The Month Of July

Chapter 3

The CN tower, a sight that I see every single day leaves Danny fascinated. I laugh as he stares up at it. He pushes me, a playful push, a shut up.

"They don't have all these grand things in Dublin. It's cool."

"Well, did you know that they had a helicopter fly up with the antenna because it was to too big to fit in the elevator?"

"No, I didn't."

"Okay Danny, go stand in front of it and I'll take a picture."

"Thank you." He hands me his phone and the guys stand in front of it. I try to get as much of the tower I can and get the guys in as well. When I'm done, Danny comes to get his phone but I don't give it back. "Sabrina, give me my fuckin' phone!" Danny tries to take it. I try to run but get eaten up by the crowd so I go to find Danny. "Phone." I drop it in his hands and he looks at the pictures. He smiles. "Now I want one with you." Mark takes a few pictures of Danny and I, most of them funny faces but a few decent ones. Danny kisses me, which gets caught on camera as well.

"Danny, delete it now!"

"Relax, who's going to see it?"

"Ryan! Danny, delete it!" I stop trying to get Danny's phone when I see Ryan walk back with Zach. "Daniel, if you show that picture to Ryan, I will gladly murder you." I mutter. "Hey Ryan!" I act all casual.

"Hey, what's up here?"

"Just sharing facts about the CN tower." Mark saves me. "Sabrina knows a lot."

"I know she does." Ryan flashes me a smile, passion shining in his eyes. Shit. "I want to leave, but I don't know, what's The Script doing?"

"I was hoping to see a little more." Glen interjects.

"I can show them around." I volunteer.

"Okay, I want to go for lunch and leave, I've had fans going crazy and I can't go anywhere right now. Sabrina, where's a good place for lunch?"

"There's a great Irish pub, my favourite restaurant here is The Old Spaghetti Factory, I don't know if they do lunch."

"Irish pub!!" Danny exclaims.

"I'm cool with anything." Zach shrugs.

"I don't care." Ryan agrees.

"The Irish want to go, and since you're cool with anything, let's go there." I lead them down to the pub and we meet up with the other three members of OneRepublic at the pub. Danny gets a Guinness, which doesn't surprise me, and a complement on his tattoo. Danny gets partially drunk, adding on to his hangover from last night. "Really?!? It's one thirty and you're already drunk."

"That's how the Irish do!" Danny exclaims.

Ryan checks his phone. "Hun, I have to get going, are you travelling with The Script?" I look down the table at the guys. Glen seems to want me to stay.

"Yeah, I think so."

"Okay, bye darling." I get up and give Ryan a kiss and the rest of OneRepublic a hug.

"Why don't you dump him? You clearly don't love him." Danny asks me.

"Because..." Well, I don't know. Maybe it's because I know that Ryan would hate Danny and it would make a very unpleasant tour. Or maybe it's just because I'm afraid of hurting Ryan.

"Because why?" Danny leans back in his chair, his fingers loosely gripping his beer. He takes a swig and leans closer to me, alcohol on his breath.

"Oh god damn it Daniel!" I sigh.

"Whatever." He leans back again, Mark giving him a dirty look. Both of the guys know that Danny loves me, and I'm pretty sure they know I love him too.

"Danny, give her time. I'm pretty sure Ryan might give us shit and not want us around." Glen sort of chuckles.

"That means longer for...ya know." I get kind of offended by this but remind myself that he's drunk. After lunch, I take the boys to High Park.

"See, Toronto isn't all skyscrapers, there's natural beauty here too. Oh, I wish we had enough time to go to Medieval Times, Danny would love that. Where else should I take you? We don't have any time for the fun stuff, it's all a lot longer than we have time for."

"No, this is gorgeous." Mark says. Danny taps my hand and outstretches his. I put my hand on top of his and he closes our fingers together. I smile and rest my head on his shoulder.

"I'm so tired." I mutter.

"I know, you can sleep on the bus." Danny replies. We get back to the bus and I sit talking to the boys for a bit. During Glen's epic story, my eyelids start to fall.

"Sabrina? Do you need to lay down?" Danny asks me, interrupting Glen."Sorry Glen."

"Yeah." I rub my eyes. Danny walks over to me and kneels down, sliding his hands underneath me and picking me up. He puts me down in his bunk and tucks me in. I notice a picture of Danny with his arm rapped around a man, Danny looking overjoyed. Then, I realize Danny doesn't have his rose and also, Danny wrote 'Oh If You Could See Me Now' underneath the photo. His dad. I fall asleep to the faint sent of alcohol and muffled happy Irish voices.

I hear a big bang and then shouting. I open the door out into the main room. "What is going on?"

"I'm sorry, did we wake you?" Mark asks.

"No, well, yeah, but it's fine. What movie?"

"Pirates Of The Caribbean." Danny answers.

"Which one?"

"Dead Man's Chest, we finished the Black Pearl a few minutes ago."

"My favourite movie. Actually, I like Strangers Tide a lot." Glen comes back from the front.

"We have about five to ten minutes to Boston and then another twenty minutes to the venue. So about half an hour." Glen sits down on the couch beside Danny. I sit at Danny's feet, well, on Danny's feet.

"Would you like to sit here?" Glen asks, quickly getting up.

"No, she's fine." Danny bends over and lifts me onto his lap. "Did you have a good sleep?"

"Yeah, I did." I smile. We watch the movie, me analyzing every cute thing that Will Turner does and laughing at things Captain Jack says. We get off the tour bus and check out the venue, OneRepublic's not here yet, which is weird because they left before us. "Why would they not be here yet?"

"Detours probably." Mark answers.

"Frisbee?" Glen walks off the bus with a frisbee. We throw the frisbee for a bit and then the boys are called over for sound check. They check to see if the camera is working and they clarify songs that are being played. OneRepublic shows up, telling The Script they did nicely and Eddie going over to ask Glen 'how he did that thing with the drums'. Glen teaches Eddie and Eddie picks it up fast. Me, just wanting to curl up and die in a hole.

"Is something wrong?" Ryan asks me.

"No." I lie. I stare at Danny, 100% love struck. Danny has his glasses on, which makes me weak. He's laughing with a few guys and when he sees me, he stops and waves, giving me the world's largest smile. I wave back. I look over and Ryan is gone. Zach walks up to me.

"I've figured it out! You and Danny have a thing going on, I knew it! It's okay, Ryan doesn't feel it anymore."

"What do you mean he doesn't feel it anymore?"

"He told me the spark is gone." This makes me mad. Why hasn't he told me? But then, why haven't I told him? Feelings are obviously going to get hurt. But who's going to do the hurting? I can't do it now, not before his birthday. I have three days to go. "Don't tell him I told you."