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Chapter 14 All the people in the crowd

The next day Jaslene awoke once again at 6am but seeing no one was up she climbed up the bunk ladder to annoy Frank
“Fankie wake up, Fankie...”Jaslene replied as she poked Frank in the face, Slowly he open his eyes to see a four year old staring at him with a big smile
“Jazzy what’s wrong?”
“Nothing Fankie will you come and play?”
“Jazzy maybe later...Frankie needs more sleep...Go and get Mikey” Frank said with a yawn and closed his eyes

Jaslene climbed down the ladder and the bunk where Mikey was “Daddy” she whispered
Mikey’s eyes shot open “Bubs what is it?” he asked
“I want to play”
“Jas...Why don’t you go back to bed for a little bit more, Daddy and everyone else are very tired from last night”

Jaslene was having none of it she wanted everyone up it was like she was going through a phase where she was a little miss diva and everything had to be her way. Slowly she started to pull Mikey’s blankets away and started to giggle, Mikey’s eyes shot open again “Jaslene please get back in to bed” he replied with a angry voice

Jaslene stopped what she was doing and wondered to the front of the bus where she found a magazine
and started to look through the pictures unable to understand any of the writing that was in it, not knowing what else to do she walked back to where her toy box was and pulled out some of her toys and started to play with them.

An hour later Gerard was the first up and noticed that Jaslene was by herself playing with her dolls “Good morning Jaslene” Gerard replied as he poured himself a cup of coffee
“Gee-ard your awake” Jaslene exclaimed with a smile
“Are you hungry kiddo?”
Jaslene just nodded, Gerard put some cereal in to a bowl and put some milk over it and handed it to Jaslene who sat on the floor happily crunching away on her breakfast, about half an hour later Mikey awoke to Jaslene smothering him in kisses.

Getting out of the bunk Mikey picked Jaslene up and took her back to the front of the bus where Gerard had settled in drawing in his journal. “Hey” Mikey replied
Gerard looked up and acknowledged his brother but went back to his drawing. “Gee what have we got planned for today?”
“Um...Well went we get in to Atlanta which will be in a couple of hours we have a signing and then I have a couple of interviews and then we go why?”
“Just curious...Jazzy do you know where we are?”
Jaslene shook her head “We are in Atlanta, Georgia”
“Daddy what am I doing today?” Jaslene asked
“I don’t know yet bubs I’ll tell you later”

Everyone had finally woken up which got Jaslene very excited, straight away Jaslene ran up to Frank who picked her up in his arms and started to tickle Jaslene which made her giggle “Fankie stop please”
“Oh but I cant your so cute and you just need to be tickled” Frank replied tickling Jaslene more
“Aye help me please” Jaslene yelled with a cute voice

Ray walked over and started to tickle Frank which made him release Jaslene, she ended up standing on Frank’s foot as hard as she could and ran off down the bus to where Mikey and Gerard were talking about the custody issue with Jaslene.

Gerard wanted Mikey to be prepared as this was only a temporary custody situation and he wanted Mikey to face the facts that he may not get full custody of Jaslene, Mikey appreciated the advice his brother had given him and though he knew there was a chance he may loose Jaslene he wasnt looking at that. Gerard had also advised that when Francine came to visit them in Tampa, Gerard wanted Mikey to tell the truth on how Jaslene had been and how he was truly feeling as well.

Finally the bus arrived at the HI-FI in Atlanta and as soon as the bus door’s opened Jaslene bolted out the door where she saw the woman that had looked after her yesterday when carrying her back to the bus “Abby” she screamed

Abby turned around recognising the voice “Jaslene..hey darling” she replied picking up Jaslene in her arms
“Abby can you play with me today?” Jaslene asked
“Hmm...maybe if it’s ok with your Daddy then yeh I’d love to”
“Yay” Jaslene squealed

Jaslene ran back to Mikey “Daddy can I play with Abby?”
“Who’s Abby?” Mikey asked

By now Abby had walked back to the bus and had heard her name “Hi...I’m Abby”
“HI”Mikey replied shaking Abby’s hand
“Do you mind playing with her?”
“No not at all, but I said as long as it was ok with you though?”
“Yeh it’s fine with me” Mikey replied with a smile
“When would you like me to have her back?”
“Um...In a couple of hours?”
“Sounds great...Does she need to get changed?” Abby asked as Jaslene was wearing her favourite PJ’s which had Barbie all over them
“Nah this is what she wanted to wear...So I just let her go...your lucky she’s not wearing her ballerina outfit including tiara” Mikey said with a chuckle
“Oh...I’m sure she looked beautiful”
“Um by the way who are you?”
“Oh sorry I’m Abby like you know...I’m one the organisers here for PR...I travel where you guys go making sure everything is ok”
“Aahhh...you must think I’m weird letting my kid go with you and now I ask what you do”
“Nah it’s fine..You can trust me “ Abby replied What Mikey didnt know that soon he would regret ever hearing them words from Abby’s mouth - She had her own motive and it was well underway.
Only time would show how it would prevail.

(A/N : The interesting stuff is about to happen...please comment tell me how i'm going, any type of comments are welcomed...if i need improvement or there is something you dont like tell me, so then i know where i can imrove, All comments will be greatly appreciated. xxxx)