Darling You'll be okay~

Chapter 11: Choices

Luna’s POV

I rubbed my eyes & looked around the darkened bus, sighing. I never slept anymore. I rolled to my right & watched Tony breathing quietly for a few minutes. It was still weird to fall asleep next to him. I got that there wasn’t any other room on the bus, but it was still pretty incredible that he was willing to share. I slipped out of bed & tiptoed past Mike & Stella, suppressing a laugh as I saw that Mike was basically smothering her, sprawling his arms over her smaller frame. She looked peaceful, I was glad. My fingertips searched for the couch in the shaky moonlight coming through the windows & I crawled to a window seat & curled up, tucking my feet beneath me. I let the rolling landscapes we raced past calm me down. Stella was the only one who knew about my bad dreams, & I knew I could always wake her, but she looked content, & I wanted her to sleep. She needed it. Instead I hugged my knees to my chest, thinking. We had been here weeks already. Somehow had ended up with the people that Stella & I had always thought of as guardian angels. But that confrontation with our parents--I paused to shudder a bit as I remembered--had helped me to remember that this was not a fairytale. They knew where we were, & eventually they’d catch up to us, maybe even charge the guys with kidnapping or whatever other bullshit they decided to pull. The past couple weeks has been amazing, and I loved how safe it felt, but we were overstaying the boys’ hospitality. Stella & I didn’t even have our own clothes for chrissakes! We were wearing Mike & Tony’s t-shirts as dresses. And while I secretly loved walking around with Tony’s scent drifting off my clothes, it had to end. Stowing away while the guys were touring was one thing, but where would we go when the tour ended & they went back to their friends, family? Plus I got the distinct impression that Vic & Jaime were not quite as pleased we were here as the other guys. And they were right. I hated depending on other people’s charity like this. I knew Mike & Tony were just being nice, though it seemed like Mike really did love Stella. I grimaced imagining the conversation I was going to have to have with her after the guys left for warm ups tomorrow. I cursed my parents, & my own age. Stella was nineteen. She was free to go, stay with these guys if she wanted, get a job, & start a real life with Mike. But I was seventeen. I still technically belonged to my parents. Bile built in the back of my throat thinking about that fact. I wanted Stella to be happy more than anything, but I knew she would never ditch me. So I had two choices. I could either leave without her, get off in the next city we stopped in & try & make it on my own until I reached 18, or I could tell her & we’d leave together. But could I really ruin her first real shot at happiness? I scrunched my face unhappily. At least I had until morning to decide. But the dawn was only hours away now. I had to make a choice soon.

Stella's POV

It was morning and Mike was gone, I got up and looked around, I saw Luna sitting alone and I walked over to her.

"Hey, Luna" I said and sat down next to me, she looked at me and sighed. I knew what was happening, she was worried, scared. I couldn't blame her.

"We have to talk" She said to me. I was scared, her voice sounded regretful but yet somehow sad.

I nodded and she began "I think we should leave, we don't have our own clothes, Vic and Jaime seem like we are invading their space and you know I hate charity" She said me.

I stopped playing with mike's shirt and looked up at her "Leave? You want me to leave? Do you not see that i am happy finally? That something is going right for us? Tony loves you! Mike Loves me! I love him! I'm on a bus with 4 guys that kept me alive, that are our damn saviours from horrible people!" I screamed at her.

"Stella, stop." She said

"No Luna! If you wanna leave, tell Tony that! explain it to him! I love you but I'm happy here, Mike is making me better. He's taking time to fix me, you want to ruin that? I talked to mike about clothes, he and Tony are taking us shopping. I'll talk to Vic and Jaime about this, I refuse to leave." I yelled

Luna turned her head and sighed. "Stella, Tony is amazing, I really like him and you know I wouldnt leave unless I had a reason, We just need to think about after tour."

"We will talk to them about it when it happens, haven't you always told me to never worry about the simple things to early?" I said to her, she nodded. "Luna, We are welcomed here, Jaime and Vic would never kick us off Vic wants mike happy and I make him happy, can't you see that?"

"Stella, I do, I know it. I love seeing you happy, it gives me hope, but i'm only 17-" I stopped her

"Shut up, Age doesn't matter anymore, our parents left us in alley, we would get taken away and end up seperated in a orphange, you know I can not deal with that. We are safe with these 4 lovely men. Trust me on this, please?" I said

"Wow Stella, I never thought of it that way..." She said, her voice trailed off.

"Luna, I love you, We aren't gonna seperate but I want you to know that we are safe here, we are wanted." I said to her

"You're right." She finally said.

I changed her mind and I was happy. But one thing needed to be done, we needed to talk about after tour with the guys and I was terrified of this conversation, I didn't know what would happen, At all.