Chapter inspiration: Misery Business – Paramore

Today was the day they decided to execute the plan.

After ATL’s set and the meet and greet, they all took their places around the venue. Rian and Zack were following Lisa around until the moment they would strike to get her to walk towards the back lot of the venue. That’s where Victoria and Alex would be, giving a said “brilliant make-out performance for Lisa’s eyes.” And then there was Jack, Tay, and Jenna―who was filled in on the situation―a few feet away, hidden by a fence with video camera in Jack’s hands.

If this went well, they wouldn’t have to worry about Lisa anymore.

But if it didn’t, they were going to be so screwed.

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Rian and Zack had been secretly following Lisa’s path around the venue, which they thought would be impossible with her slyness. After twenty minutes when they all took their places around the venue, Rian brought his phone up to his ear to call Jack, asking, “Hey, you guys all set over there?”

Jack hesitated on the other line before saying, “Yeah. Fall in, Potato.”

Rian furrowed his brow. “Don’t call me that! I’ll start calling you Skunk-Boy, just watch!”

“Just get Lisa over here!” The fellow band member ordered. “And call me Commander!”

Rian hung up the phone with a roll of his eyes, looking over at Zack’s confused expression. “He called me Potato.”

Zack grimaced. “Well, your head is sort of …” He made a circular motion with his finger.

Rian shoved his friend’s muscular shoulder. “Let’s just do our job.”

Zack laughed and walked shoulder to shoulder with Rian, moving in close to Lisa in front of them. Despite her short legs, she moved pretty fast and they were surprised they could keep up with her. They were soon side to side with her, smiling down at her confused expression.

“Hello, boys,” she spoke with a raised brow.

“Hey, Lisa,” Rian gave her a bright smile.

“How are ya’?” Zack threw her the same grin.

“Fine,” she answered, looking ahead of her and probably wondering how to get away from the two band members.

Rian clasped a hand on her shoulder, receiving a glare. “So, where are you headed?”

“Sleeping With Sirens’ tent, obviously.” She smirked at the two boys. “Or have you forgotten I work for them?”

Zack rolled his eyes. “How could we?” He muttered, causing Rian to give him a look to stay calm.

“Actually,” Rian said, “if you’re looking for the band, I think I saw them heading towards the venue’s back lot a few minutes ago.”

Lisa looked to Zack for confirmation and the muscly boy nodded, mumbling, “Yeah, yeah, I saw them too.”

“They were supposed to meet me at the tent!” She angrily shook her head, walking away from them and muttering, “Stupid band members …”

Rian and Zack looked at each other with astonishment that they fulfilled their part. “Yep, just keep walking that way and you’ll find them!” Rian directed her from afar, soon following Zack in suit and calling Jack.

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“Guys, Rian just called me. He said Lisa should be here in a few and that they’ll be here around her time too.” Jack announced.

Victoria and Alex nodded their heads, staying secluded amongst the trees of the back lot. Jack went back to his hiding spot where Tay and Jenna were with his camera in hand, leaving Victoria breathing heavily. “What if this doesn’t work?” She asked with worried orbs.

“It’s going to work.” Alex tried to soothe, lacing her fingers with his.

She nodded as Jenna popped from the corner of her hiding spot. “Do great, you two! I’m expecting some porn worthy stuff!”

“JENNA!” Tay exclaimed, pulling the Australian girl back with them.

Alex and Victoria just looked at each other with confused eyes when they heard the familiar feminine voice. “Why do they always leave where I expect them to be?” They heard Lisa mumble to herself.

Victoria grabbed the collar of Alex’s shirt, pulling him so he was hovering over her body that was leaning against the wall. “Quick!” She whispered loudly. “C’mon, Gaskarth!”

He was startled and his hands shook in confusion. “Uh …”

“C’mon, get to it!” She said, pulling him closer by his collar. “You’ve done it millions of times before!”

“I …” He struggled to know where to put his hands. She really caught him off guard. “I just …”

“Alex, just kis―”

He grabbed the sides of her face and suddenly brought her in, smashing his mouth onto hers. Their lips moved in sync as she knotted her hands into his hair, barely noticing the way he pushed her further into the concrete wall behind her. She forgot how much she missed this, the feeling of his lips against hers. It almost made her nostalgic.

Remember what Jenna said, she reminded herself as she roamed her hands lower down his torso, resting them under his shirt and right at his hip bones. Before she knew it, she could feel herself smiling into the kiss. She was nostalgic―she loved the way her lips moved with his, the way he pushed her against walls, the way her hands felt tangled in his hair, the way he smiled into kisses while she touched him and pulled him closer, the way his hands always got sweaty when he kissed her, the way his skin felt pressed up against hers … She missed all of it. It made her not want this moment to end.

But it had to.

“ALEX!”

Lisa could’ve woken up a whole town with her scream. Alex and Victoria instantly pulled apart, to both their dismays. The color on Lisa’s face matched a tomato and she looked like train about to blow her steam. Actually, was that smoke Victoria saw coming out of her ears?

“Oh my, look it’s Lisa,” Victoria said in a surprised monotone voice.

“Oh, no, we’ve been caught,” Alex’s voice matched hers.

She pointed a newly red painted fingernail at them. “I KNEW YOU TWO WERE TOGETHER ALL ALONG!”

“I am so ashamed. I knew we would be caught.” Victoria shook her head in mock dread, both her and Alex sighing dramatically.

Lisa took a step closer, her eyes burning with fury but her mouth actually forming into a small smirk. “I warned you what I’d do if I caught you, Victoria.”

Victoria gasped. “Oh no, Lisa! Please let us stay!” She was surprised the scrawny brunette was actually falling for this act.

“I warned you and caught you red-handed!” She pointed that red fingernail again. “I’m calling my friends at Vans right now and getting you all KICKED OFF!” She pulled out her cellphone quickly, but not before Victoria could surprise her.

“Not if you’re fired first.”

Lisa looked up slowly to the smirking faces of Victoria and Alex, confused at their sudden expression changes. She looked from both their faces, slipping her phone carefully into her back pocket. “What … what’s going on here?”

Victoria looked back behind them, calling, “Guys, you can come out!”

Jack, Tay, and Jenna, with Rian and Zack trailing behind, walked out into the clear. Lisa was muddled, especially as Jack brought up the video camera in his hands. “Give a smile for the camera, Lees!” He chuckled at her wide eyes, and Victoria could swear she spied a tear gliding down her cheek.

She glanced at all of them. “Were you guys recor―?”

“I’ll save you the stupidity of your question and just answer yes, we were.” Victoria interrupted.

Alex was lowly chuckling in the background, and Lisa turned to him. “Alex, aren’t you going to do something?!”

He shook his head. “Sorry, but I’m done defending you.”

“So here’s how it’s gonna go, Lees,” Victoria announced, taking a step near the former friend, “this little blackmail scheme you tried to pull again is over. I got you on tape and I have proof of what you were going to do. Now, I’m going to hand this video into your boss and get you fired, because I’m kinda done with your blackmailing bullshit, okay?” She gave Lisa her best cheery smile.

“Wait, wait, how about I just back off for the rest of tour and you guys won’t hand that into my boss?” Her body was shaky, and Victoria could spot the nerves in her icy blue eyes.

“No, that’s not going to work.” Victoria’s mouth was formed in a hard line. “I don’t think you’ve realized what you did this time. You not only threatened my life and Alex’s, but the whole fucking band. This is not going to slide, and I’m done with your shit.”

She heard someone step next to her. “Yeah,” Alex said, “you messed with all of us. We’re a family, and we stick together.”

“We’re all in this together …” Jack sang under his breath until Tay hit his side.

“Now that we have this sorted out,” Victoria smiled, going face to face with teary eyed Lisa, “get the fuck out of my lot.”

Lisa let out one last shriek until she sprinted away in her snappy flip flops, tears springing from her eyes at all directions. The rest of the band cheered, slapping each other’s hands. Victoria even spied Tay bringing in Jack with a congratulatory kiss behind her. The dark blonde smiled at their accomplishment.

“Hey,” Alex nudged her in the side, “we did it. No more Lisa.”

“Don’t get too ahead of yourself, Gaskarth. We still need to hand in the video.”

He shrugged with a smirk. “Yeah, but still!”

She smiled at his enthusiasm and without thinking, she leaned in and kissed his cheek. His eyes found hers and he asked, “Why did you―?”

“Thank you,” she grasped one of his hands. “I couldn’t have done this without you.”

“Anythang’ for a lady,” he grinned in an awful Western accent.

“Let’s just go hand in that video, cowboy.”

Notes

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