Mixtape of Their Favorite Band

Dallas’s Perspective

I strode back in the club, trying to find Zack, but I made a detour at the bar. I downed a shot and walked towards the dance floor. I found Zack grinding against a busty blonde.

“Dallas, I-I…” he stammered.

I shooed the girl.

“It’s okay.” I smiled. I wanted to be jealous, but I knew I had no right to, since I’d just come from almost having sex with Alex, I was pretty sure I didn’t have the right to.

I grinded against him, wrapping my arms around his neck. I kissed him hard and he slipped his hands underneath my short, tight skirt, squeezing my butt.

He lifted me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist. He walked me out just like that, much to my embarrassment, and onto the bus.

--

Alex’s Perspective

I sat in my bunk on the bus, waiting for Jack or one of the guys to come back. I would even settle to talk to Adelaide when she sobered up. I just needed company, I needed someone to take my mind off of Dallas.

I was so fucking mad at her. How could she just lead me on and then be like ‘Oh, gotta go back to Zack now!!’ It pissed me off, I mean how about making up your mind? But instead, she wanted to string both of us along, but Zack unknowingly.

I know I was as much to blame as Dallas was, for giving her the chance to cheat, but still. She knew as well as anyone else that my feelings for her went beyond lust, and still she played with me like this.

I heard noises outside the bunk area and I heard Zack’s low voice and Dallas’s musical giggle. I knew what came next, so I hopped down from my bunk. I pushed past them, just barely registering that Zack was carrying Dallas.

I didn’t know where else to go. My head was pounding, so going back to the club would make me angrier, but I couldn’t stay on the bus and listen to her and Zack fucking, so I just sat helplessly on the curb, my elbows braced on my knees, my face in my hands.

“Okay, baby. I love you too! Goodnight!” Rian’s voice shook me out of my thoughts. He was coming out of the club, assumingly talking to Cassadee on the phone. He pocketed his phone.

“Dude, what’s going on?” Rian asked, sitting down next to me. He didn’t waste time asking if I was okay, because it was obvious that I wasn’t.

“It’s Dallas, man.” I groaned and left it at that.

“What about her?” Rian asked quizzically.

I moaned.

“Don’t you get it? Everyone already knows. I’m in love with her and tonight, we almost had sex!”

“Dude, you can’t do that. She’s with Zack. And she’s eighteen. Be the adult here.” he told me.

“Dude, I know. I know all that. And like, when she’s not around and I can fucking think straight, I tell myself that I’m not going to touch her, or even go near her, but then she fucking comes around and like, ugh I feel like I’m sixteen again!”

“You sound like it too.” Rian laughed.

“Shut up, I don’t need it.”

“Do you want me to help you or not?” he asked.

I groaned again.

“I do, but at the end of the day, I’m going to end up doing what I want because I’m a hedonistic asshole.”

“Man, I can’t help you until you help yourself.” He got up from the curb and headed towards the bus. I got up and followed.

--

The next morning, we were spending the day in a hotel before getting on the road. I was treated with a hangover and Dallas and Zack acting even more sickening. Right now, all six of us, plus some of the crew were sitting by the pool. Dallas had her head on Zack’s shoulder and he was combing his fingers through her hair.

Adelaide met my eyes from across from me, where she was between Jack and Vinny. I narrowed my eyes in confusion and she nodded towards the door.

“Excuse me.” I said quietly and went to wait in my room. Adelaide followed shortly after and we sat on my bed.

“Sorry, you just looked like you wanted to kill someone.” She shrugged.

“I’m just hungover.” I sighed. Why wouldn’t everyone just leave me alone?

“Hon, I drank for the first time last night. Even I don’t look as bad as you do.”

“Gee, thanks.”

“My point is that you’re so obvious! Don’t think I don’t remember you and Dallas coming back on the bus last night, I’m not dumb.”

“Jesus, you can’t tell Jack! Rian already knows and if you tell Jack, he won’t keep his mouth shut!”

“This time, I won’t. But if I catch you doing stuff you shouldn’t, I have to.” she warned me.

“Got it. What do I do though? I love her!”

“You barely even know her!”

“Zack doesn’t know how lucky he is.” I moaned.

“I’m sure he does. He’s just not gaga over her like an eighth grader. Or should I say, like you.”

“You’re mean!” I huffed.

“Truth hurts, Gaskarth.”

“She makes me so mad sometimes!” I huffed.

“You don’t have the right to be mad. You could’ve gotten there before Zack. You have an advantage.”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“Shit, I’ve said too much.” She palmed her forehead.

“No, what is it? Just tell me!”

“Fine, well when we were in eighth grade, she wouldn’t shut up about you. But then when we were juniors, she met Zack and suddenly it was him.” she told me. I thought back to her journal entry that had said exactly that.

“Thank you so much, Addy!!” I cried, hugging her.

I went back to the pool, but this time, I had a plan..

Notes

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