You Could Be Mine

Reunited For The Better?

I walked into the bus and saw everyone sitting around us, the only person missing was Slash. I said my hellos to every giving them a hug, and then I introduced Amanda. She was very calm and mature, totally opposite of what I thought she would do. This was her favorite band of all time and she's so calm. I brushed it off best I could and started to enjoy myself. "I'm so happy to see you guys." I said smiling at them.

"We are glad to see you here." Duff said smiling back at me. They decided to go show Amanda around the arena, and I was left alone on the bus to put my things away. I heard someone open the door and come up the stairs, I turned slowly to see who it was. It was Slash, he jumped back a little when he saw me. He was shocked I was there. "Why the hell are you here?" He asked in a serious tone. I walked towards him a little and he jumped back.

"I got a call saying that the band needed me. So I'm here for the rest of the tour." I said to him with a soft calm voice. He seemed to not like what I just said and he got a little angry. "No. You're not staying here." I looked at him and I could barely recognize him. "Slash, I'm not leaving." I said back and he gave me a look, but I saw right through it. He still felt like shit for cheating on me, but he didn't want to admit it.

I looked at him and wanted to tell him so many things, but he seemed to ignore the elephant in the room. "I'm here for you. Well not just for you. For the band. We need to talk about what happened if we don't then we will never be able to be in the same room again." I said moving closer to him. "I don't need to talk about anything. I'm fine and you need to stop butting into things you can't even deal with yourself." He said back at me with a snarky voice.

I ignored it, and continued to talk "I know you feel terrible for cheating on me, but we need to move past it right here, right now." He looked at me then chuckled. "You must be smoking some good shit, because that will never fucking happen." He said and he walked out of the bus slamming the door behind him. I let out a loud ugh and then went after him. I opened the door to try to locate him, then I found him halfway to the stage. "SLASH!" I yelled after him, but he kept walking.

I started to run after him, and soon I caught him grabbing his arm whipping him around to face me. "Listen to me Slash, I'm here for you. I'm here to help you. I need you to talk to me. I need you to listen to me. Hell I need you to be in the proper mindset to actually have a caring bone in your body. Yes I know you have one, but you need to work with me here. This is another chance and this is the final chance. Take it, or I'm leaving and will never. EVER. Talk to you or even think of you again. You understand me?" I said all that with anger and determination. Hoping he would actually hear me this time.

He looked down at me and then said "I'll take it on two conditions." I nodded and said "what are they." I waited for a response and he finally spoke "one let go of me. Two we do things my way." I let go after he said that and then thought what the hell did he mean by his way, but I had to take my chances. I nodded "okay." That word came out and I knew I was already in over my head, but I was ready for whatever it was that waited for me later that night.

After the concert....

I walked Amanda to her car and we just talked for a while. I was going to miss our conversations, she was the only true friend I had. I'm sure I would see her again, we would stay in close touch. I hugged her goodbye then watched her drive away waving her hand out the window to me. Just like that she was gone. I stood there for a while then sighed, before turning to go back to the bus. Everyone was drinking, but I didn't feel like doing that so I headed to the stage and sat there looking over the empty venue.

I heard someone walking up behind me and then sit right next to me. I turned to see Duff with a beer in his hand and an unopened water bottle in the other. He handed it to me and I took it. "Thanks." I said opening it and taking a drink. "It's no problem. I just wasn't sure if you wanted company or not. Ever since you got here you seemed eh." He said taking a long drink of beer. "I'm okay. It's just hard you know. I truly love Slash, but it seems his love for me is gone. I don't know what I'm even doing here." The words just flew out of my mouth.

He then set his beer on the stage next to him then took my one hand in his. "He does love you. He just is stuck on him cheating on you and you leaving, but now you're here and maybe he will realize it again." I looked at Duff and I knew he had to be somewhat right. I smiled at him, then set the water down bringing my other hand to his. "I don't know what I'd do without you or the others. You're always there for me. I couldn't thank you enough." I said I felt eyes burning into the back of my head, but I didn't dare turn around.

We let each other's hands go and we talked for hours, until the manager came to tell us we needed to go to the hotel. We got up and headed towards the bus, still bullshitting with each other. We climbed on the bus and joined the others. I saw Slash's eyes looking at me, it seemed as if they were daggers. I sat next to Axl and the bus took off towards the hotel.

Thirty minutes later....

I was in my hotel room getting ready to go to sleep. I brushed my hair and teeth, and put on a long T-shirt to act as a night dress with nothing but my underwear on underneath it. I finished and went to my bed to get it ready when I heard a knock on my door. I looked at the clock, it read 1:48 am. "Who the hell could that be?" I muttered under my breath. I tried to look through the peep hole, but I was just short of it. I opened the door with the stopper on it so see who it was.

As soon as I saw I closed the door and opened it all the way. "What are you doing here?" I said stumbling over my words as if I've never spoken before.