The back of my eyelids changed from pale red to a bright green in seconds. I jolted awake, shocked from this change. Looking around, still in a haze though, I could make out my army green blanket wrapped around me, my pillow on the floor next to me, and my bag at the end of the seat.
I sleepily yawned and stretched out my arms. Golden yellow lights light up the large van as we drove by. One by on, on both sides, they took turns making themselves dance on the dark interior. None of the others seemed to take notice of this, as they were asleep, and John was to busy focused on the road.
I closed my eyes for a second and listened to some nameless English singer that was playing through my headphones. He sang softly with an acoustic guitar, the lyrics about some girl lost in the world. I opened my eyes and yawned.
Clicking in my phone screen, the time, four oh two, flashes across the screen, blinding me for a second. With a groan, I unlocked my phone and turned down the brightness. After that, I went over to my messages to see two new ones. When I opened the app, I saw that the messages were from Jace. I smiled, seeing that he just sent them to me.
"Hey, babe! Are you awake?" Read the first one, and then the second one said, "Turn down the freaking music! I'm sitting in the back and I can hear it!"
I laughed to myself and quickly texted him back, "How can you hear it? I have it on my acoustic playlist. And why are you still up? We have a show tomorrow!"
Seconds later, I could hear something vibrating in the back of the van. I smiled, then got a new message, "The lights from outside woke me up. Why are you up? You need to sleep, you have to wake up earlier than the rest of us!"
"I woke up from the red light changing. And I'm cold. Come cuddle with me c:" I sent him with a smile.
Not even two seconds later, I got a new text, "What about Haven?!? He would be so pissed to know that I was cuddling with his girl!!"
I laughed quietly when he mentioned Haven. Haven was my guy alto ego that I had when I was up on stage. He was also my "boyfriend", way then I could hang put with the band as myself, Riot.
"I checked with him and he said that its okay for my real boyfriend to come and cuddle with me"
There was a crash from the back seat, cursing coming from Jace and one of the other boys, then Jace was at the end of my row. I opened my arms, childishly, and he grabbed my blanket while chuckling. He got into my arms and threw the blanket over us. Jace's head was resting on my chest, while I had my arms wrapped around his chest.
He lightly brushed his lips against my shoulder, then smiled up at me. I smiled back and kissed the back of his white hair, which seemed sliver in this lighting. Jace's smile grew ten times as big, and he reached up and pushed my black hair behind my ear, then stole an earbud. I gasped in fake shock, and turned it up a bit louder. Jace nodded along with the song, with his eyes shut.
"I love you, Riot," he whispered against my shoulder.
"I love you more, Jace," I said into his bed head looking hair.
"Not even possible..." He mumbled into the strap of my tank top before falling asleep.
I smiled and soon fell asleep too.
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"We're here!" John yelled as we pulled up to the hotel. Of course, since we are a world famous rock 'n' roll band, we only sleep at high class hotels with fancy toilets and warm breakfast.
Obviously, this is not true though.
We drive in a white van that we spray painted our band name on the outside, and sleep in really crappy motels, hoping to get a gig somewhere. But we couldn't be happier.
