Best Kind of Mess [A Marianas Trench Fanfic]

Chapter 7

One day, you and I will stand right there

And everyone would stop and stare at us-

It took quite a bit of fumbling to find my phone from beside my pillow. I was half-wishing that I wouldn't find it in time to answer the call, but I guess my lucky stars weren't listening to me. My eyes were still closed as I hit answer. Luckily, I had a Blackberry, so I could actually feel the buttons.

"Good-" I started to say, before realizing I had no idea what time it was.

"Ysa," a familiar voice from the other end cut in. And the use of my childhood nickname alone was enough to give away who it was.

"Speaking," I yawned, sitting up while rubbing my eyes.

"I've been trying to call you since last night!" she sounded excited. Then again, she was always like this: excited about the smallest things. She was pretty sensitive at times, too. Very confusing, mood-wise. She was crazy. But then again, so was I. Maybe it was that craziness that made us best friends in the first place. In fact, she complained a lot about how hanging around the boys of the band had toned me down a bit.

"There was a show last night," I mumbled, keeping my voice down. For all I knew, it could be three in the morning, and I didn't want to wake up the guys.

"But it's been a month!" she said loudly. Well, loudly enough for me to tilt my head away from the phone while she was having her little freak-out session. I grabbed the hairbrush I kept in my bunk and tried to single-handedly comb down the long, black excuse I had for hair. I barely caught on to her last sentence as I pressedthe phone against my ear again "-last to know?"

I could practically hear the frown in her voice. She was so psyched just a while ago, and now she was upset. Typical. She changed moods just like that.

"Woah, Jodi!" I cut in before she went into a rant again. "What are you freaking out about?" This time, I added mentally, smiling.

"When were you going to tell me that you were dating Josh?" she said, finally. I could just see her in my mind's eye: a cute, little bouncing ball of energy. It was obvious that she'd been dying to pop me this question ever since I picked up the phone minutes ago, but at the same time trying to sound like she's upset at me.

"I'm not," I said casually, completely forgetting about the situation I was in. And that, of course, earned me another scream.

"It's all over the internet!"

"Oh shit," I whispered, covering my mouth with my hand. It was only then that I remembered that everyone knew that Josh and I were together. He confirmed it a few days ago, why was Jodi only calling me now?

"You guys look soooo cute!" she gushed, leaving me expressionless on the other line. My friends knew I worked for a band under 604 Records, but only Jodi and a few others knew that it was Marianas Trench, specifically.

"Yeah.. I guess," I responded, laying my head back down on my pillow.

"You're dating Josh Ramsay! You should be more enthusiastic than that!"

"Well..." I shrugged, even though I knew she couldn't see me.

"Why didn't you tell me about it?" this time she really did sound a bit sad. I dug around wildly in my mind for an excuse to use.

"We haven't seen each other in like.. almost a month," I said, keeping my fingers crossed that she bought it.

"We saw each other ten days ago, Ysa!"

"Ten days ago?" I asked, more to myself than her. I grabbed my iPod and went straight to check the calendar.Ten days ago... that would be the 11th.