I'd Rather Be Blue (POST MALONE)

Chapter 18: Trust

Ivy's POV

Tour has been amazing. Working on marketing Austin as a business has been challenging, but he has a great team to support that helps me out aswell. April and Mack moved in with Sasha and I put all my stuff in a storage unit since April moved into my room. They broke their lease with their landlord at their apartment and were now permanently living with Sasha. We agreed that once I was home we'd look for a four bedroom house. It was difficult at times to only be seen as Austin's publicist, we never go out to dinner anymore or do anything. Austin's career was skyrocketing and we couldn't go anywhere without seeing atleast one paparazzi. Austin hated It and it was taking a toll on our relationship. Austin never asked me to be his girlfriend officially but we acted as if we were boyfriend and girlfriend so I just assumed we were without the official verbal agreement.

"What are you doing?" Austin asks as he walk over to me. I was sitting at the table on the tour bus. We were headed to some state. I lost track of where we were going.

"Organizing your interviews and setting up final agreements for your potential festival" I say while skimming through papers and writing notes down. I wasn't really a publicist I was more of an assistant.

"Okay cool can you stop and pay attention to me now?" Austin asks grabbing my thighs and turning towards me.

"What do you want?" I say stopping what I was doing and looking at him. I could tell he was tired. He had bags under his eyes and his hair was really messy.

"Anything" he said with a Lopsided grin. I giggle and give him a peck on the lips.

"Why don't we go out for dinner when we get to the stop?" I say staring at him hoping he'd say yes. All the crew that stayed on the bus with us was either sleeping or watching Netflix with their earphones and not paying attention to us.

"What about the paps?" Austin asks taking his hands off my thighs, sitting back.

"What about them?" I ask confused as to why he was always so worried about people seeing us together.

"Let's get settled at the hotel first. I think we should be there soon" Austin says. I just nod and go back to reading the paper work.

Soon enough the bus stopped and the driver announced that we were at our hotel, we were staying at, for the next two nights.

I grab my duffel bag with my essentials and some clothes. Then jump off the bus excited to have my own privacy and be able to have more freedom. I hated the bus i felt so cooped up in there.

Me and Austin went to our room, we could finally talk about dinner and being in the public eye.

Austin was sitting on our bed watching tv. It was some basketball game I think I wasn't paying attention to it.

"So I'm getting hungry let's go to dinner" I say

"Yeah I'll ask the crew if they want to come" Austin says reaching for his phone on the table beside the bed.

"Well why don't we go just the two of us? We haven't been spending much time together" I say looking up at him sticking my bottom lip out.

"Yeah but then the paps will come" Austin says focusing his eyes on the tv.

"So what? Austin why are you so concerned about them?" I say starting to get annoyed with him.

"Because then everyone will know we're dating" he says quietly

"So what? You don't people to know or something?" I ask getting offended

"No it's not like that babe just forget about it order room service" he says groaning