I woke up a couple hours later, and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I looked into my bag and noticed I didn’t have any sleeping pills, just Adderall. I don’t know why I pop these pills I don’t even have ADHD, I only take them when I can’t focus or when I’m on my third day of no sleep. I tossed the bottle of pills into my bag and put on a pair of shorts on under Jimmy’s shirt. I walked out of Jimmy’s room and just walked around in the main room. I wasn’t surprised to find everyone had gone to bed. I turned the TV on, the Exorcism of Emily Rose was on. I turned the volume down a bit. I sat on the couch and decided to leave it on. I could handle scary movies but movies like this always freaked me out the most. I had never seen it before so I didn’t know if I’d end up screaming at some point, so I covered my mouth with a pillow when they weren’t in the trial. At one point I had curled up almost into a ball on the couch with a pillow covering my mouth. I heard something move which didn’t help in making me stay calm. It felt like someone was behind me. I didn’t move until I heard a groggy voice say,

“Why ya’ so scared?” Which freaked me out causing me to turn and let my fist fly. All I know is one good punch to his groan sent him down to the ground. I turned the table lamp on and realized I had just got scared and punched Brian in the nuts. Oops!

“Fuck Bri! I’m so sorry!!” I frantically ran around the couch to him. I picked his head up and set it in my lap, I moved his shaggy hair out of his face as I kept apologizing. After a moment or so he stopped groaning, while I continued to apologize. He chuckled as he placed his hand over my mouth,

“Aidan, it’s ok. Honest, I shouldn’t have snuck up on you like that.” He smiled, god his smile was breath taking. I thought for a moment as we stared at each other.

“What the hell are you doing going around scaring me for!” I playfully scolded. This made him smile even more and shrug his shoulders. We stayed like this for a minute or two more, until he got up taking me with him over to the couch to finish the movie.

Vals POV

I woke up feeling really thirsty, so I made my way to the mini kitchen in the suite. I heard a groan, then saw a light flash on, an heard Aidans voice,

“Fuck Bri! I’m so sorry!” I peaked around the corner and saw her run over to Brian. I held in my giggle as I pieced together what happened. They looked so cute together, both on the floor his head in her lap, both looking at each other. They looked happy. I smiled as I walked back to my room to find Matt sitting up in bed,

“Where’d ya’ go babe?” he asked looking up at me, I smiled as I climbed into bed next to him.
“Just got a little thirsty, and just had to watch the start of a wonderful morning.” He just shrugged and snuggled close to me, I sighed and fell back asleep with a smile on my face.

Aidans POV

Brian and I have spent all morning out here on the couch. Laughing, talking, watching movies on TV. It was a little after 8 am when my stomach started to grumble.

“Feed me!” I shouted as I jumped to my feet holding my hand out to pull Brian up.
“Well we don’t have much here but if you’d like you and I can go somewhere and get something.” he smiled slyly. I smiled and nodded
“Okay, let me just go get dressed.” He smiled as I left him in the main room. When I entered into my& Jimmy’s room he had completely taken over the bed. He looked so cute. I got dressed into a white v neck with a pair of dark blue skinny jeans. I slipped on my low rise purple converse before I walked back out into the main room. I was fixing my hair into a pony tail as Brian came up behind me. “I think when we get back I’m going to clam e the shower!” I stated smiling at him as he opened the door.
“Ha ha okay, if you say so.”

It took us an all of 20 minutes while driving around to decide on where to go. He wanted pancakes, I wanted waffles, so we went to a local donut shop instead of arguing over which was better. I don’t know the exact amount of donuts we ordered but we ordered enough for people to give us a strange look. We sat down at a table with boxes of donuts and our 2 cups of coffee. We would go back as soon as we were done with coffee,
“So Bri-Bri, happy the tour is over?” He nodded as he took a bit of his donut. I felt a little awkward making small talk with him. He didn’t seem to mind, I kept staring at him as he shoved a whole donut into his mouth making his cheeks puff out like a chipmunk. He was so fucking cute. “So do you guys all live in LA, or something?”
“No we live here in Huntington.” I looked at him, an eyebrow raised.
“If you live here why are you guys in a hotel?” He shrugged his shoulders then thought about it.
“I dunno actually, I guess cause we all live on the other side of town and we were just so tired we decided to stay at a hotel.” That seemed smart enough I guess. Not really though. I finished my coffee before him, and now I was just fiddling with the cup.

“Are you ok Adi?” I looked up at him, he had a worried expression. “You said you were hungry, yet you barely ate your donut…”
“Oh…I don’t know I guess I just spaced out, well here…”I shoved the rest of it in my mouth doing the same puffy cheek chipmunk face he had just had. He chuckled as he pulled his phone out and took a picture of me and my chipmunk face.
“mom-mon, mets go!”I shouted still chewing the large donut in my mouth. I grabbed the boxes and held my hand out for him. We still held hands after he had gotten up, all the way to the car.

I kicked open the door shouting, “HONEY I’M HOME!” I heard a light laugh that I recognized as Val, and I heard Jimmy yell back,
“Well Jesus! It’s about damn time! I was starting to think you and Brian ran away together without me!” I walked over to them and placed the few boxes of donuts on the table,
“Jimbo! How could you think such a thing!? I’d never leave without you!” I hugged him as he dove into the first box of donuts. “Besides, why would I wanna run away with Brian? He’s icky and he might squish me.” I stated childishly making a yucky face in his direction. He gave me a ‘no you didn’t’ look and replied with,
“Well why would I wanna run away with you in the first place? You’re too short.” He stuck his tongue out at me.
“Don’t stick that out unless you plan to use it!”I winked at him, he made a shrill girly ‘eek!’ sound and ran behind Val who was laughing,
“Don’t hide behind me! Why would I protect you, and she made a good point.” She over dramatically winked at him, as Zacky joined in the fun.
“How ya’ doin’ big boy!” Zacky asked trying to sound like a deep voiced overweight women, as he put an arm around Brian and one leg around his waist. Jimmy shouted as he jumped onto Brian’s back,
“Matt! Johnny! Your missing the sexy time!!” Johnny came walking in, with a WTF look on his face at the sight before, but quickly dismissed it when he saw the donuts.
“oouuuhh!! Donuts!”
We all couldn’t believe the sound that just came out of him…because of donuts. As Jimmy reached for another donut he joked,
“Christ Johnny don’t jizz in your pants!” we laughed as Johnny glared walking backwards out of the small kitchen. While walking he bumped into Michelle,
“OW! Watch it Christ!” she screeched, what a bitch. I noticed the mood in the room quickly shifted from one of careless banter to one of complete awkward-ness. I decided I would now go shower, so I made my exit and walked over to the bathroom. I turned the water on hot, and got undressed. Before I even stepped under the water it was burning my skin. I felt dirty; I needed to get clean somehow. When I finished I stuck my head out of the bathroom and shouted for Jimmy. He came to me frolicking

“Yes my pet?” he batted his eyelashes at me. I smiled
“I need clothes.”I then mimicked his eyelash batting.
“OK!”he replied louder than needed but it made me laugh I didn’t bother shutting the door, I was in a towel, and it was to steamy in here. I watched as Zacky and Johnny paced by the bathroom unnecessarily. It was funny. Then Brian walked by, I looked up at him and he looked at me. I heard Michelle calling his name; I guess he spaced out looking at me. His eyes were filled with lust, I knew he wanted me and I wanted him too. I teased him a little as I let the top of my towel slip, revealing a little more cleavage. He smirked making me blush. I bite my bottom lip as I gave him a pleading look. We were snapped out of our moment when Jimmy came bouncing over,
“Alrighty you two!” he smirked raising his eyebrow. “Move it along bubby!” I chuckled as he pushed Brian away. After he was done he came back into the bathroom and shut the door, I didn’t mind getting dressed in front of Jimmy. I let my towel fall to the floor as Jimmy hopped on the counter. I forgot about the bruises on my back and stomach, when I met his look, he was horrified. It didn’t occur to me that the makeup would wash off until I followed his gaze to my stomach. “Baby doll, how long has that asshole hit you?” I looked him in the eyes as a tear fell from mine.
“Since a month after we started going out.” He came over to me, and hugged me as he whipped the tear from my face. I looked up at Jimmy and I remembered all the good times we had, sure there were hard time, but we always came out alive. He placed his hands on the sides of my face and kissed my lips. We stayed like that for a moment or two. We both broke apart at the same time.
“Come on Jimbo, let me finish so they don’t think we are in here making a baby…”I laughed, he smiled.

We both walked out of the bathroom together, everyone gave us a look like what the hell? Brian’s eyes looked like they were a mixture of confusion, jealousy, and hurt. I couldn’t bring myself to look at him.

Matt stated as he started for the kitchen,
“Make sure you’ve got all your stuff, we’re leaving soon.” I sat on the floor next to the couch as everyone talked. I felt so out of place, I didn’t belong here. I needed to get out of here, I feel like a pest around here.

I was amazed at the house they lived in, it was so nice. It was big too, almost too big. I was sitting outside in the yard, the sun was warm and I felt a little better outside then being inside. I was smoking a cigarette, I don’t know why though. I hated smoke. I was thinking of a way I could get out of their hair and leave them to their lives. They don’t need a charity case like me around. I just fuck shit up. Brian and Zacky came out front, I could tell it was them by their voices. I heard Zacky shout back inside,
“FOUND HER!” I guess I worried somebody, probably Jimmy. I heard them getting closer, they both sat down next to me. Zacky to my left, Brian on my right. Zacky was smoking a cigar, Brian just watched me smoke. I figured he wanted one but didn’t wanna ask. I reached in my pocket and handed him one with my lighter. His eyes lit up,
“You like Marboral too?” I nodded as I took a long drag, after he lit up his cigarette he handed me my lighter back, “such a quality smoke.” I nodded again. Zacky was the first to ask,
“Why are you sitting out here all alone?” I shrugged my shoulders not really wanting to tell them why.
“I don’t know but I need to leave soon.” They both looked at me like I was speaking French, and in unison they both whined,
“Why!?” My eyes widened at the suddenness of their replies.
“Because I have to go home…”I muttered the rest of my sentence, “and because I don’t belong here.” I paused waiting to see if either heard me, thankfully. Before I knew it the cigarette was taken from my lips and stomped on and I was lift up off the ground by both men and taken inside before I could object.
“Someone get the duct tape and rope!” Zacky shouted. Matt chorused,
“Oohh! Kinky- wait why?” Zacky let me go so now Brian was the only one holding me. He laid me down on the couch and held me there. I just looked at him and he looked at me, I tuned out Zacky explaining what was going on. As Brian asked me a question,

“Enjoy your shower?” I blushed and smirked as he did. I shrugged my shoulders a little and replied with,
“Wouldn’t you like to know?” I stuck my tongue out at him, making his smirk grow and his eyebrow raise.
“What was it that you said to me this morning? Something along the lines of don’t stick your tongue out unless you plan to use it?” He questioned. My eyes widened and my tongue slowly slid back into my mouth, causing him to chuckle. He winked at me and smiled until I saw the rest of the guys and Val standing there with stern looks on their faces. Jimmy had the duct tape and Zacky had the rope, this wasn’t gunna be pretty.

Notes

*** I realize these beginning chapters move really fast, and jump A LOT. Bare with my story, it gets better.