Life on Tour (3) [Discontinued]

Chapter 2: Graduation

You've done it! The day is finally here! You've made it out of high school alive and now you're going to have the certificate to prove it, you're graduating. It's hard for you to believe that this is real right now, you feel like it was just a few years ago that you were starting school, and now...yeah, you get it. You ended up deciding to go to online college and you're really excited about that adventure, your parents support it and they're just happy that you had made a decision on what you're doing after high school, as far as education goes. You're sitting among your classmates listening to the speeches being made. Finally they get to the important part, the part where you get to walk across the stage and get your diploma. They tell everyone to hold their applause till the end, but of course that doesn't happen. You hear your name and stand up, walk on stage, shake the principal's hand and then get your diploma and join your classmates. When the last person gets their diploma everyone in the audience cheers and your class starts hugging each other and giving congratulations. After hugging your friends you push your way through the crowd and find your family. 

You find them and give everyone a hug. Then you see someone who should've been impossible to miss, you've always wondered how Charles and everyone always seem to lose him in the vlogs, Travis, and right behind him, Danny. You know your face must've looked shocked when you see him as he pulls you into a tight hug. It's a minute before you both let go and you go to give Danny a hug. Finally you manange to stutter out, "How...what?...The tour?" Danny laughs and says, "We just so happened to have a day off today, so we thought we'd come here, your parents sent us an invitation when we told them that, but we made them swear not to tell you so it could be a surprise!"You look back and forth between them and just take everything in, your boyfriend and his bestfriend, are here, right now, while the rest of the band are in whatever city they had a day off in running around and goofing off.

Then you all end up going out to eat at your favorite restaurant, the pizza place you had taken Travis, Charles, and Danny to back in January. You enjoy the pizza, garlic knots and ice cream and play video games with Danny and Travis. When you go home you have to finish packing, you had started a few days ago since you hadn't been at school because, as a senior, you didn't have to take exams for classes you had A's in. As you're packing there's a knock on the door, it's Travis. You let him in and he plops down in your desk chair as you finish closing the zipper on your bag. "All ready for the next few months?" he asks. "I think so," you reply, "Ready to go all over the country and back." "And then, since you're doing online college, you get to enjoy a couple months back home before going to Europe for a couple weeks, and then after that, a month before a run through Australia. Do you think you're ready for all that?" he asks you. You sigh, realizing how long you'd be away from your family, but you do want to do this, no doubt about it. You look at him and say, "I can't wait, I know it's going to be crazy. But these countries we're going to are places I've always wanted to go, I just never believed that I'd ever actually be able to go to any of them."

You both look around your room for a moment and then Travis says, "Well, your parents have set up the couches downstairs for me and Danny, so I guess that's where I am tonight, but for now, wanna watch a movie?"

So you both go downstairs and Danny pulls a movie up off Netflix and once it's over you give Travis a kiss and hug Danny and head up to your room.  Once you're up there you grab your backpack and start putting some of the stuff that you put in there when you went to Bradenton.

As you're putting the last thing in there your dad comes in. He sits down on your bed and you walk over and sit next to him. After you sat down he pulled you into a one armed hug and said, "Ready to head out tomorrow?" "Just about" you reply. "Just try to keep us updated, I know it'll be hard with being on the move all the time and everything, but just call when you can." "I will!" you say with a laugh, "I mean, it's not like I'm not going to be here the whole time, I'm pretty sure we have a show near here one day and I'll probably be able to come by that day. Besides, I have a bunch of guys to scare off any creepy people if we run into trouble." "I know," he replies, "it's just crazy to think that my little girl just graduated today and now she's going off to travel the world. But you have an early flight in the morning, so I should probably let you get to sleep." "Yeah, I guess that would be good." you say as he gets up. You give him a good night hug and then turn off your light and crawl into bed.

The next morning you wake up to your mom shaking you, "*YOUR NAME*!!! GET UP!!! We all overslept! Your dad is getting your bags in the car, just throw on some clothes and come out to the car. You scramble over to your desk chair to grab the outfit you had already laid out for today and then you quickly grab the stuff you didn't already have in your backpack (iPod, headphones, phone, pack of gum) and shove them into your pockets. Then you run out the front door and hop into your mom's car, sitting next to Travis with Danny in the back row. The second you shut the door and start reaching for the seatbelt your dad starts to back the car out of the driveway and you're off to the airport so you can head out to the city the tour was in today, Charlotte, North Carolina.