Left For Dead

Echo’s POV
I woke up by someone banging on my mattress. At first I turned around and tried to go back to sleep, but the banging just became even harder. “Vanna, fuck off.” I groaned, realizing the bunk under me was taken by the blue haired girl.
She stopped and I snuggled my face inside the pillow, letting out a satisfied sigh. Seconds later I was met by a body literally falling onto mine. “Wake up, Echo. We have a party to attend and barbeque food to eat.” Vanna said grinning in my ear while lying on top of me.
I groaned again and tried to get comfortable again with the weight of a body on my back. The girls were known with my grumpy morning mood by now. I was literally the most hyper girl the rest of the day, but I could be a real bitch if someone woke me up. “Get off of me, Fucker.” I said while trying to push Vanna off me. I succeeded and she fell off the bunker and on the ground. I heard a loud bang and that suddenly made me wide awake.
I shot straight up and looked over the edge of my bunk. “Oh my god, Vanna! Are you okay?” I asked shocked. I soon realized she was when I saw her rolling on the ground of laughter. When I knew I hadn’t killed her, I started chuckling too until Vanna’s contagious laugh made me laugh even harder.
The door to the back lounge opened and Shannon appeared in the bunker area. She looked down at Vanna with an eyebrow raised and then at me. I wanted to explain, but I couldn’t because I was laughing to hard.
Shannon just shrugged, stepped over Vanna and headed to the front of the bus. She wasn’t even surprised anymore. Weird shit like this always happened on our bus.
After that Vanna and I followed Shannon to the front of the bus, still giggling a little when we entered the room. We had breakfast with Kevin and the rest of the girls, which was actually more of a lunch since it was almost twelve o’clock.
After breakfast/lunch the girls and I had a race to the bathroom. Every single one of us wanted to use the bathroom for a bit longer today because we had a fourth of July party today. Neither one of us felt like waiting an hour for each other. I won the race, finishing just a few seconds before Ally. I quickly got in, closing and locking the door behind me. Soon I was met with the sound of fists banging on the door.
“ECHO, GET THE FUCK OUT. I HAVE TO GET READY!” Shannon yelled and the sound was followed by a kick to the door. I just chuckled and tried to regain my breath.
“Oh hey, Alex! Are you’re here to see Echo? Please say yes so she can come out of the bathroom so I can have it!” Ally said and I felt my heart drop. Even though Ally had already made up with Kellin, I was still basically avoiding Alex.
“No way! I’m going first!” Vanna said loudly.
“I WILL LITERALLY KILL EVERYONE THAT GOES IN THAT BATHROOM BEFORE ME. I DON’T CARE THAT Y’ALL ARE MY FRIENDS, I WILL SO SLIT YOUR THROATS.”
I let out a chuckle at Shannon’s last comment and I heard the girls and Alex laugh too. So he was really here and Ally didn’t just make up an excuse for me to get out of the bathroom. Which would’ve been an awful excuse, knowing that I did everything to stay away from him.
“Yes well actually I did come to talk to Echo.” I heard Alex say. “Echo, I know you’ve been avoiding me. Can we just talk about it?”
I considered it for a minute. It would be all awkward and I didn’t want that, but at the other hand, things would never get like they were before if I didn’t talk to him. “I will not give up this bathroom!” I yelled as an excuse and I heard the girls chuckle.
I heard footsteps near and then I heard Alex’s voice closer than before. “If you won’t come out now, I will totally tell everyone here about the rollercoaster incident.” He said.
My eyes grew big. He didn’t just…no he couldn’t. I knew exactly what he meant. When I was seventeen I went to an amusement park with Alex. It was the hottest day I had ever experienced and I wore my bikini top under my t-shirt. That’s when I decided to go in the rollercoaster without my shirt and only my bikini top. You probably already guessed, I lost it while in riding the rollercoaster and I had to go off it completely topless. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life. Not only Alex, but also a lot of people waiting in line had seen me.
After we had gotten off the rollercoaster, Alex had taken off his shirt and given it to me to wear, but at that point I was literally almost crying of embarrassment. That was probably why I had been so scared to perform in bikini top in Las Vegas. But me and Alex had promised each other to never talk about it again. He wouldn’t…right?
“And not only the girls, but also Jack and Zack and Rian.” He added seriously when I didn’t make a move to get out of there.
Okay. This was the last drop for me. I quickly unlocked the door and shot my best friend a death glare. He grinned when he saw me.
As soon as I had opened the door, Shannon had slipped past me through the door and locked the door behind her. I followed Alex outside and was suddenly very aware of the fact that I was still standing in my pajamas. Normally I wouldn’t mind when Alex was around, but for some reason things were different now.
As soon as we were behind the bus, I looked at my weird socks and hoped I wasn’t forced to look at him this whole conversation. I just wanted this over with. He made me feel uncomfortable and I just wanted to get back on the bus.
“Echo, are you avoiding me because of the kiss?” he asked, cutting right to the case. I felt blood rush to my cheeks and I could do nothing to stop it.
“Was it that obvious?” I asked, shifting my feet on the dry grass.
“Well, it was the only explanation I could think of.” He said. “I don’t get it. I thought we were okay again. Why are you still mad at me?”
My head shot up. He thought I was still mad at him. I didn’t want him to, definitely since this was all my fault. I was the awkward one. “No, I’m not mad at you!” I said. “I just…I just don’t know how to act around you anymore.” I admitted.
He let out a breath and shook his head in relieve. “Just the same as you always do, Echo. It was just a kiss. We’re still the same people.” He said.
I smiled and felt a bit relieved too. Maybe having this conversation had been good. “You’re right.” I said and I felt a grin creep on my face when I thought about what I was about to say. “I don’t know why I made such a big deal of it, you’re not even a good kisser.”
He fake pouted and crossed his arms over his chest. “I’m an amazing kisser.” He said whining.
“Go prove that to Taylor, lover boy.” I said patting his shoulder and he shook his head, smiling. I knew we were good again, so I walked passed him, back to the entrance of the bus. “See you at the party!” I yelled at him as I was walking away.
When I got on the bus, I saw that Ally and Vanna were still waiting for Shannon to get out of the bathroom, so I decided to organize my outfit for today . I took a white, lace top out of my suitcase and I found highwaisted shorts that looked good with it. I decided on dark blue converse and red lipstick, so my outfit would kind of resemble the colors American flag.
As I heard the girls screaming at Shannon to ‘hurry the fuck up’, I realized this was going to be a good day. I was going to spend independence day with my amazing band and my best friend and I would probably look super sexy in the process. What could go wrong?

*Shannon's POV*
So it looks like yesterday when I wasn't looking the girls saw a bit of pink popping from my suitcase and decided to go snooping. I am being forced to wear the dress today, I brought it a long time ago and never got to wear it. I packed it just in case of parties or anything. I am in the bathroom pulling it on and it fitted perfectly around my body and hugged all the right places, I decided to wear my converse with it though, I can't walk in anything else, I am already way too clumsy. I had just packed my things away in the bathroom and walked out, too see all of the girls sitting on the couch ready, they must have gotten changed in the back or something?
They still needed to do their makeup but we don't really wear that much anyway.
They both ran into the bathroom so they could do their makeup at the same time. Me and echo chuckled at them both pushing each other. “You look really good” echo said looking at me up and down. “I blushed slightly. “Thanks, I kind of feel as if I'm leaving you guys for Mike a lot now, and I don't want you guys to think I'm annoying” I shrugged, I have never really opened up to echo before so it was something different. She looked at me shocked as if she never thought she would hear something so insecure come out of my mouth “no! Shannon not at all me and the girls were talking about it while you were getting ready, we all basically rooted for you two to date since the beginning of tour, and we would all act the same around our boyfriends if we had one, Mike makes you happy and you make him happy. Therefore we are ok with it”. I smiled really big at echo. “Thanks, i just get weird sometimes” she chuckled and hugged me “we all do”.
Vanna and Ally came parading out of the bathroom, “ok so we are meeting ALL of the bands at the field down the road”. When I went walking, I saw a field and it was short grassed, had a little pond and a walking trail. So I told the managers and the bands and they said it was perfect to have a BBQ on there. “Well, Ally just got a text off of Kevin saying that the bands are all starting to arrive now so it will take us ten minutes to walk there, so you want to get going?” We all nodded and cheered. We walked out of the bus as one.
***
We had all just reached the field and there were a shit ton of people here already, “damn we must have been late” whispered vanna. “Fashionably late” whispered ally with a chuckled. We all started laughing and began walking towards the first band we saw which turned out to be sleeping with sirens. “Hey girlies” Jack said as we stood in front of them giving each of the a hug. “I'm so fucking warm” said Kellin fanning himself slightly. Just as he was about to excuse himself we saw arms slither around his waist. We saw the small body peek from behind his shoulders. To reveal one of the Fuentes brothers. “Aw is little Kellin cold?” He said in a moaning voice. I raised my eyebrows slightly “little?” I laughed obviously referring to his height. “This is not how you should treat your future brother in law” he said pouting.
“Brother in what?” We heard a voice from behind Vic and Kellin. It turned out to be my tall handsome boyfriend who seemed to have realised what the convocation was about. Sleeping, the girls, Vic and Mike were all standing in the circle now. Mike stepped forward and pulled me up into a hug and kissed me. Me being the height of his shoulder he had to look down to me. He looked at everyone “was Shannon doing anything to Vic?” He asked smiling, vanna spoke up “she said something about his height” we all laughed except from Vic. “Well whatever she said she wasn't lying” I snorted a little. And we continued talking.
****
It was later on in the afternoon and all of the bands were sitting down talking about tour on the grass. I had talked to motionless and caught up with them, had a full blown talk with Tony, and the managers seemed to be talking by the BBQ, oh that reminds me, we ate a shit ton. Vanna is holding her stomach saying she is full. That is a first.
I was sitting on mike's lap his arms wrapped tight around my waist and he had his head on my shoulders as we talked to everyone in the group. Tonight is going to be fun.

Notes

nothing to say really.