Out Of Town | A Blind Channel FF

3. I want it that way

Tommis POV:

We went back to our room after the concert. Probably we would drink some beer before sleeping. We would have to go to Turku tomorrow, so we had to get up early.
Santeri was already waiting for us. 'Great start, guys!', he smiled bright and hugged us.
We talked about the following gigs and what we planned for our off-days.

'Tommi, how was the sound for you today?', Santeri asked.
'Yep, as good as I would have done it with Roope. You have a new guy for tuning?', I asked and took a sip of my beer.
'No...not a guy', Santeri explained. 'It was Suvi, the girl you met earlier with Roope. She helps her dad Vilho on our tour, she's now working with Roope, working as a sound engineeree and is also doing the tuning.'
'What?', Joel shouted in disbelieve.
'Here, have a look. I can prove it', Santeri said and showed us a video on his phone.
It showed our stage and my drums.
The girl from before was playing...she was really good.
'Is this the same girl as we saw before?', Joonas asked looking closely at the video. 'She's a different person behind this drums!'

'Maybe we should be earlier at the venue tomorrow so we can have a look.', Niko suggested. 'We should welcome her to our tour family.'
We all nodded to agree with his idea.

Suvis POV:
It was a hard first day. We had to pack everything up. It would be a short night before we would go to Turku tomorrow. I had the responsability for the instruments, that wasn't that heavy in comparison to some stage elements.
So I had a look on the strings of the guitars and bass and changed the damaged ones. I recognized the nearly broken strap of a guitar. I would have to ask someone tomorrow where we store the back ups.
I loaded the instruments into the small truck.

When everything was finished, the crew gathered together and had an after work beer. 'Cheers! To a good tour start and welcome on board to our new crew members!', said Hunno.
My dad was sitting next to me. 'How was your first day? Tired?'
I nodded. 'I like it a lot! But yes, I think my muscles will be sore tomorrow.', i explained.

'It's the same for everybody. You had a good start today. Roope thinks much of you and you impressed many with your skills.'
I blushed.
'I hope they like me. I try my best and don't want to have a bonus because I'm your daughter.', I said, but we couldn't talk any longer. My phone was buzzing. I looked at my screen. It was mom. I rolled my eyes when I tool the call.

'Hey, mom! Yes, yes, I'm doing fine. No, dad too. Yep. No, I don't carry to heavy things. I handle the instruments. Mom, I have to sleep. We have to go to Turku early tomorrow. Yep. You too, bye!'
I said goodbye to my dad and the others. I directly went to bed. It was around 1 am, my alarm would go off at 5 am. We would be on the road at 6 am.

As I said before, every part of my body was hurting when I got up the next morning.

Everything was going as planned, we arrive in time and even if it only was the second venue, it felt like I already had a routine.
Roope and I were working perfectly together. He explained me some functions of his mixers and I had to do the sound check again.

I took the walkie talkie with me and an in-ear. 'Roope? Could you play "Levitating" when I check the bass?', I asked him. 'Sure, I'd do everything for you', he said and winked at me. It was no flirting, we only had fun and were joking around. He had a girlfriend at home.

I started again with the mics.
I was so concentrated that I didn't recognize some of the crew were already standing here and there waiting for me to play. So it is no suprise I didn't see the actual band standing somewhere around.
I played some cool riffs with the guitars, but had no intention to play full songs today with them. 'We need a new strap for this! Has someone seen the back ups?', I asked so a few workers around me could hear me. When I was focused on music, I wasn't shy anymore.

I didn't see who, but someone was going to the back. 2 minutes later he came back.
My eyes widened.'You're already here?', I asked the blond haired guy in front of me. 'Yep, thanks for taking care of my babes. Here is a new strap.', he winked at me. 'You're doing good.' I was overwhelmed and irritated at the same time. But I had to focus again on my work. So I changed it and placed the guitar at the side of the stage.

Then I walked up to the bass. I controlled the sound when I heard Roope through the ear piece.
'Ready?' Instead of speaking to him with the walkie talkie, I gave  thumbs up in his direction.

Joonas POV:

I went back to the guys after helping Suvi with my guitar. We arrived a few minutes earlier and were hanging around a few metres away of the stage sitting on some empty boxes. She hadn't recognized all of us were there, I think.
Her riffs on my guitars were great and I would have loved hearing her acutally playing some songs.

Then she went on to prepair the bass.
Olli had talked with Aleksi, but stopped when he heard the first sounds of his bass.
'She's going into detail', Olli said and nodded. 'She tunes and checks it absolutely acurate'
All of a sudden she hold up her thumb. She showed something to Roope, I thought. Out of nowhere started a song playing and then we got a show we didn't expect.

'Damn!', Olli mumbled.
'She's playing us into the ground', Aleksi said staring at her.
I heard Niko laughing and looked in the same direction he was looking.
He pointed at one of our stage crew grooving to the music and Vilho standing in front of the stage filming. He was the typical proud dad like our parents are.

When she played the last notes everybody was shouting and clapping. Suvi backed away. Nearly unhearable she spoke a shy 'thanks' in  one of the mics.
Then she placed the bass to the side and went to Tommis drums. Our big boys body tensed. 'Not used to let someone other than us play your drums, heh?', I joked and slightly punched his arms.
'And I even don't like this, most of the time', Tommi said giving me a death stare. He was right, I wasn't the most careful person, but I was better than Olli. I never lost a guitar, but Olli would be absolutly capable of loosing a full drum kit!

She was doing her work again, checking everything out.
'You want to have another Backstreet Boy song, girl?', Roope spoke now through the speakers, so everyone could hear it.
'NOOOO', Suvi shouted, I could see her rolling her eyes. But she had no option, Roope pressed the play button and here and there the guys were laughing while working.

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Hey loves!

So here is chapter 3. I'm not that fast in updating, because I'm still trying to find my way I wanna go with this story. And I'm currently writing more for my other BC story. But I give my best, soon I have some days off(but have to study for an exam.

I hope you like it so far. Thank you for all your reads,votes, feedback. 🥰

Love you all 🖤 Lara