The crowd applauded as the band finished off their acoustic set.
"Don't get herpes!" Jack yelled through the microphone as they walked off the stage. I didn't get why he was so random like that, but the girls seemed to like it.
I followed the boys backstage to their dressing room while Matt had to run some errands first before coming back. It was pretty awkward going in there since I was the only girl in the dressing room. I didn't know what their routine was when they were in there so here was my chance.
"Who wants beer?" Jack carried five bottles of beer in hands he got from the cooler. I sat down on the couch. Of course, everywhere All Time Low went, there was their little friend, alcohol trailing behind them. That was the not so secret ingredient to their craziness.
Alex took two bottles and sat by me on the couch. He was a little too close for comfort so I had to scoot over so there was some space between us. He smiled at my actions. "I don't have cooties, if that's what you're wondering," he set one bottle down on the table and opened the other one that was in his hand. I slightly moved closer to him so the awkwardness could die down between us. After the song dedication, I felt weird with Alex since now I know he had some sort of crush on me. When he noticed what I was doing, Alex slings his arms around my shoulder and sniffed my hair. Was the beer already kicking in?
I pulled my head away from him and looked at him straight in the eyes. "Why are you sniffing my hair?"
Alex shrugged as he brought his arm back to him. "That's what I do when I like someone."
I raised an eyebrow. "You sniff someone's hair when you like someone?"
He nodded like it was a normal thing to do. "It's like when a male dog likes a female dog; they sniff each others' butts. I think sniffing someone's butt is weird so I sniff their hair," he explained as if was making any sense. He leaned in and sniffed my hair again. He sighed in satisfaction. "Wow, strawberries," he moaned with pleasure.
Rian laughed at Alex's weirdness. "Dude, you're scaring the girl, okay? You don't want another assistant to quit because of your actions."
Alex leaned back on the couch and smirked. "You don't have to worry about that, Rian. This assistant we have right now is different," he patted my back. "She's strong and can handle the antics we do…most of the time, but survives," he turned to me. "Just to tell you the truth, we may be wild in these past days, but you haven't seen noth…"
A loud boom was heard from behind me followed by laughter from Jack and Zack. I was too scared to look, but Alex kept forcing me to turn around.
"Look," he said in between laughs. "Just look, please?" I slowly turned around.
The first thing I saw were pieces of paneling scattered on the floor. Did I really want to look up? As I slowly looked up, the hole in the wall got bigger and bigger. Jack was at the other side laughing his ass off and Zack was constantly kicking on the brown painted façade or whatever was left of it.
Alex kept laughing and constantly hitting me in the back while Rian was in complete shock of what was happening that he didn't know what to do, but I knew he thought this whole scenery was hilarious. As for me, I felt like strangling Jack or Zack, whoever it was that caused the hole on the wall.
"Someone created a hole on the wall before us. They just hid it behind the paintings on both sides of the wall," Rian tried to explain to me. He must have noticed my boiling of anger that was raging inside of me. "I guess we…er…Jack and Zack just wanted to make it…bigger?" he finished with an inflection on his voice.
I stood up. "You guys are jackasses," I blurted out. I wanted to say more, but that would get me into deeper trouble. Instead of me yelling my ass off, I walked out of the dressing room to cool down a bit. Someone's footsteps trailed behind me.
"Rizzy, I'm sorry," it was Jack. "I didn't…" he tried to stop himself from laughing. "I didn't mean to."
I stopped and gazed at him with rage. "Are you that much of a dumbass to do that?"
He did this whole innocent puppy eyes thing. "Yes," he said innocently.
"Ugh!" I clenched my fist. "I feel like I want to punch you right now!" Zack came running behind him.
"Leave the scrawny man alone," he hollered. "It was my entire fault. I encouraged him," he elucidated. "I just thought it would be really funny to piss you off," he tried to calm me down by doing a typical cute smile. "Do you forgive us?"
Both of them were trying really hard so I could calm down and not be pissed off at them. Jack was doing the sad eyes while Zack was doing his adorable smile thing at me.
"This right here…" I gestured at them. "…is not going to work."
Matt walked in and was confused by what was going on. "What happened? Did I miss something?"
"Your friends created a hole in the wall! There's a gigantic hole in the wall!" I exclaimed. I was expecting Matt to be infuriated by this, but his lips formed a smile.
"That's awesome!" I turned to Matt in disbelief.
"Are you kidding me?"
Matt shrugged. "I sort of knew about it. The band that performed here before us created a small hole in the wall and we thought it would be a good idea to leave a mark in this place," he finished off.
"You encouraged them?"
Matt frantically shook his head. "No, I mean I…uh…" he didn't know what to say.
I rolled my eyes. "You guys better fix this."
Jack's eyes shot up at me. "I thought you should do the cleaning up?"
"I do the cleaning up while you guys pay the tab," I asserted. "There's no way the company is going to pay this damage for you. Take some responsibility in this."
He crossed his arms. "We'll see about that." An evil smile formed on his lips.
MY SMALL PACKAGE TOUR! That is all.
