Dreams Come True (Austin Carlile/Ben Bruce)

Chapter 29

He stepped away from Ben, breathing hard and shaking his hand. I got to Ben, asking if he was alright, and checking to make sure he wasn't majorly hurt.

"What is your Malfunction?!" I yelled at Austin.

He kept shaking his hand, "You said you'd always say yes, if I ask for you back."

My jaw dropped. I knew what I had said, but I didn't know how to deal with him beating on Ben. "You haven't asked, Austin. You just started hitting, I am someone who prefers talking over fighting." I helped Ben up and we started walking back to the bus. "If you want to talk to me, you can text me, and we'll meet up somewhere." I tried not to cry in front of them. "I'm so sorry Ben."

We got to the bus, Cam was still busy, but Danny was in the kitchen drinking a beer, the girl was asleep in the back.

"What the fuck happened to you?" Danny set his beer down and came over to Ben on the couch.

I had texted Emily to come over and check him out in case I missed anything. There was a knock and then a lazy looking Emily walked in with a little case. "Asshole." She mumbled, then looked at Ben sincerely, "Not you. Sorry, I meant Austin. He's got some issues."

Ben nodded, while Emily patched him up, he explained what had happened.

"You didn't even get a swing in?" Danny scolded, "How are we supposed to keep our badass reputation if you won't even punch a man?"

Ben shook his head, "I didn't have a chance, and Randi doesn't like fighting." He looked at me, shyly smiling, "And I don't want to hurt her." Our eyes locked, and I felt as if my heart had completely filled me. He was trying to impress me, and he was succeeding. I kissed his cheek, he slightly flinched, and I mumbled a sorry. "Don't worry, I'd rather be kissed by you on a bruise then kissed by anybody else." He said it so quietly, I almost didn't realise what he said.

There was a ping from my phone. I sighed as I walked over to get it.

From Austin: ~Im surryy abt thst I ned ti tdlk to yiu plrasr. Timirrie.~

I squeezed my phone. He was drunk. He was a violent, cheating, yelling drunk. I shook my head and replied.

To Austin: ~Ask me when you're sober.~

I set my phone back in the bunk, and walked back to Ben on the couch.

"Well I'm finished. Might I have an escort back to my bus?" She nudged me, I stood and nodded.

"I'll be right back, okay? Just relax, it's almost four and we need to be up at ten." I kissed his forehead, and pointed at Sam and James, "Take care of him."

They nodded, and we walked out. Emily started talking about Ella and Austin haven't been doing anything but fighting on the bus, and if Austin was asking for me back it'd only be because he wants to get laid, because Ella has got the relationship part down.

I couldn't believe that someone I had idolised for so long, and then fell in love with, was so similar to my dad. I remembered my mothers nifty psychological fact: "You will be more attracted to a person that resembles the parent you have most issues with." I hated that. Growing up I had issues with both parents. My mom beat me, and at first I thought it was because of me, I was wrong, and if Sarah or Thomas were ever to be wrong they'd get beat too. But my mother only hurt me, so we weren't on the best of terms. And of course my drunken father, I was the only one who cared enough to try to stop him, which led to fights between us. I could see both parents in Austin, I knew he would physically hurt me, but my mother is a fantastic belittler; I'm sure Austin is too.

Emily had continued talking about how even Phil and Tino were getting annoyed by it, Alan wouldn't stay in the bus if they were fighting, and Aaron tried his hardest to be the mediator as always. That would always lead to him leaving the bus, and letting the full grown man to argue with a petty girl and her best friend, because of course, you couldn't separate those two. "But anyway." She took a breath as we came to the OM&M bus, "Alan says that Australia will be absolutely fantastic, and that he hopes I can wait until then. But I don't know hat he's talking about. Australia is like five months away!" She said excitedly, "I don't know what he's up to, but honestly, you know how badly I've wanted to go to Australia!"

I nodded, "I'll see you tomorrow, we've got a show, so I'll be at side-stage. There's no interview, because of the events of the day."

I walked back to the bus, and climbed into the bunk with Ben, cuddling up between him and the wall. He was already deeply asleep.

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