Chapter 17.

**Narrator’s POV.**

“Have a good night L.A”, Kevin said into the microphone as the crowd in front of him cheered and howled loudly. He and his band members strode off the stage quickly and climbed down the stairs, heading backstage.

“That was awesome as always”, Tessa gushed with a wide grin. It had been almost a month since she and Alex had broken up, Kevin had helped her through every single moment and she was eternally grateful to him. She thought getting over Alex would be hard but it wasn’t, maybe it was due to the fact that she had accepted Kevin’s offer to go on tour with him.

Of course, she could not deny the fact that she still loved him a bit but she knew she would eventually have to get over him completely even though she was being reluctant.

“Thank you”, Kevin pulled her into a tight hug and kissed her cheek. This earned a lot of attention from the other people who were also backstage but Kevin did not care. He had fallen for her over the short time and hoped that she had too.

One of Kevin’s band mates coughed out awkwardly, “I thank the heavens this tour ends in two days. Next stop; Chicago”,

“Yeah”, Kevin pulled out of the hug but left his arm on Tessa’s shoulder, she blushed at the friendly gesture and put on a smile. Never in her life did she think she’d be this close to her own celebrity crush, it was truly amazing but, she knew he saw her as a friend and nothing more, so she did not think anything could or would ever happen between them- Kevin O.C was definitely not the relationship type.

“Speaking of…”, the band manger came to view, dressed in a short black dress that showed too much cleavage and heels fit for a stripper. It was not a shock that Tessa and the woman never got along. She slept with her clients to keep her job- her clients except Kevin but she sure had tried. “We need to get going now boys”,

“Did you do what I asked?”,

“Yes, I did. I got the company to bring down your own personal tour bus, its in the parking lot”, she told Kevin before walking away. Another band member looked at him incredulously,

“A personal tour bus? Why?”, the platinum blonde man asked,

“I need some privacy. There are like fifteen people on that bus, plus, you guys bring girls on it every time”, Kevin explained with a shrug.
The man looked at Tessa and tilted his head, “And you are one to talk?”,

“You know what I mean”, he rolled his eyes and removed his arm from Tessa’s shoulder so he could fold them across his chest, “Tessa and I are taking my tour bus and its final”,

“Whatever you say boss”, he saluted and walked away with the other two band members trailing behind him. Kevin let out a sigh and rubbed his temple.

“That guy”, he muttered, “I do not know what I would do with him”,

“Why did you get another tour bus? I liked the other one”, Tessa put on a sad pout as she already missed the hustle and bustle of the Ragger’s Tour bus. Life on it was good- almost like a movie, there was no boring or quiet moment on it and it was always extremely busy- she loved it.

“Trust me, it gets really uncomfortable on the last day, they hire strippers and do all kind of stupid shit forgetting that there are paparazzi watching their every move and waiting for a scandal”, he explained as he took her hand and led her to the bus with his face and name written boldly on it.

He helped her unto the bus and asked her to make herself feel comfortable in his tour bus that was nothing like the other one, “Wow”, she said in awe, the tour bus could match a house- it wasn’t a tour bus, she had concluded that a vehicle as beautiful as this had to be a moving apartment,

“Wow it is. That was the same expression I had when the label gifted me this for my twentieth birthday”, he gave her a toothy grin and sat down on one of the fur coated couches, “Other than my manager and the driver, you are the first person to be in here”,

“The guys don’t come in here?”, Tessa’s eyebrow furrowed in confusion, they seemed so close on social media, how was it possible that they where like this in real life?

“How do I put it?”, he stroked his chin in thought, “Okay, this is how they are. You give them a mile and they go two, also, they have boundary problems and they really aren’t my type of crowd”, he shrugged.

“Then why do you put up with them?”,

“Like it or not, they are my band mates and they have skills but I do plan on going solo very soon”,

“What would then happen to Raggers?”, she panicked for a second at the thought of her favorite band breaking up, it was really not an experience she wanted to go through.

“Just like any other band, we would have to break apart. We have been at it since we were sixteen and I think its almost time for us to go our separate ways”,

“What of your fans? The millions of people counting on you guys?”, she moved away from him as anger washed over her,

“Do not tell me you are mad at me”, he put a smirk on his face and moved closer to her but she ignored him, “Come on Tess, bands break up all the time”, he put his arm around her and pulled her closer, “You can’t expect Raggers to be together forever”.

“You won’t understand what it is like”, she said with a deep frown,

“You think? Blink 182? Destiny’s Child? I could go on”, he pointed out, “All bands eventually break up. It is inevitable”, he pulled away from her and looked into her tear laced eyes, “I have a feeling that I shouldn’t have told my biggest fan that my band would break up soon”, he smirked,

“You’re an ass”, she chuckled.

The place became silent, his hand wrapped around her as they both looked into each other’s eyes, what happened next was inevitable; he tilted his head down and captures her lips with his. She was taken by surprised for a moment but kissed him back, pressing her lips further on his. This was one of the reasons he had gotten a personal tour bus, he knew he would not have the chance to kiss her with that many people around them but being the only two here made things much easier for him. He had promised himself that he would kiss her before the end of his tour and he had succeeded.

Tessa suddenly came to her senses and pulled out of the kiss, “What was that for?”, she was not mad at him for kissing her but, she was confused as to why he did it,

“I wonder why”, he placed one last kiss on her lips before walking away from her, “I will see you in the morning”, he told her and entered a compartment that seemed to be a room. Tessa placed a hand on her lips, she could still feel his on hers and wondered why he had suddenly kissed her. Did he have feeling for her? She laughed to herself, that was impossible, Kevin O.C was barely into girls, not to talk of a simp like her. He had turned down actresses, models, musicians and other famous people so why would she even assume that he could ever be into her?

Still confused, Tessa took off her jacket and placed it onto the table, she also removed her shoes and cuddled up on the soft, plush couch as she dragged a throw pillow towards her head. Why did he kiss her? Why couldn’t she get it out of her head? Why did she feel like she was going crazy? Was Kevin also planning on doing what Alex did? Maybe he thought she was easy to get since she had fallen for his brother’s trap.

She put it at the back of her mind to demand answers the next day, whether he liked it or not.