“Kailey, Kailey, Kailey you’re coming on tour with us! Did you know?” Bert asked as he danced in front of me.

I still found it amusing that I was taller than him.

“Really I had no idea? This is news to me!” you joked as you went to ruffle Bert’s hair.

“I wouldn’t do that love, he started not washing his hair already,” Jeph’s voice came out of nowhere as your hand hovered over the top of Bert’s head.

You snapped your hand back in a flash and shot Bert a worried look as he grinned like an imp at you, his eyes dancing with mischief. But then you shot Jeph a look that would normally kill a human.

“What?” Jeph asked, hands raised in a defensive position as he stopped his approach towards you.

“You mister, are sooo freaking dead,” you growled at him, finger out and pointing menacingly at his face as you approached him slowly and steadily.

“What did I do?” Jeph asked confused as he started to inch away from your approaching form.

You paused in your walking and then grinned evilly before leaping at him, knowing he wouldn’t fall as you wrapped your body around him. And began to give him a noogie.

“The party you dolt!” you yelled as he squirmed underneath you.

As Jeph danced around trying to get your torturing form off of him you saw all the guys staring at the two of you in confusion and awe. They hadn’t known about the going on tour party your coworkers had thrown or how you sneaky boyfriend had been in cahoots with your boss to give you the heart attack of a lifetime. So this all must look fairly odd and bewildering to them. Bert even looked a little confused, though that was more than likely just his normal lack of understanding what was going on around him.

Finally you stopped your assault of Jeph’s poor head and dropped to the ground to stand menacingly in front of him, a glower on your face.

“Oh yeah, that party. My bad?” Jeph asked innocently as he gave you puppy dog eyes.

You playfully kicked him in the shins.

“Hey ow! But Zarin said the party was a hit,” Jeph said as he hopped around on one leg.

“Oh it did, it was a most fantastical night, I have the best friends slash coworkers on the planet. I just hate when my boss and boyfriend wok together to scare the life out of me and make me think I lost my fuckining job,” you said, hands on your hips and stern look on your face even though you really weren’t upset and were trying to hold in your laughter at Jeph’s reaction.

“We, ow, thought it would be funny,” Jeph explained, the ow coming from when he put his foot back down on the ground.

Guess you had kicked him harder than you had intended.

“Oh sure it was, only after I found out it was a joke,” you scowled, starting to lose your battle at playing gruff.

Jeph pouted a little more and gave you the worst set of puppy dog eyes you had ever seen. At that you burst out laughing, you couldn’t help, he looked ridiculous. At your laugh Jeph dropped the look and grinned at you, you still were completely ignoring the confused looks of your friends, accidentally of course.

“So it was good then?” Jeph asked, his grin still present.

“It was the best party ever! We partied like it was 1999, and we even had cheesy games like pin the 2x4 on the annoying guitarist and everything! We even had a cake with all the guys on it, and I cut right through a very beat up rendition of,” you explained excitedly but trailed off as you heard Jeph cough in that way that said stop talking right now.

As your voice died off and your explanation stopped you turned and looked over at your momentarily forgotten friends. Your brother was looking at you and shaking his head with a displeased look on his face. Jimmy just looked disappointed while Johnny and Syn looked highly amused but were trying not to show it. Zacky, Zacky on the other hand looked thoroughly pissed. Oops. Guess there went any chance at being civil for the tour, you figured you had just blown it. Oh well, it was easier to hate him then to pretend you didn’t.

You caught his look of seething hatred he sent you and you sneered right back.

“How about I show you the buses Kales, Jeph I’m sure you and Bert have stuff to finish before we head off,” Matt said as he came up and separated you from your boyfriend.

“Yeah we do,” Jeph said as he winked at you and grabbed Bert by his arm and dragged him the direction of their bus.

“We need to talk,” Matt said through his teeth as he walked you towards one of the buses.

“Where’s Katie?” you asked, genuinely curious.

“No misdirecting me Kales. I thought we talked about this, I thought we had an understanding about all of this. I wanted tour civil Kales, no attacking Zacky. And vice versa. Can’t we all just get along? Please?” Matt literally begged you, he sounded pathetic really.

“One I wasn’t misdirecting you, I was genuinely curious. And two, I didn’t do it on purpose, I simply forgot you guys were there and was just explaining the party to Jeph. That’s all. It’s not my problem if Baker can’t take a fucking joke,” you spat, a little angry that you were having this conversation already with your brother.

It hadn’t been intentional this time around. You were just so caught up in everything that you hadn’t realized what exactly you were saying and who was present. If Zacky couldn’t grow the fuck up and take a fucking joke from time to time you didn’t really care if he got pissed. Johnny took all his teasing in hand just fine from the guys, never throwing a bitch fit about it, so why Zacky couldn’t escaped you completely. And it pissed you off that you were getting the talk for it. It was his issue, not yours.

“Whatever Kales, I really don’t want to fight with you. Not right now and not on this tour, just try to keep it under wraps. We’ll do our part, keeping you busy as head merch and working, and keeping you two separate. Just remember you promised to not damage Zacky’s face anymore. And while I know it’s one thing back here in L.A. when we’re living separate lives, but we’ll be sharing one, well two technically, buses. And that’s going to make it harder. Just please, please, please try and not disfigure him where it shows. Anywhere else is game should it come to that,” Matt pleaded with you as the two of you stood at the base of the stairs in to the main bus.

“Sure thing. Whatever. Just show me where to stow my shit, that’s still over with the car, and where I can crash,” you said in a monotone as you walked up into the bus.

Matt showed you where your bunk was and where you could stow all your things, and told you you could have a cabinet to keep you tattooing things in as well. He told you you were bunking across from Jimmy and that made you smile, though nothing else about the bunking arrangements was said.

“And Kales?” Matt said from the entrance of the bus as you continued to snoop around things.

You leaned back and shot your head your brother’s direction.

“Katie is with the equipment trailer doing last minute checks,” Matt said in a tone that told you he had been spending most of the day back there with her.

Poor girl.

“Thanks,” you called out as he made his way out of the bus and you continued snooping around, opening and closing cupboards.
-xXx-
“Move your fucking ass cow,” a voice sneered behind you.

Great.

“Fuck off asshole,” you sneered back as you continued to finish making your bed.

You had been on the road for hours at this point, getting close to where the first stop of the night was. You had put all your stuff away and were now finally getting your bunk ready to sleep in that night at some point. More than likely morning, as you knew from years of phone calls that first nights of tours were fairly wild and crazy. Not any night on tour with these guys wasn’t, especially when The Used were involved, but first nights especially.

You suddenly felt a leg kick your legs out from under you and you fell the small distance to the floor and banged your elbow on the edge of your bunk. You hissed and grabbed your elbow, your funny bone had been hit and you knew you had got cut as you felt a small amount of blood wet your opposite hand as you held your injured elbow.

“For fuck’s sake fuck bag what the hell is your god damn issue?” you spat venomously as you stood to make your way to the bathroom to patch yourself up so as not to bleed on the merch your first night working it.

“I needed into my bunk and your fat fucking excuse for an ass was in my way and you wouldn’t move,” Zacky answered as he stood there and glared at you.

You seethed with hatred and would’ve snapped back at him but your elbow was throbbing and distracted you enough that all you did was flip him off and walk away muttering under your breath. You ripped open the bathroom door so hard it banged and startled Jimmy who was leaning against the wall of the small hallway.

“Jesus christ Kales! What the hell happened?” Jimmy asked as he flipped his phone shut and walked over to where you were half standing out of the bathroom trying to rip open a gauze package with your teeth and good hand as your damaged arm was held to your chest.

“Fucking hell is what happened to me. Fucking Baker kicked my fucking legs out from under me when I wouldn’t move out of his way. I cracked my bloody elbow on my bunk edge and am now bleeding, quite profusely as it turned out,” you replied as you looked down at yourself.

You had bled quite a bit onto the bathroom floor, but luckily not onto yourself.

“Shit, let me help,” Jimmy said quickly when he saw your condition, dropping his phone on the floor of the hallway and pushing past you into the bathroom.

You looked pitifully at him as he went about patching and cleaning you up, taking care to do it so you still had full use of your elbow.

“Thanks,” you replied once he had thrown away all the bloodied remains and torn packaging.

“No problem, I’m use to having to patch you up,” Jimmy chuckled as he kissed you on the forehead and walked out of the bathroom.

You smiled as he left to go about his business as the bus had finally come to a stop. You didn’t know what you would do without him, really, and you loathed the day some girl would steal his heart, and him, away from you. You were incredibly jealous when it came to what little time you got with him. Sighing you made your way to the front of the bus knowing you would have a little bit to yourself before you got the run down for the merch.

“I’m off to find Katie,” you yelled through out the bus.

You got multiple muttered replies as you made your way out the bus with smokes and crew pass in hand.

Once outside you lit a cigarette and breathed in the nicotine and the fresh air, still not use to the cycled air of the buses. You exhaled and made your way to find your newest friend, the one who would more than likely help keep you sane this entire time on the road. You were in the mood for some girl talk, a rare occurrence for sure. You wanted to hear all about the abuse your brother was putting the poor girl through already. Smiling you slipped your pass around your neck and set off in look for the blue haired girl.

Notes

First day on tour and Zacky's already busted her elbow open!
Way to go bro!
Hope it doesn't set the mood for the next 8 weeks!