Life on Tour (3) [Discontinued]

Chapter 14: Party Time

You're standing by the microwave heating up a frozen dinner while Travis stands behind you jokingly teasing you about how much time was left on your food, but also kissing you on top of the head after each thing he said, to make sure you knew he was joking. When there was a minute left on your food you heard one of the guys jokingly yell over to Travis "Get a room!" "No!!!" he yelled back, throwing his popcorn bag onto the counter, turning you around so you were facing him and pulling you closer to him, rubbing his face in your neck, blowing rasberries. The microwave beeped and you push Travis away, only to have him hug you tighter. "Travis..." you say in a joking warning voice. "Fiinnneee." he replies, letting you go. You take your food out of the microwave and hand Travis his popcorn as he passes you a plastic fork. 

You take the empty seat next to Jack at the only table in the green room. Across from him was Charles and they were talking about tonight's party. They turned to you as you sat down and were starting to take a bite of your food, setting your fork down when you see that they wanted to talk to you. "Yeah?" you ask, looking between the two. Charles looked over to Jack and said, "We were just trying to figure out what sort of food you guys bought and stuff..." "Umm...chips, dip, cookies, and hot dogs, for Danny mainly, unless you want hot dogs too." you tell them. "Oh, cool." Jack says, looking around the room. "Speaking of Danny," Charles said, "where is he?" "I think he made a Starbucks run with Scooter and Colesby." Travis said, sitting down in the empty seat across from you.  The four of you sat there eating and talking for a while before deciding to go walk around. 

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After finishing packing up you joined the bands on All Time Low's bus. The second you got on the bus Tony spotted you and called you over to his group and you slid between Jack and Rian and then ended up next to Tony. "Travis just went to get you a drink, he should be right back." Tony said before returning to the conversation he had been having with Charles and Alli (she had just come out on the road today) about movies. Travis walked over with two drinks in his hand and passed one to you before joining in with a remark about the movie they were talking about. Not having anything to contribute, since you hadn't seen the movie, you take a sip of your drink. You jump in surprise at the taste of alcohol rather than the expected bubbly fizz of soda. You look at the cup and written on the side was 'Travis.' You reach for the cup in his hand and he looks at you with confusion. "You gave me your drink instead of mine." you tell him, showing him the name on the cup. You both switched cups and you looked around the room, since you didn't really know what to add to the movie conversation, you wanted to see if there was somewhere else you could go hang out. 

You ended up going into the back lounge, where Jaime and Danny were playing Madden. "*Your name*!!!" Danny yelled, "Can you play referee???" "Aww, is Danny losing?" you say, teasing. "No." he says guiltily at the same time that Jaime says "Yes." You laugh and sit down on the couch, "Ok, I'll be a ref for you guys." You watched them play for 10 minutes until Jack came running back and excitedly said, "You guys have got to see this!!" before running back to the front lounge. Danny paused the game and you all raced after Jack. You come to a stop at an open space in a circle that filled the entire front lounge, and in the middle of the circle were Alex, Vinny, and Travis, all 'dancing,' as Zack, who was next to you, claimed. You weren't really sure what to make of it, none of them were doing any recognizable dance moves. Travis looked like he was just doing weird jumps and spinning, Alex was mainly scooting around on the floor, occassionally kicking his legs out or spinning. Vinny was the only one that looked like he was actually dancing, though with an invisible partner. 

After about five more minutes they stopped dancing, Vinny had found an actual dance partner in Alex, having had grabbed Alex's hands and pulled him off the ground. Anyway, after the dancing Travis walked up to you and gently pulled you outside, following a few other people who didn't want to stand around on the crowded bus. You were glad of this because, though it was entertaining, you really didn't feel like sitting in the back lounge listening to Danny and Jaime yell at each other over the video game. Once you were outside, Travis didn't go to join a group, instead he pulled you a little further away from everyone else and asked, "Do you have anything we could dance to on your iPod?" You pulled it out of your pocket and started scrolling through all your songs. You ended up choosing an old, slow song, one of the songs you had long ago forgotten you owned. It started playing and Travis pulled you close and you both stood there swaying back and forth, turning round and round. 

The song ended and restarted and Travis tilted your face up towards his and kissed you for about a minute or so. Gently you pulled away, feeling like everything was spinning and tasting whisky. Travis gave you a tight hug and rested his head on top of yours and whispered, "I'm sorry about this morning...I really don't know what was wrong with me." You sigh and close your eyes as you lean into his hug and say, "It's ok Trav, you didn't know what was going on." "But I shouldn't have thought anything was going on. I just...I just..." You shut him up with a kiss. The kiss ended and you said, "I forgive you Travis, don't worry about it anymore. I love you." "I love you too." he replied, kissing your forehead. You yawn and Travis looks at his phone, it was almost one. "Bedtime." he says, smirking as he scoops you up in his arms. "I'm not sleepy though." you reply stubbornly. "Nice try little one." he says, "But you look very, very tired." You give him a dirty look the entire time he walked you to the bus. Scooter opened the bus door for you, he and Charles had left early, Charles because he needed to edit the vlog and Scooter because....well, you weren't really sure why Scooter had left, he probably just didn't feel like partying tonight or something. 

After getting on the bus Travis didn't stop walking until he reached the backlounge, where he sat down on the couch and gently set you down next to him. As he gently ran his fingers through your hair you said, "I swear I'm not tired." He smirked at you in response and softly sang. As he sang you started thinking 'maybe he is right, I am feeling a little tired.' You yawned again and shut your eyes as you leaned on Travis. The last thing you heard was "I told you that you looked tired." and you could imagine him smirking as he continued to sing softly as you fell asleep.