This One's For You (Of Mice & Men Fanfiction)

Chapter 6

Delilah's P.O.V

Today was the day that Of Mice & Men played their first show on Warped Tour. All of the bands, actually played their first shows today. I really wanted to watch Of Mice & Men and Sleeping With Sirens from the crowd, but neither Austin or Kellin would allow me to leave them to watch, in fear that I would go off and do something stupid. They wouldn't come and watch with me either, because they were scared that they would get ambushed. If one of them was on stage playing then I don't think that the fans would want to pay too much attention to the other just because he's in the crowd, I thought, but I didn't know much about the situation so I didn't argue.

I was helping the guys get their equipment ready for their set, and to my surprise, Phil spoke up.
"Austin, you can't just have her do absolutely nothing at Warped Tour. It's like torture!" He said to Austin, who quickly refused to let me do anything.
"FOR FUCKS SAKE AUSTIN YOU'RE BEING A FUCKING PRISON GUARD!" Alan shouted, shocking everyone. A smirk appeared on his face and everyone went back to doing what they had to do.
"Alright. Del, you can go and do whatever, but you have to be back here in an hour so that I can see you're still alive before we go on stage. I hugged Austin quickly before running to the backstage lounge to grab my phone. I started towards the side of the building until I ran into someone slightly taller than me. What made me recognise him was his long hair and his cap. It was Vic, the frontman of Pierce The Veil. I'd met him earlier, but I was too awkward to say much to him.
"Shit, sorry!" He started. "Wait, Delilah, right?" He asked. I nodded and he grabbed my hand and led me outside. 
"Can we go for a walk? I mean you don't have to but.." He said, and again, I simply nodded. He didn't seem very happy, and I don't know why. I wanted to help him.

We walked around the tour bus area, and talked about little things, like Vic's life in a band, his brother, stuff like that. He didn't seem to cheer up at all throughout our whole conversation.
"Are you okay?" I asked him. He looked at me and slightly shook his head, then laughed.
"Can I please talk to you about something?" He said, and I could almost see tears forming in his eyes. It was clear that I'd made him think about something he didn't want to think about. We made our way to the other side of the buses, where there were no people. We sat down on the grass and Vic took a deep breath.
"No don't worry about it." He said.
"You can tell me anything, Vic. Really." I said softly. I really wanted to know what was upsetting him. After a few minutes of procrastinating, he gathered the strength to tell me.

"I'm gay. Completely and utterly gay. And I haven't told anybody. Except for my parents, who kicked me out of the house and disowned me. Thankfully they didn't tell anyone because they were too ashamed of me. If anybody found out, I'd be nailed to a fucking cross or some shit. But, not telling anyone has driven me insane. Literally. Mike noticed that I hadn't been myself, and he took me to see a therapist, who diagnosed me with anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. It kinda fucking sucked, because I thought the teenage years were the worst, and I was like fucking 25 when this happened. Three years later, and I haven't even gotten any better. After being locked up in a mental institute for three months you'd think I would've gotten slightly better. Even after I was in there, I was at Jaime's house and I locked myself in his bathroom for three hours, because I had a panic attack and wanted to get away from him in case I hurt him. I even fucking self harmed over all of this. I'm 28 for fucks sake, this isn't supposed to happen to adults." Vic said without stopping, and after a few seconds silence, he burst into tears. I let him cry on my shoulder for a few minutes before he sat up again and put a sad smile on his face.
"You have to tell your band about all of this. They're probably worried sick about you." I told Vic.
"They'll judge me. They think I'm crazy enough after I was locked up." He protested.
"Do you trust them?" Vic sighed.
"Of course I do, they're the most amazing and talented people I've ever come across. They're my best friends." He said, looking down into his lap. He nodded and looked back up at me. "I'll tell them when I'm ready. I'll make sure that's some time soon." Vic almost whispered, and I enveloped him in a huge hug. I looked at my phone after that and saw that I was ten minutes late to meeting Austin before his set. Fuck. I jumped up and quickly explained to Vic before running through the masses of tour buses back to the stage.

When I arrived sidestage, I glanced over at Austin who was screaming into the microphone. When he stopped screaming and allowed the music to play, he looked over at me and an adorable smile spread across his face. He continued his song and I watched the whole set from sidestage. I'd never listened to music like this, but I thought it was amazing.

"I was so fucking worried about you!" Austin almost yelled in the backstage lounge. He'd asked his bandmates for a few minutes alone after their set, and those few minutes alone were for Austin to get his anger out.
"I'm sorry, I was talking to Vic and-" He cut me off
"I told you one hour! Is that too much to ask for? I wanted to know that you were safe, and that you weren't dead!" He was yelling now.
"Vic was with me, I was safe I promise!" I told him.
"THIS PLACE CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!" He screamed, and I went silent. I guess I had to get used to Austin being angry, because there were tears forming in my eyes. I was horrified. He was such a sweetie, but now that he's angry I was beginning to think otherwise. Austin must've seen that I was beginning to cry and sat on the couch next to me and hugged me.
"I'm so so sorry, Del. Don't cry, beautiful." He cooed, and kept hugging me until Kellin walked in, looking distraught.
"What's up?" Austin asked.
"It's Vic." Kellin replied. "He's having another panic attack."