SUP. So this is pretty self explanitary as it goes along. Set at Vans Warper Tour and I've used the '12 dates just to make it more realistic :) If you want a certain band written in/ you think I should check a certain band out, just let me know and I'll be glad to include/listen to them! Warning you now, the main character's a slut. But a lovely slut ;) Thanks to Tilly for beta-ing this for me :)
Bands mentioned in the chapter:
You Me At Six
All Time Low
We Are The In Crowd
Both Matts from Bring Me The Horizon
And in future chapters, all of BMTH, Black Veil Brides, Paramore and Asking Alexandria- But don't worry if there's a band you haven't heard of/ don't know well, because it won't matter :)
Chapter Song: Unbroken - Black Veil Brides (Just because. Avengers. 'Nuff said.)
"Josh!" I squealed as I caught a first glimpse of him across the airport. Leaving my band behind walking behind, laughing, I ran at Josh and caught him in a bone-crushing hug. After rushed 'hello's, my band caught up and greeted Josh in a round of bro-hugs as I scanned the area for the rest of You Me At Six. I found Max and Chris sat side-by-side on their suitcases, taking, and Dan and Matt carrying 5 cups of coffee. Tom, our drummer, noticed the cardboard cups and took off straight away.
"He better get some for all of us," Our bassist, Shane, warned, propping his suitcase next to Chris and sitting down. We soon joined him and as Tom came back with our drinks we formed a vague circle of people and belongings on the airport floor.
Let me get you up to date. I'm Hannah- 18, singer and occasional guitarist. My hair's dark brown and finally long enough for me to like it. I'm in a band- Daisychains -with my boys; Luke- guitarist, cute and blonde-, Shane- bassist, constantly tanned and sleeping- and Tom- Drummer and Luke's Brother. We're currently heading to America for our first ever Warped Tour, and damn, we're excited.
"Hello?" I answered the phone, motioning to Luke to stop playing.
"Hi, is this Daisychains?" I threw a look of surprise at the rest of the band and relied.
"It is, Hannah speaking, who is this?"
"My name's Cassidy, I'm calling on behalf of your record company to discuss Vans Warped Tour"
I smiled at the memory as we queued to board the plane. Once everything was sorted the first thing I'd done was to ring around our friends to see who else was playing. We'd arranged with the boys from You Me At Six to meet at the airport and travel together, which was where we were now.
As we settled on the plane, all of us put one headphone in- still listening to music but not being too anti-social. I was seated between Shane and Max, and after chatting excitedly with them for a while, I slowly fell asleep on Max's shoulder.
...
"Wakey wakey, sleepy head we're here," Max nudged me awake.
"What?" I groaned, sitting up and stretching- there was no way I'd slept the entire flight. Except I had, I realised as I woke up properly.
"Salt Lake, Capital of Utah, hell-ohhhhhh America!" Tom cheered as we started getting our hand luggage down.
We got our bags and didn't have much trouble at customs, then hailed taxi's to take us to the fair park. Shows started tomorrow and we had tonight to get to know and meet the other bands we'd be touring with.
...
We were shown to our buses when we arrived, and after checking it out and dumping our bags, we went out to explore. Even though we'd left the UK in the morning, it was still only the morning in America, and I knew I'd be severely jet-lagged for the next few days. We checked out the stages and found where we'd be playing- Tilly's / the Alternative stage. It was a massive venue, and once we'd looked all around we headed back to the vans to see who's already arrived.
The boys went off to find various friends of theirs, and wondered around to see who I could find. Suddenly hands covered my eyes, making me jump.
"Guess who?" I recognised the voice immediately and flung my arms around the red-haired singer.
"Alex, Alex, Alex!" I laughed as he spun me in a circle. As the rest of All Time Low appeared, he released me and I ran at them, grinning. I hugged them one by one- immensely glad to see them. Our band had been a support on one of their UK tours and all four of them were like my brothers. As much as I told everyone I loved them all equally, everyone, including the band, knew I was closest to Zack. So, still clinging to his hand after I'd hugged him, they joined me on my walk.
"So who else is already here?" I asked, aware that though it seemed late to my GMT-accustomed mind, it was only about midday here.
"I'm not sure, we haven't been here long and we were some of the first to arrive," Jack squinted into some people in the distance then, convinced he didn't know them, jumped on Alex demanding a piggyback.
Alex, naturally, fell and they ended up in a heap on the floor as 3/5 of We Are The In Crowd appeared round the corner of a bus. Tay was the first to spot them and laughed, soon joined by Mike and Cameron. Alex staying lying on the floor, laughing, while Jack got up with a slight bush creeping across his cheeks. Jack Barakat- blushing! I was soon hugged by Tay - my tour-sister - then Mike and finally Cameron, who greeted me with 'Hey, Good-lookin'!''. To say Cameron and I had a bit of a thing on our last tour would be slightly untrue, because honestly Cameron and I had a continuous thing. Not a hey-we're-a-couple thing, just a hey-let's-get-drunk-and-make-out thing, which I realise sound bad, but honestly neither of us cared.
We carried on walking, except now I had both Zack and Cameron's hands.
"We have a big meeting this afternoon at like, five," Rian told us. "So we have a few hours to go exploring."
...
We sat on the ground in an unexpectedly large group, eating chips we'd gotten from the stall that had just opened outside the venue. The rest of my band and We Are The In Crowd had joined us, as well as both Matts from Bring Me The Horizon, so the noise levels were astonishingly loud.
"I wonder what other bands have gotten here?" I mused to Rob, who was sat next to me. Because of where we were sat, we hadn't seen any other bands arriving.
"Not sure," he pulled a face, "I think I heard someone say Paramore had arrived," He grinned at me, knowing full well that Hayley Williams had a massive influence on the music I first made.
"Oh shit!" Alex groaned, catching everyone's attention, "It's five, we're supposed to be at the welcome meeting!"
His announcement was followed by a chorus of curses as we all pulled faces and headed in the right direction. We got to the main stage, where the meeting was being held, fashionably late. We weren't too late though, as the guy on stage was still shouting through a megaphone to get everyone's attention.
We'd never played a tour like this before, and excited as I was, I was surrounded by so many other artists and musicians - most of whom I seriously admired- it was positively terrifying. Like a small child on their first day of school, I reverently hoped I got along with everyone. Across the crowd I saw bands like Black Veil Brides and Falling In Reverse and I felt the excitement building up in my stomach and flittering along with my nerves. This was going to be the best summer ever.
Chapter 2 will be up as soon as I've written it and Tilly's checked it! Thanks for reading! All reviews are appriciated- I'd love to know what you thought! :)
~Zia xx
