The Taste Of Blood Remains

*Cassidy's POV*

To: Tino
Sent: 12:32 pm
That dumb bitch fell for it, also, Lynn Gunn (PVRIS) is in on it <3

From: Tino
Received: 12:34PM
What a bimbo and good the more the merrier, Mike came looking for you, you better find him before he suspects something <3

I nodded and locked my phone running away to find Mike, I eventually found him standing outside of the bus, "Cassidy!" He shouted when he saw me, I waved slightly as he came running towards me, "Where were you?" He asked engulfing me in a hug, "Oh umm I saw Lynn Gunn so I was talking with her" I laughed hugging him back, I felt him nod, "You hungry?" He asked, but I shook my head no, "Cassidy, you've hardly ate anything in the past couple of days, you need to eat" Mike said as we walked towards catering, "I'm not hungry" I shrugged as he took a hold of my hand, "Cass, you need to e-" he started but I cut him off, "Please do not finish that sentence" I said, he sighed and nodded, giving my hand a reassuring squeeze, "So when did you get glasses?" He asked as we sat down, I shrugged, "About 4/5 years ago" I laughed, he looked at me like I was crazy, "You've never told me this, actually, you've hardly told me anything" he said thinking about it, "Well I'll start then you can go, I took a 4 year college coarse to get my bachelors degree in Business Administration and then I started working at Hot Topic a year after that because I was deemed unfit due to my depression and anxiety which I have been recovering from since high school, my mom and dad are still the same, my grandma died two years ago and Tamara has gotten so old and beautiful" I said shrugging, he looked at me with sympathy, "Cass I'm sorry I wasn't there if I had known I would have con-" he started but I stopped him, "I don't want your sympathy, I don't need it" I smiled, he smiled back and nodded, then he started, "Vic and I started this band in 2006 after Before Today, our previous band broke up, I dated numerous amount of girls, I used to be a 'fuck boy' and I liked drinking, a lot, as well as taking drugs. I-" he said but I stopped him, "Okay I want you to know that I do not condone drugs" I said, he nodded in agreement, "I totally get it" he said, I smiled and nodded for him to continue, he told me about everything that had happened since high school up until now, I quickly checked my phone, "Mike I'd love you stay and talk but I promised Lynn I'd help her pick out her outfit for her set tonight" I said, he smiled and nodded, I gave him a quick kiss before running off, I knocked on Lynn's door and she opened it, "Ready?" She asked, I looked at her and starting laughing, "What are you wearing?" I asked, she looked down, "What this is my secret operation outfit" she said, I rolled my eyes, "Come on" I said, she nodded and closed the door behind her, we went around the back of the buses and stood behind All Time Low's waiting on OM&M to leave, eventually they all piled out, I saw Frenchi lock the door and run to catch up on Austin, I watched until they were out of sight and snuck to the door.

"How do you plan on getting in, she locked it?" Lynn asked, I pulled a key out of my pocket and she smiled, I unlocked the door and we ran inside, "Go to the bunks under the middle bottom bunk on the left should be my suitcase, go get my laptop" I ordered Lynn, she nodded and ran to retrieve it, she finally came back with it, I pushed the intercom, turning it on, "Okay so I need a-" I said but Lynn cut me off, "Incoming, Frenchi!" She said, my head shot up and I saw Frenchi coming running towards the bus, I quickly grabbed the laptop and ran through to the bunks, Lynn and I dived in the same one and pulled the curtain over, we heard Frenchi come in, she started talking, "Yeah, hello, guess who just scored the biggest transaction ever" she said, I looked at Lynn, she shrugged and slowly shuffled down the bed, poking her hand out and pressing the intercom button, "Yeah, our plan worked anyway, we got Austin and Cassidy to fall out and now I convinced him it's my birthday and he is going to make a transaction of $1,000 in to my bank account but I think I'll just add an extra 0 to that, I know, I'm not as dumb as I look, yeah soon you and I we'll be out of here and before you know it conning another hopeless romantic" she laughed, "Yeah I gotta go, bye" she said before picking something up off her bed and running out, I heard the bus lock again and the padding of her high heels running on the concrete, I sighed and climbed out of the bed, "If we didn't get the first recording, we definitely got that" Lynn laughed before grabbing my cable and laptop and walking out again. I found a screwdriver under the chair and carefully unscrewed the panel, pulling in the small cable and extracting over 40 different recordings, I sighed at the thought of having to go through all of these, "Look we don't have to go through all of them, give me the laptop" she said taking it off me and pressing a couple of keys and clicking a couple of buttons, "What date was it?" She asked, I thought about it for a second, "Try June 25th" I said, she nodded and clicked a couple of more buttons, "There are 3 recordings from June 25th wanna hear?" She asked, I nodded, she played the first one and it was just Austin and Alan and Frenchi shouting at each other over a stupid video game, the next was Austin and Frenchi having sex, "What noise is she making?" I asked, Lynn just started laughing, "She's sounds like a rabid mouse" she said, I looked at her, "No, it's more of a eeeeffftt" I said mimicking Frenchi's sex noise, "No I think it's more of a ooooyaaaa" she said, we spent a couple more minutes mimicking her noises until the third recording started to play. "Oh my god this is it!" I said, Lynn nodded and quickly clicked a couple buttons, "There that's this dates and that dates saved on your laptop, I'll send it to your phone and you can play it back to Austin" Lynn said, I smiled and nodded before we skedaddled out of there. After sitting around with Lynn, Austin's set finally finished, saw him walking on his own to catering, "Wish me luck" I said to Lynn before running out shouting on him, "Austin, I need to talk to you, it's really important!" I said as soon as I reached him, he looked at me concerned and nodded, I dragged him back to Pierce The Veil's tour bus.

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