To The Beat of your Heart

Chapter Three

That was that. We went on to join up with the band the following week.

"Don't make me carry you out of the car." Alexander threatoned me as I made an attempt to quickly fix my hair in which he had messed up before we had arrived to join them on their tour bus. Or well, that's just code for invaiding their usual tour living quarters and jamming it packed full of our own belongings in the name of being an opener. Great, huh? 

"You wouldn't dare." I spat, narrowing my eyes as I peered over at him.

"I would too." he spoke and before I could react he wrapped his arms around my waist and tugged me out of there car where the rest of our band waited. 

"Put me down, put me down!" I wailed as I flailed.

"Make me." He smirked.

Oh. Was that a challenge smart one? Grinning, I kicked him, and I was instantly sat down safely on the ground. He clutched his stomach. "What did you do that for?" he acted in pain, when really he was fine. 

"I think you know what that was for you ass." I reminded him before chuckling and following Macy around to the back of the building where our eyes fell on to not one, but three tour buses with the same printing. I could see Tomas' expression through the corner of my eye, and boy was it something else. Though before any words could be uttered between all of us, there was a voice.

"You guys made it on time, I'm proud." I assumed who ever said that was their lead singer. He chuckled softly, and it let on that it was just a joke, he wasn't trying to get on our nerves. Good. I didn't know if I could handle any nerve shattering. 

As I looked the band over, I knew every one of their names, not only because I was at one point a fan of their music, but also because Miranda engraved them into our heads. Aiden was the lead singer, Jodi, who was apparently the only girl of the band, was the keyboardist, Jake was the bassist, Noah the guitarist, and then Caleb was the drummer.

"It was a real struggle, but we forged through the challenge so we could bless thou with our presence," Nicole piped out with a slight smirk, which caused an uproar of laughter, quickly clearing the awkwardness. 

"I feel even more honored," Aiden replied with a slight grin, "So I guess we'll finish loading up, then we can hit the road. We don't have our first performance for about three days, but we figured why not have some good quality group bonding time at the hotel? Show you all around a little?" Macy certainly seemed to enjoy the idea of a bit of relaxation before it all, that much was easily certain. 

Soon we finished all moving our equipment onto the buses, along with the hired help, before we decided how we'd want to divide the buses. "Well there is ten of us," Noah began, "So I guess three, three, and four?" we nodded our heads, we all pretty much had that figured out. 

After reasoning it out, as far as if people play certain interments if they should be on the same bus, we sort of had things figured out. The first bus had Jake, Noah, Tomas, and Alexander, the second Macy, Jodi, and I, the third Caleb, Adien, and Nicole. So maybe I wouldn't get to spend as much time with Caleb as I would have liked, but oh well.

And then the unimaginable happened, right before we all boarded, a car hastily pulled up, and a blonde head of hair popped out of it. She was certainly a looker all right. "I didn't think I'd make it." she spoke, walking over to Caleb. How odd. There really wasn't much between them it looked like, he seemed pretty unhappy, or at least that was what his eyes spoke as he pecked her on the cheek before murmuring a few things before we all loaded up. 

I should have known, he had a girlfriend! Ugh! I'm stupid. Or maybe it wasn't? Why did I even care? I inwardly thought to myself as I sat down on one of the few bed like structures and pulled out my book. This was certainly going to be a very long tour.

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It must have been a few hours, because when I was shaken awake by Macy, "COSETTE WAKE UP!" she yelled in my ear. I jolted up and immediately the window was my view and it revealed it was dark outside, the sun set. I groaned softly, pushing myself to stand up, and grabbing my small suitcase packed to last me for a few days, our big hoard was packed on the bus, before following her and Jodi off the bus.

I turned to look at Macy, "You could have just carried me." I whined, and it only resulted in a laugh from both of the girls.

"I could have, but I don't want to." She smirked before we watched the others get off their buses. Luckily, no one found out which hotel we picked to go to. I wasn't in the mood for Truthful Identity's screaming hoard of fans. 

"Here." My head turned at the voice behind me, eyes meeting orbs of green. Caleb. He grabbed my bag. Did I really look that tired? 

"I can carry it." I spoke, my gaze still locked with his. Sure he was carrying a rather small bag for his own items, but I still felt bad about him carrying mine.

"It's fine," he spoke, flashing that boy-ish grin of his, "the last thing I need is having our opening act's singer falling face first up the stairs." he joked running his free hand through his hair.

At that moment, I really wasn't too sure what I felt about that situation, probably due to the fact I was extremely groggy from my nap. "Thanks." I smiled before my attention turned towards Aiden who was passing out the room keys. I took mine in hand before we all entered the hotel and made our way to our rooms. We were on the ground level, probably to make it easier to move our belongings in and out.

Mine ended up being at the end of the hall, and Caleb followed me inside leaning my small suitcase against the wall. There was a silence for a moment before he reached over moving a lock of hair out of my face, "Goodnight, Cosette." he spoke before turning to leave the room.

"Goodnight." I spoke flashing a soft smile, and with that he was gone. 

I sighed softly, shutting the door before I dug around in my suitcase for a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt, before changing and plopping down in bed, curling up under the covers. 

Then my phone buzzed. I reached over in the dark to the table beside my bed, flopping my hand against it until I felt my phone. Squinting I read the text, 

Nicole: Just wanted to let you all know I added you into our group chat.

I chuckled softly, boy was she an insomniac. Placing the phone down I rolled onto my side and closed my eyes.