apartment. Selena decides at that time to enter the kitchen, “they left already?” She asks.
“Yeah, they were ready for bed. I am too, you need to decide where we’re meeting up tomorrow and text them. Night.”
“Goodnight.”
Chapter 4
“Get your ass outta bed,” I smack Jason in the forehead.
“Mhmphhh,” he mumbles something ineligible while covering his face with his blanket.
We leave for our six-month tour soon, something that Ryan was able to negotiate with the label on. After weeks of talk and negotiating on Ryan’s part they agreed to only one show per week and extended hotel stays because Natalie and Temperance are joining us. He also, even I have no idea how, managed to get them to throw in an extra bus that was specially modified to have a crib and changing table installed.
“Come on, wake up. We leave in fifteen, I hope you packed last night.” I say while ripping Jason’s blankets completely off the bed, so he can’t grab on to them.
“Yeah, yeah I’m getting up.”
“Meet me downstairs.” I say while exiting his bedroom. We’ve all remained rooming at Ryan and Natalie’s, not that they’ve minded. We stay out of their way and allow them family time while also helping out whenever they want some time alone.
I hit the landing at the bottom of the stairs in the kitchen and notice that Nat’s still in her pajamas while feeding Temperance in her high chair.
“ You’re not ready yet?” I ask. “We’re supposed to head out in a few, want me to help with anything?
“ Ryan’s putting everything in the car now, but I think we might be leaving shortly after you guys. I still have to get myself and her dressed. If you ran some bags out to Ryan, it would make it go a little faster. Everything’s sitting next to the front door.” She says while doing the flying spoon through the air to Temperance’s mouth mimicking an airplane.
Am I the only one that’s ready to get this tour started today?
The wall next to the door has a barricade of luggage propped against the wall. I swing two duffle bags around my shoulders and extend the handles of four suitcases and make my way outside to the car Ryan’s currently packing everything in.
After three trips the same way, my arms and hands overloaded everyone’s luggage is loaded. Jason, Zepp and Ryan are dressed and ready to go while Natalie and Temperance are still eating in the kitchen.
“Want to meet us there?” I ask Ryan.
“Yeah, I’ll help Nat get Temp ready while she’s getting dressed and on the way over I’ll stop and grab Liam and Layla. Would you do me a favor and call to give them a heads up? We’re already running so behind that it would be easier if they were ready to go as soon as I pull in.”
“Sure, I’ll have Jason call them while I’m driving over to the labels parking lot.”
This gold digging bitch, for some reason, believes she has a connection with me that goes beyond mere attraction. I’ve been trying to shake her off for a few months now and I thought I had succeeded. Turns out she was just laying low, somehow she in turn trumpeted my plans and managed to gain employment through our record label.
Here we are packing all of our shit onto the bus we will be somewhat living out of fo r the next six months when the car the broad is in pulls up alongside the curb. At first, the long golden locks flowing freely down this woman’s back were unrecognizable. It had been months, so how should I have been able to remember who she was, that’s what I keep telling myself anyways, but I did. I knew it as soon as she stepped out of the car,
I glanced, saw her back view, admired it for a moment and continued packing luggage into the compartment on the outside of the bus. The guys already grabbed the shit they wanted with them on the bus, all of this crap is the luggage we would take into a hotel with us. Hotels that we will be staying at more than before, due to the fact that Natalie and Temperance have