Our last day in Europe was bittersweet. We were running late for our flight back home, but that was normal for us, even though when we came to Europe we were on time for once. I swear the flight back home was quicker than the flight leaving. We said our goodbyes to all the bands on tour, we were glad to be touring with Blessthefall again for the Fearless Friends tour, they were great guys. We all got back in the van and drove back to our place. The guys were gonna stay with me and Angelo for a while. Woo-hoo! Crazy sleepover time! I texted Alexis telling her we were on our way home, but she was probably sleeping cause she didn't text back. An hour later I texted Amy, she was probably up, she would always be up late, she texted me back saying that everyone missed them and couldn't wait to hang out again, and that they have good news but aren't telling us till we get there. I couldn't help but wonder what the good news was.

The next day sometime in the afternoon, all us guys woke up, Chris, Angelo and Amy made a quick trip to Starbucks, we all needed a "wake up call" especially since we're still a bit messed up from the time zone difference. Alexis, Jamee and Jason came to our place, us guys were just in sweats and jerseys, we were too lazy to actually get dressed, but we didn't care. Chris, Angelo and Amy were taking a long time with the coffee, I wanted to wait for them but Jamee kept arguing that they should tell us the news now. Myself and Alexis insisted on waiting. Soon enough they came back and had brought Allie. Allie had to leave Europe earlier than the rest of us for personal reasons. Once all us guys saw her, we literally tackled her to the ground. She screamed for us to get off, and since she used please, Balz and I got up, but Ryan just stood on top of her.

"Ryan if you're gonna fuck Allie do it upstairs on a bed not in the living room floor dude" Angelo said laughing

"Okay, come on Allie!" Ryan said getting up and pulling up Allie.

"Dude I was kidding!" Angelo called out as Ryan ran upstairs with Allie.

"Can't you at least go to Ricky's room!"

"No Ange's it was his idea!" I called out quickly, but that had already went in my room.

"Nice going Ange, now we're gonna be hearing moaning all day." Balz said shaking his head.

"Damn, there goes our good news for you guys." Jamee said sitting down as she rolled her eyes.

"Quick lets go back to your house." I suggested

"I'm pretty sure even if we do go to their house, their moans will be loud enough to hear from over there."

"Really Josh?" I crossed my arms as I turned to Balz.

"Just saying man."

Chris shook his head and went upstairs.

"And where are you going?" Amy asked looking confused.

"Obviously they haven't started anything, so I'm gonna go stop it before they do. Duh!"

Chris then went upstairs and then a few seconds later he came back down with Ryan and Allie as they were all laughing.

"Did you guys really think we were gonna do it?"

Ryan asked sitting on the couch and pulling Allie on his lap

"It looked like you were about to do me."

"Shut up Chris we were just kissing. Damn!"

"Whatever Allie." Chris said sticking out his tongue.

"Alright guys, now that that's over, can we please get to the good news that our friends in Shattered Hope have to share with us." Angelo said as he hugged Amy from behind. Oh great, now they were gonna "kiss" next.

"Sorry girls." Ryan said as he looked down

"And Jason." He continued when Jason crossed his arms and glared at him.

"Okay so tell us what's up." Chris said as he sat on the floor Indian style and looked up at Amy and Alexis like a little kid. I couldn't help but to laugh and neither could the girls.

Chris looked up at us like a little kid in elementary school ready for story time. Alexis and I shared a laugh, and I turned to Ricky who was also laughing. Chris was hilarious, I loved him he like our big brother, but he acted like he was five. I turned to Alexis, Jamee and Jason to see who wanted to speak I was about to speak up when Jason did.

"Okay, fine since all these girls seem to be to distracted from Chris, I guess I'll be the one telling the news."

"Okay, then tell us!" Chris demanded.

"We sent our demo CD to Fearless Records."

"What really?" Chris jumped up and hugged Jason. Jason looked like he couldn't breath as he then pushed Chris off of him.

"Um, yeah, and thanks for almost killing me dude." Jason said pulling his hair back.

"That's amazing." Angelo said as he kissed me on the cheek.

"Okay, so what happened?" Ricky asked looking concerned.

"Well they called back and said they listened to it and said it was pretty good, but no final decisions were put in place yet." Alexis answered looking kind of worried.

"I really hope you guys get signed." Balz said as he hugged Jamee.

"Thanks, me too." Jamee said.

"But even if you guys don't, it takes a lot of guts to send your first CD to a record label, and just know that they're not the only label out there." Chris said as he sat back down on the floor. I knew Chris was right, we all did, but it would be pretty epic to be signed to the same label as MIW.

"But that's not all the good news." Jason spoke up.

"What there's more?" Ricky asked confused as he turned to Jason.

"Oh yeah, we've talked to the Croc Rock, well Amy did, and we booked a gig." Alexis continued as she jumped up a bit. She was really excited.

"Cool, when?" Allie asked us.

"December 30th." I replied with a smile.

"We should be home then." Angelo said thinking for a moment.

"Yeah, and if we are, you know Ange and I will be sure to be there." Ricky said as he kissed Alexis.

"Ricky go up to your room!" Angelo said as he let go of me

"You know, that's not a bad idea." Ricky said thinking for a moment.

"Ange do you not realize how much of a big mouth you have!" Jason said joking around.

"Damn, just thought it'd be better than doing it in the middle of the living room like some kind of show."

I laughed as I shook my head. I turned to Jamee who was texting, probably Johnny B.

We spent the day hanging out with the guys and Allie, just talking and watching movies. Later that night the guys got dressed and we all left the house for wings! We then discussed to the guys that we as a band has talked about getting a band tattoo of basically the band name/logo. Angelo had told us that he finished up some rough drafts of designs, and that when got back home we were welcome to look them over and pick out one. Angelo was the best. I told him everything that he missed from WWE, then I told him about how we got tickets for Survivor Series in New York. Of course he was a bit jealous, and mad that he couldn't go because of touring, but I promised him I would take great pictures. That was one thing I was good at other than music, photography, html coding, graphic editing and video editing. I was pretty sure that Shattered Hope could make our own music video and I could edit it. After all I had already edited together the studio updates and vlogs we do. Chris told me wait till once we get signed, and that patience is a virtue. That's where his big brother-ness (Idc if that's not a word, it is to me) would come in, he gave really good advice. We also talked about what we would do for Halloween, Alexis, Jamee, Jason and myself all had our costumes ready, but the guys in MIW looked really confused, like they didn't know what to do. They were probably just gonna have a small get together with some friends, like Andy, Justin from Patterns another band in PA, Mike, Allie and us. I didn't mind, as long as I got some candy (Such as kid a heart).

We went back to the house and Angelo showed us the designs he made.

"Now remember guys this is just some rough drafts, whichever one you want I will work on it."

"Yeah, yeah Ange, I get it." Jason said pulling his hair back.

Angelo showed us the designs he worked on, and it took us a while to pick one. Jamee disagreed with whatever I liked, and Alexis just agreed with whatever I liked, and Jason really didn't care, he just wanted us to pick one. We finally came to an agreement. A simple logo that made sense to the name. Which was just the band name "sHattered Hope" (written like that with the H's capitalized) and the H's were actually shattered mirrors. Angelo agreed to work on it more and we agreed that would be our matching band tattoo.