"Hello Florida!" I cheer, and everyone shouts back "I'm excited to be back here! We were just here two and a half weeks ago, filming a music video" louder "It should be released within the next month! But tonight I hope you all have an amazing time, who's seen us before?" Not as many cheers "Well thank you to everyone who's been here since the beginning! Let's fuck this shit up!"
I step back, as the music is blaring, and start dancing. This show has been awesome because it's so relaxed and just plain fun. I'm not super stressed or pissed off, or homesick. "And I can't it take anymore!" I sing, then as the screaming part comes I fill my air with oxygen, just to let it out right away. Then without me having to say anything, everyone crests this big open circle in the audience, and I smile as everyone starts running around the rim off it. All the lights around us flash red, and it so fucking sick.
"Alright guys, this is the last song tonight, SO I WANNA HEAR YOU GET FUCKING LOUD!"
It's also the heaviest song; and I've really been practicing my vocals lately. At the end of the show, we run off stage, and once again when Paramore takes over; even though they're an absolutely sick, and popular band... the audience isn't as loud for them as they were for us.
Ring-
I answer my phone all the way, "Hello?" I pant
"Hey Amanda" It's Johnny "I have news for you guys!"
"What is it?" I smile
"One, the official band Instagram just reached one million followers"
"HOLY SHIT!" I shriek, smiling
"What what??" Lyric shakes me, so I put it on speaker
"We're at one million followers! And it's only been what? A fucking year? If that?"
"Ten months" Johnny chuckles "Two, guitar centers across the world have bought multiple million copies of your album, and they're sold out in six states" I laugh harder, covering my face as happy tears roll down my cheeks "Tomorrow; well I need your approvals for this one. But we want to release your guy's first ever vinyl."
"Yes yes!" I laugh, then sob uncontrollably, and Lyric hugs me, crying too
"And last of all, your music video is finished! I'll send you it, and if you approve it, we'll publish it in two weeks from today"
"Okay" I nod, laughing "Show me what the vinyl looks like"
So we see it and it's gorgeous, I tell Johnny to approve it, as well as the music video that looks fucking fantastic! We don't have time to party tonight though, because we catch a jet out to Colorado, for we have a show the next night, and the night after; Saturday, we have a show in San Diego.
"Guys" I smile at Lyric while we're on the plane, I'm not crying anymore but I am beyond content "We made it"
We fucking made it!" Lyric shouts, and we all laugh
That night we crash at a hotel; as our bus is on the way home to Cali. We drink all night, and smoke pot. Then the next morning when we wake up around three, we stay in our sloppy clothes from the previous night, and head out to a tattoo shop.
"What can I do for y'all?" The nice lady says
"We all want tattoos of our album cover" Lee smiles. Our album cover is me in a coffin, with all the band mates around me
"I don't" I admit "I just want Indulgence over abstinence, like how you'd put a fraction"
"Well I want the album cover" Lee says
"Me too" Grim nods
"I Uh, feel kind of weird about that since like, I wasn't the drummer at that time" Brandon says "So I'll get what Amanda's getting"
