Kellin Quinn jumped out of his tour bus and breathed in the night air. It wasn't very warm out; in fact it was downright freezing. He had no clothes for this weather, unfortunately, so he made do with two long-sleeved shirts and a vest of Jack's that he no longer wore.
This is going to be a long night, Kellin sighed to himself. He hadn't been feeling himself lately and frankly he just wanted to be in his bed, alone.
"Dude! Bryan is here and he's ready!" Jesse Lawson, his band mate, shouted from inside the building. The door shut closed behind him and left Kellin feeling even more alone.
...
Inside the air wasn't much cooler, despite all the human bodies that were crowded around backstage. There was so much noise coming from every room that you could barely hear each other.
"Kellin!" Bryan Stars walked over and shook Kellin's hand. Bryan was one of those awkward, nerdy guys that usually couldn't take a joke. Bands usually had a time with him; making fun of him and calling him names, but not Kellin, not this time.
"Yo," Kellin said, almost unemotional.
"Hey, I want you to meet some folks over here." Bryan gestured to two people sitting off to the side. "That's Damon Fizzy and beside him is Skylar Kennedy."
Damon was the first to speak. "Kellin!" He grinned and went in for a shake. Kellin nodded a 'hello' back and quickly returned the shake.
Skylar did nothing but give a simple wave of her hand and tuck it back into her hoodie pocket. She stood in the corner, making no noise and trying to hide from the loud people. Bryan finally took notice of the girl and pushed her forward. "Sky, he won't bite you."
About to shake her hand, Kellin looked up and paused. Skylar was a short girl with black and blonde hair. She was adorable with little freckles all over her face that made her green eyes pop. "Hi," Kellin smiled slightly.
Skylar shyly returned the smile and shook the hand of the singer. "Hello,"
There was something about her that made Kellin feel warm inside. All the feelings from before were replaced with happy feelings. This girl was perfect, amazing, adorable.
The moment past and Bryan started talking, bringing the singer back into reality. He shook his head and looked around, realizing he had not been alone with Skylar and that she had returned to her position in the corner alongside Damon.
"Damon makes youtube videos," Bryan was saying. "Sky has been in a few of them and I thought it would be nice to bring them both out here." He was saying as he got the mic ready.
'Kriss the Bunny', or so he liked to be called, got the camera set up as the others sat around a couch. Justin Hills and Kellin sat on either side of Bryan on a green couch while Damon and Skylar continued to awkwardly stand in the corner, waiting for any chance to speak.
"Are we rolling?" Bryan asked. Kriss nodded. "Alright, here we are again with Sleeping with Sirens—"
"YO YO YO." Justin interrupted the intro. He sat back in his seat and grinned as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Bryan and Kellin chuckled as Bryan continued. "Kellin Quinn and Justin Hills join us once more. Say, do you think we will ever get any of the others?" Bryan handed the mic to Kellin.
Kellin shrugged his shoulders. He tried putting on another fake smile. "Possibly, possibly not. Depends on if they want to be in your interviews. I don't think they like you too much." He teased.
"Yeah," Justin smirked, taking the mic away from Kellin. "Nobody likes you. We're just here because we were threatened. He threatened us! Help!" Justin gave a small whine.
Damon and Sky gave small chuckles. Kellin turned serious and said, "He told me he would strip me down and put his thingy in my you-know-what." He looked into the camera.
Bryan busted out laughing and nodded his head. "It's true, it's true." He stole the mic back and looked down at his messy sheets of paper. He looked for a good question and started the interview.
A little later, the interview was starting to get on Kellin's nerves. Not that he wasn't enjoying the questions; he wasn't in the mood to actually listen. He tried, though. Some of the questions he had to have repeated and others he tried to ignore.
But he couldn't keep his eyes off of Skylar for most of the time he was squished between a couch arm and Bryan Stars. He would glance at her every now and then. A few times she had been looking back at him, causing them to lock eyes for a split second before she looked down and began messing with a hole in her jeans. Usually, though, she was looking at Bryan or Damon or looking down at her hands.
"Would you never date a fan?" Bryan asked, catching Kellin and Justin off guard.
Justin thought for a second and answered. "Totally! If she was, ya know, willing to not be so creepy and fan girly around me." He chuckled slightly. "That's really creepy sometimes."
Bryan looked over at Kellin and held the mic up. Kellin thought for a long minute, thinking carefully of his answer. "Doubtful. I mean, I want somebody that will be with me for me and not my band, ya know?" The singer started messing with a loose string on the arm of the couch and sighed. "Most girls would want me singing to them all night and day or would make it into something it's not. If a girl that was a fan came up and she seemed to like me for me then great! I might give her a chance but you never know."
Bryan nodded his head and looked down at his paper again. "Well, that's a serious answer I did not expect." He nervously laughed. "What if she was a stripper fan?"
Kellin let a small chuckle pass and scratched his chin. "Well, that's a whole other story."
"She might not be my girlfriend but hot damn would she be the house I went to every night." Justin laughed.
"You!" Kellin pointed to Skylar, who jumped at his sudden bark. "Here," The dark haired man pointed to the arm of the couch.
Skylar seemed confused but she did as she was told and walked over to the three boys. She sat down here Kellin pointed and immediately Kellin had an arm around her waist. "This," He nodded to her. "needs to stop being quiet. She's pretty, wouldn't you say, Justin?"
Justin smirked and nodded his head. The smirk left and he cocked his head to the side. "Wait, I want a pretty girl sitting beside me!" He whined.
"Hey, Damon. There's a job for ya." Bryan winked.
Kriss turned the camera towards Damon, who was nervously smiling and trying not to blush. "Um,"
"Ass. Here. Now." Justin patted the other arm and suddenly Damon was straddling the arm of a couch and had Justin's arm snaked around his waist. "We're so going out."
The room was now full of laughter.
Kellin pulled Skylar into his lap and wrapped both arms around her body. She was still uncertain about this, but the feeling of having his warm arms around her made her feel safe. "Whoa there, tiger!" She laughed.
"What people don't know is that we have been dating for a while." Kellin winked up at her. She wasn't much taller than him, even sitting in his lap. They were just about eye-level with each other.
"Yes. He wanted to keep it secret." Sky played along. She glanced at Damon who seemed to be enjoying his time in the shot. He looked slightly nervous, but she knew he felt better being in the loop than being pushed up against a wall and being ignored.
The door opened and Jesse popped his head in. "Oh! Still rolling. Well, you're food is ready." He brought in two plates full of food. He sat one beside Kellin on a table and Justin took it, letting go of Damon who now sat unsure of what to do.
Jesse nodded towards the others and walked out, leaving Bryan and Kriss confused.
"Show starts soon. We need to eat." Kellin helped out. He tried to grab his plate but he couldn't reach it. Skylar made to get up and Kellin pulled her right back into his lap. "No. Stay." He commanded.
"Uh, excuse you. I'm not the 'stripper fan' here." She crossed her arms and glared at him.
A smirk appeared on the singer's face as he took the challenge. "You sure were last night."
The tiny girl huffed and stood up before Kellin had a chance to grab her again. "I told you to keep that quiet!" She hissed. Neither of them missed a beat as they pretended to fight over a non-existent relationship. "See if you ever get that again."
Kellin stood up, too. He took her by the shoulders and looked her dead in the eyes. "You will not speak to me this way, girl!" He shoved her back playfully.
The camera moved with them as they moved around the small room, playfully fighting.
….
Once the interview was over and Bryan, Damon, and Skylar had thanked them, the boys of Sleeping With Sirens started getting a little more wild than usual. Damon and Sky were standing to the side talking with Bryan and Kriss as the band members ran around getting pumped for tonights show.
"KELLIN!" There was a sudden squeal from Jesse's wife, Ashley.
There was a blur of green as the singer of Sleeping With Sirens ran past and hid behind Sky. "You can't touch me. Skylar's powers prevent it!" Kellin said in a strange Aussie accent. It was the first time he had said her name, which made her blush slightly.
Ashley gestured to the blue stain on her nice, white dress. "Look! Look at what he did to me!"
Kellin peeked over and grinned, giving a nervous chuckle. "Well, blue looks good on you, Ash!"
Tension was building up between these two already. Kellin had told the other four that things between him and Ashley had not been too friendly after he broke up with her best friend. And no matter how many times he apologized, the girl would not accept it and continued to make things weird on the tours. Not even Jesse could change her mind.
"Fucking fucker." Ashley rolled her eyes and pulled back her long, blonde hair. She turned on her bare heel and gracefully glided toward her husband, whom was now stroking his guitar and making loud animal calls.
Kellin dropped to his knees behind Skylar and hugged her waist. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" He squeezed her a little and looked up with big puppy dog eyes. They gave Sky butterfly's in her stomach.
"I wouldn't go around her the rest of the night." Skylar suggested. Kellin nodded in agreement and stood up, bouncing around the place once again.
The time seemed to fly by from that point on. From then on the boys managed to get into three fights, one fist fight, have Ashley nearly beat Kellin again, they ran into Pierce the Veil, and have Gabe nearly trip down some stairs. They were all having a great time, though.
Damon and Kellin were off making a video together while Skylar was talking to Justin and Kriss. Needless to say, Bryan Stars had made their night.
"So what's with the ears?" Justin asked, peering over his sunglasses at Kriss the Bunny.
Skylar giggled a little, remembering that she had asked that question hours before and got a full on lecture about why Kriss wore the bunny ears. But, alas, Kriss merely smirked at Justin and winked before walking over to Bryan who was speaking to the manager about something.
"Is he usually that way?" Justin turned his attention to Sky who shrugged her shoulders.
"I assume so. I have only known him a few hours."
Justin's mouth formed a huge 'O' as he sunk down and clapped his hands together. "Oh! I thought you two were siblings!" He popped his own forehead and laughed.
Skylar let out a chuckle of her own and shook her head. "No, not at all. Although I can see how you can mistake that." For the past day or so that she had known Kriss, they had acted like they knew each other perfectly. They made the same jokes, kept calling each other names, and Skylar even stole his bunny ears moments ago. She had been the only one able to do so.
"Forgive me," Justin bowed down to her. His sunglasses fell off his face and onto the concrete floor. "Shit!" He quickly picked them back up and pushed them up his nose. "These are my favourite!"
"Kellin cam!" A voice shouted from the distance. Skylar and Justin looked over and noticed that Kellin had taken Kriss's camera and had it pointed to himself.
"Hello! Oh! Look, this is a door!" The dark haired boy flipped the camera over and showed a random door that was sitting up against a wall. Jesse pretended to open the door and walk out right then.
"Oh! Hello, um. Don't go in there. The strippers are loose." He whispered and calmly walked over to his wife.
"Strippers!? Where is my stripper?! Did she get out!" Kellin spotted Skylar and ran over to her. He pushed the camera into her face and zoomed in until you could tell that she had been wearing concealer on her lips to lighten them up. "Aha! You broke out and you are ignoring my clothing rules!"
Skylar shrugged her shoulders, acting bored. "I don't appreciate those damn clothes. They make my ass and tits hurt." She flipped her hair over her shoulder and looked down at her nails.
At that point the whole room went quiet. All eyes were over on the two as they bickered back and forth about stripper clothes and 'rules' that the singer had set for her. It was growing more intense as the argument went on. Finally, the shoving had started up. It was playful but they were stopped just as it was getting good.
"Fine, I'll go talk to other friends." Kellin stole the camera and ran for Vic Fuentes's room.
More fun had passed with Kellin screaming about the number 69 for, at least, 30 minutes before the show was starting. The boys had started getting a little more serious as they grabbed the things they would need onstage and plugged their ears. Skylar and Damon told them 'good luck'.
During the show Bryan and the others were to go into the crowd and watch. A few times they were allowed to go backstage for the internet's sake to film.
Near the end of the Sleeping With Sirens set, Kellin bowed and started speaking, "We have one more song, actually. Most of you might know it, others might not. Here we go!" He started bouncing more as the tune for 'King For A Day' starts playing and Vic's voice blasts over the speakers.
"Fuckers!" Tony Perry laughed.
The boys of Pierce the Veil lined up and ran out onstage. They started taking the whole set apart and carrying off and throwing it to the side. Vic ran out and tried to grab Kellin but he only slipped away and jumped on some speakers on the edge of the stage.
"Hey! Come help." Mike Fuentes waved his hands at the four newcomers as he ran back.
Damon, Kriss, and Skylar all shared a smirk as they ran out onstage and started grabbing more things. Bryan was hesitant but he was right behind them.
"Chick!" Tony called over to Skylar and threw her Jesse's guitar. Sky ran back as hard as she could and tossed it onto a couch before heading back.
Damon was fighting for one of the drum pieces from Gabe Barham and Bryan was trying to help Vic carry Kellin away.
Suddenly there had been water spraying everywhere as Tony and Jaime Preciado started pouring water bottles all over the place.
Before the pranking was over the band barely had anything left onstage. Most of it, but a few members and a guitar, had been carried away and destroyed before the screaming crowd. Kellin was still singing even when the music stopped as he tried to prove a point.
"Alright," Vic and Mike ran over and grabbed the mic from his hand. One grabbed Kellin's front while the other had his legs and they carried him to the back, tossing on the couch with Jesse's guitar.
"Ow!" Kellin pouted as he stood up almost instantly. He started laughing as they all high-fived and hugged.
It was now Pierce The Veil's turn to perform. The boys from Sleeping With Sirens were (sort of) calming down now as their friends rocked it onstage.
During this performance Bryan and the others stayed with the bands and talked a little more. They were all enjoying themselves until they were called back to sing 'King For A Day'.
"The thought of you is no fucking fun," Skylar sang along.
"You want a martyr, I'll be one!" Damon continued. They high-fived and sang together.
"Because enough's enough, we're done! You told me to think about it well I did, now I don't want to feel a thing anymore, I'm tired of begging for the things I want,"