I woke up still in bra and under-wear with CC asleep on my stomach.
“Good morning sunshine!” Ashley whispered in my ear, he got dressed last night after the three turns and I was asleep on his stomach. I pointed to CC and wanted to get up.
“He’s always the last one up, so we are stuck like this for a while…” He answered. I saw a bright flash and I heard some giggles.
“Andy, Jinxx, and Jake if you do not delete that picture I will kill you!” I said through gritted teeth. Finally CC stirred and rolled off of me.
“Thank god! I thought I was never going to stand again!” I yelled right before I tackled Andy to the ground.
“It’s uploaded to twitter already!” He said handing me the phone. Soon enough I got a call from Blade.
“Are you fucking hung over or something, were you drunk last night?” He yelled into my ear.
“No why?” I asked calmly.
“You were fucking half naked on top of Ashley Purdy and under CC!” He yelled.
“We played truth or dare!” I replied.
“Fine, just keep me updated.” He replied and then hung up.
“What was that all about?” CC asked as he sat up. Andy showed him the picture as I realized I was still in a bra and under-wear. I put on clothing. Ashley smirked.
“So are we almost there yet?” I asked.
“Not at all! We are driving from Idaho to California, plus we stopped Driving last night so everyone could sleep!” Andy said as he stood up.
“What shall we do today?” Jake asked in a really bad British accent.
“Dude, no… the secret accent society will come after you!” Andy said shaking his head. I laughed.
“What is that?” I asked.
“If I told you it wouldn’t be a secret…” He said spacing out.
“Let’s actually get to know each other!” Jinxx said ignoring Andy. We all sat in a circle.
“Can I start?” Jake asked. We nodded, “Favorite color?”
“Green!” I yelled, I was sitting next to Jake.
“Me too!” CC yelled.
“Orange…” Jinxx answered.
“Pearl!” Ashley said.
“Black, Red…” Andy said zoning back in.
“Mine is black and bright green!” Jake yelled.
“Alcohol?” I asked.
“Jack Daniels…” answered CC, Ashley, Jake, and Andy.
“Wine, I’m a classy man…” Jinxx answered. They all looked at me expecting an answer.
“Jack Daniels!” I yelled. We played until we knew everything about each other right down to our favorite under-wear and for me a bra.
“Well Purdy Perv… I did not need to hear most of those things…” I said.
“Well little Ms. Virgin… you have a lot to be educated on!” He yelled.
“NO!” I shouted jumping onto my bunk bed.
“And we entered California!” CC yelled as he sat next to me on the bed.
“I am going to teach you how to play the drums!” He whispered. I nodded my head yes as I pulled out the Jack Daniel’s bottle from last night.
“You should wash the grease paint off of your wrists before it gets all gross…”CC said pointing to the grease paint stuck between my many bracelets. He handed me some wipes and started to help me. I completely forgot about scars there that I didn’t want them to see.
“Why?” was the only thing that could come out of his mouth. It was almost like he opened the lid off of my past and tears were streaming out of my eyes.
“It’s okay, it’s okay…” He said pulling me into a hug and stroking my hair.
“Dude what happened?” Ashley asked looking up from his bunk. Out of the corner of my eye CC pointed to his wrists. Ashley climbed onto the bed with us.
“It’s going to be okay. If I remember correctly my uncle helped you with this, it’s over…” Ashley said cradling me in his arms. CC took off his cuffs and put his wrists to my face.
“You aren’t the only one…” I looked at CC and hugged him, Ashley took off his bracelets also. I fell asleep crying on CC’s shoulder. I woke up at three am in between Ashley and CC again, but this time I didn’t want to move. I fell back asleep.
“I’m starting to get the feeling that a threesome is going on with them every night…” I heard Andy whisper as I opened my eyes. I looked back at my wrists and started to slide my bracelets back on, but Ashley stopped me. He shook his head as he ran his fingers over my scars. We climbed down from the bunk leaving CC in the bed.
“Did you have fun last night?” Jake asked.
“No threesomes happened, still a virgin and I would like to keep it that way!” I said staring at Andy.
“Wait why is Ash not wearing bracelets?” Jinxx asked.
“It happened to all of us…” Andy said as he walked over to me and pulled me into a bear hug. Jake and Jinxx were really confused. CC hopped down from my bunk not wearing his cuffs. Then they got it.
“Oh… why?” Jake asked. I sat down and started from the beginning.
“And then in 8th grade Ashley’s uncle helped me…” I said finishing the story by pulling out the nice pen that saved my life.
“Wait you had tattoos right?” CC asked changing the dreadful topic.
“Yup…” I answered.
“Well, what are they?” Andy asked. I pulled up my shirt to show the one on my rib cage.
“These are the initials of a friend of mine that committed suicide…” Then I picked up my foot and showed them a black rose, and then on my back I showed them the Skid Row “ I remember you” lyrics that my friends and me got.
“Those are fucking sexy…” Ashley said, I elbowed him.
“Guys we are almost there, about an hour.” Jake said.
“I like them…” Andy said smiling. We all sat down and put on the TV.
“What do you watch?” Jinxx asked.
“Spiderman or Bat man…” I answered.
“Can we watch Spiderman? We always watch Bat man!” CC complained. We put on Spiderman and it was over once we got to the studios. It was dark out. We all walked inside and straight to the room. CC was showing me how to play the drums as we waited for Andy to record the song.
“You are almost as good as CC!” Jinxx said. I blushed. Ashley was watching me, it was kind of creepy. I spaced out.
“What would be hilarious would be if she and Andy were some how related!” I heard Jake say.
“What do you want?” I whined slapping away the hands that were waving in front of my face.
“It must be THAT time of the month…” I heard Ashley say.
“Not at all!” I yelled. Andy was standing in front of me laughing. When he calmed down he offered me a cigarette. He took my hand and told the guys we were going to go on a walk. It was dark out and you could hear the crickets chirping away. We smoked the cigarettes as we walked down the block.
“So I recorded the song…” Andy said starting to make small talk.
“I learned how to play the drums…” I said looking up at him.
“Are you better than CC yet?” He asked.
“Almost there.” He smirked. We kept walking.
“Why aren’t you a singer?” He questioned. I looked down.
“I’m not good enough…” I answered.
“Bullshit! I heard you at auditions!” He cried and then it almost looked like a light bulb lit over his head. He grabbed me by the wrist pulling me into some bar.
“Andy!” The bar tender yelled.
“Steve!” He yelled as he caught a Jack Daniel’s mid air.
“Still got it!” The guy named Steve said as we sat down.
“What’s up dude?” Andy asked.
“Nothing much, just in charge of this bar… what’s up by you and who is this?” He asked.
“I am Justine…” I said shaking his hand.
“It’s still karaoke night right?” Andy asked as a look of sheer horror crept across my face. Steve nodded and pointed to the back. Andy dragged me again by my wrist.
“Choose a song…” The person said in a bored monotone voice.
“Your choice!” Andy said. I flipped through the books and found my favorite song by Jimmy Eat World. The song started up and Andy was jumping up and down.
“It just takes sometime, little girl. You’re in the middle of the ride…” We sang. The audience stood up.
“Now do you think that you are as good as I think you are?” Andy asked.
“No” I blatantly stated. Andy pouted.
“Fine but we are going to stay!” He said. A few fans went up to him throughout the night, and he more than willingly took pictures and signed things. We shared funny stories over quite a few Jack Daniel’s bottles. And then we walked back to the bus quite drunk. Ashley had a girl in his bed, Jinxx was playing the violin, Jake was snoring, and CC was on a sugar high.
“Welcome home!” CC said jumping on Andy’s back knocking him over.
“Well you both seem quite drunk…” Jinxx said looking up. I climbed onto my bunk bed. Andy was too drunk to stand back up so he passed out on the floor.