Crystal Blue Disguise

Chapter 5

Today is the start of tour!! Our busses showed up at relatively the same time, so once we loaded up it was off to LA! Finally, the day we've all been waiting for, and the chance to hang out with Avenged for a whole three months. I jumped into my bunk and started to daydream how this tour would play out. My band absolutely killing it every night to crowds of thousands, then after we played I would watch my dad absolutely break the stage, and as a closer, I would come out and play Blind on guitar with them. Then as the roadies broke down the stage for Korn, I would chill with Avenged backstage, watching Syn and Zacky warm up and practice their duals together,  and Jimmy would be off on the side with his drum pad, getting his wrists ready. And right before they go out, I would hug each and every one of them, and finally, with Jimmy as the last one to make his entrance, he would lean down and... what??
What am I saying? He's going to patch things up with Leana... Well, she has cheated on him before. But still! There are plenty of other women in the world that are ten times better than I could ever be for him. Plus why would he date a guitarist? He should find himself a drummer girl. Then I started to think about the worst... What if he liked Charlotte...

I was startled out of my daydreaming when Paige came to the back of the bus and hopped in her bunk. "Hey Scherry! Happy Tour!" she said excitedly. "Yeah, happy tour," I said not as enthusiastically. "Hey what's up? What are you thinking about?" she automatically knew something was up. "It's nothing, I'm just overthinking and playing different scenarios in my head." I was honest with her. "Oh okay, don't overthink too much, especially not about Avenged. We're on tour with them all summer, we don't need things going south already." She said as she set up her bunk with her bags and her laptop.
Gradually we picked up the rest of my bandmates, our tour manager, and a few of our crew members and headed off to the venue. When we got there my dad wanted to take my entire band out for dinner. I announced from my bunk "Ladies get dressed up we're going out to dinner, my dad is treating!" I got mixed reactions, one was starving, one didn't want to get dressed up, one wasn't hungry, the whole schpeal. "Let's go he'll be on our bus at 7:30, we're leaving with or without you." I went into the bathroom and started doing my makeup and once that was done I put on my little black dress, black heels, and my leather jacket. I took a look in the mirror... Damn, I'd fuck me. I laughed to myself and walk out of the bathroom and got all the whistles and hoots and hollers and everything. All of the other girls got ready and my dad was on the bus at 7:30 sharp.
"Well hello pretty ladies." he approached all of us. "I get to take my 5 daughters out to dinner." my band giggled. "Thanks Mr. Davis." they all said. "How many times do I have to tell you girls to call me John?" and with that, we were off to this fancy Italian restaurant that was across from the venue.

We were seated at a big table in the back for the six of us, and at the same time we saw the staff setting up another table for a party of ten. I didn't pay much attention to it. And kept looking through the menu.
A few minutes later we found out who the party of ten was. Walking in was Matt and Val, Brian and Michelle, Zacky and Gena, Johnny and Lacey, and Jimmy. At first, I was excited yet saddened when I saw that Jimmy didn't have a date, but felt my heart shatter into a million pieces when I saw Leana come up and grab his hand.
"Hey guys!" Matt greeted us with a wave as everyone came over to hug us. I went down the line, and took every ounce of strength to hug Jimmy and to tell Leana that it was nice to meet her. We went to go sit back down at our table when my dad with his bright ideas decided to suggest that we put the tables together. Great, now I have to have dinner with the woman who's torturing Jimmy. The worst part was that I was seated across from them. I tried to distract myself by listening to the stories from the other side of the table. At one point it became too much and I went to the bathroom.

I slammed the stall door shut and sat on the toilet with my head in my hands, tears streaming down my face. I had only met him once, what was I doing? It's not like we were anything, plus that's his girlfriend, she apparently knows him better than anyone. But I was literally there when they were arguing on the phone, she cheated on him, she didn't love him, she was just using him. I got up and punched the stall door. After that Charlotte came into the bathroom. "Scherry? Are you okay? You've been in here for a while?" She opened the door and found that I was pissed. "Yup, I figured you'd be like this. I know you better than anyone else, and I know the exact reason you're pissed." This is why she's my best friend. "Why are their girlfriends even here? They're going on tour!" I asked. "It's the only 'local' show that we're playing so they came out to support the boys, I guess they decided to take the girlfriends out to celebrate the start of the tour. Don't worry they're not going on tour with them." and then she switched her tone. "Which leaves them plenty of opportunities to get to know a few other women if you know what I mean." She winked. I guess so, I never condone cheating, but you're allowed to be *friends* with other people, and if you so happened to develop feelings for them, well then shit happens.
"Don't give up hope, Jimmy knows that you care about him and he knows that Leana has treated him like shit." She said hugging me. "Then why is he still with her??" I said angrily. "Men are stupid, Scherry, you know this, he'll wake up eventually, I promise." she was totally right. "Thanks Charlotte, you're the best."

We walked back out and Charlotte and I sat back down next to each other in front of Leana and Jimmy, I shot him a confident smirk, and he gave me a cautious grin. We all started eating, and I noticed that Jimmy wasn't eating so much, but more so I felt him doing "double bass" under the table, any drummer does that when they're anxious. I saw him doing the same thing I was doing before and trying to listen to the conversations on the other side of the table. Leana, sitting right next to him didn't bother to check on him or anything. "Jimmy." I said softly, and he looked at me like a deer in headlights. "Are you okay?" I smiled, "Yeah, I'm good, I'm good." As he said that I felt the double bass under the table speed up. So, I nudged him under the table with my leg. He immediately stopped and his face became a bit flush.

He was like this for a little while, then Brian came up behind him. "Hey bud, wanna go have a smoke?" Brian asked. "Sure," Jimmy said as he shot up out of his chair and walked towards the front of the restaurant. I turned to Charlotte, "you know what I noticed? How Jimmy and Brian are best friends, drummer and guitarist. Kinda like us." Charlotte and I laughed and hugged each other.
Eventually, Jimmy and Brian came back in and just like how I came back after the bathroom a lot less stressed, Jimmy came back the same way, much better. "Hey Jimmy, Brian, we were just saying like how you guys are best friends, guitarist and drummer, Scherry and I are the same way, ain't that funny?" Charlotte said, and the two of them laughed at the irony. Thank god it wasn't awkward anymore.

We finished eating, paid the bill, and parted ways. It kinda sucks that it was a wasted encounter with Jimmy, but I wonder what he was so anxious about? It couldn't have been about me.

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Hey guys! Chapter 5! I also just wrote chapter 6 so go read that! It's a great time for creativity considering we're all unfortunately in quarantine. But try to make the best of it! I'll see you in the next chapter!
-Zombie
Picture at the top of the chapter is Alice