Too Young to Fall in Love.

“Ah, our favorite stripper!” CC exclaims, announcing my arrival to the bus, completely ignoring the fact I’m on the phone. “You’re late!

I point to my phone and continue my conversation with my brother, Gunner. “I gave you everything you need to watch Hades, Anubis and Medusa for the next couple months; you’ll be fine. They love their Uncle Gunner.”

“Yea they love me but hate mostly everyone else; they’re so much like you.” He states. “You sure you don’t want Dad to watch them.”

“If they give you problems send them with dad but I didn’t want to have to drive them out to him.” I groan. “Just try and deal with them. They aren’t bad dogs; just anxious. Now I’ve got to go the guys are looking at me and are waiting for me to explain why it took me for-fucking-ever to get here.”

He chuckles. “Tell everyone I said hi and tell Ashley to fuck off.”

“I’m not telling Ashley that.” I roll my eyes before hanging up on my brother. “Gunner says hi.”

“What took you so fucking long?” Andy asks, pulling me into a one armed hug. “And what did Gunner ask you to tell Ashley?”

“I was dropping my fur babies off at Gunner’s place. You know how much it pains me to leave those three.” I reply to the first question. “And I’m not gonna repeat it. It’s not nice.”

“I don’t know why he thinks I’m the bad guy still, you left me.” Ashley rolls his eyes. “I swear the boy treats me like I’m Satan for apparently hurting his sister.”

“If it makes you feel any better, my mom’s side of the family still likes you.” I inform him. “My mom says hi.”

“So are we going to visit your mom when we get to Atlanta?” CC asks, excitedly.

“I’m going to see her, I’m not sure why you invited yourselves.” I answer. “Now I’m going to put my shit inside. So please direct me to my bunk.”

“It’s the one under Ashley’s.” Andy informs me with a smirk on his lips. “Sorry.”

“That smirk tells me your not sorry.” I mutter before following him onto the bus.

“You know, he still loves you.” Andy says as I put my stuff away. “He doesn’t want to admit it to himself but the rest of us sees how he looks at you or at your instagram posts and shit like that. You were the only girl in the world that managed to break his heart.”

“Ashley can have any girl he wants, why would he still pine after the girl that managed to shatter his heart into tiny little shards?”

“The same reason why you still pine after him.” Andy shrugs. “You can’t tell me you don’t still love him. You guys were perfect for each other, it killed all of us to see you guys break up.”

“It wasn’t meant to be, Andy.” I tell him just as everyone walks onto the bus. “You really need to realize that.”

“Or maybe you need to realize it was.” He places a kiss on my temple before going up front with everyone else, leaving me to get settled in by myself...

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