Stevie watched out the window, seeing the bus come to a stop. Her eyes scanned over the empty outdoor arena, the seats and the stage all barren in the early afternoon.
"Hey." Lindsey got her attention, Stevie raising an eyebrow in question. "We're going to go set up the stage, did you want to come?"
"No." Stevie shook her head. "I'll just stay here for right now."
Lindsey shrugged, already heading towards the door. "Suit yourself."
Stevie heard the door shut behind him, letting out a heavy sigh. Her fingers danced across the small table top, glancing around the trailer. She could read a book, she could draw some. She needed something, anything, to distract her mind from the reality she was currently living in.
Thinking more into it she started to panic, the tour bus suddenly becoming closed in. She fled for the outdoors, slamming the door behind her. Stumbling off the steps she glanced around frantically.
Her heart leapt seeing a pay phone and she darted towards it. Fishing a quarter out of her pocket, she slid it in the slot and furiously punched in the number she knew by heart.
She bit down on her thumb nail as she listened to it ring, tears forming in her eyes hearing it picked up.
"Hello?"
"Robin it's me."
Stevie heard a gasp from the other line, her tears spilling.
"STEVIE! Where are you!"
"I'm in Fresno." She sniffled.
"What the fuck are you doing there?"
Stevie shook her head as if Robin could see her. "I don't know. I don't know where I'm going or what's going on-
"Stevie calm down." Robin cut her off.
"Robin I'm scared." Her voice cracked.
"WHO are you in Fresno with?"
"Lindsey."
"Who?" Stevie could hear her confusion over the line.
"The guitarist from the band we saw."
"WHAT THE FUCK."
"Robin-
"Have you lost your mind!"
"I didn't no what else to do!"
"Running off with some guy you don't even know across the country is NOT what you're supposed to do Stevie!"
"I panicked!" Stevie broke down, crying. "Robin I'm really scared."
"Did he hit you Stevie? Because I swear to god if he did-
"No!" Stevie cut her off. "Nothing like that. Just...he's really intense, and I feel dirty. It's like I'm just a road fuck for him, there to use at his disposal."
"You need to come home, now."
"Robin I can't do that."
"Why the hell not!"
"I don't know how to explain it."
"Stevie you just got done telling me he's using you!"
"I don't know if he is or not Robin! But this feels right."
"You have lost your mind."
"I can't put it in to words...but Robin I feel free. Traveling from city to city, meeting all kinds of different people. The music."
