The Academy

The bed shifted underneath me, and I felt Ryan disappear from the bed.

I opened my eyes, and noticed that Chris was the only one in the room, and he was just getting up.

“Chris.” I whispered.

“Yeah?” He replied.

“Thanks for last night, I feel a lot better now.” I thanked him.

“What the hell are you talking about?” Chris asked me.

“The talk we had last night, after Brandon left, around 11 pm.” I explained.

“Bella, Brandon wasn’t here last night, I didn’t talk to you, and you were passed out at 9:30.” Chris told me.

“What?” I exclaimed confused.

“Nothing happened, so whatever conversation you think we had it was just a dream.” Chris told me.

“So I couldn’t have talked to Brandon, right?” I asked, looking for confirmation.

“No. Are you okay?” Chris wondered.

I jumped up from Ryan’s bed and engulfed Chris in as much of a bear hug as I could manage.

“You have no idea how relieved I am right now.” I whispered.

He grabbed my arms, took them off of him, and said “Do you feel sick?”

I chuckled, I couldn’t believe that didn’t happen. I must’ve just had a terrible nightmare, because honestly in real life that thought hadn’t crossed my mind, seriously at least.

“I’m fine.” I replied.

“You should come out and eat something.” Chris suggested.

“Okay.” I agreed.

He left the bunkroom with me behind him, and he directed me to sit down at the kitchen table.

Ricky, Ryan, Balz, Vinny, and Kuza were sitting on the couch and chairs and Josh Korel and Ghost were across from me.

“Drink this, it should clear your mind up.” Chris instructed, handing me a black mug.

“You say it like I’ve lost my mind.” I said.

“Sweetheart, you’ve had imaginary conversations, seen people who aren’t there, and you gave me a hug. The last one is enough to put you away in the nuthouse.” Chris said.

“She hugged you?” Ghost exclaimed.

“Yeah.” Chris said.

Ghost reached over the table and put a hand to my forehead.

“She does feel a bit warm.” Ghost stated.

“I’m fine.” I replied, sitting back so I was out of Ghost’s reach.

Thankfully they decided to stop questioning me, and once it was silent I was able to drink my tea in peace. It was good, except for the horrid aftertaste it presented to me. Once I finished it, I realized what that rancid aftertaste was. It was some type of drug.

“Something wrong?” Chris asked.

“You drugged my tea.” I whined.

“Are you surprised at this?” Kuza chuckled.

I sat back, he had a good point.

“We’re going to stop up ahead, and have a swap.” Balz stated.

“Sounds good to me, I’ll quickly text Tyler.” Chris stated.

Chris then went and sat down near the other guys.

“What are we swapping?” I whispered to Ghost and Josh.

“You’re going onto ETF’s bus.” Josh told me.

“Why?” I asked.

“You’re with Tyler tonight and they figured you could spend the day as well.” Josh told me.

“As long as it’s not TJ.” I muttered to myself.

The tour bus stopped and I saw Asking’s stop in front of us and Escape’s behind us.

“Can you be trusted to go and walk to their bus, or do I have to walk your mental ass over there?” Chris asked me.

“My sane ass will do just fine alone, sir.” I replied with a smile on my face.

I walked out of the bus after Ricky unlocked it for me and walked right up to ETF”s bus. The door was unlocked and I walked right in.

Oh boy.

TJ and Craig were passed out on the couch, basically on top of each other. Thrasher was lying underneath the kitchen table.

The room to the bunk area was opened and I could see Robert sleeping in his bunk, and Angelo was sleeping on the floor in between the bunks.

“Bella?” Someone called from the driver’s seat.

“Yeah.” I replied, walking to the driver’s seat and seeing Tyler.

“They partied a bit last and that’s why they’re past out.” Tyler explained.

Ahh, makes sense.

“Do you mind if I sit up front with you?” I asked.

“Not at all, it’s quite spacey and nice actually.” He told me.

I closed the tour bus door and sat in the seat next to Tyler, buckled in and sat back as the car started.

“Are they going to be okay with me being up here?” I asked.

“Right now they’re fine with everything, and they won’t be up for a while.” Tyler chuckled, while shaking his head.

“So I heard I’m with you tonight.” I stated.

“Yeah. Since we’ve got the time we might as well get to know each other.” Tyler told me.

“Okay, shoot.” I said, sitting up, and facing him.

“Favorite color?” Tyler asked.

I laughed “Are you serious, we have to sleep with each other tonight and in order to get to know me you want to know my favorite color?” I stated.

“Love I’m a dom, I can ask what I want to.” He replied with a smile on my face.

“Well then I guess I should just shut my psycho mouth up.” I joked with him.

“So pink?” He joked.

I was starting to like Tyler. He wasn’t a dick like the others, and he while he was nice it seemed to be very genuine. He didn’t snap when I tried to throw in a joke or two. He seemed to have a nicer and softer side to him even though on stage he was probably one of the scariest ones.

“Yeah, and yours is magenta, right?” I jokingly questioned him.

“In all seriousness it’s black. Favorite song?” He asked.

“Too hard, pick a band and I could choose.” I told him.

“Fine, Escape the Fate.” He chose.

“Picture Perfect.”

“Motionless in White?”

“It’s a three way tie. Wasp, Abigail, and Devil’s Night.”

“Asking Alexandria?”

“Easy, To The Stage.” I answered.

“Not bad, not bad at all.” Tyler approved of my choices.

“Thanks.” I thanked him.

After that we both stopped talking and he paid attention to the road and I was focused on the scenery around us. Snores could be heard from the back room, that made both of us chuckled a little bit. I felt better to be honest. My head was clear, and I now remembered everything that had happened last night. I remember getting sent back to the trailer with Josh Korel, and being alone in MIW’s tour bus. Ryan had come back after 3 hours and he was exhausted from playing a set. We had gone to bed right after that. I couldn’t begin to understand why my mind had played a trick like that.

It wasn’t like a normal nightmare, it was way too real. Who knew, maybe I was going nuts. I wouldn’t be that surprised.

About an hour and a half later Tyler tapped my shoulder, getting my attention.

“I need a favor.” He stated.

“Yes?” I wondered.

“You need to go back and get the guys into the bunk room. It doesn’t matter if it’s their bunk or not but they need to go back there. Unless of course they wake up. Oh, and after that you need to wake Angelo up.” He instructed.

“They’ll bite my head off.” I exclaimed.

“I can always punish you later.” He threatened me.

“I call your bluff, but I’ll still do it.” I muttered, getting out of my seat, and heading towards the back.

I was way too light to pick them up and move them, I’d just have to wake them up. That was almost a death wish, especially with TJ.

I might as well get the harder stuff out of the way which was Craig and TJ and then I could just easily wake Thrasher up, and then grab Angelo.

I said a quick prayer and walked over to the couch with TJ on the bottom of Craig.

I kneeled down next to Craig, and placed my hand on his shoulder.

“Craig.” I started off.

I groaned, and realized that wasn’t going to get things off on the right foot.

“Sir, wake up.” I stated, giving Craig’s shoulder a little shake.

He let out a little groan, and turned over.

“Get up.” I groaned.

His eyes shot open and glared at me.

“When did you get here?” He asked.

“Almost 2 hours ago.” I replied.

“You’re kind of a bitch.” He giggled.

“Yeah, don’t get me started on what you are.” I muttered.

“Funny.” He chuckled.

He grabbed a hold of my hand, and carefully got up, where he then walked back to his bunk.
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At least I wasn’t attempting to pick him up and put him in his bunk room. I turned around and wanted to die, there laid TJ, unfortunately still breathing and I had to get him up.

“TJ, get up.” I said shaking him.

Nothing, no movement, sound, nothing.

I growled, and went back to shaking him a bit, at the shoulders.

Before I knew it his hands wrapped around my waist, and pulled me down next to him.

“I don’t want too.” He groaned, into my ear.

“Fine, but Tyler said you need to get in the bunk room if you’re still going to sleep.” I said.

“Get the others up first.” He whispered and went back to sleeping.

If I was 7 I’d be stomping my foot right about now.

“Thrasher, get up.” I called to him.

“I will if you make coffee.” He said, slowly getting up.

“Fine, but give me a few.” I whispered back.

I walked back into the bunk area and saw Craig back in his bunk, good. Robert was still sleeping in his bunk and Angelo was on the floor.

“Angelo, Tyler says that you need to wake up.” I said, kneeling next to him.

“Okay, tell him I’ll be up there in a few.” He replied.

“You’re my new favorite.” I told him, as he actually started to get up.

“Let me guess, you’re still working on getting TJ up?” Angelo guessed.

“Unfortunately.” I groaned.

“Good luck with that.” Angelo laughed.

“Thanks, just please get up or I may have to jump on you next time.” I warned him.

“That’s not a threat.” Craig drunkenly cooed.

I mentally growled and went back out to the living area. Thrasher was now sitting up at the table, and there TJ was still out on the couch.

“Any help?” I asked Thrasher.

He chuckled, “No way, not even if I already had my coffee.”

An idea popped into my head, but I wasn’t sure if it was worth the possible consequences. Who cares though, I’m stuck here might as well have a little bit of fun.

I walked back a few steps, ran ahead and jumped onto TJ.

“Get up.” I groaned loudly, trying to wake him up.

“Fuck that hurt, you bitch.” TJ grumbled.

“Please get up, sir.” I asked real nicely with a smile on my face.

TJ went to go and grab me, but I quickly got up and ran over to the other side of the bus, where TJ couldn’t grab me at the moment.

I grabbed a pack of coffee from the cupboard and started to make coffee.

Angelo then came out of the bunk area and sat down across from Thrasher.

When the coffee was done I pulled out two mugs from the cupboard, poured the coffee and gave it to Thrasher and Angelo.

“Thank you.” Thrasher groaned.

“What happened last night?” I asked.

“Had a party and drank a shit load of alcohol.” TJ moaned from the coach.

“Oh thank the lord, you’re up.” I stated.

The tour bus quickly stopped and I fell on my but, from the surprise.

“Oh thank the lord, you’re down.” TJ teased me.

Tyler looked back and saw me on the floor, “Sorry.” He apologized.

He got out of the car, Angelo followed him and they switched spots.

“Do you have a show tonight?” I asked them.

“Nope, we’re driving through the night.” Thrasher told me.

I looked back to see what TJ was doing, and saw that he had actually moved back to the bunk area and was sleeping in Thrasher’s bunk.

The bus started back up again and we were once on the road again.

I went and sat on the couch where Tyler quickly joined me.

Bored and not knowing what to do the three of us, Thrasher and Tyler picked some random movie and I sat through that one and two other movies.

It was now about 10 pm and I had been movied out. I went to go to the bathroom in the back, and got the shit scared out of me.

“Fuck!” I yelled as I came face to face with Craig.

“I’m not that scary, Bella.” Craig stated.

I fake chuckled, let him pass by, and then went to the bathroom.

I went back out through the bunk area and saw that now Thrasher was getting into his bunk, TJ was still in Craig’s bunk, and Robert was still blacked out in his bunk.

“Want to go to bed?” Tyler asked.

“Sure.” I responded, starting to actually feel tired.

“Pajamas are underneath my bunk.” Craig told me.

“Okay.” I replied.

“Is TJ still in my bunk?” Craig then asked.

“Yeah, and no offense but I don’t think he’s getting up anytime soon.” I told him.

“That’s fine just go and get dressed.” Craig instructed.

I went back, put this (http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=167163659) on, and went back out into the living area with Tyler and Craig.

“Shh, he’s passed out.” Tyler whispered pointing to Craig sleeping with his head on the table.

“I never thought that I’d say this but I’m glad I was with Ryan last night instead of this being on this book.” I stated, surprising myself.

“It was actually pretty fun.” Tyler said.

Tyler pulled out the couch, and to my surprise it was actually a really nice bed. There was a bed set already on it, but he went into a cupboard and pulled out a large black and white blanket.

As usual there was only one pillow. He told me to get settled into bed and that he was going to go and put his pajamas on.

I got into the further side of the bed, and slipped into the covers. Within minutes Tyler came back without a shirt on and mesh basketball shorts.

The opportunity was there to screw with him and I was going to take it.

Tyler turned out all of the lights except the small lamp behind my head, he went to laid down I pushed my leg out so that he couldn’t get in.

“Ah, not yet. Favorite animal?” I asked.

“Really?” He groaned.

“Fine, favorite movie.” I wondered.

“Lost Boys.” He answered.

“Favorite day of the week?”

“I don’t know Friday I guess, now move over.” He told me.

“Fine.” I chuckled.

I rolled over back to my side. Tyler got into bed, and had me turn off the lamp so we were in the dark.

“If you need something in the middle of the night let me know, before you go okay?” Tyler said.

“Will do. Favorite dog breed?” I chuckled.

“Go to bed!” Tyler growled a bit.

I smiled and laughed a bit, but actually did roll over and tried to fall asleep.

Just as I was about to fall asleep Tyler rolled over towards me and whispered “Favorite band member to fantasize sexually about?”

“Sorry but I don’t sleep with animals.” I whispered back.

“Holy shit.” Angelo exclaimed while laughing his ass off.

“Ow love that hurts.” Tyler told me.

“Go to bed!” I growled back at him.

With that, the laughter from Angelo and the funny grumblings from Tyler I fell asleep.

For once I fell asleep with a sense of security and even a slight smile on my face.

Notes

Well hope you liked it and I hope that things are now coming together.

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Next chapter will be from the POV of Jaime and include Vic.

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