Love's Requiem

"What do you want?" I asked her cautiously.

"Please can I watch the soccer report there was a Croatia qualifying game on and I can't get service on my laptop and Rian's busy playing video games up front." She rambled as I watched her eyes search for the remote.

"What do you I get out of it?"

"I'll give you some to the cookies I have stashed?" She asked taking a seat next to me.

"What kind?"

"Iced oatmeal," She answered trying to grab the remote from me.

"I'm a chocolate chip person myself." I told her moving the remote out of her reach.

"I'll go make you an iced coffee?"

"That could work"

"Good, now please put it on?" She asked eagerly, making me laugh as I put the show on for her. "Thank you." She smiled as she rested her head on my shoulder.

I rested my head against hers, as I felt her tense up for a second, as her eyes focused on the TV. A few minutes later after the segment of the Croatian game was over I figured I should break the silence between her and I.

"So where's my iced coffee?" I asked her as I lifted my head up.

"On it." She mumbled getting up and heading to the front of the bus only to come back a few minutes later with a cup in her hands. "Here you go." She told me handing the cup to me.

"Thank you." I smiled as she sat back down and waited for me to take a sip, "What did you do to it?" I asked her right as I was about to take a sip.

"Why do you think I did something to it?"

"This is you."

"Just drink it." She smirked.

I took a sip and felt a familiar burn in my throat that made me choke at first. "You spiked it with whiskey?" I exclaimed, making her giggle.

"The trademark Bella iced coffee." She explained sliding back on to the couch, with a yawn.
"You know it's good." She mumbled.

"I get it, you want me drunk so you can have your way with me." I joked

"I don't need to get you drunk to do that." She told me watching TV, and trying to grab the cup from me.

She took a sip and handed it back to me, when she did I noticed she had some on the side of her mouth.

"Bella, come here," I told her sitting up so I could wipe the coffee from her face.

"What?" She asked confused.

"You have some coffee right here." I told her as I moved closer and slowly wiped it off with my finger letting it linger over her bottom lip.

"Thanks," She said as I felt her chest rise and fall a little quicker underneath me, as she looked straight in to my eyes.

"Don't mention it." I told her lowering my head, still not breaking eye contact with her.

I moved my head closer till I could feel her breath on my lips, and then I went with it and kissed her. She kissed back, and I felt her hand in the side of my face, however just fast I had kissed her, she had pulled away and took off for her bunk.

Great, just perfect I thought as I mentally slapped myself.

"You kissed her?" Rian exclaimed as we were talking the next morning while Bella was in
the back getting dressed.

"You realize that she's probably now going to avoid you now right?" Jack asked, him and Bella had become attached at the hip I've noticed since the tour started.

"It was dumb but it just kind of happened." I sighed as we heard footsteps to the front of the bus.

"We get it you're Croatian!" Jack exclaimed looking at Bella.

"Huh?" She asked looking up from her sidekick confused.

"The shirt Bella, the shirt." He said motioning to the tee shirt she had on that had something in Croatian on it as well as that checkered pattern from the flag.

"Oh yeah, duh." She said as she looked down and let out a laugh as she sat next to me.

"Okay, so here's what's happening today." She paused before she began reading through,

"Jack and Rian you two have an interview in the Vans' tent at noon, Alex you have an interview at 3 with Keep a breast, and I got a text from Gabe he wants you to help out with their set today at 7:30, and you play at 8 and singing at 3:45 ."

"Cobra's are playing today?" I asked confused.

"Yeah they're doing a few dates starting today."

"Nice." I said getting up pulling my phone out.

"So what does your shirt say anyway?" Zack asked Bella while she was still checking things on her phone.

"My cousin thought it would be funny to get me the shirt of my favorite team's rival team. However he bought it for the year my best friend was on it knowing very well I'd wear it." She explained, as I got up and headed off to see Gabe.

I ended up meeting Gabe in catering where we got lunch together, and caught up on everything.

"So how is the lovely Isabella doing?" Gabe asked me while we ate.

"She's uh doing good." I told him.

"It's two years now right? Cause her birthday was like four weeks ago wasn't it?"

"Well her and I aren't together anymore." I said painfully.

"Why the fuck not? The two of you were made for each other!" He exclaimed shocked.

"I kind of took my ex girlfriend's side over hers before I knew the whole story."

"That's still no reason to call it quits."

"You don't have tell me that." I sighed.

"So what she like hates your guts now?"

"She did up until this tour, now she just wants to be friends."

"So is she seeing anyone?"

"Not that I know of, but she's got this ring I never see her take off, she must have gotten it while she was in Croatia."

"Probably from a family member." He assured me.

"I know, but what if it isn't you know? Jack was supposed to find out but hasn't yet."

"I'll get the scoop for you bro." He assured me, as my phone buzzed in my pocket.

"Hello?"

"Where are you?" I heard Bella's voice on the other line.

"Catering with Gabe why?"

"It's 1:30, I'll be there in a sec." She said as she hung up.

"Bella?" He asked as I nodded.

"Yup," I sighed.

"God damn," He mumbled as I followed his eyes where he was looking, at Bella. "Good afternoon Bella, might I say you look hotter than the sun today?" He told her as she got to where we were.

"Sell out," She mumbled rolling her eyes. "Interview, you, now." She said pointing at me.

"Alright, Gabe I'll see you later." I told him, as Bella took my hand and dragged me out of catering and to the tent where the interview was.

"So Bella I wanted to say sorry, you know about last night." I told her.

"Don't it's cool Alex, shit happens right?" She said with a smile, as she adjusted her red sunglasses.

"Are you sure?"

"Really Alex, it's okay." She assured me as I went to do the interview, and she actually stayed and waited for me until it was over.

After our signing I went to hang out with Cobras some more while Jack and Bella took off like they normally did to watch bands and probably get in to trouble. And I didn't end up seeing her until Cobra's set towards the second song, when her and Jack came running to the stage hysterically laughing while She had a piece of paper in her hands.

"Bella what the hell does that even mean?" Rian laughed as he looked at the paper she held, that had in huge letters written in marker Vratiti Midtown, Navući ću ti pičku preko glave.

"Bring back midtown, I'll stretch your cunt over your head." She said simply, while we all laughed.

"The next song," Gabe began as it looked like he read the sign, "This next song is for the Dalmatian sex fiend who gives me death threats that I don't even understand, this is hot mess." He said going in to the next song.

As I watched, I began to get the feeling that telling Gabe Bella was single was a mistake, for it seemed like he was attempting to flirt with her from the stage. However each time she ignored it or shut him down and continued laughing as she bumped hips with Rian and Jack.