Since we had separate hotel rooms I slept through the boys return at 3 am and was up and ready to go at 8am. I had to drag the boys out of bed to get ready so we could hit the road. I grabbed breakfast sandwiches while they showered and got dressed. As expected they passed out on the bus.
I settled on one of the couches and pulled out my laptop and ear phones and started working on editing the two videos. We had all of the footage for the first, Imaginary (by Evanescence), but still need a few clips for the second one, Savior (by 30 Seconds to Mars).
After a few hours I switched over to work on a paper for my Social Psych class on how groups conform. After I finished that I sent it in and checked emails. I spent an hour answering fan emails. We were approaching the city we planned to stop for lunch at so I went and woke the boys.
After eating and thankfully not being recognized we piled back into the bus. Rick and I started working on the music for a new song I had written while Jed and Todd played cards. Somehow that turned into a pillow war then a wrestle match which Jed as the strongest won. Whenever we played around like that Jed won unless I cheated using dirty tricks and won.
Laughing we all piled on to the couch for a movie until we reached our destination. Todd put in some comedy and plopped between Rick and Jed while I stretched out on their laps. We are all so comfortable and used to each other after this long, and living together we've all seen each other naked many times.
Due to traffic it was after eight when we arrived at the place Kim booked for us. We gathered our stuff as the bus pulled up the long drive through the forest to the house. The house turns out to be a four bedroom wooden house about twenty minutes from town. We could see the only neighbor's house through the trees up the hill.
We unloaded our stuff with the bus driver's help and scrambled around to fight over the best room. I got the one upstairs with a balcony. Todd and Rick got the two rooms downstairs and Jed grabbed the room on the other side of the floor from mine. There was a bathroom and a study between our rooms. Downstairs had a living room and kitchen, and another bathroom between the boys rooms.
We dumped our stuff in our rooms and saw off the bus driver. After he left we were able to see the car Kim rented for us. It was a blue jeep, which according to Jed was something cool and could go through tough terrain. Kim thinking of everything had even had someone stock the fridge and cabinets. However we decided to go out to eat and check out the town.
Todd drove and I grabbed shotgun sticking the other two in the back. We used the GPS to get to town while discussing where to eat. The town was pretty small and we ended up at a bar and grill. Some game was on so Jed and I talked while the other two watched and argued with some locals over teams.
Jed and I were talking about his little sisters when a fight broke out. It was a bit of a blur and I have no idea who threw the first punch but I was the one to end it. One of the locals shoved Todd into me and I fell off the stool hit my head cutting it open. I picked myself up to see Todd getting punched by some other guy and Jed pulling him off Todd. Rick was helping some other guy with two others. The bartended just watched while the servers and other locals just backed away and watched as well.
'Fuck this' I thought and hit one of the guys fighting Rich over the head with a bottle and kicking him in the ass to knock him over. Then I yelled "hey assholes. Stop acting like dicks and quit fighting." A few of them paused and turned to me giving me the opportunity to kick one in the throat while the boys pushed off or hit the others.
The fighting stopped at that and I gave the server money for any damage. Seeing that Todd had somehow ended up with a fork in his leg and feeling my head needed stitches I asked for directions to the hospital. Turns out three small towns share one and it's located in the middle. We headed there and entered the ER.