Chapter One – NYC
Kirstie wakes to a buzzing sound from her phone and she slowly opens her eyes and turns to her side and looks over at her nightstand where her phone screen is lit up notifying her of a text message. She reaches outside of the warm cocoon of covers and grabs her phone and she squints at the brightness of the screen and sees a message from Scott. She scrolls her thumb across the bottom of the screen to unlock her phone and reads the message and notices that it is a group message to the band, 'PTX – GUESS WHAT…! We are going to NYC for the fall and we will be there for two months! We leave Friday!'
Kirstie rolls over and sees that Avi is still sleeping soundly, how that boy could sleep through everything. She placed her phone back down and rolled back over towards Avi and hugged him and kissed him on his cheek saying, "Wake up sleepy bear."
Avi moaned, "No, sleepy bear needs his sleep."
Kirstie giggled and kissed Avi on the cheek and said, "I'm getting up, I'll go put some coffee on. Hey, we got a message from Scott that you might want to check out."
Kirstie sat up and was pulled back by Avi as she laughed, "I thought you were sleeping."
"I was, I want to snuggle with you for a while though," Avi said pulling Kirstie into him as he held her close. He was happier than he ever has been and he knew that Kirstie was the one for him, and one day, he would marry her. "I love you," Avi said into her hair. Kristie smiled and said, "I love you more." He kissed her cheek saying, "Never." He finally let her get up, but not before a few more kisses. Avi sat up and looked over at his phone and read the message and excitedly said, "Wow, New York in the fall, it's beautiful there at this time of year, and we are going to stay for two months."
"I know, right, it's going to be amazing, I can't wait to go!" Kirstie said as she left the bedroom and headed into the kitchen. Avi could hear the rustling of the coffee pot while he got up and went into the bathroom to shower and get ready for the day.
Kirstie was waiting on the coffee to brew, and pulled out her phone and called Emma.
"Hello," a very groggy Emily answered.
"Hey Em, are you still sleeping?" Kirstie asked surprised because she thought for sure that Scott would have woken her up already with the news of New York.
"Um, what time is it? Yea, I was sleeping, what's up cuz?" Emma said with a yawn.
"I guess you haven't talked to Scott yet today?" Kirstie laughed.
Emma sat up and said, "What's wrong with Scott, no I haven't talked to him today, I didn't stay over at his place last night, I'm at home."
"Nothing is wrong, silly, we are going to New York City, we leave Friday! We will be there for two months!" Kirstie exclaimed not able to keep in her excitement.
"Wow, that's amazing, y'all are going to have so much fun there!" Emma said still feeling very tired, she had stayed up way too late last night and could barely concentrate.
"Um, don't you mean, that we will have so much fun there, you are coming with me, Personal Assistant Emma," Kirstie said in her kidding authoritative voice.
Emma blinked and then giggled, "Yes ma'am, bear with me, and I'm still trying to wake up. I'll see you in a little bit, okay."
Kirstie laughed and said, "Okay, see you", and hung up the phone. She went back to her coffee which was finally done. She poured two cups and added a little pumpkin spice creamer to both cups before walking back to bedroom to see Avi fully dressed.
"I wish I could get ready as fast as you do, it's not fair, here's your coffee sweetie," Kirstie said with a kiss.
"Thank you honey," Avi said kissing her on her forehead.
Kirstie brought her coffee into the bathroom and started the shower as she started to get ready for the day. She knew that there will be a band meeting later this morning especially since the news of the New York trip.
Scott came back into the apartment he shared with Mitch with two coffees from Starbucks. He placed them down on the kitchen counter and said loudly, "Mitchie, your coffee is here."
Mitch came out of his bedroom with a wide smile and said, "Thank you so much, Scotty, you are a life saver today."
Scott smiled and said, "What time is the band meeting today? Did you get a hold of Kevin?"
"Yea, it's going to be at 10:30am, I think that everyone is coming here. Should we invite the crew as well, or is this just for the band?" Mitch asked as he sipped from his coffee cup.
Scott nodded and answered, "Just the band for now, we still have a few days to get the details ready with the crew. I sent out a group text separately to the crew."
"It's crazy to think that we have a crew of fifteen that travel with us everywhere," Mitch said.
"Yea, it is, I might let Esther handle the meeting with the crew as she is the crew manager," Scott said with a smile so thankful that he was not in charge of it.
"You loved Esther getting that role, didn't you," Mitch said with a small grin.
"You have no idea, Esther is awesome at the job and we all love having her with us, especially Kevin," Scott said with a wink.
"Do you think that Kevin will ever tell her that he has a big giant crush on her?" Mitch asked.
Scott and Mitch both shared a look and at the same time said, "Nope."
Band Meeting 10:30AM Scott and Mitch's Apartment
Everyone settled in around the living room of Scott and Mitch's apartment and all were talking excitedly about the upcoming trip to New York. Kevin asked Scott, "Any idea where we are going to stay?"
Scott replied, "I think that we are going to try and get a house near Central Park that we can all sleep in, well, we might be getting a couple of apartments. It'll be cheaper than trying to rent out hotel rooms for everyone for two months. Our manager is going to get all of that figured out for us."
"Cool, this will be so great, I can't wait to go," Kevin said with a wide smile.
Avi and Kirstie were sitting beside each other playing with one another's hands and Avi asked, "How many shows are we going to do?"
"I think that we are going to do about 3 shows a week, maybe more if we sell out on a night or something," answered Scott.
They all continued to talk and share ideas about the upcoming NYC Tour and couldn't wait to get the word out to the public and Mitch said, "I know what we will talk about on Superfruit this week!"
Kirstie laughed, "We all should be on that episode! That would be funny."
Scott and Mitch shared a look and smiled and Mitch said, "That would be amazing, do you think you all would want to, we could do a Q&A episode and make the announcement at the end of the episode!"
"Yes," everyone said at the same time. They continued to talk about the details of the trip and decided to sing some new songs that they were working on as Wyatt slowly moved from lap to lap, finally deciding to settle in on Mitch's lap. Mitch played with Wyatt's ears and looked over at Scott and asked, "Since we will be staying in an apartment or house, can we bring Wyatt with us?"
Scott smiled and said, "I don't know why not."
LATER THAT SAME DAY
Emma knocked on Scott and Mitch's apartment door and Mitch answered and said, "Hey Em, come on it."
Emma walked in and hugged Mitch, "I'm so happy for y'all, this is going to be amazing!"
Mitch hugged Emma back and they walked over to the living room where Emma plopped down on the oversized chair in the corner of the room and looked around and asked Mitch, "Where's Scott? He said that he would be here."
"He'll be right back, he went to get lunch for us," Mitch said and then asked, "So, Em, are you excited to be coming on tour with us again?"
"I can't wait, I am beyond happy that I get to see New York and for so long, we will really get to see the city over that amount of time," Emma said.
Emma looked over at Mitch and asked, "So, have you talked to Paul recently?"
"Not really that much, we texted and talked some, but I just don't really do the whole long distance relationship thing, you know, it's tough to do for me," Mitch said with a small frown.
"Don't worry, Mitchie, you will find someone, you are such an amazing and talented person," Emma said with a smile.
"You are so sweet, Em, I can see why Scott loves you," Mitch said.
"I love him too," Emma said.
Mitch and Emma watched TV and heard Scott come in the door with lunch, he looked over at Emma and smiled and said, "Hey, you beat me here."
Emma got up and walked over to Scott and hugged him and said, "I wanted to come by early, I have a couple of meetings later."
Scott and Emma shared a quick kiss and Scott started dividing out the food amongst them. They all sat in the living room and continued watching TV. After Mitch finished his food, he got up and said, "I'm going to go over to Kevin's for a while, see you two lovebirds later."
Scott smiled and mouthed, "thank you" to Mitch and as soon as Mitch left the apartment Scott pulled Emma over to his lap and she giggled as she almost spilled her salad.
"Scott, let me at least put my food down first," laughed Emma.
Scott reached around her and placed her food on the coffee table and turned Emma towards him and kissed her and pulled back and said, "Sorry, I just can't get enough of your kisses."
Emma felt so loved in that one moment, that she felt like her heart could burst. She looked at Scott's brilliant blue eyes and said, "You aren't alone there, sweetie, I love your kisses so much. I love you."
"I love you too, Emma," Scott said with a deeper kiss this time.
They broke free for some air and Scott said, "Are you excited to come with us to NYC?"
"Yes, I can't wait, it's going to be amazing, when are y'all going to announce the tour, tickets will go quickly," Emma said enthusiastically.
"We were all talking and we are going to announce the tour on the next episode of Superfruit with a Q&A, we are actually going to have all five of us on the episode. I think that they will go on sale next week, we won't start shows for a week or so, so we will get some time to see the city," Scott said.
"I'll be sure to submit my questions to you, even though you never pick my questions," Emma said laughing.
"It might have something to do with the types of questions you ask," Scott said laughing.
"You and Mitch are so funny, I can't wait to see it," Emma said.
After a little while, Emma looked at Scott and said, "You aren't getting sick of me yet, are you, another tour with your girlfriend," Emma teased.
"Yes, I'm getting tired of it," Scott teased and then said, "Of course not, Em, I love that you come on tour with us, I would be so sad if you didn't."
"I can't believe that I ever took time to think about becoming Kirstie's assistant back at the beach house, that seems so long ago," Emma said.
"I'm glad that you decided to join us," Scott said pulling Emma into a hug.
Emma leaned back smiling and said, "Well, I better go soon, I've got a meeting with Kirstie in about thirty minutes, can't be late for my boss."
Pouting his lip, he said, "Don't go to your meetings, stay here with me."
"Don't give me that cute little pout, Scott," Emma said.
Scott stood up and pulled Emma to a standing position in front of him, "Are you going to come back by tonight?"
"Yea, I'll be back by around nine," Emma said leaning up and kissing Scott.
Scott leaned in and kissed Em and wrapped his arms around her.
TO BE CONTINUED…