"Just looking out on the day of another dream."- Gorillaz: On Melancholy Hill
"C'mon, c'mon!" Murdoc shouted as he ran towards the private Jet that was going to take the bad from plastic beach to London.
"Hurry up," Murdoc continued as he ushered Noodle up the Jet's stairs, "Ahh finally. Now we can leave!" Murdoc slammed the Jet's door closed then when and plopped down into the seat next to 2D.
"Finally," Murdoc sighed, "I thought that I would never be able to get you three off the island." Murdoc rolled his eyes then glanced out the window trying to ignore the voice of the singer, "Oh shut up Murdoc" 2D exclaimed, "We are not going to be late, but right on time in fact. Why are you in such a rush all of a sudden? The way I remember it is that you are the one who always waits until the last minute to leave because you are sleeping the day away!" Murdoc turned his attention away from the window and back to 2D, "What's that you say? Well, Mr. 2D, I heard that there is 'very nice girls' there in London, and as you know, I haven't gotten a lay in awhile, so there is my main reason." Murdoc shot 2D once last; I'm going to kill you, look then once again turned to the window for the remaining of the flight to their show in London.
About two hours later the band arrived in London, then boarded into a private car to the Esquire bar, where they were performing at that night. The car ride was short, but tedious because there was the constant noise of Noodle's game boy, and the constant griping between Murdoc and Russel, which they were arguing about turning on the air conditioning or not. The whole time 2D sat in the very back of the SUV resting his head against the window, and trying to block out the screams of the bands constant yelling, and unnecessary noise. Once the car ride was over the band drug all their equipment into the bar and began setting up backstage. They didn't have as much as they normally did because Murdoc forgot to pack some of it up when he was rushing out the door.
"Here Noodle," Gestured 2D, "Grab this one. It is lighter than the others." 2D grabbed the heavy amp that Noodle was currently carrying and gave her the soundboard out of the back of the SUV. 2D slowly walked into the Esquire and set down the amp on stage right. He looked around, but he couldn't see Murdoc anywhere. "Hey Russ!" He shouted as Russel sat down is snare, "Where's Murdoc?" Russel began dragging out various other drum heads out of his case and began assembling them in the correct order, "I'm not sure 'D," He stated, "Your best bet would be to go check the bar. It seems like that's where he usually is."
2D peeked around the black, thick stage curtain; there were not too many people there just yet. He pushed himself all the way through the curtain then hopped on the stage, and made his way over to the bar. He could already see Murdoc's head of hair sitting on the far left side next to a couple of other girls. "Of course." 2D murmured and walked over to the convincing bassist, " Hey Murdoc," He announced loudly, "We need you backstage. We need to start warming up for the performance." Murdoc sat down his beer and stared down 2D, "I will come back stage when I am ready ok?" 2D glared at Murdoc. "How can he be so aggravating?" 2D shot him one last glare then returned backstage with the other members of the band. Once he passed through the curtains once again Russel looked up from behind his drum set, "At the bar? With the girls?" He asked promptly, because he knew that he didn't need the answer. 2D nodded then started to set up his keyboards. It took no more than five minutes until Murdoc busted through the curtains, "How come no one told me that we were so close to show time?" He demanded as he grabbed his bass and started tuning it. 2D clenched his fists and dug his nails into his hands so that he wouldn't say anything that would anger Murdoc, "I did try to tell you Murdoc. Remember, you didn't want to come."
"Oh yeah, that is right." Murdoc stated as he put the finishing touches on his bass, "Ready guys?" Murdoc asked as he got in stance. 2D gave the approving nod and the black curtains pulled were pulled back, and the band began to play.
The crowd went wild. There were cheers from every direction of the room. Russel started the beat on his drums and they started playing 'Feel Good Inc.', a crowd favorite. As the night went on the cheering never grew any duller. The band made it through their twenty song set list, then did an encore of five songs. Once their last song was over the black curtains were pulled in front of the band, and the bright lights were dimmed again, soon after that they started putting the equipment away. "Hey, um I will be right back," Murdoc said, "I need to go grab someone." Before there was any objection from the rest of the band Murdoc ran off the stage to go get the couple of girls that he was talking to earlier. When he arrived back behind the curtains he had with him two girls about the age of 23, and a couple pints of beer, "Drop the equipment 2D," Murdoc exclaimed as he walked closer to the singer, "You and I have some celebrating to do." Murdoc grabbed 2D's arm and started leading him to a room back behind the stage, "Murdoc," 2D asked, "Where are we going?" Murdoc put his free hand over 2D's mouth, "I told you dullard, we are celebrating." 2D shot Russel once last look then let himself be drug into the room.
Once in the room Murdoc set the pints of beer down on the coffee table and situated himself on one of the couches, "Well guys, dig in! We have a great night ahead of us." 2D looked around the room causally. He usually never lets himself be drug into Murdoc's 'celebrating', especially without Noodle or Russel there, but tonight he wasn't going to try to fight Murdoc. So he grabbed the pint and started pouring himself a glass, "So who are you lovely girls that Murdoc sought out?" 2D asked as he finished off his first glass and began to take another. The girl with the long light brown hair, who was sitting next to him, answered, "Well I'm Haley and that, pointing to the girl by Murdoc, is my friend Lindsey." 2D glanced at both girls; he did think that Haley was the better looking out of the two. She has light brown hair, with some dark parts in it, she has light blue eyes, and her smile was charming. The other girl, Lindsey, had okay looks, but she wasn't much for a personality.
As the night grew on the group began drinking more and more. It was hard for the bar managers to even say how much beer they had poured out for them that night. Mainly, the night was filled with laughter, drinking games, drinking, and well more drinking. Towards two in the morning Murdoc was pretty well drunk, and he was getting a little frisky. "Hey Lindsey," He whispered as he pulled her closer into him, "How about we go into the next room and get to know each other a little better?" Lindsey smiled, and giggled as she let herself be drawn out into the other room by Murdoc. This left 2D all alone with Haley, which in his mind at the time didn't seem like too bad of an idea. Once the door closed Haley poured herself another glass of beer then drew herself close enough to 2D that she was practically in his lap.
"So you still don't have a girlfriend right?" Haley asked as she pressed her lips against his face. 2D turned his face to face hers, "No, I don't I don't really have time for one with everything that has been going on." Haley nodded, "Oh, I see well that doesn't mean you can't mess around with one." With a slight smile she slid her shit up over her heard exposing her lilac colored bra.
2D's eyes were drawn in. He couldn't take them off Haley; in his eyes she looked so good. Haley pressed her lips up against 2D's face once again then placed her hand on his left cheek to turn his head towards hers. "Good, isn't it?" Haley whispered and pulled 2D down over her on the stiff couch. 2D began wrapping his arms around her petite body and began kissing her all over. I t had been awhile since anyone made him feel this good, without any interruption from Murdoc. 2D pulled off his shirt and began kissing her more consistently. Haley smiled then reached down to 2D's pants pulling them off along with his underwear, "Oh wow!" She blushed and looked up at 2D. 2D blushed as well at the sight of her, "Yeah I guess," He laughed then reached down onto the floor for his wallet, "Oh Haley," He whispered, "I don't have protection in here and," He was cut off m=by Haley putting her finger over his mouth to hush him, " We don't have to worry about that. It will be fine." Haley reassured then continued on with her business.
"Hey dullard," Murdoc screeched from the doorway of the room, "Get up it is time to leave." 2D untangled himself from Haley and sat up off the couch, "What time is it Murdoc?" Murdoc rolled his eyes, "I don't know, but it is time to go, Russel and Noodle are waiting." 2D nodded his head and glanced down at Haley, who was still sleeping, he didn't want to leave her hanging so he found a napkin and wrote down his number, and left it by her purse. "Okay let's go!" Murdoc exclaimed and yanked 2D out of the room and into the awaiting SUV. Murdoc climbed into the front passenger seat so that left 2D to sit in the back again by Noodle. "Rough night?" Noodle asked as she tore her eyes away from her game boy. 2D nodded, he could see the settle pain in her eyes, "Yeah it was, Noods." 2D turned his head away from Noodle once again and didn't look back throughout the whole car ride.
The band boarded the plane once again and headed back to plastic beach. The trip seemed a lot shorter this time because everyone was truly tired from the night before so most of them, besides Murdoc who was puking his guts up from a hangover, slept. Once they got to plastic beach the band had a good one hour of unloading all their equipment back into the studio upstairs. After that the band just went along with their usual business. Russel started cooking dinner, Noodle was practicing karate in her room, and 2D was helping Murdoc pack his bass and amps into Murdoc's room. "Ahh that's it mate, thanks." acknowledged Murdoc as he propped his bass in the corner of his room, "So pretty crazy night last nigh huh," Asked Murdoc, "I know that I had a fantastic time, just what I needed really." 2D nodded his head, "Yes, it was pretty good, but I won't be able to drink that much again in awhile." Murdoc rolled his eyes and flopped into his king sized bed, "Yeah well I could, but then again I could do it every night and never get tired of it!" 2D stared out the window, "Typical you."
Murdoc sat up on his bed sensing 2D's stillness, "What, is something wrong 2D?" Murdoc questioned. 2D continued to stare out the window, "Well, it's just that it felt wrong, you know? I didn't really even know that girl, and it felt like I was just using her for pleasure." Murdoc let a slight chuckle through his lips, "2D, she wanted that! You didn't use her at all, that is basically what she was there for. You know, I think sometimes you can be too sensitive. Now get out of my room, dullard I need to sleep." 2D turned away from the window with the intention to say something to Murdoc, but instead decided to just walk out and go to sleep in his own comfy bed.
ERIKA NOTE: Hey! I'm back. Hopefully you liked the beginning to this story. Right now it might seem slightly slow because I wanted to give a little background information, but trust me I have plans for this one and it is going to get so good (I think it will be a rather long story as well)! I'm excited! I finally finished my other story "Beyond my own dreams" and I am pleased with how it came out! As always I DO NOT own the Gorillaz, but Haley and Lindsey are my own characters. Please, please review this story, and tell you friends! Thank you for reading!
