Warped Tour (A Shannon Leto Story)

Blue Fox Lounge

The Blue Fox Lounge was a small hole in the wall bar, but it was exactly what we needed tonight. Somewhere small, dark and perfect for not being recognized. When I finally made it into the bar, I noticed our group had congregated at the far back corner and had already started the task of unwinding and celebrating. My eyes immediately sought out Andy, still trying to figure out what had happened back on the bus.

     "Hey what took you so long?" Charlie asked from her spot beside Trevor.

     "Hmmm?" I asked tearing my eyes away from Andy and looked at my best friend. "Oh sorry I was talking to Bodhi, he's going to park the bus and then join us. I'm going to go grab a drink from the bar."

     "I'm going to go sign some people up for karaoke." She said laughing.

     "Take me with you." Ace said, eyes lighting up with mischief.

     "Oh god." I sighed turning around to head to the bar.

Once I had my beer I glanced at the stage to see Charlie walking on it. I face palmed as soon as her eyes met mine and a grin crawled up her face.

     "Sydney!" I heard her voice sing my name through the speakers.

     "NO!" I yelled back as I walked to our group.

     "But it's our song." She countered. I groaned out before setting my beer down in front of Andy as the first chords of Eye of the Tigerstarted playing.

     "You're lucky I love you and this song." I said when I finally managed to make it beside her.

She rolled her eyes before we both broke out in our favorite dance routine and sang off key. Why sing perfectly when you're surrounded by people who just want to laugh and have fun, we knew we could sing, we didn't need to be show offs. When the song ended, I jumped down and waited on Charlie to join me.

     "So what really took you so long on the bus?" She asked looping her arm in mine.

     "Andy." I said sighing.

     "Ooooo color me intrigued." She said stopping.

     "Nothing like that. I wish it was something like that." I said sadly. "No he just helped me up off the floor and then gave me this once over look with those eyes of his and then left. I'm so fucking confused." I moved, tugging her arm to get her to start walking again.

     "Who knows maybe he thinks you're hot." Charlie said quietly.

     "That'll be the day. One, last I checked he was still with Juliet. Two, if he isn't then it ended recently and I'm not down for being a rebound, plus what if we did do something and things went south? We are on tour together!" I said trying to get her to drop it.

     "Even if things ended recently, you don't know if it was a decision made by both of them and if that's the case maybe he's just looking for some fun. Syd I love you, but you need some fun, as in you seriously need to get laid. You get cranky if you don't." She laughed when I smacked her arm as we made it to the table.

     "Why are you hitting Charlie? What did she do this time? You know besides getting you on stage first." Ace asked from her lounged position between Woody and BB, who was curled up next to Pete.

     "Nothing I wish to discuss here at this present moment." I said gritting my teeth.

     "Well I wan--" Brook was cut off by the dj who was calling her name. "What! Who did this?" She asked her accusing eyes landed on Charlie.

     "This one actually wasn't me." She said pointing to Ace, who had a huge grin on her face.

     "NO! No, no, no. If I'm doing this you're coming with me!" She yanked at Ace's arm.

     "Whhhaaaat? Syd you gonna help me here?" Ace asked, giving me her puppy dog eyes.

     "Me?" I asked pointing to my chest laughing. "Nope! You let Charlie sign me up, this is your penance." I heard some of the guys laughing at our little scene. "Besides something tells me by the end of the night we all will have been up there more than once."

     "Oh yeah!" Charlie agreed. "Especially since I may have already signed you up for another song."

     "Jeezus Charlie, why?" I asked jumping into a chair, not noticing it was across from Andy, who was talking to Ronnie and Ashley.

     "Because I can. We're here to have fun and I am definitely going to have some fun with the song I chose for you." Charlie said looking between me and Andy,

     "Now I'm concerned what did you do?" I asked before draining the rest of my beer.

     "Nothing for you to worry about." She mumbled.

     "I'm going to go sign up some people." Matt said from the other side of Trevor.

     "Don't put me on that list again!" I yelled at his retreating back.