A/N: Hello all, I'm ba-ack! So this is my new story. I apologize for the roughness of the chapter, but the next ones will be better, it's just getting the story started that's the hardest. I apologize in advance because updates will be sporadic, but yea. Drop me a line and other such fun things and tell me what you think!
Kat scrunched her face, she'd been dreaming and happy, but now a certain someone throwing pens at her was ruining it. She cracked an eye open and instantly shut it again. The light was blinding. "What Hannah?" She groaned, rolling over and trying to go back to sleep. "Wakey wakey kitty kat!" Her friend laughed, the pens still not letting up. "Ok I'm up you bitch!" Kat said throwing a pen back and missing. She didn't understand why she'd brought so many with her, they were now being used against her which was never a good thing.
She rolled out of bed and shuffled to the front of the bus, her red hair going all over, but she didn't care, if she had to be up and this time and go dress shopping too, she'd need as much coffee and red bull as she could get her hands on. Alex whistled when he saw her, and Kat just flicked him off. She'd already spent a month with him, at this point the flirting was just obnoxious. She grabbed the cup of coffee on the counter and sat down, sipping it while she watched the few other people awake go through their routine.
Finishing a third cup of coffee, Kat got up and made room for Hannah and Tay while she went to shower and get ready for a day of dress shopping.
"Ok, I'm ready!" Kat proclaimed after slipping on a pair of converse and grabbing two red bulls, opening up the first and putting the second in her purse for later. She looked back pleadingly over her shoulder for someone to come up with a reason for her to not go, but the four boys just grinned. "You girls have fun!" Alex called, his smirk the biggest of them all. Kat flipped him off as her two friends grabbed her by her elbows and pulled her down the stairs and off the bus.
In a way though, despite the fact they were going shopping, all three girls were excited. They rarely got time to do much together and finally they had a whole summer to spend together with only minimal amounts of work. Something they hadn't been able to do since Kat published her first book.
Of course, the three girls walking down the streets caused quite a stir. One was a globally known author, the other a musician making her way up and the alternative charts and the third, the blonde beauty on the cover of every magazine. They all lost count of how many times they were asked to sign autographs, but they didn't mind. In fact, even after all these years, they all still felt weird signing it. It wasn't really something you could ever get used to.
Grinning, the three friends entered the bridal store and Tay giddily bounced around looking at dresses while Kat and Hannah made themselves comfortable on a couch, neither girl was big into dresses, but it meant a lot that they go with Taylor, so they had, besides they loved seeing her this happy. Tay was always the mother figure and she deserved to be carefree for a bit.
Kat was surprised, Tay found and fell in a love with a dress almost right off the bat and her shopping for a dress only took a few hours, something she had not anticipated, but had no problem with anyway.
Arriving back on the bus, it was a party in full swing, so the three girls, being themselves instantly picked up a bottle of booze themselves. Kat found herself a secluded part of the bus, where there was no one drying humping one another. She curled up, a bottle of vodka nestled in her lap, like it was her life blood. She'd already had way too much of it, and let her head tip back. Her eyes were closing as her fingers gently traced the rim of the bottle. Someone sat down next to her and she leaned against the muscled shoulder of Zack.
He was worried about her, she hadn't been acting like her normal Kat self. She'd been secluded, drunk half the time, and just unhappy. She was like a little sister to him and he knew that even if she didn't want to be looked after, he was going to keep an eye on her. Zack didn't understand how no one else picked up on her basically screaming for help. "Let's get you to bed." He murmured in her ear, sure he wasn't sober, but he wasn't totally drunk. At her lack of response, he picked her up and shuffled toward all the bunks.
Carefully he put her in the very top bunk before crawling in next to her. He had a feeling the waterworks would be going soon and he wanted to be there for her. She shouldn't have to be alone. He rested his head on his arm, feeling something under her pillow. However, Kat was the queen of unpredictable. She simply rolled over and closed her eyes, letting the alcohol send her to sleep. Once her breathing had evened out, telling him she was asleep, he reached under her pillow and pulled out a fully loaded gun.
Gently he put the safety back in place. She would never know that he knew, but he'd be watching her like a hawk the next few weeks.
He slid off her bunk and went back to the 'party'. Almost everyone was passed out and those that weren't were just about on their way to it. He rolled his eyes and helped himself to a glass of water and headed back to his bunk, Kat weighing on his mind heavily.