Troubled Souls

Tee and Movies (Chp 19)

*Benji's Pov*
I picked up my drumsticks and sat down. Listening to the noise outside the gates.
Sarrice looked at me nodded and counted down.
"CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!" Zeke screamed/growled into the microphone.
All the fans outside the gates looked and saw us warming up and started screaming.
Zeke laughed and started the slow beginning of the song.
"I can feel your eyes upon me from across the room.
Watching my every move.
Can I walk away, can I break away?"
"You had your chance and it's over now." Matt and Scar yell.
Then began the loud solid bass cords that mixed freely with my drums and the guitars.
Damion threw up his hand and held one finger up. He wants one more verse to make sure the crew had everything ready before we moved to another song.
I slowed my beat down and Scar walked to her microphone.
She laughed into it like she would in the song and then yelled,
"THIS IS HOW MY SKELETON RUNS!" And we broke into the second chorus.
"Behind her closet door, lies awake a face, one of misery for sure.
Remove these chains, let me run away and never return." Scar sings in the background.
"ALRIGHT YOUR GOOD!" Damion yells to us.
We stop and Zeke begins talking to the fans.
"Helloooooooo there." He says waving.
Matt puts his hands on his hips and stands in a position only a girl would and tilts his head a little.
"Heyyyy Williammmmm? Are my pants too tight?" He asks looking at Will through his eyelashes.
Will, who had been at the gate checking meet and greet passes, says something to the fans who laugh and slowly nod their heads and he turns around to look at Matt.
"Yooooo hoooooo Willly? Helloooooo?" Matt says again like a girl from the old movies trying to get a mans attention.
"No I uh never mind get off stage!" He yelled at us and we oblige moving off the stage.
We could hear the fans yelling for us but one look from Damion said no we couldn't go over there and we kept walking backstage.
"Hiya Ruxy come here girl." Sarrice said dropping to the floor in front of her puppy. She say playing with her while I walked off to find something to help with before meet and greet started.
"Yo! Benji! Give me a hand will ya?" I turn around to see the group who helps with merch and the stage equipment. I walked over and saw Connor and Kalel struggling with some boxes. I walk over and help them lug them to the tables.
"Connor! I need you over here to help with the drum set ups!" A random man yelled so he ran over to help and I helped Kalel set everything out.
"So how's your life for you?" I asked with a grin as she struggled to move a box.
"Fucking dandy, just peachy." She muttered.
"Well at least you get to talk to fans all night, I am stuck listening to Zeke and Matt's stupid-"
"Benji! Get over here now! Meet and greet are being let in, in 5 minutes!" Will yelled calling me over to the pit. I turned to Kalel and said a quick goodbye then ran to the pit as the fans where let in I stood with my hands on my knees panting. A shy voice asked if I was ok, startling me.
"Oh peachy, 100 percent ok!" I said straightening up.
Upon looking up I glanced over the semi short girl in front of me, neon purple hair hidden behind a beanie.
"Hi I'm Benji!" I said brightly.
"I know, I'm Tee." She mumbled.
I tilted my head at her and she started giggling.
"Huh?" I asked confused.
"You looked like a lost puppy." She said fully laughing now. She had this huge smile on her face and she looked so happy.
I pulled her in for a hug and squeezed her hard and she kept laughing. I put her back on her feet and we had a short conversation just us and other fans as well as Josh. Pretty much our band were crashing Twenty One Pilots meet and greet. I learned that she was 14 and purple was not her favorite color.
"Paulette!" I hear a man yell and Tee swore.
"Your names Paulette?" I asked her and she nodded, muttering an 'unfortunately.'
The man came over and introduced himself.
"I'm Jonathon Paulette's social worker." He shook my hand and I looked at her confused. She was an orphan?
"Yes I'm in foster care." She said.
"Well Paulette lets go these people have other fans to meet." Jonathon said to her grabbing her arm and pulling her away.
"Wait! Tee, come here."
She walked over to me confused. I grabbed the cd from her hands and signed it adding a note at the bottom.
"I never got to sign that, read the bottom later ok." I hugged her then walked over to a bigger group of people with Matt and Tany.
Scar as usual at meet and greets was in the corner talking to some of the quiet fans.
I got attacked into a hug making me laugh and hug the person back. I looked to see two girls hugging me.
"Hey there friends." I said looking at them and they starting laughing, again.
We talked to them for a while before we got called backstage.
We all sat on the floor once we got to a secluded area and just talked.
"There wasn't that many fans at meet and greet today." Matt said pouting.
"It'll be ok dude." Tany said ruffling his hair. Which he started yelling nonsense and flattened it back down.
"Oooohh oh! Let's go to the merch stand they let the fans in soon why not meet some over there!" Zeke sad really excited.
"No." We all turn and see Damion watching us.
"Why not DD? It was for once a good idea." I said earning a slap from Zeke.
"Yes they let in general admission in a few minutes but you guys don't understand how swamped the merch tents are about to get and you being over there may make it worse." He said shaking his head.
"Come on-" Tany started.
"No Destany just listen for once!" He snapped at Tany and she just looked at him.
What she did next I didn't expect. She stood up said something to him we couldn't hear and walked away.
I sat there open mouthed watching as she walked away.
"Damn." Scar managed.
"I'll go talk to her." She said standing up but I cut her off.
"Nah I'll go."
I ran after Tany and finally got close enough to grab her arm.
"Stop Tany, what's going on?" I said pulling her back.
She turned to look at me.
"Why couldn't you just let Sary come?" Which made me stop.
"How the-?"
"It's a girl thing." She shrugged.
"And this is another girl thing which involves me talking to you know a girl."
"But we're family." I said grabbing her and pulling her into a hug squeezing the life out of her.
"Let me go." She whined.
"Never!" I shouted. We both started laughing.
So while she was distracted I grabbed her and threw her over my shoulder.
I began walking with her yelling at me.
I get closer to our group and see Damion gone and yell for Matt.
"Yo?" He asked seeing Tany struggling.
"Get Scar!" I yell and naturally he throws her over his shoulder and follows me.
We get stopped by Connor who took a picture then we kept moving.
We walked into the merch tent and I sat Tany on the ground while Scar struggled out of Matt's grasp.
Kalel just watched all this with an amused grin.
"What's this about?" She asked.
"Nothing we'll stall the fans for a little bit. Now talk!"
We walked out and immediately were swarmed by a group of girls.
Matt whistled really loud grabbing their  attention.
"Hey keep away from the merch tent for a while they aren't finished setting up!" He yelled then we started taking pictures and talking to fans.
I couldn't help but wonder what the girls were talking about.
*Scar's Pov*
"So want to tell me what's up?" I asked Tany.
"Uh....."
"Come on Tan I can't help you if you don't talk to me." I said.
"Girl it can't be that bad so what's up?" Kalel said.
"I may have a uh mm." She started then mumbled the rest.
"What?"
"A tiny uh problem." She whispered. Looking up at me.
"Which is?"
She looked at me.
"You don't want to know and it's never going to happen anyways." She shrugged.
"No yeah I do, and you never knowwww." I sang.
She looked at me weirdly.
"Come on tell meeeeeee." Kalel whined.
"Fine! It's uh it's....I may like Damion." She said.
I looked at Kalel and then looked at Tany.
"Really? That's uh that's not bad I thought you were going to say Connor or something." Kalel said with a grin.
"He's like 8 years older than me!" She said looking at us like we are crazy.
"So age is just a number Tan." I said ruffling her hair.
"You saw how he treated me a few minutes ago it's like I'm a kid to him still." She muttered into her hands.
"Well maybe because that's all you given him to see. He doesn't get to see the mature serious Destany he sees the same age acting sophmore you were when we asked him to be our manager. Yes you are still young to him because you are only 19. Cheer up." I said punching her cheek and she moved away from my hand slapping it.
"Alright guys I have to get back to work and you need to go get ready. Go!" Kalel said giving us a hug and pushing us out of the tent.
We grabbed Matt and Benji and went backstage.
"Thank goodness! Let's go we are on a schedule guys and girls." Damion said when we came back.
I saluted him making him laugh and we kept walking past him to change and get on our war paint. Except not all of us, I shoved Tany towards him and shut the door behind me. Leaning on it, eavesdropping.
"Uh Tany?"
"Yeah?" She answered and I can imagine her scratching her head.
"I'm sorry for snapping at you earlier."
"It's ok, I wasn't really helping the situation any."
"About what you said-"
"Just forget about it."
"I can't."
...
"What?"
"Yeah I was being too much of an ass to realize I was hurting your feelings this whole tour. I've been nothing but an ass to you and I'm sorry."
"It- it's ok, honestly, I better go g-get ready." I laughed quietly as she stuttered.
"Uh ok. I'll come get you guys when it's time." He said and I moved from the door.
It opened and Tany walked in looking flustered.
"Sarrice can you come here." I walked over and she punched me in the shoulder...hard.
"Ow holy shit what was that for?" I exclaimed clutching my arm.
"1. Eavesdropping 2. Making me talk to him alone."
"Hah yeah how did you know I was listening?"
"Um I know you that's how."
"Well." I said expectantly.
"Well what?" She asked.
"What did you tell him earlier that he said you were right about?"
"Oh that. I told him that being a jerk wasn't a good look for him." She said scratching her neck nervously.
"Oh my gosh you go girl!" I said and hit her arm lightly.
"It's the truth." She said laughing.
"Hey hate to break up the moment but actually no I don't, GET READY!" Matt yelled.
"Ok, ok." I said throwing up my hands. I went to my bag and pulled out my clothes and went to put them on.
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"THANK YOU GUYS YOU WERE INCREDIBLE! We love you!" Tyler yelled into the microphone as soon as their last song was over.
They both came off the stage and over to us. We all talked about their set for a while and decided that watching a movie on one of the screens would be a good idea once the fans left.
We all helped move the equipment back to the buses and once we had all taken showers we came back into the venue to watch whatever Benji had picked out.
I was walking in the back four when someone caught my attention.
It was more than one person actually.
An adult and a young girl.
"Paulette you know better than to act that way! That was disrespectful to me and you know what happens when your disrespectful."
"No I don't want to go back to the other home please." The young girl begged.
"We'll talk tomorrow when I come collect you. Here catch a cab." He shoved some money in her hand and walked away.
She slowly sank to the ground crying.
"Hey there are you ok?" I asked her and she jumped back.
"Oh sorry I didn't mean to scare you. I'm Sarrice." I held out my hand and helped her up.
"I know. I'm Paulette but call me Tee." She said and shook my hand.
"Well Tee, what was that about?"
"That's my social worker. And apparently me dragging him here and going into the pit without telling him was disrespectful. So now I'm going to get moved to a new home and I have to find a way to get to my foster home now." She said looking at me, her eyes where desperate.
"Why don't you come inside and we'll figure this out." I suggested and her eyes went wide.
"Inside. With the rest of your band and Josh and Tyler?"
I nodded.
"Now come on it's a little cold out here."
I wrapped my arm around her shoulder and pulled her inside with me.
I walked through the door to the pit and see everyone laying down and sitting on blankets joking.
Benji had picked out, surprise surprise, Star Wars.
Aka the best movie series ever.
Besides Harry Potter.
Obviously.
"Guys! This is Tee she's gonna hang out for a while and after the movie we are taking her home ok, ok!" Everyone yelled in agreement and Benji came running over.
"Hey yeah you're sitting with me." He grabbed a laughing Tee and took off running with her in his arms.
"Sary! Over here!" I see Josh waving at me holding Rux  sitting next to Kalel and Matt so I head that way.
I sit down and look over and see Tany and Damion talking and joking.
I smiled and took Rux into my arms.
After much grumbling about wanting to watch the others and Benji insisting he take Tee home we decided we needed to leave. You know at 4 in the morning.
"Man what a way to finish a concert huh?" Damion said as we walked to the bus.
"Oh shut up you were asleep during the whole thing."
"I was not! You were playing with Rux the whole time, I know her collar kept me awake." He argued back.
"MOM DAD STOP FIGHTING!" Tany yelled from behind us.
Causing us to laugh and load up on the bus. We look and see Benji asleep on the couch with Tee leaning on him.
"What are we going to do about her?" I asked Damion.
"You know how her social worker treated her you saw it too."
"I called my mom." Benji said startling us.
"After I met her at first I wanted my mom to take her in. She has fostered before why not take in a girl who needs it."
"Well?" I asked.
"She's going to call the offices today. But I called Tee's foster mom and asked if she would let Tee go on the last few weeks of tour and she didn't even care. So she's coming. We'll get her clothes later."
Benji said picking her up and putting her in his bunk and laying back down on the couch.
"Well ok." Damion said looking at the rest of us. We shrugged and all went to lay down.
"Night guys!" I yelled and they all yelled goodnight.

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I'm backkkkkkkkkk! Hi lol anyways I'm sorry for not posting in forever. But I'm trying. Anywho I went to see All Time Low on Saturday and holy cow it was amazing! Sleeping with Sirens were there and Kellin pointed at me and winked and I died I swear. I was right at the barricade and woah was it worth it! Ahhh so much fun......now comes the sadness of missing my babies😢