As I Am

Chapter 1

I stepped off my tour bus and into the hot Texas weather. "It's so fucking hot," I mumbled under my breath. I stretched my legs thankful to be off that bus. I took a deep breath and started walking around the parking lot towards the stages. I put in my headphones and hit shuffle.
She had a face straight out a magazine
God only knows but he'll never leave her
Matt Healy's voice comforted me as I walked around.
Her balaclava is starting to chafe
And when she gets his gun he's begging babe "stay stay" stay stay stay
All of the sudden a pair of hands wrapped around my waist and turned me around. I whipped around to see my best friend, Ember.
"DUDE I ALMOST DECKED YOU IN THE FACE!" I screamed at her. She just laughed and wrapped her arms around my shoulder. "But then you would've felt guilty for punching your best friend." "Yeah yeah, whatever," I said sticking my tongue out at her. She fell into step beside me and we walked around in silence for a while. She finally broke the silence and asked, "Can you believe we're here?" "No," I said chuckling. "Well..look around and believe it. We're finally are here."
By here, she meant Warped Tour. It has been our dream since we were fourteen to be here. Now here we are, nine years later, as one of the opening bands. We formed the band in ninth grade. Me, Arabella, as vocals. Ember, as lead guitar. Antonio, as drums. Asher, as rhythm guitar. Clarissa, as our bass guitar. We all met in the beginning of ninth grade and soon realized that we all shared the same dream of forming a band and tourning around the world. Not too long after we met we formed As We Are. The name basically says to except us As We Are. We started off as a simple garage band playing covers. Or..trying to play covers.
See none of us had had much experience playing the instruments, so we sat around in my garage messing around with our instruments, until we could finally play a few covers, without sounding like a heard of dying elephants. A few months later I wrote our first song, Love Suicide. If only I had known that song would almost become my life, and that my writing partner would be the person to do it.
The more I wrote, the better the lyrics got, and soon we started coming up with melodies and we started creating our own songs. By tenth grade we started booking gigs at local restaurants, growing more well known with each performance. We shot our first music video senior year and released our first E.P. Ever since graduation we've been on the road touring, trying to build up our fan base by opening up for big bands. Now here we are, nine years since we started, an opening act for Warped Tour. I looked up at the stage we are gonna be playing at. "What do you think Ember?" "Small..but I love it," she said grinning, her green eyes twinkling. "So do I," I said matching her smile. "Let's go get the others and start setting up our tent," she said.
We walked back towards the bus to go get the rest of our band.

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Hey guys so this chapter is just so you can know the history of As We Are, and to get to know Arabella a little but more.
Let me know what you think!
Ember and Robbers by The 1975 on the side.