goodbye calls. [short stack fan fic]

part 3

"You broke Andy's guitar?!" Shaun snapped.

We were outside now so it wasn't that bad, all we could hope was that Andy didn't decide he wanted some fresh air.

"it was an accident!" bradie snapped back. "I only found my way to the foyer by accident. I was trying to find my way to beaus dressing room. He left his mic in the green room and I got a message asking if I could give it to him. He must have found another one to use. Cause I ended up out here before I could find my way back."

"Sure." Said Shaun "like you weren't trying to catch up with some pretty girls." He smiled and winked at maddie.

"Um, c'mon maddie, we should go and check on stace. Bradie can explain the problem to Shaun." I said, grabbing hold of her wrist. We were both reluctant to leave, but Shaun wouldn't let his attitude fade until we were gone.

When we returned to stace we found her awake and sitting up, next to someone I didn't want to see at this point in time.

"Hey guys" stace said smiling hugely. "Look who I found." She said gesturing to the person sitting next to her.

"Hey. I'm andy." He said. Getting up to shake our hands. "pleased to meet you. I was just getting to know your friend here, she seems nice."

"Hi." I replied, spying stace blushing deeply "i'm Isabelle, but everyone calls me iz. And this," I said waving my hand towards maddie "is our friend Madeline. We call her maddie for short."

Maddie just waved, and tried not to faint.

Great how are we gunna sort this out? I thought.

It was then we heard footsteps. Apparently the argument outside was finished because Shaun and bradie came running into the room.

"Hey guys." Andy said "where've you been? Jimmy's been lookin' for you for ages."

"Uh, sorry." Bradie apologised "you know me, always getting lost."

"Then where were you?" Andy asked rounding on Shaun. "And what's with the new groupies?"

"Ok. One, they're not groupies. Two, they're our, um, our backstage winners." Shaun replied.

I began to feel a new kind of admiration for him, that was a good idea, and it made sense.

When Andy started to reply stace quickly claimed his attention. She must have seen my expression.

"Um, I better go and see what jimmy wants, maybe give the girls a tour, take them to meet the guys, you know, the usual stuff." Shaun said.

"Yeah! That's a great idea!" bradie agreed sarcastically, "i'm sure they'd love to meet Jumpnow, with the mood he's in."

When we got out the door I heard Shaun swear under his breath, and saw him stop walking.

"What's wrong?" I asked, stopping nest to him.

"I forgot to get the fucking keys!" he snapped.

"Ah." I said. "That's where I come in." and I showed him the keys I found on the bench next to me.

"You sneaky little bitch." Shaun laughed, his eyes twinkling.

We quickly ran to the van where we found bradie talking with jimmy, And maddie daydreaming.

"Good news." Bradie said. "I explained what happened to jimmy and he's agreed to get the crowd hyped up to give us a few more minutes."

Then he left to go and get the remains of Andys bass.

"Thanks for that man. 'Cause I really don't want my hair messed up at the moment. Fan riots are the worst." Shaun said, jumping into the drivers' seat, starting the car, and perfecting his hair.

"You guys owe me." Was the reply as jimmy walked away smiling.

We all got into the car as bradie returned with the guitar.

Breathing a sigh of relief I hopped into the front seat and started giving directions to Shaun.

We got home in record time, and I was out of the car before we had even pulled up.

I ran around the back, threw the screen door open and fell into the backdoor. It was locked.

What the hell? I thought why's the backdoor locked?

So I went around the side where the car was and looked in the lounge window. No one was home. All the doors were locked.

"No one's home." I called to them

"shit." I heard Shaun say, running his fingers through his hair, and then quickly fixing it again.

As I was walking back to the car, trying to think of something we could do I heard a loud bang from above me. I looked up and realised my bedroom window was open.

Bad news is, it was on the second floor.

"i'm gunna need the car over here guys." I said, a plan forming in my head.

If the car was parked under the window I might just be able to reach the window sill and get into my room to retrieve the guitar.

A few minutes later I was in my bedroom with maddie waiting below my window on top of the van ready to catch the guitar. Bradie and Shaun were mulling around, talking about the tour so far.

"do you remember how scared sonny was when that security guy wanted to see him alone?" bradie asked Shaun.

"yeah, he was shit scared." Shaun laughed in response. "but apparently all he wanted was to check his ID again."

"here goes." I said, tuning out their voices, dropping the guitar to maddie. Then following suit I jumped out the window, closing it as I went.

As I landed, my shoes slipped on the wet roof, because it rained earlier in the day, and I started to fall backwards onto the ground, my arms were going everywhere, all I could think of was

This is REALLY gunna hurt.

I closed my eyes and braced myself for the impact.