I rested my head against the window. We were heading for the next city, where the band would perform another amazing show. Tobias sat a couple of rows behind me with Zeke. Two days ago, Shauna left us to attend her mother's funeral. She said she might be joining us on the last day of shows, she didn't know yet. I sat alone with my earbuds in, the voice of my own boyfriend blasting through them. I had to admit, it felt weird. I watched the cars next to me pass with high speed. We weren't in a hurry though, we had the time. There were only a couple of shows left, the last one being in Las Vegas.

Someone, Tobias, kissed my cheek. I turned around and he was sitting next to me, smiling. "Hey," he said. I removed my earbuds and could still hear the music. Tobias could hear it too, he was smirking. "You know, I could just sing for you live. You don't need those." He pointed at them. "What song were you listening to?"

"Dream," I told him. He nodded and slang an arm across my shoulder, holding me close. I rested my head against his chest. It was slowly rising and falling. "I wanna dream," he slowly whispered. "Leave me to dream." He kissed my head. I closed my eyes. I wanted this moment to be forever. "Only 4 shows left," he said. "What then?" I knew what he meant, it meant me going back to Chicago, him going back to New York City. It meant separating. "I don't know. I really don't know. I'm graduating in February and I don't want to leave you, that's all that's certain for the future," I said.

"That's all you need to know. You can't plan your whole life."

I sighed. "True, but I don't want to leave you. I can't be without you anymore."

I felt him smile against my head. I really adored him for that, smiling for no reason.

"Maybe that's the point of true love. You don't know you have it until you can't be alone anymore. If that's making sense," he said. I nodded. This was love, I could feel it. It made me feel giddy and weird. It made me smile for no reason. It made me feel loved and appreciated. I loved him.

We were approaching Denver, Colorado. It was late already; we went to the hotel straight after arriving. We decided as a group that we would go to the hotel bar. "Don't drink too much, Tris. Remember last time?" Tobias whispered in my ear. I glared at him for saying that. I didn't think his first drinking experience was a success. He laughed and poked me. "I'm just teasing. I'm trying to protect you."

I rolled my eyes. "As if I can't protect myself."

"You sometimes need a little help though," he slowly said. I pressed my lips together and hit his arm with my fist. I tried to run away, I didn't succeed. He followed me and grabbed my waist. A laugh escaped my lips. Tobias lifted me up and threw me over his shoulder, carrying me to the bar. I was staring at his butt by then. Behind Tobias and I, Christina and Will were staring at us. I smiled and gave them a thumb's up. Christina laughed and shook her head. I attempted to free myself by wiggling my legs. "Four! Can you please let me go?"

I felt him chuckle and pulled my legs. I came into the position of the bridal style carrying. I smiled kindly to him. I had discovered that the air feels nice on my feet when I kicked them, so I moved my feet up and down as he walked us to the bar.

The bar wasn't full or busy. A couple of people were watching football in the corner. It was a chic, modern bar. Plus, they had good drinks. We sat at a table in the other corner with a couch. We ordered our drinks and waited.

"Ugh, college life is almost here again. Thank God I'll be done in half a year," Christina said, sighing. Marlene groaned.

"We have a freaking holiday after this!" Uriah yelled, a bit too loud.

Christina rolled her eyes and shoved Uriah almost from his chair. "You think it's funny, huh? That you can sing and we can't? We have to go through all the torture of school and you never even went to college!"

"I can't help it you have the voice of a choking cat," he said flatly. He sat straight and flattened his t-shirt. Christina's mouth fell open and I had to put a hand in front of my mouth to stop me from laughing.

"Did you just…"

Uriah smiled proudly and high fived Zeke under the table, who was laughing so hard he almost fell of his chair. Christina turned to Marlene. "You're dating a monster. You are dating a freaking monster!"

"Oh well," Marlene said. "At least he didn't mess up your makeup!" She had turned to Uriah with a look of doom. Uriah fake smiled to her and blew a kiss her way. She shook her head. "Don't you even try."

"I don't really want to ask what he did, but I want to know," I said. "What did he do?"

She sighed. "I have no idea. Maybe he ate my favorite new red lipstick or gave it to a dog, I don't even want to know." Christina smashed her hand on the table. "Uriah Pedrad. Did you really ruin the most expensive, most beautiful, red lipstick in the whole world?" I rolled my eyes at this, it wasn't that expensive. You know Christina, however.

When the drinks came, Tobias picked his up right after it was placed in front of him and took a long sip. Or he was thirsty, or he was desperate. I think the latter one. I leaned over and whispered, "Sure you have to look after me?"

He smiled against his glass.

Time passed and we drank drink after drink. Christina was on her phone, doing God knows what, Marlene was talking to Will, Uriah and Zeke. I curled up on the leather couch and leaned on Tobias' chest, listening to their conversation. I don't really remember what it was about, but I do remember Uriah mentioning something about fish.

Sometime later, Christina shot up. "Guys, there is a karaoke bar down the street!" I laughed and looked the rest. We unanimously decided we would go. (We were already slightly drunk.) We paid for the drinks and left for the karaoke. I was way busier in the karaoke bar than in the hotel bar. We found an empty table and ordered again.

If the waitress recognized us, no idea, but everyone sure did after the guys went to the stage and stole the show. They practically gave everyone a free show. They did one of their less popular, but still amazing, songs, Who We Are.

"We were never welcome here

We were never welcome here at all

No.

It's who we are

Doesn't matter if we've gone too far

Doesn't matter if it's all okay

Doesn't matter if it's night or day."

People looked at each other, slowly figuring it out. "It's The Brave!" someone called out. Some stood up and practically ran to stage to experience it from up close.

"So won't you save us

What we are

Don't look clear

Cause it's all uphill from here

Oh."

I spotted some girls on the front row, practically screaming. I would do the same, if they would stand in a local place in Chicago, performing.

God, Tobias was so handsome. I remembered when The Brave had its first concert. I wasn't there myself, but I read all about it and saw the whole show on YouTube. Tobias was so shy and young. He almost looked afraid. But when I saw him performing now, he looked home. His music was his best friend and the stage was his home. It's where he belonged. I smiled to myself, I was proud of my boyfriend. He achieved so much in his life so far and I hoped there will be some milestones which include me. There would never be one.

When they finished the song the bar exploded. People stayed on the ground though, they didn't try to climb on stage, which surprised me. These people stayed pretty calm compared to some girls at the concert in Chicago.

"Sing another one!" one yelled. Tobias heard it. He responded, "Actually, I want Tris to perform."

It felt like everyone stared at me at once. I raised my eyebrows. Are you freaking serious, Tobias? I think it was the booze that finally made me going to the stage. The guys left the stage. I felt stared at. The DJ asked me what song I wanted. I told him and he smiled. "Good song."

I took a deep breath.

"Thought I could leave you cause I felt my heart numbing

It hits so deep, I closed my eyes and I just took off running

I turned around and saw the look on your face

So I stayed, stayed."

I felt more confident after the first part. I took the mic from its stand and sang further.

"But I don't need you and you should know that, baby

It'd take a miracle for you to really try and change me

And I feel sorry for the look on your face

So I stayed, stayed."

The artist of this song, Kygo, really knows what music is. When the beat came, I clapped on the rhythm and soon everyone was clapping along. I felt like a hippie at Coachella and danced on the beat. Now I experienced what Tobias was feeling all along; the rush and adrenaline of performing.

"So I stayed, stayed

So I stayed, stayed.

You wanna leave her, don't wanna hurt nobody

I don't believe a single word you say or that you're sorry

Why can't I say no to the look on your face?

I just stay, stay."

I had no idea if my voice was okay or not but I didn't care. I lived in the moment and I never had the guts to go to a karaoke bar before. You know, I had no friends except for Susan and my mom…

"I stay, I stay

Oh why, do I stay?

So I stayed, stayed."

I bowed and returned to my seat, getting some shoulder pats on my way. I sat down sighed and took a sip from my drink. The rest was staring at me.

"Tris, honey. Are you sure you've never been on stage before?" Christina said. "You were better than them! It's not that you can sing better, it's your way of performing!"

"Thanks, Chris. Really appreciate it," I said, rolling my eyes. I knew I couldn't sing. I had the talent of always hitting the wrong pitch.

Next to me, Tobias was still quiet. I touched his arm. "Are you okay?" He turned. "That song was about me, wasn't it?" He spoke quietly. "You wanted to leave me, but you stayed. And-" My smile disappeared.

"Four," I began. "I stayed because I love you. Not because I felt sorry for you. It's just a song, I didn't write it."

He laughed. "Yeah, I know that."

I grabbed his chin and kissed him softly. I pulled away just enough to talk. "Don't take everything so literally, weirdo." He laughed and kissed me again.

"Come on." Christina grabbed my hand, taking me away from Tobias, and Marlene's. "Our turn."

"Beyoncé, Run the World," she said to the DJ. He nodded and gave us the mics.

"Some of them men think they freak this like we do

But no they don't

Make your cheques come at they neck,

Disrespect us no they won't."

We just sang together all at once; we didn't care. We were just a few drunk girls who had famous boyfriends.

"Who run the world? Girls!"

Once finished we hugged each other. We thought we had killed it. We stumbled of stage, Marlene actually falling. I laughed as hard as she did when I felt of the bed a few days ago. I helped her up, still laughing and half carried her back to our table.

Zeke almost didn't feel his phone vibrating in his pockets. Almost.

Look who's back?

Since a few days, I have this marvelous idea for this story. I told my friend and she kind of broke down so... prepare yourself. You ain't gonna like it :)

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