We waited for the bus to arrive, we had cut down on crew members for this tour so we could all fit in one bus. I ran down the bus when it came grabbing my bunk, I didn't care it was in the cold crap place, it was mine. Alex was below me, and Ronnie was below him. Ash and JJ had been able to get better bunks this tour because Harry and Shane were in their usual cold bunks.
We arrived at the first stop in Warped at 10 am. We started to set up for the show, I sat tuning my own guitar because they had cut my guitar tech. I did my vocal warm ups and got ready to go on stage. The crowd was getting really buzzed up, it was a big crowd considering we weren't a headliner. We ran on stage the crowd screamed.
'Hey, hey, what's happening guys?' I said, the audience cheering in response. 'How are you all doing today, you guys look fucking beautiful!'
'Wow' said Shane as he ducked out of the way of a bra being thrown at him. He was the one in the band that attracted the fan girls.
'I think that's your first bra Shane!' I said
'I'm so proud!' he said laughing and hanging it over his microphone stand.
'Right, so we are Reckless Dreaming, thank you for having us this first song is called That's What you get!'
We played through our songs, running across the stage playing to all our fans. By the time we were done I was completely wiped out but we still had a signing to do. I grabbed a bottle of water out of our cooler. I stuck on a pair of huge sunglasses that covered my face and pulled on a hat, I wanted to make it to our tent without being recognised, my blue hair usually gave me away though. Luckily I made it without being detected. There was already a line in front of the tent, I pulled my hood up, hiding my blue hair. I walked up to the tent and showed the guy my ID, every dude in a band got an ID card that could get us anywhere. He nodded and stepped aside letting me in. Shane and Harry were already there, I sat down at the table and pulled my blue sharpie from my pocket.
'Okay let them in!' I said to the guy.
He opened the door and the first fans in line came flooding in, I scrawled my name across pictures of me, some people didn't have any so just asked me to sign anything they had with them. I am proud to say that today I signed a dildo. I really don't want to know how the fan got one though. One girl came up to me, she looked around 19ish. She had bright purple hair with blue eyes and a nose piercing, she looked really cool.
'Hi, uh, could you, um, sign this?' she said holding out her arm to me so I could sign her hoodie sleeve.
'Sure, what's your name?' I asked
'Zoey, I really love you guys music.' She said
'Thanks, we do all of it for the fans.' I said signing the sleeve 'There you go! It was nice to meet you.'
'Thanks so much, it was great to meet you.' She said grinning at her hoodie and walking away.
The rest of the day past by in a blur. It seemed as if no time at all had passed before we were packing up all our stuff and heading to the next location. I sat in Hammered watching Home Alone with Jack. I fell asleep on the sofa. I woke up to the voices.
'Pull over! I want to see if she's okay.' I heard Ronnie yell.
'What's going on?' I said sitting up. Loads of people were in hammered.
'There's some girl at the side of the road?' said Andy
'What?' I said running over to the window. Sure enough there was a girl with purple hair a nose piercing and blue eyes sitting on the side of the road.
'She was at warped today.' I said
'I'm going to go talk to her.' Said Ronnie and I followed her outside. The bus had pulled on to the side of a deserted road in the middle of nowhere, me and Ronnie walked over to her.
'Zoey?' I said remembering her name.
She looked up, her eyes were red and puffy and there was dried blood on her face. She looked so glad to see us.
'Oh thank god!' she said, she then winced in pain grabbing herself around the waist.
'Come with us back to the tour bus?' I asked holding my hand out to her.
ZOEY
I reached out and took my heroes hand. Right now she wasn't the girl who I had on posters stuck all over my bedroom walls, she was a normal girl who just wanted to help me. She pulled me to my feet, my rib was almost definitely broken and I think my nose was too. I flinched, Hailey put an arm around me and she and Ronnie helped me onto their tour bus. My dad had been taking me home from warped, he saw that I had had my hoodie signed and told me I had ruined it. We had had a massive argument. Long story short he had beat me and then left me at the side of the road to die. I hobbled onto their tour bus. There were so many people their, I saw Shane and Harry, I had to admit I was a bit of a fan girl when it came to Shane. If my situation wasn't so bad right now I would probably be screaming. They placed me down on the couch.
'Jack could you get the first aid kit?' said Hailey turning round to her brother I recognised from All Time Low. I was on a tour bus with my 3 favourite bands right now. He nodded and ran down the bus.
'We need to get you cleaned up.' said Hailey inspecting my nose. 'Then we could take you to a hospital?'
'Yeah, I don't think our first aid kit is going to completely heal you.' Said a guy behind Hailey, it was Alex from ATL. I liked his, he was Hailey's fiancé after all.
'What happened?' said Harry sitting next to me.
I tried to talk but the pain in my chest was unbearable, I doubled over clutching my rib.
'Whoa, don't talk if it hurts,' said Shane placing a hand on my back, I nodded close to tears.
HAILEY
'How's she doing Storm?' said Shane on the other end of the phone, I was sitting in a hospital somewhere in Ohio.
'Alright, she can talk now, she fractured one of her ribs and her nose isn't broken just badly bruised but she's not telling me what happened. I called her parents and left a message.' I said
'Wow, that's bad.' Said Shane
'Yeah, I'll see you later.' I said
'Kay bye.' He said
I shoved my phone back into my pocket, there was something wrong. I had called her parents and her dad had picked up. I kind of lied to Shane, when I said his daughter was alright, he told me to fuck off and hung up the phone? I headed back into the room she was in.
