Give Me A Sign, I Want To Believe

Mainstage Scares

I woke up the next morning to Ally tracing my 7 Seagram’s American Rock N’ Roll tattoo. I smiled down on her and kissed her head.

“Good morning princess.”

“Good morning Jake. Sleep well?”

“With you here, I always will.” She blushed.

“I had fun at the beach and park yesterday. It was a lot of fun.”

“I did too. I think until Warped Tour we should make every Saturday a date night.”

“That sounds wonderful, Jake.”

“What should we do today?”

“Can we just cuddle? I want to have a lazy day.”

“Haha. I like that idea.” I kissed her and she smiled into the kiss.

“I love you Jake. I love everything about you. From your respect for my decisions to making me food to letting me decide what to do for the day.”

“Well I promised to make you feel special so it’s the least I can do. I just want to see you smile. I’ll do whatever it takes. Allyson I’d put my life on the line to keep you alive and smiling. I don’t want you hurt.”

“Jake… I – I didn’t know. You’d do all that for me.”

“Anything for you. I waited for graduation just because I didn’t want to push you and I wanted you to be ready and comfortable. If you wanted I could’ve waited even longer for you.”

“This is why I fucking love you.” She mumbled into my chest. I looked down and lifted her head up. I slowly leaned in and kissed her passionately. Our tongues fought for dominance. She gave in and I was superior. We pulled away after a while. Our foreheads rested on each other and both our eyes were closed.

“I love you Allyson. I love you so much. No one can compare to you.” I opened my eyes and saw she was blushing.

“What am I gonna do while your away on Warped? I won’t be able to kiss my boyfriend for two months!”

“How do you think I feel? Two months away from you is crazy. I can barely manage a day.”

“We can get through this together. We’ll learn. You should be used to this though.”

“I should but even when I was with Ella it was hard. We can get through this together. I can promise you that.”

“And I can promise that I’ll love you when you’re gone.”

“I’d hope so. Haha.” She giggled and I kissed her nose. Trixy woke up and ran up to me and licked my face. I made a kissy face and then Trixy went and did the same thing to Ally.

“Haha. Trixy you silly girl. I’m covered in your drool now.” Trixy just wagged her tail and ran around the room. I got out of bed and crouched down to Trixy’s level.

“Does my worm want to go for a walk?” Trixy barked and ran in a circle.

“I’ll take that as a ‘yes daddy.” Ally laughed and I went to put a shirt and shoes on. I had sweats on so I just needed Trixy’s leash and harness. Ally got changed and put Trixy’s harness on.

“Ready to go?” Ally nodded and grabbed my hand. Trixy barked and ran to the door. Ally picked up Trixy and giggled about how silly Trixy was. I opened the door and put Trixy’s leash on her harness. Ally put Trixy down and we started walking hand in hand.

We walked for an hour and when we got home Trixy went to her bed in the living room and fell asleep.

“What should we do now?”

“I don’t know. I think I’m going to work on some old songs and revise them or work on another band’s music.”

“Cool. I’m going to the drums and work on a few songs by MCR.”

“Alrighty. I’ll see you later babe.” I laughed and kissed her head as I went to my mini studio while Ally went into the drum room. I started working a bit on Carolyn because I had some other guitar parts that were going to go onto the album but never made it. I worked on that for about two hours before taking a break to get some water and a sandwhich. Ally was still drumming when I walked by the room. She had her headphones in so she couldn’t hear much. She’s gotten really good too. I swear she’s just as good as CC, maybe even better. I went back to the studio room to work on a bass part, when I got a call from CC.

“Hello?”

“WE’RE ON MAIN STAGE BROTHER!”

“ARE YOU SERIOUS?!” I was in total shock. That’s fucking awesome.

“DUDE KEVIN JUST CALLED ANDY AND ANDY CALLED ME. WE’RE MAIN STAGE.” CC was yelling with excitement which made me laugh.

“That’s awesome. Haha. Don’t forget that we have the Golden Gods soon. Save some energy for that.”

“Oh yeah… So, how’s Ally?”

“She’s rocking out on those drums right now. But she’s been great. She’s going to work with Pops at his auto body shop this summer and then full time at the auto body shop at her school. She said she’d be showing freshman the ropes and she’ll be working with seniors on customer’s cars.”

“Awesome. But that means she’s missing all of Warped.”

“She’s staying for the Cali shows then working the summer.”

“Yay!”

“Haha.”

“I gotta go Jake. Bye. Tell Ally I says HAI and to play drums with us.”

“I’ll try. Bye Chuppy.” The line went dead and then I went to work on the bass. I put headphones on to hear the guitar with the pre recorded bass to see what I needed to fix.

All of a sudden I feel the ground shaking. Pictures on the wall start falling. My first instinct is to find Ally. I run to the drum room and she’s not there.

“ALLY!!!!!” I screamed out in hopes that she’s nearby.

“JAKE! I’M IN THE KITCHEN DOORWAY WITH TRIXY! HURRY!!” I ran to the kitchen, but I never made it. I got to the living room and felt something hit my head. Next thing I knew was something falling on me and barking along with a high pitched scream. That’s all I can remember before everything went black.