Have you ever been grounded on a tour bus? It's pretty amusing. they can't leave me there alone, yet I'm not supposed to leave.

So guess who ended up being grounded with me? I wish I could say it was one of my brothers, but sadly I got stuck with someone else.

Jennifer.

I'd actually been hoping she'd come with us anyway, since we were heading out on a promotional tour that would keep us away from home for about three weeks. These were starting to get old. We were either sleeping on a cramped little bus that Mercury had rented for us, or in hotels with practically thousands of girls camping outside and chanting shouts of love to my brothers.

Gag me with a spoon.

"I don't even know why they're bothering with this,"I remarked while in the middle of a poker game with Jenifer."It's not like I'm even missing anything."

"True."Jenifer looked bored."Some of the stuff they can't even let you skip 'cause they don't want the press hearing about you being grounded."

"Maybe I should tell the press."Now THAT would be fun.

Jenifer didn't go for that one.

* * *

Three days later, I was officially going stir-crazy."Please,"I begged."Just let me run around the bus a few times. They won't be out of that press conference for hours."

Jenifer sighed.

"Please? My legs are cramping."

She reluctantly agreed. I don' think she would have if she'd known my master plan. Hey, it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't been staring at those salamanders walking by the bus all day.

I spent my time outside stuffing them into my pockets. I had quite a collection by the time Jenifer called me back. I then told her I was tired and was going to go nap in one of the bunks.

See? She should have known something was up by that time. I tucked as many of the little lizards as I could in each of my brothers beds. Now, if they would just stay put until they came back from the press conference...

* * *

Taylor screams like a girl.

On the bright side, this time I got a better punishment. I got sent home.