Why Wait?

39 - Austin's POV

"I don't know," Sid says over the phone. "I don't think I'm ready to face you yet."

I let out a sigh. "It's just a baseball game. Kelli won't be there because she's sick. It'll just be me and the guys."

"Kelli's sick?" she questions. "And you won't be there to help?"

"She'll be fine," I dismiss. "Will you come?"

She lets out an indecisive sigh. "Sure. But only if you talk to Kelli and she says its okay."

"What?" I growl.

"I mean it, Austin. Talk to her and have her text me or something to let me know that you guys talked. I just don't want to go behind her back again."

I look back in the tour bus. I haven't talked to Kelli. I don't even know that she's alive.

That was rude. I don't want her dead. And I'm sure that if I told her that, she'd be surprised. I haven't been acting very kind to her lately.

All I have to do, is get her phone. Get her phone and text Sidney and then she'll come and we'll get back together. That's all I have to do. "Okay," I tell her. "I'll see you in a few."

I hang up before letting the guys know I'm going inside for a while.

The tour bus is eerily quiet and I find myself wanting to check on my baby sister. Knowing her, she's probably going through depression right now and hasn't even bothered to take her medicine.

Then I hear it. A sob escapes through her bedroom door. Normally, I would be the one to comfort her. But I hear a soothing voice speaking to her as she cries. I know it's Alex.

They've been spending a lot of time together lately.

"What have you done?" she cries.

"I just saved your life," he says firmly.

She cries harder. "You made it worse. Nobody wants me here, Alex. My own brother, my best friend. My dream just got flushed down the toilet because of some girl. And other than just now, no on came to see me. No one wanted to know if I was okay. And I can't..."

Her voice breaks and she doesn't try to finish the sentence. She just cries.

I completely forgot the reason I was standing in the tour bus in the first place until I spot her phone on the kitchen counter.

"Maybe we should just leave the tour bus," Alex says. "I'll take you somewhere. You can get away from your brother and your best friend. For a while, it'll just be you and me. I'll help you."

He was pleading with her. I could hear it in his voice.

"I don't know..."

"Is that something you would go to if Austin let you go?" he tries again.

She lets out a sharp laugh. "You've met him. He won't let me go. Even if he won't talk to me he's still an overprotective parent-wannabe."

Okay, ouch.

I thought I was helping. Keeping her away from everything I knew would hurt her. Sidney was the one who told me everything. From parties she was wanting to go to, or guys that Kelli was interested in. I would keep her away from those things because I wanted to see her happy. Really happy. Without having to take seven pills everyday.

I turn on her phone - it takes a while - before going to Sidney's contact.

Will you come with me??? Pleeeaaaasssse

Sid replied with, If your brother finds out we went back, he's going to kill us

Maybe, but once he understands that I'm doing this for him, he'll be more lenient