I picked up the shot glass and went to toss my head back to consume the liquid.

“Woah, easy there,” Mike said as he used his arm to steady me from falling. I balanced myself out and gave him a dopey grin after swallowing the liquid.

“I’m fucking shit-faced,” I slurred.

Mike let out a laugh. “I think we should get you back to the bus, bro.”

I nodded and allowed Mike to help me exit the bar and head to the bus that was in the parking lot. I couldn’t see the ground as I stepped, but I trusted that Mike wouldn’t let me fall. I tried to focus on each step as I tried to get into the bus. Once through the doors, Mike asked me if I could handle getting to bed by myself.

I shooed him away and headed straight to my bunk. I had the entire tour bus to myself. The night was still young, but I had been drinking on an empty stomach, causing me to become a lot more intoxicated a lot faster than the others. I couldn’t read the time on the clock, and I couldn’t even remember what state we were in anymore. I could hardly even remember how I had gotten to the bus.

All that I could think about was Eleftheria. Just as I had predicted a month ago before this tour started, I was sexually frustrated. I needed sex. Sure, I could have picked up a random girl and fucked her, but I didn’t want to just fuck someone. I wanted Eleftheria. I wanted to feel Eleftheria’s skin gliding against my own as I pushed her up on the washing machine of her apartment complex. I wanted the feeling of her arms around my neck as I hoisted her up on the railing of her balcony.

I picked up my phone and dialed her number, not even caring about what time it might be.

“Vic?” she asked into the phone.

“Eleftheria,” I said. “I’ve missed your voice.”

She let out a giggle. “Are you drunk?” she slurred just a bit.

A smile consumed my face when I realized that she, too, had been drinking. “I nodded but you can’t see me,” I replied.

She let out a small laugh. “I just took off my shirt but you can’t see me,” she said a low voice.

I climbed into my bunk and lay down. Immediately feeling affected by her words. I wanted nothing more than to see her. But I supposed her voice would do. “Yeah?” I asked; my voice quiet and throaty. I couldn’t help but want her. “What else did you take off?” I bit my lip, unsure of what I was doing, but willing to try this out because of my desperation and sexual frustration.

“What would you take off of me next?” she asked. I could tell that she was biting her lip as she spoke.

“Pants,” I barely choked out.

She pulled the phone away from her ear and put it next to the zipper of her pants so I could hear her pulling down the zipper. She pulled the phone next to her ear.

“Let me hear yours,” she said softly. I put the phone down beside the shorts that I was wearing and pulled down the zipper very slowly.

We were quiet for a moment as we started to adjust to the feelings that we had. I could feel myself growing harder, and although it felt awkward to be so horny while sitting in my bunk, with the fact that the boys could walk in at any moment, it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that Eleftheria was on the phone and she had wanted me as much as I wanted her.

“Vic,” she moaned very silently.

“Mmm?” I moaned in response.

“I want you.” She whispered the words just like she did when we were on the balcony the first night I went to her night. She whispered the words that she would text over to me. And it drove me insane.

-

I woke up the next morning with a killer headache but yet, a very relieved feeling. I felt like, despite my headache, it was going to be a great day.

“Good morning,” I said happily as I walked toward the front of the bus where everybody was already awake. I had showered and changed into some crisp, clean clothes. I felt great and refreshed, slightly hungover, but fresh.

And I knew it was because of my phone call with Eleftheria.

“Woah, Vic, you’re glowing,” Jaime said with a suspicious look.

“What the fuck,” Mike laughed. “You make it sound like he’s pregnant or something.”

“No, but seriously,” Tony said as he looked at me suspiciously. “You are glowing. Did you get laid?”

I blushed immensely, which was extremely unusual for me to do. “No,” I half-lied. “Well, kind of.”

“Kind of? How do you kind of get laid…oh wait…ooohhhhh…” Mike was the first to understand.

Jaime was still confused, but soon caught on. “Ew, in the bus? Where we here?”

“No! What the fuck, that’d be gross. It was when I came back to the bus by myself,” I explained. “I called Eleftheria…”

“Phone sex!” Tony finally understood what was happening. “You had phone sex? Who does that anymore?”

“It was awesome, and I don’t know why more people don’t do it,” I said as I owned up to it. It was slightly awkward to be discussing this with the guys, but it’s not like they didn’t know what it felt like to be sexually frustrated.

“Just sext her. Send dirty pictures and shit,” Mike suggested.

Tony and Jaime nodded to back up what he said.

“But her voice…I like her voice,” I said with a sigh. I don’t know what it was, maybe it was her accent, or how she spoke so properly all the time, but whatever it was, it made me even more attracted to her.

-

It was our last show of the tour, and I had mixed feelings about it. I was excited to be back in San Diego, but I was also going to miss touring around.

Just as I had suspected, Eleftheria and I lost contact. Time changes got in the way of our phone calls, the texts became less frequent until they eventually just stopped. She should be done with school now, and I figured that she was spending her time with her friends. Or maybe she had gone back to Greece, or maybe she had found a man that could be there with her. A man that hadn’t lied to her.

If I would have just told her the truth about what I did. If I would have just been honest, maybe she would still be texting me. Maybe I would still be texting her.

“Hey man, we’re on in five! Let’s make this one count!” Jaime exclaimed through the dressing room.

I picked up my guitar and slung it over my body. My thoughts vanished all that mattered was going out on that stage and doing what I loved.

Once on stage everything was perfect. I felt as if nothing else in the world mattered except for my band and my fans. It was all about the music, it was always about the music.

I looked down for the first time that night and unclipped the microphone from the stand as I sang. I looked down to the front row to where the kids were being pushed and shoved. Some were crying – either from being at the concert or from being squished up against the barricade.

One girl caught my attention in particular. I knew that hair. I knew those beautiful seaweed eyes.

When there was a break in the song, I pulled the microphone away from my mouth. “Eleftheria,” I said gently to myself. She was staring right back at with hurt and confusion writhing her emotions.

I tapped the security guard on the shoulder and pointed to Eleftheria. “Bring her up,” I said close to his ear. “Be gentle.”

Eleftheria had her arms out, waiting for the guard to pull her from the crowd. She was pulled on stage and I waved Casey over to get her. Casey ran to the stage, all while giving me a confused look. He whisked her away to the back and I lifted the microphone back up to my mouth to sing.

The whole rest of the show my mouth was curved in the biggest smile. The whole rest of the show Eleftheria watched me from the side of the stage. The whole rest of the show I tried not to think about what was going to happen after the show.

Why was Eleftheria even here?

And worst of all, what was she going to say about my lie?

Notes

Short and shitty chapter. Sorry it took so long for me to post this. I was having massive writer's block.
The next chapter is going to be really good. I'll try to get it up in a few days, but I'm pretty busy this week, so we'll see :)

Also, this is going to be a shorter chapter. Probably only fifteen chapters. And no sequel. Sorry, guys! This was just a small idea I had for a story, so there's not much more that I could really put into it.

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