The Overprotective Brother (Josh Franceschi)

We arrived at the venue and the techs, the tour managers and Tom Sykes began to unload the trailers and get the guitars, drums, microphones, etc. inside of the venue. Tonight the bands where playing Manchester, which I think they were all looking forward to.

I wandered down the hallways backstage until the sound of someone's footsteps could be heard behind me, I already knew from the slightly heavy breathing it was Matt Barnes.

"Hey Alex," He said as he steady his breathing and caught up to me.

"Hey Matty, what's up?" I asked.

"I heard you throwing up again this morning, and I began thinking," He said. Oh God what has he come up with.

"Yeah, and....."

"Well, think about it, you've only thrown up when you first woke up and then you were fine during the day."

"Mhmm, Matt what are you insinuating?"

"Have you had, you know...... your........lady thing of the month, this month?"

"Period? Nope..............Oh SHIT no, Matt I haven't. Oh no I can't be. No way. Not now. Shit, shit, shit. Matt what do I do?"

"Hold on. Right don't panic. Erm......... I could go out and get you one of those test things to check, if you want me too, I mean I know my way around Manchester. Well, I don't but I know that there's a pharmacy around the corner and I'll run and get one for you, if you want."

"Please Matt. And don't speak a word of this to anyone."

"I won't I'll be back as quick as I can," he said, before he hugged me and made his way to the exit of the building.

Oh God, what have I done? What am I going to do? What do I tell Josh? Will he still want me after this? Wait a minute. If I am pregnant then the baby might not even be Josh's. Fraser! What do I tell him? How do I tell him? How do I find out who the father is? I wish I hadn't come on tour. In fact I wish I hadn't fallen for someone to good for me. I wish I had stayed home being the single one and having my brother being all overprotective. I'd give anything for my old life. Unmarried, possibly pregnant at 23 years of age, no job and no way to support a baby.

I couldn't handle all of this. I did the one thing I knew was bound to happen. I started having a panic attack. I needed Sean, or my brother, or Tom or anyone from Bring Me The Horizon really. They would know how to stop this. Just as things began to get worse I heard footsteps rounding the corner and the white blonde head with crazy hair that I could not mistake anywhere turned the corner, along with Dan.

"Alex?" Dan questioned as he looked towards my shaking state on the floor.

"Alexandra?" he questioned again as the 2 men made their way over to me.

"Shit, Dan go back to the dressing room and get my bag, her tablets are in there, oh and run," Sean yelled. He always knew what to do in a situation like this.

The pitter-patter of Dan's feet, running against the floor flooded my ears.

"Alright, Alex everything's going to be fine. I don't know what's happened but everything will be alright," Sean said sitting down next to me as he pulled my shaking frame against his chest. He put my head on his shoulder and rubbed my face making me calm down.

Dan rounded the corner again, Sean's bag in his hand and a worried looking Matt Barnes running behind him.

"Here," Dan said handing Sean his backpack.

"Thanks," Sean said as he took a bottle of water and my tablets out. He handed them to me and my breathing began to return to normal.

"Is she ok?" Dan asked sitting down at my left hand side, as Matt sat in front of me.