The next morning, I was woken up by Jamie and Nash jumping around on my bed yelling obnoxiously loudly. “Oh. My. God. I’m up!” I pushed them both off and sat up, yawning. “The bus is here, and we’re leaving in… right now.” They ran out the door, laughing madly. I jumped out of bed and started to grab everything that I would need until we got to the first stop and shoving it in my purse. I ran out the door, and made it on the bus just as the driver finished putting our suitcases into the storage compartment thingy. “Glad to see you made it.” teased Ryan, ruffling my hair as I walked past him to claim my bunk. “Yeah, yeah.” I threw my purse onto the top bunk across from Kadyn and walked back into the front lounge, running a hand through my hair in an attempt to make it less insane. “Don’t even bother.” said Kadyn grumpily. “Someone needs to get the tampon out of their butt.” Jamie chided. “Really, Kay. It’s 3 in the afternoon, so it’s really not even that early.” Ian laughed at her Look and sat down. “Whatever. I’m sleeping.” She stalked back to her bunk and slammed the curtain shut. The bus started moving, and I plopped down on the only available seat, which was next to Ian. “You can go sleep if you want. Our first stop is in New York, so we won’t get there till tomorrow.” he whispered to me. “I don’t want to be considered the boring one on this tour. Besides, who knows what will happen if I leave you guys alone?” He laughed. “Good point.” I kicked my feet up and rested them across his lap, leaning my head back so that it was upside down on the arm of the couch. “Hey, Charlie.” called Jamie from the couch on the opposite side of the bus. “Hmm?” I raised my head looked at him. “Can you and Kadyn help out at the merch stand? Our people quit at the last minute, so we’re short two merch girls.” I nodded. “Yup, sounds good. As long as I get some free merch.” He laughed and nodded back. “Of course.”
Seven hours later, all of us were bored out of our minds, Kadyn wasn’t the only one who had decided to go take a nap. Ryan, Jamie, and Nash had all gone to their bunks, and I could hear Nash snoring very loudly. “Screw this. I’m going to bed.” I stood up and waved to Ian. He was too absorbed in his game to notice, so I just went to the back and crawled into my bunk. “Oh, my god. How does this even work?” I muttered, trying to get comfortable and ending up on my stomach, with one hand under my cheek and one hanging over the side of the bunk. I heard a quiet laugh from underneath me, which I immediately identified to be Ryan. “Shut up.” I whispered. He grabbed my hand and started to play with it. I tried to smack his hand away, but that didn’t work, so I just gave up and let him continue. He twined and untwined our hands, overlapped my fingers, and even used my hand as a puppet. “Oh Ryan, you’re so sexy. I love you sooo much.” He spoke for my hand as he was making it into a puppet. I couldn’t help but laugh, but since I was laying in such an awkward position, it came out as a snort. He laughed and continued to play with my fingers. “You are so immature.” I mumbled, poking my head over the side of the bunk and grinning down at him. “You know you like it.” I snorted again. “Whatever stops the tears, love.” He smiled wider and started pulling on my arm. “Oh my gosh Ryan. Stop!” I tried to be quiet, but I almost fell out of my bunk as he gave a particularly hard tug. “Oh, my god. Shut up.” Jamie groaned from under Ryan. I stole the phrase he had used with Kadyn earlier. “Get the tampon out of your butt and enjoy life.” I heard a light giggle from across the way, and knew Kadyn must be awake. “Just go to sleep.” I shook my head and pulled my hand away from Ryan, ignoring his protests.
“Okay guys, now we have to be very quiet, because Charlie’s asleep.” I woke up to Ryan whispering to someone and hearing his footsteps walking in slowly from the back lounge. “Aww, look at her adorable… back.” I realized that since no one was responding, he was either vlogging for the bands youtube channel or doing a twit cam. “Shut the fu*k up.” I mumbled into my pillow, rolling over to face him. He pretended to look hurt. “But Charlie, everyone wants to see you!” He gestured to the laptop and grinned. “Nooooo! I look terrible!” I pulled the soft brown blanket over my head and whimpered when I felt it pulled away. “You are SO lucky I wore pants.” I smacked his head and he almost dropped the laptop. “I dunno…” He smirked as I gasped and hopped out of the bunk, landing on his feet. “Serves you right.” I smiled as I walked to the back lounge. “Everyone say “Good morning ray of sunshine!” I looked back at Ryan and stuck out my tongue, like the mature person I am. “Don’t you have to go annoy Jamie or something? Brotherly duty?” I grumbled, watching him as he walked backward with the laptop, making a face and causing me to bust out laughing. Kadyn came stumbling in, tripping over the rug and landing face-first on the leather couch in front of me. “Smooth.” Kadyn flipped me off and stood slowly up, stretching. “So whats on the agenda for today?” I shrugged. “Ian probably knows. He’s like the god of the band. Knows all, sees all.” I heard a light laugh from behind me. “So, I’m god, eh?” I laughed, nodding. “To answer your question, Kay,” He pretended to look at his watch. “We are driving until roughly three, and then arriving in our first stop, Orlando.” (A.N: I’m completely making this tour up, so don’t judge.) I cheered. “No more bus for a few hours!”
A few hours later, we pulled to a stop at our first show, which was at Universal Studios. “FREEDOM!” I ran off the bus and fell to my knees, pretending to kiss the asphalt. “Wow.” Ryan came up behind me and kicked my butt, making me fall over and smack my head on the ground. “Oww.” I groaned. I picked myself up off the ground and gave Ryan a Death Glare. He laughed and patted my head as he walked past, Nash trailing behind holding a banana. “Nice banana.” I wiggled my eyebrows suggestively, licking my lips in an over-exaggerated way. He nodded, flicking his hair and taking a large bite of the fruit. “I know.” I laughed and smacked his head lightly when he walked past. “You know you want it!” he called over his shoulder, laughing when I stuck out my tongue.
