Chasing The Night

After we were all on our own buses, Kourtney decided to bring up Josh, again.

"Kourtney, I love you and all but just drop it. Plus..." I started changing the subject, "You have to tell me where Kevin is going to take you for your first date." Kourtney rolled her eyes playfully but the blush was still very visible on her cheeks.

"He still hasn't told me. I think he wants to talk to you about it first." She replied and the ideas started to bubble in my head before Kourtney mumbled "You so like him."

"Hey! I heard that and no I don't. I barely even know him." I countered and she crossed her arms across her chest in a challenge.

"Really? So you didn't pay attention to him even though you two hung out yesterday and you two slept on the same couch?" She asked.

"Exactly!" I declared before my voice got softer replaying yesterday, "I didn't pay any attention to his silky hair, his amazing brown eyes, adorable smile, the way he had his arm around my waist when we went to sleep..." As I rambled on Kourtney's smile grew wider.

"You so like him!" I playfully whacked her and blushed.

"It's only a crush! It's not even that I like him alot. Besides, he probably doesn't even see me like that."

"Are you serious? He totally likes you. His eyes practically lite up the first time he saw you and I heard him call you beautiful yesterday." I blushed harder but before Kourtney could add anything else the bus stopped.

We all got out and stood in front of the first arena they would be playing at. We were escorted to the stage where all the technical stuff was getting explained and I was fasinated by the stage. I was so distracted by it that I didn't notice people walking up behind me and a pair of hands covered my eyes.

"Guess who?" A very familiar male voice asked and I couldn't help but grin.

"John Taylor!" I squealed and attacked him in a hug. EA turned around and started to walk towards me and I saw Kourtney talking with Kevin while Frankie was messing with Joe. I look behind John to see the rest of the boys standing there with smiles on their faces.

"Jack! Ry! Garbo!" I screamed giving each of them a bone crushing hug. When I finished hugging Garbo, he gave me a bouquet of roses.

"It's our way of saying welcome back on tour. We missed you the last time." Jack said and I blushed. I didn't think I was missed but these boys sure know how to prove me wrong. By now EA and Kourtney were looking at the guys wierd even though I've given a full description to Kourtney on how awesome these guys are.

"John Taylor the extrodinare, Jack 'Flawless' Lawless the killer drummer, Ryan Liestman the radist keyboardist of life, and Greg Garbowsky also known as Garbo and he is the amazing bass player and co-wrote some of the songs." I said refering to each of them before walking over to EA. "Now these awesome people are Josh, fantastilitic guitar player, Jimmie who is backup vocals and also guitar plus he does some of his own stuff, Dave sings and plays the piano, Matt who is bass and backup vocals too and he has the most amazing last name ever." Now I shrugged my arm around Kourtney, "This is my awesomeliciously fantastilitic best friend in this entire galaxy and beyond Kourtney."

As soon as introduced Kourtney Jack stepped up and handed her a bouquet of flowers. "Welcome to the tour!" The guys said and she blushed as hard as I did. Now that the boys were mingling with each other, Kourtney, Frankie, and I became extremely bored. We had settle on playing rock paper sissors for 10 minutes before most of us went on the EA bus. It would be an hour before we got to the hotel and Frankie wanted to play uno with Ry, John, and Jack which left the rest of us bored.

"Hmm... What can we do with an hour to burn?" I asked and we all started brainstorming. After about two minutes Matt randomly suggested "7 minutes in heaven." We looked at him like he had 3 heads and he shrugged figuring out why that was a bad idea. Then Joe came up with the suggestion of "Truth or Dare" which we all agreed.

We sat in a circle, Josh on my left side, then Jimmie, Dave, Matt, Kourtney, Kevin, Nick, Joe, and then Garbo on my right.

"Kevin, truth or dare?" I started and Kevin eyes me suspiciously.

"Truth."

"So Kev, do you have a crush on anyone at the moment?" He looks at Kourtney lovingly for a second before saying "Yes I do."

"Who is it?" I asked and he smirked.

"Only one question per turn remember?" He countered and I pouted.

"Joe, truth or dare?" Kevin asked and Joe grins.

"DJ Danger always choses dare."

"Hmm...." Kevin thinks about it for a few seconds while looking around the room then sees a Spice Girl CD, "I dare you to go around the whole stage tomorrow during lockdown singing and dancing to 'Wannabe' by the Spice Girls."

Joe looks mortified for a second before he reluctantly agrees.

"Garbo, truth or dare?" Joe asks challengingly and a playful smile appears on Garbo's lips.

"I'm going to have to be careful since I know what you can come up with Joe, so I pick truth to avoid any injury." Joe smiled evily.

"Is it true that you have or had a crush on my sister?" Garbo blushed a little and scratched the back of his neck.

"Yeah, I had a crush on Aniza. I mean, how can you not? She's one of the most amazing people I have ever met." I couldn't help but blush a little but hopefully no one noticed.

"Matt, truth or dare?" Garbo asked and Matt got into a thinking pose.

"Truth." He replied and Garbo thought about it for about half a minute before asking "How wasted have you been before?"

Jimmie, Josh, and Dave started cracking up and I slightly chuckled having a general idea of what the response was going to be.

"To tell you the truth, I get wasted more times then I can count. I was so drunk at around 1:30 in the afternoon one day but I didn't care. I don't believe in the set time to drink cause it's always 5:00 somewhere. There's your answer." Garbo nodded in content with the answer and Matt turned to me.

"Aniza, truth or dare?"

"Coming from you, dare hands down." Matt chuckled before thinking about what to dare me on.

"I dare you to kiss a guy either on your left or on your right." My eyes got wide when I processed who was right next to me. How am I going to get out of this one?

Wait, loophole! I stood up and walked over to inbetween Joe and Nick and gave Nick a quick peck on the cheek and Joe a hug just for the heck of it.

"Hey that doesn't count!" Matt said but I chuckled.

"You said I had to kiss A guy on my left or right side. You didn't say THE guy on my left or right side." I explained and smiled victoriously.

"Kourtney! Truth or dare?" I asked excited already having a good idea of what I would say to either. She looks at me worried for a minute before she replies "Truth."

"Who do you like?" I ask bluntly and she stares at me for a while. She then looks down at her hands and whispers "Kevin." Kevin quickly turns his head in her direction like if he's hearing things.

"A little louder there Kourt." I tease and she says a little louder "Kevin."

"Just a little bit louder. I can barely hear." I say leaning into the circle and she shouts "It's Kevin okay!" Kevin looks at her with wide eyes and then she quickly covers her mouth.

"Told you so!" I say victoriously to Kevin and he blushes. Kourtney was about to get up but Kevin pulled her back down and put his hand on her knee in a lovingly way and I awed out loud causing both of them to blush.

"Josh, truth or date?" Kourt asked and he answers quickly "Truth."

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

"Not yet, but I do have a girl in mind." He replied and my spirits fell a little. There's no way that could be me.

"Nick, truth or dare?"

"Dare." I was shocked that Nick picked dare but hey this should get interesting.

While Josh is thinking of a dare, I randomly start humming hoedown throwdown and Josh's faces lights up as he says "I dare you to dance whatever that song Aniza is humming to with Dave and Jimmie on stage."

Nick looks mortified as he figured out what I was humming but Dave and Jimmie still couldn't figure it out.

"Nick, get ready to know the hoedown throwdown like the back of your hand." I said evily and the bus came to a stop.

"Dinnertime!" Joe and I scream at the same time and run off the bus towards the hotel with everyone but Frankie walking along behind us.

"Niza, what are we eating today?" He asked when he caught up to us and then I realized that this is the first time he hasn't had Mom with him during dinnertime or almost any time.

"Just because it's the first day, you can have whatever you want." I replied and his eyes lite up as we got seated at a big table. Frankie of course sat next to me and I pretty much paid attention to him the whole dinner.

When dinner was over Frankie yawned and I frowned. I pushed some hair out of his face and asked him "Do you want to go to sleep?" He nodded slowly and I picked him up. I looked back at Kevin and tell him "I'm putting Frankie to bed." I look over at everyone else and told them goodnight while Frankie only waved slightly, already drifting in and out of sleep.

"Wait!" I turned to see Josh standing up. "Let me walk with you." He whispered and I nodded. It was silent the whole way up but it wasn't an awkward silence. He opened the door for me and I rested Frankie on the bed next to mine. Kourtney got the master bedroom and Frankie and I shared a room just so if Frankie needed me for anything I was right there.

After changing into his PJs and got back into bed, I asked him if he wanted me to sing to him like Mom does and he nodded. I smiled while pushing some hair away from his face thinking of a song.

You tuck me in,
Turn out the light
kept me safe and sound at night
little girls depend on things like that
Brush my teeth and comb my hair
had to drive me everywhere
you were always there when I looked back

You had to do it all alone
Make a living, make a home
Must have been as hard as it could be
And when I couldn’t sleep at night
Scared things wouldn’t turn out right
you would hold my hand and sing to me

Caterpillar in the tree,
how you wonder who you’ll be
can’t go far but you can always dream

Wish you may and wish you might
don’t you worry hold on tight.
I promise you there will come a day
Butterfly Fly Away

Butterfly Fly Away (butterfly fly away)
I turned around and Josh sang along with me the chorus even though I had no idea how he knew.
Flap your wing now you cant stay
Take those dreams and make them all come true

Butterfly Fly Away (butterfly fly away)
We’ve been waiting for this day
All along and know just what to do
Butterfly,
Butterfly,
Butterfly,
Butterfly Fly Away
(Butterfly Fly Away)
(Butterfly Fly Away)

Frankie's rythmatic breathing already told me he was sleeping soundly. I motioned Josh to go into the living room while I put the blanket over Frankie. I kissed his temple before walking out of the room.

"How do you know the words to Butterfly fly away by Miley Cyrus?" I asked and he just shrugged.

"Jimmie dared me to sing it so I had to learn it." He replied and we stood there for a while in awkwardness. Kourtney came into the room and smiled tiredly at the both of us before going to her room.

"I should probably go." Josh whispered pointing towards the door. Right before he started walking towards his room with Jimmie I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and told him goodnight. This was definately not a bad day.