Art is what you can get away with.

"Sonny?" Matt called out as he walked onto the bus. He heard a faint groan come from one of the bunks. "Sonny?"

"What?"

"Stop faking sick, d__n it." Matt tore the covers off of the bunk.

Sonny glared at him. "I'm not."

"Yes you are. Everybody knows it. You just don't wanna see Brianna because you didn't get the chance to ask her out, chicken s__t."

"What are you-"

"I was able to persaue Dirty into telling me everything.

"With what?" asked Sonny stunned.

"Beer."

"I should've known..."

"My life sucks."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because."

"Because why?"

"Because everything..." Brianna mumbled. Lee sighed and shook her head.

"And everything is...?"

"Everything!" Brianna nearly yelled.

Pete, who was asleep in the chair, grunted.

"Keep it down, geez," he mumbled sleeply.

"Sorry..."

"You know what? Let's go visit Sonny."

"Why?"

"Because you haven't seen him in a while and I know you miss him."

Never thought I'd get this far... Wow! But I…

FLASHBACK!

"She's gone Sonny! And you didn't make a move!" Greta yelled at him.
"I'm sorry! I really thought about making some sort of move, but before I could, she said we should get going!"

"Ahh! Sonny! Why didn't you just stop her and kissed her or something?!" Greta yelled. Sonny swore he saw fire in her eyes.

"I don't know! Okay? I. Don't. Know!" he ran his hands through his hair. Greta shook her head.

"Sonny likes Brianna?!" yelled Dirty, coming out from the corner. Greta and Sonny both looked towards him, in total shock.

Sonny started to bite down his nails as his eyes went big.

Greta sighed and flipped her hair to the side.

"No one's saying anything... So he does! Aha! I'm going to tell everybody!"

"No!" Sonny and Greta both yelled loudly at the same time.

"Aww, come on! Why not?" Dirty whined.

"Because. This is between…

2 Months Later

Brianna sat down another box. She sighed heavily and just sat on the floor.

She stayed there, for about twenty moments, motionless.

There was a knock at the door. Brianna was startled a bit, but soon recovered from her shock.

"Hey, Bri!" Lee said. Brianna started at who was at the door.

Derek, Travis, Matt, Lee, and Pete. She smiled as they all went into a group hug.

"Oh my God! What are you guys doing here? You're not done with tour yet, are you?" she asked.

"In a month we will. But we were in the neighborhood, so we thought we'd drop by," Pete said, smiling like a little kid.

"Well, that's great!"

"So, how's your mom?" asked Travis, sitting next to Brianna. She looked towards him, and sighed.

"She's still in a comba. They're thinking about..." her vision started to blur and she started…

"What should we do now?" Sonny asked, sitting down on the grass. Brianna sat next to him.

"I don't know. But we do have to get back soon."

"Oh, right." There was an awkard silence between them.

Brianna was thinking about how Lee told her that Sonny liked her, but he wasn't showing any real feelings towards her.

Sonny was thinking about how Brianna had to leave for the rest of the tour. He then thought about what Greta said.

Now's your chance!

... Chicken.

You're scared.

But nothing! Now is your chance to kiss her and-

"Sonny?" Brianna asked, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Yeah?"

"I think we should be getting back now."

"Oh, um, yeah. Right. Let's go."

You know what? ...  Can you feel your heartbeat racing?... I admit that I'm just a fool for you... And this could be my night... I never thought we'd make it out alive... Don't shake; I hate…

"Mom! I'm eighteen years old!"

"So?! It doesn't matter how old you are! Anybody can come up and snatch you away!" Brianna groaned.

"But I'm not five! I don't need someone to hold my hand anymore! I can take care of myself!"

XXXXXXXXXX"You are not going out looking like that!"

"What?! Why not?!"

"You're too dark! Too depressing! Change into something brighter."

"Too dark and depressing?! You know what? I don't even want to go to this dinner thing! Just count me out!" Brianna stormed out of the house before her mother could protest.

XXXXXXXXXX

"Brianna, eat."

"But I'm not hungry."

"Then try to eat."

"But, I'm. Not. Hungry."

"Fine. Just go to your room. Don't cry to me when you're hungry."

XXXXXXXXXX

"You need to find some more girlrfriends."

"I do have girlfriends!"

"But not enough!"

"Oh, so are you saying that it is wrong to hang out with so many guys?"

"Unless you're f**king them," her mom muttered under her breath low enough that…

Brianna's cell phone rang, playing Hit The Lights. She sighed and looked away from her book that she was reading to answer it.

"Hello?"

"Hi, yes. Is this the daughter of Ms. Carrie McLake?" a male's voice asked.

"Umm... Yes, this is she. Why?"

"We're sorry to inform you but your mother has been admitted into the hospital." Brianna froze.

"What? Why?"

"She got into a car accident. She is in a comba right now. She also..." Brianna didn't hear another word the doctor was saying. She completey zoned out. "Miss McLake?" she finally heard.

"Oh, um, yes?"

"Will you be able to come down to the hospital to sign a few papers?" Brianna thought for a moment.

"But I'm in Virginia right now."

"Oh, well then. I guess whenever you can, we prefer as quickly as possible, that you come down to the Flower Mission Hospital."

"The city's local one, right?"

"Yes."

"Okay then. I'll- I'll try to get…

"Why don't you just admit you wanna be her girlfriend?" Greta asked. Sonny looked at his hand, which had pernament marker drawings all over it.

"I can't. Just not yet. Maybe-"

"No Sonny. There is no maybe. You will tell her before tour is over. Got that?" Greta asked with a dead serious tone. Sonny looked at her. She had one of the most serious looking faces on, too. He finally sighed.

"I told myself that I will tell her after tour."

"No, during tour."

"After."

"During."

"After!"

"During tour!" Greta nearly yelled at him. Sonny sighed again.

"... Fine. During tour."

"Good. Because if you two aren't sucking each others' faces before tour ends, I'll kill you." Sonny laughed and looked at her.

"No you wouldn't." The serious face on Greta didn't disappear. "Oh God, would you?"

"Get with Brianna and you won't have to find out."

My bakc hurts...

"Lee..."

"Brianna..."

"Lee-With-A-Triple-E."

"Breezy."

"Fo' real." Lee looked at Brianna blankly. She slowly shook her head after a while.

"Never again. Please." Brianna laughed.

"You got it."

"Hey Lee!" Pete yelled, running toward the two girls. They were sitting in the shade of a tree, enjoying ice cream.

"Yeah?"

"Can we go talk for a moment? Like, I mean, in pivate?"

"Hey!" Brianna pouted. Lee laughed while Pete smiled sadly.

"Sorry, Brianna. You know I still love you."

"Haha, fine. Love you, too." Lee got up and left her alone to go talk to Pete. I hope he asks her out on a date... Brianna thought to herself.

"Hi, Brianna."

"Hi, Matt. How are you?" Matt sat down next to Brianna.

"Hmm... Doin' good. You?"

"Fine. But Pete came over and stole Lee from me," she pouted. Matt laughed. "So how are things between you and Serenity going?"

"We're great! I mean... I dunno... I feel like I love her, but then, yet…