Broken

Chapter Ten

woke up with a smile on my face think about last nights events.

“Girlllll” A familiar peppy voice spoke as I sat up.

“Carter! We kissed!” Gushing I stood up and joined him sitting on his bed.

“I knew you two would hit it off!” He swung an arm around my shoulder and squeezed.

I smiled and got up rummaging through my not-so-neat luggage looking for cute clothes to wear. Carter informed me about our meet and greet this afternoon, followed by a show, and another plane ride.

“Ugh what should I wear?” I flopped on my bed.

He filled the room with a mocking “omg” and went to my suit case. Pulling out a very old bed shirt.

“This.” He held it up making me laugh.

“Go get food you are no help.” I playfully smacked his arm.

Its weird that I’m so comfortable with him but around almost any of the other guys I freeze and stutter. I wish I could be more out there. Pushing negative thoughts to the back of my head I pulled out my checkered-front leather jacket, a black tee that read “off the deep end” and some red black jeans with very cute red boots. I decided to leave my hair at its natural wavy state and put on light make up.

“Al I got you a cereal cup!” Carter walked in as I was finishing up.

“Thanks!” I said taking the cup.

We finished our cereal and met up with all the others down stairs. I was greeted with small smirks and raised eyebrows.

“You and Matt huh?” Nudged Nash.

I blushed scanning for Matt. Before I could find him I was being hugged from behind and a kiss was planted to my cheek.

“That’s right so back off Grier.” Matt teased and laced our fingers together.

“Roll out!” Johnson yelled and we all filed into a huge van.

We arrived at the venue with only a few fans waiting so we all took pictures with them. I had lost track of Matt as soon as we stepped out of the van, which I didn’t mind. I don’t want the world to know about us before I even got us figured out.

After the small greeting we went to sound check, freshened up and went to meet and greet. Carter pulled me aside before it started and told me to tell him that if I got worked up to find him. Anxiety is great isn’t it?

They opened the doors and the line started.

“Alice!!” a girl ran up and hugged me. I was honestly uncomfortable at first but I soon got used to it.

About 15 girls came through and everything was going well.

“Hey!” a tall boy around my age walked up.

Before I could answer another boy followed up behind him.

“Sup babe?” he said smiling.

I smiled and said a small hello and right before we posed for our picture one of the two grabbed my backside. I went to turn around to confront him but he ran, then the other repeated the action and tried to kiss me. I called security but nobody heard because they were dealing with people trying to sneak in. I began to feel anxious but quickly stored it in the back of my mind wanting to be happy for the rest of the fans.

After the fans cleared out I headed for the dressing rooms to get a water. I was feeling as if I would faint.

“Alice you good?” Cam tapped my shoulder.

I just nodded and kept walking at a faster pace than everybody else. I finally got to the room and sipped my paper cup of water.

“Hey babe!” Matt came in with a smile that slowly went away.

“whats wrong?” he sat down next to me.

I shook my head not wanting to worry him.

“So you can tell Carter everything but not me?” He sounded mildly annoyed and hurt.

“No Matt, I just-” I was cut off by an excited Hayes.

“MATT WE ARE GOING GO KARTING BEFORE WE LEAVE!” he yelled pretending to fangirl.

Matt jumped up excitedly and jumped up and down mocking Hayes. Hayes pouted and left the room.

“Do you want to go?” he placed a hand on my knee.

I smiled up at him relieved he had forgotten about our quick tiff. I slightly bit my lip and nodded.  I was excited to be able to just have fun and let go, maybe I didn’t have to tell anybody about my awkward encounter.