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Sienna
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She woke up with a headache. But when didn't she? Normally she was too dehydrated, but this time, this one sent her into a bad mood right off the bat. must be from her shaken brain. She slid from her bunk and carefully landed on her feet, making sure not to wake anyone. She poked her head into her father's bunk and was happy to see that he was snoring away in there. At least he was here.
She grabbed her phone and checked the time. 6:14 am. Sometimes, Sienna would try to go back to bed if she woke up this early, but this time, she didn't even bother trying. She might as well go and explore to rid her headache. They were on a break day today.
She shuffled on her shoes and glanced down at her outfits of what she slept in. She was wearing Alan's Death Meowtal tank and some black leggings. She wrapped her feet in converse and she shrugged on a Drop Dead beanie.
She then made sure that she had her phone as she shoved that in between her hip and waistband and silently walked down the stairs.
She almost screamed.
A woman who was most definitely not Cara was sitting on the couch, her nose buried in a book, a hot cup of coffee perched on her knee. Sienna felt sick as she shuffled around the woman making sure that the bunk doors for BMTH were closed so she wouldn't wake them.
The woman jumped, feeling Sienna's presence and the coffee spilt a bit, causing her to curse under her breath. Sienna's eyes narrowed.
"What're you doing here?" Sienna breathed. The woman's eyebrows raised.
"My name's Alex-"
"I didn't ask your name." Sienna snapped. "I asked what you were doing here."
The woman, Alex, looked taken aback as she eyed Sienna, threatened, even.
"Uh, Austin asked me to stay the night-"
"Austin Carlile?" Sienna snapped. Alex nodded.
"But it's not like-"
Sienna only turned on her heel and stiffly walked from the bus. How could he do this to her again? She thought he had learned his lesson last time by inviting random groupie sluts on the bus to sleep with him and then be gone the next day.
Sienna scoffed and scanned the empty venue, eyeing a large boulder that sat facing the horizon, pretty far away from the busses.
Sienna felt herself edging to the rock and climbing it without a struggle as she faced the rising sun. She felt like crying, but more than that, she felt worthless. Austin was sleeping with random girls while his daughter slept in the bunk above him. It was obvious. Lucy must've meant nothing to him.
She quickly texted Austin with a message that said: Are you fucking serious? Again?
Sienna carefully took off her left shoe and poked around the inside. Since Austin knew about her hiding blades in her phone, she moved to hiding it in the soles of her shoes.
She let a thick blade tumble out into her palm and she eyed it wearily. She put her wrist out away from her as she placed the metal against her skin, preparing to slice.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" snapped a voice, causing Sienna's hand to spasm and drop the blade. She spun around and squinted at the boy who was stumbling to her. She recognized him as Noah, the boy who knocked her out at the concert. Noah started breathing heavily as he leaned against the boulder, his camera thumping against his chest as he took more and more breaths. "Why?" He snapped. "What are you doing? Get down here at once!"
Sienna snorted. "Why? So you can tell my dad?"
"I'm not going to tell your dad." Noah admitted. "But cutting your wrists, is that what you want?"
"What if I said yes?" Sienna snapped. Noah's eyes widened.
"Then I'd say you're a liar." Noah shook his head. "If that's what you want, then you'd be fucking laughing as you slit your wrists. There's something else that you want, but cutting yourself isn't it." Noah's hand closed on her leg and he pulled a bit, causing her to tumble down. He was careful enough to catch her, not wanting to be responsible for another injury of hers and he set her on the ground.
Sienna's eyes welled with more tears and Noah gently hugged her, letting her cry against him. She felt pathetic. How could she be so stupid to be doing this? She shouldn't have tried to cut herself over something like that.
Noah patted her back and chuckled. "I got some awesome pictures of you, by the way."
Sienna sniffled. "Huh?"
"You. I got some cool pics of you." Noah smiled. "You see," Noah pulled the camera from his chest and started flicking through the pictures. Sienna blushed as he showed her the pictures. it was the silhouette of her on the rock as the sunrise rose and drowned the other colors out with red and yellow.
"They're cool." Sienna sighed, wiping her eyes. Noah grinned, sensing that she had calmed down and they both sat on the ground next to each other. Noah poked her naked foot.
"Ya wanna talk about it?"
And Sienna talked. She talked for what felt like hours, and Noah listened. It felt good to have someone just listened. She liked this guy's presence already.
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Austin
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Are you fucking serious? Again?
Austin read the message over and over again, walking down the steps, rubbing his eyes. It was too fucking early. His eyes caught Alex's and his memory came flooding back. He was going to visit her brother today. Alex was reading a book, her coffee cup was sitting on the sill behind her, but she still looked troubled and distracted.
"Hey." Austin said gently. Alex looked up and smiled sadly at him.
"Hey." She greeted back.
"Have you seen my kid?" Austin felt silly for asking such a question, half expecting her to say no, but Alex only looked sadder.
"Long brown hair, freakishly tall?" Alex asked softly. Austin nodded. "Yeah. She's mad at me. I don't know why."
Austin finally put two and two together.
Are you fucking serious? Again?
She's mad at me. I don't know why.
"Shit." Austin shook his head. "She probably thinks we had sex last night." Alex's eyes widened and she covered her mouth.
"Oh."
"Yeah." Austin shook his head again, this time more aggressively. "Do you know where she went?"
"No, she just-ran off."
Austin stepped off the bus and started wandering aimlessly.
"Sienna?" He called loudly. He listened hard for a response, but it was kinda hard, seeing how he was mostly deaf in one ear. "Sienna?"
"Stop yelling." sighed Sienna's voice behind him. Austin jumped and spun on his heel, his eyes landing on Sienna and some kid sitting next to each other. He recognized the boy as Noah and his eyes narrowed at his hand holding Sienna's.
"Why the fuck is your shoe missing?" Austin asked, pointing to his daughter's foot. Sienna looked down in confusion.
"Why is there another girl on the bus?" Sienna replied. Austin blushed.
"Nothing happened between me and her."
"Fine." Sienna replied, plucking her phone from Noah. "Then nothing happened to my shoe. See you later, Noah." Sienna then resumed ignoring Austin and walked to the bus. Austin sadly watched her go before turning to Noah.
"What'd she say?"
"Nothing I can tell you." Noah replied smoothly. "I promised to her that I wouldn't say anything, so please, don't make me shatter her trust in me as well."
Austin knew that Noah was trying not to be rude, but Austin still felt offended in the boy's words. But he only nodded slowly.
"You would tell me if she tried to hurt herself, right?" Austin asked suspiciously. The boy hesitated making Austin's stomach plunge.
"Yessir." Noah muttered, standing and dusting himself off. "Of course."
But that only made him feel 20 times worse.
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