Violet Skies ~ An In This Moment Fan Fiction

~Chapter 8~

After an amazing night and morning with Iris, we left for the venue. She literally sat in my lap in the captain's chair on the way back to the venue. She was much more comfortable around all of us. After we arrived, she got off the bus leaving us on there. I sat in the chair minding my own business, looking at the photos I had taken of us on my phone.

"Look at him, he's smiling his ass, off" Randy whispered.

"She was a lot less stressed this morning," Travis said with a chuckle.

"You know I can hear you," I said without lifting my head up.

"What 'cha looking at buddy," Randy asked.

"None of your business," I said.

"How was your night," Randy asked.

"Better than yours," I said without lifting my head.

"Obviously," he said with a chuckle.

"How many tattoos does she have," Travis asked.

"Not including the arm sleeve, she has ten more."

"Any sexy ones?"
"Yes, she has one below her bikini line in French."

"Ooohh," Randy said.

"She has book quotes going down her spine."

"Nice," Travis said.

"She has one on her left hip that is in Italian. The one on her right hip is in Spanish. The one on her other arm is Japanese but you can see that one. She has Arabic writing on her waist line in the back. She has the lyrics of Standing Alone in Latin on her right ribs. She told me she translated the lyrics herself."

"Wait, our song Standing Alone," Maria asked as she walked into the area.

"Yes, Iris literally translated our lyrics of Standing Alone into Latin and had them tattooed onto her right rib cage. It's gorgeous. There is a lotus flower with it. She told me the flower means new beginnings. She said she got it six months after Stevie's father died. It was her first tattoo."

"Well, she started out swinging," Travis said.

"You've got two more," Randy said.

"You've been counting," Kent asked.

"Yes. Come on, do tell."

"She has a moon goddess triple moon on her lower abdomen to the left of her belly button and a little bit lower, just above the bikini line. She has the Aries symbol on her neck underneath her hair. And then there is the arm sleeve. That's everything. She wants the Alice tattoo on her left ribs."

"You gonna give me permission to tattoo her?"
"You told her you would tattoo her, Travis. You can tattoo her," I said, rolled my eyes, got up and walked off the bus.

***

We were all up in the VIP room waiting for the show to start. Iris was going first in the first round. Kat encouraged us to watch from the windows with a wink. That meant Iris had something spectacular up her sleeve. The stage was dark and the music for Legacy of Odio started. The light came up on her and expanded out. She was in a huge beautiful white and light blue dress. Her make up was done in white and blue. She looked like a princess. She was stunning. Standing in the middle of the stage, she was standing still as she sung this ballad from our debut album.

The crowd had turned the lights on their phones on and it was absolutely stunning to see from up here. Glancing over at Maria, she was smiling at the scene below us. When Iris went into the screaming section, she never moved. It was almost as if she was actually weeping at that point. It was gorgeous. The song ended and went straight into Her Kiss. She stepped a little closer to the front and started singing the song. The lighting changed to give the affect of being in the ocean. I was in on her creative meeting, but wasn't there for the finalization.