Hell To Pay

In The Meantime

"You know I almost drop your bass!" All of them are joking. Dave is telling them the time he pranked Nate while they're waiting for the hotel to provide additional single bed like usual. They always do it for Sam. They like it that way, with all of them in the same room. Laughing and else. "If I were you, Nate. I'm gonna try to drop Dave's guitar in return." Sam laughs so hard while trying to build up the main joke. "No, Nate is too human, too sane to destroy an instrument. He's classy." Dave smirks and mocking the way Nate behave. "What about you Sam?"
"No. I'm not gonna crush anything. Chad will be pissed."
"Hahaha. That beast, I'm sure he crushed some drums in the past."
"Umm. Guys.." suddenly Taylor enter the room with Nina. "Oh god, save us." Chris whisper.

"Since we didn't have a proper introduction, we decided to stay in the same room as you guys...and maybe we can start to know each other. Right Nina?" He, doubtfully turns to her and she's smiling widely. "Yeah. I mean, maybe we can be friends after we know each other."
"What do you guys think?" Taylor wait for the boys to respond it.

"Alright. Whatever." Dave says, and then someone knocks at their door. He opens it and it's the single bed for Sam. "Alright, put it here." The man put the bed at the corner. "Thanks man." Dave gives him a tip and he leaves.

"Alright, it's time to sleep!" Dave sarcastically says and then crawling into the sharing bed with Nate. Chris also jumps into the bed. "Come on guys, Nina doesn't talk about anything yet. Give her a chance."
"Nope. Maybe later." Dave rolls a blanket, shows everyone that he really doesn't give a shit.

"Where do we sleep?" Nina asks Taylor and looks around. There's one space on the sharing bed with Chris, a single bed, and a couch. "Chris, can we change a space? I mean let Sam and Nina on that bed, you take the single bed, and I will be on couch."
"Nope. I don't want your girl to be nearby this particular bed. My bed. You should be here, not her."
"Okay.. what about... Sam on your bed and Nina on the single bed?"
"Bad idea."
"Okay. What do you want?"
"You're with me, Sam on single bed. And Nina on couch."
"What? Come on!" Seems like Chris won't giving up, so Taylor says to Nina, "Come on, let's go back to our room."
"No, I don't want to." She really persistent and even whining. "Okay..let me ask.. Sam."

He goes to Sam who's about to get on her bed. "Sam.. umm.. can you let Nina sleep on your bed? Maybe you can take the couch?"
"Excuse me?"
"You hear Chris.." He begs so Sam gets up but Dave cut it. "No, Sam. Don't give your bed."
"It's okay Dave. I'm sure there's another room at this hotel, somewhere." She takes her jacket. "You can sleep there." She tells Nina before leave the room, pissed.

"Good job man." Dave sarcastically says to Taylor, quickly turn his face from him. Without saying anything, he takes the spot on Chris's side while Nina take the single bed. "You know I don't mean to..."
"Keep that for yourself Taylor, it doesn't matter." Dave then rolls so he doesn't have to face Taylor, which stop the conversation instantly.

Meanwhile Sam goes down to the receptionist with some money that should be enough after she called Chad to lend her some. "Excuse me.."
"Yeah, can I help you?" She's welcomed by a very young receptionist. She's probably 20-ish or something. "Umm. I need a room. Just for me."
"Let me check first." She goes through the list and turns back to Sam with a sincere apology face. "I'm sorry. We are full right now.."
"Are you sure? Not even one? Like if you got a room with broken bathroom or something, I'll take it. I need a place to sleep."
"I really hope I can help you ma'am, but there's no room left. Can I help you with accommodation to another hotel. We can call a cab for you and.." Sam quickly cut her out. "Umm. No. That's very kind of you, but I don't think it's necessary. I'll find a place." Sam knows even the nearest hotel is still far away and can be reached by 30 minutes driving. With a key to the band's tour bus, she have no choice but go to the outdoor parking lot. She remembers that they couldn't sleep there because it only has 4 bed and 2 of them are broken. So she can actually use either Chris's or Dave's bed.

"Dave.." Nate whisper to him, wakes him up instantly. "Yeah Nate?"
"Should us be checking on her? Just to make sure.."
"Umm.. what time is it?"
"2.30."
"Uh.. okay. Let's go and ask the receptionist." Both Dave and Nate get up while everyone sleep. They take their jackets and keys. "Where do you go?" Taylor doesn't sleep yet and he notices Dave and Nate are about to go. Feeling the need to explain, Nate says, "Umm. Checking on Sam."
"Should I go with you?" Dave rolls his eyes. "No. You stay here. You can't let your psycho girlfriend to be anywhere near Chris."
"Okay. Can you stop that? What did she do to you? Nothing." Taylor tries to defend Nina.

"See? You know we are agree to disagree, so excuse me... Me and Nate have a thing to do." Dave open the door and step out from their room, followed by Nate.

"Hey, umm. Miss?" They go to a receptionist and she recognizes them immediately. "Oh. Umm, yeah..sir?"
"Haha. No need to call us sir. Anyway, we need information about our friend, she booked a room here?"
"Name?"
"Samantha Smith."
"Let me search it, I'll let you know."
"Thank you." She checks out lists and else while Nate and Dave wait there. "Sorry sir, there's no guess with that name. Can you tell us the time of the booking? Or any possible name?"
"Try Sam. She was probably doing the book just hours ago."
"Umm.. there's one Sam that booked a room this morning, but no other on the past 5 hours.." They're confused with no clue at all. "This makes me worry, Dave." Nate bites his shirt and look at Dave. "Can I ask you what does she look like? There was one guess that wanted to book a room hours ago, but since we're full, she left the hotel." Dave turns to her again and gives her a description.

"Well she is white, height just not far from me.. natural blonde hair, wearing glasses, and umm... Blue jacket." The receptionist smiles and nods, "That's her. Nice lady, I offered her accommodation but she refused. She walked out and I think to the north parking lot."
"The bus." Nate whisper to Dave. "Okay miss. Thank you so much. I appreciate that."
"You're welcome."

There's not much people on the lot, it's kinda freezing outside. "Dude.. this is cold." Dave can't stop putting his hands inside his pocket and when they enter the bus, it is not for better either. "What the... Why didn't she set up the thermostat?" Now it's Nate who put his hands inside. "Nope. It's broken." Dave answer him. "Are you kidding?? Why everything's broken in this bus. Geez."

They go to the bed compartment where they found Sam there, sleeping with so many layers of blanket. She's probably uses the whole stock for it. "Well, I guess we're not the one who's freezing here."