Who Can Save Me Now?

After the party incident with Alyssa and Austin, Grant showed Alyssa the pictures and gladly sent Austin all of them, Alyssa being beyond angry. A few days later, her phone rang. I was the only one at the house with Alyssa, Vic and Lu-Lu had gone out to lunch, Grant and Ben went to buy some things which left Alyssa and I, just hanging at home.

When her phone rang, I was pretty surprised, Alyssa never left her phone alone, especially around us. I got up, grabbing the sky blue iPhone from the counter and looked at the caller. There was an emoji of a crying face and a gun pointing to it, a semi-colon was after with three red hearts. I thought it was someone close to her from England and looked at the background.
It was the photo of her and Austin cuddling the night of the party.

I smiled and answered.

“Hello?” I spoke.

“Baby? You sound different.” My eyes widened at the sound of the voice when the phone was ripped away from me and Alyssa was smiling. She held her towel tightly around her body, placing a finger on her lips so we can keep it a secret.

“Hey Austin, Tori answered, sorry.” She spoke into it, walking away. I smiled at her retreating back and sat back down on the kitchen table, writing more music.

The tour kicked off a month later, all of us excited and pretty pumped for it. Ben and Grant began talking ideas with Alyssa about another tour straight after this one.

“I ditched school and I came out fine!” Alyssa argued.

“Yeah, sure you did.” Ben rolled his eyes.

“What’s going on?” Rian and Zack asked us, walking up to us.

“We are going to start a tour after this one, during September to November but Ben is saying that the fans won’t show up since it’s during school.” Lu-Lu chimed in. I looked over at Alyssa who was looking at Ben and he was thinking.

“Alyssa wanted a tour where the kids can skip out of school and go to the shows. Like what she used to do.” Ben looked over at her.

“Hey, Sum 41 and Blink 182 threw great concerts. So did Slipknot and Green Day and I wasn’t going to miss them because of school.” Alyssa shrugged.

“I think it’s a good idea.” Grant shrugged.

“Personally, I don’t really support ditching school, but rock and roll really is about living it up, so why not?” I spoke up.

“Tori has a point, didn’t Danny Worsnop say that?” Rian asked, looking over at me as I nodded.

“Well I don’t know.” Ben rubbed the back of his neck.

“Remember that concert Chiodos had our junior year?” Lu-Lu asked Ben. His eyes widened before agreeing to the concert idea. Alyssa smirked and took out her phone, dialing our manager to talk about the next plan.

“You guys are really going all out, huh?” Zack smiled at us.

“Yeah, with this concert we hope to end it at that and for a few months chill to write new music.” Grant smiled.

“That sounds cool.” Rian smiled. We talked for a bit, a few other people joined us before I decided to head back to the bus. I didn’t get much sleep last night and I decided to nap for a bit.

I walked over, my attention running back to home and my father and sister. I stopped walking, deciding that maybe a visit would be necessary soon. I was an adult and I could go back, I made my own rules now. Mother couldn’t do anything about it. “Sounds good…” I mumbled to myself, before blinking a few times, my eyes looking up and Andy was smiling at me, looking amused.

“What sounds good?” He asked. I took a step back and nervously laughed.

“Nothing, just talking to myself.” I assured. Andy laughed a bit and nodded.

“Well, why don’t you stop talking to yourself and talk to me? We can hang in my bus?” I thought about my options, but before I could give an answer, Andy wrapped an arm around my shoulder and pulled me along with him.

“What if I said no?” I asked, waiting as he unlocked the door to the bus.

“I wouldn’t have accepted it.” Andy shrugged, opening me the door. I walked in, him right behind me before he led me to the back lounge, past the bunks and nodded to the couch. “Make yourself at home, want anything to drink?” He asked.

“Water’s good.” I shrugged, sitting. Andy plopped down next to me and handed me my water, a Coke in his hand. He grabbed the remote and turned the TV on, flipping through Netflix.

“Any good movies?” He asked. I bit my lip as The Nightmare Before Christmas passed, not wanting to suggest a movie he might not like. “Damn,” he muttered, going back up to it and clicking it.

“Want to watch this one? Or they have Coraline, Frankenweenie, and The Corpse Bride.” Andy suggested.

“Doesn’t matter.” I spoke, seeing as Tim Burton was my favorite director. Andy hummed before he shrugged. He clicked on The Corpse Bride, leaning back into the couch as it started. We were quiet, watching the movie when I felt his arm land on my shoulders. I glanced at it, going back to the movie.

A while later, Andy coughed and scooted closer to my side. I wasn’t used these things, the only person I ever cuddled with was my cousin and it was when we both were self-harming. It felt comfortable and almost natural that my cousin and I did that, since we’re family and we were both comforting each other, but with Andy, I found myself lost.

Do I just let it happen? Do I snuggle into his side? What if he pulls me on his lap? Aren’t I too heavy? I weigh around a hundred pounds so to him it might not seem like much.

I was so lost that I didn’t even notice that Andy was calling my name. “What?” I asked, looking at him. His blue eyes were bright and full of curiosity and worry. His eyebrows brushed together, the worry was more evident now before he spoke again.

“Are you okay? You’re not even paying attention to the movie.” I opened my mouth but nothing came out so we just stared at each other. Andy placed a hand on my cheek, carefully leaning in when his phone rang. He mumbled out a few swears before pulling away and reaching into his pocket. He pulled it out and we both stared at the name.

Juliet.

Notes

I updated my iTunes to 11.2.2 and it won't recognize my device, so I recovered it back to before I downloaded it and not only did it delete it, but it deleted ALL my files from then to now. I was so mad!!

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