Is This The End?
I don't know how much time has passed, oh god it feels like forever.
Today was the day we were leaving for tour, I was going to ride with All Time Low until the show tonight was done and just jump on my bus afterward. This would prevent the unnecessary use of gas to pick me up when someone else was going to the same place. I finished packing up all the items for tour and sighed. It was quiet, Alex had finished packing up already so he was in another room, the only sound was the music coming from elsewhere in the house. I sighed; I missed her arms around my waist as I closed the bag, picking it up. I walked to the front room dropping my bag next to Alex’s and laid my pillow on top of it. I heard a crash from the kitchen and I saw Alex picking up some cans that had fallen from the fridge.
“Everything okay,” I asked.
“I put my hand too heavily on the shelf and it broke. It’s all fine. I’m not going to tell the guys, I’m going to see who opens the shaken up cans, it’s like Russian Roulette,” he laughed.
“You’re such an asshole.”
We both laughed at this, I grabbed the sharpie from the drawer and put a dot on the bottom of all the cans. This was to make sure that we didn’t grab the shaken up cans. I wasn’t going to be the person it was going to explode on, not today. I grabbed the cooler and helped him load it up. He took the now full cooler to the room where our bags were. I took this time to snoop in his fridge. I grabbed an apple and started eating it. I jumped up on the counter and kept munching. I heard Alex enter the room; I heard a sigh and saw him jump on the counter beside me.
“You’re eating all my food,” he whispered.
“They’d go bad before we get back,” I responded.
“They’re going on the bus Shay.”
“Oh.”
He sighed and threw the bag of fruit into the cooler. Something was going on with him but I wasn’t sure if I could ask him. He wasn’t really himself right now and I wanted to ask what was going on but I really wasn’t sure I could bring it up. I don’t think I wanted to bring this up right before we went on tour. There was no need to start things before we would be on the road together for a little over two months. I sighed and grabbed my hoodie from the chair. I threw the purple hoodie over my head and Alex laughed.
“You still have my hoodie, after all these years,” Alex laughed.
“I guess this is your hoodie, I’ve just had it for so long that I assumed it was mine,” I laughed in response.
“It looks better on you than it could ever look on me.”
I looked down at the Ravens pattern on the hoodie, I could vaguely remember him wearing it at one point but it was so long ago that it was difficult to remember. I could vaguely remember that day so many years ago at the Ravens game back before I screwed everything up. It was a fun game until the kiss cam that caused some tension between Alex and me. Man, those were the days, no responsibility, no bills, nothing like there is today. What I would give to be eighteen again, a full life ahead of me, the dream of one day maybe having a family still being intact, I would probably go to gradation if I could do it again.
“Shay, are you okay,” Alex asked, his hand on my shoulder.
“Yeah, I just got to thinking, I’m sorry,” I answered, shaking my head.
“The guys are here, we need to go.”
I helped grab half of the bags and walked out to the bus while I let Alex lock up the doors and do the other things he needed to do. I walked onto to the bus and threw half the bags onto the couch in the front room; we’d throw them under the bus when the things were out of them. I felt arms wrap around me and pull me in tightly for a hug.
“Shayley, I’ve missed you so much,” Zack said, hugging me tightly.
“Shay’s here,” Jack yelled, running to the room.
I could really get used to being around my guys again.
Notes
Hope y'all enjoy this, I was supposed to be going back to college today but we got about 10 inches of snow up there so it was pushed back to tomorrow. I'll update Undercover soon, I promise, I just have massive writer's block on it.
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Title Credit: Through Glass - Stone Sour