When there is nothing left to burn
You have to set yourself on fire
-Stars
" TAYLOR! Dude! HEY DUDE! Wake up!" Taylor's eyes slowly opened, she was lying in the back of the van,
smushed between a guitar and a pile of dirty clothes, the autumn sun was rolling over the horizon and she could
barley make out who it was that disturbed her from some much needed sleep.
"What the fuck is your problem Zach!" she tried to scream but her voice was still raw from last nights show.
"Sorry princess, van overheated again. We need your magic hands out here" "UGHHHH, this is bullshit," Taylor
muttered under her breath as she tried to make her way forward out of her cocoon. The van always broke down,
and no matter how many times she showed her dimwitted band mates how to diagnose the problem they never
learned, or seemed to care.
"Okay losers" she said rubbing her eyes, " what is it this time" Taylor walked over to the front of the van, the
hood was up and smoke was filling the air around it, she waved it out of her face to get a closer look. Looking
around the engine she sighed, then bent down on the ground to get a look under the car seeing the antifreeze
puddle dripping underneath it "ahh fuck" she sprang up and walked away from the metal nightmare that was her
tour bus and light up a smoke.
Zach and Nick followed her, scratching their heads. They almost looked like Twins in this light, mostly because
they both always wore the same hipster uniform, band-t, jeans and flannel shirt. In the light of day they couldn't
look more different, Zach with his dark hair and brown eyes, a beard hiding most of his features, While Nick was
taller and scrawny, he slouched a lot and always wore a goofy grin on his face, his long beard reminded Taylor of
her brother.
Taylor studied them both as she took a long drag of her smoke, "the engine is leaking, there might be a crack,
definitely not something I can fix on the side of the highway, we'll have to get a mechanic." As she said those
words she realized they were missing someone "wait, where's Jessie?" The two stared at each other shrugged
their shoulders and laughed "we don't know, he wasn't here when we woke up, and he was the one driving the
damn thing, he must've gone somewhere for some assistance ….or he could have been abducted?" Nick said as if
he were asking Taylor a question.
"Morons" Taylor said pushing past the pair walking back to the van, maybe her cell had some life in it and she
could call their manager to figure out how they would make their next gig. Reaching the open door she saw a pair
of headlights and heard a low honk, then came the site of her wild friend Jessie, hanging out the window of a tow
truck arms flying in the air as if he just won a drag race, she laughed and looked back at Nick and Zach, "where
are we anyways?" Zach was already running to the tow truck to greet his friend with an animated high-five
leaving Nick and Taylor alone by the van, "Only sign I remember seeing before passing out was for a town called
Charming, no idea where we are now" Taylor's heart stopped for a second. "Charming?" she sputtered inaudibly,
"This must be a fucking nightmare."