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Love Is Love No Matter the Conditions
Chapter 3
The four of us were following the band backstage in a line, Aaron was in front, then me, then Ben and Connor lagging behind. I grabbed Aaron and Bens hand because I could feel myself getting drowsy again and I knew that I needed food or something fast or I was gonna pass out. I had this wierd sugar thing, it was like I was diabetic but I wasn't. We got to a big room full of band stuff, guitars etc. There were two huge four seat sofa's and a massive arm chair forming a sort of square but with one side missing, the band and the boys settled down on the sofa's and Synyster sat on the arm chair, I kept standing though and scanned the room for somthing to eat or drink, Syn came over and asked me what was wrong. I told him that I needed something sugary and he ran over to a fridge behind the sofa and got me some pepsi. I gladly took it and drunk about half the bottle in one gulp and then felt the sugar pulse through me and nearly keeled over from the rush. Aaron ran over faster than any of the seven others in the room and stood me up until I felt right again, Ben, Connor and Syn all stood around us in concern and the rest of the band were watching me. I said
"Stop looking at me you planks" I could feel myself going red and hated being the centre of attention. Aaron smiled and knew I was fine if I was up to insults. He looked me in the eyes once more and went to sit down on the sofa, Syn pulled me over to the armchair and I sat on the arm. We talked for what seemed like hours about the show until Aaron's dad rung us to ask where we were because he was outside. We stood up to go and the band all looked at each other until Matt said
"You guys can stay if you like, you're awsome" He said finishing with that famous smile with those damn cute dimples, Johnny laughed in agreement and Aaron phoned his dad and told him to go and that we'd get the train back. He put the phone down and said
"He said we can stay as long as we don't get killed" I laughed and said
"Damn I was planning on getting murdered tonight" I said winking at Aaron, as much as his dad was lovely he said some strange things
"Well that would be a shame if you were killed, I'd like to get to know you more first" Syn said out of nowhere, we all looked at him and he just fixed me a smile and that stare that sent fangirls crazy. I blushed so much that I could hear snickering coming from the other guys including Zacky, Matt, Johnny and Arin. Their tour manager came in and said that they had and hour before they had to be on the bus because they had a radio show to go to in London the next morning. He looked at us and said Hi and then left.
I looked at Syn in disappointment, I knew i'd only just met the guy but I really liked him already. Then Jason Berry came in and said that there was loads of fans outside waiting for them, the whole band stood up and said they were going in the showers before they went to meet the fans, Syn stopped before they left and said
"If you can, there's some space on the bus for you and your friends. It'll be a pullout bed but it's something, i'd love it if you could."
"I'll try, i'd love to aswell' I said and gave him and sly grin before he turned around and followed the others out the door. Aaron, Ben and Connor all stared at me in shock, they knew I was really funny with guys.
"So, how are we gonna convice our parents to let us head off to London with a band for the next few nights?" Connor said, Me, Aaron and Ben knew our parents wouldn't be too hard to convince but Connor's parents had only just let him get on the train that morning offering to drive us, wait directly outside the arena and drive us home. They were very protective of him. I settled in the armchair and the guys went off the other parts of the room to phone their parents.
I rung my mum's mobile first but there was no answer so I tried the house phone and my dad picked up.
"Hey Lucy, did you have a good time?"
"Yeah, it was really good! Me and Aaron played with them onstage and we're backstage with them now!"
"Wow, really?" My dad had always encouraged me to play bass and I knew he'd be genuinly happy for me about that.
"Yeah can you put mum on please?" He took about thirty seconds to wake mum up and she answered groggily
"Hey darlin', did you enjoy?" I told her what I'd said to dad and added
"They've asked if we want to go to London with them"
"Why?" She was getting suspicious.
"They really like us, I think it's because we're not just obsessed with their looks and stuff we've been talking about the songs and instruments for about an hour."
"Are the guys going? I don't want you going with out them."
I held the phone away and asked the guys if they could go and amazingly everyone nodded back.
"Yeah they're just coming off the phone to their parents now"
"Ok then, don't let them leave your sight. Be careful I love you."
"Thank you so much ! I love you too, tell Dad and Joe too."
I clicked off the call and the guys said goodbye and ran and hugged me in happiness.
All I heard was "Ohh, is this a group hug?" and felt another five men join us which resulted in my compelte submersion. We all broke apart to find five men in brand new clothes smelling of lynx standing around us.
"So, are you guys coming with us?" Arin said, I looked at him in shock and he replied with
"What, Syn filled us in" I turned to Syn who was suddenly looking all sheepish and was about to reply when a voice next to me shouted out
"So, where are gonna sleep?" Matt laughed and said
"Well, there's two pullout's and a bunk so two of you are gonna have to share" They all looked at me knowing i'd have to share with one of the guys.
"We'll sort it out when we get on the bus" Syn said coming to stand next to me seeing this was going to be extremly awkward. Their tour manager came back and said
"I suggest you go and meet some fans now before we leave in half hour"
The guys began to help pack up and Syn looked at us and said
"The fans can get pretty crazy, if you guys just try and get through the crowd before us we'll be about half hour" I must have looked really worried because he touched my arm softly and said
I'll walk with you, i'll keep you safe I promise, Johnny has a problem with getting through the fans sometimes so it won't be fun with your stature."
I smiled at him and said
"Thank you, height deficiency sucks ass" He laughed loudly and helped the band pack up. It took about five minutes by the time Syn had started helping pack and we went out by the doors and could hear the fans chanting 'Sevenfold' repeatedly, Syn came and stook next to me and put his arm over my shoulders, I looked up and smilied at him and he smiled back and pulled me closer. Matt went out first and the crowd roared when they saw him. He, Zacky, Johnny and Arin went out first and asked the crowd to make some room so we could get through. I could hear the girls talking and gasping when they saw me and Syn but I didn't care, it was terrifying walking through a massive amount of people trying to grab Syn. Finally we got to the bus and he stood by the door, smiled and said
" I won't be too long I promise" I returned the smile and walked up the stairs to explore the bus and he closed the door and I could hear the crowds scrabbling to be near him. I got to the top of the stairs and looked down the bus, there was a little living area part and some shelves and cupboards with a fridge, microwave, sink and kettle. Thank god, I was gasping for a cup of tea! Then there were some bunks that were massive, there were two from the ceiling to the floor and three lengthways to the end of the bus but I could see the infamous tv and playstation or whatever it was were Matt played COD. I could already see Aaron eyeing it up, I joined them in the living area bit and we all looked at eachother and with out saying anything we knew what everyone was thinking.
"Guys, we're on Avenged Sevenfold's tour bus" Ben simply said,
"Yep" Aaron replied, we spent a few minutes in silence trying to acknowledge that fact. After that we all looked up and gave the biggest cheesiest of grins to eachother. We found ways of amusing ourselves until Avenged came back. Aaron phoned Megan, as much as she loved the band she was scared of being killed in a mosh pit, she was just under 5ft 11" so it was a silly fear but she said as long as we videoed some of it she was happy with that. Connor was on the phone with his parents again reassuring them he hadn't been killed or something, Ben was on the phone to Katie, his girlfriend, she wasn't happy he went because she was younger than us and her parents wouldn't let her go but he was now promising her loads of autographs. I was just looking around the bus thinking about the next few days. We had no clothes apart from the one's we were wearing, which were gross. I knew the guys would be fine with wearing the same clothes for a few days but despite my normal ungirlyness I couldn't walk around in sweaty, smelly clothes for seven days. We had about 60 pounds between the four of us. The guys had another week on tour and we had no means of getting home after they were done. Fun fun.
"Stop looking at me you planks" I could feel myself going red and hated being the centre of attention. Aaron smiled and knew I was fine if I was up to insults. He looked me in the eyes once more and went to sit down on the sofa, Syn pulled me over to the armchair and I sat on the arm. We talked for what seemed like hours about the show until Aaron's dad rung us to ask where we were because he was outside. We stood up to go and the band all looked at each other until Matt said
"You guys can stay if you like, you're awsome" He said finishing with that famous smile with those damn cute dimples, Johnny laughed in agreement and Aaron phoned his dad and told him to go and that we'd get the train back. He put the phone down and said
"He said we can stay as long as we don't get killed" I laughed and said
"Damn I was planning on getting murdered tonight" I said winking at Aaron, as much as his dad was lovely he said some strange things
"Well that would be a shame if you were killed, I'd like to get to know you more first" Syn said out of nowhere, we all looked at him and he just fixed me a smile and that stare that sent fangirls crazy. I blushed so much that I could hear snickering coming from the other guys including Zacky, Matt, Johnny and Arin. Their tour manager came in and said that they had and hour before they had to be on the bus because they had a radio show to go to in London the next morning. He looked at us and said Hi and then left.
I looked at Syn in disappointment, I knew i'd only just met the guy but I really liked him already. Then Jason Berry came in and said that there was loads of fans outside waiting for them, the whole band stood up and said they were going in the showers before they went to meet the fans, Syn stopped before they left and said
"If you can, there's some space on the bus for you and your friends. It'll be a pullout bed but it's something, i'd love it if you could."
"I'll try, i'd love to aswell' I said and gave him and sly grin before he turned around and followed the others out the door. Aaron, Ben and Connor all stared at me in shock, they knew I was really funny with guys.
"So, how are we gonna convice our parents to let us head off to London with a band for the next few nights?" Connor said, Me, Aaron and Ben knew our parents wouldn't be too hard to convince but Connor's parents had only just let him get on the train that morning offering to drive us, wait directly outside the arena and drive us home. They were very protective of him. I settled in the armchair and the guys went off the other parts of the room to phone their parents.
I rung my mum's mobile first but there was no answer so I tried the house phone and my dad picked up.
"Hey Lucy, did you have a good time?"
"Yeah, it was really good! Me and Aaron played with them onstage and we're backstage with them now!"
"Wow, really?" My dad had always encouraged me to play bass and I knew he'd be genuinly happy for me about that.
"Yeah can you put mum on please?" He took about thirty seconds to wake mum up and she answered groggily
"Hey darlin', did you enjoy?" I told her what I'd said to dad and added
"They've asked if we want to go to London with them"
"Why?" She was getting suspicious.
"They really like us, I think it's because we're not just obsessed with their looks and stuff we've been talking about the songs and instruments for about an hour."
"Are the guys going? I don't want you going with out them."
I held the phone away and asked the guys if they could go and amazingly everyone nodded back.
"Yeah they're just coming off the phone to their parents now"
"Ok then, don't let them leave your sight. Be careful I love you."
"Thank you so much ! I love you too, tell Dad and Joe too."
I clicked off the call and the guys said goodbye and ran and hugged me in happiness.
All I heard was "Ohh, is this a group hug?" and felt another five men join us which resulted in my compelte submersion. We all broke apart to find five men in brand new clothes smelling of lynx standing around us.
"So, are you guys coming with us?" Arin said, I looked at him in shock and he replied with
"What, Syn filled us in" I turned to Syn who was suddenly looking all sheepish and was about to reply when a voice next to me shouted out
"So, where are gonna sleep?" Matt laughed and said
"Well, there's two pullout's and a bunk so two of you are gonna have to share" They all looked at me knowing i'd have to share with one of the guys.
"We'll sort it out when we get on the bus" Syn said coming to stand next to me seeing this was going to be extremly awkward. Their tour manager came back and said
"I suggest you go and meet some fans now before we leave in half hour"
The guys began to help pack up and Syn looked at us and said
"The fans can get pretty crazy, if you guys just try and get through the crowd before us we'll be about half hour" I must have looked really worried because he touched my arm softly and said
I'll walk with you, i'll keep you safe I promise, Johnny has a problem with getting through the fans sometimes so it won't be fun with your stature."
I smiled at him and said
"Thank you, height deficiency sucks ass" He laughed loudly and helped the band pack up. It took about five minutes by the time Syn had started helping pack and we went out by the doors and could hear the fans chanting 'Sevenfold' repeatedly, Syn came and stook next to me and put his arm over my shoulders, I looked up and smilied at him and he smiled back and pulled me closer. Matt went out first and the crowd roared when they saw him. He, Zacky, Johnny and Arin went out first and asked the crowd to make some room so we could get through. I could hear the girls talking and gasping when they saw me and Syn but I didn't care, it was terrifying walking through a massive amount of people trying to grab Syn. Finally we got to the bus and he stood by the door, smiled and said
" I won't be too long I promise" I returned the smile and walked up the stairs to explore the bus and he closed the door and I could hear the crowds scrabbling to be near him. I got to the top of the stairs and looked down the bus, there was a little living area part and some shelves and cupboards with a fridge, microwave, sink and kettle. Thank god, I was gasping for a cup of tea! Then there were some bunks that were massive, there were two from the ceiling to the floor and three lengthways to the end of the bus but I could see the infamous tv and playstation or whatever it was were Matt played COD. I could already see Aaron eyeing it up, I joined them in the living area bit and we all looked at eachother and with out saying anything we knew what everyone was thinking.
"Guys, we're on Avenged Sevenfold's tour bus" Ben simply said,
"Yep" Aaron replied, we spent a few minutes in silence trying to acknowledge that fact. After that we all looked up and gave the biggest cheesiest of grins to eachother. We found ways of amusing ourselves until Avenged came back. Aaron phoned Megan, as much as she loved the band she was scared of being killed in a mosh pit, she was just under 5ft 11" so it was a silly fear but she said as long as we videoed some of it she was happy with that. Connor was on the phone with his parents again reassuring them he hadn't been killed or something, Ben was on the phone to Katie, his girlfriend, she wasn't happy he went because she was younger than us and her parents wouldn't let her go but he was now promising her loads of autographs. I was just looking around the bus thinking about the next few days. We had no clothes apart from the one's we were wearing, which were gross. I knew the guys would be fine with wearing the same clothes for a few days but despite my normal ungirlyness I couldn't walk around in sweaty, smelly clothes for seven days. We had about 60 pounds between the four of us. The guys had another week on tour and we had no means of getting home after they were done. Fun fun.