Love Is Love No Matter the Conditions

It was a short taxi ride, every time we got to traffic lights and stopped fans would try to get in the taxi. Twenty minutes later we arrived at the resteraunt, it was now ten to five so we didn't have a lot of time to eat. We got out and there were some fans there waiting and a few paparazzi. We went in and the owner was there to meet us and took us to a secluded booth where the guys were waiting already. Synyster had saved me a seat inbetween him and Aaron so I squeezed in and gave Aaron a smile and I hugged Syn's arm, he leaned towards me and whispered in my ear,

"You look beautiful" He kissed me on the cheek after saying it and I giggled and looked up at him, I gave him a warm smile and he gave one back and we were rather content just looking at eachother until Johnny cleared his throat and said,

"We don't have long, you two can continue that later" We both glared at him but picked up a menu. I already knew what I was having, this was my favourite Italian resteraunt and there was one back home. I was having fun listening to the guys trying to pronounce the names of the food seeing as they were all in Italian, I was translating what Estiva is to Arin when the waitress came over. She asked us what we wanted, I noticed she had an Italian accent and I looked at them waiting to see who would go first. Turned out it was Matt,

"I'll uhh, can I have a, umm" Eventually I said,

"Show me what you want and i'll order it" So they all pointed to what they wanted and I told the girl, I could only speak a few words of Italian but I could get the pronounciation down. I finished the massive order with 'Grazie, mi spiace loro circa. gli americani' and a roll of my eyes. We both started laughing and she left. I turned to look at the guys, Aaron, Ben and Connor knew I was rather bilingual so they were talking about some girl they'd seen in Convent Garden this morning and Matt, Arin, Zacky, Johnny and Syn were all looking at me as if i'd been speaking alien.

"What?"

"Since when do you speak Italian" Everyone apart from Syn had looked away now but he was still catching flys,

"Since I got bored last year and decided to learn some Italian, I also speak French and Welsh." I smiled at his cute shock expression and kissed his lips and then joined in the conversation with Aaron and the boys, Syn very smoothly put his arm over my shoulder and I held his hand on my shoulder. Turns out Ben had gotten the girl in Convent to give him her number and he had been texting her pretty much constantly since this morning. I did my usual job of flitting back and forth conversations, the band were talking about the show tonight, of course and the boys were talking about Ben and the girl. We only had to wait about five minutes for food and once it came we all tucked in because there wasn't a lot of time left before we had to get back. We all finished our food within about ten minutes which was amazing for me because I am such a slow eater people normally steal food from my plate just so I finish quicker. It was half past six so we had half hour before we had to be in the arena. We all we were talking about the show when I felt Syn's hand on my thigh from under the table, I hadn't noticed it move from the table where he was eating. Clever bugger. I tried to continue the conversation with Matt until his fingers began to trace random lines on the bare skin below my dress. Matt asked me,

"So do you sing?" I tried to look at him but now his fingers were running lines from my knee to the edge of my dress which had ridden up to above mid thigh when I sat down,

"No, not really" I was almost immediatly interupted by Aaron,

"-Yes you do" I turned and glared at him,

"No I don't" He just looked at me, Syn's fingers had stopped moving so it was a lot easier to concentrate. Aaron turned to Matt and said,

"She does but you have to have known her for a while for her to sing for you" I kicked him in the shin and because we were sitting next to each other I got him with the side of my heel. Even so he gave a satisfactory yell and I turned back to Matt,

"Ok, I sing a little why?" The band all looked at each-other and Zack said,

"Our recording of Shauna singing 'Gunslinger' is broken so we need a female vocalist to sing her part." They all looked at me waiting for a reaction, I gave them all a questioning look and soon realised they were being serious.

"Nope, no way!" They all turned puppy dog eyes on me so I added, "Those don't work on me, it takes a lot more to convince me" I turned my attention to my drink and motioned for the waitress to come over. I felt Syn kissing my neck and he whispered,

"Could I convince you?" He continued kissing me and I said,

"Nope. The only way you're getting me on that stage is if you carry me on. But if you do that I will not be held responsible for my actions"

I pushed him away gently and Matt went to pay for out food. I was beginning to feel bad with them having to pay for us all the time. We all got up and Johnny called us a taxi back to the bus. There were lots more photographers out there now and a few Kerrang and MTV journalists asking questions. I kept my head down this time and got into the taxi first.

We got back to the bus and we all changed into 'show clothes' I settled for the purple jeans I had been wearing and a tee-shirt and the new hoodie because I was now freezing, it was a little big but that's how I like my hoodies. I waited for them all because they had let me change first and sat on my corner of the sofa with my knees up, I pulled the ends of my sleeves over my hands and held my knees. It was seven now, and Aaron came over,

"Are you officially with him yet then?" I looked at him and gave a half smile, it was all he needed. "What are you going to do about college" I let out a massive sigh and leant on him and he put one arm over my shoulders. Our friendship was like that, we could argue and be mean but we were always there for each other no matter what.

"I don't know, i'll speak to mum tomorrow and see if I can get a week off but I can't take too much time off"

"Ok, is it ok if we have our parents bring some clothes to your's tomorrow. These are getting pretty gross"

"Yeah of course. I'm going to ring mum later. Tell Meg to come aswell, I need to speak to her."

"You two, I can see it now. You two gossiping away in corner, your parents flapping over Syn and there's me like a lemon on my own" We both laughed because he was probably right."

"Yeah but you know you love us" I could feel him smiling as he said,

"Yep, you're my girls." It would seem incredibly strange to any one else, but the three of us were best friends, it probably only worked so well because me and Meg had the minds of a guy. I'd nearly got together with Aaron but I knew Meg loved him and had done for longer so I stepped away, I often wonder what it would have been like if I hadn't.

"Umm, you guys alright?" Syn was standing by the end of the bunks looking rather concerned.

"Yeah, we going now? I said getting up and going to hug him. We were slightly late now and we all got off the bus and went into the arena. Inside the arena was buzzing with anticipation and hundreds of people were running around. Matt went to find Larry to tell him we were here and the rest of us went into our dressing room. We all came in and the band all settled down with a beer, Syn pulled me onto his lap but I shifted so I was sitting on him and had my feet up on Zack's legs. I leant back on the arm of the sofa and Syn put his arms over my legs, one was touching my thigh and the other was holding a beer. Sean from The Blackout came in at twenty past seven and looked at me and said,

"Is it true you're from Swansea?" I looked up at him and said,

"Yeah, why?" A smile broke on his face,

"Well. We heard you guys all talking backstage last night and the guys thought you were English but I know Welsh accents so I bet Gav that you were from Swansea" I laughed and replied,

"Fair play" He ran back out and ten minutes later we could hear them opening with 'The Storm'. The guys were talking about the show and I was humming along to The Blackout. They finished that song and started 'Save Ourselves'

"So what are you guys going to do when we're on stage?" Johnny asked, I looked at the guys but they gave me no answers,

"I don't know, I kinda want to go talk the The Blackout but we'll probably just listen to the show back here"

"Ahh ok." The band all looked at each other and I knew they were probably planning some attempt to get me to sing, it was not happenning.
A short while after Matt Berry came around with a camera and told us it was for the little intro they did fifteen minutes before they went on. He shouted, he had because it was soo loud.

"You guys ok if I film you for this?" I looked at him and gave two thumbs up simply because I couldn't be bothered to shout. He gave one back as a signal that he was filming. Matt came and stood next to me and started talking, I could hear screaming when he came on the camera, they started screaming even louder and then boom. Someone put my hood up over my eyes and pretty much bent me over and was leaning on my back crushing our bodies together. Whoever it was was going to pay. I heard a voice that I recognised as Syn's and realised that was why they were screaming. He must have been creeping up behind us. After the screams subsided he let me stand up and wound his arms around my waist, my hood was still up and he said to the camera,

"Alright now I've attacked her i'm ready. How about you guys?" He waited for the crowd to respond and they did with more screams.

"Sounds good guys, we'll be about ten minutes" They were all screaming so loud it was crazy by now. I tried to wave but Syn kept grabbing my wrists and pulling them back just to annoy me and then Matt put the camera down and said,

"Nice job Gates, the crowd will be nuts now" He was laughing and he walked away, I turned round so I could look at Syn, he kept his arms wrapped around my waist though and I wound mine around his. Truth is I couldn't be bothered to stretch up so I could put them around his neck.

"I think they liked that" I smiled at him and he leant down so our noses were touching,

"I bet they'd love it if I did this on stage then" Then he kissed me so deeply and passionatley I thought I was going to die. His hands slid down to just above my bum and I put mine on his shoulder blades, quite a few minutes later I felt a tap on his shoulder and Arin said,

"Umm, Syn? We have to go on stage now" We broke away and I looked at Arin,

"Couldn't you stall for a few minutes." I said only half joking.

"I don't think so, that little show you and Syn gave earlier has really riled them up" I smiled a little and turned back to Syn who kissed me again and his hands dropped to cup my bum,

"Sorry, I'm going to get you on that stage even if I do have to face your wrath afterwards." I slapped his hands away and pulled him down so I could whisper,

"You even try Haner and you'll regret it" He pulled away and quickly slapped my bum before he ran to get his guitar and go on stage. I smiled after him and listened to the crowds scream and squeal as they all went on stage and opened with 'Scream'.