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I don’t kno long I lay in bed thinking, but the sun was co How could Jack stand in the background oflike my puppeteer when he knew very well that I left Michael because I wanted to be my own person? Why did he want ly, the nextI was exhausted when Sienna woke e enough for eight One of the reasons that she had been ave up on ned a headache, but was not going to allow er, when she knew I needed to talk about e had learned the night before

By the time breakfast was over, Sienna had convinced otten, no one could succeed or fail for us We should take it as a gift and show the world that we deserved the job we had been graciously given I knew she was right, but it didn’t make the pain I felt from Jack’s betrayal hurt any less I also knee were starting that day was no longer just about ly since she had learned to talk So, regardless ofto work as hard as I could with Sienna to make the tour a success

The three tour busses were enore a bus with two of the bandout, but now that Sienna and I were joining, the arrangements had been reworked so there were now separate busses for the guys and for the girls I had wondered if ould be sharing a bus with Kyle and Justin, and I was secretly relieved that eren’t Somewhere in the pit of s forso close to hiht, I wondered if the separate bus situation had actually been arranged by Jack

We loaded our luggage into our bus and Justin gave us a tour of all three The first two held the talent, the last one held the equipment, and Justin told us that occasionally some people from the tour co in their bus for the day so that we could finish up our playlist and talk about the next fes

The back of the bus was separated by a door and held four cubbies and a private bedroom The cubbies were each separated by a curtain and had two bunk-beds The back bedroom was small, but it held a queen size bed without any roo arranged that ht side a long leather couch faced a TV On the left side were individual seats that could be swiveled and locked into place

It was nearly noon by the time ere loaded and ready I wasn’t surprised whenjust as the bus started to roll out of the hotel parking lot It was early evening back home, and Jack usually called me after work I looked at the phone and saw Jack’s picture I hesitated for a minute, then pushed the button to send the call to voice me, a flirty cocky smile on his face

By the time we arrived at our destination in Berlin, I had pushed the button to send Jack’s call to voicemail at least a half dozen ti his calls, I just kneasn’t ready to talk to him yet I wasn’t sure if I was afraid to find out that he wanted me somewhere else, or if I washiht about it, the one thing I couldn’t even let o I was completely and utterly in love with the man and scared to death of what I would do to keep him

Sienna and I were both up at the crack of dawn the next h we had only fallen asleep a few hours earlier There was an excitee in front of thousands of people for the first time in just a matter of hours

The bus was parked at the stadiu, and ere told that there was a car available to shuttle us locally to anyplace we needed Sienna and I decided to go out for breakfast; it was both of our favorite meal of the day Many of our best memories ca up froht before

In the car on the way to the diner, Sienna squeezedBerlin for the first tiht when you didn’t answer"

"What?" I was confused at first "Jack?"

"Yes, Jack, you birdbrain Who else would I be talking to you about with kid gloves on?"

"Did you answer?"

"Yes" My head snapped to Sienna, glaring at her like she had just coirl crirow a pair"

I just looked at her withopen, speechless for a full moment "What did you tell him?"

"I told the truth -- that you were upset because you found out that Heston was the tour sponsor," Sienna said very matter-of-factly

"And what did he say?"

"He sort of didn’t say anything He kinda growled at me and then his exact words were, and I quote, ‘What The Fuck’ She punctuated each word in the sa betords to get his point across

I couldn’t help but soaded her on

"Sydney What Would You Like For Breakfast," she said in the same pattern that Jack would have said, What The Fuck And her deep voice ihed hysterically, the first real laugh I’d had in the last twenty-four hours, which hing soda throughso hard when Sienna could finally speak again "Seriously, Syd, you knoorried about you ju so soon after Michael, but thatloves you I know it into hurt you intentionally You need to talk to hi track record for relationships withme relationship advice "Thanks, Sienna" I squeezed her hand

When we arrived at the diner, I asked Sienna to grab us a table and stayed outside a fewof what to say before I called Jack After I had coht to voicehts were too complicated to be expressed on a voice

Throughout the day, I tried Jack’s phone a few more ti to get nervous that he was avoiding me after I had avoided him I kneasn’t happy that I’d had Kyle and Justin in ht and then I had avoided his calls, which likely only pissed his between s I was certain of One, I loved that do to be wilder than a freaking tsunami e finally did catch up to each other