In Drummer Heaven

First Concert

Tommy

"--And yes Bret, I know. No talking to guys unless they're gay or Nikki." Darcy says into the payphone and I groan which makes Nikki laugh.

"You're pretty in love with her, right?" He asks me and I lean against a wall.

"No." I grumble.

"Liar." Nikki laughs.

"I just know Bret is going to hurt her. It's Bret's nature." I say. "I mean he's already cheating on her."

Okay, that just slipped out and given by the way Nikki's eyes nearly doubled in size I take it Nikki didn't know.

"Bret is cheating on Red?" He asks quietly so Darcy can't hear him. "You haven't told her?"

"No, it's not my spot to tell her." I say. "She wants to date the singer with commitment issues, more power to her."

"You'd let him break her heart?" Nikki asks and I shrug.

"It's not my place to intervene." I say and I glance over to Darcy.

"-No Bret, you hang up." She smiles into the phone.

"She's so clueless." I mutter.

"You hang up." Darcy says again.

Nikki rolls his eyes and walks over to her. He takes the phone from her hand and hangs up the phone.

"I'll hang up, Red." Nikki says and messes up her hair.

Nikki walks back over to me when Darcy goes to bug Mick with Dani. He leans against the wall beside me.

"You're welcome." He says and I smile.

"Yeah, thanks." I say.

"Crüe! Kris!" Is yelled from the stage entrance.

We all file over to the stage hand and he starts to talk about sound check. We walk out to the stage with the girls following us. We all walk across the stage and Nikki starts laughing.

"Check out high school field trip." He says and points backwards.

The girls are standing at the edge of the stage looking around at stage. It didn't hit me before this that this is their first concert. They look around with wide eye being completely in awe.

"Bigger than any bar we've ever played, huh?" Darcy asks and her bright smile crosses her face.

I love her smile and I have to smile. That makes Nikki elbow me and smirk. Yeah he can read into it pretty good. I really still like her.

"Okay over there, rookies?" Vince calls and the girls look over then start laughing.

Darcy

Dani, Rose, Jade, and I step onto stage for the first time.

"Holy shit." Dani mutters and I laugh.

This place is fucking huge, there's no two ways about it. It's bigger that the town I was born in. It's the biggest show we've ever played.

Then it sets in. We actually made it, we're on a concert tour. We have an album coming out in the new year. We actually made it, we are living our dream. This is insane and amazing and it's fucking July and I'm freezing. I rub my arms and look over to see Dani doing the same thing.

"Bigger than any bar we've ever played, huh?" I say and Rose smiles.

"Definitely." She laughs.

Holy fucking shit, this is insane.

"Okay over there, rookies?" Vince's voice pulls us back to reality.

We look over to see Crüe looking at us and we start laughing. I guess we kinda forgot about Crüe being here and they've had this experience before. It's all pretty foreign to us.

"Yeah, we're good." Jadie says and we walk over to them.

I purposely walk into Nikki and he laugh and hugs me tightly.

"Freaking out yet, Red?" He wonders and pokes my nose.

"Should I be?" I ask and he laughs.

"I feel like we've had this conversation before." Nikki laughs.

"Okay." The stage hand says. "Darcy and Tommy have their drum sets set up back there and the piano is back there as well. For convenience sake the set list has Home Sweet Home playing right before Roots."

"We're so close that Darcy might even learn how to play." Tommy smirks and I laugh and flip him off.

"That's my Red." Nikki laughs.

"Hurt me why don't you, Darc." Tommy laughs and I smile.

"Well I can try." I state and he smiles.

"Are we sure we can trust our hell raisers at the piano by themselves?"Mick asks and Rose nods.

"Don't you trust us?" Tommy asks.

"Not even a little bit." Mick states. "But in all honesty it would be thirty times worse if Nikki and Dani were up there too."

"Hey!" The bassists complain.

It's about halfway through the concert when I have to go over to the piano. Tommy is over there playing he end of Home Sweet Home. Considering that the piano parts are small in each of the songs we play there's no microphones over here so in theory we could shoot the shit between songs.

I walk over beside him and take the Jack Daniels bottle from the piano and he glances over to me.

"Hey that's mine." He says and I shrug.

"So?" I say and take a drink out of it.

The song ends and Vince starts to talk with the fans and joke around with Rosie. Tommy takes his bottle of jack back.

"How many girlfriends does Bret have now?" Tommy asks and I make a face.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" I ask and he shrugs.

"Nothing, forget I said anything." He says.

"No, what the hell is that supposed to mean?" I demand.

"It's Bret, Darcy. He's cheated on every girl he's ever dated. Do you honestly think you're the only girl he's dating? Or banging at least?" Tommy asks.

"He wouldn't do anything like that. Bret, he--"

"He what? Loves you? Tell me Darcy has he ever said that?" He demands.

"Well no--"

"You don't know that he loves you then. Bret isn't capable of love, he's a rock star! Every girl on the planet wants him!" Tommy tells me.

"Where does that leave you then?" I ask and he looks at me.

"What?" He demands.

"You never told me you loved me and you're a fucking rock star too." I state and he just looks at me.

"Go to hell!" Tommy snaps and turns around.

"After you!" I snap back as he walks back to his drum set.

We never used to fight. What are we starting now?