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Even in the the early morning, Luke looked
completely rested and relaxed. Lenny held in a contented sigh as he
gave her a heart-stopping grin at the foot of his bus. He held her
eyes for a second like he wanted to say something, but he just shook
his head and climbed up the stairs.
    Lenny gave Carl an
exaggerated salute before following Sway up the steps of the Red Bus.
He looked amused and impressed with her efforts and Lenny couldn't
help but smile. As far as new lives go, this one was shaping up
quite nicely.

    ***

    Lenny settled into
her seat on the Red Bus. She was a hard worker and she knew it. Her
effort and quick success had already won her the respect of the road
crew within a day. Even Carl seemed a bit less tense. She was excited
and relieved to be on the road. This was new and different and she
knew she’d be good at it. Just like everything else she’d
put her mind to. And there was more than enough for her to do to
keep her from thinking about all the things she was running from. A
short seven hour drive, stage set up, show, stage tear down, back on
the bus, drive all night. She could totally do this.
    “ Carl
actually trusted you with us?” Blake teased from his reclining
position on the couch.
    “ Yeah,
what about the 'No Babes' rule?” Sway added from somewhere in
the kitchenette area.
    “ I
don't count.” Lenny answered, not even looking up from her
notebook.
    “ What?
Why don't you count?” Blake pushed himself up on one elbow to
look at her. “Are you a lesbian?”
    Lenny smirked and
shook her head, “No, I just don't sleep with rock stars. It's
a rule I have.”
    “ Screw
that!” Sway dropped on the sofa opening a can of soda, shoving
Blake out of the way. “We're not rock stars, we're musicians. ”
He shook his head, obviously offended by her word choice.
    “ Fine,
I don't sleep with musicians then.” Lenny corrected, rolling her eyes.
    “ So
Carl thinks nothing will happen because you have this special rule?”
Sway asked, belligerence all over his face.
    “ Is
that all you think of me as, Sway?” Lenny narrowed her eyes at
him. “Just another conquest?”
    “ N-no,”
Sway stammered.
    “ Then
why is it every conversation I have with you ends up being about
sex?”
    “ It's
the only thing he thinks about.” Blake grinned at his friend
who elbowed him hard in the ribs.
    “ That's
not true!” Sway protested. “I have layers, I ain't all
about sex.”
    Lenny tapped her
pencil against her knee, contemplating his defensiveness.
    “ Sway's
just having a hard time adjusting to the No Bob Tour.”
Harrison had settled onto the floor and was already rummaging through
the video game consoles. He found the setup he was looking for and
started plugging it all in. “He has to talk about it a lot
before he can let it go. It's his way.”
    Sway 'humphed' and
settled deeper into the cushions of the couch. Blake took a
controller from Harrison and joined him on the floor and they began
an epic battle involving robots and zombies.
    “ I'm
sorry... No Bob tour?” Lenny questioned.
    “ Yeah.
No Booze or Babes. Bob.” Harrison explained as his avatar
decapitated a zombie.
    “ Right,”
Lenny hid a smile and reopened her notebook.
    The cabin was quiet
save for the gory zombie deaths that were coming from the plasma TV.
Lenny went over her lists for what to do when they arrived at the
next venue. She knew she had it down, but she always double checked.
Being wrong was not her favorite thing.
    “ I
still don't get why you're the exception to the babes rule.”
Sway broke into Lenny's thoughts.
    Lenny looked up to
see him staring at her intently. His blue eyes were hooded and soft.
The blonde hair he usually kept pulled back hung forward and touched
the stubble on his well-defined jaw. Lenny understood a little more
how the girls were so easily taken with him. Five seconds of his
direct eye contact and she felt caught, examined. The seduction
thing made a lot more sense