The Only Demon I Believe in is Myself

Comfortable

"Hey" he greeted as I got in the car. "Hey." he leaned over placing his soft lips on mine. They stayed there for a few seconds before he pulled away. "You ready for tonight?" he asked "yeah I guess." I stated "well you're gonna get really hot in that sweatshirt. But I'm happy you wear it." He moved his hand towards mine. "I'll just buy a shirt there." I told him lighting a cigarette.

"Or I can just get you one of my bands tank tops" he suggested "sounds good." I nodded. "you're finally warming up to me." He smiled lacing his finger in between mine. "stop my hands are sweaty." I said loudly. "your hands are fine. They're so small." he smiled moving his hand under mine. I looked at the large size different before he intertwined our fingers again.

"We're here." He smiled pulling around to the back of a large theater. "There's that Mexican from a few nights ago." I pointed as he disappeared through a door. He turned the car off "yeah, he's our drummer. My friends can be dicks sometimes." he warned rubbing the back of my hand.

We walked in to the cool building and through dirty hallways to a hall containing three rooms and an outlet.
He pulled me slightly through the doorway to an extremely large room opening into a stage and staircase. Down the staircase was a bar with half of the seats filled. "Is beer okay?" He questioned. I nodded.

"Ooh big Al's here finally." A man slightly taller than me said patting him on the back. "who's this?" He asked eyeing me. "Aerisa" he smiled. "Dan, I'm gonna steal him for a few minutes." he told me dragging him off. "sorry." Alex mouthed. I felt someone cover my eyes "I have a knife." I warned. "Whoa it's just me." the Mexican man held up his hands.

"Pablo ring a bell?" He asked "yeah, sorry." I appologized. "why are you wearing a sweatshirt?" He gave me a weird look "cause fuck off." I responded. "Well wanna take a few shots? I'll introduce you to everyone." He kindly offered. "sure, arn't you like not supposed to drink before you play?" " well the doors are about to open so we don't play for another hour, hour and a half." He shrugged starting towards the room furthest back.

"Jason, Kalan, David, Jake, and Chris" he pointed out. "hi " I waved "sit" David patted the spot next to him. "I'll get you a drink." Pablo stated. I sunk into the couch and felt one of the place their arm around me. I threw their arm off but it was soon back in its spot.

Alex walked in and my eyes widened a bit, "Can you stop being dirt bags?" He asked handing me a beer and tank top. I stood up and he soon took my place. "hold this please." I requested and he took the cup. I slid the shirt on over my feet and pulled it up under the sweatshirt before taking it off.

He handed me the cup back and gestured for me to sit in his lap. I carefully placed myself on his knees before taking a longer drink. Out of practically nowhere I herd the loud roar of a crowd before someone loudly started screaming. "please tell me your band doesn't sound like that." I looked back at him. And they all started laughing.

I managed to sit though the first act with the help of 6 beers. "Is it over yet?" I asked. "There's one before us. So before we start to warm up who do you think plays what?" Jason asked. A man with longish black hair and a microphone walked in "we're gonna go on in like 3 minutes you guys should probably get your instruments." He advised before leaving.

Kalan and Chris removed themselves "okay so you're two bands?" I asked. "No there's just a lot of us." Dan said from under Jason "okay, Jason plays bass, Dan sings or whatever you call it, Alex plays guitar, Pablo plays drums, Jake plays guitar, and David plays bass." I guessed. " three out of six, Jason plays guitar, Dan plays guitar, and Alex gets his job stolen by our Taco Bell guy." Dan corrected.

"That's weird." I commented as Pablo handed me a cup filled with a dark liquor instead. I chugged the entire thing down and the music became more bearable. Pablo immediately refilled it. "get your shit together and start warming up." A man yelled before disappearing.

Twenty minutes later Alex gave me a kiss and put the sweatshirt over me before leaving. I finished the last of my cup before drifting to sleep. I woke up in the car and looked around sitting up. "hey you're finally awake." He noticed "Yeah." I slurred. "and still drunk" he laughed. "Can we go back to your place, you have nice bed." I tried to make out.

"We're almost there Hun." A few mint yes later he pulled in to the same parking spot. I opened the door and started to get out but he rushed over picking me up. "I love you." I yelled laughing. He opened the door and sat me down on the couch. He grabbed a bottle and handed it to me. I opened it draining a flood portion. "whoa" he tilted it down before picking me up and sitting me on his bed.

He sat the bottle down on his dresser and I pulled off my pants and bra. "Are you ready for bed?" He asked. I pulled myself under the cool sheets. He took off his pants and shirt placing his hat in the dresser. As soon as he got in I cuddled up to his large chest and fell asleep.