Fear. Hate. Love

Helllo Brazil

~Helllooo Brazil~

Hayden's POV:
The flight to Brazil as an uneventful one. The bullet guys had seats in a different area so it was just the four of us and for once we got to relax with no tension filling the air. We were all still somewhat exhausted from the drama of last night and most of us slept the entire flight. By most of us I mean Zee did, she slept the entire 11 hour flight. I slept a good part of it and just chilled listening to my music once I had woken up. All in all as I said pretty uneventful.
We have now just touched down in Salgado Filho International Airport. We all hurried out and got through security with minimal fuss. We had a few issues with communication trying to explain the reason the detector was going off is because we had piercings in hidden places , but we soon got through and we had a car waiting for us to take us to the hotel we would be staying in that night. It was only a ten minute drive from the air port and a twenty minute drive from our venue. Then tomorrow it was back to being on the buses.
Once we were checked in we had a chance to freshen up before having to shoot off to get set up for tonight, sound checks and all that fun stuff. Upon arriving at the Opinion arena we were given a quick tour before we started to get sound checked done.
"I'm going to go find somewhere for coffee, anyone want anything?" I asked. Everyone did so I got them to write their order on paper.
"I'll come with, give you a hand." Matt offered.
"Thanks, right be back shorty." I called out as Mat and I left.

We searched the near by perimeter but couldn't find anywhere. This appeared to be what I would say the rough part of town. Every second building seemed to be vacant and was covered in graffiti. Some of it was really beautiful art work, though most of it was random tags. We widened our search but we didn't want to stray to far and wind up lost.
"Maybe down there, it looks a bit more populated, we could try and if nothing else try to ask for directions to the nearest coffee shop." I said pointing down the road. Matt agreed and we headed that way. We could not locate a coffee shop anywhere and the language barrier stopped us from successfully getting any directions.
"I saw a little newsagent shop back up here, maybe we can just buy everyone a juice?" Matt suggested.
"Yeah come on then. I assume you know what the guys will want?"
"I do." We walked back up to the shop and checked out what they had. I spotted ribena and grabbed one for myself, I grabbed Zee a Dr Pepper and Owen and Bolt a coke. Matt picked out drink for him and the guys, we paid and took a slow walk back to the arena.
"So uh how did you come to know Zee?" Matt asked.
"We met through Owen. They met through college and started the band. Owen told me about this and asked if I would be interested in joining the band. At that point guitar was simply a hobby for me. I never imagined it would become my life. I said yes but I didn't have any illusion or high hopes of us getting anywhere. I will be honest I thought it was just a fun fuck about. But then we got Bolt and started doing local gigs which was awesome as it was a little bit extra money in my pocket and I still thought that's all it was. Then after a couple of years we of course over the course of that time changed our style and worked hard to improve our skills and tried different things. Then one day Kev approached us offering us the chance of a life time. It didn't take us long to take him up on that offer. And well one album later here we are today."
"Well I must say you all deserve it. You guys are amazing."
"Thanks, that means a lot. I've still got much learning to do though. Then again don't we all?"
"Indeed, I do truly believe a musician should never stop pushing themselves and improving their skills."
"Maybe we could uh... Well I'd love to jam with you sometime, I mean you know if you wanted."
"Of course, that is a must/" He flashed me a grin as we reached the arena. Zee was standing outside staring intensely at her phone.
"What up Zee?"I called and her head shot up.
"Ugh this stupid phone isn't getting a signal." She shook it as if that would help.
"Here." I handed her the bottle of Dr Pepper."
"Thanks... No coffee?"
"Couldn't find a place."
"Ah well Dr P is much better in this heat anyways." She grinned placing her phone back in her pocket clearly giving up on trying to get a signal.
"Things been okay here?" Matt asked her clearly referring to Jay. She nodded.
"Yes he's kept his distance." She smiled.
"Well better get these drinks to the guys." Matt said. I asked if he wouldn't mind giving bolt and Owen theirs as I wanted to talk to Zee. He done so. I thanked him and he left us to it. I took a seat on the step and Zee followed suit.
"What's up?" She asked.
I popped the straw into the carton of ribena before replying.
"Nothing, just wanted some girl time." I flashed her a smile. "I miss our chats, things have been crazy the last few days and then we have this Jay issue."
"I'm sorry about that."
"Oh no don't be I wasn't meaning it to make you feel bad."
"But I do. I often wonder if it would be easier to go home and save us all from this awkwardness. But then I look around and remember how amazing this is to be on tour and I feel like it's worth it."
"I agree, I'm not going to lie the constant tension sucks, but as long as we are getting to do what we worked so hard for, then it's worth it." I replied. After a long moment of silence I grinned.
"What?" Zee asked noticing, "I know hat grin you have a plan."
"I do. We are in Brazil, Brazil has amazing beaches. We cannot leave without going to the beach."
"Oh my god that is a brill idea. Lets go run it past the others."
Needless to say the others agreed. But there was only one problem. We left first thing in the morning as we had a 15 hr drive to Argentina for a gig tomorrow night.
"Well it's only 1pm now say were done here by 2pm we can get at least 4 hrs on the beach before we have to come back and get ready for the gig?" Bolt suggests. We all agreed and proceeded to get on with sound check so we could hit the beach.