“So what are we going to watch?” I asked as he grabbed a couple of blankets for us. The bus started heading towards our next venue.
“ How about Nightmare before Christmas?” He replied happily. I knew what was on his mind.
“That’s how we got in trouble in the first place. I’m sure you remember. “ I said, kissing him sweetly.
“What about… Tenacious D?”
I smiled. “Alright. Only if you don’t object to me singing all the songs.” I said, getting up to put the movie in. Brendon grabbed me around the waist.
“SPEED BUMP!” he said, pulling me down into his lap. I playfully smacked his chest before getting up again. I grabbed the movie and started it, settling back next to him, wrapping a blanket around my torso. Amidst the exhilarating rain, I’d forgotten to ask Odessa about grabbing me some clothes, as I was soaking wet.
“So how do you think your fan girls are going to take this?” I asked him, smiling.
“They’ll live. Besides, you’re the only fan girl I really care about.” He whispered in my ear. I smiled. He knows how to make me swoon.
“How did we get all mushy?”
“I’m not sure.” He said, a funny confused look on his face.
“Eh, me either. Oh well. I’m sure it’ll come and go, right?”
“Right. You know? Your eyes are really beautiful in this light.”
“What light? It’s cloudy outside.” I said, snuggling closer to him. I started to shiver now that the wetness of my shirt came to thought.
“Hold on a sec.” He said, sitting me up as he walked to the back of the bus. I held the blanket closer to me as I waited. Damn my silliness. When he came back, he was shirtless. “Here, take this and put it on. You’ll be warmer.” He said, handing me a oversize shirt.
“Alright…” I said, looking around for a place to change.
“Oh. Um, over there.” He said, pointing to a small door in the back of the bus. I walked briskly towards it, and came out a few moments later, feeling a bit warm already.
“Walk of shame…” I heard teasingly from a bunk nearest me. I found the nearest pillow and threw it in at Ryan (the voice in the bunk)
“Psh. Please.” I said as I walked to the front, pulling the shirt down in the back out of habit.
“Hm… I don’t think I like this shirt.” He said with a mischievous smile.
“Well I’m going to reply with a too bad.” I said, resuming my original place: snuggled up to him. “So I think we’ve missed the first 20 minutes of the movie.”
“Oh Well. It’s more of background noise at this point.” He said, stroking my hair. I grabbed the small remote for the TV and turned the movie off. It was nice to only hear the wipers of the bus and our breathing as we stayed in a sort of euphoric state. I watched the rain fall outside, a sheet between the terrain that zoomed by us. I didn’t notice Brendon staring at me the whole time until I glanced at him.
“What?” I said, smiling up at him. Somehow I had slid from being on his shoulder to in his lap.
“What are you thinking about?”
“I dunno. Just, things. Wrapping my head around all that’s happened.”
He smiled down at me, lifting my head so that he could kiss my lips. I sat up to his level, my hand on his chest. I felt his arms enclosing me, and instantly felt like it was the first time all over again. I tried to contain myself for the sake of those in the back, but he made it very hard. When we finally came up for air, he still held on to me. We attempted to lay next to each other, but I ended up falling on the floor.
“Oops.” I said amongst my small fit of giggles.
“Oh no! Speed Bump!” He said, toppling onto me.
“Ow my entire life!” I said, a little winded.
“Your such a cute dork.”
“You too.” kissed his cheek sweetly before getting up and sitting on the couch again. Joining my side, he wrapped his arms around me. I could barely breathe as he took my hand and intertwined my fingers in his before kissing it softly. Instantly I knew that there was no coming back from this. Within that simple moment, I knew why I had chosen to forgive him. Why he made it so easy.
I was in love with him.
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Yes, I just added a little bit to the end.
And this is going to be the last post for New To the Tour. However, this is not the end of the story, I'm just posting this due to the fact that you as a reader have probably grown tired of this story, and possibly lost interest about a year ago, when I said I was going to finish this...
