Part 3: Video Voyeur
Morning: Jay, Tarynne, Amir, Morgan, Bobby, and Ryan woke to find that neither Paige not Estin had come to bed and just thought maybe Paige didn't wake up and Estin had crashed on the couch. Ryan entered the back room early that morning; he'd planned to sit down and watch some TV but that was quickly changed when he noticed Paige and Estin on the couch.
"Hey guys, come look at this!" Ryan announced to the others as he poked his head out from the back room. The others came to peak in, each one saying something about how cute it was until they made so much noise that Paige and Estin woke up.
"Ryan why do you have to ruin everything?" Paige asked curiously with a shy smile on his face as he lay holding Estin in his arms.
"Est, do you think maybe you have something to tell your two best friends?" Tarynne asked as she stood holding Jay's arm and smoking a cigarette.
"Um well it's obvious isn't it?" Estin replied.
"Finally!" Amir exclaimed. "I thought you'd never hook up."
Tarynne and Jay left the room to get ready for the day to come; the guys had an album signing today. Jay walked to the bathroom and got out his stuff to shave. As he lathered the shaving gel onto his face, Tarynne stood in the doorway.
"You look so sexy doing that," Tarynne said as Jay took a strike if his razor over his face.
He took another stroke. "Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, I never thought I'd ever get to stand in the bathroom and watch you shave."
"Well, I do it everyday, you'll probably get to see it a few more times before we take you home." Jay replied with just a little lather left around his lips.
"Come here" Tarynne ordered as she grabbed Jay by his old, worn-out T-shirt and placed her lips to his. He slipped his arms around her, pressing his lips to her neck as he brought her against him. Tarynne's heart leaped. It was a sweet and simple gesture, so intament, she laid her hands on the arms he'd wrapped around her waist, and stared into his eyes.
The sound of a beer can falling from a shelf was heard from the back room right outside the door to the bathroom, followed by a curse from Ryan "What the F***!" Jay turned to stare psychotically at Ryan and noticed he was holding a video camera.
"What is this Ryan? You think this would fly? I can't believe you're taping us!" Jay removed his arms from Tarynne's waist and grabbed a vase from the bathroom counter. "Take your f***ing camera and get lost or you will not be performing anytime soon."
Ryan backed away slowly, the camera still in his hands and still recording. "Hey man, cool off, it's not mine, I just followed the wire." Ryan pleaded as he continued to back away fearing Jay's anger.
Jay placed his large hand over the lens of the camera and grasped it tightly, pulling it from Ryan's hands, dropping the vase to the floor. "I'm a very private man Ryan, you of all people should know that. I'd appreciate it if you'd take your amateur porn-fiend self and leave me the f*** alone."
"Jay, it's not that big of a deal, nothing to ruin a friendship over." Tarynne tried to reason with him.
Estin and Paige walked over to the door of the bathroom curious about what was happening. "What's up?" Why were you yelling Jay?" Paige asked curiously.
Jay took a deep breath and looked down at Ryan's camera, "Take a look at what out 'friend' Ryan has been doing" he said as he watched Ryan leave and go to his bunk. Paige took the video camera and hooked it up to the TV and pressed play, the image was shocking. Ryan had been filming his friends "Adventures in Bed" or so it was titled (a title which didn't make sense because most of the adventures were filmed in the bathroom.)
"Jesus Christ, what the hell, this doesn't seem like the Ryan we know." Tarynne exclaimed as she watched embarrassed at a segment of her and Jay messing around on the bathroom floor.
"I thought he was in the back room playing video games when we were doing that!" Jay said curiously.
"He was, Morgan and I heard him screaming at the game, he must've planted the camera outside the room." Amir said as he entered the room.
"What's with the porn?" Morgan asked then her jaw dropped when she saw herself. "Who did this?" she asked spitting mad.
"It was Ryan" Jay answered irritated.
"No, Ryan wouldn't do this!" Estin said confidently. "Did he tell you he did it?"
Jay looked at Estin with disbelief. "You honestly think he'd tell me he did it? Of coarse not, he said he followed a wire over and was unplugging it."
"Maybe he was telling the truth, there were a lot of people on the bus the other night." Paige suggested, just as he himself on the video in the shower. "Whatever the case, something's gotta be done, we don't want this getting out."
Jay explained the situation with the video to Bobby and told him some of the things he was seen doing on the on the tape. Bobby quickly reacted in defense of Ryan. "No man, Ryan isn't an asshole like that, I know he didn't do that."
Yeah, well I'll believe it when you can prove it to me, until then, I guess I can't do anything private on my own bus. I can't even pee."
"Hey now, you gotta pee" Bobby replied jokingly trying to lighten Jay's mood. He was unsuccessful.
Tarynne, Estin, and Morgan sat together at the table drinking some sodas and discussing the whole Ryan thing. Ryan had avoiding everyone, he knew he was more than suspected of doing this horrendous thing although he also knew he didn't do it.
"We don't have much time to clear him, the guys have a photo shoot at 4pm and a TV appearance at 8pm." Estin explained worried they wouldn't be able to do it.
"We'll never make it Est, it's one now, we have 3 hours to prove a man's innocence!" Morgan replied "One and a half if you account for getting dress before the photo shoot."
"Well, Morg you are the future crime investigator, use what you've learned in your first year of college to help with clues." Tarynne suggested as her friends sat worried.
"Alright, first things first, we need to look for evidence. Maybe hooks in the wall that could've been holding the camera wires to hide them."
The girls walked to the backroom to search the wall beside the bathroom. Sure enough they found hooks. "Tarynne, you're the only one that was there when Jay caught Ryan with the camera, what position was he in?" Morgan asked as if she had an idea.
"He was on his hands and knees as if he'd been crawling on the floor." Tarynne answered her friend's question.
"That means, he very well could've followed the wires down to the corner of the door frame here." Estin picked up on the evidence. "Where you see a plastic mount perfect fir hanging or setting a small video camera on."
"So Ry didn't do it!" Tarynne exclaimed happily. "Now we have to figure out who did"
"Well, it couldn't have been a crew member, they aren't aloud on this bus." Estin ruled out.
"And of coarse it wasn't us or Sarah, we're too close to the guys." Morgan added.
"So, the only people that leaves are, Sarah's goofy new assistant, Krystal that she hired for this tour, the bus driver, or one of the groupies that was on the bus the night before we left for Chicago." Tarynne narrowed down the suspects.
"I'm sure they made both the bus driver, and Krystal go through extensive interviews when they started, so that leaves one of the groupies, and only three of them ever made it to the back room." Estin commented. "The three groupie. What were their names?"
The bus stopped, the driver got out to fill the tank. Jay and Paige came out into the kitchenette area and asked the girls if they wanted anything, then they went inside the tiny gas station.
"Let's walk over to the crew bus and ask Sarah for the list of all the signatures for the people that got VIP passes that were given out that night." Tarynne brightly suggested as she scooted out of the booth-like seat and got to her feet.
They walked over to the crew bus and went in to talk to Sarah. They told her all about the situation and asked for the list of people that had been given VIP passes on the night in question. Tarynne scanned the list and finally recognized the names of the three girls. "Here they are; Audrey McKintire, Julie Gainsworth, and Sarah Magnison. Little bitches won't know what hit them."
"How are we supposed to prove it was them? And in half an hour at that?" Estin asked curiously.
Morgan sat back in a chair to think how would she prove these b****es guilty? "I got it!'
"What? What's your idea?" Estin asked.
"Well, the video stuff might have evidence on it. Let's check it and see if we can prove they own it."
"Great idea! Hey Sarah thanks for your help. We gotta hurry before the guys get back." Tarynne said as they left the crew bus.
The girls immediately went to the back room and found the camera. "What a dolt! The stupid girl put her name on the camera in silver marker. Not just her initials, HER NAME!" Morgan exclaimed when she picked the camera up.
Tarynne took the camera from Morgan and looked at the name. "Congratulations, Miss Mckintire, you are officially on 'Orgy's S*** List'"
"And ours too!" Estin added "Did they honestly think they'd get back on the bus to get their camera?"
"I guess they did." Morgan answered. "Now, we just have to tell Jay what we found."
They all heard the guys come back on the bus so they ran to Ryan's bunk and got him to show him they know he was innocent then took him to the back room with them.
"Paige, could you bring Jay, Amir, and Bobby in here please?" Estin shouted to Paige and he obliged kindly.
The girls presented their case in defense of Ryan, using each piece of evidence strategically and finally bringing all the guys to the accurate conclusion that Ryan didn't do it. "I'm sorry Ry, I was a huge asshole to you, shake on it?" Jay apologized first.
"Whatever doubt I may have had in you is now gone Ry, I'm sorry. Now let's go to the photo shoot." Paige said as the bus driver started the bus and they were on their way to the shoot.
The girls sat by their guys (well in the same room as them) as they got their publicity shoot done with, after the last publicity photo, they all posed fir a picture together then left to prepare for that evening's TV appearance.
Their appearance was amazing but, Tarynne, Morgan, and Estin wished more than anything it wouldn't end, the performances end meant travel's end for the girls. They had responsibilities at home that needed to be attended to.
The girls and their 5 friends spent the drive back home doing as much together as possible. It came time to drop the girls off at Estin's apartment. Sarah helped them in with their stuff, while the guys laid low on the bus for fear of being seen.
"Bye Tarynne, I love you. I'll call you tonight." Jay yelled from the bus door as Tarynne walked into the apartment building.
Morgan stared at Amir who was peeking out through the front window of the bus. "Bye Mir Man, I'll miss you much," she yelled to him. Estin just told Paige she'd talk to him that night she always hated good-byes. Though, she hoped it wouldn't be goodbye for long.
Part 4: Back for Good