Everyone picked up their bags and got on to the respective bus. Alex walked to the very back of the bus and threw her stuff into the bottom bunk on the left. Leighanne came in behind her cousin and threw her stuff into the bunk across from her cousin. Brian and Nick followed behind and tossed into the two bunks above the girls, Brian above Leighanne and Nick above Alex.

"Don't let the bus leave without me. I'm just going to say goodbye to Serenity." Nick said to anyone who was listening and then walked out.

"So, Leigh, I get to be on top of you every night. I could get used to this." Brian grinned and wrapped his around Leighanne's waist from behind.

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch, Littrell." Leighanne laughed. "There are the nights where we are in hotels."

"Yah, but you told me that you rather me on top then you riding me." Brian said just as the whole bus went silent.

Kevin, AJ, Amanda, Howie and Alex just stood there and stared at the couple.

Both Brian and Leighanne turned bright shades of red when they realized that the whole bus had heard their sex argument.

"I did NOT need to know about my cousins sex life!" Kevin and Alex exclaimed at the same time.

"It's great having you back on tour with us Alex. It never was quite the same without you on i." AJ laughed and hen gave Alex a tight hug.

"Yeah. It never was the same touring with out my 4 nosy older brothers there to nag at me all the time." Alex grinned.

"So how's life at home?" Kevin asked just as Nick came on the bus and everyone sat down in the entertainment room. Nick walked back out to his bunk, to try and figure out how to manage the tour with Alex right underneath him, mind you that no one knew that's what he was going to think about.

Brian, Leighanne and Howie all sat on the couch while AJ and Amanda shared a swivel chair. Kevin sat in the other one Alex sat in the middle of the floor so that she could get caught up with her 4 'older' brothers.

"Life's great! Allyson is almost done with school. Mom's loves her job at the paper. And Ping-Pong is as hyper as usual." Alex laughed.

"Duh. Well, take a look at his owner. She's not the calmest of people either." Leighanne laughed.

"So? Anyone got a problem if I am a really hyper person?" Alex laughed.

After an hour of talking and catching up with each other, Alex decided to go get her bunk set up the way she wanted. Crawling into the small confinement she would call home for the next 3 months, Alex could hear Nick mumbling something in his sleep above her, but it was too faint to know what he was saying. She pulled open one of the drawers and got her smaller bag and took the 3 novels, her journal, her song binder and finally her Discman and CD wallet. That filled the drawer up and Alex then shut it.

Next were a few changes of clothes in the second drawer and the Alex put her bag in the compartment under her bunk. Before she did, though, Alex got her pillow and an envelope full of pictures. As she was sorting through them, Alex noticed the picture that AJ had taken one day as a joke. It had been from their last tour and it was a snapshot of her and Nick kissing.

"how am I going to last. He's right above me. The worst part is, is that this how we used to sleep when we were together. This whole tour is going to be hard to do. I love him." Alex cried in a whisper and looked at the picture. Laying down, Alex thought maybe a nap would help clear her head of some things.