Tragic Magic

Chapter Twenty Nine

It was June 20th and our third date was in Las Vegas, Nevada. Warped Tour was a magical place full of magical people, and I absolutely adored it. We've already been to Salt Lake City, Utah and Denver, Colorado so far. I of course, was stuck in our AP tour bus until the end of each day doing interview after interview. It got pretty dull after the first few dates, but I still had my head up. Today Falling In Reverse and My Chemical Romance were joining the lineup, so I was excited to have some company.

"Juliet, long time no see!" Gerard greets me as I'm leaving the AP bus.

"Hey, you're finally here!" I meet up with him and the rest of MCR in the lot.

"We've got a surprise too," Mikey finds an excuse to hug me. Mikey was very similar to Gerard, but I expected that being they were brothers. Mikey played bass guitar for My Chemical Romance.

"A surprise?" I give Mikey a look, "I don't like surprises."

"Trust me, you'll like this one," Ray adds. Ray was the curly haired guy who kept bashing on my love life when Gerard first introduced me back in London. He was guitarist for the band and was very talented.

If it's not Mountain Dew or Taco Bell, I wasn't interested in their surprises. It's probably just another T-shirt promoting My Chemical Romance, I already have too many.

"I actually have to get back to my bus before twelve-thirty for an interview, so I'm going to have to catch you all later," I say.

"Don't worry, we'll come back to get you when we need to," they leave these creepy words dwelling in the air.

My next interview scheduled was with Oliver Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon, so I was pretty stoked. I didn't expect him to already be in the bus by the time I got back, so that was a surprise in itself.

"Hey, sorry if I'm late," I enter the bus and catch a seat next to him on the couch.

"No, no, you're okay. I just got here a little early," he says in a calm tone. Well why are you here early? We have times set up for a reason dude.

The interview was quick and easy, so we finished just before one o'clock. It almost felt like no time has even passed, that's how exciting this interview was. I don't know why it was more entertaining than my other ones, I guess Oliver just knew how to answer ever question without boring anyone.

"Thank's again," he waves to me, exiting the bus.

Now that it's over, I have five hours to relax before I have to move onto the photography portion of my contract, so I make myself comfortable in my bunk and try to relax. Not even an hour into my nap, I'm awoken by movement on the bus. I tried to ignore it for as long as I can, but it's irritating me.

I pull myself out of my bunk and check out the culprit. To my surprise it was Ronnie and Ryan rummaging through my stuff, failing at being quiet.

"Excuse me?" I give the two a look as I approach the scene.

"Oh, hey!" Ronnie jumps back from my suitcase, "long time no see, right?"

"Can I help you?" I gesture to my bags.

"We were going to surprise you, but I guess we weren't quiet enough," Ryan says.

"I'm tired of the secret, just give it up already," I roll my eyes.

Ronnie looks through my bag one last time and hands me the envelope they tried stashing, "Sorry it's a little last minute, we should of got this to you yesterday."

I carefully open the envelope and unwrap a backstage pass. I can tell Derek wrapped it up, he's always had such skills at folding paper. "Thanks for the offer guys, but I have to work," I say, pretty disappointed.

"We talked to your supervisor, you have the day off to come chill with us," Ronnie explains to me. Although everything between Ronnie and I has changed in this past year, it feels like we're still the same and everything is okay.

As fun as it sounds to hang out with them, I still feel weird about doing it. I mean, what if there's an emergency and I need to run extra equipment out to someone? I care a lot about my job.

"I'd love to guys, but I think I need to stay and watch over everything," I lie.

"No you don't," Jacky enters the bus, "we got you cleared, have some fun for once." I wouldn't be surprised if he was eavesdropping outside the bus the entire time. I don't know, I guess I could follow them around for a few hours and then get back to work. I did miss these guys a little bit, so it'll be fun.

They easily convinced me and I soon found myself running around the venue with them causing all kinds of disasters. In no time at all, My Chemical Romance decided to meet up with us again after their show, so things got exciting really fast. We ended up hanging out backstage My Chemical Romance's set until the next band arrived.

"Hey Juliet, can you come with me for a second?" Gerard pulls me aside and asks me.

"Sure, where are we going?" I give him a strange look.

"There's a really cool band preforming on the east side, I want you to meet them."

So I follow Gerard across the venue to meet this unknown band. He was almost running and dragging me behind him. I couldn't tell if he was excited or just trying to avoid all the fans. We showed our passes to security and Gerard dragged me backstage to meet the band.

"Are you ready?" He asks me in an excited voice.

"Ready for what?" It's just a band, how cool can they be?

"This!" He shoves me onto the set while the mysterious band is in the middle of a show.

I heard a high pitched shriek come from the drummers throat and I knew exactly where I was and who this mysterious band is.

"Juliet?" The singer drops his microphone and all the attention is set on me.