OMGEEZLES! I'm SO SORRY i haven't updated in a long while. There's been a lot going on. For one thing, my e-mail account was hacked last week as well as my Facebook so i spent that entire week on the computer trying to get it back. :P Also, these last few days have been HARSH. Progress reports came out and...well, lets not get into that. The good thing is that I'm back now! With a new chapter! I'm not really extremely happy with this piece, my writing is lop-sided again. lol. Lil bit of dialogue, Josh and Hayley convo, you know. The norm. Revelation at the end of this chapter. Enjoy!

Hayley felt like puking again as she sat in the back of the taxi cab riding through New York City. Millions of possibilities were running through her mind. Lots of people get sick on long trips; maybe it was just a weird bug that got on the bus. Or maybe, it was something she ate in the hotel's food last night. The worst possibility she could bear to bring to mind was that she might be with child. That one night with Josh could've been something they both swore they'd never do again. But these were just the possibilities.

Hayley shooed all images from her mind for she was on her way to Rockefeller center to perform. She wore a yellow and black striped long sleeved shirt and a black mini skit. She wore long yellow boots that reached her knees. She'd purposefully matched her eye makeup to her apparel. She would be a bumble bee for the day. It seemed like something this town needed, especially with all of the slushy snow beginning to fall from the sky.

As the yellow taxi cab (that happened to match her outfit) pulled to a stop in front of the arena Hayley began to get butterflies in her stomach. She'd barely warmed up before she came here and the sound check for the rest of the band was nearly over. She was afraid as soon as she got on stage, her voice would give out. She swallowed the lump that now bobbed in her throat and forced herself to step out of the cab. She paid the driver and walked onto the sidewalk.

Her boots crunched against snow on the ground, she found herself having to lift her legs up rather high to get around. Near the door, burly-like men of the African American race were waiting for her.

"Hayley Williams?" they asked her when she reached for the door handle.

She smiled politely. "That's my name."

The man on the left, with a kinder looking face showed her inside to where the guys were talking backstage.

"Hayley!" Jeremy welcomed her first when he saw his red-headed friend.

"You made it!" Taylor exclaimed.

The guys enveloped her in a hug, squeezing the living daylights out of the poor girl.

"How's your voice?" Josh asked, after the painful group hug.

She began to answer, but her first few words came out completely hoarse. He made an expression of pain, as if it were his voice that was marring, not hers.

"Are you sure you can sing tonight?" he asked.

"Oh, yeah. Of course." She answered.

"That's our H-bomb!" Jeremy said in his own husky voice, grinning ear to ear.

"Guys," Zac said, glancing at his watch. "We're on in ten."

"I'm gonna go see how my hair look!" Jeremy said in a mock southern accent, though he already had a pretty strong one himself.

"Right there with ya!" Taylor said following his buddy to the nearby dressing and make up room. Zac followed them, laughing.

"Ya'll are such girls!" Hayley yelled to them, her voice cracking as it rose.

Josh laughed as his friends plugged in a straighter and began to flat iron their hair as a girl would do. Though they always do this before big concerts, it was funny to watch the guys put on a show as if they were all girls.

"Hayley?" Josh asked.

"What?" she flipped out her Blackberry and quick updated her Twitter.

Bout to perform on the TODAY show, tune in! Sorry, my voice is a little out of wack today. But I came up just for you guys! She tweeted.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

Hayley rolled her eyes. "I'm fine, Josh."

She walked around the small space of backstage and sat on a couch. She doodled something on her hand with a Sharpie she found on the side table.

"Because, you know, I worry sometimes...about you doing things you'll regret. Like singing when it could permanently damage your voice."

Hayley groaned but her voice was so hoarse it didn't sound quite like a groan.
"What are you saying, Josh?" she asked him, trying her best not to get irritated with him. It was nice that he was worrying, but she didn't need him to be acting like her mother.

"I'm saying that maybe you shouldn't sing tonight Hayley, that's what I'm saying."

"And let all of these awesome fans down?" she said, sitting up on the couch and looking Josh in the eye. "I'd really rather not do that. Okay? Not again."

There had been a time once before when Hayley was so sick that she walked off stage with three songs left to perform, her voice completely shot. Josh had to get the crowd to sing the songs for her, so that she could hear them from backstage. Hayley remembered sitting in the corner of the backstage area listening to her fans sing her songs while she bawled her eyes out.

"We could cancel." Josh suggested.

"NO, Josh. I don't want to. I'm well enough to perform, I promise."

But even Hayley knew her voice wouldn't hold out for much longer. Even with the right mind set. Even with the two Advils she took this morning. Her voice would give out. Her stomach would fill with butterflies and she would proceed to hurl all over the stage, making a complete fool out of herself. Worst yet, she'd get the image again. The image of why all of this was happening. And Hayley could see that it was true. It wasn't the beer. It wasn't a bug caught on the bus. It wasn't the food in the hotel. Hayley knew she'd only be lying to herself if she didn't admit it. But as much as it hurt to admit it, she knew it was true. She was pregnant. And the worst part? It was Josh's baby.

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Review!

I'm sorry that i keep putting off the time when they FINALLY perform on the Today show, i'm still trying to figure out how i'm gonna do that.I swear that'll be in the next chapter.

Thanksgiving is in a few days! I'm thankful for PARAMORE! :) What are you thankful for? Have a nice day ya'll :)