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Sutton pushes strands of her out of her face as she enters her tour bus, sighing in relief. She goes straight to making tea with honey to soothe her throat when suddenly her phone rings.

Sutton huffs, not wanting to have to speak anymore the rest of the evening. Being on tour and performing multiple nights in a row per week, it's important for her to use her voice as little as possible when she's not singing to salvage it. And she didn't want to be bothered after a long night's performance, but seeing as it was her tour manager, she's inclined to answer.

"Hello?" Sutton answers, pulling all the contents for tea out of the cabinet.

"Sutton! Great performance tonight!" Her tour manager, Abby, gushes. Abby's in her early thirties, from Louisiana, and has been involved in Sutton's career since the beginning. She's become one of Sutton's closest friends over the past couple years, her energetic and organized energy being what's held Sutton together throughout this tour.

"Thank you." Sutton smiles, ripping open the tea bag and grabbing a mug.

"And I've already talked to multiple radio stations and 'Regret Me' will be played everywhere immediately." Abby reports. "I'm so proud of you."

Sutton eyes shine. "Wow, that's awesome." She breathes out. She would have never thought in a million years any of her songs would be on the radio. And for the crowd tonight to give her the most electric reaction to 'Regret Me'... it was surreal.

Singing covers in your bedroom and your dorm room for YouTube to this really puts everything into perspective, even if she has no one to share it with.

She shakes her, forcing herself to push those thoughts to the back of her mind. Yep. Tonight was about excitment and accomplishments.

"So, what's the catch then?" Sutton muses into the phone, moving it from her ear to put it on speaker so she can use both hands to pour in the honey, soothing power, and stir.

Abby scoffs playfully. "Wha- catch? Can't a friend just be proud?

Sutton chuckles. "You can. But a tour manager on the other hand... there's always something."

"Okay, okay." Abby sighs. "But I meant everything I said." She assures. "You know I like to get the good news out of the way first."

"Right, always good news first, bad news second, fake news last." Sutton nods, listing Abby's motto.

"That's right." Abby snaps. "Anyways, just wanted to tell you the Tennessee and Kentucky shows are going to be postponed."

Sutton's brows furrow together. "What why?"

"Some venue crap." Abby clicks. "No biggie. Those shows are just being swapped with Oklahoma and Arkansas's shows." She informs Sutton causing the blonde to almost drop her mug as her breath catches in her throat.

Oklahoma and Arkansas?!

"Wh-what? Abby, no." Sutton rushes out before quickly pausing to clear her throat and recomposing herself. "In the middle of tornado season?" She chuckles lightly. "I don't think that's such a good idea."

"Oh, nonsense, it'll be fine." Abby dismisses. "This company has already volunteered to sponsor us to come and even play a couple extra shows." She informs, clapping her hands. "It'll be great."

It'll be great...

It'll be great.

"You still there?" Abby asks after hearing nothing but silence on the other line for a minute.

Sutton blinks, realizing she zoned out, staring off into space in horror. "Yeah, yeah. So when we leave?"

"Bright and earlier tomorrow morning, we're taking off!" She cheers. "So rest up, we'll arrive tomorrow afternoon and we'll have the rest of the day before your first show the next. I'll send out an itinerary tomorrow, of course." Abby informs, jotting notes down as she talks a hundred miles per hour.

Sutton's head is spinning and she no longer in the mood for her tea.

"Sleep. Got it." She nods.

"Yep. I'll be banging on your bus at about six in the morning, so be ready." Abby chuckles. "Okay, well, I'm going to pull an all-nighter for this new schedule, you get some sleep, mhmm?"

Sutton chews on the inside of her lip. "Yes ma'am." She muses.

Abby huffs. "You kill me. Love ya, bye."

"Love ya, bye." Sutton repeats and the line goes dead.

Sutton rakes her tongue across her teeth, gripping counter as she finds it hard to breathe. She grits her teeth, choking on air as she bangs her fist down and in one swift motion send the mug flying across the kitchen into the fridge.

"Fuck!" She yells, gripping her chest tightly she screws her shut. "Fucking, stop!" She snaps at herself, unable to feel her throat desperately dry-swallowing.

She storms off to her bathroom, ripping it open she immediately turns on the sink as her ribs and chest clench, and she drowns herself in cold water, gasping loudly as oxygen slaps back into her lungs and she takes multiple large breathes of painful air before throwing her head back she rests it on the wall behind her.

She shakes her head, disappointed with herself.

She opts out of a shower, doing the bare minimum of everything else before she collapses into bed, praying for a deep, comfortable sleep.

Instead, Sutton's met with tossing and turning all night long. The thought of going back home, her home, after so long eating away at her...

And thoughts of a certain cowboy that inspired her song plaguing her mind as well.

Maybe it's best she didn't fall asleep, she thought to herself at three in the morning. She didn't trust her mind at the moment, and had no idea what it would conjure up as a dream if she did.

Sutton nibbles on her lip as she restlessly stares at the ceiling of the bus, wondering if it would be easier to sleep if she wasn't alone.

Even if she had a dog just something else to not make her feel so lonely when she's traveling from state to state each week.

And that was the last thought before she drifts off to sleep... her mind betraying her in the process...

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𝟶ʙᴜᴛᴛᴇʀʙɪsᴄᴜɪᴛ𝟽 sᴘᴇᴀᴋs!

Hey, heyyy!! Welcome back to another Chasing Obnubilate Friday!! And happy 2 weeks to Twisters!! Wow, this movie is already 2 weeks old?! Uhhh, where does the time go???

Anywayssss, y'all finally got a Sutton chapterrrr, eekkk <3

I hope y'all enjoyed reading her perspective! Our girl had a panic attack :(

Also, I don't have a face claim for Abby lol, but I don't really feel like finding one rn lmao, so just picture her how you will (she has brown hair in my head though) & she's not like a major secondary character to the story, so that's why I'm not worried about it bahaha.

Can't think y'all enough for your reads, votes, comments, & adding this book to your libraries!! It's truly so exciting & motivating!! AND THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH FOR 1K reads!!

Hope y'all enjoyed!! And see you in the next part, mwauh!! Sutton's going home!!