Make Believe (One Shots)

Waterparks- Awsten's Crybaby

A Crybaby by Waterparks inspired one shot! Enjoy!

Ciara had just cheated on Awsten. She was caught out with a new man that she had been dating for three months before she was caught and thus ending the relationship. Awsten was on tour with his band, Waterparks, and they were currently writing a new album and touring.

While on the tour, Awsten wrote a song called Worst and recorded everything for the song by himself and then released on YouTube just to get out his feelings about Ciara. But soon after he released it, he removed it because he didn't feel like seeing it anymore.

Awsten was back home, and he was currently in the Studio, his head was in his hand, his eyes were swollen from crying and his face was red and looked hot, but his face was red and numb. He was angry about Ciara and her cheating, but he was also guilty about letting her slip from his grasps while he was on tour with his band. Geoff and Otto tried their hardest to try and drag Awsten out of this state.

Awsten had almost finished writing the bands new album and now he hated the album with a fiery passion and wanted to burn it in a fire fuelled by his hate and he wanted to not just burn the album physical, he wanted to burn every emotion with it. He wanted to love the album, but the emotions connected to it were just to strong.

This new hate and guilt for not just the album, but for Ciara fuelled him to re-write the bridge on a song called 'We Need to Talk'. This song was about his doubts he had while in that relationship and about the revelations that he found out during that relationship. Awsten quickly wrote the bridge and it sounded like he was taking a dig at Ciara, but he wasn't. The only thing he took a dig at was one of Ciara's ex's that was an actor in the T.V show 'The 100'.

Fuelled by this fire, Awsten quickly wrote another song called 'TANTRUM'. He had written the chorus back when Waterparks was on another tour, but he never had the anger and hated to fuel the song but now he did, putting his pen to paper Awsten wrote the whole song out and took a few digs at Ciara's ex's who he didn't like.

It was a few days before Entertainment was meant to be released in a few days and Awsten got a phone call from the record label saying that he was not to play any snippets of entertainment on his Instagram or he would be in more trouble. Awsten took to twitter to express his anger towards the record label. The label forced Awsten to take down those tweets and then Awsten wrote an apology and an explanation to why he did it. He was still feeling guilty about letting Ciara slip from his grasps and he was angry about the record label for making him remove those tweets. Awsten was also feeling guilty about pushing Geoff and Otto away while he was going through his break up with Ciara. This just fuelled Awsten's fire and he now more than ever wanted to burn the album and of the emotions connected to it as well. He wanted to burn all his hate, guilt and love out of him and out of the album.

Entertainment was released and it was loved by the fans and they sold out venues on their European tour and the rest of the band was super excited to play to sold out crowds and to play the new music, Awsten on the other hand still had mixed feelings about the album and he wanted to love it but he still wanted to burn the album and everything with it.

Geoff and Otto had tried everything to change Awsten's mind about entertainment. Geoff and Otto were looking forward to going out and playing entertainment to the sold-out crowds and Awsten was still upset about the break up even though it happened ages ago.

It took Awsten a few weeks to not have mixed feeling about the album. Now he was enjoying listening to the album and was happy seeing how the fans were liking it and begging the band to do a world tour for entertainment. Awsten was not feeling as guilty about everything now and was happy about going to Europe and playing the songs that he wrote at a really bad time in his life.

When the band got the opportunity to film a music video for not warriors and Crybaby. The band jumped at the chance and Awsten was psyched to film it. He had a lot of creative freedom and placed a lot of his past emotions into the video. The colour blue for the sadness he felt after he broke up with Ciara and this helped with his Synesthesia, the VHS tapes that represented entertainment as an album and tripping over the tapes was there to show that Awsten didn't literally trip over the album but this represented his mixed feelings about the album and the lyrics, entertainment in the medicine cupboard next to the medication he needed to take. This video was full of hidden messages that the fans might not pick up on.

The video was released, and the fans freaked out over it as it was unexpected, and it was for Not Warriors and Crybaby as Not Warriors was a single and Crybaby was really popular with the fans. Geoff and Otto saw an improvement with Awsten. Nobody could tell what was going on in his brain, but the guys guessed that is was good as he was smiling a lot more compared to when this album was going to be released and the thought that Awsten didn't feel guilty about pushing the guys away. They understood that Awsten was trying to deal with his pain in another way. Awsten was now happy with the album and wasn't feeling as guilty about pushing Geoff and Otto away, but it still living in the back of his mind. He was happy playing the songs to hundreds of fans every night and he was loving it.