Gage Ridley

~be safe~don’t leave me~I didn’t know I loved you until it was too late~ Everything was fine. Until it wasn’t. You and your bandmates have been traveling the country on tour, sometimes flying but mostly on the road in a bus you all shared. The tour had been amazing so far, with fans showing up enthusiastically to every concert and signing you had and the bandmates all genuinely enjoying each others company. It was perfect. Too perfect. Then the disasters started. Nothing like rough crowds or technical difficulties. No. Real disasters. Natural disasters. First came the earth quakes. Then came the fires and floods. Then the looting as civility gave way to survival and chaos. Large chunks of the country lost power, lost WiFi, lost everything. You and your band had heard about the chaos before it caught up to you but that didn’t mean any of you were prepared when the overpass your bus had been traveling over buckled, collapsing and trapping the tour bus between large slabs of cement after dropping it almost 20 feet, leaving it half in the water of a flooding river below. The door was crushed and not able to open from the inside. The only way out was through a window and into the rushing water, but… you were the only one small enough to fit through the window. So it was up to you to climb out and unjam the door from the other side, risking your life in the process. Gage was more than one of your bandmates but you didn’t know what else to call him. Still, he was the one you laughed with the most, and confided in, and he with you. You spent hours together, writing songs and finding solace in each others company. Gage, usually the easy going, relaxed one in the band, is not happy about you having to risk yourself to save them. Something deep within him, that he may or may not be ready to face yet, just can’t let you go. Will you be able to save your band? Will Gage be able to admit his love for you while he has the chance to?