Paper Moon

chapter 32

(Edited)
I looked at Josh then quickly covered my face, I'm pretty sure I was hella red. "Halo don't act like you haven't seen it before, besides do you know why we're locked in here?" I shook my head no. As I felt my face go back to normal I slowly let my hands down.
(Ps, Josh's body in this book is similar to Brendons) "Halo! Come to the door!!" I could hear Beebo yell.

I sighed and put my ear to the door. "We will give Josh his shirt back, if you tell him you like him" I groaned. "But I dont!" They snickered, "suuuurrree, just tell him." I rolled my eyes. Maybe we can get out of here without me telling him. I looked around for any way to escape.

I walked around the whole area looking for a way to eascpe. Then an idea popped into my mind. "Josh do you have your phone?" He felt around in his pockets to try and find his phone. "No... yeah nope, why?" I groaned, "doesn't matter." I ran my hand through my hair and sighed.

My arm was gentally grabbed, taking me by surprise. Josh held my arm and examined the red lines. "Was this from the hotel?" I looked down and nodded. "I didn't think it was this bad. How are you by the way?" I looked up at him and almost blushed for a second. Why? I don't know, totally inappropriate at the moment though.

"I'm getting better actually, just had a small rough patch. I'm good though." I smiled at him as I slowly took my arm back. "That's good, I would give you a hug but I'm not sure if you'd be okay with that" he said and rubbed the back of his neck. I rolled my eyes, I walked over to him and gave him a hug. "You're not the first shirtless person I've hugged ya know." I said then pulled out of the hug. He smiled and ruffled my hair.

"Now let's continue looking for a way out." I kept looking around till I heard a knock on the door. "Yes?" There was snickering. "We have a picture of you guys hugging!" Brendon said through the door. "How'd you get the picture?" The was a moment of silence. "Uhh, the um-" "cameras" "Yeah, the cameras!" I rolled my eyes and made a shushing motion to Josh. "You're spying on us? Through cameras? Savage!" I said and I could hear them laughing.

"Will you just let us out?" I asked as I kicked the door. "Nope, but say you were to take a picture of you and Josh with yours hands on his chest, then maybe we can talk" I rolled my eyes. "Fuckers" I mumbled. I turned around and let out a small shriek. "Josh! Don't do that!" As I realized how close we were I felt a blush start to creep onto my face. I quickly walked around him so he couldn't see.

After my face cooled down I called Josh over. "Yeah?" I made another shushing motion. "This is where we hugged right?" I whispered looking around. He nodded, "What does that have to do with anything?" He whispered back. "Josh did you really buy 'the cameras?' Don't be stupid, there's obviously a way out, we just have to find it." I said and he nodded. I continued to look around and that's  when it hit me.

"I know how to get out" I said then walked over to the crib like bunk. I remember when I was drawing here, I would freak out every now and then because of the window. I quietly crawled up then motioned for Josh to come. "Josh, pretend were talking, start a conversation. Anything to not let them know what were doing" I said and he nodded.

He walked over to the door and started to talk to me. "So, do you have any idea why were here?" I rolled my eyes. "Nope, none. Theyre just idiots." Lier, I know exactly why we're here, and why Josh is shirtless. "Dont lie!!" I could hear Brendon yell. "Whatever Brendon!" "How did you- nevermind."
Brendon yelled.

I motioned for Josh to come over to me and he did. "Pound on the door, I'm gonna open the window. Yell at them to let us out. Say I'm being wierd or something." I said and he nodded. He went and did that while I struggled to get the window open.

When I did I smiled. Finally. "Josh! Just leave them, they're not gonna let us out. Now, you can do what you want, but I wanna nap sooo, have fun!" I said and motioned for him to come over to me. "You can't go to sleep, what will I do? I'm gonna die of boredom!" I groaned, "take a nap too then!" I said. We tried to make it sound real. "Take a nap together!" I could hear Brendon yell. "Shut up Brendon!" And with that I slipped out the window. Josh following.

When we got out we high-fived.  "Where do we go now?" Josh asked. "Well first we need to get you a shirt." I looked him up and down then at the bus. "Think you can get me to the window?" Josh looked up then nodded. "Okay, let's do this."

I climbed onto Joshes shoulders and he helped me to the window. I quickly opened it then looked around. He looks like he could fit into one of Rians shirts. "Hey Rian, can I borrow a shirt?" I asked walking into the back lounge. "Sure I'll be right back" he left to get a shirt and I grabbed my black Drop Dead sweater. I also managed to grab my phone before Rian came back. But following him was Jack.

Act super-natural. "Here you go Halo" Rian held his shirt out to me. "Wait, Halo?" Crap he noticed. I quickly grabbed the shirt then ran to the window, Jack hot on my tail. "Catch me!!" I yelled before jumping out the window.

I half expected to fall and break my neck. But soon arms wrapped around my body. I opened my eyes and saw Josh holding me close. "You okay there?" I looked at him then nodded. He put me down and I handed him Rians muscle-tee. He quickly slipped it on and I heard laughing. As I soon realised what happened I blushed and turned around, pretending to be looking for the laugher. 

Alan was standing there with his phone out. "I got it on tape!" Alan yelled to Brendon who was leaving the bus. I groaned, "really?"

"Hey why did you guys lock us in there?" Josh asked as they approached us. "Ask Halo" Josh raised an eyebrow. "She doesn't know, so how about you just tell me" he said and crossed his arms.

"Ok-" I was about to pounce on him when Alan picked me up and covered my mouth. "It's cuase Halo, well you see," Brendon was teasing me. I bit Alan and he quickly let me go. "Brendon don't-" he looked at me and he laughed. "Oh no reason, just did it for fun" he laughed and walked off.

I sighed and blew out air. "Right then, I'm leaving before anything happenes." I jogged to caught up to Brendon.

"You're a total shitface,  you know that right?" He smirked. "Yup, so much that I actually did this right now." I looked up at him confused and stopped walking. "Did what?" He smirked and also stopped walking.

"HEY JOSH!!!! HALO LIK-" I cut him off by tacklling him. Brendon laughed. "GO HALO!!!" Alan yelled. "Shorty can takle!" Brendon laughed. I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms. "Wanna get off me now?" I raised an eyebrow. "Wanna stop being a shitface?" He laughed.

"We'll talk about it later" he laughed. "We'll talk about it later, nah nah nah" I mocked Brendon as I got off him. "Whatever Brendon, sleep with one eye open." With that I started to walk back to the bus but stopped. I turned grabbed Brendon by the shirt and pulled him with me.