It came around to the time of the year that Of Mice and Men were off on tour to the UK, I was pretty sad as I knew I wouldn't see Alan for ages and that I would stay home by myself. I sat on the end of my bed and was just thinking about what I could do whilst Alan was gone, Barney came bouncing into the bedroom, hes a lot bigger now, and we also had bought him the most beautiful light blue collar.
Alan came in shortly after and looked at me, confused "Why haven't you packed your things yet?" he made his way across the bedroom and grabbed my suitcase and put it next to me, smiling. My feelings were all over the place right now, I was actually going on tour with Of Mice and Men! I jumped into Alan's arms and let out a little screech of excitement as I did it. I felt his cheeks move on my face as he smiled, it made me smile too.
Alan finally dropped me back down on the floor, I ran to my suitcase and frantically began packing band shirts, jeans, underwear, bracelets, hoodies and finally 4 pairs of vans and 2 converses. "Woah, calm down, were not leaving till tomorrow" Alan teased as I managed to pack all that in less than 5 minutes.
The next morning a car was waiting outside our house, Sleeping with Sirens weren't touring this year so Kellin came along with us as our friend, Pierce the Veil however were touring with Of Mice and Men so we all got to hang out, it was going to be great and this time Tony would come to England with us! I checked over my bag one more time to check everything was there and then began to leave. We had to drop Barney off at the kennels because we thought it would be cruel to take Barney to a whole different country in a small tour bus and he wouldn't really get much attention.
Leaving the house I saw a beautiful car outside. Every time we went out there would always be an expensive car involved; Alan is the best when it comes to impressing me. Alan heaved our suitcases into the back of the car, I personally think he was trying to show off his muscles but I didn't mind anyway. We had planned to meet Kellin and the rest of Of Mice and Men at the airport, so me and Alan had some time alone before the madness of tour life.
As I lay in Alan's arms I watched the clouds go by as we drove to the airport, yes, we even had a driver along with this perfect car. Alan seemed a little sad as he spoke to me, I had no idea why.
We finally reached the airport, I decided not to ask Alan why he was being slightly off with me, I just let it go. I saw Kellin's smiling face as we approached him "I'm so excited, what about you guys?" he asked, he did a little jump of excitement, it was so sweet. I replied with "Yes! I'm so happy!" and gave Kellin a hug.
The other band members soon appeared in the distance, Austin walked up to Alan, gave him a bro hug and then gave me a normal hug, all the others did the same. I adored each member but I only really socialized with Alan and Austin the most.
Finally we were on the plane to England, I don't know why but Alan always seems to be the first asleep out of everyone, his head fell lightly onto my lap, I just ran my fingers through his hair whilst listening to my music in my headphones. The whole flight was completely chilled out all the way there.
We all started to board the tour bus that was waiting for us outside of the airport in England, security guards had to stop fans dragging any of the band members away. Once I got onto the bus I instantly felt tired, the first town we would be going to so that Of Mice and Men could do their show was Bristol, it were a few hours away from London so I decided I wanted to have a nap. A tall tattoo covered blonde guy walked up to me as I got on the bus "Hi, I'm Johnny, the driver" he then took my hand shaking it. "Hi, I'm Lily" I replied.
I paced up and down the bunks, until I heard "Lily" as I turned around Alan was tapping a bunk, I smiled sheepishly and walked over to him. "Do you mind if I have a little nap?" I asked Alan, I physically felt like I couldn't open my eyes for any longer, he shook his head and helped me into the bunk, tucked me in and kissed my forehead, I felt like a child!
