Fourth of July

Chapter 16

Evan hurried up to me, clearly very panic stricken.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Gee decided that he wanted to play run from Evan and now I can't find him," he said.

I sighed and walked down the hall to look for Gee.

"Gee! Come out!" I called.

I spotted Gee in the corner of the room and I sighed in relief. As soon as Gee saw Evan by my side he screamed and took off running again. We chased after him around the corner and I stopped when I saw some security guard grabbing Gee roughly as he sobbed.

"Hey! Stop! Let go of him!" I shouted.

"He isn't allowed to be over here," the security guard said.

He let go of Gee and my little princess immediately ran over to jump into my arms. He wrapped his legs around my waist, burying his face into the crook of my neck as he cried.

"Sweetheart, it's okay," I whispered, rubbing his back gently.

I wrapped my arms around him, carrying him back to where the stage was at.

"Daddy c-can I wear my jammy jams?" Gee whimpered.

I nodded my head and brought him to the van. I helped him get changed into a pair of footy pajamas. It was light pink with some darker pink polka dots on it.

"Alright, you won't be able to wear shoes with this but that's okay," I said.

I carried him back inside and set him down near the merch table.

"You wanna help Mia set up?" I asked.

"No," Gee said.

I chuckled softly, kissing his cheek.

"Help Mia," I said.

Gee pouted before unhappily going over to help Jamia put up shirts.

"Alright, it's time for us to do a soundcheck," Alex said.

I nodded and went onto the stage. We did our soundcheck quickly before I went to go grab some tea. I sat in the back with Gee, looking around as people got ready. Gee sat on my lap and I gave him my paci. He rested his head on my shoulder playing with Sebastian. Soon it was time to go backstage and I gave Gee his sippy cup.

"Alright, Princess, you be good now," I said. "Stay here and listen to Jamia."

"We've got this here," Jamia said. "You go along now."

I kissed Gee's cheek and went down to the dressing room. I ran my fingers through my hair as I sat down on the couch. There was writing covering the walls here and pictures taped up of people who have performed here who got really famous.

"Imagine us being on these walls one day," Evan muttered.

I looked over at me, smiling softly.

"Mm, I'm just glad we're staying in a hotel tonight, I feel like I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in a million years now," I said.

The concert went by pretty quickly and soon we were at the bar with the few other people that had lingered behind.

"Is this your first tour?" The girl, who I learned was named Alicia, asked.

"Yeah, it is, it's our fourth show now," I said, drinking my beer.

She had tattoos along her collarbone with dyed black hair and messy black eyeliner. She had a ripped up Avenged Sevenfold shirt and a pair of black jeans.