You're Not Alone (Austin Carlile)

17. All Of Me

Title credit: John Legend

January 2nd

Holly's POV:

The tour bus pulls up to Austin's house and all of the guys are already here with their girlfriends or wives, also with all their gear. I watch as all of the boys pack up the trailer behind the tour bus. I make myself useful by carrying their bags into the bus. Keirsten is kind of bummed out because she can't come on tour since their tour manager is only letting me come along for the whole thing, so she is trying to spend the few hours that they have together before we take off for the first venue. It's going to be hard for her to be away from Alan, and Alan away from her, but she is coming to visit us some dates. I'm glad she is, I'll need a little girl time after spending 3 months in a tour bus with these monkeys. I walk out of the tour bus to see Alan giving Keirsten a piggy back ride back into the house to get more stuff to bring out. This is the happiest I have ever seen her and it makes me so happy. A few bags later, all of the guy's stuff is on the bus, including mine and they are all in their bunks. I threw Austin and I's bags in my spare bunk, because obviously we are going to share a bunk. I walk back out of the bus and shiver from the cold morning Californian air. The mornings in Cali are cold enough to wear a hoodie, sometimes it's nice.

Suddenly the strings of my hoodie are tied shut so I can't see and I'm flung over someone's shoulders. They start walking around with me propped on their shoulder like I'm a prize. I manage to get the opening wider so I can see the ground and the person carrying me. It isn't Austin since the person doesn't have skinny chicken legs. I hear a familiar laugh and I instantly know who is holding me. Their guitar tech.

"Trotta! Put me down you ginger fuck!" Justin laughs even harder and starts to twirl us in a circle. I scream, not enjoying being off the ground. I belong on the ground, the ground is safe, the air is not. Justin finishes spinning us and I feel my head move in circles from being twirled around. I can hear people all laughing at us. Well, laughing with him, and laughing at me. Justin sets me down, I hurriedly rip the hood off my head and fix my straying hairs then kick him in the shin, not too hard though.

"Ouch! That hurt!" He exclaims, grabbing at his shin, pouting his bottom lip out at me.

"Really? I thought it was suppose to tickle." I say in a sarcastic tone and walk away from him, leaving everyone laughing now. I go to walk back into the bus to check something and bump into someone with a loud thud, ugh I'm still dizzy, god damn it Justin. I look up to see Phil standing there. He extends his hand out to me, I take it and he pulls me off the ground.

"Sorry Philly!" I say scratching at the back of my neck. I realize that Austin does the same thing and I quickly drop my hand to my side. We spend so much time together. I dust off my yoga pants to get all the dust and gravel off me.

"You're good munchkin." he ruffles my hair and walks away with a laugh. I can't stand being so much shorter than all of these boys! They think it's okay to mess with my hair because I'm so much shorter than them. I check for the fifth time to see if I got all the Xbox games and movies the boys requested to bring. Yep, all here. I take a seat at the front table since I have nothing better to do. I twist the necklace that Austin got me for my birthday, feeling giddy about going on tour with the boys. I pull out my phone and scroll through Twitter to pass the time. A few minutes later someone walks on to the bus, causing me to look up from my phone and see my big goofball. I smile like a lunatic, dropping my phone on the table harshly, then jumping out of the seat and into his arms, with my legs wrapped around his frail waist and my arms around his neck. I haven't seen him much this morning since we have been packing. He laughs lightly at me before kissing me then pulls away for a brief second to speak.