Banned in a book

Sam’s POV

I paced in our hote room and after yelling at Brian and him being quiet. Now we were both not talking to each other anymore.
We would have gone separate ways to cool down for a bit but that was not possible, not in our case at least.

The phone rings and I hear Brian pick up.
“Hello?”
A pause.
“Hmm.. I tell her. Okay, we will be ready. Bye” He hung up and I turn towards him.
“That was Selena, she needs to be home this evening, she want’s to leave soon and wants to know if we are coming along.” Brian says and I couldn’t read his face.

I was mad at him for making Selena sad and I was mad that he was talking about Trevor so poorly, a guy who didn’t deserve it in the least.
“What did you say?” I ask not meeting his eyes.
“We will come with her.”He says and packs up his bag.
My heart sinks, and I feel bad for him, I promised to take him to the beach, even though I was still mad at him, I still wanted to help him.
“We can drive to the beach next weekend…” I say quietly and Brian shrughs as if he didn’t care.

God, this will be an awful trip back and I didn’t know how to fix it anymore…
I couldn’t fix it…
Okay, maybe one last try.

“Brian?” I turn towards him and he stops packing up his bag, he looks at me and damn, my heart makes a small jump.
Stupid heart.

“I don’t want to fight with you. Can we please, stop acting like children and be normal again?” I ask and his lips pull up to a small smirk.
“I didn’t act like a child, babe. That was you.” He took a step towards me and I do the same, we meet us in the middle of the hotel room.

“I want you to know, that I still don’t like what you said to Selena and I don’t want you to say anything else towards her. We better keep this topic closed. I know you are not agreeing with me, but I don’t understand why. We can talk about this another time, when we are home alone, but not with her. I don’t want to hurt her anymore then she already is.” Brian lays his arms around my waist and pulls me into his body, his head resting on my head and he sighs heavily.
“I will not say anything further. I said all what I needed to say, now it’s up to her to find out what she wants to do, Sam. I don’t want to hurt her, believe me but I want to protect her. And you should especially know why that is important.” Brian says and I lean back looking up to his face frowning.
“What do you mean?”
“I bet you would have wanted someone to tell you your ex was a cheating bastard before marrying him.” Brian says and it felt like a knife to my heart.

Why did he know anything about it? Who told him?
I take a step back and he let’s his arms sink down “I didn’t mean it like-” Brian starts but I wave him away.
“Let’s just pack up and go.” I swallow thickly, not wanting to think about the past and hear Brian curse slightly behind me, but I didn’t turn around, so much to an awful right back…

Jimmy’s POV

The day was going slowly by and I stared at the picture for the hundredths time, why would nothing come to my mind?
Why not?!
He looks familiar and his note on my fridge, he must be someone I know so why was my brain blocking the information from me.

“What about I call the woman?”Matt asks and looks at me from the side.
“Now you think about getting laid? God, how is your brain working, Sanders?!” I ask with a chuckle and he slaps the back of my head.
“I didn’t mean because of that. I meant because she has a connection to the guy. Maybe we could ask her to let us meet with him. Maybe he knows what happened.” Matt shrugs and I close my eyes, worth a try. I mean, something must have happened.

Zack was right, he must be in our band, or rather must have been, we have found even more pictures of him and us, but neither of us can remember him or why he left…
“Maybe that’s the problem why we cannot write any songs…” Zack asks no one particular.
“Maybe” We all reply in unison.
I try to think back even harder but nothing comes to my mind, I only feel a headache starting at my temples when I try to think about it again.

“It’s like something is closing of the information… like a cage where I can’t find the key to. Do you have the same feeling?” I ask and frown at my band mates, who all have the same strained expression on their faces.
“Then, call her… she is the only chance in finding out what is wrong with him… or us.” I say and Matt nods.

He pulls the card from his pants and his phone. He dials the number and I hear it ring.
“Selena Jacobs.” A voice said on the other line.
“Hey, it’s Matt. The guy from the gas station.” Matt says and he gets up from his seat, walking away from us a couple of feet.
Uhhuuu, he needs some privacy, huh?!
I walk closer to him, while Zack and Johnny keep sitting at the terrace, only beginning to chuckle when they see me walking behind Matt.

“So, you thought about a way I can make it up to you?” The female voice said and I hear Matt chuckle.
“Yes… Or I rather have a small request.” Matt says softly and I had to suppress the chuckle.
“Okay, what is it.” She asks and I saw Matt closing his eyes, and I knew exactly what he was thinking.
How the hell am I supposed to tell her about the guy I can’t remember?
“Can we meet? I know you are not from here, and so am I, but I need to ask you something, in person.”
A pause sounded on the other side of the line.

“I cannot do that.” The womans says and cringe, please don’t hang up.
I nearly lean over Matt’s shoulder so I can hear the conversation, but Matt tries to push me away.
“It’s important and you don’t have to meet me alone, if that’s what makes you nervous. Bring your friends with you.” Matt rushes out and I hold my thumbs up, that was a good idea.

Another long pause before the woman says “I need to think about that.”
Then sounded the beep beep and we knew she hung up on him.
“Fuck”

Sam’s POV

We made half the way of the trip and were just filling up our tank, when Selena got a call. She walked away from us to talk in private.
The trip and been quiet, awfully quiet just as I had imagined it would be.
Brian sat in the passenger seat looking from me to Selena form time to time, but not sayin anything.

I looked at Selena in the review mirror but she also didn’t say a word, she looks sad and tired.
So tired…
I wanted to help her and wanted to do something but I didn’t know what.
“Was that Trevor?” Brian asks quietly when Selena was gone and I shrugged, I hoped so, they should talk.
“Did she say why she wanted to be home early?” Brian asks again and I sigh heavily.
“She didn’t talk to me.”
“Sorry.”
I close my eyes, perfect, now I feel bad again, why do I always have to take everything to heart.
I shouldn’t, I should learn to not care so much…
But how should I do that?!

“I didn’t mean for this to happen, Sam. I’m sorry, really.” Brian continues and I nod.
“I know.”
“Do you want to-” Brian starts but Selena walks back to the car so I hold my hand up.
“Can we talk about it when we are home? I think we have certain thinks to talk about and we shouldn’t be doing it now, okay?”
Brian nods and looks at Selena who get’s back in the car.

“You okay, hun?” I ask her and she looks a little confused, then turns towards me.
“That was the guy from the gas station. I gave him my card, if he thinks of a way I can repay him for helping get my bag back.” Selena says a little uncertain.
“And?” I ask together with Brian.
“He wants to meet with me… and if I feel uncomfortable, he asks me to bring my friends with me. What should I think about that?” She asks and frowns.
“Wow.” That’s all I get out.
“The tall guy?“ Brian asks and he looks lost in thoughts.
“Yeah.” Selena nods.
“Well, what do you think, I do owe him, right? But he wouldn’t tell me what he wants, just that he wants to meet me.” Selena says again and I nod.
“Well, if you do want to meet him, of course we can be there.” I say and look at Brian who nods as well, but his eyebrows are still crunched together. I should talk about this with him later, he looks like something is bothering him.
“I guess, I should think about that some more before deciding…” Selena says and turns the engine back on and we made the last way of the trip back.

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