smiled at each other and then headed to the living room where the guys were browsing the television. We sat on the edge by our men, and when 6pm came around we started leaving. We met in a large private room in a pub, four blocks from the Eiffel Tower. We sat at a large round table, fitting about 50 people, but from what I counted there would be about 66 people, so we were cutting it pretty close. The room was already crowded and I could see about six bands, all of my favourite. It'd be just my luck that a serious fangirl like myself would be stuck in a room with people I gloated over my entire life.

Emily grabbed my hand and clenched it. "Randi!" She whispered excitedly, "Is that Danny Worsnop?!"

I smiled large, "not only that but look it's Ben Bruce! Benjamin fucking Bruce!"

For me he was like the second in running, but again I had Austin, and of course he was the first prize for always and ever! Emily let go of my hand and Austin, so gracefully, took it. He looked around and then at me. With a large smile that read -oh Randi, good luck- he kissed the top of my head.

"You are really good at keeping your excitement hidden. Two months of being surrounded by bands has really worked with you."

I laughed, "you're going to have to deal with the excitement let out at home."

We walked in and found the crammed seats that were labeled "OM&M and crew" we sat down and two empty chairs were left between me and a very poofy-haired and smoking Benjamin. I clenched Austin's hand a little tighter.

"Babe, calm, you're keeping circulation from my hand." He laughed, "Hey Ben, this is my girlfriend, Randi, the one I've been telling you and Danny about."

He stuck out his hand, with the cigarette in his mouth, "Hello Randi, I'm obviously Ben Bruce."

I shook his hand, trying to squeeze to hard. "Hi" was all I could get out. He winked as I let go.

The wink really set me off, not in that ooey-gooey way but in the "dude he just said girlfriend, why are you winking." And I mean there's a difference between winking because it is a reasonable time, and a flirtatious wink. That wink was straight flirtatious.

I wasn't trying to think cocky, but he was weirdly looking at me... I've never been uncomfortable by a famous dude looking at me, but he was really creeping me out.

So any road. Everyone came in and sat down, the last two girls to come in were our merch-girls. A red-haired girl sat next to me, and a jet black haired girl sat beside her, dirty glares were shot at me from the girl with black hair. We went around the table saying our names and jobs. It started with the head manager.

"Hello I am Liam Dawson, I am the stage manager and head-honcho of this entire ordeal." He was the only one I really paid attention to, of course he was my actual boss. He seemed really cool, tatted up and had plugs that were see-through but had little mushrooms in them. I smiled as Kellin, Justin, Vic, Mike, Jaime, Tony, and Danny said their names and jobs. Ben's saying included. "I'm Ben fucking Bruce, and I play the bass and am an accompanying singing. But my job is to be a complete badass."

There was a bunch of scuffs were passed around and then middle finger flew across the table.

"Come on guys, now uhm Ella is it?" Liam smiled.

As Ella stood up, a disturbed "Shit!" Shot out of Austin's mouth, and Alan followed with a deep "Fuck"

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{AUTHORS NOTE}

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Why did Austin and Alan freak out? Who is this Ella girl? And her red-haired friend?

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