But I Do

Chapter 11

Chapter 11.

"Who is it? ...Hayley? Hayley!" Lights asked, getting up and going over to her. Her face was white as she shook her head. Lights gently put her hand on her arm, trying to get her to say something.

"Fuck you," Hayley muttered before hanging up. Lights stayed quiet, just looking at her worriedly. "It was Dakota." Hayley said plainly, "She didn't even apologize but she wanted to make sure we were 'okay.' Ridiculous."

"Oh..." Lights nodded, understanding. She pulled Hayley into a hug, trailing her fingers over her bare back. The redhead sighed, hugging her back tightly. Suddenly there was a knock on the door, startling the two.

"Fuck," Hayley muttered, scrambling to put clothes on. "Just a second!" She called, and tugging her jeans back on and throwing her shirt on haphazardly. She shoved her bra under a blanket for the moment. She looked to Lights, who was searching for her shirt. She exchanged a look with Hayley that said Where the hell is it? It'd gotten thrown somewhere in the room, but was now nowhere to be found.

"Hayley, you in there?" Taylor asked through the door, trying the locked handle.

"Uh, yeah, just a second. You woke me up," She lied, looking to Lights and shrugging in regards to her shirt. She ushered her over to the bunch of blankets, throwing them on top of her to hide her. She arranged them all so that Lights had been turned into an only slightly suspicious looking heap of blankets. She ran to the door, opening it and putting on her best tired face.

"Uh, what are you doing back?" She managed to half fake a yawn as he looked at her quizzically. Okay, maybe it was kind of hard to fake a yawn.

"Well, it's almost 4AM and we're exhausted, so... yeah." He said as she nodded. Lights was beginning to overheat under the 3 blankets, doing her best to breathe quietly as she listened to the conversation.

"Dude, I told you to wait for me!-" Max exclaimed, bursting into the bus just a couple minutes too late. He stopped as he saw Hayley, complete with raging sex hair which Taylor hadn't noticed. Taylor turned around, giving him a funny look. To be fair, Max was acting pretty strange in Taylor's eyes. "Oh, uh, yeah... I just..." Max stuttered and trailed off, looking to Hayley, sending her telepathic apologies. Hayley received the telepathic apologies and nodded a little, but the two were still on edge, just praying that Taylor wouldn't question anything any further. Luckily he just  shrugged and climbed into his bunk. Hayley and Max both watched, trying to stay nonchalant about it. As soon as Taylor had closed the curtain and turned over, the two looked at each other, eyes wide.

Hayley ushered him into the back room and closed the door again. She went over to where Lights was still under the blankets, still dying of heat. Hayley lifted up the blankets, revealing her girlfriend curled up underneath.

"Hi," She smiled apologetically as Lights dramatically took a deep breath, savoring the fresh air.

"AIR, YES, MOTHERFUCKING AIR. Jeez, I was about to die in there, Hayley. God. Oh, hi," She realized Max was in the room and pulled a blanket back around herself.

"I take it things went well then?" Max asked, raising an eyebrow now that the tension was gone. Hayley only smiled, sitting down next to Lights and resting her head on her shoulder.

"Mmhm."

"Awww," Max laughed, "I'm glad. Sorry about T. I tried to keep everyone off, but they were supposed to get back in like 5 minutes anyway."

"Right, right, my bad. I lost track of time," Hayley said, glancing at the clock on her phone. "Well, that all happened. It's been a long ass night. 'M gonna sleep." She mumbled. She stood up and took Lights' hand, heading for the door to the bunk area.