Jack anotoff story
I pulled my best friend's driveway with fun. blasting through my speakers. I turned it down quickly knowing her father would be pissed if he heard it again. He really hated that band. Oh well… Laci was my only friend that liked fun. as a band and not just 'We Are Young'. Since the band was playing a show tomorrow and we can't go we decided to try and see them at the airport.
"Yes, dad! I do have my toothbrush!" I heard Laci scream. She told her dad she would be spending the night at my house because, well, who knows when their flight would come in?
She hopped into my civic and I backed out of the driveway. FUN, FUN, FUN! Lookin forward t the weekend –she stopped singing and started laughing.
"Don't! Don't say anything! Just let it be…" I said.
"Fine, dude" she said "Be that way."
"I will be that way!" I cried. "I am Alicia freakin Kord! I WILL be that way!"
"Fine…" Laci sighed. "We still get the opportunity to meet fun."
"Yeah… Hey, can you do me a favor?" I asked. She nodded for me to go on. "Can you refrain from telling them they're hot?" I begged.
"KILLJOY!" She started to yell. I interrupted. "It's just weird! You know! Be like 'Oh! I'm your biggest fan! And you're soooo sexy!'" I said in a mock high voice.
"Well they are…" she pouted.
"Don't you think that may get on their nerves? Or make them feel as though people only like them for their looks instead of their music?" I asked. She frowned.
"I mean…. I guess. If that were US, I would get tired of it."
"Exactly!" I smiled because we pulled into the airport parking deck. That took a lot less time than I remembered.
"YAY! We're here!" Laci jumped out of my car and turned suddenly. "How are we supposed to find them?" she asked again. I pulled up the fun. website and checked the show listings.
"They're coming from Canada… To Atlanta… So we go to the north terminal." I concluded.
We found the North wing and sat down.
"So… We just sit here?" Laci aksed.
"Yeah… pretty much. We can go to the bathroom and stuff but someone should probably be here in case they come out while the other is gone."
"humph." She grunted "I'm gonna go get a pretzel." With that she stood up and left.
That gave me some time to just sit. Who could do that? Not me… I got out my notebook and a pencil and began to draw. By the time Laci had returned I had started drawing Nate Ruess's features.
"I knew Nate was your favorite!" Laci screamed. I looked over at her and gave her a glare. There was a dark line through his right eye now.
"Thanks, dip wad." I mumbled to her.
"It's not my fault I'm ADHD!" Laci argued.
"You're right! It wouldn't be, but you're NOT actually ADHD!" I steamed. She shrunk back and mumbled a 'fine'. I went back to drawing. About an half an hour later I was finished. It looked pretty good… there was still no sign of the guys from fun.
45 minutes later
We had been here for... an hour and a half. I began to draw again because Laci had fallen asleep in her chair. She looked peaceful…That's when I saw it.
Had… Andrew Dost just stuck his head out of the bathroom door? I must be seeing things… All the sudden a guy with a really curly Mohawk walked out with sunglass- WAIT. THAT'S JACK ANTONOFF. No one else could have a haircut like that. It wouldn't have worked on anyone else. A guy with sandy locks came out next, Andrew, and then a light brown haired man, Nate. This was it… They were trying to avoid suspicion so I woke Laci and gave the signal that meant 'I think I see them… Wait here'
I casually strolled. "Hey Brian!" I said hugging Nate. I saw him give Jack and Andrew a look.
"James" I said shaking Jack's hand. "and Andy!" I said hugging. They all looked confused and I just said quietly, "I noticed you guys trying to blend in… I thought someone calling you by different names may make people think you weren't having a "fun" time." I said winking on the word 'fun'.
"Hey, " Jack hesitated
"Alicia." I filled him in.
"How you been, Leesh?" Jack started walking with his arm around my waist. I blushed a tiny bit as I gave Laci a signal to walk behind us as I answered.
"Ah, you know! Just craziness." I said, still not really believing what I had done and how they just played along. It was… kind of amazing. Andrew must have seen someone pointing.
"Hey, uh, Brian, James? How about we go ahead to Leesh's car?" Andrew said fastly. I love how they picked up immediately on my nickname. And... Wait! They wanted to go to MY car? MY CAR?
"Yeah!" Jack and Nate both responded. They actually wanted to go to my car…. Oh my god…
We got their bags and went to well…. My car.
"DUDE!" Andrew yelled as he jumped up and down. "I ALWAYS WANTED ONE!"
"He likes…. Civics…" Jack said over to me.
"We're drawing a lot of attention to ourselves…" Nate stated. I popped the trunk and they all gave a look of gratefulness and threw their bags inside. Nate and Andrew immediately climbed into the back seat.
"You guys could've sat in the front…" I said quietly.
"Can I?" Jack asked almost just as quietly.
"Yeah, dude. Totally." He sat down and looked back at the other two. He sighed and got out his phone.
Laci came up to the car not too soon after. She saw jack in the front raised an eyebrow but jumped in the back also.
"So… Um… What do we do now?" I asked to no one in General.
Nate piped up then. "Maybe we should go to a hotel or something?"
"I don't want to go 'home' just yet." Andrew said. Jack agreed and I was kind of happy.
"So then what do we do?" Nate asked
"Well… I'm hungry." Jack stated "And we have someone who lives around here"
I interrupted him. Whoa, I just interrupted Jack Antonoff…. Whoa.
"I'm from the suburbs…"
"We have someone with a GPS." He corrected himself. Eh, he won there.
"WOO!" Andrew shouted and threw his hands in the air.
"Well… What kind of food do you guys like?" I asked.
"MEAT!" Andrew shouted. "ORGANIC!" Nate yelled. "I'm cool with whatever." Jack said calmly.
Laci hadn't said anything. I looked back and she was curled up on Nate.
"Um… Nate?" I asked reluctantly. "Yeah?" he answered like nothing was going on.
"Why is Laci laying in your lap?"
"Oh!" He gasped "Well… she was asleep against the door and then she fell the other way and then… Yeah. That's how we got HERE." He said pointing down.
"Well… okay then… BUCKLE UP!" I yelled. I didn't want a ticket. They all did as I said. Good…. then drove to a local burrito shop.
