Panoramic

2

**Roxii P.O.V**

The next morning I was woken by a loud bang. I peeked out the curtain to see what had happened. Billy had knocked over one of the cases of water that had been at the front of the bus. Everyone else was awake so I thought I'd better get up too. I quickly got changed and jumped out of the bunk as Benji was walking down from his temporary bunk. "Morning." He said shyly to me.

"Morning Benji. How are you this morning?"

"Yeah not bad Rox. How did you sleep?"

"Slept pretty well for my first time on a tour bus!"

"Listen.... About last night... I'm sorry.... I shouldn't have..."

"Its fine! Honestly I don't mind!" I said to him and flashed him a cheeky smile. We headed down the front of the bus where Dean had breakfast ready for us all.

"Morning guys!" He said
"Morning"

We all sat down to eat. Benji kept glancing over at me and smiling. Joel noticed it. "Benji, your gonna give the girl a complex if you keep looking at her like that!" He said. The other guys laughed. I just smiled.

"I'm just gonna go get myself freshened up while you guys are busy." I said and got up from the table. I headed over to my bunk and grabbed my suitcase and started rummaging around looking for something to wear. I could hear whispered voices coming from the guys. I tried to be quiet to hear what was being said.

"Guys, I have to tell you something. I kissed Rox last." I could hear Benji whisper.
"No way!"
"Seriously?"

I couldn't make out who spoke back. But then I heard Joel whispering. "Benj, all I'm gonna say is if you like her then great but don't mess her around. She's a great photographer and I really want to have her with is on every tour. I was going to speak to her today about it. I don't want you to lead her on and then we lose her."
"J, I honestly really like her. I know iv just met her but there's just something there."

OK so Benji likes me and Joel wants me to be full time photographer for them. Things can just get better for me. I got myself ready and headed back to the rest of the guys pretending to be unaware of anything they said.

"What's the plan for today guys?" I asked them.

"Well we have a gig later on tonight but we were thinking of going out and about for a bit." Joel replied.

"Great, I'll get my camera ready..." I started to say but I was cut off by Joel

"No need today! Save it for tonight. Just have a day off. By the way I had to ask you something." Ok I need to act surprised. "How would you feel about joining us full time as our own personal photographer? We all love your work and we think you are awesome too! What ya think?" He said. My eyes filled with excitement. "I'd love to!" I squealed and gave him a massive hug.

"Welcome to the family Rox." The guys all said and came up and each gave me a cuddle. I noticed Joel shot Benji a glance as if to say don't mess this up. I couldn't wait to phone Max and tell him I wouldn't be back. He sounded really happy for me and told me to send him shots and he would still use them as if I still worked there. He was such a great boss. I'd miss him. Just then I realised this meant I'd have to move away to be with the guys when they needed me. Brilliant! New start. New friends. This was going to be great!

We got ready and met up with the Yellowcard and FourYear Strong guys. This was actually going to be my first proper meeting with them.

"Guys, this lovely lady here is Roxii. She's our new photographer." Joel said.
"Hey Roxii, Im Ryan K. This is Sean, Ryan M, Josh and Tucker. We are in Yellowcard."

"And we are Four Year Strong. I'm Alan, this is Dan, Jake and Joe. Pleased to meet you."

"Thanks its great finally getting to meet you haha. You guys are all awesome!." We chatted for a while and then decided I would show the guys around the town. Benji was keeping his distance from me. I didn't know whether to speak to him or not. We went to a little pub for some lunch. I went to the bar to order us all some drinks and I overheard Joel speaking to Benji.

"Benji, you haven't spoken to Rox all day."
"Yeah I know. I'm trying to keep my distance a little bit. I don't want to mess anything up for us."
"Dude you gotta say something to her!" Billy piped in.
"I will do I just don't know what to say."

I was needing a help back from the bar so I called over to them "Hey do one of you guys think you could help me?"

"Yeah Benji will!" Shouted Paul. I knew he would get volunteered for this. Part of my plan.
"Thanks Benji." I said flashing him a smile.
"Yeah no problem Rox." He said.

We headed back over to the tables with our drinks and talked for ages. We orders food, ate it then ordered more drinks. "Guys you better not get too drunk! You have a show tonight!" I said to them.

"Crap!! We need to get back for soundcheck!" Shouted Jake. We all downed our drinks and headed back to the venue. Benji was walking slowly behind us all. I stopped to check my bag so he could catch up.

"You OK Rox?" I heard his voice say from behind me.

"Yeah Benj, just thought I'd left my purse back at the pub. Found it though." I said giving him a smile. "Come on we better catch up with the guys and get you back for soundcheck." I said to him grabbing his arm.