My Father Is Who!?

Luke

I continue walk, speechless.
We pass through the crowd and people gawk at the guards and us as we pass through, the occasional fan noticing us and coming up screaming, these girls are crazy.

We pass behind the stage and up some stairs into a big room which has people running around like chickens with their head cut off, and there's even an interview going on... With Corey Taylor, slipknots front man being filmed and he smiles as he spots us and my stomach drops.

"Hey man!" Says Tino walking up and shaking Corey's hand while I stand and watch as the rest of the guys go up and socialise with Corey. I say this all the time, but I am so damn lucky.

"Sorry for such the short notice," says Austin giving him a man hug,

"That must be Alex?" Says Corey walking over to me with his hand out, so I awkwardly shake his hand "uh, yeah, I'm Alex- I'm a huge fan of your band" I say avoiding eye contact because, awkward.

"I was listening to Duality and she recognised the song and sang it with me," says Alan standing next to me,

"You have a great taste in music," says Corey smiling down at me, "you enjoying warped? Is this your first time?"

"Y-yeah, it's my first time, and I'm really enjoying myself," I say as a important looking man walks over "Corey, you go on in 5 minutes, gather your band."

"Say, we're gonna be having some drinks tonight, you all can come along if you want," says Corey to the guys, "Alex, you can come too, but you can't drink," he says winking and smiling at me,

"We'll try and be there," says Dad before Corey jogs away.

"Are we gonna go!?" I ask excitedly,

"Duh, of course!" Says Alan,

"But Corey is right, no drinking" says dad "remember what happened last time?" He says, and Alan starts giggling.

"Huh? What do you mean last time?" Asks Tino,

"Well Alex-" says Alan before I cut him off,

"Don't you dare!" I say, "I'll shave your head."

Alan puts both his hands on his head and shakes it side to side and dad chuckles next to me.

"Let's go watch from backstage," says dad smiling at us both,

"Are we allowed to go there?" I ask, "surely it's only for VIP?"

"It's okay, we're friends with the band." Says dad smiling down at me and we all follow the direction of where Corey went just as he runs on stage and the crowd uproars.

"Holy shit," I say accidentally, and dad gives me a 'what was that?' Look,

"It slipped out," I say quickly and he laughs,

"It's okay, I'm not that strict, you can say shit." He says as he whips out his phone and snapchats Slipknot's performance.

I spot a young boy, whose actually kinda cute with the VIP group. He's tall and thin, has long brown hair which goes to his shoulders, and cute brown eyes. He turns his head and catches me gawking at him and I quickly look away.

"I saw that," says Alan winking at me,

"Shhhhh," I say, "...is he still looking?"

"He is, I think he's interested in you, because he's walking this way," says Alan giggling and backing away,

"Huh!?" I wrench my head around and I find the boy, who'd be my age standing behind me.

"Hey, are you part of the VIP group? I didn't notice you," He says and I frantically look around for the rest of the band for help, which are all on the other end of the stage apart from Alan whose standing a few meters away from me giving the thumbs up.

"Uh-uhm, I'm Austin Carliles daughter," I stutter, keep your cool in front of the cute boy Alex.

He stares at me for a few seconds before bursting out in laughter, "funny, because he doesn't have a daughter, I like you." He says poking me in the arm,

"I'm being serious, he's my dad," I say keeping a straight face and keeping eye contact with him, "hold on a second," I say grabbing out my phone,

"What are you doing?" He asks,

"See Austin over there?" I say and the boy looks in his direction hesitantly and then his mouth drops open, "I didn't know of mice and men were here!"

"Watch him," I say dialling dads number and I watch him answer,

"Alex?" He says, "you okay?"

"I am, but can I just ask you to look to the other side of the stage and wave when you see me," I say and I watch him take his phone away from his ear and look at it funny then awkwardly wave at me making me smile because he looks like a dork,

"Believe me now?" I say triumphantly grinning up at the boy,

"What's your name? How come I've never heard of you?" He asks, still a little shocked,

"I'm Alex, I lived with my mum until I was placed in Austin's care a few weeks ago,"

"That's awesome! I'm Luke by the way," he says smiling down at me cutely,