Forever and Always

Chapter 2

Ricky's POV

I woke up to the smell of bacon wafting in the air and the sound of water running. I stretched and walked out of my room and towards the kitchen to see Ghost washing dishes while bacon was cooking in the oven and pancakes were on the skillet.

"Morning Dev, want some help?"

"Yeah can you flip the pancakes?"

I nod and flip the pancakes over and as I finish that and the timer for the bacon goes off so I decide to check that. I turn the timer off and pull the bacon out.

"Damn you made enough to feed an army."

He just laughs and replies, "Well Chris called and said him and the guys were gonna come over to go over the plan for tomorrow."

"Oh that's right we leave for tour tomorrow! Shit I guess I should pack."

Devin rolls his eyes at me "You always have to wait until last minute don't you?"

I just shrug "I don't know why you guys pack a week in advanced."

The front door unlocked and Vinny, Chris, and a very hungover Josh walked in.

"Hey guys!" Ghost and I call out in sync

Josh groans, "Not so loud guys."

I look at him over the bar and mock a pouty face "Aw is somebody hungover?" I go into the bathroom and grab some Advil out of the medicine cabinet and toss him the bottle as Chris gets him a glass of water.

"Thanks guys," Josh says as he takes the Advil.

"No problem," I say as I take the bottle of pills back into the bathroom and put them away.

Once everyone has a plate of food we gather in the living room.

"So what time do we need to be at the airport?" I ask Chris

"About 7:30 in the morning."

Everyone groans in unison.

Chris rolls his eyes at everyone "C'mon guys it's not as early as last time remember? We had to be there at 3."

"Don't remind me, that was awful." Josh grumbles.

"At least we're doing it to do what we all love and not something boring, and we get to meet all kinds of people while we're on the road.," I say.

Everyone nods in agreement, for the rest of the day we all hung out in my living room bantering mindlessly. Everyone left one by one until it was just me and Ghost.

I sigh, "Well I guess I better go pack."

"Would you like some help cleaning up?"

"No it's alright you should get some sleep it's already 10:00"

"Well you need to sleep too and I know you won't sleep until everything is spotless."

"Okay, you have a point."

He smiles widely " I always do, I'll clean the kitchen you go pack."

"Alright, thanks Dev."

"No, problem."

At that I walk into my room, turn on some music, and begin packing.

Devin's POV

I smile as I hear Marilyn Manson playing from Ricky's room. I start unloading the dishwasher humming along quietly to the music.

"Ah fuck!" I hear Ricky exclaim from his room.

"You alright?" I call out

"Yeah I'm fine I just forgot to feed Dexter so he scratched me."

I laughed as he walked out of his room with a grumpy looking Dexter following close behind. Then I notice the scratches on his face and hand him a paper towel so he can stop the bleeding.

"Thanks, my cat can be a real asshole sometimes."

I laugh an grab the cat food out of the pantry and scoop some out into Dexter's bowl and he jumps up and eats it happily.

"Thanks again for cleaning this up I wouldn't be getting any sleep if you left."

"Yeah no problem," I said as I put the last of the dishes in the sink and wiping the counters and stove down.

I watched as Ricky went back into his room to finish packing and put the last few touches on the kitchen, and pick up the mess in the living room. As I'm finishing up I look at the clock and see it's already 12:30.

I walk into Ricky's room to see him struggling with his suitcase zipper, I laugh at him and say, "Here let me help you," and sit on top of the suitcase to squish his clothes down so he can easily do the zipper.

"Thanks Ghost," he laughed and high fives me and I join him in laughing.

"Well I better get home and get some sleep."

"Alright, see you tomorrow."

I walk out of his apartment building and down to my car and make my way home.