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Animosity In The Ranks

Chapter 78

You sat buried in a giant old blanket that Matt surprised you with by pulling it out of a compartment. It was an old blanket your grandmother had made for him and one you had loved when you were little. It had been a shock when he had pulled it out, you didn’t think he would have brought it on tour with him. And now the only thing visible was most of your face and one hand, the other being inside clasping the blanket closed around your now dwarfed body.

When you had scrambled up onto the quiet bus with your duffel bag, barely clearing the top step in your haste, you hadn’t needed to explain much to your brother. He gave you the large actual bedroom at the back and had said he would send Bryan to tell Zacky he was living on the party bus for a while. You sniggered a little at that seeing as how you were pretty sure that cesspool never spent much time, if any, on the quiet bus.

It was a down night for the tour, a travel night, and so you were sitting, bundled like so, in the back bedroom with nothing but part of your face and one hand showing. There was food in bowls and paper plates around you and drinks on the ground and side tables within reach. There were movies to be watched and a Katie sprawled out beside you, hand currently rustling around in a potato chip bowl. You had given Matt the raised hand earlier when he had looked for more answers and thankfully he had just turned and lifted his phone and dialed a number. It had been shortly there after that a smiling Katie had appeared, kicking the door to the closed bedroom as her hands were too full of bags to be able to knock, bearing goodies galore.

It was well into the third or so movie and good portion of the goodies were gone. You had cracked open a twelve pack of bottles and between the two of you there was only two left, not including the ones still in your possession. It had been kind of what the doctor had ordered actually and you silently thanked your lucky stars for your brother. He did a good job of taking care of, when he was ever actually around to do so. If he hadn’t thought of calling Katie you probably wouldn’t have and would have just spent the night holed up in your new room brooding over everything and nothing all at once.

“So do you plan on talking to him soon?” Katie asked as she pushed herself up into a more slightly propped upright position, taking a sip of her beer once she was up and looking over at your hiding form.

You sighed loudly and threw some Fritos into your mouth and chewed them loudly, beer sitting between your legs shoved between folds of the blanket; snug.

“Eventually yeah. It’s not like I can avoid him or anything. It’s not like I’m going to leave the tour or anything. I might want to kill Zacky and I may feel like I want to cry but when all is said and done, this really is less stressful than working. And I couldn’t leave Bert, or Jimmy, or Johnny. Or you either for that matter. I’m going to stay. And he and I will talk this out like adults and things will get situated again,”I said as I picked my teeth free of Frito bits.

“You love him right? You love Jeph I mean,” Katie said as she picked up a roll of sushi and pointed it your general direction.

“Yeah of course I do,” you replied as your hand went back for more Fritos from your little bag in front of you.

“And Jeph loves you right?” Katie asked, now brandishing a hand with no sushi in it at you.

“I had assumed so. I’d like to think so. It’d kinda suck if he didn’t at this point,” you said between loud crunches of chips as you reached for a piece of tuna sushi.

“Well then the two of you should be able to talk this out like two responsible adults, which I know you both are under all those wild tattoos and piercings, and then move onto the kissing and making up part,” Katie said rather matter of factually, using her half empty beer bottle to help make her point.

You sighed and grabbed another piece of sushi, dabbing a bit of wasabi on the top and then dipping it into a pool of soy sauce quickly before bringing it to your mouth. As you chewed your mouth full of sushi and tried not to choke you grabbed your beer from your lap. Swallowing you lifted it up and towards Katie, who mimicked your movements and raised hers as well.

“Here’s to Jeph and I actually being able to pull off the whole adult thing! And here’s to hoping, well here’s just to hoping in general,” you toasted as you clinked your beer against Katie’s.

“Here, here!” came Katie’s reply before the two of you tipped ‘em back and drained them.

You choked on the foam at the end and Katie let loose a half snort half painful chuckle as she tried to not spit out her beer before she finished it. The sound alone echoing off the inside of her bottle and knowing full well that it couldn’t have felt all that good regardless of it’s hilarity caused you to burst out laughing. You dropped back on the bed still cocooned in your blanket and let yourself laugh, laughing more when Katie joined in too.

“And besides,” you heard Katie say as the two of your laughter's died down to just racing hearts and deep breaths.

You turned your still wrapped in a quilt head towards Katie laying beside you on the bed, watching and waiting for her to finish.

“If you left the tour I’d be all alone,” Katie finished as she turned her head to face you as well.

You smiled at her with a big cheesy grin and she returned it.

“I mean who else would I talk to about Matt? Johnny? Pshyeah,” Katie half snorted in mock hilarity but with a very real grin on her face.

And for that you smacked her with the pillow from above your head.

Notes

Filler, shitty I know.
But they have to happen on ocassion.

Comments

Out of all the fanfics this is the one I've read through 3 times through all 108 chapters. This is one of the best Zacky fics I've read and I still hope it'll be continued one day ; v; a very good read for any Zacky fan.

Tipikly Tipikly
5/3/18

Annnd new chapters....now?! Lol please.

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11/10/17

Update, please!! I love this so much!!!!

Holly Holly
12/24/16

I need moar!!!!

gingerSMASH gingerSMASH
2/4/15

OMG PLEASE UPDATE!!!! <3 this story!

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9/3/14