Chapter 3

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A/N: the picture is Ghost's dog

Devin's POV

I woke up the next morning to the sound of my alarm going off and my dog licking my face. I groaned and pushed Lucifer off so I could turn my alarm off. I then stretch and get out of bed to feed my dog.

"Lucifer!" I call and he comes barreling down the hall to eat. I give him a pat on the head and text Kylie.

G: I'll be over in about 30 minutes to drop off Lucifer

K: Alright, sounds good :). I'm going to miss you so much while you're gone.

G: I'm gonna miss you too see you in a bit <3

After I showered and got dressed I loaded my bags in the trunk, put my dog in the back seat, and headed over to Kylie's place. When I pulled up in front of her house she was sitting on her porch waiting for me. I quickly got out and gave her a hug and a kiss before I let Lucifer out.

"I'm gonna miss you, I wish I could stay longer but I have a flight to catch," I say apologetically.

"I understand, I mean I knew this would happen regularly when I agreed to be your girlfriend."

At that I let the dog out and he excitedly went over to greet Kylie and she crouched down to pet him as he slobbered all over her. I laughed at the sight of the two.

"Well you guys have fun I'll see you in a couple weeks when we do our home show."

"Alright babe love you," Kylie says as she get up to give me a kiss on the cheek.

I reluctantly get back in my car and head off to the airport arriving right on time. I park, grab my bags, and make my way to the front doors. When I walk in, as usual there is a really long line at baggage check. I groan and find the end and stand there. Luckily, Chris spots me and motions for me to join him towards the front of the line. I grin and go around the outside of the rope and step over it pulling my bags with me and stand next to Chris.

"Wow you're not half an hour early for once," I tease him.

He laughs, "I know it's shocking, but I over slept this morning."

Before I can reply it's our turn so we get our bags checked and head to security, which went surprisingly quick. When we get to our terminal we find the guys all sitting together.

"Hey guys," Chris and I say cheerily.

"Hey," everyone mumbles sleepily.

I sit in the empty seat next to Ricky and all of us pass the time by scrolling through our phones until our flight number is called. Once everyone is boarded, the flight attendants give their usual run through of safety procedures and what to do in emergencies and then we finally begin to take off. As I feel the plane start to ascend I also feel Ricky tense up next to me, so I look over at him and see all the color has drained from his face.

"Are you alright?" I ask.

"Uh, yeah I've just never liked flying," He breathes out.

"I have some Benadryl in my bag, you want some? It'll help you sleep." I offer.

He just nods his head, so I reach under my seat and grab the Benadryl and some water from my bag and hand it to him. He takes it with shaky hands and drifts off to sleep within a few minutes.

Ricky's POV

I'm woken up by somebody lightly shaking my shoulder and whispering my name. As my eyes flutter open I realize I'm slumped over on Devin's shoulder, so I sit up and stretch.

"Sorry I fell asleep on you," I apologize.

"Don't worry about it, it's fine," Devin says.

"Thanks for the Benadryl, it helped a lot."

"Anytime I almost didn't pack it, but I'm glad I did."

"Yeah so am I."

Soon the plane is parked and everyone is making their way off the plane. Devin and I make our way through LAX to baggage claim so we can meet up with the rest of the guys. Once everyone is together and we all have our bags, we all walk out into the parking lot to the tour bus that's waiting for us.

"Hey guys, my name's Jordan, and I'll be your bus driver for the next 6 months."

Chris steps forward and shakes Jordan's hand, "Hi Jordan, my name's Chris, and this is Ricky, Ryan, Vinny, Josh, and Devin," he says pointing all of us out.

"Nice to meet all of you, come on in and I'll show you around."

We all follow Jordan into the bus and he shows us around. When we walk in the first thing we see is a big lounge area with two couches that face each other with matching TV's hanging in the walls over each of them, a kitchen area, and a door that goes into the bathroom on the left and on the right is the cockpit. Next Jordan takes us through a sliding for that leads to the bunk area which has three bunks in each side of the hall and everyone immediately claims their bunks.

On the right: Ghost on top, me in the middle, and Vinny on the bottom.

On the left: Chris on top, Ryan in the middle, and Josh on the bottom.

Once everyone has their stuff in their bunks we go through the final sliding door which lead to a slightly smaller lounge area that has a couch all around three of the walls, one of my guitars, one of Ghost's basses, and a couple acoustic guitars already in there.

Jordan turns to face is and says, "That's pretty much it guys, make yourself at home as much as possible. Is there anything else you guys need before we head off?"

We all look around at each other and Vinny says, "Nope, I think we're ready if you are."

"Alright then, San Diego here we come." Jordan says as he makes his way up to two cockpit.

Since we were all pretty jet lagged we all head off to our bunks to sleep before we have to be on stage.

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