The Last Shot For Wounded Hearts

Typical Sad Case

"RISEEE ANDD SHINEEE!!" How could I even wake up if I hadn't even shut my eyes yet? It had been a rough night, after the girl, who to my damn luck turned out to be Halsey. Can you believe that, Halsey....I loved her music, the way she was, but now I wasn't so sure about her. I mean come on how the hell was I supposed to compete with her. After she showed up at our hotel door with his phone I was paralyzed. I stood there like the dumbass I am for a couple minutes until I felt a pit in my stomach, and the need to cry. Which I luckily didn't because Colson arrived a few minutes later. He arrived with a huge goofy grin from ear to ear that made me smile instantly.....yeap I'm a dumbass. I thought to myself as I saw him pick up a few of our suitcases. Since Colson had already packed for both of us we left as soon as he got all the suitcases out into the hallway. "That's it" Colson said dropping my bag on top of a suitcase. ".....you know you could've helped Jessie." Colson said as he smiled over to me. I just smiled and nodded picking up a few of my suitcases and heading to the lobby. I didn't want to talk about what I had seen, or worse yet what I had felt and what I was currently feeling. So the best choice for me was to ignore him. We had all our stuff and walked out of the clean hotel room and unto the STD filled bus. I didn't even want to be near Colson anymore so as soon as we got on the bus I went straight to the back where the bunks were and I jumped up and climbed to the top one. Rook always stayed in the middle one but I didn't want to sleep where he slept,so I traded, well more like argued and won against Slim so I got the top bunk. We were on the road for what was about to be around I'm guessing the fifth hour. Which if you look at it correctly it was only suppose to take three hours according to the driver who kept complaining about the time, but these assholes kept stopping almost everywhere. Even if we were on the highway they would find a way to stop and do useless shit. I'm not going to lie I was entertained for the first two hours by them fooling around but I had enough and stayed in the bunk for the rest of the ride. We finally arrived around six in the morning and I hadn't slept at all. So no I was not going to rise and shine. I was tired,angry, and hella confused at myself. I turned to face the wall of the bus until the curtain was pulled open. "I said rise and shine!!" Slim said as he got in my face. I pushed him back and he just started laughing. "Get away from me cause I haven't slept and I'm in a bitchy mood." I said as I got serious and turned to the other side. "Move over then....let me get in there and get you in a better mood." Slim said pushing me over and bringing his knee to the top of the bunk. "Ohh hell no.... stop." I said pushing him out. "Get out my bunk", I said trying my hardest to push him out but he just wouldn't budge. "Excuse me your bunk?? Must I remind you that this is my bunk." I looked at him and rolled my eyes. "No sir I won fair and square so get out." Slim started laughing and jumped off of the bunk. "I'm just playing girl calm down. But on a more serious note, I just wanted to let you know that I noticed you were a little too quiet and you're usually the life of the party so.....I guess what I'm trying to tell you is if you need anything or someone to talk too I'm here." Slim said giving me a reassuring smile and grabbed my hand and gave it a small squeeze. I nodded my head and just smiled. "Well you two keep it down some people are still trying to sleep", Baze said opening his bunk curtain. "Well what do we have here....wassup love birds!" He said much more happier once he saw it was Slim and I. Slim didn't even look at him he just sort off nodded and that was it. I looked at Baze and smiled,"Heyyy....and where are the birds" I said cheerfully while pretending to look around. I gave him a smile and rolled my eyes at Slim who all of a sudden had just gone quiet."So you ready for the shows?" Baze asked as he fixed his hair with his hand. "Hell yeah you know I am." I said sticking out my tongue. "I heard that tomorrow at the venue that's like one hour away it's gonna be packed!" My smile faded and my eyes got bigger. "What....wait...woooo wait. Since when are we doing a show that's in hour away?" I asked confused. Baze just chuckled " You might wanna handle this one Slim. Get your girl up to speed." he said as he closed his bunk curtain back up. "Thanks I really appreciate it!" Slim said as Baze closed his curtain. He started shaking his head. Then he looked over at me and started smiling. "Do you even read the concert and tour dates.....the schedules I give everyone so they can keep track?" Slim said chuckling. "Yeah....but....I might have missed that line." I said pretending to remember. "No you don't....you never read them. I always find them laying around the bunk or hidden in the drum cases." I started laughing and shook my head. "That's a lie....I don't hide them they just happened to get in there by themselves." We both started smiling and shaking our heads. "Wait a minute," I said getting serious once again. Slim just looked at me and furrowed his eyebrows. "What happened?" He asked concerned. "How the hell do you know where I keep the tour lists? Do you stalk me....ohh my god you're a stalker. HELP HELLLPPPP.!!" I said as I jumped of the bunk and ran to the front of the bus. I was to busy laughing and looking back to see if Slim was chasing me that I didn't notice her. I crashed into her sending her to the ground. Luckily nothing happened to me I was still standing, looking down at her. Should I offer her a hand to get up.....no fuck her. I thought to myself but Colson's voice brought me back. "Halsey baby you okay?" He asked as he picked her up and put her on the bus couch. Slim was right behind me and just rolled his eyes at Colson. I wasn't expecting that and turned to look at Slim with a confused look, as to why he was upset about their relationship but he just grabbed my shoulders and pushed me to the bus door, which I was internally thanking him for. He must have noticed that my mood kind of changed cause when we got outside of the bus he just started smiling and chuckling out of nowhere. "What?" I asked looking around. "Do I have something on my face or what?" Slim just started laughing and shook his head. "No girl.....haven't you noticed where we are....I mean you would've known if you had bother to read the tour dates and the lists I spend my divine time creating." Slim said as he dug in his pocket for which I guess was one of his so called divine lists. I started walking around the bus with Slim by my side, I saw the hotel and I knew exactly where I was. "Slim I don't need that paper......I know where we're at." I said turning back to him and smiling. "WE'RE IN VEGAS BABYYYY WOOOOO!!!!" I screamed as loud as I could. Seeing that hotel brought back all the memories of Guadalupe, Brenda and me. I smiled and just kept looking at the hotel.
"I'll race you to the hotel room." Slim said getting ready to run. "Naww I need to get all my things first." I said turning back to the bus, but when I fully turned to the bus something, better yet someone was blocking my view. It was Colson standing there, but he had lost the smile he had yesterday and instead he had a concerned look on his face. "Hey....I was just wondering if by any chance you had found my phone yet?" he asked. I looked at him and shrugged. Truth was I had his phone with me, I never lost it or misplaced it. It was in my bag the whole time, but something in me wanted to keep it......so I did.
"I'm sorry I haven't found it yet.....when she.....uhmmm Halsey.... dropped it off I was looking for something in one of the suitcases and I might have misplaced it." I lied which to my realization was easier than I thought. "But don't worry as soon as I find it it will be in your hands quicker than the flash." I said smiling. "Thanks......it's just that there's some things there that I would like to keep secret. See I don't think you're that type of person but if you could just bring it back to me as soon as you find it, without going through it..." Colson said grabbing my hands. I cut him off and yanked my hands away from his. "Are you serious....You're right I'm not that type of person that looks through other people's shit. You know what when I find it I'll return it to you and then I won't have to be hearing this type of shit." I must admit I was angry he thought I was that kind of person but then again I had his phone with me and I had just lied and said I didn't. And hearing him say he had some things he wanted to keep secret intrigued me even more in keeping it. But you know what they say curiosity killed the cat......I hope that wouldn't be my luck. As soon as I tried to go around him he kept trying to pull me back. "Could you please move I need to get my things out of the bus and into our room." I said slightly pushing him out the way. "That's something else we need to talk about." Colson said putting his head down. I stopped and looked at him, I was about to talk but Slim started explaining. "The thing is that Halsey was on break from tour I think at least for a week," Slim said while looking at Colson and Colson just nodded. "Soo Colson invited her to come on tour with us for that week. Which also complicated the room situation." I looked at Slim then at Colson. I didn't want to say what I was thinking because I knew I would start talking and I wouldn't be able to stop myself and things would start heading south. "So where the hell Am I sleeping?" I asked shrugging. "With me!!" Slim said happily. "But you always specifically ask for a room alone.....so why change today?" I asked looking at Slim. " I just felt that it would be cool to have a roommate for once on tour.....but don't worry....I got a room with two beds so don't worry." I looked at him and nodded. "Let me get my stuff then." I said making my way over to the back of the bus. Before I got there Trey stopped me and pulled his shades down. Yeap that's right, I said Trey. I mean come on a person and a friendship like his is rare to find. So I talked to the whole crew and convinced them that Trey would be a great asset to the team. Which so far he was he helped load and unload and he helped with my drum set which was the most important since that was his job, but nonetheless he pulled his weight.
"Girl if I was you I would've already fucked the Blue eyed chalkboard man." Trey said taking a sip of his starbucks. "By chalkboard man you are referring to?" I asked pretending to be oblivious. "Girl boo you know who I'm talking bout, don't act like you don't. But who knows maybe you want a taste of dark chocolate." He said before he started walking away laughing. I couldn't help it but laugh too and just shook my head. "Jessica the bags are already inside!!" Slim screamed and motioned for me to go over to them. Trey screamed something that I couldn't quite grasp and turned around and walked into the hotel even though I was calling out his name.
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I almost got a heart attack when I heard a phone ringing because I thought it was Colson's, but it was actually mine.
"Hello?" I answered nervously since I saw the caller id. "You know it's not ladylike or friendly like......no it's not even human being like to make a date and never show up! I went to knock at your door like a dumbass at the time we had accorded Jessica." Grayson said clearly pissed. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. "Grayson I'm truly sorry.....but you have to understand....," but he caught me off before I finished. "Ohh I understand.....don't worry I get it. You rather blow off a romantic nice guy like me and go after the douche that doesn't even realize you're in the same room as him until he's drunk. The guy who clearly can't get his head out of his ass for at least a few seconds to listen to you. But you know what forget it.....forget me...fuck this! you don't deserve a guy like me. You know why because you're just like him. You deserve each other." Grayson said hanging up. I put the phone back in my pocket and let out a deep breath. "I deserve it" I said as I began to make my way over to Slim and Colson who were still standing there whispering something to each other, which must have been interesting because Slim just looked shocked and gave him a quick smirk. When I got to them Slim noticed I was sort out of it because he asked about the phone call. "What happened Jess? Who were you apologizing too?" He said putting an arm around me. "Don't worry about it......just know I deserve what I got." I said as I took his hand off my shoulder and walked ahead of them. A tear was threatening to fall but I wasn't going to cry because everything he said was true.
"WHOEVER GETS LAST TO THE ROOM IS A ROTTEN EGG!!" I heard Colson scream as he pushed me out the way and ran inside the hotel. I stopped and looked around but to my surprise Slim was already running and speeding past me and inside. I started running and stopped once I got inside because I realized they never told me where the room was. I let out a sigh of frustration until I heard Trey's voice. "Was it that bad with the chalkboard....I was expecting you to be a little more happy not frustrated." He said sitting in the resting chair that was next to me. "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that and just move on. We all got roomed in the same floor and almost next to each other right?" I asked in a hurry. "Yeah why?" Trey said picking up a magazine next to him. "Where's my room then?" He looked at me and then back at the magazine. "Does it look like I work here.....I don't know. I know my room is on the 5th floor room 502 so I'm guessing yours is 505 or 506." "Thank you Trey!" I said kissing him on the cheek. He just chuckled and kept on looking at his magazine and at the men that walked by him. I came to the realization that it was too late to even attempt to win the race so I just took the elevator to the 5th floor. I waited for a while for the elevator to open and when it did it was filled with guys, by the looks of it they were probably doing the bachelor party here in Vegas. I got on and they all smiled right away. Turns out I was right I soon as I got on they started talking about what to do next and they kept asking the guy near the door if he was okay with going to a strip club to which he just kept nodding and smiling as his answer. After a few minutes we finally reached the 5th floor and I got off and went to room 505. I tried to open it but the door was locked so I started knocking as loud as I could. "Come on guys!!! Assholes!!! Open the fuckin door!!!!" I said as I knocked and kicked the door. I heard something behind the door and then I heard the knob jiggle, which meant they were taking the lock off. All of a sudden Slim grabbed me and pulled me into the room across from the one I was standing at, before the door opened. He quickly closed the door and started cracking up as soon as he let me down. I looked at him and Colson and started piecing things together. "Are you guys fucking kidding me! Why didn't you go out there sooner!! Ohh god.....how Am I going to look whoever lives there now." I said as I laid down in a bed. "Don't worry maybe they'll leave before we do." Colson said as he laughed again. For a moment I got lost in his laughter and smiled until he spoke again. "Well Imma leave guys...Halsey is probably in the room by now and I don't wanna keep her waiting." he said getting up and walking to the door. "Dude....please Don't forget soundcheck hours....just please don't I don't wanna be chasing after your ass." Slim said. Colson just nodded and headed out the door. Since there was still a lot of time to waste before soundcheck Slim and I decided to sleep for a bit. A few hours passed by and I heard him snoring, I on the other hand couldn't sleep so I decided to look through my phone. I was watching a makeup video that I knew I would never even try....but it was great to just go through and see them, when I heard a phone vibrate. Clearly it couldn't have been mine because I would've felt it. It wasn't Slim ethers because his was on silent and charging, so that only left Colson's. I turned to look at Slim and made sure he was asleep then I opened my bag and took it out. I turned it on and noticed it was a message from Halsey. I was going to put it back in the bag but I started thinking. Why would she be sending him texts if he was supposedly with her, it just didn't make sense. I looked back at Slim and he had turned to the other side, but he was still asleep. I looked back at the phone and opened the message. "Where are you?" Slim read out loud. "Aahhhh!!" I screamed and turned the phone off. "Why the hell you scare me like that? In what world is that okay??" I asked getting up holding my hand to my chest. "In the same world that it's okay to stay with and go through someone else's phone!" He said laughing and heading to the restroom. I waited patiently until he came out and I almost immediately started to beg him not to tell Colson. "I swear I just found it.....it was in the bag and it accidentally turned on it wasn't my fault." I said looking at Slim's eyes. He just chuckled and shook his head while he walked his way back to the bed. "Has anyone ever told you....you have gorgeous, I mean amazingingly beautiful eyes Slim." I said going and sitting down in the bed next to him. He just started laughing and pushed me off the bed. "Girllll stop....I know I have beautiful eyes Trey tells me every damn day!" He said chuckling and checking his phone. "MAnnnn..." I sat back down on the bed and asked, "What's wrong?"