To the Moon and Back

Alex's POV

After I looked around the venue and chatted with the crew for a while I walk to catering to grab some breakfast and sit down beside Zack who has already a full plate in front of him. He just nods at me because he is shoving a huge amount of bacon and eggs into his mouth.

"Hey Zack, how are you doing?" I ask with a smile.
He is still trying to chew down his food and just nods his head giving me a smile and a thumbs up.

I laugh and start to eat as well. About ten minutes later Rian shows up and taps my shoulder. "Hi Zack, hey Alex, you're good?"
I nod. "Yeah, I'm fine. I talked to Charlie this morning and she is well and happy. Thanks again for last night."

"No problem bro, anything for you." He sits down across from us with his tray of food. "Hey, by the way, do you know what's wrong with Jack? He has given me weird looks all morning and hardly talks?"

Oh shit! I rub my hands on my thighs uncomfortably. "Uhm, Rian, I think this might be my fault. He saw you sleeping in my bunk this morning and asked why and I was messing with him and told him we had a thing going. I am sorry, I never thought he would actually believe it."

Zack who just took a sip from his mug spits the coffee all over the table. "You did what?" He shouts trying to wipe up the mess with his napkin. "And why was Rian sleeping in your bunk? What have I been missing here?" He looks from Rian to me and back totally confused but a dimply smile forming on his face. "Ain't nothing but a thang" he adds.

I turn to look at Rian apologetically but he doesn't seem mad instead a blinding grin appears on his lips. "Oh, so our little Jack seems to be a bit of a homophobe. Let's go on playing this for a little while." He says as he giggles in his cup of coffee.

We sit chatting for a few minutes when Jack finally turns up, he gets his food and drags himself over to our table. I greet him with a wide smile because I feel guilty for playing this joke on him.
"Hey, Jacky, how are you?" He looks at me and sits down beside Rian not making eye contact with him. "Mhm." Is all he mumbles.

I see Rian's eyes spark when he gets up and stretches his arms yawning. "Okay, guys I'm off." He turns to me. "See you later Alex" he smiles and pecks my cheek then turns and walks away. I am as surprised as the rest of the band and I feel uncomfortable and stare onto my empty plate when I hear Jack getting up in a rush pushing his chair over and stomping away.

Zack whistles through his teeth. "I don't really get what's going on but it seems like this is going to be interesting." He shakes his head silently laughing to himself.

I get up as well. "I'll be hanging out in the bus until sound check wanna come play a game?" Zack nods as he is now stuffing his face with some pastry and waves me off. I grin and make my way back to the bus.

We hang out in the bus for the rest of the day, each in his own space, busying themselves with playing games or on the internet until it was time to get ready for the concert. I hadn't really seen Jack since breakfast and when we were alone together on the side stage I decided to tell him the truth because I felt really bad about it.

Jack was warming up playing a riff on his muted guitar. "Hey Jay, I just wanted to say sorry for messing with you. There is nothing going on between Rian and I, it was just a stupid joke."

He looks up at me with a smirk on his face but his eyes are dark and angry. "I have figured this out myself by now. I still think you two are fucking stupid assholes though." Then he goes back to plucking his strings not taking any further notice of me.

Jeez, I don't really get why this is setting him off like that. I guess I have to wait until he calms down a bit. I shrug and leave to see the guitar tech.

The show is incredible, the crowd sings every song back to us and the vibe is great. So afterwards everybody is in a good mood but we all are really tired and decide not to party but just hit the bunks early.

I am about to close my eyes when my phone vibrates and I see an incoming face time call from Charlie. I take a deep breath and answer the call. The connection is bad and I can only see a distorted image and her voice brakes up too. I don't get what she is saying. I plug in my headphones to be able to hear her better. "Charlie, I can't hear you properly, what did you just say? What is with the visa."

She pouts at me shoving her lower lip out and gives me a thumbs down, shaking her head.
"What? Why? What is wrong." I nearly scream.

There is a bit of white noise and crackling, then I hear her voice. "They don't believe that this marriage is real, they suspect, I have paid you to marry me, only to get back into the States."

"What? Are they mental? I will come to Sydney and we both go in there together, what kind of idiots work there anyway?" I am so frustrated I have to hold myself back from hitting my fist into the wall of my bunk. That means it will take even longer until she can come here. Fuck!

She smiles at me saying. "No need to come here, the embassy official said he will get me a visa once I have sex with him, so I did."

I jump out of the bunk. "WHAT?" I yell. I bet everybody on the bus is awake now.

"Hehehe, I love to muck around with you. Of course I did no such thing. You have to stop believing every bullshit I make up." She can't stop laughing and holds her face with one hand. She pulls out a piece of paper from her back pocket and shows it into the camera, it is out of focus and I can't decipher what it says.

"What is that? I can't see a thing" I tell her annoyed.

She moves it away and brings her face close to the camera her blue eyes big as she flutters her lashes at me. "This, my dear Mr Gaskarth is the visa in your wife's passport, there was no problem and they were actually really nice, which means I will see you in LA when you come back from tour in five days." She smiles widely at me.

"No way! Oh my god, that is great news. Fuck! That is ... That is just...YESSSSS!"
I scream pushing my fist in the air. "Okay you have to book the flight immediately, tell me when you arrive, I want to be at the airport, and ... take the first possible flight, oh my god, this will be so good, I love you, darling" I ramble excitedly and she just laughs and nods at everything I tell her to do.

I crawl back into my bunk and I keep talking with her in a low voice. When we finally say goodbye she tells me. "Say hi, to the boys from me, will you?"
"Of course,they are excited as well to have you back here, although Jack is pissed off at the moment, he will be fine."

"Why what happened?" She asks not really wanting to end the call.

I tell her about the joke we played on him and she face palms at that. "Oh no, poor Jacky, urgh, you guys are so stupid sometimes."

"Hey come on, it was not that bad." I try to defend myself.

"Well, I tell you what I think. I'm sure Jack isn't homophobic, that was not what set him off, I noticed the first time I seen you guys together, I think he has a little crush on you, Alex. That's why he flipped out seeing you with Rian."

"But....no! No! I mean Jack is totally into girls" I shake my head.

"Maybe he is into girls AND into you." She grins.
"By the way, I can't blame him, I am totally into you too."

Notes

Still struggling......but yay! Charlie can come back!