Anatome (Jaime Preciado/Pierce The Veil)

Chapter 36

~Alexis's POV

We had just arrived at our first venue, which was an hour away from where we had all met up. Lights and I were situated in the bus, being forced to 'relax' as everyone else worked. Because we were pregnant and touring at the same time, everybody saw this as a big reason for us to not do much, which was annoying us because we were energetic.

"I'm bored!" Lights whines and flails her arms.

"I know how you feel." I moan back and we both moan loudly at the same time.

"Travis!" Lights whines. Travis comes over to us.

"Yes?" He asks us.

"We're bored!" We both whine at him.

"I am not your entertainer, ladies. Watch TV or something like that." He suggests.

"We've watched everything, and there's nothing good on." I whine. Travis sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose.

"Go to a cafe or something, be back in an hour." He sighs. Light and I high five and head to the nearest cafe. We both order coffee and I order a doughnut and we sit at a booth.

"This is so much better." Lights sighs as we sink into the seats. The cafe was quite peaceful. There were some people but the cafe wasn't overcrowded. After we replenished ourselves, we headed back to the tour bus and started getting ready. Lights had yet to reveal that she was pregnant, so she put on denim shorts, a baggy grey t-shirt and toms. I put on denim shorts too, a black vest top, checked shirt and militiary boots. We were too tired to properly fix our hair so we left it. It looked messy, but it was a good messy.

"Is it not difficult playing guitar when pregnant?" Vance asks as I retrieved my acoustic guitar.

"A bit but I'm overcoming it." I said. We put in our ear buds and head on stage. Travis gets behind his drum set and starts twirling his drumsticks, Dalton and Vance put their guitar straps over their shoulders and plug their guitars into the amps, I start tuning my acoustic guitar and place the strap over my shoulder. Lights gets behind her electric keyboard and fixes the mic.

"What's up guys?" She yells into the microphone and the crowd cheer.

"This is Travis, Dalton, Vance and our newest addition, Alexis!" She says, pointing to us as she calls our name. The crowd continue cheering.

"I'm Lights, we're going to play a concert for you and we hope that you have a good time!" She says and the crowd start cheering louder.

"We're going to play our favourite, and that's the original version of Banner."

Maybe it's bricks and mortar now,
Whether or not they run it down
I don't want anything to shake that shape away
No one told us which way to come
Nobody mapped oblivion
So I go growing roses in the disarray

Just like most, falling head in
'Til my ghost fills the bed in

So lift it up like a banner
Hold it up over me
If this war is never ending
I'll take this love down with me
Like a banner
Like a banner

I don't need fate to give it time,
It doesn't take pain to change your mind
No weapon can sever the soul from me

Not the sorceress, not the money
All my cleverness, all my cunning

So lift it up like a banner
Hold it up over me
If this war is never ending
I'll take this love down with me
Like a banner
Like a banner

It's around me in my surroundings
It counts me when it starts the counting
In the chaos there is a standard
I'm carrying it like a banner
It's around me in my surroundings
It counts me when it starts the counting
In the chaos there is a standard
I'm carrying it...

So lift it up like a banner
Hold it up over me
If this war is never ending
I'll take this love down with me (like a banner)
Like a banner
Hold it up over me (like a banner)
If this war is never ending (like a banner)
I'll take this love down with me