The Inside Track by Tamsen Parker

Author:Tamsen Parker [Parker, Tamsen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tamsen Parker

12

Nick

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“Do I have to separate the two of you?”

Benji and I stop rolling around on the floor of the luxe but cramped lounge area and look up at Papa Teague. He gets mad when we wrestle. To be fair, there’s not a ton of space on the bus, and it’s almost inevitable at some point that one of us will get hurt, and if we get hurt enough to have to cancel a show or three, well, then, everyone will be pretty pissed off. Including the two of us, even though it would totes be our fault. We were lucky that when we shattered the coffee table at the hotel, neither of us were hurt besides a few scrapes and scratches.

After we’ve born the full brunt of Teague’s glare and massive tree-trunk arms crossed over his chest, we look at each other and offer a grudging handshake and mutter “truce.”

We use the other as leverage to rise to our feet while Teague is still shaking his head.

“Don’t you two have better things to do? Maybe call your girlfriends? Your moms? Take a nap? Have a snack? Play videogames?”

“No, not that last one,” volunteers Christian without looking up from whatever obscure electronica magazine he’s reading now. “That’s what started this brawl.”

“Brawl,” I scoff. “We haven’t even broken anything yet, never mind each other. It’s not a brawl until there’s broken glass or blood involved, that’s what my mom always said. You people are overreacting.”

But Teague has a point. I’d much rather talk to Dempsey than play tour bus WWF with Benji. And from the look on his face, he’s thinking the same thing about Jordan.

“Bunks!”

That was maybe unnecessarily loud, but I really want to score the bunk area for talking with Demps. It’s the only place I might conceivably talk her into having phone sex, and frankly, that’s an option I’d like to have. Not that it’s easy for any of the guys except Teague and Christian to be on tour—and I think they have the opposite problem of being with their partner twenty-four-seven instead of not enough, but they seem to be managing it well. But at least Zane and Benji have the possibility of seeing their lady loves when they’re touring.

Benj got to see Jordan when we made our stop in Chicago, and Rowan’s coming up to Montreal for our show since she’s back in Lake Placid after her race in Europe. And me? The only time I can possibly see Dempsey is when I’m in LA. If the world were a perfect place, she’d be able to travel and hook up with me at tour stops, but it’s not perfect. And definitely no one is perfect. If the worst thing about being with Dempsey is that I miss her like crazy, then that’s pretty fucking good.

I hear Benji groan behind me as I scramble for the back of the bus where the bunks are.

“Keep it clean, asshole!”

“No chance, dickwad!”

There’s a muffled thump on the door right after I slam it closed, and I’m gonna go ahead and assume that was Benji’s shoe.

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