Guts

We were about half way through the tour when Jack and I’s world was rocked. Everything was going good and we were happy as could be. We had talked about coming out to the fans but still thought it was best not to. After seeing the way his mom and sister reacted, we were worried everyone would be like that. Zack and Rian didn’t care as long as we were happy.

They said that if the fans couldn’t accept us for us then we didn’t need fans like that.
We agreed but we didn’t want to cross that bridge at this moment. So we kept it quite. However one night things changed. We were in the middle of a show when a fight broke out. We completely stopped playing to figure out what was going on. A group of people got in a fight and hurt this one girl. We ordered the guards to bring her backstage to get looked at and kick the rest of the group out. We continued playing and after the show we all ran backstage to check on the girl.

She had a broken nose and a black eye but she was okay other than that. She introduced herself to us. “Hey guys I’m Lisa Ruocco. I am so sorry about that. I feel so bad you guys stopped your show.”
“No no don’t apologize. We were worried about you.” Jack told her, sitting down next to her.
“Yeah, we want to make sure your okay.” I said.
“What happened? If you don’t mind us asking.” Zack said looking at her.

“Well I came with my girlfriend. She got drunk and started flirting with some guys and when I tried to stop her she got mad and said I hit her. The guys took her side and one pushed me to get me away and I fell. Then the next thing I know I am getting trampled by people.” She said, turning red. “When she gets drunk she just turns into another person. I know that since she got kicked out though she will be taking a guy home.” She buried her face in her hands. “I have nowhere to go. I can’t go back with her and I can’t go home because my parents kicked me out because I was with a girl.” She started crying and Jack wrapped his arm around her and let her cry.

“Hey now calm down.”
“It’s okay. Your with us.”
“We aren’t going to just throw you out.”
“You will stay with us tonight. We have an extra bunk you can crash on.”

All of this just caused her to cry harder and we had no idea what to do. We all exchanged nervous glances, worried we had said the wrong thing. We all looked to one another and we all just shrugged. No one knew what to say.

“I don’t wanna… be a … burden. I feel so bad. I came here tonight in hopes to have a good night and instead she ruined it by getting drunk and being a whore. This always happens.”
“Well you are with us now and we aren’t going to let her ruin your night.” Zack said as he grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet. “The night is young.” He said as he winked to us.

We laughed and followed him out of the venue and to the bus. “We are just going to throw our own party.” I told her as I wrapped my arm around her shoulder. She looked at me and gave me a smile and in that second a flash went off. We all stopped in our tracks as we saw someone with a camera taking out pictures. We stood in silence for a second and just as Rian went to go after the guy, he bolted and took off.

We looked at each other in shock, not really realizing what this meant. We kind of just shrugged it off and laughed about it as we got on our bus. Before too long we completely forgot about it because we got drunk as hell. At some point during the night she saw Jack and I kiss and she got ecstatic.

“I always thought something was going on between you two! You’re just too damn cute to not have something.” She slurred. We laughed.
“Yeah we are a thing but we are keeping it quite.”
“Yeah, shh don’t tell our dirty little secret.”

She closed her lips and put her finger in front of them. “On my honor. I wish I hadn’t told my parents. They hate me now and I have nowhere to go.” She told us, taking anther swig out of the bottle.
“I know how you feel. My brother is the only one who accepts me. Lex got lucky though and his parents accept us.”

We all drunk well into the morning and fell asleep spread across the bus. Lisa was the only one who made it to a bed and it was Rian’s bed because it was closest to the door. We all woke up with a pounding headache and our phones blowing up.

Jack was the first up and he woke the rest of us up for an emergency band meeting. “Have you seen this?” He asked, passing the phone around. We all looked at the phone and read what he was talking about.

‘Alex has a new girlfriend. Who is this mystery woman?’ and it had a picture of Lisa smiling at me with my arm around her.

People were already congratulating us and some were saying it was bad for the band. Others were hating on her and some were saying how pretty she was. My head was spinning. All of this over one picture. We were trying to wrap our heads around it when we heard Lisa talking on the phone in the other room.

“What do you mean? I am not with a guy. What are you talking about? I have no idea. Is this the only reason you called? Oh so you can’t accept me with a girl but if I am with a guy I am suddenly your daughter again? Bye!”

She came out of the back and she was crying again. “I am so sorry again for last night guys. I guess I will be on my way. Thank you so much.” She said as she headed for the door.
“Wait, what happened?” I asked.

“My parents called. Apparently they think I am with a guy now and they suddenly want me to be their daughter again. I don’t even know where they got the idea from.”

Jack just handed her his phone and we watched as she read it. “All because of one picture?” she asked. We all just nodded and she sat down. “Oh my God, guys I am so sorry for being so much trouble. I will be on my way now.”
“Where are you going to go?” Jack asked.
She shrugged. “I have no idea really.”
“We aren’t going to throw you out on the street. We will go get your stuff and you can come with us until you get back on your feet.” I told her. They guys nodded in agreement.
“What? I couldn’t do that. That is asking so much.” She said.
“Well you are now part of our stage crew. You can help and not feel guilty.”

She looked at us with tears in her eyes and hugged us all. We headed to her house to get her clothes. We sent Rian in with her so there was no trouble. Turns out her ex had brought a few guys home and they tried to start a fight but quickly quieted down when Rian picked up a bat. She grabbed her clothes and we were on our way.

She was going to stay with the stage crew even though we offered to let her stay in our bus. Rian and Zack were in the front playing a game and Jack and I were in the back laying down and talking.

“Uhh Lex.” Jack started.
“What Jack?” I asked, concerned.
“I was just thinking…”
“About what babe?”
“Well her family thinks she is with you…”
“And? Jack your starting to freak me out.”
“Well what if we convince my mom and sister that we aren’t together anymore because you are with Lisa? Then I could see my niece.”

I went quite. He wanted to lie to his family?

Notes

So that happened.
Sorry it's been so long. I would have updated last week but I had a death in the family and went home. I just got back to Dallas and I am at work. I hope to get all my stories caught up and back on track. Who knows tho? I have like one more chapter left. I am so sad to almost be done but happy also because I have worked so hard to get to were I am at.

In other news, Saturday is Valentines day and I get to fly out Thursday to go spend it with my boyfriend and go see our fav comedian Christopher Titus! Yay us!

Anyway, comment and let me know what you think? Will Alex go along with the lie or will he tell Jack no?

Also comment and let me know your favorite part of this story! I would love to know what you think!!

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