In Drummer Heaven

Day Before

"Darcy! I need your ass!" Tommy yells from our bedroom.

"Just my ass? I love you Tommy but my ass is a no fly zone!" I yell back and I hear him laugh.

"But I thought you loved me!" He laughs and I walk towards our bedroom.

I open up our bedroom door to see all Tommy's suitcases laying on our bed and I roll my eyes, our tours start tomorrow. I lean in the doorway and my boyfriend looks up to see me which makes him smile.

"Get your skinny little ass over here." He tells me and I laugh.

I walk over so I'm standing in front of him and I look up at him. Tommy has beautiful brown eyes and a knockout smile, I love everything about him. His hands cup my face and then he kisses my nose gently. Tommy's hands drop from my face and slide down my body. When his hands get in my hips he lifts me up and drops me on his suitcase.

"I told you I needed your ass." He laughs and starts to zip the suitcase up.

"We leave tomorrow and you're just packing now?" I ask him and he smiles.

"Would believe me if I told you I was hoping the tour got cancelled?" Tommy asks as I move to sit on his next suitcase.

"No." I state and he laughs a bit. "Why would you want your tour to be cancelled?"

"Because I can't be with my future wife and she can't come on tour with me because of her band." He sighs. "I bet I could jam your little ass in one of my suitcases though."

"You're just obsessed with my ass today aren't you?" I ask with a laugh and he kisses my lips quickly.

"I'm always obsessed with your ass, babe." Tommy admits. "Just I'm gonna miss your ass for like four and a half months or something."

"Awe, babe." I frown and wrap my arms around his neck. "I'm going to miss you so much."

I kiss his lips and right away tomorrow kisses me back. He pulls me closer to him but loses his balance. Tommy crashes to the floor dragging me with him, I land on his chest and he laughs.

"Babe, are you okay?" I ask and he nods.

"Perfect." Tommy says and hugs me tightly. "I love you."

"I love you too." I say and kiss his lips.

"Promise?" He asks quietly.

"Cross my heart and hope to die, stab a needle through my eye and all that stuff." I promise him and he smiles. "I feel like I'm crushing you, babe."

I try to get up off him but he holds me in place. I scowl and he laughs.

"You're so cute when you're angry." Tommy says and kisses my lips before I can argue."You're not hurting me."

"Okay but if I start hurting you, you've gotta tell me." I tell him and he laughs.

"Are you excited about the tour? I mean you're going to Asia and Europe and South America, babe it's huge!" He tells me and I half smile.

"I'm excited but I'm kinda worried." I admit. "I mean I've never been out of the country."

"Never?" Tommy asks and I nod.

"Never been on a plane ride longer than a few hours." I explain.

"So what are you worried about?" He asks and I sigh causing him to mock me.

"Getting lost, offending someone by mistake, freezing to death, dying of heat stroke--" I get cut off by Tommy laughing.

"Babe, that's what tour managers are for. They tell you the weather and make sure you don't get lost." He promises me. "They're not stupid enough to lose my girl or CC's girl. We'd be on the warpath."

"What do you wanna do tonight?" I ask.

"Whatever you want to do." Tommy says and I shake my head.

"Don't say that because I always wanna stay in and you're like Tommy fucking Lee and Nik says you like to party." I explain and he smiles.

"But priorities, my love." He says and I shake my head.

"Not tonight, tonight we'll do whatever you want." I say and he smiles.

"Are you saying you wanna go to a bar with Nikki and Vince and get so completely shit faced that our manager is going to want to kill me." Tommy asks with a laugh and my eyes grow.

"I, uh..." I trail off and he laughs.

"Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit." He admits. "Are you sure you wanna do this?"

"Yeah, why not?" I ask.

See I should've thought all of this through a bit better. I have absolutely no recollection of that night. Tommy said something about five consecutive shots of tequila--which I don't usually drink--so I'm slightly curious about that night but not enough to ask more questions.

When I open my eyes the next day I hurt. My eyes hurt, my body hurts, my head hurts, I don't want to get up let alone fly to Vancouver. I just want to stay in bed all day. Tommy is asleep beside with with his arms wrapped tightly around me, neither of us wear much of anything for clothing and I can see the clothes we were wearing scattered across our bedroom floor.

I know that we have to fly out to opposite sides of the world this afternoon, Jadie, Rosie, Dani, and I fly into Canada while Tommy, Nikki, Mick, and Vince all fly into Tokyo. I don't want to leave Tommy, i know that millions of people all over the world love him but I love him too, I mean I'm going to marry him. I don't like the idea of sharing my fiancé but I know I have to.

I move close to Tommy and wrap my arms around his chest, he must've been partially awake or aware of his surroundings because his grip automatically gets tighter around me. I kiss his collarbone and close my eyes again. I don't want to leave him but I know I have to.

"I'll be here when you get back, Darcy." Tommy says sleepily.

"How did you know I was thinking that?" I ask quietly.

"Because I know everything about you." He admits and I smile because of how true it is.

It's gonna be a long few months.