I'm Not In Love - Chapter Three

Jamie woke up the next morning with an overwhelming nauseous feeling and a pounding headache. She remembered going to sleep next to Butcher last night, but the bunk was now empty. Jamie edged to the side of the bunk and jumped down when she realized they moving. They were supposed to be spending the night in a hotel near their next tour location and Jamie assumed they were on the way. She couldn’t keep the feeling down anymore and ran to the bathroom. The mixture of beer and drugs ended up in the toilet she was now kneeling in front of. After a couple of minutes, she deemed it safe to stand up, and she opened the medicine cabinet. Jamie grabbed the un-opened toothbrush and squeezed a reasonable amount of toothpaste on and brushed her teeth.

When she walked out of the bathroom she was un-surprised to see Andy sitting on the couch watching SportsCenter. He stood up and smiled when he saw her, and Jamie walked into his open arms.

“I’m so sorry for last night. I’m so embarrassed about how I acted.”

“It’s not your fault” he started, “You didn’t know what was going on. I just think it’s better to stay away from them though.”

“Yeah, but I feel bad because we still have to finish doing the video. I was already in the first part. But, if you’re not doing anything tonight, why don’t you come?” Jamie asked eagerly. “And afterwards I’ll take you out to dinner, to make it up to you.”

“Sounds good” Andy replied.

“So, whatcha watching?” Jamie asked as she looked over to the television. She really didn’t care, but sat down next to Butcher on the couch.

“Sports Center, but I’ll change it if you want” Andy was willing to negotiate to have her sit next to him.

“No, it’s cool, I like sports.” Jamie just finished her sentence when they were interrupted by another female voice.

“Dammit, William!! You always wake me up with your sleep talking gibberish!!” A girl with wavy brown hair climbed out of William’s bunk. Jamie had remembered seeing her, but never had a conversation with her. The girl made her way to the front of the bus, but then stopped when she saw Butcher and Jamie. “Oh, sorry guys.”

“Hey Alexis” Butcher started, “You know, the sleep talking only occurs when you’re around.”

“Yeah, uh, he just started rubbing my back and thanked me for coming to the show and hoped I enjoyed it. I’m kinda disturbed. Does he treat fans that way?”

Butcher shrugged. “I try not to pay any attention to him.”

Alexis laughed and then held her hand out to Jamie. “Hi. I’m Alexis, William’s girlfriend if you didn’t catch that.”

Jamie shook her hand, “I actually did pick up on that one.” She finished the sentence and made room on the couch by moving more toward Andy.

Alexis let out a loud yawn next to Jamie. “You can go sleep in my bunk if you want” Andy said to her.

“Really? Thanks!” Alexis immediately got up and made her way back to the bunks. Butcher and Jamie watched as she started lightly hitting William’s arm. “William, get up. Butcher said you could sleep in his bunk, and I’ll sleep here.”

“Oh-kayyy” William said tiredly and got up. He kissed Alexis on the cheek and said, “You know, I really love you.” She nodded and watched as William got down and opened the curtain to Sisky’s bottom bunk.

“Uh, Bill, that’s Sisky’s bunk” Alexis tried to inform him.

“Oh-kayyy” William responded deliriously and slipped into the bunk anyway. He put his arm around Sisky, who didn’t even stir. Alexis shook her head and closed their curtain, then hopped up to her and William’s bunk.
*****
Butcher and Jamie walked to up to the hotel, hand-in-hand. Jamie was carrying a brown book bag with stuff for them to stay the one night in the hotel. She was supposed to spend the night with the guys from Sofapunch, but Michael, Butcher’s roommate for the night, was okay with her staying with them. Sisky and Mike were staying in a room together, and William and Alexis got their own room.

Jamie followed Michael into the room while Butcher was off getting his own key, and one for Jamie.

“It’s going to be so nice to sleep in a queen sized bed for the night” Michael said in his thick Australian accent.

“Yeah, it’s pretty sad that we’re like three days into the tour, and already annoyed with it.” Jamie laughed as she put her stuff down on the bed.

The door burst open and in waltzed Alexis carrying her purse and sunglasses. “So, there’s outlet shops a little bit down the road and the maid said there is an amazing shoe place. We’re going.”

“Okay,” Jamie laughed, grabbed her purse and turned toward Michael, “Can you tell Butcher that we’re shopping and we’ll be back in a couple of hours?”

“Sure, no problem” Michael responded in the irresistible accent.
*****
A couple hours later Alexis and Jamie came through the door to Jamie’s room carrying a couple large bags each. They were surprised to see everyone in there with unhappy looks on their faces. Butcher was holding a phone up to his ear, but was only saying one word at a time.

“What happened?” Jamie asked quietly. Butcher looked at her, got up, and went to continue to the bathroom. She was greeted by silence around the room. “Is anyone going to tell me?”

“Butcher doesn’t want us to tell you. He’ll probably tell you himself” Mike said.

“Well, is it something bad?” She asked.

“Yeah. But we don’t really know the details.”

Alexis and Jamie put down their bags and sat on the beds with the rest of the guys. Butcher came out a couple minutes later.

Jamie got up to talk to him in private. “Andy, what’s going on? Is everything okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. I’ll tell you later. Matt called here a couple of times. You should go to the video thing.”

“I don’t want to go without you. I’m not convinced that you’re fine” Jamie rebutted.

“Really. You need to go. I’ll be fine.” Andy just finished his sentence as Sisky walked in and joined them in the bathroom. “Sisky’s going to go with you.”

“I am?” Sisky asked.

“Yeah” Butcher said in response.

“Sweet. Wait, where am I going?”

“To the Pink Spider’s video shoot with Jamie. You should be leaving now.” After Andy finished his sentence Jamie kissed him and walked out into the bedroom area. Andy immediately turned serious, “If you let her take any drugs, I will kill you. You need to keep an eye on her.”

“Aye-Aye” Sisky said with a fake salute and followed Jamie before she got too far down the hall.

(A/N: Aurora wrote this next part. She was making fun of the fact that William stated the obvious earlier, so she wrote this. I never intended for this to be in the story. I walked away from my laptop and she took over. But I think it’s funny, so I’m keeping it.)
“I think Butcher likes her,” said William to Alexis.

“Ya think?” Alexis asked sarcastically.

“I think that Sisky likes her too. You know, he’s going with her to the video shoot.”

“Yeah, I know. I was here William,” Alexis patted his knee and smiled a weak smile.

“You have brown, wavy hair.”

“I know, sweetie.”

“I have brown hair too.”

“I know, sweetie,” she kissed him lightly on the forehead and shook her head. He really did have a habit of stating the obvious.
(A/N: This is were Aurora stopped writing)

*****
The night was going fast, but they weren’t done shooting yet. Matt wanted to take a little break and ‘loosen up’ for the rest of the shoot. He approached Sisky and Jamie, who were sitting together drinking beers on the couch.

“Do you want some?” Matt asked. He was holding out his hand above their heads, but they knew what he was talking about.

“No, we’re good man” Sisky responded.

“What are you, her keeper?”

“No, but I know she’s not interested. Let’s just keep going with the video.” Sisky practically shouted back.

Matt rolled his eyes and walked away. Jamie turned to Sisky and started talking. “Thanks for doing that.”

“Any time, babe” he responded back.

Matt came back over again, two new drinks in hand. “Here, I got these for you guys” he said as he handed them over.

Sisky was the first to take the drink, and then Jamie took hers. “Thanks man” Sisky responded. The three of them clicked glasses. “Bottoms up” Sisky said before downing the whole cup.

Jamie took a couple of gulps of hers before Matt grabbed her hands. “We have to get back to shooting. Come on!”

They didn’t have that much to do, just the scene where Jamie leaves Matt in the middle of the night and takes the drugs with her. Jamie was feeling a little lightheaded, but that might have been from the beer that they were drinking all night and lack of food. She laid on the bed next to Matt in a pair of white underwear and a tank top, with his arm around her. Jamie felt the most comfortable she could ever remember. As scripted in the video, Matt moved his arm away from her and Jamie felt dread. She knew what was going on, but she didn’t mind. To finish the scene quickly Jamie got up and took the drugs out of Matt’s jacket and walked out into the hallway. She heard the camera guy inside yell ‘Cut’ and she came back it.

“So, it looks like we’re all done here” Matt said as he approached her. He smiled at her and Jamie couldn’t help but to giggle and pull him close to her.

“Thanks for inviting me. But I need to go.” Their lips were so close, they could have easily kissed. She let go of him and sat on the couch next to Sisky. “Ready to go? Thank you so much for coming.”

He could feel her fingertips graze is chest. “No problem” He answered. Jamie was now so close to him that he could feel her breath on his cheek and lips lightly move over his skin, and she suddenly gave him a peck on the cheek.

“We should do something. Dance or something” Jamie pleaded and begged Sisky like a little kid.

“I think we need to leave.” Sisky was beginning to catch on. He stood up and grabbed Jamie’s arm. He led her through the halls and to his room. Before he opened the door he turned to talk privately to her. “I can’t take you back to Butcher this way. We’ll just say that the filming went really late and you didn’t want to disturb him. This isn’t your fault. That douche bag Matt slipped it to you after I turned it down.”
He opened the door and saw Mike sitting on his bed watching television.

“MIKE!” Jamie screamed and ran into the room. She jumped on his bed and gave him a hug.

He smiled and mouthed to Sisky, “Again?”

“It’s not our fault. Matt slipped it to her” he said softly back.

After three hours of trying to calm her down, Mike, Sisky, and Jamie all passed out on their beds.