Bring me home.
Five
"I don't even know how she can even try live up to, Lisa." I turned to see the two girls laughing at me. "Hey, are you Rie?" The taller blonde shouted and I nodded, confused. "Aw, it's so sweet that you fuck Alex to get a job! That's true love right there!" They both laughed as they walked away and I stood there, gobsmacked. What?
"Hey! Slut!" I turned to see Lisa marching straight for me. "You think it's that easy to take Alex from me?" I walked backwards away from the oncoming fury until I hit a brick wall and quickly ran out of options. "Alex is mine, he always will be. Every time we break up, he finds another girl, and then he comes running back to me. You can't win." She spat the last line in my face, our noses almost touching.
"Rie?" Alex's voice called from the darkness. I instantly relaxed, knowing he'd save me. Lisa turned around and Alex stopped dead. "Lisa?" Lisa stepped into the light and waited there as Alex walked straight to her, no longer acknowledging me. He was telling her to leave, that he didn't want her, only me. Wasn't he? Lisa shot a dirty look at me as Alex took her face in his hands and kissed her passionately. WHAT.
"No!" I screamed. "Alex!" He broke away from Lisa as I stumbled towards them, shocked from what I had just seen.
"I'm sorry, Rie, but it's not you. It's Lisa." He said taking her hand firmly. "It'll always be Lisa. Don't you see? We always find a way back together. It will always be Lisa." They turned and walked off together into the city as I crumbled tot he floor sobbing. The city scape turned black around me and I reappeared in another room, a concert venue.
"I'd like to dedicate this song to my favorite girl, Rie." I shot a look to a confused Jack as Alex spat the words out and Jack looked at the set list on the floor.
"Wide awake, my mistake, so predictable. You were fake I was great, nothing personal. I'm walking, who's laughing now?" Jack looked up from his guitar and stared at me as I stood back stage in shock. What was this? Zack was staring at Alex in shock.
"I'm wasted, wasting time. You talk for hours but you're wasting lines. A pretty face but the chase ain't worth the prize" I fell to the floor and leaned against the guitar box as they continued the song.
"I'm gonna break your little heart, watch you take the fall, laughing all the way to the hospital.
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do, when I break your little heart in two, I'm gonna break your little heart in two." I sat hyperventilating on the side of the stage as a shadow appeared over me. Lisa.
"You know why I like this so much? Is cause now he's finally realized you only used him for the job. And That I was the girl he was meant to be with all along." Lisa snickered and jeered at me for the rest of the song before Alex brought her out on stage and sung somewhere in never land to her. Jack kept shooting panicked and confused looks at me as the scene dissolved again.
"Lisa Noel Ruocco, will you marry me?" I stood staring at the scene unfolding before me. Alex was addressing a girl in the crowd and I dropped my clipboard to the floor. The heat of Warped Tour made this even worse. Alex had declared his love for me just last night? What was going on? Alex walked off stage to go to the crowd and as he passed me he stopped and grabbed my head in his hands.
"It was always her, Rie. I now realize, I never want to let her go again."
Is hot up in the bunk, banging my head in the process and groaned. The words Alex had spoken to me earlier echoed in my ears. "Never let her go." Alex stirred beneath me and mumbled.
"Baby? Are you okay?" I started to sob uncontrollably and Alex pulled me back down to his chest. "Oh my god baby, are you okay?" I kept sobbing, struggling to catch my breath.
"Rie?"
"I-I-" I gasped for air and started struggling against Alex, needing to get out, I needed air.
"Oh god. Not you too." Alex jumped out of the bunk and pulled me out, running me out of the bus and into the venue's car park where the bus had stopped. The sun was rising over the New York skyline and I still couldn't catch my breath.
"Breathe, Rie Bear. Calm down. Deep breaths, come on, you can do this." He placed a hand on my shoulder and I jumped away, screaming.
"Don't touch me. I can't breathe!" I yelled, finding a spot against a lamp post and huddling down, breathing as deeply as I could manage. Alex stood staring, I knew he knew how I was feeling, that's why he wasn't chasing me. It took until the sun was fully visible over the horizon until I was calm and got up to walk back to Alex.
"Shit, baby." He pulled me in and rocked me. "I had no idea." I made a noise in reply before heading back to the bus. I needed to lie down. Attacks always made me tired. I picked my phone up from the shelf and groaned. Six am. No. I crawled back under the covers, unable to be affectionate with Alex after the dream I had just had. I would have to tell him at some point. I fell asleep soon after my head hit the pillow and I never felt Alex crawl in beside me.
"Wake up, faggots!" Matt called down the bus. I repeated this morning and shot up, my head hitting the roof again. I heard Jack laugh from the bunk opposite me.
"You hit your head! I know that noise!" I whipped the curtain across and glared at him.
"Fuck up, Barakat." I groaned as I practically fell out, which, of course, only made Jack laugh more. I ran my fingers through my fucked up hair and flopped down in Alex's lap.
"Are you okay?" He whispered in my ear and I nodded, making a mental note to talk to him later, because he was not gonna let me slip this one past him. "Talk to me later?" See!
"Yes, baby, later." He smiled and I looked at the time on his phone. Eleven. Okay, now I couldn't be grumpy about being woken up, it was a reasonable time.
"Bus call is at 4 for sound check and set up and all that shit but till then you're free." Matt instructed before pointing at me. "Except you. We, dear, are working." Alex squeezed me tighter and I could tell my the way Matt rolled his eyes that Alex was pulling a puppy dog face. "Puppy eyes won't work on me, Gaskarth. You're girlfriends working today." As the boys ate and changed I talked schedule with Matt and hugged the boys goodbye as they ran off to explore. I went off to the bunks to get dressed and searched through the storage drawers Alex had shoved my clothes in. There was zero organisation to this chaos. I finally found my high waist plaid skirt and my black crop top and pulled them on before brushing and straightening my hair to perfection. I pulled on my black leather Taylors and way too many bracelets before heading back to Matt to sort through and print the meet and greet list.
We spent most of the day on the bus. Matt running through the tour in the U.S and how we were working it. He even went through the plan and dates for the 2014 Warped Tour.
"So we're finishing this tour, which'll be done by November, then we have a break over Christmas, but Alex should be writing. Then January till June we're recording to get a new album out by Warped Tour."
"Shit." I mumbled as I went through the papers Matt had slid to me.
"You might want to get yourself a folder." He chuckled as he closed his folder and laptop. I nodded and Matt and I headed out to meet the guys for lunch.
"Rie Bear!" Jack ran from the cafe and scooped me up, carrying me out of the way of Alex, dodging his every attempt to grab me off him. "Zack, go! Tag team!" I giggled as Jack threw me into Zack's arms who cradled me and ran around Alex to hide behind Rian who blocked Alex from getting to me. Alex dropped the ground, legs crossed and sulked on the pavement while busy New York office workers rushed around him, clearly annoyed by the disruption.
"Alex get up." I laughed as I jumped out of Zack's cradle and extended my hand to him.
"Mine!" He jumped up and pulled me to him, smashing our lips together.
We all slid into a booth and ordered our meals. Alex ran his foot over mine as I tucked into my chicken salad and Jack slid his foot over under the table and rubbed Alex's, staring into his eye seductively. Alex attempted to sternly tell Jack off but we both broke out in fits of laughter.
"Alright you lot." Matt banged his glass on the table. "Shut up. We have to be back at the venue at four to start sound check and looking over the set up. The crew has all the set up but we need to test every guitar and each of your mics. Plus, Rie and I need to check that everything's set with the venue and then we start the show." The whole band cheered and I laughed at how enthused they all were about a two and a half hour sound check.
After we had finished eating Alex and I took off into the streets of New York city finding the nearest Hot Topic.
"What are we doing here?" I turned to Alex who smirked and pointed towards the young girl in an All Time Low top. I nodded and we sauntered in, Alex sneaking up behind the girl as I walked over and spoke to the sales girl who giggled nervously.
"Boo!" Alex shouted over the girls shoulder making her squeal.
"Oh my god, Alex!" Her voice became increasingly high pitched with each word and she latched onto him, giving him the biggest hug that small body could manage.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Alex, I'm twenty-six and I sing in the band All Time Low." He chuckled as the girl tripped over herself.
"Uh-I-I'm Laura, I'm fourteen." She held out the CD of Nothing Personal she had in her pocket. "C-Can you s-sign this?"
"Nothing Personal? That's an old one. Do you have Don't Panic." The girl looked down and shuffled her feet.
"NP is my favorite and no, I don't." Alex faked a disappointed look and tapped his foot.
"Why on earth not?"
"My foster home doesn't give me enough allowance to afford it." Alex looked over to me and I nodded. Alex picked up Don't Panic off the CD shelf and took it over to the sales girl. I laughed as the small girl walked up to me and stuttered. "H-hi, Rie." I gave the girl a quick hug and then nodded over to where Alex was holding a Hot Topic bag with a t-shirt, wrist bands and the CD he had signed inside. "o-oh, oh my." Alex and I burst out laughing and Alex handed the bag over. I gave the girl my phone and asked for her number and address.
"It's so we can get you backstage at the show tonight." I smiled and Laura let out a squeal.
"We'll see you later." Alex smiled and waved as we left the store and I punched him in the arm.
"You're a good guy, you know that?" I smiled at him and he shrugged, hailing a cab.
"Let's go sight seeing! We have three hours."
"Hey! Slut!" I turned to see Lisa marching straight for me. "You think it's that easy to take Alex from me?" I walked backwards away from the oncoming fury until I hit a brick wall and quickly ran out of options. "Alex is mine, he always will be. Every time we break up, he finds another girl, and then he comes running back to me. You can't win." She spat the last line in my face, our noses almost touching.
"Rie?" Alex's voice called from the darkness. I instantly relaxed, knowing he'd save me. Lisa turned around and Alex stopped dead. "Lisa?" Lisa stepped into the light and waited there as Alex walked straight to her, no longer acknowledging me. He was telling her to leave, that he didn't want her, only me. Wasn't he? Lisa shot a dirty look at me as Alex took her face in his hands and kissed her passionately. WHAT.
"No!" I screamed. "Alex!" He broke away from Lisa as I stumbled towards them, shocked from what I had just seen.
"I'm sorry, Rie, but it's not you. It's Lisa." He said taking her hand firmly. "It'll always be Lisa. Don't you see? We always find a way back together. It will always be Lisa." They turned and walked off together into the city as I crumbled tot he floor sobbing. The city scape turned black around me and I reappeared in another room, a concert venue.
"I'd like to dedicate this song to my favorite girl, Rie." I shot a look to a confused Jack as Alex spat the words out and Jack looked at the set list on the floor.
"Wide awake, my mistake, so predictable. You were fake I was great, nothing personal. I'm walking, who's laughing now?" Jack looked up from his guitar and stared at me as I stood back stage in shock. What was this? Zack was staring at Alex in shock.
"I'm wasted, wasting time. You talk for hours but you're wasting lines. A pretty face but the chase ain't worth the prize" I fell to the floor and leaned against the guitar box as they continued the song.
"I'm gonna break your little heart, watch you take the fall, laughing all the way to the hospital.
'Cause there's nothing surgery can do, when I break your little heart in two, I'm gonna break your little heart in two." I sat hyperventilating on the side of the stage as a shadow appeared over me. Lisa.
"You know why I like this so much? Is cause now he's finally realized you only used him for the job. And That I was the girl he was meant to be with all along." Lisa snickered and jeered at me for the rest of the song before Alex brought her out on stage and sung somewhere in never land to her. Jack kept shooting panicked and confused looks at me as the scene dissolved again.
"Lisa Noel Ruocco, will you marry me?" I stood staring at the scene unfolding before me. Alex was addressing a girl in the crowd and I dropped my clipboard to the floor. The heat of Warped Tour made this even worse. Alex had declared his love for me just last night? What was going on? Alex walked off stage to go to the crowd and as he passed me he stopped and grabbed my head in his hands.
"It was always her, Rie. I now realize, I never want to let her go again."
Is hot up in the bunk, banging my head in the process and groaned. The words Alex had spoken to me earlier echoed in my ears. "Never let her go." Alex stirred beneath me and mumbled.
"Baby? Are you okay?" I started to sob uncontrollably and Alex pulled me back down to his chest. "Oh my god baby, are you okay?" I kept sobbing, struggling to catch my breath.
"Rie?"
"I-I-" I gasped for air and started struggling against Alex, needing to get out, I needed air.
"Oh god. Not you too." Alex jumped out of the bunk and pulled me out, running me out of the bus and into the venue's car park where the bus had stopped. The sun was rising over the New York skyline and I still couldn't catch my breath.
"Breathe, Rie Bear. Calm down. Deep breaths, come on, you can do this." He placed a hand on my shoulder and I jumped away, screaming.
"Don't touch me. I can't breathe!" I yelled, finding a spot against a lamp post and huddling down, breathing as deeply as I could manage. Alex stood staring, I knew he knew how I was feeling, that's why he wasn't chasing me. It took until the sun was fully visible over the horizon until I was calm and got up to walk back to Alex.
"Shit, baby." He pulled me in and rocked me. "I had no idea." I made a noise in reply before heading back to the bus. I needed to lie down. Attacks always made me tired. I picked my phone up from the shelf and groaned. Six am. No. I crawled back under the covers, unable to be affectionate with Alex after the dream I had just had. I would have to tell him at some point. I fell asleep soon after my head hit the pillow and I never felt Alex crawl in beside me.
"Wake up, faggots!" Matt called down the bus. I repeated this morning and shot up, my head hitting the roof again. I heard Jack laugh from the bunk opposite me.
"You hit your head! I know that noise!" I whipped the curtain across and glared at him.
"Fuck up, Barakat." I groaned as I practically fell out, which, of course, only made Jack laugh more. I ran my fingers through my fucked up hair and flopped down in Alex's lap.
"Are you okay?" He whispered in my ear and I nodded, making a mental note to talk to him later, because he was not gonna let me slip this one past him. "Talk to me later?" See!
"Yes, baby, later." He smiled and I looked at the time on his phone. Eleven. Okay, now I couldn't be grumpy about being woken up, it was a reasonable time.
"Bus call is at 4 for sound check and set up and all that shit but till then you're free." Matt instructed before pointing at me. "Except you. We, dear, are working." Alex squeezed me tighter and I could tell my the way Matt rolled his eyes that Alex was pulling a puppy dog face. "Puppy eyes won't work on me, Gaskarth. You're girlfriends working today." As the boys ate and changed I talked schedule with Matt and hugged the boys goodbye as they ran off to explore. I went off to the bunks to get dressed and searched through the storage drawers Alex had shoved my clothes in. There was zero organisation to this chaos. I finally found my high waist plaid skirt and my black crop top and pulled them on before brushing and straightening my hair to perfection. I pulled on my black leather Taylors and way too many bracelets before heading back to Matt to sort through and print the meet and greet list.
We spent most of the day on the bus. Matt running through the tour in the U.S and how we were working it. He even went through the plan and dates for the 2014 Warped Tour.
"So we're finishing this tour, which'll be done by November, then we have a break over Christmas, but Alex should be writing. Then January till June we're recording to get a new album out by Warped Tour."
"Shit." I mumbled as I went through the papers Matt had slid to me.
"You might want to get yourself a folder." He chuckled as he closed his folder and laptop. I nodded and Matt and I headed out to meet the guys for lunch.
"Rie Bear!" Jack ran from the cafe and scooped me up, carrying me out of the way of Alex, dodging his every attempt to grab me off him. "Zack, go! Tag team!" I giggled as Jack threw me into Zack's arms who cradled me and ran around Alex to hide behind Rian who blocked Alex from getting to me. Alex dropped the ground, legs crossed and sulked on the pavement while busy New York office workers rushed around him, clearly annoyed by the disruption.
"Alex get up." I laughed as I jumped out of Zack's cradle and extended my hand to him.
"Mine!" He jumped up and pulled me to him, smashing our lips together.
We all slid into a booth and ordered our meals. Alex ran his foot over mine as I tucked into my chicken salad and Jack slid his foot over under the table and rubbed Alex's, staring into his eye seductively. Alex attempted to sternly tell Jack off but we both broke out in fits of laughter.
"Alright you lot." Matt banged his glass on the table. "Shut up. We have to be back at the venue at four to start sound check and looking over the set up. The crew has all the set up but we need to test every guitar and each of your mics. Plus, Rie and I need to check that everything's set with the venue and then we start the show." The whole band cheered and I laughed at how enthused they all were about a two and a half hour sound check.
After we had finished eating Alex and I took off into the streets of New York city finding the nearest Hot Topic.
"What are we doing here?" I turned to Alex who smirked and pointed towards the young girl in an All Time Low top. I nodded and we sauntered in, Alex sneaking up behind the girl as I walked over and spoke to the sales girl who giggled nervously.
"Boo!" Alex shouted over the girls shoulder making her squeal.
"Oh my god, Alex!" Her voice became increasingly high pitched with each word and she latched onto him, giving him the biggest hug that small body could manage.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Alex, I'm twenty-six and I sing in the band All Time Low." He chuckled as the girl tripped over herself.
"Uh-I-I'm Laura, I'm fourteen." She held out the CD of Nothing Personal she had in her pocket. "C-Can you s-sign this?"
"Nothing Personal? That's an old one. Do you have Don't Panic." The girl looked down and shuffled her feet.
"NP is my favorite and no, I don't." Alex faked a disappointed look and tapped his foot.
"Why on earth not?"
"My foster home doesn't give me enough allowance to afford it." Alex looked over to me and I nodded. Alex picked up Don't Panic off the CD shelf and took it over to the sales girl. I laughed as the small girl walked up to me and stuttered. "H-hi, Rie." I gave the girl a quick hug and then nodded over to where Alex was holding a Hot Topic bag with a t-shirt, wrist bands and the CD he had signed inside. "o-oh, oh my." Alex and I burst out laughing and Alex handed the bag over. I gave the girl my phone and asked for her number and address.
"It's so we can get you backstage at the show tonight." I smiled and Laura let out a squeal.
"We'll see you later." Alex smiled and waved as we left the store and I punched him in the arm.
"You're a good guy, you know that?" I smiled at him and he shrugged, hailing a cab.
"Let's go sight seeing! We have three hours."
Notes
RieSo.. I know not much happens, it's a bit of a filler :P
BUT DO YOU LIKE IT!? Haahaha
Love you all thanks for reading!
Hi, so I stumbled across your other story however many months ago and really enjoyed it. And now I've stumbled across this one and wanted to leave some feedback. :) I really like what you have of this story. Alex and Rie's relationship is so sweet. :)
I'm bummed to see this was never continued, though, especially after leaving off on such a cliffhanger. I just wanted to leave feedback letting you know I'll be here to read if you ever do choose to pick it up again. You're a really great writer and I would love to see how it all ends for Alex and Rie. :)
But yeah, I'll be here.
3/26/17