A few hours later:

They’re on their way to another town now.

It’s four in the morning, and everyone’s asleep.

Suddenly Gabrielle wakes up to grunting noises and then a loud thump.

She quickly opens the curtains to find Emily sitting on the sofa with her cell phone in her hand.

“M, what’s the matter?” Gabrielle asks her as she now easily gets out of the bunk trying not to wake Jared.

“It’s this damn un-known number! Who ever it is is still calling. I pick it up, but then there’s no one there, it’s so annoying!” Emily whispers loudly shaking her phone.

“Here, let me see” Gabrielle says now holding out her hand.

Emily hands her the phone, and then Gabrielle starts looking through her calls for the number.

“Hummmm, I don’t this number, and neither do you, right?” Gabrielle then says.

“Yes, no clue!” Emily says.

“Humm” Gabrielle says again,

Then suddenly the phone rings again.

Gabrielle at once picks it up.

“Hello?” she says.

No answer.

“Who is this?”

No answer.

“I said, who is this?!”

Still no answer.

“HELLO!”

The line suddenly goes dead.

“Well?” Emily asks now shaking.

“Give me a minute” Gabrielle says now pulling up the number and then dialing it.

Meanwhile, the guys are now awake from Gabrielle yelling.

“What the hell’s the matter?” Shannon asks rubbing his eyes.

“Someone’s calling Emily and they don’t talk but stay on the line for a few minutes” Gabrielle says still on the phone.

The phone now picks up, and then Gabrielle yells at the top of her voice, “LISTEN YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU STOP CALLING THIS NUMBER RIGHT NOW OR YOUR SORRY ASS WILL BE TURNED INTO THE POLICE!”

“But didn’t you do that already?” A familiar voice now says softly.

Oh. Shit.

A few weeks have gone by, and the tours almost over.

“So what do you think about this one?” Gabrielle asks Jared as they go through papers of houses.

“Nah, looks kinda tiny, I mean the outside looks big but check out the rooms” Jared says now flipping over the paper.

“Yeah your right. Hum, maybe a town house isn’t a good idea” Gabrielle says now making a face.

“Well now wait a minute, lets look at this one” Jared says now getting another paper that’s on the top of the pile.

Then Shannon and Emily walk in the bus after a date from a café.

“You two still are looking for houses?” Shannon says now sitting down next to them on the sofa.

“Yeah” the two both say.

“You were looking about three hours ago!” Emily says.

“Well, so far some are just…” Gabrielle begins to say.

“Small” Jared then cuts in.

“Stuffy looking”

“In a bad neighborhood”

“Or dirty looking”

Shannon and Emily then give each other looks.

“Why don’t you try somewhere in, oh I donno, England?!” Shannon then says.

“Oh haha” Jared says sarcastically.

“Oh come on guys, you’ve been looking for weeks! Me and Shan found our house within a week” Emily says now grabbing a soda from the fridge.

“Yeah well that’s because…” Gabrielle says, now suddenly stopping in mid sentence.

“Wait, your and Shan’s house?” Jared asks.

“Well, yeah, didn’t we tell you guys?” Shannon says.

“Ah, no” Gabrielle says now in shock.

“Hehe oops! Yeah, Shan asked me to move in with him and we looked for a house and found one in the suburbs, nice little house” Emily says now hugging Shannon.

“That’s great hun!” Gabrielle says now hugging Emily.

“So when are you guys moving in?” Jared asks Shannon.

“Well after the tour of course. I think we set the date for the week after we get done…?” Shannon says now looking at Emily.

“Yep, third week of next month” Emily says smiling.

“Cool” Gabrielle says smiling.

Tomo then comes in and says it’s about time to get over to the arena to get ready for the show.

The guy’s leave, and the girls set in to watch tv.

“You know, I was just thinking, we’re pretty much going to separate when the tour ends” Gabrielle says.

“Yeah… well, maybe you guys could find a house next to us, or in the same neighborhood or something” Emily says.

“Yeah, a know, I’m gonna talk to Jared about that when he gets back” Gabrielle says now feeling better.

Suddenly Emily gets a phone call on her cell.

“Ah no not again” Emily says now checking her phone.

“What’s up?” Gabrielle asks.

“I donno, I’ve been getting an un-known number all day now” Emily says.

“Hum, that’s weird” Gabrielle says now looking the phone.

“And annoying” Emily says grimly. “Hope it doesn’t keep up”

“Yeah. Wonder who it is?” Gabrielle says now a bit worried for some reason.

Jared bursts into the bus to find Emily curled up on the sofa in fear while Gabrielle is standing over a terrified Edward wrenching in pain on the floor.

“What the hell happened?!” Jared asks in shock.

“Son of a bitch tried to jump me!” Gabrielle yells kicking Edward on the side.

“Ouch! I told you I just wanted to talk!” Edward cries in pain.

“With rapping your arms around me in a bear hug?!” Gabrielle roars.

“Yeah, to try and stop you from bashing me I the head with a vase!” Edward says now holding his head.

“Oh stop it you pussy!” Gabriele now says shaking her head at him.

By now Shannon and Tomo come running in.

“What the hell?” Tomo says in shock.

“Gab?” Shannon says now looking at Gabrielle.

“What, why is everyone looking at me weird? Didn’t you ever see a girl defend herself?” Gabrielle asks.

“Defend yourself? What did you do?!” Shannon says now walking over to Edward.

“Stop Shan, she took care of it, as we can all she” Jared says now looking at the pitiful Edward still shaking in pain on the floor.

“Yeah, and he deserves it” Tomo says.

“Now wait a minute” Edward says now trying to get up.

“Get up and you’ll never walk again” Jared says now in a very angry tone.

Edward then plops back down, and then says in a shaking voice, “Look, I just came here to talk with Gabrielle. I, I was let in by the bus driver. She then fly’s in and grabs a vase and comes at me with it!”

“Well first off, you don’t just pop in and wait in a dark bus. Second, your not supposed to be here. Third, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HERE?!” Gabrielle demands.

“I told you, I wanted to talk!”

“About what, how I should just drop Jared like a hot potato and go back with you?! After the way you treated me?! Well let me tell you for the last time! Jared is wayyyy better for me and better then you, and you’re a piece of shit. Got it?”

And with that she walks out.

“Oh by the way, your rides here!” she then calls in as red and blue flashing lights suddenly pull up beside the bus.

“She called the cops?!” Edward says in shock.

“Well, you were warned” Jared says now walking out as well.

The cops then walk in and then pick Edward off the floor and, with him kicking and screaming, put him in the back of the car and off they go.

“Well that’s all taken care of now” Shannon says now coming out of the bus with Tomo and Emily.

“Yeah, goodbye birdie” Emily says now with a smile on her face.

They all then head back into the bus.

“I’m so happy it’s over now” Gabrielle says now hugging Jared on the sofa.

“So am I. Maybe now you’ll sleep better” Jared says to her now kissing her on the side of the head.

“By the way Gabs, how did you get him down?” Shannon asks Gabrielle then.

“Oh, Judo lessens for ten years” Gabrielle says with a little giggle.

“You didn’t tell us that!” Tomo says now laughing.

“Well, didn’t think it would matter” Gabrielle says now laughing.

“See Jared she told you she could take care of herself” Shannon says to Jared.

Jared laughs and then hugs Gabrielle tight.

Soon everyone heads to bed. And at last Gabrielle can have a good nights sleep.

Finally, it’s over.

For now…….

The concert’s now over, and the boys are now in the back getting dressed.

Gabrielle and Emily walk in then, and Gabrielle tells Jared what happened.

“Good, now all we need is for him to pop up again, and we’ll be set” Jared says now putting on a new shirt.

“Yeah, and all the towns we’re going to have a bulletin on him” Emily says smiling.

“Good, now it’s country wide man hunt” Shannon joking.

Everyone laughs at that and then as the guys head off to the meet and greet, Gabrielle and Emily head back to the bus.

“Are you sure you don’t want us to walk you back?” Jared asks them.

“Yes yes we’re sure. You guys are late already, so go!” Gabrielle says shooing them away as they reach the back entrance.

The girls then head off and across the parking lot.

Emily then stop dead in her tracks and holds her hand out to stop Gabrielle.

“What?” Gabrielle says now tripping over her feet to stop.

“I think someone’s in there” Emily says now wide eyed.

“Oh it’s just the driver” Gabrielle says waving her hand.

“No, he’s at the gas station filing up the jug, remember? He called us a few minutes ago to say he was going”

Gabrielle now looks at the dark figure in the window.

“Well, we got two things. One, the bus is haunted, or two, we’re in trouble” Gabrielle says now wide eyed as well.

I think we should call the cops” Emily says now grabbing her phone.

“No no, we can’t do that again, we’ll look like a few pardoned dumb damsels in distress” Gabrielle says now pushing down Emily’s hand.

“So what do we do?” Emily asks.

“Go in I guess, and if it is Robert, I’ll kill him, and then you can call the cops” Gabrielle says now angrily and then she storms up to the bus.

“Gab wait!” Emily says now running up behind her.

Meanwhile, the guys are in the mist of a sea of fans wanting their autographs.

“I wonder how Gabs holding up with all of this” Jared whispers to the guys as they sign a few fans posters.

“She’s a strong girl, I’m sure she’s fine” Tomo whispers back.

“Yeah, and besides, she has us to help her and deal with it with her, and she knows it” Shannon says.

“Yeah, your right” Jared says now feeling a bit better.

Suddenly, all three hear screaming coming from the outside.

“Is that from the bus?!” Tomo asks.

“Yeah” Shannon says now going around the table and towards the door, while Tomo fallows.

Jared already bet them to it and is now out the door running to the bus screaming Gabrielle’s name in fear.

“Crap, no darn bars!” Gabrielle mutters to herself.

She then heads off to the dressing room.

“He’s here again, mind of I borrow your phone Shan?” Gabrielle says walking in.

Tomo shakes his head while Shannon heads her his phone.

“Did he fallow you?” Jared asks her darkly.

“I donno, I don’t think so” Gabrielle says.

Jared then looks outside the door looking for him.

“Don’t worry, cops will be here in ten minutes to “straighten it out,” whatever that means” Gabrielle says now hanging up.

“Wow, you actually did call the cops” Emily said in a little bit of surprise.

“Yeah dude, I said I don’t wanna do this anymore, I’m done” Gabrielle says now sitting down next to her.

“Well we better head on stage, you two should meet the cops outside not to cause a stir” Tomo says now grabbing his gaiter.

“Good idea” Emily says now giving Shannon a quick kiss.

“If you need me, just yell” Jared says now giving her a long hard kiss.

Gabrielle smiles and grabs on to Jared tight.

“Yo Jare we gotta go!” Shannon yells now from the hallway.

But just hangs on for a few moments, then slowly lets Gabrielle go.

“Boy can you say a sentence good” Gabrielle says giggling.

Jared laughs and then the two walk out.

A few minutes later, outside the arena:

“We can’t seem to find him miss, and we checked the whole area” A cop says to Gabrielle.

“Hum, bet the bitch ran away when he saw you with the phone” Emily says to Gabrielle.

“Probably” Gabrielle says shaking her head grimly.

“”So how long are you going to be in the area?” the cop then asks Gabrielle.

“Another day, then we head off to another town” Gabrielle says.

“And how many more times will you be moving?”

“For about another month and a half”

“Ok, what I can do is have you give me a list of the other towns you will be at so I can put out an bulletin”

“That well be just fine, let me just get out my blackberry”

Gabrielle then gives the cop a list, and then he says he’ll go to the office and send out a bulletin.

“Thanks a lot for this” Gabrielle says to him as he leaves.

“No problem miss, you take care of yourself” the cop says tipping his hat to her.

As the cop leaves Gabrielle and Emily walk back to the concert.

“Well, now he pretty much did himself in” Gabrielle says to Emily.

“Yep, he’s got all the towns looking for him now” Emily says smugly.

“Now maybe I can sleep tonight!” Gabrielle says now laughing.

Sorry to say though, she was dead wrong…

“He did what?!” Gabrielle said to Jared later that night when he told her what Robert did.

“Now calm down, he just talked. And he looked scared to death all the way through” Jared says now holding his hands up.

“I’m calling the courts tomorrow and telling them now he’s harassing you!” Gabrielle says clenching her fists.

Jared then raps his arms around her, making her calm at once.

“You do what you think what’s right, but just let it go for now. He’s harmless” he says softly.

“I donno” Gabrielle says in his shoulder.

“Trust me, he wont hurt you. I wont let him”

“It’s not you I’m worried about”

Jared smiles at that and then kisses her.

“You know, the guys and M are gonna be still out for a while” he then says slyly

“Oh?” Gabrielle says now smiling.

“Yeah, they all went for pizza. I originally came her to get you, but now….”

“Now I think we need to take a rain-check” Gabrielle finishes his sentence.

“Bingo” Jared says now grinning.

A few days later:

Robert is still hot on the trail with Jared and Gabrielle.

He is at yet another concert, trying to get to Gabrielle again.

Now his new mission is to tell her about his and Jared’s meeting, and how much of an asshole Jared was to him.

He enters the stage area, looking.

He then spies her dark hair tied up hair a ponytail. He then makes his way for her, when suddenly he sees Jared walk over to her.

“Damn” he mutters now backing off.

He wants to talk to her without douche bag near her.

He waits a few minutes, watching,

Then Jared gives Gabrielle a kiss (making his blood boil) and then he goes off around the back while Gabrielle walks over to the seating area and then she takes a seat.

Now’s the time to make his move.

Robert then begins to climb the stairs, advancing towards Gabrielle.

Gabrielle then catches a glimpse of him from the corner of her eye.

“Oh no you don’t” she says to herself, as she slowly takes her cell from her pocket to call the police.

Robert walks by the park for the hundredth time now, still thinking.

He head actually hurts now, thinking.

“Well, if I can’t convince her the he’s shit, maybe I should let him know myself” he says suddenly having a brainstorm.

He then checks his watch.

Still got time to get in the concert.

He then heads off to the arena, now carefully planning out his speech.

At the arena:

Gabrielle and Emily just got in and are now sitting in the back with the guys.

“Ten minutes” a guy comes in to says to them.

“Right, well we better head off to our seats” Emily says now kissing Shannon.

“We’ll see you on stage” Gabrielle says now giving a deep kiss.

Jared smiles and then raps his arms around her.

“Guys, we got only a few minutes till stage…. you understand” Shannon now says teasing Jared and Gabrielle.

They laugh at that then with one last quick kiss, Gabrielle and Emily head off to their seats.

A few minutes later there’s a knock on the door.

“We’re coming we’re coming” Shannon says.

The door then opens and then in walks Robert.

“Sorry for interrupting, but I’m here to see Jared” Robert says softly.

The three of them stand frozen for a moment, then Jared, having a feeling on who it is, then says, “I’m him. Please sit”

Robert nods his head and then sits on the sofa.

“So, how my I help you?” Jared says now sitting on the other side.

Shannon and Tomo then get the idea on who he is, and then Tomo walks and stands in front of the door, while Shannon stands beside Jared, just in case.

Crazy son of a bitch.

“Well, I don’t know if you know who I am. But, I’m Robert….” Robert begins.

“Ah, your Gabriele’s ex boyfriend then” Jared says smiling slightly.

“So you have heard of me?”

“Plenty”

“I see. Well, so I guess you’re her new boyfriend huh?”

“Yep”

“So….”

“So, what? You’re checking up to see if I’m treating her right or something?”

“Um no. I just, wanted to meet you. You know, your pretty famous and it’s hard to believe that little quite Gabrielle even had the nerve to talk to you”

“Yes well she did a pretty good job. Warmed up to me right away really”

Shannon then gives Jared a look, remembering the nightmare that was when those two first meant.

Jared waves his hand at that and smiles.

“Oh well that’s good” Robert says now hanging his head a little.

“So is this all, cause I have a show to do probably now” Jared says now standing.

“Oh, yeah” Robert says now getting up to.

“Well it was nice meeting you Robert, stop by again soon, maybe about an hour before show time next time huh?” Jared says laughing as he holds out his hand.

Robert fakes a laugh and then shakes Jared’s hand.

Then as Robert takes his leave, the guys go off to the stage.

Robert now finds himself outside of the arena, knowing that if he even shows his face at Gabrielle again she’ll call the cops.

“Asshole. I’ll show him. She’s wayyyyy better off with me. Smart ass mother…” Robert now rambles off as he takes out a cigarette and then goes sulking back to his hotel .

“Robert! What the hell?!” Gabrielle yells as she pulls herself away from Robert and then backing up against the wall.

“What the hell is right! What is this?!” Robert says now pulling out the court order.

“Something you better fallow and now, or your ass will go to jail!” Gabrielle says.

“But I don’t understand, why would you do something like this?” he asks now in a soft voice.

“Because your obsessed! I can’t go anywhere with out you up my ass, now I’ve been watching it for weeks, stop it! Your getting out of hand with this, it’s over! I’m with Jared now, and that is it!”

“Well I don’t believe that you belong with him! He’s such a douche bag! With all that rock star and eyeliner shit! You need to be with me, a simple, non- asshole man. I’ll treat you like a queen!”

“Yeah, and where have I’ve heard that before?”

“That wasn’t my flat Gabrielle, I told you this. Now please…”

“No Rob, all you told me was that you bitched out when it got tough with daddy. I don’t need a simple man, I need a MAN! Which you are obviously not, but Jared sure as hell is. And by the way, next time you call him what you just did, your gonna lose your fucking head”

And with that, Gabrielle storms off and across the street and out of sight.

Back at the bus:

“Are you kidding me? He actually confronted you?” Emily asks Gabrielle after she finishes her story to her.

“Yeah, and I told him off” Gabrielle says.

“Of course you did, wouldn’t expect you to do anything else”

“Yeah. Should I tell Jared?”

Emily then thinks for a moment.

“Well, I think you should so that way he can be on the look out” she finally answers.

And so, when the guys come in the bus, Gabrielle causally tells Jared about Robert.

“And you would think he would have read the letter carefully” Jared says grimly.

“You should have called the cops right then and there” Tomo says shaking his head.

“I know, but I kinda wanted to give him one more chance to straighten up before I do” Gabrielle says.

“Yeah well, if he does run into you again do it” Jared says now getting his things together for tonight’s show.

“Don’t worry about that” Gabrielle says nodding her head.

Meanwhile back at Robert’s hotel:

“That little bitch!” Robert says angrily as he walks back and froth in his room.

“All the things I did for her, all the things I gave her!”

He then shakes his head and then grabs his coat and heads out.

“I need a walk” he says to himself now heading down the road.

He doesn’t know where he’s going.

And at this point, he doesn’t care.

“A restringing order?” Robert says looking at the paper.

“What the hell for?!” he then yells now rolling up the paper into a ball and then tossing it into the trash.

He then takes out his cell to call Gabrielle for an explanation.

But it just keeps ringing.

“Damn” he says now pushing end.

He then grabs his jacket and then heads off to the arena.

Its still early and he knows she’ll still be on the bus.

It’s about time he has a long talk with her anyway…

Meanwhile, 20 miles away:

Gabrielle and Jared agree that they’re keeping their big moving in news a secret for a while, just for fun.

But it doesn’t mean their not going to drop hits.

“What are you all giggling about?” Emily asks Gabrielle as she hums and giggles as she makes tea for her and Emily.

“I donno, just a nice day I guess” Gabrielle says smiling as she sets two cups down on the table.

Emily squints her eyes at Gabrielle and then takes a sip of her tea.

Jared then comes on the bus with Shannon whining behind him.

“Come on Jared! Your hiding something, now tell!” Shannon demands his brother.

“What’s there to hid? I don’t have anything” Jared says to him slyly.

“Bullshit” Shannon then says simply.

“Come guys we got a show to get ready” Tomo then calls from outside the bus.

“Alright!” Jared calls to him, then he and Shannon walk out.

“Where are you going?” Emily asks Gabrielle a few minutes after the guys leave.

“I need to pick up some stuff at the store down the street, wanna come?” Gabrielle says now grabbing her jacket.

“Nah, I got a headache and I have a feeling I gonna have a even bigger one later tonight” Emily says meaning the loud music from tonight’s upcoming show.

“Haha, ok then, be back in a bit” Gabrielle says now heading out of the bus.

She walks down the street and then heads into the store.

She then goes shopping for her things.

After a while she checks out and then heads out of the store.

Suddenly, she feels a strong hand grab her arm and forcefully drag her to the back of the store.

“We need to talk” says Robert angrily.

Jared and Gabrielle then take their seats at the café.

“Well….” Jared now begins to say while rubbing his neck.

Then a waiter comes up to them and asks what they want for drinks, and thankfully cutting Jared off for the moment.

He isn’t sure how he’s going to put this.

Oh well, might as well just go for it.

“So?” Gabrielle asks him when the waiter leaves.

“Well…” Jared begins to say.

“Yeah, we past that, so what’s wrong?” Gabrielle says now getting worried.

“Oh no, is he dumping me?! What did I do wrong?!” she thinks fearfully in her head.

“Oh there’s nothing wrong, I just wanna talk really” Jared says.

Gabrielle lets out a sigh of relief at that.

“Ok, so what’s up?” she then asks.

“Well, oops sorry, that word again!” Jared says laughing now.

 “I was thinking…. Now we do have a lot more tour time, but I was…wondering…well, the tour will end eventually….so… where do we go from there?”

“What do you mean?”

“Mmmmmm, what I mean is, what do you think we should do when the tours done?”

“Oh, well, really didn’t think about that”

“Well, I was thinking….well I don’t think a long distance relationship is going to work out too good.  I mean, we really care for each other very much, and, I love you, so……”

“I know, and I love you too”

“Yes, soooo, I was thinking….maybe we can move in together when the tours done”

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He said that so fast Gabrielle has to do a double take and then she says, “Come again?”

Jared sighs, now dreading on saying that again.

“I said, maybe we can move in together when the tour is over. I know it’s fast, but…. Well I donno know, what do you think?

Gabrielle gives him a long hard long, and then says, “You think you can live with my crazy ass, with nutty ex’s stalking me and, who knows what’s next?”

Jared laughs at that.

“Well, I’ve been dealing with it so far, might as well see it all the way” he then says smiling.

Gabrielle smiles too, then she reaches across the table and holds Jared’s hand and says, “So where do ya wanna live? Your town? Mine?”

“I think your town, it’s much more quieter then LA” Jared says smiling, feeling a sudden burst of joy.

Gabrielle feels it too, and then Jared leans across the table and gives her a hug and a kiss.

The two then enjoy lunch and then the two go off to the bus and get ready for the nights show, all the while trying not to burst from their happiness.

Meanwhile, Robert just found out about the restraining order Gabrielle put out.

And he’s not happy about it….