Yet another Richpez fic

Part 1

Apocalyptour

12pm

"See ya later Lo! Feel Better!" Jaime called as she left the bus with others to head in to town.

Lauren weakly replied before rolling back over in bed. How typical, she thought, the first free day they've had all tour and she's too sick to go anywhere. She was so angry with herself for falling ill, no matter how many times everyone else told her she was being ridiculous. She felt especially guilty since her voice had finally given out in the middle of the show last night. She hated letting people down. 

Lauren shut her eyes and tried to sleep when she heard someone pottering in the kitchen.

"Hello?" she hoarsely called. A few seconds later the curtain drew back and Joey's lower body entered the sleeping area, his face came in to view as he sat on the edge of her bed with a steaming cup of tea in his hands. "Why aren't you with the others?" she asked as he handed her the drink.

"I told them I'd catch up with them, wanted to make sure you were ok first." He beamed a smile at her, "I put some honey in the tea, hopefully it'll help your sore throat." Lauren smiled and took a big gulp of tea but immediately regretted it. In his eagerness to help her Joey added way too much honey and it was sickeningly sweet. She did her best to repress the urge to spit it out before smiling back at him. "Thanks Joey, it's really good. Now go enjoy you're day off, you're not gonna have any fun listening to me cough and sneeze all day."

"No problem, now drink that and try to get some rest. I'll see you later." He leaned over and planted a soft kiss on her forehead before heading out of the bus. Lauren sat puzzled for a few seconds before muttering, "the fuck was that about?.."

Joey made it about 5 steps from the bus before stopping and thinking, "what the hell did I do that for?.."