Saviour

I wake up around 5 AM to a text from Dylen; I still don’t understand how he gets up that early.

--Sorry if I wake you, but my friends are wondering if we’re a band?—Dylen

--Uh, yea tell’em that we’ll meet after Warped to talk about it—

--kk *cough please say yes cough cough* ;)—

--you’re a dork, ya’kno…--

--but you loves me :p—

--haha who couldn’t?—

-- no one DUH--

--You sure you’re a guy?—

--what’s that supposed to mean…? *le pouty face*--

--Ohhh nothing… just that you act like a teenage girl…--

--I DO NOT—

--…yea sure…--

--Alright, fine… but I can prove I’m a guy—

--don’t need to see that—

I feel Jinxx stir in the bunk next to me. I must have woken him.

“What’ya doing babe?” he asks

“Dylen texted, so we’ve been talking. And can I say that your sleepy voice is sexy as fuck?”

“Yours is too” he says and kisses me “Anyways, I’m gonna go get some food, I’m starving”

“Get me some too”

“What kind?”

“I want poptarts”

“You’re freaking adorable in the morning, ya know that?”

“I try” I say and he walks to the kitchen area.

I get an alert from my phone

--Where’d ya go?— Dylen

--you’re stupid early birdness woke Jinxx up—

--sowwy—

--haha it’s fine, I’m messin with ya--

--okai anyways I gotta go. Gots to work—

--okay buh-bye—

--see ya soon—

--yea—

And with that, the conversation ended. I hope we can be a band. That would be amazing, but I don’t know if I can work with someone who has the same name as the friend I practically killed. There’s no way I would be able to handle that. Well, I only have a week to decide so I better come up with some answer.

“There aren’t any poptarts left, so I got you bread with jelly. I almost toasted it.” Jinxx says as he hands me the piece of bread and climbs into the bunk.

“It’s a good thing you didn’t, I might’ve thrown it at you” I say and smile at him. He leans in to kiss me. I fucking love these moments.

JINXX POV

Just as I bite into my bread, Andy pops his head into the bunk and pulls Jinxx out.

“What the hell?!”

“Listen, and be quiet, I think I found Valerey’s parents”

“And why do you say that?” Jinxx asks, annoyed with the interruption. This really could’ve waited…

“Well I kinda, maybe went digging into some records ‘cause she seemed disappointed when Heather didn’t take her to meet her parent, so I decided I’d find them for her.” Andy says and shows me a picture of a couple.

“Well I can’t tell Val unless you’re completely positive that these are her parents.” I walk back to the bunk area and open the curtain to mine and Val’s bunk, but she isn’t there.

“She must be in the back…” I think to myself as I walk back there. She’s there alright, but she looks pissed.

“There you are” I say, trying to sound gleeful

“Did Andy say he found my parents?” She asks, straightforward

“No we were talking about the next show on Warped”

“You’re lying”

“I’m not lying…”

“I heard you and Andy talking, I heard exactly what you said”

Shit… I can’t avoid this now “Fine, Andy said he thinks he found your parents, emphasis on thinks. I was hoping you wouldn’t find out about it until we were positive they really are your parents”

Valerey looked like she was almost in tears. Did I do something wrong? I’ve never been in a serious relationship before, so I don’t really know what to do. Hell, I didn’t even have friends growing up. All I could think to do was hug her so that’s what I did. She collapsed into my arms and started crying heavily.

“What’s wrong? Aren’t you glad that we may have found your parents?” I ask

She shakes her head against my chest and then looks up at me.

“If they are my parents, they won’t want to meet me…” She says quietly

“And why not? You’re their daughter.”

“They’re just going to reject me like everyone else always has. I’d rather pretend that they may care about me than know that they hate me.”

“What if they really do care?”

“That’s exactly it, it’s ‘what if’, not ‘they do’, and if they don’t care, then I don’t know what stupid thing I’d do.”

“Alright, we won’t find out if they are your real parents, and I’ll tell Andy to stop searching…” I say, making it sound like the truth. I will find her parents because I know they do care, and it would make her happier knowing they don’t hate her. Then maybe she’d feel like she was worth something.

“Anyway”, I say “we have to get ready for the set today. You still up to play my guitar?”

“Always will be” She says and smiles at me.

I really hate lying to her, but if I do find them and they don’t hate her, then she’d be so much happier. On the flip side, if they do hate her she won’t have to know.

We all get ready for the show and head to the stage. As we were walking there and we were all talking, I noticed that Val hadn’t said anything since before we got ready. She seems so distant, too. I hope I haven’t upset her too much; because I know what stupid thing she’d do, even if she didn’t intentionally do it. Even just the thought of losing her kills me.

We’ve played a few songs and I look over at Valerey. She’s seems happier than she was walking over here and tuning the guitar. She seems so at peace when she’s on stage; and I have to admit, it’s so adorable.

After the set, Valerey was quiet and distant again. When we make it to the bus, I pull her into the bathroom.

“What’s wrong?” I ask

“Nothing. Why would you think something was wrong?” She replies

“You’ve looked so upset since the conversation about your parents. Whatever it is, you really can tell me”

“Alright, I’ll remember that” she says quietly, still looking down.

I sigh. “Just promise me you won’t hurt yourself.”

She just nods and opens the door. She heads to the bunk and I follow her.

“Can I just be alone right now?” she asks as soon as I go to climb into the bunk. I give her a weak smile, close the curtain, and walk to where the guys and Ella are.

“Why do you look sad?” Ella asks as I sit down.

“I’m just worried about Valerey…”

“Why? What happened?”

“Why don’t you tell her, Andy, since you’re the one who brought it up?”

He looks at me strange and tells them about how he may have found Valerey’s parents.

“I told her about it” I say, “and she didn’t want to meet them because she’s afraid that they hate her. So, I decided we’d still track them down and if they do hate her, we don’t tell her, but if they don’t then I think she’ll be happier.” I say the last sentence quietly.

“So you’re lying to her?” Ella asked

“Basically, yea…” I say, looking down because I hate lying to Val.

We all talk about various things until about 11 PM. I, Jake and Andy walk back to the bunk area to get some sleep while CC and Ashley keep talking. When I open the bunk curtains I found Valerey asleep with tear stains running down her cheeks. I climb in, kiss her softly and wrap my arms around her. She turns around to me in her sleep. I smile, close my eyes, and fall asleep. I can’t ever lose this girl.

Notes

Yay another chapter!! Sorry it took so long guys, I've been busy with school work... So, I guess while school's in session, I'll probably update about once a month. Most the it will probably be a week or two over a month that I update. Sorry about that, guys.

Anyways, I love you all so much and thanks so much for reading my story, it means a lot to me that people actually enjoy my writing. Stay strong because you can and will get through the tough parts in life.