Walk-On

Ch 3 - The Video and the Tour

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Ch 3 - The Video and the Tour

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Cleaning the boys’ room was a lot nastier than I first expected. And what I had first expected was something in between mucking a stall with my bare hands and cleaning a toilet with my teeth. But when I started the whole process by clearing off the famous coffee table, I found some unmentionable items that, to be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure of their identity. So what I ended up doing was walking down Nick’s hallway, found the sleeping room which just so happened to be littered with clothes, and luckily was able to locate a pair of gloves. I didn’t know whose they were, but if I wished really hard they would be Liam’s. Or maybe Harley’s. 

There also weren’t any towels anywhere, even in the bathroom, so I had to use a dirty t-shirt that I found on the floor underneath the couch. I remembered the Mickey Mouse design from our trip to Disney World, and I also knew that Liam had about three of them because he had originally loved the design so much. But after aging a few years, he ended up giving me one of them to sleep in, and had apparently ditched one into the dark abyss of the disgusting couch. So I didn’t think he would mind when I used the sink to wet it down and used it as a rag to wipe up the stickiness on the table that I knew couldn’t only be from today’s spilt soda. 

The kitchen area was filled with all kinds of cabinets and drawers, so I just opened them up one after the other until much to my pleasurable surprise I found a box of trash bags. First, I went and replaced the over flowing one in the trash can, and then I grabbed an extra one and carried it into the living area to dispose of about ninety eight percent of the items in the room at all. With the gloves, and my knowledge that with every picked up piece of garbage I was that much closer to keeping Liam in my life forever, I was able to stomach it. Well, barely. 

The silence was really starting to bug me, though, and I wasn’t even halfway done with the first room. I wasn’t exactly sure what all needed to be cleaned, but I figured if I went overboard and cleaned all four rooms I would be safe. It might be difficult to wade through the sea of mess in about two hours, but I knew that I was going to try. I wasn’t giving up so easily. So I went and plugged the TV back in, since it hadn’t been done since Liam’s dramatic entrance, and then I found the remote buried deep in the couch cushions. I pressed the big red button at the top, and what I saw was definitely a surprise. 

The five boys sat on a longer than normal couch, and a woman dressed like she was going to a cocktail party was seated in the middle of them. Liam and Nick were to her right, and the other three sat to her left with Joey directly beside her. It looked like the program was on pause, so I pushed play without a second thought. 

“Ladies, here we are again with Walk-On, our guests this week, and we’re here to announce some very big news. Which one of you would like to give it away?” the lady asked, and I knew right away what this was. They must’ve prerecorded an interview with some TV station to announce their tour, and now they were getting to look over it before it aired in a couple of weeks. Or maybe the news was going to come even sooner than expected. They might release it tomorrow with the second single instead of waiting for the third. I went back to picking up various trash items, not really paying attention to what was going on, but not turning it back off, either. 

“I’ll take it, guys, if that’s alright,” Harley’s voice was saying, and I glanced up to see him leaning forward toward the camera from his position between Shawn and Joey. “We’re here today to tell you all that we are about to begin our first nationwide tour.” The sound of screaming girls erupted and I turned away, rolling my eyes. I knew that they couldn’t have that many fans yet, so the screaming was obviously staged.