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food in a little bit, stock up on groceries for the bus.” Luke
explained, and as silly as is sounded, I kind of liked the idea of
grocery shopping. “And the rest of us wanted you to do it, since
you’re a girl. And honestly girls just seem to be better at grocery
shopping as bad as that makes me sound.” 
    “Fine, I’ll do it. I was just getting used
to wearing my pajamas during the day, that’s never happened
before!” I admitted. I shooed him away so I could slip on a pair of
jeans and throw on a bra underneath my tank top. I’d become so laid
back around the guys that wearing a shirt with no bra had become a
daily thing on the bus. It was OK as long as I didn’t step
outside.
    We stopped at a grocery store in town where
our next show was, and by the time the bus pulled into the parking
lot, I had been handed a list a mile long. “Why do you want like 10
lbs. of sausage? We don’t have an oven or anything to cook so you
have to keep it simple.” I scolded everyone as I glanced over the
strange requests they were throwing at me.
    “It’d be a good investment sometime when we
upgrade out of this fucker.” Cale joked as he patted my back.
“You’re a woman. You should be good at this right?”
    I snickered. “Yeah right. I told you I grew
up in a house where my parents paid people to deliver us our
groceries remember? They didn’t dare step foot in a grocery store
unless it was ‘gourmet,’”
    Cale followed me off the bus and into the
store. “You sort of failed to mention that before, Miss ‘I grew up
rich.’” He air quoted.
    “Well lead the way, Mr. Know-it-all. I may
have had money at some point, but I walked away from it, remember?”
I asked, grabbing a shopping cart and wiping it down.
    “You would be one of those wiping the carts
down Miss Paranoid,” Cale teased, and I slapped his arm, taking the
cart and going into the opposite direction as him. As I was piling
things in and checking items off the list, I felt a pair of hands
grab my shoulders, causing me to scream.
    I turned around and saw Cale. I wanted to
slap him again the jerk. He was making things more difficult than
it already was. I really felt sorry for whoever his lucky wife
would be someday. I wondered if he was going to sit around and
taunt the poor girl to death. But I had to admit, the pestering was
kind of hot.
    “Jeez what the hell were you thinking? We’re
going to get kicked out of here!” I shrieked, nearly slipping on
the wet floor. Cale was about ready to fall on the floor from
laughing so hard.
    “You’re wayyy too easy to scare, lady. I’ll
change that soon, don’t you worry.” He put some more food in the
cart. We scoured all of the aisles, paid a couple hundred bucks for
everything, and that included a big bag of Dove chocolate, much to
Cale’s disagreement, and left the store.
    The guys helped us stock everything up into
what cupboard space we had left, and we took off for our next
venue, which wasn’t that far.
    I’d learned that listening to 80’s music
pumped me up the most before shows, and also calmed my nerves. Dr. Feelgood by Motley Crue was blaring from Cale’s iPod in
our dressing room as he was pouring all of us shots. We had some of
the members from The Nemesis partying with us.  If I thought
my guys were crazy, these people were pure incarnate. Only a couple
of shots in and they were hammered. Raptor had to kick them out so
they wouldn’t miss their set.
    “Shit, judging by the bags under their eyes,
they’ll be playing like hell tonight.” Raptor snickered. He came
over to sit by me, sandwiching me between him and Vince, who was
trying to stay away from drinking tonight. Raptor offered me a shot
and I reluctantly took it, hoping I wouldn’t fall over on stage
from having one more. I’d only had about five.
    “We better get ready and like practice or
something.” I tried to wiggle out of the man sandwich I was in, but
the guys squished me even more as a joke.