Everyone was now keeping a close eye on Jacob. Lauren had luckily been the first one in the bus after the movie ended, just in time to stop Jake. She would never forget the ghostlike look on Solomon's face when he had walked in and witnessed the traumatic scene. The rest of the night, he just sat alone, head in his hands. She felt bad for him. He was going through a lot of intense emotion on what was supposed to be a vacation.

As a sort of therapy, Lauren decided to let Jacob change her hairstyle. At first, he limply held the scissors in his good hand and stared at her head, uninspired. But after a few snips here and there, and gentle encouragement from her, soon he was whizzing away, chopping off all her hair. He even dyed it a different color.

An hour later, Lauren emerged from the bathroom. "What do you guys think?" she asked the rest, rotating and fluffing her now-short light auburn 'do.

Derek smiled. "It kind of looks like mine! Except not blonde anymore."

"I actually based it off of your hair, and mine," Jacob said proudly. "Funky, yet still feminine."

"It looks great," Olivia chimed in. "You'll have to cut mine sometime."

"OH NO HE DOESN'T," Josh spoke up.

"What?"

"Your hair looks fine."

"Fine is fine, but better is better."

"…What?"

Olivia rolled her eyes. "Never mind. I'll just keep it this way forever and ever and ever and never ever change it."

"Good," Josh smirked and smacked her arm.

"I was being sarcastic!"

"I wasn't."

"You guys sure act like you've been together for years," Nathan complained, never looking away from the video game he was playing on the bus's TV.

"Yay," Josh said. Nathan was now the one to roll his eyes at the bassist.

Lauren sat down next to Derek, Jacob following close behind and taking the seat on her other side. Derek grinned at her, until he noticed the look on her face. She pointed with her eyes to Solomon, still sitting motionless across the room. Derek shrugged. Lauren pointed with her eyes again. Derek looked confused. She leaned in close to him and fiercely whispered, "Talk to him!"

Derek mouthed "Oh" and walked over to the short man. Sol didn't look up as Derek sat down next to him. Derek shot another confused look to Lauren. She just glared at him. Good grief, could he not get a clue?

She walked over and sat down on Solomon's other side, leaving Jacob alone on the couch. Ignoring the hurt looks Jake was shooting at her, she placed a hand on Solomon's shoulder. He still didn't stir.

"Hey. You okay?" she softly asked him. Derek's eyes widened in understanding. He was very caring, but man, he could be clueless sometimes.

Solomon barely moved his head to look at her. "No," he hoarsely whispered.

"You wanna talk about it?"

"Not here. Later."

Lauren gave his back one last rub and headed back over to Jacob's couch. He put his arm around her, but his eyes remained sad. "What's wrong?" she asked him.

"This is all my fault. If I hadn't been so overdramatic, everyone would be enjoying themselves."

"No. Don't talk like that. You didn't mess anything up. We're all just happy you're okay." Lauren looked up into his brown eyes. "Honestly."

He sweetly smiled down at her. For some reason, he could believe what she told him more than anyone else.

In the next chair over, Josh and Olivia had started to hum "And I Love Her" softly to themselves. Olivia was playing with his hands, turning them over and inspecting every inch of them. Josh was chuckling through the song. Apparently she was tickling him a bit.

Solomon finally stood and walked to the bunks, motioning for Lauren to follow him. She gave Jacob a quick peck on the cheek, knowing that he'd be upset at her absence again, then went into the hallway and slid the door shut.

"What's up?" she asked.

"Look at us, Lauren. We're falling apart."

She angrily punched a pillow next to her. "Stop it! All of you, stop it!"

"What are you talking about?"

"You're all being so negative! This is not Family Force 5. This is The World Sucks, Screw My Life Force 5."

Solomon burst out laughing. "Wow."

"Okay, but seriously," Lauren giggled too. "Josh runs off, we all get worried, you explode at Nathan, and Jacob, well, you know. It's too much. I wanna go back to what it used to be like. Remember that first night? The barbeque we had? That was pure, non-problematic fun. Let's be like that again."

Sol sighed. "You're right. Man, you're always right."

"It's about time you recognized it," Lauren smiled.

"So, let's play a show in Miami! A beach show! A free beach show. Just for kicks."

"I like the way you think, Señor Soli."

"Thank you, mamacita."

…

The rest of the group was ecstatic about the beach show idea, except for John. ("I hope you do realize 'free' means no money.") All the next day, Olivia and Lauren worked on flyers to hand out. Danielle staked out a spot to set up a mock stage. The Olds brothers contacted the local radio stations for promotion. Derek and Nathan decided on a setlist. Josh stood around with his arms crossed, explaining the meaning of "free" to everyone. Everything was going smoothly.

"We need a name for this show," Derek brought up.

Lauren thought for a moment about the purpose of the show. "How about 'Music Heals'?" she suggested.

"That's stupid," Solomon said.

"Yep, Sol's back to his old self," Olivia laughed.

"Good 'ol Mr. High-and-Mighty," Josh said.

"Bow before him."

"Kiss the ground where he walks."

"Throw flowers at him."

"Wipe his rear end for him."

The two continued on like this until Nathan finally said, "Alright! Enough. Sheesh, now it's like you've been MARRIED for years."

"Thank you for that suggestion, Nathan." Josh winked at him. Olivia's eyes grew wide. Josh winked at her too. Then, for good measure, he walked up to everyone else and winked at them.

Lauren couldn't stop laughing. "Glad to see you're in a good mood, Bobby."

His smile dropped. "Don't call me that."

"What's the matter, Robert?" Jacob decided to join in.

"Rob, Bob, Corn-on-the-Cob!" Nathan started dancing around Josh. Everyone fell over laughing. Even Josh couldn't help smiling.

"Alright, that's enough," he said through his grin.

Lauren moseyed on over to Solomon and elbowed him. "See? This is what I was talking about. The camaraderie is awesome when everyone's happy."

"Just rub it in, Ms. Perfect," Sol said, turning his face away, but not fast enough for Lauren to miss the smile on his own face.