The Tour Life Bites

Chapter 12: Buzz Kill

  I spent a good hour greeting all my friends but at the end of that hour I stood at the edge of the dance floor not knowing what to do next. I glanced out at everyone, not seeing anyone I felt like hanging out with at the moment. Thats when my eyes caught those of a guy sitting at the bar. He was very tall and built, with shaggy brown hair and big, bright blue eyes. He was dressed as a badass half zombie, with ripped black jeans and a leather jacket and only half his face looked like it was rotting away. He watched me curiously for a moment before taking another sip of his drink then he looked back at me and smiled. I felt my heart flutter, melting at his warm smile and I found myself smiling back before I finally caught myself. I was in the middle of ranted at myself about how I couldn’t let anyone close to me when I noticed he was crossing the floor, coming towards me. I gave him a stern look that made him stop and give me a questioning one and suddenly I spun around and walked away before he could come talk to me.

Daniel:

   We locked eyes from cross the dance floor and I thought it was my chance to finally make a move but in the end she just bizarrely walked away. We had smiled at each other and made a connection but in the time it took me to get to her I could tell she had disappeared into her head, and growing madder by the second. She gave me a strange look of disapproval which made me stop and think for a second and with that she walked away. I couldn’t wrap my head around what had just happened. I must have stood there like an idiot thinking for a long time because finally one of my friends came over and asked if I was alright. I could feel her getting farther and farther away and I had the urge to run after her but I didn’t. It was obvious the connection I had felt between us was one sided.

   Today was the first day of Loud Mouth and we were up early to play. I still couldn’t get the angel from last night out of my head nor wrap my head around her odd behavior. My  theory I had dreamt up last night was that she must have gotten hurt at some point. She was scarred still from another’s love and when she smiled, she felt the connection too but then thought better of it. I rested assured that I would talk to her at some point. We had three months of tour together and I was sure we’d to be thrown into the same room at some point and when we are, I wont hold back.

   The crew was set up and done early so they left us alone to do sound check as they shuffled off to breakfast. We had communal breakfasts every morning but I wasn’t big on the cooking or the fact that they chose to have reds and blues lumped together. Any other time there is a straight line down the middle that only bands who are neutral to each side can pass with special permission, if you aren't one of those bands then you stay on your side. The feud of Red vs. Blue was a battle that stretched back ages. Some think its finally coming to an end but the higher up families know its not, people are just growing tired and when that happens... so does disaster. 

   I was close friends to Pierce Avenue and I had wanted to go see them this morning and thank them for the invite but I had to wait for them to cross the line. We were the only blue band invited to last night’s fiesta and what we had expected to end badly didn't, we were actually accepted with open arms strangely. I spend a while pondering this at the party then I realized what was so wrong! No one was scared and watching over their shoulder or was paranoid about talking to a blue all because James wasn’t there. I must admit, Victor has the biggest balls ever not inviting the current prince of the red’s band, yet inviting the prince of the blues, this made me laugh. But I don’t expect retaliation on his part. From what I’ve heard, Despite Midnight is actually very dysfunctional right now. Everyone is sad and depressed, Rem is constantly in and out, and even James seems to have lost his object of entertainment (which rarely happens). I wonder who the poor girl was this time? I had heard gossip about James picking up a girl who was supposedly starting to tame him. She was stubborn and stood her ground no matter what, even gave little Celestina some confidence but I haven’t heard much about that girl lately, he probably killed her.