A/N This chapter is really long but a little rushed.
Lyly P.O.V.
It’s been three days. I had not seen Max. So I never had the chance to ask for my phone back. Everyone was just so busy so I held it off, but today I had a much looser schedule. We had already finished performing and from what I heard so did Escape the Fate. I left our tour bus to look for Max. I was about to knock on the ETF bus when the door had swung open. “Saw you from the window” said the one and only with a smirk.
“My phone?” I held my hand out.
“Aww, I thought you had forgotten about it, there goes my new phone!” He gave me my phone, I probably had a lot of missed calls and texts. I turn my phone on as I heard him say something. “Oh yeah, there’s something I should tell you.” More interested in my phone, I ignore him. The phone turned on to reveal a number lock. I look up at him angrily, who was laughing.
“Really?! Are you serious?! Give me the code!”
“Nope!” He was still laughing.
“I swear to jesus I will beat you to a pulp!”
“Oooo, I’m so scared!”
“What the hell do you want?!” He stopped laughing and got serious.
“Hang out with me sometime, I won’t bite,” he winked. I was furious, I reluctantly answered.
“ALRIGHT, fine, I’m free tonight!” He grabbed my phone and punched in the password and gave it back to me. He looked down at the phone.
“That was easier than I thought. I was sure I might have had to use it!”
“Use wh- you changed my background!” There was a picture of him with his tongue sticking out and on the bottom were the edited in ‘Max the Ripper!!!’
“Knew it’d brighten your day!” he winks. I rolled my eyes but couldn’t help but laugh with him. I quickly went to settings and disabled the password. When I looked up he was in my face. “I’ll see you tonight, 7 PM?” I shook my head yes and he went back inside and closed the door. I walked away laughing because he was such an idiot.
I was in our band’s small ass bunk room jamming out to music, when I looked at the time. ‘6:40’ Crap I got to get ready! Hm, I’ll do that in five minutes! I jammed out some more. My phone lit up and vibrated.
Michael- I love you babygirl! I’ll be seeing you soon. I’m coming for you. You have my heart Lyly. Love you.
My heart started pounding. He can’t be serious? But then again this is him. I just can’t hate him when he did or said things like this. However, while I’m on tour though, it can be stressing. I took a quick shower, put my hair in a high pony tail and let my bangs hang loose. My ears were exposed. I loved them . I weirdly found them adorable. I put on my tapers. I had another hole for piercings. I put on some earrings too. I quickly put on some eyeliner and mascara. I threw on some casual clothes since we were only hanging out. I looked at time- 7:26. Whoops. Someone knocked on the bathroom door. “Are you almost done, your boyfriend Max has been waiting here since 7.” Damon says. I open the door.
“He’s not my boyfriend!”
“But he sai-“ I cut him off by pointing by finger to his lip and walked to the living area of the bus. The rest of the band was there. Max was grinning.
“I’m going to kill you if you say something that’s not true again!”
“Aww, no need to be hostile I was only kidding around.”
“I believe her hostility is because of me, I must be rubbing off on her.” Matt says proudly with a laugh. I laugh too because that could be true!
“Thhhhen I’ll be taking my leave!” Max jokes.
“Too bad no one can rub off being on time on her.” Terrence jokes along. I take a pillow from the couch and chuck it at him.
“Oh shush! How come I’m the one always being teased?!”
Max jumps up with his fist in the air. “Cause MAN POWER!!” They all jump up to, chanting along. I roll my eyes and laugh.
“You guys are assholes!”
“Asshole power!” They all chant.
“Okay that’s it, let’s go!” I grab Max by the hand and drag him towards the exit of the bus. I raise the hand I’m holding up in the air along with mine, “Women power!” I yell. “We’re leaving! Be back soon!”
“Have fun kiddos!” Matt yells to us.
“Yeah, don’t be back too late missy, you have a curfew and it ain’t pass your bedtime!” yells Damon. I stick the middle finger and exit the bus still holding on to Max.
“Desperate aren’t we?” I let him go quickly.
“Oh please!”
“Desperate and a beggar huh?”
I flick him on the forehead. “You smart ass dimwit!”
“Smart? Dimwit? Should those words be together?!”
“Smart ass! OKAY, you win this one. Now what do you want to do?”
“Beach here we come!!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I did not agree to that!”
“Why not?”
“If you haven’t noticed, it’s night time.”
“No shit.” There will be a day where I will uncontrollably punch him. I roll my eyes.
“Sharks could be anywhere and I will have even less of a chance to spot it before it gets me!”
“That’s paranoid thinking.”
“More like careful thinking!”
“You’re terrified of sharks?”
“Yeah, so?!” I defended quickly.
“Your fear of them is causing you to overthink.”
“Nooo.”
“Yeeess.”
We were in front of his car, I got in and so did he. “Where are we going?”
“Beach.”
“Oh no no no no, Max no!”
“Relax, we won’t get in the wáter.” I eyed Max. It was dark so I could barely make out his face. The parts I could, attracted me to him. He turned away from the road and smirks.
“Take a picture it’ll last.” I roll my eyes for the thousandth time today.
“I was only thinking about how pale you are! So pale I can spot you in the dark.”
“My paleness is beauty.” He looks at me from the corner of his eye. I connected my phone to his car and played ‘The Tallest of Mountains’ by Acres. I loved it. I ended up thinking about thinks til I was deep in thought. I’m alone with a guy. Uh oh. No you don’t Lyly. Change your thoughts. Whenever I am alone with a guy I tend to look at them from a possible ‘more than friends’ perspective. I once had a crush on Damon in high school, had feelings for Matt, and wanted Terrence, that all went away once we formed the band and turned into this family figure. I could never seem them as anything but family now. Shit, I kept thinking and now I’m nervous. I’m alone with a boy and he’s hot. “Hey, we’re here!” Max wakes me from my thoughts. We walk out the parking lot and towards the beach.
“Everything seems so much prettier in the dark.” He doesn’t reply and we walk on the sand. There was a lot of people on the boardwalk but we were the only ones on the beach. My breath was stolen. “Wooow, the ocean is soo beautiful and horrifying at night.” Max starts to laugh.
“Make up your mind.”
“No, it really is both! It’s so dark yet so pretty, too silent, but strange.”
“I like the dark.”
“I fear it.” I suddenly fall on my ass. Max was laughing. He tripped me. “You jerk.” I grab on to one of his legs and latch myself around it. “Hahaha, come join me down here!” He tries to shake me off. I hold on tighter and he eventually falls. We couldn’t stop laughing. Sand had gotten on his eye and he asked me to blow it so I did. In doing so, I was leaning over him. He was staring into my eyes in seriousness.
“You know, whoever said brown is an ugly eye color is wrong. I like dark colors. Makes you think. They’re so mysterious. I really like them.”
“Thanks.” It was silent, I felt myself slipping off him as he stood up, falling on my face. Sand had gotten in my mouth. “You fucking short shit!” I playfully yell and toss sand at him. He ran towards me and lifted me off the ground.
