We Both Go Down Together (ATL boyxboy)

I've Been Looking For You All My Life (chapter4)

Title: I've Been Looking For You All My Life

Title credit: All My Life by Move Out West

Song credit: Circles by All Time Low

Summary: Beautiful.

Author's Note: Okay so I wrote this out last night and I ended up spending 3 hours on it because I have nothing else better to do with my life. Haha. So yeah. I worked SUPER hard on this chapter if you can't tell and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I hope you guys enjoyed it! Thanks so much for reading! Tell me what you think? <3 (You silent reader make me want to shoot myself in the balls.)

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After another twenty minutes of awkward silence, the three boys finally arrived at the small concert venue. As soon as the car came to a stop, Jack grabbed his guitar and climbed out of the car, slamming the door behind him and storming inside the building. 

Parker burried his face in his hands and let out a loud groan. "What did I do wrong? Why does Jack hate me?" He muttered more to himself than to Alex.

"You didn't do anything wrong. And I'm sure Jack doesn't hate you. He just gets like this sometimes. Don't worry about it,"Alex said, trying to reassure him. That last part was a complete lie, though. Jack was never like this. He was always so happy and talkative. Alex didn't know what was wrong with Jack lately. But Parker didn't need to know that.

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Since he was with the band, Parker got to watch the show from backstage which was pretty cool considering he had never been backstage for anything in his life. Rian and Zack arrived soon after Alex, Jack, and Parker.

Parker wished each of the four guys good luck. The band members thanked him and ran out on stage. Jack wasn't as quick to run out on stage as the others though. He stayed behind for a little bit longer and eyed Parker with complete distaste and said something that sounded a lot like "Fuck off" and then joined the rest of the band on stage. Parker couldn't be completely sure that Jack had actually said that because of the loud screams of the fans. He decided to stop worrying about it and enjoy the concert.

"Hey, what's up you guys?! We're All Time Low! Thanks so much for coming out to see us play!" Alex said into his mic. The crowd screamed and Alex smiled. Parker noticed how at home and comfortable Alex seemed to be on stage. If they were to trade places, Parker would have probably shit himself. 

Parker felt himself smiling as Alex talked to the crowd some more. "I'm gonna stop talking now and play you guys some songs. That cool?" The crowd screamed in approval. "Okay, good! This song's called Circles!"

The crowd screamed again and the band played the opening notes to the song that was apparently called Circles. Jack and Zack jumped around as they played their instruments and Rian beat away at his drums. And then Alex started singing.......

"Inquisitive and thoughtful, she was the challenge he'd been waiting for; a reminder that creativity runs deep like secrets. Dark eyed dreamers; they were a dangerous pair. Q next to U scribbled out on paper. They stop, they go, they're done...."

Parker's mouth fell open. He was expecting Alex to be a good singer but he wasn't expecting him to be this good. His voice was deep but it could go high when he needed it to. It was smooth and clean and... beautiful. It was beautiful. Beautiful was probably the best word to describe it.

"Go back to the place we knew before. Retrace our steps to the basement door, I'll ask you if the rain still makes you smile. Like so much time we spent in the fall, it put color in our cheeks while the air turned cold. Preceding what became our bitter end."

The crowd was singing the lyrics back to Alex. Parker could pretty much see the singer feeding off of the amazing vibes that the crowd gave off. It was like Alex was a drug addict and the crowd's energy was his drug of choice; he needed it to keep going. He needed it to survive.

"Round in circles, lets start over. Round in circles, lets start over."

Parker was absolutely captivated by everything that Alex did. The way that he would rock back and forth as he strummed his guitar. How he would back away from his mic and dance around with Jack between verses. How he closed his eyes when he would sing a higher note. Beautiful. 

"Unanswered questions would be the only thing to stop them now.... He was the poet and she was the muse, but she had a pen and she knew how to use, with a touch of redemption, a hint of elation; a recipe for disaster."

Parker absentmindely began to mouth the words to the chorus and tapped his foot in beat with Rian's drumming. 

"Go back to the place we knew before. Retrace our steps to the basement door, I'll ask you if the rain still makes you smile, like so much time we spent in the fall, it put color in our cheeks while the air turned cold. Preceding what became our bitter end."

Alex looked over to where Parker was standing on the side of the stage, just far enough back so that the crowd couldn't see him, and winked at him before finishing the song.

"Let this be a lesson to us all. . . Round in circles, lets start over. Round in circles, lets start over. Round in circles, let start over." Alex pulled his mic off the stand and said "SING!" before holding it out to the crowd so that the fans could finish the song.

"Round in circles, lets start over!"