This Pressure Is Overwhelming

Chapter 2

Kyle's POV:

Dan's been acting weird, like more weird then usual. It isn't even the fun weird, it's the kind where you don't want to be around that person for a long amount of time.

This isn't new information though, not at all, everyone has taken notice. Heck, even our bus driver noticed! We're all worried about Dan.

We know he's stressing about the new album and upcoming shows we're doing, and we try to understand and help, we really do, but it's kind of hard to when you really don't know the extent.

Though we know Dan's been stressing about the album and such, the rest of the band and I have a feeling that there's something else that's making him be like this. I honestly have no idea, what else could be effecting him this much?

Right now it's about 7:30 in the morning and I'm sitting in the kitchen by myself drinking coffee. After last nights situation I got about two hours of sleep, which did not help me one bit, I still feel like I've been up for a week.

I checked on Dan before making my way downstairs. He still seemed troubled, but at least he's getting some sleep. I don't think he's gotten a good nights sleep since we were in London, five weeks ago. So I'm letting him sleep in, for a few more hours at least.

I called the closest doctors office to where we'll be stopping tonight, somewhere around Boston, MA, which we still have five hours until we get there.

I hate bus rides.

"Why are you so glum?" Ah Will, one of my bestest friends, but today I'm not in the mood for our antics.

"Nothing. I'm just tried, I didn't get enough sleep."

He could sense my hostility and decided to just nod and grab a piece of toast.

"Something to do with our singer?" He knows us so well.

"Yeah." I layed my head on the table and gave a long sigh.

"Oh what'd he do now? Are you finally gonna quit the band?" He asked bouncing in the balls of his feet.

"Oh shut up, you know you're stuck with me forever and ever!" I jumped up and gave him a hug.

Will scoffed and pushed me off.

"Whoa, did I just miss a romantic moment between the two of you? I knew I should have set my alarm earlier!" Woody jokingly said coming into view.

"Oh don't worry Wood-ster, there's plenty of that still coming around" I jumped on him giving him a tight hug. "I love you man!"

"Alright, get off!" He pushed me away.

We all sat down at the table with our toast and coffee.

Woody spoke up after a few minutes, "Hey, where's Dan?" He asked noticing the missing member.

"Still sleeping, he had another episode last night."

The two others nodded, knowing from personal experiences how those episodes turns out.

This has been just one of many each of us has experienced.

One time Will took him to a bar and within two hours Dan was so wasted he started spewing out his life story to complete strangers and a second later throwing punches at the bartender. A few other things went down, but long story short, he is now banned for life from that particular bar.

Woody's story contains getting a phone call, while on tour in LA, from Dan in the middle of the night saying "I don't want to do this anymore" over and over again. Woody finally found him at the closest pier from our hotel, he was silently sitting on a bench just staring intently at the ocean. Woody said it was one of the most eerie things that he'd ever experienced. But the next day Dan just played it off like nothing happened.

The worst episode happened when we were all there. It was at a show, one of those private things so there weren't a ton of people, but during the Flaws walk he had a full blown panic attack. We had to cancel the rest of the show and Dan wasn't himself for days.

So hopefully today isn't one of those days where he is fazed badly.

"What do we do?" Woody asked.

I shrugged. I didn't know, it all felt hopeless. I just wish Dan was alright and fine, that he didn't have panic attacks every so often, that he would stop making stupid decisions before he thought about the consequences, that he wouldn't be down all the time.

I just want to fix him, but I don't know how.

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Sorry guys, filler chapter, but what can ya do?

So here's the deal. I actually don't know where exactly I'm going with this story, so I'm just gonna keep on writing and it may or may not take us somewhere.

Anyways, tell me what you think! I'll try to get more chapters soon.

✌ Peace.