Warped Tour (A Shannon Leto Story)

Facetime Fun

The loud buzz of someone's phone had me breaking eye contact with Shannon's yellow-green gaze and looking for the source of the noise. Charlie shook her head when my eyes landed on her and pointed at Brooklyn who was slowly pulling her phone out of her back pocket.

     "Syd, is your phone off?" She asked after looking at what I assumed was a text.

     "No, I've just been ignoring it. Why?" I pulled my phone out of my back pocket to look at the lock screen. "Well shit." I had 10 missed calls, 3 missed facetimes and about 20 missed texts, all from either Vic or Kellin.

     "Karah said if you don't answer one of them soon she's going to kill them." Brook laughed at my shocked face. "They won't stop asking if you're coming out tonight."

I groaned loudly before throwing myself on the carpeted floor in front of the couch Shannon and Tomo were occupying. I felt my shirt crawl up my side to rest above the top of my ribs as I raised my arms to cover my face. How did they find out I had finally left my room? If I didn't go out tonight they were going to harass me about it for the rest of eternity. FUCK!

     "Well that was dramatic." Tomo's voice held barely contained laughter, "I didn't think anyone could be anywhere close to Jared's dramatics. I've been proven wrong tonight."

I felt a foot carefully nudge my exposed side, moving my arm slightly I could see Shannon leaning over me grinning, "Are you dead?"

     "No, but you're about to be if you don't get that cold ass shoe off my side." I replied scathingly.

The phone on my bare stomach started vibrating again and I moaned causing Ace and Charlie to start laughing. I slid my finger across the screen to answer what I thought was a phone call, "SYD! Hellooo?? Why am I staring at a ceiling and some dude's face?"

Shannon laughed before leaning further off the couch to look at my phone screen, "You've reached Syd's answering service. May I take a message?"

Before Vic could respond, I grabbed my phone, coming face to face with Vic's confused but grinning face, "Syd! Oh my god you're alive! Wait, what are you doing? Or more to the point where the fuck are you?"

     "Currently?" Vic nodded. "I'm on the floor of a church contemplating death." I responded seriously.

     "Yours?" Kellin's voice broke through the loud crowd around them.

     "No, y'alls. Where are you guys?" I shifted my unused arm to support my head as I talked to them.

     "Get out of my face!" Vic yelled as he pushed Kellin out of the screen. "I swear Kellin I will bite you!"

     "Oooo kinky," I heard laughter floating around the room and remembered I wasn't alone and was supposed to be talking about a possible tour opportunity. "Look guys, I really can't talk right now--"

     "You promised you would come out this week, you're already out of your room, you have to come meet us!" Vic's voice broke through the commotion, he had stopped fighting with Kellin to return to his previous point.

     "Really? Can't we pick another time?" I was trying my hardest to weasel out of going out at all.

     "No, you have to promise you will come out or I'm not getting off this phone and if you hang up on me I will annoy you until your phone dies--" I cut him off before he could finish his ramblings.

     "Fine, jeezus fuck, I will go out! Just go away!" I finally agreed before moving my arm to drop my head back on the floor, letting out a loud sigh, "hey Vic?"

     "Yeah?" I looked to see him staring at me through the phone screen, concern etched in his features.

     "Is he there?" I couldn't help but ask. I needed to know.

     "Yeah," he sighed out, looking over the phone to a spot in the bar they were at.

     "Okay." I shifted into a sitting position against the couch, side pressed against Shannon's leg.

     "Hey Syd?" Vic asked quietly, almost to the point I couldn't hear him.

     "Yeah?" I glanced over at Jared who was happily chatting away with Ace.

     "She's here too." My eyes snapped back down to the screen to see Vic looking at me.

     "Okay," I sighed back, "well the sooner I get off the phone, the sooner I can meet up with you guys." Vic's face split into a happy grin and I could hear Kellin cheering loudly. "You guys are such goobers."

     "We'll see you soon then?" I nodded quickly before ending the facetime.

Sometimes they were just too much. I was exhausted just from that conversation, there was no telling how the night would go.

     "Everything ok?" I glanced beside me to see Shannon, arms braced on his thighs, leaning his head down to look at me.

     "Yeah, great," I smiled at him.

     "So Syd?" His deep voice questioned, "What's that short for?"

     "Oh shit, I completely spaced on introductions. Umm Sydney, it's short for Sydney." I laughed out before extending my hand to shake his.

     "I'm Charleston!" My guitarist announced happily, still behind the chair beside Brook, "but please call me Charlie."

     "Beside her is my little sister Brooklyn," I picked up, grinning at the blonde.

     "Brook or BB is fine." She said quietly. "And over there, with your singer is--"

     "Ace," Jared finished, a small smile on his face as he looked at my drummer.

     "I'm really sorry about that," I said looking between Jared and the couch Shannon and Tomo were on, "If I hadn't answered they would have continued to blow our phones up all night."

     "It's ok, really," Jared's calm voice had me looking back at him.

     "Would y'all like to go with us? It would give us an opportunity to get to really know each other, see how we are around friends. I don't know about y'all," I said looking at my friends and bandmates, "but I'm currently trying not to fangirl around a band that I've been listening to for, shit, well over 10 years, it's making it kind of difficult to focus on what needs to be discussed at the moment."

Charlie's giggle rang around the room, soon followed by Ace. Jared looked back at my drummer before a grin slipped onto his face, I was going to have to keep an eye on that developing relationship. There was something about the way he was looking at her, like there were stars in his eyes. I couldn't help but smile at the thought, she needed someone good for her and something told me Jared would be just that, especially after Woody.

     "I could use a few drinks and a place to let loose," Shannon said, breaking me out of my thoughts.

     "Excellent!" Charlie exclaimed, quickly pulling out her phone. I watched her fingers fly across the screen as she typed out her text. "Trevor said they're at the Refinery Hotel's rooftop bar. It's about a 30 minute walk or a 10 minute ride, up to y'all."

     "Walk? You want me to walk?" Brook stated, eyes wide and eyebrows raised at Charlie's suggestion. "What is this nonsense?"

     "Is there even a taxi that will carry us all?" Ace asked. I glanced over at my drummer, who was slowly removing herself from her chair, with the help of Jared.

I groaned loudly as I threw my head back against the couch cushion beside Shannon's leg, oh god a decision was never getting made.