Tell Me Why (A Jayy Von Monroe FanFic; BoTDF)

Chapter 21; "I'm Sorry Hunter."

The next week was full of worry, but it was okay. I was as relaxed as I could be with all that was running through my mind. Nightmares occurred every night, sometimes even multiple times a night, and I'd wake up screaming into Jayy's chest. Once or twice I even woke up to find I was digging my nails into his back. It wasn't enough to really even hurt him, but it still hurt me to know what I was doing.

But Jayy never got upset with me, never got frustrated by it. He just cuddled me and said sweet nothings until I felt better.

But today had been going well. I hadn't thought much of Axel after Jayy calmed me down from a sub-par nightmare, which made me cry despite it's not living up to my other nightmares' standards.

I had, however, been pretty much bunk-bound whenever I had free time in the past week, listening to Falling In Reverse in my headphones and performing mind-numbing tasks on my phone, specifically for that effect---I 'wanted' my mind numb. That way, I wouldn't be thinking of Axel or Ronnie or Mom; just making lines of three or infecting the world with non-existent diseases and attempting for the demise of the human race.

Jayy came and knocked on the side of the bunk before opening the curtain. I popped an earbud out and looked over.

His eyes flashed down to the ground the second they met mine. The guilt in his features betrayed him. "Hunter?" he said gently.

"Yeah?" I asked, removing the other bud and propping myself up against the wall of the bunk.

"I have some bad news..."

"I can tell," I said softly, my gaze dropping flatly to the comforter.

"We can't switch the tour dates, it would mess with the busing schedule and it'd be impossible for us to get to the shows on time without a jet engine."

My eyes watered, but I just nodded. "Okay."

"I'm sorry Hunter."

"It's not your fault Jayy," I assured him. "I honestly didn't expect that you'd be able to change it." Which was true. But that didn't mean I hadn't been hopeful.

Jayy sighed. "We'll only be a week behind what we thought though, okay? He'll only be there a week. How much happens in a week?"

"Not much," I lied bluntly. Ronnie was capable of anything, and she only gave Mom two or three nights of peace a week, if we were lucky; just enough to keep Mom from getting fed up and calling the cops, as if she would anyway.

Mom could get pretty hurt in a week, especially without me there to throw Ronnie out on her ass until she sobered up. But Ronnie was careful, she never left a mark where someone would notice, never inflicted a serious injury, as Mom would either end up out of work or someone would notice.

Ronnie was pretty careful to cover her tracks when it came to Mom because she knew Mom would only take so much. She'd approached that line only once before, and was extremely careful not to do it again when it came to Mom, or even me.

But with Axel...God only knew.

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Alright guys, before I announce this, I'd like to give you all a quick thank you for sticking with me and this story for this long, and for reading this far.

Some of you, most of you, weren't here back at the very beginning, maybe chapter three, when I was NEVER updating. I was lazy and bored with the story already, and it seemed like no one was reading it. Since then, we've gotten something around 3k reads, according to WattPad. So I want to thank each and every one of you real quick.

Now then, I'd like to announce something that anyone who reads the comments probably already knows.

Tell Me Why will have a sequel called "Do-Over". The story isn't over yet, and I don't have any real idea of how many chapters are left in this book. I do however, know exactly what is going to be happening from now until the end of the book, and at the start of the next book.

Please don't kill me for the ending, or quit on the book because I assure you that if you give up on the series because of how this one ends, you'll be missing a pretty big game changer.

That said, I wanted to know what you guys thought of me changing this fanfic into a book. It's the second book I've ever gotten a taste of completing, and I really like the ideas I'm coming up with for it. I'm becoming more and more tempted to make it it's own book, MAYBE even looking into a self-publishing site with it.

I need you guys to give me advice here, should I do it?

Basically all that would be changing is that I'd be changing the names and probably be adding a new chapter at the beginning to give a little background to the fake band I'd be creating in the story. Noah the kitty would also be edited out, obviously enough.

So, if you think I should, let me know, and, if not, tell me that too! I want some real thoughts here and any criticism is welcomed, as it always has been.

Thanks again and I'll see you in the next chapter!

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