Smoke And Mirrors

"You can hold your breath so fucking long. How do you do that?" Billie half yells, half laughs the words at Jared. She and Jared did a little game. They had to go under water and hold their breath as long as possible. Jared won, with a big lead.

"Lungs of singer," Jared says. Billie stares at him with amazement in her eyes. Jared slightly smiles at her adoration for him. It kind of flatters him that she seem to like him so much. That's she truely amazed by his presence. In a different kind of way than most people.

"You're simply amazing," she says. A sweet smile that appears on Jared’s beautiful face. His smile is so perfect that it makes Billie gasp breathe. Jared that is directed toward her catches her breath in her throat. He is so perfect and he doesn't even know it. Or he doesn't want to know it.

"It's starting to get a bit cold. I'm out of the pool. You come?" she asks Jared while swimming towards the rand of the pool to push herself up and get out of that waterbowl. Jared agrees and follows her in suit, also getting out of the pool.

He takes a seat next to the brown haired girl on the sunbed and looks up to the sky. The sky is clear from any clouds and the stars are shining brightly, which makes it a beautiful night. Jared could watch those beautiful creatures of nature for hours. It's simply amazing.

"It's such a beautiful night," he says directing his eyes on Billies face for a brief second before turning his gaze back at the stars. She looks in the opposite direction, though.

"I bet they're enjoying it as well," she says. Jared turns his head and follows Billies gaze. His eyes land on Sierra and Garrett, who are sitting a bit further, more in the darkness. They're lips are attched and they're eagerly kissing each other like there's no tomorrow.

"She could've told me she likes him," Billie says. Jared averts his eyes from the two kissing people and looks at Billie. He can't help but laugh a little at the cute pout on her face.

"They're young people in love. I guess she'll tell you tomorrow," he says. Billie stares at him, her eyes big. Why is she even thinking about Sierra kissing when she has Jared fucking Leto sitting next to her. With no shirt on.



Jared finally manages to knock on the door. It's not so easy with a sleeping girl in your arms. At some point Billie has fallen asleep at the pool and Jared tried to wake her, but he failed. But it's obvious that she's just sleeping. No need to worry.

He had to carry her all the way back to the hotel, then the stairs up, because the elevator was broken. Some dudes had been stuck in it before and they want to make sure that it won't happen again. And taking the staires is not easy while carring a girl. You can't see your feet nor can you see the steps.

He doesn't know where she sleeps, so he assumes that she sleeps in the same room as Sierra. He is not the creepy kind of guy that checkes the room number’s of the other band's to know where everyone sleeps, but his brother also sleeps in that room.

And he is the one who opens to door.

"Jared, what are you doing here ... with this girl," Shannon asks while looking at Jared with the girl in his arms. Her mouth is slightly open and she snores softly.

"She fell alseep. What was I suppose to do? Leave her behind?" Jared whisper yells. Shannon chuckles at his words and opens to door further to let him in.

"Are you so boring that she fell alseep?" Shannon asks, still chuckling. Jared lays the girl down on a bed and then shoves his fist into Shannon's shoulder. Shannon only laughs. His shoulder is way to muscular to feel any sort of pain.

"What happened to her? Is she alright?" Sierra appears in the door frame of the bathroom door and runs toward Billie who's still fast asleep.

"She’s fine," Jared says. "She’s just sleeping." Jared smiles a little as he sees how the worry washes immediatley off Sierra’s face. She shoves the girl a bit to the side so there's still room for her to lay down in a minute.

"I think she had a little too much fun tonight," she says, brushing a strand of hair out of Billie's face. Her hair is still damp and a tangled mess. She'll have problems in te morning with her hair. She probably won't even care about her hair.

"I think you had a lot of fun as well." Sierra looks up and is met with a smirking Shannon. He playfully raises his eyebrows, but Sierra pretends that she doesn’t know where he’s talking about.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Oh come on, you and Garrett. We're not blind." Shannon says while taking a seat on his bed. Sierra can't help but let a smile creep onto her face at the mention of his name.

"Yeah, tell us what happened," Jared says, taking a seat on the only chair in the whole room. The two man look eagerly at Sierra for her to say something about what happened between her and Garrett earlier that night. They look like two teenage girls who are about to hear the biggest gossip.

"Fine," Sierra says, shoving Billie's feet aside and taking a seat at the foot end of her own bed. She fumbles with the hem of her shirt and brushes a strand of wet hair out of her face. "We kissed. Now happy?"

Shannon's face falls, obviously dissapointed. "You only kissed? Nothing special happened? Are you his girlfriend now? Or how do you do that these days?"

Sierra chuckles at his eagerness. Well, she can tell them the whole story now. "Well, then I laid in his arms, so comforting and protective around me. We looked at the stars and he told me everything he knew about space. I like space a lot and apperently so does he. His fingers stroke my hair and my arm and it give me chills. But you know, the good kind of chills. And he smells so great. Like the woods and like freedom and a lot like chlorine." She chuckles a bit. "But it felt so perfect."

"Aw, how sweet," Shannon says. Sierra smiles widely at the two brothers. She feels so happy after what happened tonight. It felt so perfect, like it was meant to be. She hopes it's meant to be. That he is meant to be for her, for always. Even though that's long.