Ross Gets Dumped (An R5 Fanfiction)

Chapter 5

I had this great idea for a new melody for the bridge. It just came to me while we were doing our sound check for tonight’s show. We worked all night on the song, but even though we got a good start with Sophia’s lyrics, we hit a snag when it came to the melodies.

Since we’re both responsible artists, we put away the work and slept a solid eight hours. I slept on the floor of Sophia’s bus because we didn’t have another gas stop for a few hours and we were having so much fun together that I honestly didn’t want to leave. Sophia offered me her bed or the couch in the front of the bus, but I chose the floor. I guess a part of me wanted to be close to her. Kind of like I do right now.

I’m practically running to the Line Drive green room so I can share my idea with Sophia. She’s going to love it, I’m sure. Our brains seem to be synched in a way I never knew possible.

Just before I knock on the green room door, I hear Rory’s voice, a little louder than it needs to be. “Be careful, Soph,” he says.

“You have nothing to worry about. We’re just writing a song together.”

It doesn’t take a scientist to figure out that they’re talking about me. I take a step back. I know I should walk away, pretend I didn’t hear anything, or knock so that they know I’m here, but I can’t. I want to hear more. It’s like a car accident, how you can’t look away.

“All night?” Rory scoffs. I don’t know him very well, but I can tell he’s angry. After what Sophia told me, how he’s got this huge thing for her, I guess I can understand why. Nothing happened between us, but Sophia and I were locked in her room, alone, for twenty four hours. He has a reason to be suspicious.

“We had to get to know each other,” Sophia says.

Rory laughs. “God, Sophia, don’t be an idiot.”

“Excuse me?”

“He’ll never fall for you. His last girlfriend was famous and a model. You’re going to get yourself hurt.”

“Shut up,” Sophia says, her voice betraying her as it shakes. “I know what I’m doing okay.” She pauses. “I don’t like him like that. I’m just using him for a hit song. Imagine the press we’d get singing a song written by Ross Lynch. R5 doesn’t even get that. This is purely strategic.”

Her words sting more than they should. I knew she only wanted a song from me; that was the deal. Line Drive would stay on the tour if I wrote a song with her. Strictly business.

Yet I felt something yesterday while we were writing. I thought that Sophia and I had a connection, something deeper than just the original plan to write a song. It’s not like I was going to ask her out or anything, but I thought we could at least be friends. I guess I just never realized the relationship was one sided.

I turn and walk back to our green room without talking to Sophia. I’m more hurt than angry. This is what I get for opening myself up so soon after Hannah destroyed my heart.

I sit on the couch with Rocky next to me and I absentmindedly strum the guitar. It takes me a while before I realize that the tune I’m strumming without even thinking is the song that Sophia and I worked on, including the new part for the bridge.

“You okay?” Rocky asks when I put down my guitar suddenly.

I nod. “Fine.”

He lifts his eyebrow. “What’s going on?”

There’s no one else in the green room but the two of us. I don’t know where the rest of our family is. It’s pretty rare that they’re all out and about. Rocky will probably judge me for letting myself get hurt again so soon, but keeping my emotions inside has never been good for me.