Metaphorically, I'm a Whore... // Tyler Joseph

Chapter Nine.

The journey to Orlando was definitely one of the most exhausting I had ever been on. Because I lived in London, our flight from here to Orlando took us ten hours! Ten, long hours.
On the flight there I managed to get through four movies and stomach down two meals, and when I say meals, I mean I picked at the parts I did enjoy and left the rest, luckily for me I had Brian sitting beside me and he was happy to eat any of my leftovers. His love for aeroplane food intrigued me as I could barely eat anything on the flight.

Once we had finally passed bag check, security and being scanned at the gate to ensure we weren't carrying any dangerous items, which amused me as I was instructed to take off my shoes, something I had never done before when entering another country, we grabbed our luggage and hopped into our bus upgrade which was waiting for us in the airport rental car park. The man at the kiosk smiled at us happily as he handed Brian the keys and as the bus door opened up before me, I felt a wave of nerves and excitement wash over me. This was it. We were on our way.

"Okay, because we are going to stay and sleep on the bus, we don't have to be at a hotel or anything like that. This means we have 24 hours before the beginning of Warped Tour. We will head there in the morning and park the bus in the reserved space that we booked beforehand. Amanda, you are our guest, is there anything you would like to do before we head to the tour?" Brian spoke up. I thought to myself for a while, I mean I was in Orlando, Florida, somewhere I had always dreamed of going to as a kid. What I really wanted to do was to go to Disney but of course I understood we couldn't do that in such a short amount of time, so it seemed that dream of mine was to be abandoned for now.
"Well, my inner emo child is begging me to take her to Hot Topic.." I responded after a while of thinking. Brian laughed at my comment along with the rest of the crew and he nodded in agreement. "Hot topic it is!" He announced as he raised his fist in the air and stepping on the gas pedal harder.

After a half hour drive, we finally arrived at a large mall with all of the shops I have ever dreamed to visit. Being a British girl, half of my favourite stores were of course located in America and so seeing all of their logos being displayed on the huge sign in front of me, it was like a retail heaven.
Brian parked the bus and once we had all piled out, he locked it up which earned a high pitched beep from the vehicle in response.
We entered through the mall's double doors and immediately my face lit up with happiness and delight. There were so many stores and I had no idea what to go to first! Of course for me money at this point wasn't a question because luckily I had saved up some money from birthdays and Christmases which I had already converted into dollars. Why you ask? Because I was a hopeless child with the dreams of one day being able to visit America. I had also had a trip planned with my ex friends to come here at the end of the year, luckily for myself we hadn't booked it yet so I had all this converted money just sitting in my savings jar, and what better a time than now to spend it on myself?

"I think that's the store you had your eyes on." Brian spoke up as he pointed to Hot Topic and within five seconds I had darted to the store and headed inside, being completely taken back by all of the merchandise inside.
There were all kinds of things inside! All of the band merch made me want to cry as it was truly too much to take in. I was pretty sure that I started to come down with heart palpitations as I couldn't contain my excitement.

And this was only the first store on the list.