Bethany was walking around, head in the clouds and bumped into someone.
"Fuck, I'm sorry." She looked up at the man she'd bumped into.
"'S okay, love. 'Appens to the best of us." He smiled. He had a beautiful British accent and floppy brown hair.
"Uh, I'm Benny."
"Call me Dom." She felt her cheeks heat up as he gave her a cheeky grin.
"Ok. Uh, I'm sorry. I-"
"Peanut?" She glanced over her shoulder then back at Dominic.
"I gotta go." She turned.
"Peanut!" Andy called again.
"Coming!" She jogged toward the tent. "Nice meeting you Dom!" She called over her shoulder.
"You too, Benny." She loved the way he said her name.
"Yes?" She asked when she reached the tent.
"I don't know what you did when you put the table away yesterday, but it's broken."
"What?"
"It won't stand up anymore."
"Shit. I'm sorry." Andy shrugged.
"We'll fix it. I don't know how, but we will."
"Well I'm still sorry."
"Who was that you were just talking to?"
"Hmm? Oh, his name's Don. No idea who is. He's a Brit though. Very heavy accent."
"Huh."
"Kris!" And Bethany was gone. Jogging after Kris. The blonde turned and smiled.
"Benny! I was really hoping I'd find you again."
"Yeah. Tomorrow around oneish Palaye Royale said you can stop by their bus and they'll gladly do an interview with you. And Andy has to check but he thinks Thursday afternoon sometime he can at least have CC and Jinxx."
"Oh, thank you, so much! Uh, would you be up for doing an interview with me too?"
"Me?"
"Yeah!"
"Um. I guess so. Tonight?"
"That's perfect. Uh, let me just. . ." She dug through her bag and pulled out a small blue planner.
"I'm pencilling you in for six thirty. Does that work?" Bethany giggled. "What?"
"You're pencilling me in. It's funny. But yes, that works fine."
"Great. I gotta go, but here's my number." She scribbled her number on a piece of paper and handed it to Bethany. "Text me so I'll have yours and we can chat. I'm stuck on a bus with a bunch of guys and I imagine you are too, so if you need girl talk, I'm here."
"Thanks." Kris jogged off and Bethany put her number in her phone. She shot off a quick text to Kris so that she would have her number too before going to find somebody who wasn't busy. She accidentally walked into Dom again.
"We gotta stop meetin' this way, love." He said with a grin.
"Sorry." Bethany felt her cheeks heat up.
"'S okay. Who wouldn't wanna run into a beautiful girl like you?" He winked and Bethany blushed red as a tomato. Dom chuckled. "You're cute when you blush, Benny."
"I-I-" She didn't know what to say.
"Peanut! We need you at the tent." Andy said. She turned to look at him.
"Coming."
"Bye, Love. I hope you run into me again." He winked again.
"M-me too." She stuttered our before walking over to Andy. Andy was watching Dom. He didn't like it. "Sorry."
"No problem. Head on over. I'll be right there."
"Okay? Where are you going?"
"I left something on the bus."
"Oh." She nodded. "Okay." She headed for the merch tent, leaving Andy behind.

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Two hours later Bethany was sweating buckets and she was bored out of her mind.
"Remington! Thank god! I'm so fucking bored I was actually considering doing push ups." She giggled. "Dance with me!" She exclaimed, she turned on her playlist and grabbed Remington's hand. "I'm kinda hyper right now! I drank a monster after already having a cup of coffee and I really need to just jump up and down." She jumped and kind of danced while Remington laughed and danced with her.
"You and the Beatles."
"The Beatles are fantastic!" She let go of his hands and started doing jumping jacks.
"You're insane."
"I know!" She laughed. "Jump with me!" She  grabbed his hand and he started jumping with her.
"This is kinda fun."
"It is!" Her phone started dinging. "Oh, shit. It's six. I gotta go." She turned the music off and started running toward a predetermining meeting place for her interview with Kris.

———

"Keep your hands off my sister." Andy said, glaring at Remington.
"You do realize I have a girlfriend, who I love very much. Ben is my friend and she held my hand not the other way around." He pointed out, raising his hands in surrender.
"Keep your hands off my sister." Andy said again.
"She's nineteen, let her make her own decisions. She's a big girl. She knows what she's doing."
"I didn't ask for your opinion, did I?"
"I'm just saying, don't strangle her. She's her own person."
"Just stay away from her, okay? She doesn't need someone fucking with her feelings just to fuck her and leave. So back off." Remington could tell by the look in Andy's eyes that he was serious.
"Whatever, man." Remington started to walk away. Unfortunately the conversation didn't end there.

———

"So you're drummer, and I'm just curious who some of your inspirations are?" Kris asked.
"Ringo Starr. Emerson Barrett. Um, CC. CC is the one who got me into drumming." Bethany replied.
"You mentioned Emerson and I'm also a huge fan of Palaye Royale. You're friends with them, right?"
"Yeah. We met, um, almost two years ago. When they were on the homecoming tour."
"Do you have any favorite songs?"
"To listen to or to play?"
"Both."
"Die For Something Beautiful and Death Is A Party Invite All Your Friends are definitely my favorite to listen to. My favorites to play are You'll Be Fine, Masochist and My Youth Generation. I love the drums in those songs so much. Honestly, Emerson is an amazing drummer."
"He's not bad to look at either." Kris said, then she blushed and giggled. "I didn't mean to say that out loud."
"Well you're not wrong." Bethany said, giggling. Kris's camera man, her brother Simon, told them it was time to wrap it up.
"Well I think that's just about all we have time for. I have one last question and feel free to ignore it, but I've always been curious, are you actually Andy's sister or just close friends?"
"I don't mind answering. I'm not biologically his sister, but his parents are my godparents. I've lived with them since I was seven. So we're practically brother and sister."
"Ah. Mystery solved." Kris smiled. "Thank you so much for coming. I had a lot of fun."
"Me too. Thanks for having me."
"Check back in next week to see what exciting things I've gotten up to and who I've met. Links to my social media and Benny's down in the description. If you liked give us a thumbs up and please leave a comment. They make my day. Alright, till next week. Bye!"
"And that's a wrap." Simon said.
"Thanks so much for doing this."
"No problem. It was a lot of fun."
"You both giggle to much." Simon smirked.
"You look like a moron with your hat like that."
"Is this better." He grabbed the bill of his cap and slid it so the bill hung out over his ear.
"So much better."
"Yeah. Alright. We gotta mosey. The guys are setting up." Simon put the camera in its case.
"Right. I need to grab my charger first." Kris said, packing her things back into her bag. Simon groaned.
"Oh, jeez. Krissy, you're killing me." She stuck her tongue out at him and headed toward Back Before Morning's van.
"Hey, if you ever wanna play a gig let me know. We don't have a permanent drummer right now and we have a tendency to lose them really fast, so we pretty much always need a drummer." He blushed when he realized he was rambling. He offered her a sticky note with his phone number on it.
"Thanks. I'll do that. I've, um, I've never actually played a gig, but I definitely won't turn down the offer."
"Awesome. I've gotta go, but it was nice meeting you Bethany."
"Call me Benny. And, it was nice to meet you too."
"Yo, Si! We're on in five!" A guy with green hair shouted from the end of the van.
"Coming."
"Bye, Benny."
"Bye, Simon."

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bennyharris I KNEW WED BE FRIENDS THE MOMENT I DISCOVERED THAT YOU ALSO HAVE NO FILTER FOR YOUR WICKED AND SARCASTIC THOUGHTS 😁😁😁 sebastiandanzig emersonbarrett remingtonleith ALSO LITERALLY NONE OF YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE CAMERA! WTF GUYS?!

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user1 I can't come to warped this year and I'm pissed about, but this helped
remingtonleith wheres the fun in looking at the camera 😁
user2 lucky bitch
user3 I have the same shoes as emersonbarrett
sebastiandanzig no filters. for anything.
user4 I wish I had a leather jacket then I could pretend to be badass😂😂😂
krisisaverted thanks for setting up an interview with them for me 😊💙💙💙
bennyharris no problem krisisaverted don't I know it sebastiandanzig
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Bethany wished she had a sweater as she headed to Palaye Royale's bus in search of Remington. He'd been ignoring her texts for the past two hours. Emerson and Sebastian were outside their bus. Sebastian was smoking and texting, while Emerson sat with his back against one of the tires, drawing and listening to music.
"Hey, Bumblebee."
Hey, where's Ratface? He's been ignoring me."
"Inside." Sebastian nodded at the door.
"Thanks, Sebster." She giggled when he rolled his eyes. Remington was sitting at the table, smiling at something on his phone."
"Hey, Ratface, what's up?"
"I don't know." He said quickly.
"What?"
"I gotta go." He said and brushed past her. He walked off the bus and practically ran away.
"Remington?" Bethany called as he walked away. "What's up with him?" She asked Sebastian and Emerson.
"You might want to ask Andy." Sebastian said.
"Oh." She put her hands on her hips. "I see."