First Love

01

CALUM

I woke up early today for some reason, usually someone wakes me up in the mornings. I got out of my bunk and saw my best friend in the world, Kylie Rae Daniels, is already awake assuming that she wasn't in her bunk. I grabbed my phone from the plug and went to wash up, then headed over to the lounge area. "Morning, Kylie" I said to her and she was playing Mario kart by herself.

"Morning, you're up early today. It's like 7:46" she told me as her eyes never left the screen. Kylie laid there with her legs hanging off the edge of the couch and a pillow reclining her neck.

I nodded "How long have you been up?"

She shrugged "I haven't really slept. I took more of a nap like two hours." I stared at her like she was crazy because last night we got drunk a little bit, things got out of control, and we have a show later today. "I know, I should've slept, but I have so much on my mind with everything that happened last night."

I sat near her head and played with her hair, that always helped her sleep. Kylie said it was soothing for her and helps her relax a lot. "You really should. Probably sleeping it all off would help you" I suggested as she still played the game.

"That's the thing, I been trying and it's not working. I know we were drunk and do dumb things, but it really got to me Cal. It's hard to just let it go like it didn't happen" Kylie paused the game and just stared at the ceiling. I watched her facial expressions and her eyes quickly turned red, watered, and in a few blinks a tear ran down the side of her face.

I sighed and put my hand on her shoulder "It's okay..." Kylie's hand reached mine and squeezed it tight. She forced a smile and chuckled as she wiped her tear.

"Yeah... I'm gonna go wash up and change. I kinda been in this outfit since yesterday" she laughed. "Thanks Cal" Kylie got up and headed to the bunks to get her stuff.

I sat there staring at the wall thinking about what to eat, we pretty much had yogurts, little snacks, sandwiches, granolas, water and juice. I pulled out a sandwich with some chips and water "How much longer till we get to the venue?" I asked ZOP, he became the bus driver. Our security guards David and John were up already also, along with Zoe; they sat at the little table doing something

"About 30 minutes. You should start waking up Luke and Ashton" ZOP told me. I looked over to Zoe and she sighed before getting up to wake them up. "While we set up and everything, you guys could walk around the venue do a little exploring, it's very outdoors and nature."

"Okay" I said softly.

"So what happened last night?"

"I don't know. We were fine and laughing and drinking, then someone says something dumb and one thing led to another" I told him. He sighed and I sat back down, Ashton walked and all smiles. Ashton is often happy and positive. "Is Luke up?"

He nodded "He's just laying there on his phone. I wonder what's gonna happen today." I nodded agreeing with him. We sat there eating and Kylie walked out the bathroom in a different outfit and washed up. "Morning Kylie."

"Morning Ash" she said going to the bunks and Ashton walked into the bathroom after her.

I sat there and after a couple seconds I could hear Luke and Kylie arguing about last night, then 20 minutes later Luke walked out with his eyes super watery. "When can we get off this bus?"

"In 5 minutes, we're just getting to the venue" ZOP said. Luke went back into the bunks and came back with his backpack "Alright we're-" Luke got off the bus "here..."

Ashton came out of the bathroom and there was an awkward silence. "Kylie! We're here, let's go" Ashton shouted. She came out with a simple backpack and headed out with everyone.

"This is gonna be a long day" I whispered to Ashton. He nodded and we went to go get our tour closets. It basically carries all our clothes we specifically wear during tour in a box.

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After settling all our stuff into the green room, ZOP let us go explore since we had all day until 5 for soundcheck. It was about 9 now. We all headed out and the venue was kinda in the middle of nowhere and there was a lot of trails and old historical places around here.

Luke and Kylie still weren't really talking, but were walking near each other in an awkward silence. "Let's go over here" Ashton said, it was this old stage made out of wood with these old tiki drawings and totem poles. Ashton climbed into the stage and it had a slant so he kinda slipped forward.

Kylie was looking around and reading the little note thing. Luke stood near her, but they still weren't talking to each other. It was an open view and we could see everything here. Kylie walked off and was looking at the view sitting near the edge at a safe distance, I saw Luke looking at her and it looked like he was gonna cry or something. "Luke look at this!?" I shouted to just help him keep his mind off of things.

He walked over and I pointed at the totem poles. He walked over to them and touched it with his fingers running along the wood. "This is cool..."

Ashton walked over to Luke and looked over to Kylie, she was walking around with her hands in her jacket pockets. "I don't know... I think we broke up..." his voice broke and he just stared at her.

I put my hand on his shoulder and he walked off "Don't cause then I'mma cry and I don't want to right now." I sighed and I didn't really know what to do.