“What’s causing him to dream of this horrified imagery?” Jake asked, as they heard the bus doors open.
“I would say the alcohol and tobacco, but he hasn’t done any of that since before we left for this tour.” Ashley answered. “What would propel him to draw...or rather dream this?” he asked.
“Hey guys, what’s up?” CC asked.
“Take a look at this you guys...Andy just drew this in his sleep.” Ashley answered, as he looked up to see CC and Jinxx had joined them on the bus.
Jinxx almost threw up at the site of the third picture, while CC stood horrified.
“Andy drew that?” CC asked.
“Yeah, that’s his handwriting for sure.” Jinxx said sickly.
“Since when did he have a hit list?”
“It’s pretty clear that he doesn’t have one...as far as we know.” Jinxx answered. “May be we should call Juliet to see if he has one at home?”
“That would be useful...if she wasn’t on tour with her band.” CC answered.
“When you went in to see him, Ash, did you see anything strange about him...besides the fact he was drawing in his sleep?” Jake asked.
Ashley frowned and shook his head. “No, I didn’t see anything odd. He was facing the foot of the bed though. But I doubt that has anything to do with these reoccurring dreams he has.”
Jake then looked back at the drawing and noticed a small bit of writing that could be played off as just lines. He took the book and got a closer look at it.
“What’s up, Jake?” Ashley asked.
“You see this…” Jake said as he pointed to the upper right hand corner of the page.”It says: ‘you’re next Sandra.’” Jake stated.
“All I see are lines part of the drawing.” Ashley said.
“Ash, you know just as well as the three of us that he went to art school. He knows little tricks of drawing to hide hidden messages. Look harder at the area.” Jake answered.
“Who’s Sandra?” CC asked.
“The drummer we had before you joined us. We had a mutual parting with her, because she didn’t have the same out come of the band as we do.” Jinxx answered. “Why would he have her on his hit list? It makes no sense, since we parted on good terms.” He added.
“Your guess is as good as ours, Jinxx.” Jake answered.
“Well let’s hope he doesn’t create a hit list while we’re out on tour.” CC answered.
“Let’s hope he doesn’t go murderous on us.” Jake commented.
“That would kill our image.” Jinxx in response to Jake’s comment.
They all laughed at the pun.

Andy woke up to the sound of laughter. He got up from the bed and came out of the room. He walked up to the table.
“Hey guys.” Andy said.
“Hi Andy.” the others answered in unison.
“What’s going on?” Andy asked as he comes up to the table.
He looks down at what was lying on it. His eyes then looked up at each one of them.
“Who took my sketchbook?” he asked as he pointed to his sketchbook.
“I did.” Ashley answered. “It was laying open on the bed in the back and you were sleeping. So I thought it would be comfier if you weren’t sleeping on it.” He added, before Andy could ask why.
He then reached over and took his book. He looked at it as he did and it slipped out of his hands. It fell on the floor and his face was horrid.
“Who drew that picture?” he asked, talking about the last picture of his dream he had.
“You did.”Ashley said. “don’t you recognize your own writing?’
“I did not draw that.” Andy answered, ignoring the question Ashley asked, as he bent down to pick up his book.
“You drew it in your sleep, Andy.”
Andy didn’t say anything, he just looked at the drawing.
“I…I drew this?”
“Yes….while you were asleep.” Ashley answered. “Andy, just what has been going on with you these past few days?”
“I-I don’t know. I’ve been having strange dreams ever since we did ‘perfect weapon’ video.”
“That was back with Sandra.” Jake said. “So you’ve been having these dreams since then?”
“Well they weren’t the same dream like these ones have, but yes.”
“Have you gone to the doctor about these dreams?” Jake asked.
“No.”
“May be you should.”Jinxx stated.
“Why? So they could put me on some medication that makes me fuck up my songwriting? No way.”
“Andy, how are you going to deal with this then?” Ashley asked.
“I’ll find a way.”
“How?” CC asked.
“I-I make a list or-”
“NO!” all four band members yelled in sync, cutting off Andy from talking.
“Well what would you suggest I do?”
“See a doctor.” Ashley answered.
“Does Joe know about these dreams of yours? CC asked.
“What? No. Why should he know about these dreams? He has his own shit to worry about.”
“Andy, you need to worry about this...it could seriously end someones life if you don’t take care of it.”Ashley said.
“You’re overreacting to all of this, you guys. Just relax, okay, everything will be fine.”

Andy then closed his sketchbook and walked off the bus. “I’m going to watch Modern Day Escape preform. I’ll see you guys afterwards.” he said as he walked down the stairs to outside.

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