On the Road- Awsten Knight Waterparks

Chapter Twenty One

Isla's POV:

For the rest of the night we all hung out, listened to music, and played video games. I went to bed about 3am and now I was regretting it.

My alarm went of at 9:30am, I cursed at the painful ring of the wake up call. My head was banging and my ovaries felt like they were being tickled by a chainsaw.

I don't drink but apparently I have a hang over, from the eighty mood swings I had.

I got out of my bunk feeling gross and corpse-like. I grabbed a paracetamol from my backpack and went to get some water to take it with.

The bus was filled with snores and sleepy murmurs, looks like I'm the only one awake. I took the pain killer with a gulp of ice cold water. The thought of food was just not appealing to me right now and that never happens.

I went and sat down on the sofa in the backroom and scrolled through my social media.

My stomach flipped, God I did not feel well one bit. I took another sip of my water. My skin started to heat up and my breaths became shallow. I tied my hair up in attempts to cool myself down.

A terrible feeling erupted in my stomach, I was going to be sick. I ran to the bathroom and knelt against the toilet seat. I threw up, I felt slightly better but I still was not great.

I sat up, away from the vomit filled toilet, and wiped the tears that instinctively fell down my cheeks.

The bitter remains, burnt the back of my throat and tongue. I stood up and tried to steady myself by holding the sink.

I went to my bunk and grabbed some clothes and my toiletries. Before anything else, I brushed my teeth in attempts to remove the stomach acid from my mouth.

I gargled some of the icy water. Now that I felt sure I wasn't going to vomit again, I flushed the toilet and locked the bathroom door.

I stepped into the steamy shower and washed away the feeling of grossness. I scrubbed at my skin till it was red raw and coated myself in my patchouli scented shower cream.

Finally content with my hygiene, I stepped out of the shower and dried off. I brushed my teeth once again to get rid of the last traces of my bile, and put on an old band tee that I stole from Eli once, and some leggings.

I cleaned up after myself and took my stuff back to my bunk.

On my way I saw Geoff making some breakfast.

"You okay? You look a bit ill." Geoff asked concerned.

"I'll be fine, my bodies probably just reacting to being constantly on the road and the excitement of it." I played it off, I couldn't be bothered with people making a fuss about me.

"Okay if you're sure." He smiled.

I sat back down on the sofa and continued to scroll through my social media.

It was raining both outside and in my mind. I didn't feel anything. No emotion. Nothing. Just numb. I already wanted this day to be over. I felt like shit and I just wanted to stay in bed all day.I couldn't of course, I had to work.

"Morning jellybean." Awsten smiled as he hopped down from his bunk.

"Hi." I gave him a weak smile and played with a loose thread on my hoodie.

"What's up?" He asked sitting next to me looking concerned.

"Nothing. I'm fine honestly. Just tired." I gave him a convincing smile. I didn't want him pitying me or feeling like it was his job to make me feel better.

"You sure?" Awsten put his hand on mine.

"Yep. What about you? You okay?" I turned the conversation around on him.

"I'm good, I had a really nice day yesterday. It was really nice to hang out with everyone, especially you." He smiled and kissed me on the cheek.

"Yeah I'm glad we had the opportunity to get to know everyone better." I said looking out of the rain covered window. "I should probably start setting up soon." I pulled my hand away from Awsten's and stood up.

"Okay. I need to shower and shave. Talk later?" He smiled weakly at me, he could see something was wrong but I just didn't want to talk about it. I nodded in response and put my shoes on and put my hood up.

I lethargically set up with the rest of the crews help.

Awsten's POV:

Isla was definitely having a down day, I didn't want to intrude or make her feel worse but I couldn't bare to not see her beautiful smile.

After I had a shower and shave I got dressed in skinny jeans and a sweater.

I boiled the kettle, got out two mugs and put some fruit teabags in them. I poured in the water and left them to brew. I brushed my hair through and put on my glasses so I could see.

I grabbed both mugs of hot tea and walked into the venue. The rain was only gentle. I saw Isla getting frustrated with some tangled wires.

"Fuck off!" She shouted throwing the wires to the ground and running her hands through her hair stressed out.

I walked towards her.

"Hey, I brought you some fruit tea. Why don't you take a break and sit down for a couple of minutes?" She looked at me grateful and took one of the mugs from my hand. We went over to the bar and sat down.

"Thanks Aws. I don't know what's up with me today." She gave me a weak smile and blew on her tea.

"It's okay. We all have bad days, nothing to worry about." I gave her a goofy grin which caused her to chuckle.

"I should probably apologise to those wires." She said smiling, her mood slightly lifted.

"You were quite harsh with them." I laughed, sipping the tea carefully not to burn my mouth.

"They were being stubborn and not untangling." She protested.

"How did you sleep?" I asked changing the subject.

"Too short." She said sipping her tea.

"Well none of us went to sleep until 3 a.m." I pushed my hair out of my face.

"Yeah I know but my alarm went off at 9:30." She sighed.

"I know it did, it woke me up." I laughed.

"Oh sorry. But you didn't get up till 10:30."

"I fell back asleep like straight away." I laughed and Isla gave me a jealous look.

"I should probably get back to work and try again at untangling the wires." She smiled downing the rest of her tea and standing up.

"Okay, I'll be around if you need me." I smiled. To be honest, I was slightly hurt when she got up so suddenly and went back to working. I know she had to but, it was like she didn't really want to talk to me. I sighed and grabbed both of our mugs and went back onto the bus to chill.

A/N
Sorry for such a short chapter.
I've been feeling really unmotivated and it's taking me forever to write these chapters.

Thanks for reading.
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