Always (A CNCO Fanfiction)

Chapter 4 | Trouble In Target

<Sofia's POV>

I woke up to the loud but familiar snoring of someone below me. I peeked down to see Zabdi fast asleep with his mouth wide open. I knew it.

I climbed down slowly so as not to wake him up. I realised the girls were still fast asleep and so were the boys. Well except one bed that was empty. This is going to be awkward.

I walked to the front of the bus saying good morning to Renato as I passed by him talking to someone on the phone.

I went to make myself a cup of tea since I wasn't much of a coffee person. I was looking around for the sugar when I heard someone cleared his throat from behind me.

"You need this?" Joel said holding the sugar that I needed.

"Uh yeah thank you" I said as I took the sugar from him, realising that it was limited.

"We need to go grocery shopping. You said so yourself, there's not much food on the bus." Joel said as if reading my mind.

I nodded not knowing how to answer him. At that moment, Renato walked over to us putting away his phone.

"Looks like we're going to be arriving earlier than expected so we can't go to the hotel yet and the venue will only be ready at 3. Do you guys have any ideas on how to spend the next 7 hours?" Renato asked, rubbing his forehead.

Me and Joel looked at each other as he raised an eyebrow.

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This is a bad idea.

We told Renato that there was limited food on the bus and knowing Chris and Zabdi, they'd complain the whole day if we didn't get food ASAP.

That's how we ended up in Target an hour later with Renato leaving me and the girls in charge of taking care of the boys.

The thing is, we kinda lost the boys within 5 seconds of stepping into Target. Except for Joel, who has been looking at me as if telling me that this was a bad idea. Not like I didn't know that already.

"Right, so what are we gonna do now?" Violet asked in desperation.

"We find the boys and get our food I guess." I said, trying to sound positive.

"Or they get kicked out and we're not allowed back into the store, whichever comes first." Joel said giving me a fake smile.

I rolled my eyes although I knew that he was right. But he didn't have to be so negative about it.

"Its alright, me and Violet will settle the food problem. You both go and make sure the boys don't get themselves kicked out" Anna suggested and Violet nodded in agreement as they headed towards the food section.

"Right, where would you go if you were them?" I said turning to Joel.

He didn't say anything but instead pointed towards something behind me.

I turned around to see Erick in a shopping cart with Chris pushing him, going at god knows what speed.

I grabbed Joel's wrist and pulled him trying to catch up to Chris and Erick but they were running around Target like it was an obstacle course.

In just a few seconds, we lost them again and we were back to square one.

"We could try checking the toys section, I heard Zabdi wanted to find some games to keep us busy on the bus." Joel said, making me turn to him.

"Oh really? And you couldn't bother to maybe say that a few minutes ago?!" I sighed in frustration.

He shrugged and we made our way to look for my brother.

We got lucky as we bumped directly into Richard and Zabdi holding many weird toys in their hands.

"Really? How old are you guys, 5?" I shook my head in disappointment.

It took some argument before I finally got them to put back all the unnecessary stuff except for a monopoly box to entertain us on the bus.

"2 down. 2 to go." I thought to myself as me and Joel looked for Chris and Erick with Richard and Zabdiel following close behind.

We looked all over the store but to no avail.

We met Violet and Anna at the cashier holding a few bags of food to last us the whole tour (or at least I hope so).

"Where's Chris and Erick?" Anna asked after seeing that we only had Richard and Zabdi with us.

"About that..." I started but not before a security guard came up to us looking extremely pissed.

"Excuse me but are you friends with 2 boys that were running around the store with one of the shopping carts?" He said in a deep voice.

We all nodded, having no words to answer him.

"I've kicked them out for being a public nuisance so if you'll follow me, I'll show you where they are." He continued after looking at our faces.

We did as we were told and followed him until we reached the parking lot outside and we saw Chris and Erick looking at the ground guiltily like 5 year old kids that just got given a timeout.

We thanked the security guard and dragged the 2 of them back to the tour bus.

I'm officially certain I'm on tour with 5 year olds.