It wasn't until Tony suggested it, did they finally search the place and bin all Alex's soda, and it took twice as long as the bus, but soon it was all gone.
At 3pm, Nat went upstairs to get ready for the nights gig. Alex was sound asleep when he entered, but he couldn't help notice the small red stain on his pillow case. Nat went over and looked and saw it was blood, which had come out from a small gash on his forehead. He looked at the wall and sure enough there were a small number of dents in it as though someone had repeatedly banged their head against it.
'I hope when I told him to go knock himself out he didn't take it literally,' Nat thought as he decided the cut was serious, but he's tell Juanita about it.
Nat was unsure at how well this day was going, yeah Alex would be getting off soda, but Alex still hated him. Maybe if the concert went well it could ease the pain.
Nat and the band left for the concert, bundled on to the bus to escape the waiting press. The concert it self was unsettled, the fans although they liked Cole didn't like that Alex was kicked out and were quite rowdy about it.
"Quiet please I would like to make an announcement before we start," Nat said as he stepped up to the Microphone. "Alex will soon be rejoining the band…" Nat stopped as he waited for the cheers to die down about, "but first he will be kicking his lemon lime soda addiction when he goes on another sodaholics at sea voyage."
The crowd seemed a lot less hostile as the concert got under ways. The band played 'If that's not love', 'Rosalina', 'Long Distance''Body I Occupy', 'Eventually', 'I'll do anything,''I'm Out' and 'Nowhere'
After the concert the band was backstage and had the TV on.
Nat Wolff at a concert today announced that Alex Wolff would be rejoining the band once he had completed rehab on the sodaholics at sea voyage. This seemed to ease tensions between fans and the band, which had grown since the band sacked Alex about a week ago. The tension threatened to turn ugly if it was not addressed. We have also come to find evidence of a growing rift between the two brothers. Insiders tell us that there was tension between Alex and Nat before the band returned to New York, believed to be associated with Alex's Addiction. Insiders claim that the rift has widened so much, Alex selected Tony Schowob as his buddy over Nat. If this is true, this reporter must ask, how can the band function if the rift is this big.
Nat just groaned, he and Alex could work things out, couldn't they?
Nat woke up the next morning, and climbed down of the bunk, hearing a thump from his brother's bed.
"Stupid" Alex would say quietly and leaned forward hitting his head on the wall, he would then slowly lift himself back up and do it again. Nat assumed this was what Alex had been doing yesterday.
Nat went to say something but nothing would come. Nat couldn't remember seeing his brother so delicate and reached out and put his hand on his shoulder.
Nat's hand was there for only for a second before he changed his mind and sadly walks out of the room.
Alex felt Nat's hand briefly on his shoulder and stopped banging his head. But as quickly as it has come it was gone, and Nat left the room Alex turned around and after a minute reached under his pillow and pulled out a photo. It was the same photo Nat had been looking at earlier.
Alex then quietly began to sing,
'We've always been so close,
Always been the best of friends,
Standing by each other,
Standing through thick and thin,
Now it's all wrong,
We are now growing further and further apart.
Brother I need you!
I just don't know how to say,
Brother I miss you,
Can we still be the best of buds?
I know what I did was wrong,
I don't know how to put it right,
You reached out to grab me,
But still I slipped between your hands,
You hated to see me this way,
But I never let you put me right
Brother I need you!
I just don't know how to say,
Brother I miss you,
Can we still be the best of buds?
I never wanted it to end up like this,
We are too afraid to speak,
You reached out and I pushed you away
Now we don't speak,
We don't even meet each others gaze,
If only it was still the way it was.
Brother I need you!
I just don't know how to say,
Brother I miss you,
Can we still be the best of buds?'
Alex kept looking at the picture, things were so much more fun when he and Nat got along. Alex out of frustration screwed up the photo and threw it across the room. He sunk down and laid on the bed.
Down stairs Nat was sitting on the couch, he was watching the documentary footage of the masquerade party, things were so much better before the tour.
Tony came and picked Alex up to take him on the sodaholics at sea voyage. Tony had wrapped a bandage around Alex's head, after Nat told him he had been banging his head against the wall. As they left Alex opened his mouth to say something to Nat, but nothing came out, eventually he just turned and followed Tony out the door.