Remember Me For Centuries

calm before the storm

"sat out side my front window, this story's going somewhere.." I began to sing as if it was my second nature. I herd some laughs, but that was good, that's what we wanted. I tried my best to act like Patrick and at the end Nate screamed perfectly. I saw the fall out boys guys run onto the stage and battle with their counterparts. Patrick pulled the hat and glasses from my face and took back his guitar angrily, he have me a kiss on the cheek making the crowd go wild before chasing me off stage with the others. once we were all off stage we must began to laugh at each other.

"looks like we have some imposters here tonight. that was our sister band in training ASTORIA!" Pete yelled into the mic making the crowd once again cheer.

we took off to find Amelia knowing we had things to do.

" Paige, you need to get in that van and change!" Amelia squealed and I did as I was told as quickly as I could. when I came out, Amelia had a bag of makeup waiting for me. I sat down in an old metal folding chair and strummed on my guitar while the other guys stood around me.

"what's the deal with the surprise, when are we doing it?" I asked.

"your last verse of the acoustic song you play" Blake said. Amelia accidentally poked me in the eyes a few times with objects that didn't look to be of this world. I looked up at the dark sky  and I hate to say it but it reminded me of Pete. boy, was he going to be upset about my last song, or did he even care? probably not. I began hearing the heavy beginning to 'Pros and Cons Of Breathing' play in the back ground, the hateful little song Pete had made for me. I felt the anger rise in me but refused to let it bring me down, especially right now.

"Amelia, would you mind doing my Mohawk next?" Blake asked as I got out of the chair. from where we currently where by the vans, we had a good open view of the stage, even though it was a bit far away.

"we might need some help keeping fall out boy away during the last song, or sy least keeping them busy" Nate said to Amelia.

"Don't think I wasn't planning something overly dramatic." she laughed. that's Amelia for you, always coming up with your best plans before you did.

I watched Patrick on the stage in amazement at him. I wonder whether everyone thought he was this captivating or it was just me. I knew I liked him, but I was just now realizing how much.

it felt like forever as we now just looked at each other in fear, Nate just looked sick.

"for the love of god, Nate if your going to puke again, do it now. don't puke up there" I said.

"I'm fine, I swear." he said nervously.

"Amelia? would you mind bringing my acoustic guitar or having someone bring it during my last song?" I asked her. I felt bad about asking so much of her.

"of course." she smiled.

"I don't like asking so many things of you." I said sadly.

"its my job, I'm glad you guys are all making me feel needed." she said finishing Blake's now perky and high Mohawk.

"your more than needed." Nate said.

"thanks guys, but you really need to run to the edge of the stage now...fast" she said and the guys and I all looked at each other before taking off with instruments in hand.

"this next, and final band was the band you met earlier dressed like us. give it up once again for Astoria!" Pete yelled and we walked on stage as we did Pete gave me another wink. we plugged ourselves in as quick as we could.

"hey! I'm Paige, this is Nate on bass, Kevin on lead guitar, and Blake on drums." I said hearing yells and whistles from the crowd. "and this first song is called 'the sea' I said and we all began playing the intro. it felt great, I just tried not to look at all the people too much, especially when I sang. I knew that every member of fall out boy was most likely watching us right now. what if some of the other bands were judging us right now? probably not the best thing to think about right now.

I went on to do the second song, and completely nail the third and fourth. it was my turn for the last song now and I saw my band walking off stage and saw Patrick come on the stage with my guitar and a stool. he waved to the crowd shyly as they cheered. he handed me my guitar and put down the stool. he bent a little to adjust the microphone and I smacked his butt making the crowd laugh, even Patrick turned around to me and smirked with a huge blush. he kissed me on the cheek before walking off. I guess I had successfully kept everyone entertained.

"this is my last song and I wrote it for someone That I care about more than I possibly tell them" I said and began to strum the chords. this was it, I was completely alone on a stage in front of maybe a hundred or more people, I couldn't even see.  for all I knew I could be playing in front of no one, I should probably just keep thinking that. my nerves refused to settle as I got to about the middle of the song. I hope to god everything goes alright with the guys and the balloons.

it was time. just as I had that thought and I began to sing the last verse without music about a hundred glowing heart shaped balloons lifted off into the sky. I refused yo turn around, but it did make me smile as I strummed the last few notes. the crowd went crazy, it felt so good. I watched the balloons like some sort of planters fly up high into the sky. fall out boy and my band came back on stage. we all high gives each other and Patrick hugged me.

"give it up again for Astoria!" Pete yelled at the crowd. this weird highness feeling was crazy to me like a mix of adrenaline and pure happiness, whatever it was my heart was full of it.

now I just had to conquer Patrick's house, and I would be fine, right? I just played a show for my first time, it couldn't be any more scary than that, could it? just as we all left the stage, I caught a glimpse of Pete who gave me the worst glare from those big brown eyes I've ever seen. crap.