Chapter 4(November 1)
I woke up to a loud bang. I got up to find that Monte just dropped a bunch on pans. Smooth.
“Gah, sorry I woke you!” He said coming over and hugging me.
“No worries.” I said hugging back.
“How are you feeling?”
“Sore, and scared.”
“I’m sorry, hun, but you know what will make you feel better?”
“No.”
“Waffles?”
“Not hungry, sorry, I’m going to go get dressed and shit.” I said and walked to my bunk, grabbed what I needed and headed to the bathroom. I wore my blue shirt with a kitty and rainbow that says ‘I hate you’ on it, grey skinnies and blue, purple and pink checkered vans. I straightened my hair and put a blue bow in it and applied a thick line of eyeliner and was done. I walked out to find the bus had stopped moving so I called Johnny and asked him to hang out with me outside. He was over in ten minutes and we explored the venue.
“Let’s go to the stage and see whose sound checking.” He suggested, I shrugged and followed. It turns out BVB was, so naturally we decided to go all fan-ish and be complete idiots jumping around and screaming, earning many weird looks from the guys. Eventually it was time for Johnny to sound check so I hung out with the nearest person, who happened to be Ashley.
“Ashley, I’m going to chill with you for a bit.” I informed him, not knowing if he knew about the attack or not.
“Alright Ambreh! What would you like to do?”
“I got it! We should go around and annoy people!” He agreed and then we started thinking about what to do. Then it was time for ETF to sound check and I got the perfect idea. The started to play The Aftermath and we went onstage and started annoying them. I went behind Robert and took his sunglasses, put them on and then ran over to Max. I started dancing around him to make him uncomfortable, then I saw Ashley tackling Monte, I decided I didn’t want to get killed, so I skipped offstage. When they were done I saw Rob running towards me, so I booked it to the Get Scared bus, but someone stopped me on the way, Ronnie.
“Amber.” He said, and tripped me. He just stuck his foot out there without me noticing and I ate the gravel.
“Ronnie, what the hell is wrong with you?” That’s when Robert FINALLY caught up, totally out of breath.
“Ronnie, get the fuck away from her!” he yelled shoving Ronnie away, then I felt someone help me up, I turned and it was Max. I hugged him tightly and he walked me back to the bus.
“You ok?”
“NO! I HATE HIM BEING HERE!” I cried.
“Sweetie, there’s nothing we can do!” Sweetie, that’s his nickname for me.
“A-are you sure?”
“Yea, I already tried, I’m sorry.” He hugged me and Robert walked in and took his sunglasses off my face and put them on.
“You alright Squirt?” Another nickname.
“Fine.” I said and went to my bunk and cried. A little while after I felt a hand rubbing my back comfortingly, I looked and it was Andy, so I sat up and whipped my tears.
“Hey, are you ok?” he asked, already knowing the answer, so there was no use lying.
“Not really.” I said looking into his icy blue eyes.
“Tell me, please?”
“Uh, Ronnie’s just a jerk, and he used to be my best friend, so it’s hard.”
“Used to be? What happened?”
Then Andy had to leave sadly, meaning Max was going to yell at me.
“Amber! What the HELL is wrong with you? I told you to stay by me!”
“Dude, Robert was close to me! He wasn’t that far behind me, neither were you!”
“That makes NO difference, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT RONNIE IS CAPABLE OF!” He yelled.
“YES, MAX I DO, MORE THAN YOU KNOW! SO JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!” I said running out of the bus, I needed someone else, I was now crying me eyes out. I stumbled and fell to my knees and just cried. After about ten minutes I stopped and was now lying down almost asleep. I felt someone pick me up, but at this point I didn’t care who it was.
“Hey Amber, are you awake?” Said Lloyd softly.
“Yeah.” I said and he put me on my feet.
“What happened?” He asked with concern in his eyes. That made me burst out in tears again and he just hugged me and let me soak his shirt. He put his arm around my shoulder and we walked to the BVB bus, Lloyd knocked and Jake answered.
“Is Andy here?” Lloyd asked.
“Yes sir, come on in!” Jake said happily and we walked in to find Andy on the couch. He stood up the second he saw me hugged me, and lead me to the back of the bus.
“What happened?” He asked, looking down at me with his hands on my arms.
“Max j-just b-blew up in my f-face and said that I-I don’t know what Ronnie is capable of.” I said and cried again. For some reason I couldn’t stand Max being mad at me and yelling at me like that. It was the same for Craig. Then there was a knock on the door to the back of the bus.
“Amber? You in there?” It was Craig, so Andy opened the door and I was smashed in a hug by my brother, “Max was just upset, he’s not mad at you.” Craig said while Andy was writing on a paper and slipped it into my hoodie pocket, “Come on, you need sleep.” He said and led me back to the bus where I got changed and got into bed without a single word. Then I remembered the note which had Andy’s number on it and said ‘text me and tell me what’s up’. So I got out my phone and texted him and poured my heart out to him. He told me he was going to stop by in five minutes. I said ‘ok’ and soon after heard a faint tap on the door, so I got up and answered it and sure enough, Andy was standing there for a second, then I felt his arms go around me.
“Do you want to sleep with us tonight?” Andy invited, I was going to say yes, but Max came out.
“Andy, I need to talk to Amber.” He said with a sad look on my face, Andy hugged me and left.
“Sweetie, I’m so sorry I yelled at you, I was just upset at Ronnie.” He said hugging me.
“It’s ok Max; I should have listened to you.” I said hugging back, “I promise to stay by you.” I said, he kissed my head and I went back to bed, luckily I didn’t need the damn wrap around me anymore, I was still sore though. Eventually I fell into a deep sleep.
