We made it to the venue and parked the bus. “Alright ladies, lets unload.” Mike got out of the driver’s seat and left the bus. Everyone started shuffling out of the bus, except for Tony; I think he was back at his bunk. When I started getting up Vic pushed me back down onto the couch. “What was that for?” I gave him a glare.
“This is man’s work, we would want you to break a nail or something.” He smirked and walked off the bus. Once he was where he couldn’t see me I glared and flipped him off.
“Well, that wasn’t very nice.” Tony laughed and walked passed me. I blushed following him off the bus and went to the trailer to help. Jaime was having trouble with a case; right before he dropped it I caught the other side helping him.
“Whoa, whoa. Hold it chicka. I got this!” he smiled.
“Fine, whatever you say macho man.” I let go of my side and he almost dropped it again so he set it on the ground.
“Are you sure you don’t want my help?” I asked
“Hold on, I got this.” He paused being dramatic.
“Ok, move over sissy. I got it.” I went to pick up the case and Jaime smirked, “Yeah, like you can lift that.”
“Wanna bet?” I raised an eyebrow. By then, the rest of the guys were back and started watching.
“Dude, I wouldn’t take that bet you’ll lose for sure.” Mike laughed at Jaime and winked at me. Jaime just laughed, “Yeah, ok. I’ll take my chances.”
“Ok, so how much you wanna bet?” I smirked.
“Hmmm, how about $100 and my red vans.”
“What would I do with your vans? How about $150 and we got a deal. Cut out the vans.”
He thought for a minute. “Fine, you got a deal”. We smiled and shook hands.
“Ok, so if I pick up this case and carry it in that building by the rest of the gear I get $150. Sounds fair.” I smiled and went for the case. Jaime tried to push me over went to pick it up so I pushed him away. “Go away, I can lift it.” He just laughed and stepped back, hands up in surrender. I took a deep breath, and picked up the case no problem and walked toward the building. “And that’s how it’s done, Preciado.”
He sat in awe while everyone else was laughing.
I went inside the door and set the case next to all of the others. Vic went over to Jaime and put his hand on his shoulder smiling, as I came back. “Well Hime-Time, how does it feel to get owned by a girl?” Jaime punched him in the arm “shut up!”
I walked towards him, “Ok, pay up pretty boy” he gave me a dirty look while taking out his wallet and handing me the money. I took it and put it in my bra, “Oh, don’t get your panties in a twist Mr. Grumpy Gills. We warned you.” After that they all let me help unload the rest, Jaime occasionally glaring at me then laughing

***
We got completely unloaded and set up. Vic came off stage followed by mike. “Well, I’m starving, let’s go eat.” Everyone agreed, we started walking to the diner down the street. We were about half way there and I was walking behind everyone, Mike noticed and came back by me. “Guys, what’s wrong with you!” everyone turned around, “I can’t believe you let Em walk all by herself!” he fake yelled, putting his arm around me Tony walked back and stood to the other side of me so he and mike were on each side of me. “Vic you walk in front of Emily, and Jaime you walk behind her so she’s in the middle of us.” He pointed them to their spots; I just stood and watched. “Wait, guys, you don’t have to do that, I’m perfectly fine walking by myself.”
We all started walking. I didn’t like Jaime walking behind me, I could practically feel he staring at my butt. “Jaime, you should walk in front of me by Vic.”
“Why?”
“Because I can feel you staring at my ass.”
He laughed “Is it that obvious?” he walked in the front by Vic, who was nudging him and whispered to him. Well attempted to anyway. “Dude, you totally got caught! You must be ninja, like me. I’ve done it like 5 times today.”
I cleared my throat, causing them to look at me, I laughed at them. “Vic, you suck at whispering. Just sayin.” His face turned bright red. “Oh, and you’re not ninja. I saw you every time. I just didn’t want you to be embarrassed so I didn’t say anything.”
Vic immediately turned bright red and looked forward.
“Mike, will you give me a piggy back?” I gave him the puppy dog look.
“Okay, only because your adorable.” He laughed and grabbed my thighs in his hands as I jumped onto his back. After a short 10 minute walk, we were at the diner and mike put me down, “ok, guys. Let’s go in. “he held the door open and everyone was expecting me to go first, “I don’t want anyone else looking at my ass.” Tony, Vic and Mike shrugged and walked in. “hope you enjoy the view!’ mike yelled back at me, I just laughed and started walking in and Jaime was holding the door for me, “Wait, wait, wait. No. You’re still going in front of me.” I turned and looked at Jaime.
“Why? So you can look at my ass?” he smirked and I rolled my eyes, “maybe I want to.” I raised my eyebrows. He stared at me for a second, “Ok, I don’t care.” He started walking past me, as I went to follow him, he turned around and threw me over his shoulder. “Jaime! Put me down!” I squealed trying to wiggle out of his hold. But it was no use. He carried me to the corner booth where everyone was settled. He put me down and we sat at the end by Tony. “I wanted to sit by Tony, I can’t sit at the end. It makes me feel out of the loop. ” I whined, but Jaime pouted until he got to sit in-between us. The waitress came over a few minutes later to take everyone’s orders, when she got to me I realized that I hadn’t even looked at the menu. “Umm, nothing for me thanks.” I gave her a smile.
“Ok, I’ll put that in right now,” after collecting the menu’s she walked away disappearing in to the kitchen.
Mike looked at me, “Why didn’t you get anything?”
“I’m just not hungry.” I smiled.
“How are you not hungry? You haven’t eaten since yesterday, god knows what time.” He chuckled
“Well just to let you know, I hardly eat as it is. Well, around people anyways.”
“Please tell me that you’re not starving yourself, it’s very bad for your health and I would get really sad if I found out you are.” Vic said, concerned.
“I’m not starving myself, I just have this fear of eating in front of people, let alone hot guys.” I smiled and looked down, “but when I’m alone I usually eat like, everything.” I looked up with a cheesy grin. Tony laughed, “Really? You won’t eat in front of us because you think we’re hot?”
“No, I just won’t eat in front of you because you’re guy’s in general. And I’m still trying to get over the fact that I spent the night with the band who saved my life and is seriously my favorite band of all time, now I’m sitting at a diner with them and I’m sitting next to the guy I’ve had a major crush on for like ever.” I turned bright red and covered my mouth. I didn’t mean for that last part to come out, I had major word vomit. They all just stared at me, their jaws practically touching the floor. Jaime’s facial expression was priceless though. “Ummm.” I looked around trying to think of a way to get out of this, and then I thought of my mom. “Mike!” I almost squealed, “Ummm, I have to call my mom and make sure she doesn’t think I’m dead or something.” He pulled out his phone, “ok, just don’t break it.”
“Thanks bud, and I won’t.” I ran outside dialing my mom’s number, it rang and rang and rang, and then it went to voicemail. So I left a message,
Hey mommy, I was just calling to let you know that I’m alive and they didn’t murder me. I must have called at a bad time, so I’ll just call you back later. Probably after the show or something. I’m having a great time. Thank you so much for letting me do this. I have so much to tell you, you won’t believe it! Well I gotta go the guys are waiting for me. Love you mommy! Bye.
I hung up, taking a deep breath and pulled open the door. I slowly walked back to the table where the guys were eating. I sat down next to Jaime again trying not to turn red again. I reached across the table giving mike his phone back, “Thanks Mikey.” I smiled and took a drink of my water.
Jaime looked at me, “Wait, you’re calling him Mikey now? Why does he get to be called by his nickname thingamajig?” I sighed. “Because Hime-Time, I like him better.”
“Oh, I see how it is. I’m the one you have a crush on and I don’t even get called by my nickname.” Everyone started laughing and Jaime just sat there pouting, “What?” he looked up. Vic swallowed a mouthful of food. “Hime, she just used your nickname.” Jaime looked confused. “Huh? She did?” he paused. “Oh, hey. She did!” he beamed.
Everyone was laughing at how blonde he is.
Mike looked over at me, “oh yeah, we need to go and get Em a new outfit before the show so she won’t be wearing the clothes she wore yesterday again. I promised her yesterday.” Everyone chimed in their okay.
“Em, you’re eating something before we leave.” Mike looked at my eyebrows raised
“No, I’m not. You can’t make me, you’re not my mother…” I stuck my tongue out at him.
“I will force-feed you little girl” he glared at me.
I returned the glare, “You wouldn’t.”
“Oh, I would.”
I leaned forward challenging him, “Bring It.”
Mike jumped from his seat with a handful of fries and shoved them in my face making fries go everywhere. “You got fries down my shirt!” I squealed
“Well you can always just take it off so that wouldn’t happen.” He laughed.
“Mike shut up.” I said digging fries out of my shirt not realizing my bra was showing.
“Ooohhhhh, red lace. Pretty sexy.” Mike laughed. It took me a minute to process while holding my shirt down still showing my bra. I looked down realizing it was showing. “Shit! You weren’t supposed to see that!” quickly pulling up my shirt. All the guys were staring by that point, I just glared at them. “You guys act as if you’ve never seen a girl’s bra before.” Everyone looked down except for mike; he was smiling.
“What are you smiling at?” I smirked
“I didn’t know something so innocent could wear something so sexy.”
“Oh, there is so much you don’t know about me Mikey.” I half smiled, raising an eyebrow.
“Whoa, hold up there chicka! Don’t tease me like that. You’re not legal for 3 more days!”
I just laughed and got up. “Well, I saw a hot topic down the street so I’m gonna go look around there and we can meet up there when you guys are done.” I turned to walk out and heard someone get up. “Wait up, I’ll go with you.” It was Jaime; my cheeks automatically started heating up. I really hope he didn’t notice.
“Hurry up slowpoke, we don’t have all day.” I laughed and kept walking, trying to keep my cool. “You walk too fast.” He jogged to catch up.
“Well, when you have 2 brothers both over 6 foot, you learn to walk fast.”
He laughed and looked at the ground. “So about the whole crush thing earlier… did you really mean that?” I stopped and looked at him. “Why does it matter?”
“Well, i..Uh.. was just wondering, I just don’t know really any girls who have a crush on me, and uh, never mind.”
“Jaime, you’re famous. Who doesn’t have a crush on you? There are thousands of girls out there who have a crush on you, what would make me any different? Because I know that after tonight I’ll just be like any other fan. You guys will move on and forget about me. And don’t tr-” he grabbed my face and pressed his lips in mine. It felt amazing; I had never been kissed like that before. He pulled away and smiled, “That, Emily. Is what makes you different.”
I stood in shock, not moving or breathing. Just standing, like a retard. Not knowing what to do I turn and started walking to hot topic. Ok, not walking. More like sprinting. I left Jaime standing there, alone. I made it to hot topic and ran inside, not knowing if he was following me. I went and grabbed a couple random shirts so I would have an excuse to use the dressing room. I went to the counter. “Um, can I use the dressing groom?” the girl gave me the key; I ran back there and slammed the very thin door.
I sat down and thoughts came flooding in to my mind. Did he really kiss me? How does he like me? I mean really. What does this really mean? He can’t like me; I’m a nobody. Just an ordinary fangirl; what if he’s just trying to make me think he likes me so he can sleep with me? Would he be that kind of person? I mean, from what I know about him I don’t think he is; but you never truly know, some things are exaggerated or undermined. I guess the only way to find out is to get to know hi- My thoughts were cut off by the sounds of the chimes at the front door signaling that someone had come in. “please don’t be Jaime, please don’t be Jaime, please don’t be Jaime.” I whispered to myself. But it was him, he was talking to the girl at the counter, “have you seen a girl that’s about my height brown hair in a ponytail and a bon jovi shirt with worn out jeans on?” the girl must have pointed to the dressing rooms because I heard him coming towards my room. He knocked on my door, “Em? Are you in there?” I didn’t answer. “Look, I’m sorry if I offended you or made you mad. I didn’t mean to. I just wanted to show you how I feel about you.” I sighed and got up to opened the door; I hesitated for a moment before I opened it. He looked up from the ground and into my eyes. “Are you ok?”
I just looked at him for a second before pushing past him. I started looking through shirts until I saw a My Chemical Romance one and I found black ripped up skinny jeans and a ninja turtle belt with a seatbelt buckle. Jaime just followed me around and looked though some racks.
“Ok, I’m ready to go.” I turned towards Jaime who seemed shocked. I just looked at him, “what?”
“You talked.” He laughed. We heard the chimes go off and we looked over to see the guys, they came straight over to us.
Tony was looking at the clothes I picked out. “Hmmm, nice choice.” He smiled. Mike and Vic looked at my choices and laughed. They gave each other a look and Vic walked off towards the corsets and skirts while mike took the clothes from my arms putting them in Tony’s. He took me by the wrist taking me to the dressing rooms.
“Ok, stay here.” He ran off over by Vic grabbing a bunch of skirts, tank tops and a couple of dresses. The both came over dumping the clothes into my arms and shoving me into the dressing room and shut the door. “Make sure you try on everything!” Vic yelled from the other side of the door.
“I don’t wanna.” I pouted like a little kid and mike yelled at me, “Don’t make me come in there!”
I sighed and tried on outfit after outfit; some too revealing, for me anyways I didn’t hear any complaints from the guys, some covered up too much for my taste, and some were just right, but the guys didn’t agree; I finally got to the very last one.
It was a dress, about thigh high; black with red roses and skulls on it. “Alright, it’s the last one. Let’s hope that you guys like it, and don’t laugh when I come out.” I slowly opened the door and stepped out. Everyone’s jaws dropped, I think the girl at the counter’s even dropped. Mike came up to me, “Okay, you’re getting this.”
“Can I still get those?” I pointed to the clothes that Tony was holding.
“Yes Em, you can.” he chuckled
“Ok” I smiled and changed back into my clothes. Mike paid and we left.
We started walking back to the bus and Tony, Mike and Vic shared a look. Mike looked at Jaime and I, “well, we gotta go do something so you guys go back to the bus, we’ll catch up.” He winked and they turned around walking away from us. Jaime put his hand in his pockets and started walking towards the bus. I stood in place for a second thinking. Really? Why did they do that? He must have talked to them when I was changing I guess. I snapped back and ran to catch up with Jaime, “Wait up, dude.”
He looked at me and laughed. “Dude? Really?”
“What’s wrong with saying dude?” I laughed
“Nothing, nothing at all.” He smiled.

Notes

okay, well. how do you like this chapter? it's a lot longer than the other ones.. :p i'm not sure why, but i really like this chapter. it's one of my favorites. (:
so, what do you think is gonna happen when they get back to the bus? hmmm? and is jaime just the cutest thing!
thanks for the feedback guys! love ya!
<3/Emilio
emily's extra outfit