The After Party, a collection of short stories

~A Ride Home~ Mikey Way

Ugh I hate these parties I can't believe my mates convinced me to go, I'd rather be at home with my guitar and a movie, sure getting an award for best new band was good but the after parties sucked and somehow that psycho Hailey Williams had convinced me to play spin the bottle, fuck no I'm not kissing one of those guys, I've seen them on tour and I know how long they'll go without showering so I most definitely do not want any part of them near me.

I sulked on my pillow with my earbuds in to block out their chatting that was getting more and more annoying, some music started playing and I stared at my feet as I mentally applied to rule of 'if I don't see the bottle spin it doesn't count', even I was smart enough to know it was a stupid rule.

Hayley dragged another unfortunate victim into the game and sat next to her on the floor, almost immediately she went from looking surprised to being dragged around, then shocked when she looked at the circle of musicians, she must be that newbie interviewer Hayley mentioned earlier, if she can't be around a couple of us then she's fucked when interviewing the bigger stars.

When Hayley told her the game was spin the bottle she looked as if she wanted to run away, at least she has some common sense because she definitely doesn't look like the sharpest tool in the shed or that's at least the impression I was getting but if she managed to get herself into this party then she must be doing something right.

I wasn't gonna play the game but I might as well laugh at everyone else so I stretched my legs out in front of me and got ready to relax for the duration of the game, I swear if the bottle points at me and someone tries to go in for a kiss then I'll have to kill them became no one is touching me without my permission and they definitely won't be getting it any time soon no matter which idiot in the circle is on the other end of the bottle, I'll just keep listening to my iPod and I won't have to worry about it.

'We all know, we all know by now that you're the only thing you talk about. We all know, we all know by now that things won't work out, no. I never really had a doubt that things would end up to be this way, and I never meant to make them seem that way.'

I nodded my head in time to the music, so what if I'm in a band that has albums, I can still listen to other groups and enjoy their music, I can have favourite bands and I don't have to sound like an idiot by saying 'oh what's my favourite band? My own of course', no I loved other bands before I got my own and I'm gonna proudly claim to listen to other music.

While listening to some tunes I got the vibe of someone looking at me so I glanced up and immediately saw the interviewer girl, what's her name, it's Violet I think, it wasn't just her staring at me though, I turned my head and saw that guy from My Chem looking at me, I couldn't even remember his name, Matt, Tommy, he's Gerard's kid brother if I remember right, Gerard seems like a nice guy but his four eyes brother seems like a pushover, one that I'm not gonna spend the game being stared at by.

I sighed and got up, fuck this I'm not staying here and no one can make me, not even Hayley Williams who was tiny compared to me anyway or at least when I had my boots on, I grinned for no reason other than it felt good and left the room, lemme see what should I do now, setting the house on fire seems like it could be fun, not that I'd do it.

Food maybe it's been a while since I've eaten, I only got a chance to eat once today and that was breakfast then I had to go to the studio to record yet another fricken song, don't get me wrong I'm excited about the new album and shit but its really annoying when you have to get up early in the morning just for the sake of recording a song, but the band couldn't get a session musician since I was the lead singer and I think people would notice it wasn't me.

Someone bumped into me and I nearly fell over before being steadied by a hug, most people who touched me would automatically be fucked since I hated being hugged but this person was one of the rare exceptions.