Princeton

I was beyond excited that Tay was coming with us on our tour. Now I get to wake up and see her face every morning. It's around 1 right now and we're heading to Tay's house to pick her up.

When we were on Skype last weekend, I was kind of nervous. I wasn't sure how she was going to react to the note I put into the box. Even though she didn't mention it, overall she seemed pretty happy. And I'm still confused on how she's supposed to be "in charge" of us.

We pull up and I could see her outside sitting on the hood of her car. Me and the guys hopped off the bus. On the ground next to her were two duffel bags, a smaller suitcase and a book bag.

"Hey guys" she greeted us with a huge smile on her face. One thing that I've come to notice and love is that Taylor's one of those girls that look good in anything. Right now she had on a faded blue sweatshirt that a picture of one of the dwarfs from Snow White and under it said Grumpy, sweats and blue hi-top converse. She had no makeup on and her hair was in a messy bun with her bangs going across her left eye.

"Geez girl, did you bring your whole closet?" asked Ray-Ray jokingly

She giggled. "Hardly"

"What is all of this?" Roc asked

"Stuff" she said simply. She jumped off the car. I could hear footsteps behind us.

"So you must be Lorenzo's niece. Nice to meet you, I'm Kenneth"

"Hi. I'm Taylor" she shook hands with him.

"I'm glad they sent another person to help out with these monsters" he said.

"That bad?"

He nodded. Ray came over and started bugging Kenneth, so he put him in a head lock.

"Well, I'll try and make it easier on you"

"I appreciate it. You all set?"

"Yep"

He let go of Ray. "How about the 4 of you make yourselves useful and help her with her bags"

We all took a bag and carried it onto the bus. We introduced her to some of the other people on the bus on our way to the back where the beds were.

"So you'll be sleeping here. Prince is above you. I'm over on the next side of the wall and those two are across from you" said Prodigy

We put her things in the storage space in the cabinets underneath the bed. All of the other guys went back out front but I hung back.

She was digging through her book bag. It took her a minute to realize I was still here.

She looked at me curiously before speaking. "What?"

"You didn't give me my hug" I said and fake pouted.

She giggled and rolled her eyes but hugged me anyways. I locked my arms around her waist while she lightly wrapped hers around my neck. Because she was stretching her arms up, her shirt followed. I pulled back a little and my hands were resting at her sides touching her skin. Her hands were now on my shoulders and she looked up at me expectantly.

We just stood there looking at each other for what seemed like forever. Without really realizing it, my thumbs were tracing circles on her stomach right above her hip bones. I saw something in her eyes, something I couldn't place. Taylor brought her hands down and wrapped her arms around my back and laid her head on my chest. I brought one of my hands up to her face and moved her bangs out of the way.

"What did I say about your bangs?"

She laughed a little and said something I couldn't hear.

"What did you say?"

She looked up at me. "It's my hair and I'll do what I want with it"

I smiled down at her. "Whatever"

I pulled back completely and her arms dropped to her sides.

"Come on" she told me. She grabbed her phone and her laptop and headed outside with me following behind her.

Taylor

I don't know what just happened back there. Every time I hug him, I seem to fall harder. When I could feel his hands on my skin, I felt like I was burning. And how we were just looking at each other for that long period of time, I got a serious case of butterflies in my stomach.

Out front I sat at the table next to the table and turned on my laptop. Checking my email, I saw that my uncle sent me a list of all the things he wanted me to do, people I needed to know with contact information, schedules and a whole lot of other stuff. I was putting the numbers into my phone when someone sat down neat to me in the seat. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that it was Roc. He was looking at my screen.

"What's that?"

"An email from my uncle telling me about everything I'm supposed to be doing?"

Then I remembered something I saw from the schedule. "Don't you have work to do, like school work?"

"We did it already. We started at 6 this morning since we were leaving later on in the day. And your supposed to check it"

"Okay, give it to me. I'll check in a little bit"

I spent the next 10 minutes reading the rest of the email.

"Taylor?"

I looked over the top of my screen at Prodigy. "Hmm?"

"I forgot to say "Thank you" for that drawing you did of me"

"Oh yeah, they were dope. I hung mine in my bunk" Roc chimed in

"You're welcome"

"We all did. Those things were nice. Where'd you learn to draw like that?"

"My brother at first. But then it got better when I had art class at school"

"That must of been a good class then"

I smiled. I started going through the papers Roc put next to me.

Math, English, History and Science

I decided to take a break. Outside the window, I saw that we were on the highway. I've never really been anywhere else besides LA and New York, so I pretty excited to be going to all of these different cities.

I know it's kind of short but hopefully by the end of today the next chapter is either halfway or completely done. I spend over an hour this morning writing this. After the next chapter, I'll drop some hints and I'd like to know what you guys think is going to happen.

-CW

By the way, did anyone watch Mindless Behavior on their Ustream last night? I was having a moment as soon as I saw them pop up on the screen