Sage Mires is a young up and coming Sound Technician dying to chase her dreams and escape the memories her home now holds for her.
Chanced with a fresh start when given the opportunity to accompany 5 Seconds of Summer on their tour with the Chainsmo...
"I think they would just see that as running away. I think I have to face them, Cal. Not only that but me staying on your bus would just be one more thing for them to criticize me for. 'Oh, she gets all these privileges because she's a girl.' 'Oh, she's Calum's girl so that's why she gets to do blah blah blah.'"
She trails off when she sees my smile.
"What?" She asks me.
"Are you?" I ask and she just stares at me with a weird expression.
"Are you my girl?"
"I mean, maybe? I think that's at least the direction this is heading. Don't you? She asks now sounding unsure.
"I hope so." I say bashfully. God this girl drives me crazy, never in my life have I been so insecure about a girl. Never have I cared so much about what someone thought of me.
I bend my knees slightly to bring my face to her level and lean in, tilting my head slightly to offer her a kiss.
"Goodnight, Rowen." I whisper, separating my hand from hers though I don't remember when we had entwined then.
"Night, Cal." She calls behind me as I head back to my own bus.
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Liked by calumhood, lukehemmings, and 423 others SoundslikeSage my sister's always told me the right person wouldn't even blink when I told them all the stuff from my past, maybe this is it, maybe she was right
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"And?" My sister asks excitedly through the phone screen. "How'd it go?"
"It um, it went really well." I say sheepishly, tugging my bottom lip up between my teeth.
"See! I told you!" She says smugly.
"Yeah he was very surprisingly supportive. It's not so much him I'm worried about anymore." I say with a defeated sigh.
"Oh?" She asks.
"Yeah." I sigh. "Calum has requested me to be his tech a few times and I guess it's bothering the crew because it's throwing off the rotation so they're kind of taking out their frustrations on me and talking shit."
"It's not your fault he requested you, Sage." Katie offers.
"I know and that's what he said as well but it's affecting my relationships with the crew which is a problem. I have to live and work with these people and I want to have good relationships with them because it could lead to future jobs." I say with a frown.
"Then stand up for yourself!" Kate says forcefully from the other end of the line.
"It's just hard. They all have so much more experience than me and it's my first tour. I just wanted to keep my head down and learn and now I've let this boy get in my head and distract me and I don't know what that means for my career."
"Why does it have to mean anything? You're a great sound tech. That's all that matters."
"Yeah, but like I've heard them talking, saying I'm trying to like, sleep my way to a better job or a permanent spot on the crew."
"But that's not the case." She says, ever the rational one.
"But that's what they think."
"Okay, and? Sage, what other people think about you is none of your business. You have to do what makes you happy. You're doing your job, you're interested in Calum. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Anyone who says otherwise is irrelevant."
"Thanks, Kate." I say, dabbing the stray tear from my eye.
