We're Classic Hysteria// Awsten Knight

36- This Was Such An Important Album

A/N I had to go back and rewatch Fandom: Live In The UK for this cause I needed the little speeches. I wrote them out by hand too. Fun times.

-Aria's POV-

Today is the day of the Birmingham show, we arrived here late this morning and Awsten was freaking out.

"Awsten, hey, breathe. You're gonna be fine" I spoke and he looked up at me with pure fear in his eyes.

"What if I fuck up?" He spoke and I jist rubbed his back softly.

"Take a breath my love, you're not gonna fuck up, and if you do it will still be amazing, they'll still love you. You have both of your big speeches ready right?" I spoke and he pulled them up on his phone.

"The first one after blonde and the second one right before entertainment" He spoke and I nodded.

"Okay, don't stress, you're gonna be fine" I spoke and sighed, heading to my bunk to finish up the photos from the US tour.

I was still pretty upset with Ronnie, but I wasn't gonna express that to Chris as it seemed there was already a lot on his mind to begin with, so I hid in my bunk.

Then I heard someone get off the bus and just about had a heart attack.

"I don't know who the fuck just got off the bus but if they get mobbed by crazy fans it is not my fault!" I screamed from the bunk area and geoff came over to my bunk.

"Aria it's just me, can you open your curtain?" he spoke and I opened the curtain and he slid into my bunk.

"Who went outside?" I spoke, genuinely curious as to who was gonna come back covered in bruises.

"Chris, Ronnie called.." He spoke, looking at me kinda sadly.

"You snooped didn't you?" I asked and he nodded.

"She put an offer on a house in Virginia" He spoke and my heart sank.

"Oh, okay. Well, my statement still stands. If he gets mobbed by fans it's not my problem to deal with" I spoke and he nodded.

"I know. Don't be too upset, okay?" He spoke and I just sighed.

"I know. It just sucks, all of my friends at this point have either moved or died, so you guys are the only thing keeping us in LA" I spoke and he just frowned.

"I get it, don't stress okay? I'm gonna go get Awsten" He spoke and slid out of my bunk, moments later Awsten had taken his place and I was in his lap with tears streaming down my face.

"Hey, hey, take a breath, you're alright" Awsten spoke, gently running his fingers through my hair.

"It's just not fair Awsten, first Kayla, then Jawn and Gracie, and now this, I swear it's like as soon as I make a friend something happens." I spoke and he just held me close.

"You're alright, cry it out." He spoke and I just cried.

"Hey, you guys are on in an hour, you need to get back there" I heard Lucas speak and I groaned, grabbing my camera.

Once I got into the photo pit I checked my phone.

From: Dad :)

Hey kiddo! I made it, front row too. You got lucky they let me leave.

I smiled and took the lens cap off my camera, keeping my eyes open for the cameras around me.

De'Wayne and Motionless played their sets and I was ready to get this show over with as now it was starting to stress me out.

They came out and played Cherry Red, Watch What Happens Next, and Blonde. I then moved out of the way so the camera crew could catch Awsten's speech from good angles.

"Birmingham! We're the band waterparks, thank you so fucking much for being here with us tonight! Oh and there's levels to this shit too, put those lights back on. Heyyyyy, and fucking up there, damn, that's crazy. Welcome to the fuckin fandom tour. You guys wanna know something crazy? Something cool? Something fuckin thrilling? So, we got the budget from our label to do a live CD/DVD, and we chose to do it here, tonight with all of y'all come on! So, uh, there's this person, there's this person, there's some over there, there's some back there, there's more and I don't know where they are and that's kinda alarming but fair enough. So, I need y'all to be the tightest fuckin crowd on this whole tour can you do that? Cool, so you guys got the album yeah? Well then you know this one here. This next songs called dream boy if you're on the fucking ground, if you're on the ground you are dead to me come on!"

He spoke and then the camera crew moved again so I could catch more photos between that and the Entertainement speech.

They played plenty of songs, Awsten made me tie his shoe, and they played more songs, then Awsten gave me a look that said he was getting ready to mak his other speech and I slid out of the way again.

"Entertainment has been such an important album for us just because it's the first time we've made an album while more than like a few hundred people knew who we were, know who we are, whatever, um, it's weird because like you never know how people are going to take an album especially like once expectations are already laid out by another release but, you know just seeing all these shows get bigger and seeing more and more people show up and have entertainment tattoos, it's been such a good sign. You know, cause sometimes people can't make it  through the hype of their own first album and that sucks, like you see that happen to bands all the time and they just get hung up on that and that's all they wanna hear forever, and that was, it was definitely, a concern, it wasn't like a driving force or like factor in the creative process but it was definitely like a worry like 'man I don't know if this shit's good enough' but um, and that's why Entertainment was recorded in secret. Like to try and avoid unwanted expectations or input or whatever that be from like people online or even like people kind of on the inside with us and everything but um, but seeing everybody's reactions to it made it kind of obvious that even if we weren't doing double dare exactly again, like, we still did something"

By the time he was done I was tearing up while trying to take photos. I spotted my dad and almost started bawling.

They finished up the show by making the crowd do turbulent twice. Like every show, and ended the show on a really good note. I went back to the bus and immediately went to my bunk, then receiving a call from my dad.

Aria Aaron

Hola senor Hotcher.

Hey kiddo. That was amazing. Tell Awsten I'm proud of him will you?

I will. Thank you so much for coming.

Of course. Is the lead singer of motionless Ronnie's husband??

Yes sir. Why?

I was just curious, I thought he'd be back in Quantico with Ronnie and the kids after what happened.

Wait, what happened?

I'll let them tell you, but I'm on my way to LA now for a case. Love you kiddo

Love you too dad.

I hung up the phone and just layed down.

I was angry, tired, terrified, and I felt like shit.

I just wanted to be home with my kids.