Not So Innocent (EGASS sequel)

Chapter 9 - Gabby

"Why are we here again?" Noah yawns as he steps out of the car that he just parked in front of some big building that none of us have ever been to. It was this bad boy that drove us here simply beause he doesn't like having anybody touching his car, let alone driving it. He wouldn't even let Logan, and Logan can drive; he wouldn't have crashed the car, but Noah loves it more than anything. I daresay that car is tied with Lili when it comes to his affections.

"Noah! You don't seriously mean to tell me that you completely forgot that we have to come here and pick out our tour bus!" Lili scolds her half-asleep boyfriend, obviously annoyed that he could forget something as important as this. Most bands, or singers, don't just get to pick their own tour bus; hell no! They have to have whichever one their manager picks out, or some random trailer which is just jazzied up a bit and then given to them half price. So we're really lucky here right now.

"Cut him some slack, Lil." We all turn to look at Brett. It's the first he's spoken in the two hours it took us to get here. "I'm sure he only forgot because he was tired. It is eight in the morning after all. So you can't expect him to think straight in the morning, I don't think." It's obvious that he's trying to get on Noah's good side after getting on the bad first. That is most certainly not a good thing. I personally don't think that Noah likes people sucking up to him.

"I think I can handle this myself, thanks." The bad boy growls, and he walks over to where Lili's standing, wrapping his arms around her. She'd started forming a little bump a while ago, and now her stomach is growing a little more. It's so cool imagining how the baby will be when its born!

"I think you should all shut the hell up so we can find something we like here. It would all be so much easier if all of you stopped being such idiots and stopped arguing!" Lizzie shrieks unhappily, glares at the three, and then stalks off towards the several buses lined up against each other. Joe follows suit, although not after also glaring at them.

"I think she's right." I raise an eyebrow, and they turn to look at me. "There's no reason why we can't all be friends here. We are in the same band, aren't we? Now relax and keep looking for that special tour bus! We could ask for a funky design on it, too! So it doesn't look like those really awful ones with just a black and white pattern on it! It's gonna be amazing." I take Logan's hand and run after the couple, excited about finding a place where we'll be spending the next year on the road with, where well be living for a while. "Okay, so we want something big and spacious, right? We need it to have around four small bedrooms in it, a bathroom, a kitchen, enough space to move around! Ooh! Should we paint it a different colour? They're all white and plain at the moment so we should have something really colourful-" I'm cut off by a pair of lips.

Lili laughs behind me, so I assume that everybody has now come down to where Logan and I are basically snogging in front of the guy that's supposed to show us around the tour buses. I hear some mumbling, and then a soft female hand on my shoulder. I can tell it's Lizzie because I can easily recognise her giggle. She pulls me away from Logan, and winks at both of us. I look up into the brown eyes of the guy I love - I don't care how soppy that sounds - and smile happily as he snakes an arm around my waist and brings me closer to his side. We follow behind the rest of the band members as they all make their way towards where the salesman is pointing.

"What was that for?"

"For talking too much." He grins cutely.

I pause. Then, "Fair enough."

"What!?" We hear Lizzie shouting. "You mean to tell us that the biggest bus you have only has three bedrooms!? There's seven of us, in case you haven't noticed! And one of us is pregnant!" She points at Lili. "What if she is going to have the baby? We can't spend like a week in hospital with it! It's gonna have to come home and we need a bigger tour bus for that! Somewhere where we can fit a little baby crib until we get back home!"

"I'm sorry, miss," The man smiles, although you can tell that he's really annoyed by the way Lizzie demands that we get a bigger bus, when that's the biggest that he probably has. "But this is the biggest we have, and it's going to have to do, I'm afraid, if you want something bigger than usual. See, each couple here can share, and the single boy," He gestures towards Brett, who is inspecting the bus curiously. "He can share with one of the couples, if you don't mind."

"In that case," I step in. "Brett can share with us. I'm sure Logan doesn't mind."

"Actually, Gabb-" I step n his foot before he can continue.

"And if that doesn't work out, he can always share with us."

"No, Lili, he can't."

"Noah-"

"I said no! You will be having our baby soon and it's going to be crowded as it is, anyway. I don't want to have four of us sleeping in one tiny little room until next year, okay? No. He's going to be sleeping with Gabby and Logan. Tough if you don't like that, Lo. You're going to have to deal with it. Unfortunately he has to sleep somewhere and that's only going to be with you. I don't think that Joe will appreciate having his girlfriend all over the new boy, and Lili, the baby and I need to be alone. We have a closer relationship than you two couples, and it's also much worse if we have an extra guy sleeping with us. May we remind you that we have a kid on the way?"

"Thanks for the speech there." Lil rolls her eyes. I smirk.

"He has a point, Logan," I point out. "It's either that or being hated by everyone else. Your choice."

"Why do we even have to have this guy with us?" He loses it again, stomping his foot and acting immaturely as if he's five again. "And why do you keep sticking up for him? He isn't your boyfriend; he's not your brother. He's nothing to you! You've just met him! Then you suggest that he moves in with us, and now you want him to share a room with us on tour! What is wrong with all of you!?" He's yelling by now. I sneak a glance at Brett to see him not even looking at any of us; he's staring into the distance, looking like he's thoughtful about something. Yet I know that he's hurt. If you look deep into his eyes, you'd be able to notice how upset he really is about the situation.

Clearly blames himself when he shouldn't.

"Talk to me when you're done with fawning over him." Logan growls, then storms back to the car. Noah groans.

"This is all your fault." He mumbles, although it's clearly directed right at Brett. He flinches; wow, the boys' words must hurt worse than we first thought they did. I gulp and try not to let any tears fall out of my eyes.

Not because of Logan. Because of how Brett looks like the only thing he wants at the moment is to die. Or hide somewhere. Or both.

"Noah Patterson! Don't ever dare blame something on someone who hasn't even done anything to you! Haven't you learned your lesson!? This is not Brett's fault! It's your fault for being stupid, and not being able to handle things the way you should! It would be so much better if you stopped being such a pain; all of you boys! Don't even talk to us until then!" Lili screams after her boyfriend as he runs after Logan to check if he's okay.

"Maybe-" Joe begins saying, but then Lizzie's bottom lip trembles and she looks up at him as if she can't believe he'd even start saying anything to do with Brett again only to get the rest of us annoyed. He sighs and shakes his head, then turns to the man who has been watching in awe at how much teenage couples could argue these days. "I'm sorry about them. They don't go out much."

And then, glaring at him, Lili takes a deep breath and calms herself down.

"We'll take it."

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Note: Wow! It's taken me a month to update! You guys can come, haunt me down and kill me for this D: I shall deserve it D: BUT at least it was an update, even if it wasn't the best ^.~ Please let us know whether we should carry on with this or just focus on editing EGASS and starting another story, or whatever :3 We would love to hear what you think! :3 Please vote, fan, comment if you liked this ^.^ ;)

~Alex.