Not Into Her

XXXV - The Life Onwards: The World Tour

Saturday came and I and my bandmates are so happy to see each other after two years. We reached the studio for another album to record after our first album has been born and been a hit around the record stores around DC and the world. We've been called by Mr. Flannagan to come to Monitor Studios for a meeting.

When we reached the recording studio, we've been met up with Mrs. Hathaway on her office. We walked inside her office and sat on the couch at the front of the desk. I looked at Mrs. Hathaway and saw her smiling.

"What is this about, ma'am?" I asked the woman.

The woman looked at me and smiled. "I've heard some news that your first album already hit the charts." she gladly said at me. "We've been collecting some funding from your album, thanks to you. And they've been asking a concert of your band all around the world."

"A concert?" the boys asked with excitement.

Mrs. Hathaway looked at the boys and saw their excitement. "Yes, a concert." she continued. "Around the world, I decided."

I smiled at the woman. "That's good!" I said. "I mean we can be travelling around the world and do some concert. Although, we've got an agreement that we'll do whatever we want just to make sure it was on our contract."

"Yeah, yeah." the woman said at me, looking. "I remembered the contract you signed. You can do whatever you want."

"And we'll say that we go around the world and have their wish come true."

"So," Danny suddenly said. "where do we go and start the tour?"

"Tomorrow will be great." Mrs. Hathaway said at Danny. "Pack your things and some stuff."

"Okay, then." I said. "We'll see you tomorrow."

We walked out from the room and immediately head to our own businesses. Danny gone to his hospital and asked his superiors for the trip. Vincent drove his way to the university where he teach History and asked the dean for a six-month vacation for the trip. And Erick went to his workplace and asked the branch manager for the same vacation days of the trip. I also walked to the Metropolitan Police Department and asked the director for a six-month vacation trip. He approved my application and smiled at me on the good news I said at him.

I also visited Zennifer from Dir. Hungary's house and told her about the concert I have. She immediately asked me a souvenir when we go back home. I just smiled at her request and immediately said goodbye on her. Then I drove my car back to my apartment and immediately packed for the world tour. I packed thirteen shirts, thirteen coats, thirteen pants and thirteen kinds of shoes for the trip.

The next morning, I parked my car back to the MPD and immediately asked the director to look after it while I'm still gone for the trip. I also gave him the keys. I took a cab to the Congress Heights, to Aunt Brenda's house, and gave them the apartment keys just to ask them to look after the apartment. Then I head to the Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport and met up with the boys and Mrs. Hathaway.

Mrs. Hathaway immediately passed the tickets for us and quickly gave us some money for the whole trip. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be exact, a huge cash for the concert, and a total of a million dollars. I guess our first two albums have been sold out and reached a total of thirteen millions dollars in total. And we're so happy to hear about the good news.

We reached from Paris in France to Sicily, Italy. The people around these cities are very heart-whelming and got respect to the band. So as the people in Canada, near the Pickering District. I invited Karl to join the concert but he refused because he's got plans on our concert night in Canada. We also had a concert in Mexico, Slovakia and Slovenia and their people are so fond in listening our music.

We jumped from cities to cities, before we reach Beijing and Tokyo. They've got culture in everything they have and also got beautiful women too. They're rich in culture, respect and very keen in making their country clean by using recyclable materials twice or thrice times. They also teaches us how to speak some simple words from their dialect and even showed us how to respect an old person. In all, they're wonderful people who really likes our music so well.

And, each city we made a concert, the people who attended sang with us on our songs we played. They already memorized the lyrics of each song we played though they bought our CDs from the first day of its release. Wow! I just reacted, seeing all those people around on the concert halls and already became our fans. We have fans! And we're so happy with that. We saw all our fans are having fun in their seats while they listen to our songs.

We also heard that our albums already reach Rome, in Vatican City I presume. The Italians wanted us to have a concert on their city, so we did. We made a concert at the city and they're so in love with our songs we played. They also sang with us when we gave them a chance and I noticed they've got good voices. And I and the boys decided to go and have a concert again in this lovely city.

We also went to Melbourne in Australia. We just heard from Mrs. Hathaway when she had the chance to call us on our private jet that the Australians also bought our albums. We announced our concert day and the time and also promoted the venue for the concert. People from different cities around Australia drove to Melbourne just to see our concert. And they never regretted it. We gave them a nice concert and they're having fun singing with us.

Then we reached Alaska and immediately felt the cold breeze from Antarctica. The people of that city are very happy and pleased and were so excited to see as in action. We played our favored songs from our albums on their grandeur concert hall and they loved singing our song with us. We're rocking the whole concert hall and immediately kissed our fans goodbye with a promise that we'll be back.

For the summary, we went to different countries with different kinds of culture but I totally forgotten to have a concert on Philippines, my home country. We came home thirteen weeks later and we really didn't expect such fans immediately form in these cities because we've only just begun in our music career. And we're honestly surprised at our fans and they called themselves as AVEDians.

I looked at the boys when we're on board towards Washington. They looked so happy and very proudly called themselves as one of the important persons of the band. And thought if I haven't think of forming a musical group, they'll be working as they have in Washington.

"Regret is for chumps only, my friends." I said to myself. "Thank God I think of this career. And yet you never regretted so much. If I haven't seen or developed something extraordinary, you'll be not here with all of us."