Sins 20
The opening band took the stage and they suffered through its performance. Chelsea was clinging to Tyler, still shaken up by her run in with Aaron's cronies. Max was clinging to Reid for an entirely different reason. "So you broke Aaron's nose?" said Reid. He seemed amused by it. "Yeah he deserved it why," said Max "I'm sure he did just be careful, he likes to squeal" said Reid. "Don't worry I can handle him" said Max. She had a wicked smile on her face that made Reid nervous for some reason.
"Why do I suddenly feel sorry for Aaron?" said Reid. "I don't know why do you?" said Max. Reid laughed "you are so wicked" said Reid. He leaned down and kissed her lips gently. She smiled at him when he pulled back from the kiss. "Sorry" he said worried she would be mad at him for it. "Its all right we're dating remember?" said Max.
Beside her Chelsea giggled at something Tyler said and seemed to be calming down. The band finally took the stage and a hush settled over the crowd. Max stood on her tiptoes to see over the guy in front of her.
Watching with rapt attention as the lead singer Tarja took the stage. Then she began to sing and the band behind her began the opening strings to "wish I had an angel"
She sang two songs from each of her albums. Before taking a break. "Wow!" said Max
"Yeah that was great, you can see ok" said Reid. "Well sorta, just wish I was taller," said Max
Reid grinned and lifted her up "Reid what are you doing?' said Max. "Get on my shoulders" said Reid "say what, Reid I'm too heavy for that" said Max. She squeaked when Reid slid his head between her legs despite her protests. He lifted her up on his shoulders and she clung to his head as he did so. "Reid!" she protested. "See you're not heavy at all" said Reid. "Are you sure?" said Max. "Positive" he said and kissed the bare leg next to his face. She giggled cause it tickled.
In truth her weight didn't bother him at all she was actually lighter than she looked. The skin on her legs was a lot softer than it looked too. He wondered what it would feel like with her legs wrapped around his waist. Hopefully one day he would know he thought with a smile. She was resting one hand on the top of his head. She seemed to be keeping her balance very easily. Tyler watched as Reid lifted Max up on his shoulders and laughed at her protests.
She stayed up there for the rest of the concert and even caught the drummer's drumstick when he threw it at the crowd. Reid let her down slowly. His shoulders finally giving an indication of just how heavy she had been. "Reid look" said Max. She was practically bouncing as she held up the drumstick for his inspection. "Well all right babe, good catch," said Reid they headed for the exit as the concert let out. Mingling slowly with the press of people heading for the door.
They had to step into an alcove after getting out the door to avoid being run over by the press of people. "That was great," said Chelsea. "I wonder if they have the single for that last song?" said Chelsea. "Probly sold out by now," said Tyler. They were eyeing the crowd of people passing them looking for an opening. "Man there's a lot of people here I wonder how many?" said Max. "Thousands at least" said Reid. He spotted an opening "come on stay close everybody" said Reid.
They made there way back into the crowd and found themselves stopped by the souvenir booths again. The crowd at the door was too heavy to get past "well we might as well look until that clears up" said Chelsea. They shrugged seeing the girls point. It seemed like standing room only and one at a time through the door.
Chelsea made her way through the press of people by the booths and started looking at the displays "do you have the ocean born album?" she asked the woman behind the booth. "Yep we have them all right over here," said the woman. "What about wish master?" said Tyler "like I was telling the young lady we have copies of them all" said the woman "great give us one of each," said Reid
"Your kidding" said Max "nope, loved that woman's voice," said Reid. Max smiled at him. "Don't worry I'll let you borrow them" said Reid "that will be a hundred twenty dollars sir" said the woman Reid handed the woman a hundred and a fifty. She made change and put the albums in a bag and handed it to Reid. Then rang up Chelsea's selections. Tyler bought a shirt for himself and the once album.
By the time they were done shopping the press for the door had thinned down. So they were able to walk out without being slammed into doorways. They finally made it outside and sighed in relief at the smell of fresh air. Or at least as fresh as Boston air gets.
Her parents were picking up Chelsea so they stayed and waited with her until they arrived. Her father thanked Tyler for taking such good care of his daughter and gave the ok for them to talk over the phone some time. Then he pulled away and joined the press of traffic leaving the arena.
They walked to Tyler's truck laughing and giggling the whole time. They had just reached Tyler's truck when Aaron drove bye in a sports car "see you later losers" he yelled and squealed the tires spraying them with gravel from the parking area. Max growled and was about to flatten their tires when Reid stopped her.
"Not here too many witnesses" he said "we'll get them later" said Reid. She gritted her teeth and reluctantly agreed. Tyler was inspecting the damage the gravel did to his truck "damn them, I just got this detailed" said Tyler. He rubbed his hand across a scratch on the back door. He sighed and headed for the drivers side door. "I'm going to kill him," said Tyler. He was looking at his doors. Keyed into his paint was the word, loser. Max and Reid came around to his side. "Still think I shouldn't flatten their tires," said Max angrily.
Reid looked at their own tires "those bitches" said Reid. Both tires were flattened on Tyler's side. Max walked around to the passenger side. Followed by Tyler and Reid. "Oh no they didn't these were brand new tires" said Tyler. "Great looks like were waiting until everyone else leaves to fix this," said Tyler.
Max was looking around and spotted a camera sitting a top one of the poles facing their truck "hey guys check it out," said Max. She pointed at the camera. Tyler looked at it in confusion. "Yeah so?" said Tyler "so lets go talk to security, they probably got the assholes on tape" said Max. Reid chuckled wickedly and followed Max back towards the concert hall. Tyler was walking behind them grumbling the whole way.
"Yeah but how are we going to fix it with a camera pointing at it?" said Tyler. "Leave that to me" said Max. They both looked at her funny. Max walked up to a security guard standing by the door doing crowd control on the exiting concertgoers.
"Excuse me sir our vehicle has been vandalized and we saw a camera out in the parking area, we were wondering if those are currently in use?" said Max "why yes miss they are let me direct you to the security office" said the guard. He picked up his radio and called his office then sent them down a hallway inside the building to meet up with another guard. The guard in the office reviewed the tapes in their section and took down a report from them.
Promising to hand the information over to the police department. Then he gave them a copy of the report, for their insurance he said. Before he followed them out to the vehicle to take pictures.
"How are you folks getting home?" asked the security guard. "Well I guess were not, were probably going to have to get a hotel room until I can get some new tires" said Tyler. "Well you could try the local Wal-Mart it has a tire center open on weekends" said the guard "thanks, we can take it from here" said Tyler. "Do you folks have an air compressor or some fix a flat?" said the guard "actually yes, thanks" said Max.
"Well all right then you folks have a good evening," said the guard and he walked off. Max waited a few seconds before saying anything. "Reid, Tyler check the tires see if they knifed them or if they simply let out the air" said Max "why what are you going to be doing?" said Tyler "looking for something back here that can pass as a air compressor" said Max. She opened up the back and dug through the junk in Tyler's trunk area.
Reid and Tyler were looking over the tires as she did so. "Yeah they slashed two at least," said Reid "can you repair them enough to hold air?" said Max "yeah I think so," said Tyler. "Good" said Max. She pulled something out of the trunk area, it turned out to be a pump for an old air mattress.
While Reid and Max blocked the camera's view Tyler fixed the damage to the tires. Then Max used to air them up pretending like she was using the pump to do so. With Tyler and Reid blocking the view it looked like they had used an air compressor to air up the tires.
They climbed quickly inside and headed for the nearest hotel. They didn't know how long the fix would hold for. They ended up at a hotel a few miles from the concert hall and down the street from the Wal-Mart.