Pentatonix... Touring and Finding Love

Chapter 12

Kirstie found herself awake before anyone else.  She stretched and yawned.  She turned off the TV which was stuck playing the intro to the Wizard of Oz DVD Main Menu.  She thought to herself, must have fallen asleep during the credits.  She turned and saw that Scott was still sleeping.  She thought about going out and grabbing some Starbucks, some real coffee, down the road.  She slowly got up as to not disturb the sleeping blonde.  She opened the door and closed softly and headed towards her clothes.  She grabbed some jeans, a pink t-shirt, and her gray hoodie.  She went to the bathroom and did her normal routine.  She decided to put her hair up in a quick messy bun, grabbed her glasses, and her wallet, and phone, and headed out.  She wasn’t going to let what happened to her make her scared to venture out on her own again.  She was proud of herself.  She had her phone and some mace that she got earlier in the day from the body guard.  She felt safe with that, plus, it was 6:00 in the morning.  She arrived at Starbucks within minutes or so, and decided to get some for the whole group.   She left and came back to the bus.  She was probably only gone about thirty minutes at the most.  She wasn’t expecting her group’s reaction when she walked in.

“Kirstie, where have you been?!  Guys, Kirstie’s back. ” Mitch exclaimed running over to her. 

“I was getting coffee.” Kirstie said.

“You need to let someone know if you are planning on leaving by yourself, good grief, Kirstie, you were attacked the other day.  Why didn’t you have David come with you?” Avi asked coming around the corner. 

“Yes, or one of us?” Kevin added.

“Kirstie, why didn’t you wake me?” Scott said coming from the back room yawning.

“Oh my gosh!  Guys, I’m okay.  Yes, I was attacked, not too bad.  I cried and I am working on getting over it.  Can we all move on?  I was trying to do something nice for all of you and get coffee from Starbucks.  I was gone twenty five minutes at the most.  Calm down.” Kirstie said sternly. 

“Sorry, we are just really worried about you?” Mitch said grabbing the coffee from her hands and then placing it on the table.  Mitch turned back around and hugged her.  “I’m sorry.”

Kirstie then felt more arms around her and it was a big group hug fest. 

Kirstie couldn’t help but smile and said, “Okay, okay.  Drink your coffee.  You are all forgiven.”

She looked up at Scott and he winked at her.  She felt her cheeks grow warm.  She turned away and got her coffee and went to sit outside.  She wanted to write.  She sat down at the table and pulled out her journal.  She flipped to a new page and began writing.  She wrote whatever she was thinking, just letting it flow to the paper.  She didn’t even sense Avi coming to the table until he sat down. 

“Kirstie, can we talk?” Avi asked.

“Sure, Avi,” Kirstie said as she closed her journal to give him her full attention.

“I’m getting the vibe that you are not really into me anymore?” Avi asked.

“I have something to tell you, Avi, and it’s not easy.  It’s one of the most difficult things that I have to tell you.”

“What is it?”

After a long pause, Kirstie finally said, “I like someone else.”

“Oh,” Avi whispered.

“I’m sorry.  I didn’t mean to lead you on if that’s how you feel.  I didn’t really know I liked this other person until recently.  You are so amazing and you will find a girl who deserves you.  I’ll make sure of it.”  Kirstie was being as sincere as she could.