Chance Meeting

Four

It took about another week after word hit the rumor mill for anything definitive to be announced, and Ash kept his ears peeled the whole Time. Eventually, word started making the rounds that–at a press conference with SiriusXM–Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Def Leppard had finally released tour dates for a pretty big stadium tour next Year. They were gonna be joined by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, as well, which neither he, nor his roommate could care less about seeing any more than they could care less about seeing Def Leppard.

        When he found out that pre-sales were gonna start specifically for Citi cardholders on December tenth around Noon, he couldn't help checking his wallet. The bassist nearly hooted in excitement when he found that he was one of those lucky enough to be able to partake in the pre-sale, and that that particular credit card hadn't expired on him yet.

        As soon as he heard the news, he was grateful that he was on his lunch break in his office for Ashley Purdy Fashion, Inc. Even though he was the boss around here, he still tried to act like any other employee as much as he could. He never wanted anyone who worked for him to say he was a tyrant of a boss whose fame and fortune'd gone to his head way too much. If that meant he'd to do personal things on his lunch break like they did, he could more than live with that happily.

        Looking through the list of posted dates, he saw that there were two relatively closeta Nashville, as far as he was concerned. The first was on July eleventh in Charlotte, but he nixed that one pretty quickly 'cuz Aerin'd told him she never wanted to set foot in her home State again. The next closest was in Atlanta, Georgia on August ninth, seeing as how he didn't particularly wanna go to Texas or Pennsylvania just for a concert. All the other dates listed had the tour making stops mostly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest with only three spanning from Denver, Colorado to where they were Ending it in Los Angeles on September fifth.

        "She can try to kick my ass for this later, but we're going to that Atlanta show, come Hell or high Water," he muttered under his breath.

        "What was that, boss?"

        Looking up, Ash saw one of his makeup artists, Jackie, standing in his office doorway with her hand raised like she'd been about to knock on the open door. "Oh, nothing, Jackie–just talking to myself," he chuckled.

        "Now, we can't have ya going crazy and talking to yourself, boss," the makeup artist laughed.

        "It was more of a mental note for something," he swore as she walked around his desk to see what he was looking at on his computer screen.

        "Mötley Crüe tour dates?" Jackie asked, whistling. "Damn, I hadn't even heard about this."

        "'Cuz it literally just got posted," the bassist answered with a laugh. "I've been keeping my eyes and ears peeled since my roommate mentioned something that was flying around the rumor mill last week."

        "Oh, really?" she asked, cocking a brow. "And how's Aerin doing, by the way?"

        "She's doing pretty good–she's actually a big help with getting and keeping my head on straight, among other things," he answered. "But yeah, she told me when I got home one Day last week that rumor had it Mötley Crüe blew up their cessation of touring contract–literally."

        "Well, shit," the makeup artist said, her eyes widening. "When do tickets go on sale?"

        "Says here that pre-sales for Citi cardholders start on December tenth around Noon till the twelfth at ten PM, local Time," Ash read, his attention back on his computer screen. "General sales start on December thirteenth at ten AM, local Time."