Lil’s POV

It made sense that we went together with Matt and Jason Berry to the after party, I mean, we were staying at the same bus, not like the fancy rock stars, they had a hotel room, not every night but this night as I found out.
The brothers had showed us which bunks were ours and they took our bags and stored them for us.

Jen and I got dressed and a little dolled up, as far as that was possible on such a small bus and bathroom… and went to the party. Jason was being really nice, and I could get really used to it.

That was until the rest of the members arrived and Matt’s presence I really couldn’t ignore. He was looking damn fine, in that shirt with his rolled up on the sleeves, showing some ink and muscles.

He went straight over to me and hugged me while he whispered in my ear. "I'm glad you could make it." His mouth was so close, I could almost feel his lips touching my ear shell and I tried to suppress the shiver I felt.

I saw everyone watching us and put both palms on his chest and slowly push him away, but I just couldn’t not realize just how hard his muscles were underneath my fingertips and how I longed to feel the bare skin but instead I smiled at him and laughed a little. "Thanks."

"Why don't we go get some drinks for everyone?" And with that he grabbed a hold of me and pulled me away from everyone. I could feel some eyes on me, and when I turned around once I saw how Jen was glaring at me together with Jason, but I tried to give them a reassuring smile, which didn’t seem to calm them down at all.

“What’s your poison gonna be?” The bartender leaned towards me a sly smile on his face and I could see he wasn’t even looking into my face but down my cleavage right away.

“Maybe if you meet my eyes I can order properly?” I replied too sweetly and gave him a fake smile back, his eyes moved slowly up and I felt suddenly someone press up behind me, heat radiating from him and his cologne wavering to me, damn he smelled good too.

“You got a problem?” Matt asked, his body pressed flush to my back and I felt heat riding up into my cheeks, damn he wanted to make me flustered, didn’t he?!
The bartender lifted an eyebrow when his eyes moved from me to Matt and back “Sorry, didn’t know she was taken”

I opened my mouth to reply and tell him I wasn’t, but Matt beat me to it “Now you know, give us 10 beers and 12 shots and some water bottles” Matt said and his hand circled around my waist, his thumb rubbing over my hip and I turned my head to face him.

He smirked and his dimples were fully showing, damn he was hot and cute at the same time!

I opened my mouth to say something when the bartender placed Matt’s order in front of us and he finally let go.

I didn’t know if I felt relieved or was sad that the warmth from his body and his closeness was gone, but after a moment of shaking myself I had also convinced me that I was relieved.
Flirting was okay, but there was no way I was getting further involved with him. It couldn’t work anyway.

The night was fun I was sitting in between Brian and Matt and they were mostly trying to catch my attention, making a game out of it really and I rolled my eyes, when both guys at the same time placed a hand on my thigh and I shoved them at the same time away.

“Oh Gates… that doesn’t happen often to you, huh? A girl pushing you away?!” I heard MB chuckle and then met Jason’s eyes over the table, he was watching me and I thought it looked like a concerned expression though I wasn’t too sure.

“You wanna dance?” Matt whispered into my ear and I was about to shake my head, when he had already pulled me up and was dragging me towards the dancefloor. A no wasn’t an option apparently…

He pulled me into his arms and I couldn’t do anything else than give in to it “You look hot tonight, no wonder that bartender had his eyes on you all the time” I rolled my eyes but felt my cheeks heat up again.

What the hell was wrong with me “Thank you” I told him and felt how his hands moved a little further south towards my ass. I pulled a little away to look into his eyes and saw lust and amusement dancing in them.

“This is dancing, right? Nothing else” I told him and he let go of me a quick second showing his hands in surrender and then moved them back around me.

“I’m sorry, but what am I supposed to do… I can hardly keep my hands off you” He admitted and that smile still evident in his voice.

“I bet you never said that to anyone ever before” I told him fake annoyed and he laughed loudly and I had to too.

“You got me, but it’s true though.” His hands moved a little further up and he leaned his head back to look me in the eye, we were again lost in the moment.

When he started to lean forward I stayed put and just the last second I thought better of it. It was a dumb idea to get involved with someone from these guys, and especially someone from the band.

Matt’s lips hit only the corner of my mouth and my cheek and damn I had to say it felt good to have his lips on me, I could imagine how much better it would feel to really kiss him. And I was tempted to just grab his cheeks and meet his lips fully.

But instead I pulled away and let him stand at the dance floor without another word, he must think I was the biggest bitch on the planet, but I just couldn’t form the words now. I mean, this was not a good idea, we were just starting to work for the guys and then having a fling with one of them, no no no, not a good idea.

When I arrived back at our group I saw how Jen was gone and how Jimmy was running around like a chicken with his head cut off. I stopped him and frowned “Where is Jen?”

He looked at me with wide and panicked eyes “She ran off” He said and grabbed my shoulders and I blinked not understanding what he said “She ran off? Why did she run off?” I asked and Jimmy’s eyes went over to Zack who looked a little worse to wear.

“What? What is it?” I asked and looked around confused when Jason finally stood beside me, “Zack - the idiot brought her vodka instead of water, she drank it and cursed and ran off. I bet she is at the bus or hotel…”Jason touched my arm and I closed my eyes briefly.

Shit, I haven’t really paid much attention to her this evening and felt guilty for it. But I couldn’t help that Matt had pulled me away and caught my attention most of the time. And why the hell was Zack being such a dick towards her.

I pushed Jason’s hand away and stormed towards Zack to get right in his face, not really knowing what I wanted to do, but Jen told me before that he was being a dick to her all day long, so what the hell was his problem really?! Because we were women? Or was he just in general an asshole?!

I was almost there and about to yell in his face, when two strong arms pulled me back and I was lifted in the air “You asshole! Why did you do that?! You have been acting like a giant dick all the time!” I yelled and was trying to get away from whoever had a hold on me.

I felt lips brush my ear “Calm down, Lil… I bet she is just pissed off and back at the bus already.” Matt’s deep voice sounded in my ear and I tried to get away from him.

“Why are you making such a fuss… It was a fucking joke, how could I know she was being such a baby about it?!” Zack said defensively but I saw he was uncertain himself.

“Well your fucking joke, wasn’t funny!” I said more calmly now in the hopes that Matt would let me go now. And he did, he slowly set me back on my feet but his hold didn’t loosen much.

“I’m fine, I won’t scratch his eyes out… yet” I added slowly and heard some chuckling and then MB’s voice “I just checked in with Dan, she is not at the bus or hotel” He announced and
I turned around.

“Then where is she?! Shit, I need to find her!” I grabbed my jacket and bag and was about to storm away, when I heard someone call my name “Wait, we go with you. Best is if we part ways…” Jimmy announced and he looked angry at Zack “Right, Zack?!” He rolled his eyes but nodded.

“Okay, we head to the parking lot” MB and Jason said and I thought about any place where I could imagine Jen to go… shit, I had no idea, she was probably mad and out of her mind, maybe she was blindly wandering around?!

“I’ll go with you” Matt announced beside me and I nodded, fine whatever.

“We will search around the club” Jimmy said and we all got moving, I was kinda impressed that in the end the whole band and friends were now out going on a search party, even though they didn’t really know Jen or me and my heart swelled a little, maybe this was really a better idea than Jen and I thought, maybe they did care about us already… even if it was just as employees…

Zacky’s POV

How the fuck was I supposed to know that Dreadlock would react so bad towards my little joke… I mean come on, it was just a fucking sip of vodka, and I thought she would loosen up a little after finally getting some drinks.

And instead she ran off and damn I saw the hate in her eyes just before she stormed off and now everyone was blaming me.

What was wrong with those guys?! I mean, if she couldn’t take a simple joke, she wasn’t the right for the job, or?! But instead of anyone paying attention to that, they were all concerned.

While Matt was already trying to get in the pants of Lil, he didn’t really care about the rest, as was Jason and MB. What was there deal anyway?!
Jason was probably trying the same with Lil but not as obvious as Matt and Brian was just joking around as he normally did… while MB and Jimmy seemed to care about Dreadlock.

Was there some deeper connection I had no idea about or… Were there feelings involved?! What the fuck?!
And why was that making me mad when I thought about it?

I brushed all those thoughts off and pushed my hands into my pockets while walking around the dark and almost empty streets of Las Vegas, which was definitely not how I pictured our evening to go.

When I had seen Jen standing there with MB waiting for the rest of us to arrive, I had even felt the lust rise in me again. She had been wearing some tight black pants, hugging her ass perfectly and the shirt she wore was cut out in the back, so I could see a good amount of teasing skin there, the want I had felt to lick her skin and mark her with some kisses had come unwanted and completely surprising.

And now I was searching for her, because I made a joke, why I was the only one walking around alone I didn’t know. But to calm those other fuckers down, it was now my main goal to get a fucking hold on her.

I looked at my phone it was 2 am and I groaned, where the hell was she?! She must be in her bunk already, sleeping and those other fuckers were probably laughing there asses off at me being the only one still running around.

I dialed Matt’s number but he didn’t pick up, fuckhead. I chose Jason next and he picked up after the second ring “You found her?” He asked right away and I shook my head and then realized he couldn’t see me.

“Nope… heard from anyone else?” I asked and Jason sighed “No nothing yet. Let us know if you hear anything” With that he hung up and I groaned.

“Damn it” I cursed and felt like shit, what if really something happened to her, than I was the one to blame. And if not, she was being a fucking overdramatic princess. So those two scenarios were pretty close together and could work out in totally different ends.

I saw a police car down the street and thought about asking them if they saw a lonely woman walking around the area, when I came closer I saw they were checking the streets as well and just a few block ahead I saw a small form sitting.

I passed the police car and the closer I got the more sure I was that the small form was indeed a woman, and apparently the woman I had been searching for.
I sighed in relief and send a quick text to Jason to let the others know I found her.

She leaned against the cold brick wall and her head was hanging all crooked to the side, her eyes were closed, her cheeks were marked with dark smudges from her make-up and crying. Shit, I had really fucked up…

Maybe my joke had really meant more than I had known, I wanted to play with her a little like I did on stage, and not fucking ruin her or anything. Maybe I was too fast with treating her this way, I mean.. I didn’t know anything about her or Lil’s history…

I crouched down before her and softly touched her cheek “Dreadlock? Hey!” I let my thumb run over it but she didn’t react.

“Hey Jen!” I let my hand run towards her shoulder and shook her a little, when there was still no reaction from her I moved closer to her and lifted her up into my arms.

She stirred a little but wouldn’t wake up, she seemed completely exhausted and her whole body felt cold against mine. The police car stopped next to us and they almost blinded me with their flashlight.

“Is there a problem?” The officer asked and I shook my head “No, my girl drank too much and fell asleep; I’ll carry her home to let her sleep it off.” I said and he looked at me a moment longer than nodded and they drove off again.

I sighed and moved forward, with the woman in my arms, her head bouncing up and down on my shoulder but still no sign of her waking up. When I had finally reached the hotel I decided after being such an ass, I would grant her a night in my bed and would sleep on the couch.

I entered the hotel and no one was around I headed into the elevator and pushed the button I tried to wrestle my keycard from my pocket without dropping her and finally succeeded when I stood before the door.

I walked in and slowly lay her down on my bed. I decided of what I would do with her now. She looked suddenly so peaceful, no angry glare, no insults, somehow weird. I shook my head and pulled her shoes from her feet. I debated of pulling her pants of too to get her more comfortable but decided against it.

I lifted her head onto the pillow and then pulled the blanket on top of her. I watched her for a second, till she turned to her side and then I went to the bathroom.

When I came out I looked at the couch with disgust, I really didn’t wanna sleep on that small thing, but I didn’t have much of a choice, did I?!

I pushed my suitcase of and grabbed a second towel, a small additional blanket from the closet and then tried to make myself as comfortable as I could. Sleep wouldn’t find me a long time and when it finally did, the sun was already making an appearance again, but I didn’t care… My eyes were too heavy and I felt completely exhausted.

Notes

Soooo... what u say to this one?

Zacky found Jen and brought her to his bed ;) Even saved her from the cops :D
How will this go on? What do u think?!