Legends

The next day, they all had to come to Matt's house, where the bus would come take them. They had a meeting around nine, to leave around ten. It was always better to set the meeting some time before, since most of them were late every time.
Brian woke up around 8:30, and Brian couldn't help but feel so glad for what happened. He kissed her forehead, and stood up, but she stopped him. He turned to her.
"Stay here" She whispered, her eyes still closed.
"You know I can't." He said stroking her forehead. Slowly, she opened her eyes, to look at him.
"I love you"
He leant in, and kissed her lightly. "Me too, Love. Me too." She simply smiled.
He walked to his bags, and finished packing, pulling his phone charger in it, and small things he would need. He didn’t dress, he was still only in his boxer, and she was still hiding under the covers. She was observing him. He was handsome. And her heart banged at the idea of him being hers.
"Brian… What’s gonna happen?"
He stopped and turned to face her. "While I’m touring, you mean?"
She nodded, and then looked away. "Do you want to… like.. Be able to…" She paused, and took a deep breath. "If you want you can… Do it with any girl, I’ll just close my eyes on it." She said, blushing hard.
He stared at her. "Why would you do that?"
"I know you like it, and you said that it was a long time. If you prefer, I can let you do whatever you want. Just told me, and I promise I’ll let you."
He slowly kissed her. "That’s really gentle, Ro. But That won‘t be useful." he said, smiling.
She frowned, and took his hand. "are you sure? It’s okay if you want to… Do it with other girls, just do it, I, I won’t…" she stopped as he shook his head smiling. She frowned. He moved his head to whisper in her ear. "I just want to do it with the girl who held my heart." He whispered, then kissed her neck. He was a bit red, so he stayed hidden in her hair. He wasn’t used to tell those kind of things.
Her arms went around him, hugging him close. He smiled wide. He held her close. He let himself fall on the bed, over her. She blushed, but didn’t moved. He smiled, and kissed her lovingly.
"We’ll talk on the phone, by skype or by texts. I promise you."
She kissed him again, with a grin.
He looked at her, admiring every details of her, to keep it in his memory. He chuckled as he looked at her neck. "That’s a cute hickey." He said.
Her eyes went wide. "I-I have one?"
He nodded.
She stood up, pushing him on the side, and ran to the bathroom, to see it. He walked behind her, admiring her body. She was perfect, with his shirt on.
"Oh my God!" she was looking at herself in the mirror. He hugged her from behind, looking into the mirror.
"I kinda like it." He smirked.
She blushed hard. "Wh-Why?"
He hid his face into her neck. "I like the idea of other knowing you’re mine." She blushed hard.
"B-But I need to hide it, if not everyone is going to know."
"They’re gonna know."
"Why? No, if I cover the hickey, they will not know."
"Sorry to disappoint you, but it’s obvious. They’re gonna know in less than ten minutes." She frowned, not understanding. "Yesterday, you would have been so tensed if I had hugged you that way. But right now you’re relaxed." Her eyes went a bit wide as she noticed the differences between before and after what they did. "Sex made you feel more comfortable with me, that’s normal. But the others are gonna notice, it’s sure."
"Shit" she whispered.
He shrugged. "I don’t really care."
"I just… I’ve seen how you all are talking about it, and how you always make jokes… But I don’t think I can do the same… And I don’t want to…"
"Shh, don’t worry. They all know how you feel about all of this. They aren’t going to joke around. If anything, they will more likely try to beat my ass."
She laughed. She turned her head to look at him directly. "I’m gonna miss you." Her hand went to his temple, caressing it softly. He closed his eyes.
"I don’t want to go" he whispered, and hugged her closer. She kissed him, throwing all her feeling into the kiss. He kissed her back. He let his tongue ask for entrance, on her lips. She opened her mouth, and their tongues danced together. He pulled away before going too far. He smiled to her, and kissed her forehead.
"We need to get dressed and then to go." He told her. She blushed hard, remembering that she was only wearing his shirt and her panties.
She took her clothes, then walked to the bathroom, blushing, to change. Brian laughed at her, and get dressed.
She came back, wearing the dress she had wear the day before.
"Do you have, like, a scarf?"
He rose an eyebrow. "Is that even a question?"
She looked at him up and down. "Then how am I going to hide it?" she whined.
He laughed. "I can give you a big sweater, so you can maybe cover it with the hood" he stood up, and looked for a sweat with a hood big enough. He found one, and handed it to her.
She took it, and pulled it on. He looked at her, then laughed. "You’re so cute"
She blushed. The sweat fell around her middle thigh, and the arms of it a bit under the tip of her fingers. It was a black one, with a big white logo on the back. She walked to the bathroom to see if it covered the hickey.
If she pulled it a bit up, it could cover it.
"Is it okay?" Brian asked.
She nodded. "It’s so comfy. I love it." He smiled, and hugged her against him. It was amazing how he wanted her next to him all the time. He knew he was going to miss her, so he wanted her the closest possible now. "It’s even more comfy in your arms." She smiled. He kissed her. "Let’s go!"
She nodded, looking a last time in the mirror. The way she was dressed was… Pretty strange. She had a blue dress, that fell to her knees, and a way too big sweat over it. But she shrugged, and took Brian’s hand to go with him.

They arrived at Matt’s house 15mns late. Jimmy was still not there, but it was usual. Johnny arrived at the same time than them. Matt laughed at Romane’s hood, but didn’t seemed to notice anything.
They sat on the couch, waiting for Jimmy to actually arrive. Romane sat next to Brian, as he wrapped his arm around her waist. She let her head rest on his shoulder, the side of her neck, exposed.
"Is that a fucking hickey?" Zacky asked, his eyes wide open.
Romane’s hand flew to cover it, as she became instantly bright red.
"Someone said hickey?" They heard Jimmy ask as he walked inside the house. He stopped and stared at Romane. "I wasn’t expecting you to be the one having it."
She pulled her head down, bright red. She was staring at her thigh, so she didn’t see the dark look all the guys threw at Brian, who was feeling really uncomfortable. He couldn’t talk to them while she was here, she would not be comfortable with it. But they all seemed to think he had done something stupid, like obligate her to do it. He felt a bit sad, to see that none of his friends trusted him enough to not believe in him.
"Sooo…" Matt said, trying to change the subject, not without throwing a look at Brian which meant We’re gonna talk about it. "Do you know what’s our first show?"
They started talking, and Romane let them talk, and just cuddled with Brian. She had her eyes closed, and her head against his chest, and he was slowly caressing her back with his finger.
Around 9:45, Kal came, since he had to pick Romane up, and he was with Ted and Aaron. They had quickly became friends, and had came to a party the night before.
They arrived almost at the same time than the bus, so the guys started puling their stuff inside, with Romane’s help. They came to say hello, but Aaron froze right in front of her. He turned around, and before anyone could react, he punched Brian in the face.
Brian took a few step back, holding his bleeding noise in his hand, not knowing what had just happened. All the guys were staring at Aaron.
"And I was fucking trusting you, you piece of shit."
That’s when Romane and Brian understood what had happened.
"No, I didn’t-"
"Shut the fuck up!" Aaron yelled. He was about to punch Brian again, but Romane held his arm back. "Why the fuck are you protecting him?"
"That’s not what you think."
"Oh really? Then explain me why you have a hickey? Don’t lie."
She looked away, too embarrassed to answer, so Brian answered at her place.
"I didn’t force her."
"They always say that." Aaron stated, his voice full of hate.
"He’s right." She whispered. Aaron stared at her, trying to know if it was true.
"Don’t be afraid to tell me, if he did." He told her, with such care in his voice. He was really worried about her. She looked up at him, and stared into his eyes.
"I promise you. It was my idea."
The guys behind the three exchanged a look, curious. She was so shy, so uncomfortable with people being close, and she had proposed to have sex? It was a bit weird.
It was obvious he didn’t believed her.
"Go ask Mal, if you don’t believe me. I’ve talked about it with her."
"I’ll do it."
Sadness appeared on her face. "You don’t even believe me."
"Romane, last time you were begging me to not tell anyone, and let him stay with you. I know how you are. If you love him enough, you’re able to let him do what the fuck he wants with you. So no, I’m not believing you."
She looked down. It felt like he was chiding her.
"wait, what you mean by ‘last time’?" Ted asked.
Aaron looked into her eyes. He was a bit mad. No one could touch his sister without him protecting her. He would have done anything for her.
"Last time, as I said, I fucking found her almost being fucked by that dickhead, Thomas." He turned around to face Ted. He was mad, and wasn’t measuring what he was saying. If he had thought two second about it, he wouldn’t have say those things. "And she was fucking begging me to not tell anyone. To let her be with that guy she loved. She didn’t want anyone to know, and she wanted to let him do his thing."
He had his back to her, so he didn’t see her shoulder shaking, her head low. Everyone else was too focused, and shocked, by what he said to look at her. Brian was the only one to look at her. At the second he understood she was crying, everything else disappeared. He walked to her, and wrapped his arm around her. She gripped his shirt, crying into his shoulder.
"Wanna go inside?" he whispered. She simply nodded, as she cried silently. He walked inside, not caring about the others.
She looked up at him. "I need to clean y-your face" she whispered. He was about to say no, when he understood she just needed something to focus on. He nodded, and they headed to the bathroom.
He sat on the chair, there, and let her slowly wash his face. It wasn’t hurting too bad. She had her back to the door she didn’t saw Aaron walking there, frown and lack of understanding on his face.
"Why did you cried?" Brian asked, knowing Aaron needed to hear it, and that she would never told him.
"I-it’s just… He made me sound so… Pathetic… I-I know what I did was maybe a bit pathetic, but I had reasons to do it. I didn’t want to feel like the girl everyone have to take care of. I wanted to be a big girl and assume what had happened. And… And in my head, not telling everyone, and be strong enough to not show what had happened was the good choice… Okay, it was stupid, but …"
"Shh" Brian answered, a smile on his lips, as he saw Aaron face being covered in shame and sadness. "I understand. But it wasn’t the good choice."
"I know… But at the time I didn’t…"
He made a sign to her to look behind her. She turned around, and she blushed. "I-I’m sorry Aaron, I didn’t…"
Aaron didn’t let her the time to finish, he took her in a bones crashing hug. "I’m sorry. I was just mad and stupid. You’re not pathetic. I love you."
They parted and Romane smiled to him. Brian had stood up, and was walking to the bus, outside. She went to him, and took his hand. He turned around. They hugged each other close, eyes closed. They parted, and smiled at each other. They stayed silent, but never broke the eyes contact. He finally kissed her forehead, and hoped inside the bus. The door of the bus closed behind him, and he was gone.