Lil’s POV

I was glad that I could convince Jen to come along to meet the guys, and not for the reason she thought, I wasn’t about to grab the next best guy and hide into the woods with him, I wasn’t that kind of a girl, come on…

But I did like to spend some time with male company, and someone as cute as Jason was. And since they seemed to be working on the festival, maybe we could get some information out of them, and maybe the even had some plans that we could use later on, you never knew. But we had to keep our eyes and ears open.

"What brings you two here anyways?" Jason asked and I tried to calm my nerves down, we talked about this, we should come up with something good.

"Just a vacation." I said with a smile, hoping that would direct them to some other topic, but sadly we weren’t that lucky.

"Well, what are you taking a vacation from? What do you gals do for a living?" Jason pushed and his hand landed on my thigh, shit I wasn’t about to get him distracted that easily, was I?!

Jen and I looked dumbfounded at each other, not really able to get a word out.

"Were taking a vacation from, uh, work." I choked out hoping that Jen could add to it with a better answer.

"We, well we are, uh" Jen mumbled "We help set up the stage for our band's concerts."

"No kidding! You guys are roadies?" I nodded, sheepishly together with Jen, when all I wanted was to slap the back of her head, shit this was not going to go good. "So are we! Who do you work for?"

“Oh, you wouldn't know who these guys are. They just aren't your neck of the woods, pretty new band and a completely different style." I licked my lips and tried to brush the topic off again but my heart almost stopped when the two brothers excused themselves.

Where they really up for no good, they didn’t seem like the newspaper guys, would they be able to recognize us? Were we even searched for country wide?

"They're coming back, shut up!" I elbowed Jen into the side and she looked up at the two guys coming back. Jason giving us a big smile and his brother looked a little awkward next to him, what the hell were they planning?!

My heart almost stopped when they talked about us helping them out as roadies, we had no fucking experience and they thought we had!

This was a dumb idea, a really really dumb idea if you asked me.
"We've always needed some extra help, now more than ever, so we thought maybe you two could help. You know what's expected, and you're already following the festival. Are you two up for it? We can pay you."

Dollar signs danced around in my head, they wouldn’t need ID’s they could pay us cash, we could use that money, as long as the tour was going… We could store it so we could really make out a living for us, buy us some new identity if we had to. This was our chance, this could be our chance.

I looked at Jen expectantly and hoped she saw the same reason as I did. But instead she stared at me with that hard expression. And her eyes were screaming at me ‘Don’t you fucking dare’

"I don't think-" Jen started but I interrupted her, my hand on her arm, so she would let me do the talking.

"We're gonna have to talk this through before we make any decisions. Anyways, we should head out." I looked at Jen with a smile, but she must know that that smile meant, we had some talking to do, and quickly. "Jason, I have your number, so we'll let you know."

We turned and went away, well I had looked forward meeting Jason again, but that he was about to offer us a job wasn’t what I expected really.

Thoughts were running through my head, was he giving us the job because he really thought that we would be able to handle the work?

I would like to see him again, I mean, even if we were working for them, he seemed to have some interest in me and wouldn’t that make the work a little easier? They would forgive a female asking a third time what she had to do, right? It wouldn’t be as bad…

Jen smacked me on the shoulder "So much for hiding! We have no idea the people they work for! They could have security personnel around them all the fucking time! You're so fuckin' dense."

"How else are we gonna make money? Any other place would require a background check and identification." I argued and knew this would be coming, what else could we do to get some money, we were already running short of it and her so called friends wouldn’t help us with the money forever!

"You are fucking insane if you think I'm going to agree to this." Jen stormed off and I rolled my eyes at her, running after her and catching onto her.

"We're also going to be all over the country, that'll totally throw people off our trail..." I saw the wheels turning inside Jen’s head but she still replied with"No means no. End of discussion." And again she ran off ahead of me.

God, this woman would be the death of me. I knew she was beginning to think of it. It was our best chance, she had to see it. And if she would tune down her ‘Fuck-off-Attitude’ for a little bit we had a chance to make some money on this job.

“Jenny! Come on, Jenny! Fine… JEN!” I yelled after her and she stopped, her shoulders slump down “What?!” She snapped and I motion ahead of us “Where the hell are you going anyway?”

“I don’t fucking know, but I know that I won’t be working for some unknown guys as roadies.. they think we have experience in this fucking job! But we don’t! We have no idea what they do all day, we have no idea who they work for… Lil, this is a dumb idea” Jen rubbed her hands over her face and looked frustrated.

I pulled her hand and we both sat down at the side of the street “Look, we don’t have anywhere to go, we have to keep moving anyway… I know we have no clue what they are doing, but we are women, I mean.. they will show us… gladly. Look at us” I wink at her and coax a small smile from her.

“How about, I’ll call Jason up tomorrow, that we want a trial day, they should show us what to do, and we will decide afterwards if we stay or not… How does that sound? If we do it clever we will travel along their bus, have a bunk to sleep in each night, hell… I saw the chemistry between you and Jason's brother, maybe you get to share his bunk, huh?” I grinned and shoved her shoulder gently with mine while she looked annoyed but still the smile hadn’t left her lips.

“Shut up” She stood up again “Let’s find us some place to sleep… I need to think over this, I don’t know we should do this, Lil… Just because you wanna get laid” She walked ahead of me so I couldn’t see her face, but I could hear she was teasing me, slowly I could wager her reactions, even if for the outside people wouldn’t know that she was joking, if Jen wanted it or not, I got her…

I woke the next morning and my back was hurting, Jen and I couldn’t find a hotel near the festival area, without paying a fortune so we had to find us a place outside and man, this sucked pretty bad. I rolled my clothes back up that I had folded underneath my head to use as a pillow and looked at Jen.

She was still asleep and I moved quietly away, getting us something to drink and using my phone for the first time.

I dialed the number by heart and waited for him to pick up… come on… come on.

“Dawson” I exhaled in relief when I heard his voice “Daddy” I say and felt tears forming in my eyes at finally hearing him again.

“Lilly? What the… where are you?! The police was here and wanted to know where you are, what happened?!” He rushed out and I breathed deeply in and out.

“I don’t have much time.. I’m okay, alright. Don’t worry about me… I just wanted to let you know, it’s okay.” But he interrupted me.

“Nothing is okay, sweetie… Tell me where you are?! You need to go back, whatever happened, you are making it worse, you have to go back, please” He rushed out but I shook my head in denial. I won’t be going back, no chance.

“I can’t. How is Darryl? Please tell me” I almost sobbed out, the emotions having the best of me.

“Oh sweetie… I-I…” He stopped and my heart with him, no please don’t say it, don’t say it.
“If you haven’t brought him to the hospital he wouldn’t have been alive any longer, sweetie… but he is still critical… they still can’t say if he will make it… But he has a chance… thanks to you” My father said and I swallowed the lump in my throat, he is still fighting, my best friend fighting for his live and he am not there…

“Lilly, sweetie, please… don’t be stupid you gotta go back-” My father tried again but I cut him off “I need to go, don’t worry. I’m fine… don’t tell anyone we talked. I love you”

I fell down on my knees sobbing when a hand landed on my shoulder “Is he okay?” Jen’s soft voice asked and then, she caught me off guard even more, when she went down as well and hugged me to her, I shook my head at her and let some tear fall before I could gather myself back together.

“Still critical… maybe this was all for nothing…” I whisked away tears and when I meet Jen’s eyes again I try to sound confident “He will make it, he has to” Jen nodded reassuringly.

“He will.. you will see him again someday” She knew about Darryl, about what happened, I told her everything, it was to get the real story out to someone I trusted as well as building trust between us right from the start.

“By the way… I called the guy… Jason” Jen said when we both grabbed our stuff and I frowned at her “Don’t tell me you told him no, Jen, that’s our chance-”
“Shut up and let me finish” She looked annoyed the soft side of her masked again, but I still knew it was there and that made me grin.

“I told him we will meet him at the booth in an hour. Trial day and that we had to talk about the living arrangements if we decided to take the offer” She said a small smirk starting to form and I jump into her arms and hug her, I knew she would see the sense in this, I knew it.

“Great! I knew you would finally see reason” I grinned and let go of my one-sided hug. “Trail day, Lil.. If this sucks, we gonna quit. Got me?”

“Gotcha, but you gotta promise me, you won’t let your bad attitude ruin this for us, maybe this is our chance, we travel, we get money.. and guess what, we see shows and we party…” I grinned, and couldn’t believe my luck at the moment, I just hoped Jen would see that as well.

After finding a restroom where we could freshen up and redress we made a quick trip to town to get some more necessities, brush, tooth-brush, make up, etc. and after that we went to the meeting.

Zack’s POV

The show last night had been a-fucking-mazing to say the least. Sin City always was one of my favorite cities to play in.
And slowly I was getting into the mood I had to say, the bus travels still sucked balls, but the shows were making up for it.

What I was wondering about was, where MB and JB had met those chicks they skipped the after party for. I mean… those were roadies, where do they find the hot girls?

I remembered walking past them, and I had stopped to look them up and down, one with shoulder length black hair, dark eyes and friendly smile, she was small, but I didn’t mind, since I wasn’t one of the tallest either, her legs still looked fine in those tight jeans and a little cleavage shown underneath the top she wore. She could be the sweet and innocent looking but probably a freak in the bed.

And the other a complete different blonde- dark blonde, I couldn’t really make out the exact color, it seemed to differ how the light shown upon it and were those dreadlocks?! She didn’t smile and looked at me frowning, I didn’t know what her problem was, but I didn’t care anyway.

She was taller and her legs looked like they went on forever and I couldn’t hide the lustful look I threw her way, blonde was always more my type but she didn’t seem like a happy have fun person to me, so I went on my way, maybe I would meet her again with a better mood… who knew.

“Guys?! We have another problem” Matt Berry announced, we had another show tonight and then one day off to get all the set up rebuild and packed up and then we would be moving the day after.

“Really, I don’t wanna hear more bad news, this tour is just a couple of days old, and we have more bad news since the whole last tour” Shads groaned and I nodded “Bad luck”
“Yeah.. well we have bad and good news to be exact” Jason added and I looked up, “We don’t wanna hear that you finally got some pussy last night”

I grinned and Jimmy looked up “You had pussy?” He jumped up and hugged Jason while congratulating him but Jason only rolled his eyes “Fuck off! It’s not like I had any problems in that department and can we go back to main topic”

“So what is it?” Brian asked ignoring the rest “Well, you know that Gary’s wife is pregnant right?” MB said and we all nod, even though I wasn’t too sure I knew about that.

“The baby is born and he left early this morning to be with them” MB added and I tried to hide the groan, I was happy for him really but that meant we were short of another crew member. Fucking hell!

“So the bad news is Gary is gone, and the good news is that the baby is there?” Matt asked but Jason shook his head. “No… well kind of yeah... but we were coming to the actual good news I was getting to.”

“We might have found some temporary staff members who would help us out for the tour” Jason announced and I frowned “Well, great… how did you manage that?” I asked and Jason grinned “You remember seeing us yesterday with the girls, right?” He asked and I nodded while the other guys only frowned looking between us back and forth.

“Those two ladies are roadies, they are currently off the job making some vacation, but we asked them if they were up for it… you know… they agreed to have a look into it today, we gonna meet them for something like a trial day in a couple of minutes… and after that we can decide” Jason grinned even more when I heard Johnny speak first “Chicks? You mean… Chicks as roadies?”

“Well, they cannot do the heaviest work, but we could manage and divide us properly, they will help set up the stage, mic’s, pedals, they can get your drinks, fuck they can stand behind the merch booth so we don’t always have to do it… it’s gonna work out, if you assholes don’t scare them the fuck away.”Jason said and I tried to wrap my mind around it, the blonde chick was kinda hot, so… why not?!

“Maybe you should add that you were calling dibs on one” I teased and Jason rolled his eyes “Are they hot?” Brian spoke up next and MB cut in “It’s about work, okay… and yeah…” He grinned as well and the guys laughed with me.

“Well… I agree, we could need all the help that we get, since we are already two men down, and I bet they can help us.” He announced and I had to agree, “We need to talk about some arrangements if they really agree to it. Where do you meet them? Maybe we should go along? Introduce ourselves and we each part and help you guys to show them how we work… I mean with the show tonight, they will be thrown right in and we could tell them what we need and what they should be responsible for, right?” Matt was back to working rhythm now, no wonder, that ass was fully of energy now since I saw him hiding in the bus playing fucking Call of Duty letting Jimmy and me carry that heavy as shit drum kit around the fucking place.

“Okay, let’s go” Brian said and we all got up and followed the Berry brothers towards the festival area and the merch booth. We were all to arrive first the women he talked about not there yet.

“They should be here in about 5” Jason said and looked around “Are you kinda excited about this?” Johnny grinned and I had to hide a smile as well, it sure looked like it.
“Where have you known those girls from anyway?” Matt asked and Jason shrugged and MB answered for him “He flirted with one of them and we met up again at a bar last night”

“And here they come” MB said and we turned around the girls came working towards us and I checked them out again, just as I remembered from yesterday the dark-haired one smiling and looking open while the other one looked skeptical, no wonder with our bunch here waiting for us.

“Whoa what a welcome party, that wasn’t necessary really” The dark-haired said smiling and looking from one to the other, before hugging Jason who stepped forward.
“Well, sure… you might be our work-life saver” Jason said and then began the introduction. I didn’t really listen into them but looked at dreadlock, she looked interesting and I hoped she had some better attitude then yesterday.

“And these are Lil and Jen” Jason finished up and I finally ripped my eyes of dreadlock.
“So how do we do this?” Lil asked and looked at her friend elbowing her in the side, who seemed to glare at everyone around.

“We would split up for the beginning, we have a show tonight, so we will team up and show you what’s necessary. But I bet that will all pretty easy and known for you, since you worked as roadies before” Matt said and both girls looked at each other and nodded then.

“Okay, fine… let’s do it.” Lil said but her voice sounded a little uncertain. Jason stepped forward “Good, then Lil - you, Shads, and Brian come with me and MB will take Jen, Zack, Jimmy and Johnny… we can meet again for lunch…” With that I headed over to Jen’s side and we followed MB towards the merch booth while Jason took them in the direction of the stage.

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