Six Feet Under The Stars(Alex Gaskarth)

Welcome To America

Chapter One

***Destery's POV***

"RIAN!"

I sprinted across the tiled floor of the airport, towards my friend who was trying to remain inconspicuous in his dark sunglasses and beanie hat. The heat of America had already gotten to me, I was used to the constant moderate climate of England. I was awed by the fact that he didn't seem uncomfortable with wearing a sweater and jacket along with his hat, indoors! He hugged me when I reached him and when I pulled back, I smiled and whispered,

"I know you said you were in a band, but don't you think you're your sense of style a bit far in this heat?"

He playfully shoved me and laughed,

"Shut up,Destery. People are totally into me nowadays and it can't hurt to remain unknown in public. People like mystery."

That just made me laugh more.

When we were younger, Rian and I met one summer when his family visited the UK. We spent five weeks together, spending nights in the hotel room that he was staying in with his parents, talking about every random thing we could find to discuss. After that, he'd visited me often, and we'd stayed friends. When we were both older, he said that he wanted me to visit him in America , when I'd saved enough to fly over and had gotten time off university, he would let me stay with him for a while, traveling around America for a bit with his so called 'band', that I had never heard of.

I got into his car after dumping my luggage into the trunk.

"How's Cassadee?" I ask, referring to the girlfriend I remembered him telling me about.

"She's great," he grinned, pulling out of the airport, "really great. I can't wait for you to meet her,you two have so much in common. And the guys. You'll love them. You kinda have the same sense of humor."

"Your band?" I ask as we sped up along a highway. I turned to him and he nodded, fiddling with the radio and then turning it off when nothing good came on.

"Yeah. Alex is the front man, Jack makes dick jokes and sometimes plays lead, Zack plays bass,and I'm the drummer. It's pretty easy to remember, you can't forget it once you've got it. And the guys can be...well they can be complete assholes, but yeah that's them and you'll love them anyway."

He shrugged and smiled. I yawned through a grin.

"It's good to see you again, Rian Dawson." I told him.

"You too, Destery Lawson." He replied.

I just hoped this fame, which I had a feeling, was bigger than he was letting on, hadn't swelled his head.