Shauns pov
Today hadn’t been the best, but we were on in half an hour so it was time to suck it up. I was straightening my hair, trying to keep a blank expression when I was so confused inside. Ash was my world now, after this time I didn’t think I could do this without her. So what if she was only 18. So what if she liked my music. So fucking what if she had already been pregnant once. Who cares. The look in her eyes practically killed me, the tears in her eyes made tears come into mine. But so what Shaun? Suck it up you fucking princess I yelled at myself. Not really but I thought it. I yanked the straightner downover my fringe hitting my nose in the process ‘FUCK IT’ I yelled out as loud as I could and threw the straightner across the room. I was just so angry. At myself, at ash, at taylah at everything. And I just couldn’t control it. The straightner smashed, burning a hole in the carpet where it landed. I had bolted the door shut but somehow jumpnow got in.
He was looking almost as awful as I felt, Imogen had really hurt him and that was my fault aswell. I didn’t have any feelings for her, ash was my one and only, I didn’t believe in cheating. We talked for a little bit, I tried telling him how I was feeling but I couldn’t which hurt just as much as it did when it happened. Ash came in looking all shy and gorgeus, dressed in a pretty red dress and a black leather jacket to cover her arms. I could see she had been crying, so putting my anger aside I hugged her. She was practically holding me together, I had hardly warmed my voice up, my hair was half done and I was in no mood to perform for how many teenage girls. All too soon it was time to go on, for our hero had already performed and now it was our turn, this meant I had to let go of ash. She whispered a quick “I’m sorry” in my ear before walking out of the room and leaving me to suck up my shitty mood and not let everyone down. On the stage it was black, in the audience you couldn’t see a thing, I strummed my gutair which was the signal to turn on the lights and they flashed on. The audience was now lit up, and i had a massive rush of excitement. Every fan in the room had made an effort to look in place, dresses and heels was practically all I could see. But i couldn’t see the one face I needed to see, ash wasn’t in the audience.
But the show must go on so I strummed the first chords of shimmy and got into performance mode which instantly cleared my head of everything that happened today. We had made it. I was standing on the Sydney opera house stage playing to a sold out show, and no matter how terrible my day had been this made up for everything.
Andys pov
Half way through our show we stopped and let our other support band smash mystery play their set. They were a local band Ashley knew of and they were actually really great. Backstage Bella was waiting for me, I hugged despite her protests that I was all gross. She looked amazing, all shiny and happy. She still had the skinny scarf looped around her neck because the love bite still hadn’t faded. I unlooped it and kissed the little purple mark, it fitted with my mouth perfectly. She giggled and pushed me off, I hugged her tight again just to show her I was serious. She was amazing. Ok so I was 22 and she was nearly 17… But she was perfect for my immature self. I kissed her hard one last time before going off the find a bottle of water and get changed for our second half. I Slipped my jacket off and put on a plain grey shirt and a skinny tie and some ripped skinnies before sculling half my bottle of water and going back to my bass. I’d wasted most of my half hour break with Bella so now it was time for me to go back on.
I high-fived smash mysteries gutairist on her way off and took her place. The smiling faces of the audience was amazing, the best feeling ever. This was the biggest venue I’d ever played and we sold it out… Beside me shaun cued the lights on and I started with the bass chords to drop dead which was our first song in the second set. Ok so Shauns voice was a little shaky and bradies drums were a little heavy but this was honestly the best we’d ever played. In the audience a shiny silver scarf caught my eye, Bella blew me a kiss and I winked back causing the audience to erupt in a chorus of ear splitting screams. It was amazing. I didn’t want tonight to end.
