You want to know what sucked for me, but rocked for everybody else? On the way to Salt Lake City we made a stop in Vegas. I normally love big cities, but I really hated Vegas. Why, you may ask? Because, we've been to Vegas before, and I did not have happy memories. We went to a club the first night, and everyone got seperated. The next time I saw them, they were all passed out on the bathroom floor.
I don't even know how they passed out, because they weren't drunk, weren't on drugs, or anything else. They had fun, but they didn't have to drag their unconcious selves back to the hotel. Anyways, in the two days that we had been on the bus, me and Andy had started talking twenty-four seven, Jake and Mor had become best friends, Ash had been chiseling at Kailee's heart walls, and CC and Ronny... Well, that was a complicated relationship.
We had one night to survive Vegas, and what did they do? They went to a club. I told Andy that he could go with them, but he said that he would rather stay with me. I didn't necessarily believe him, but I accepted the company. We plopped on the couch and started flipping through the channels with a bowl of popcorn between us.
"You want to look for some movies on On Demand?" I asked after I had flipped through the two-hundredth channel.
"Sure. Free movies, or not free?" He asked shoving a handful of popcorn into his mouth.
"We can look through both. And, Andy? Don't put so much into your mouth at one time, you're gonna end up choking!" I exclaimed as he fought to swallow it all at once.
"Yes, Mom." He rolled his eyes after he succeeded in swallowing it. I laughed, pulled up On Demand, and went to the free movies section. I just picked a category at random, not even seeing what I picked.
"Oh, let's watch Gone With The Wind!" I yelled, pointing at the TV.
"Ugh, can't we watch something a little less old, and... weird?" He groaned.
"No, now enjoy the movie! I'll let you pick the next one." He nodded, but still groaned as I pressed play.
He was pretty good up until Ashley(which he burst out laughing at) and Melanie showed their pretty disgusting love. He made this face that made it look like he was about to throw up. Then, he was ogling Scarlet. And, then he almost cried when Scarlet and that Butler dude's kid died(I took a picture of that for later uses). He laughed when Melanie and Scarlet were about to kill the Yankee dude. All in all, he had a wide variety of reactions to it.
"Well, that was an interesting movie. Now, my turn. Hand over the remote." I reluctantly handed him the remote. He immediately went to the horror movies.
He scrolled down some before he came upon Halloween: Resurrection. I gulped; the first of the series was one of the only movies that could give me a huge scare. I had only seen it once, but it scared the crap out of me. I decided that it might not be as scary as the first one, but I was wrong.
When Micheal found Laurie at the asylum, I jumped. When he killed the first kid, I moved the popcorn bowl to my right so I could scoot closer to Andy, which apparently he found very amusing. By the second death of one of the kids I was cowering into Andy's side. He patted my back, trying to calm me down.
"I thought you loved horror movies," Andy stated, looking down at me.
"I do, but the Halloween series is one of the only series that scares me." I hid my head in Andy's chest when Micheal killed the third kid.
"It's okay. It's just a movie." He was rubbing my back in small circles, but you could tell that he was enjoying my weakness.
Over the two days that we had been on the bus, we had watched movies that would've made Al Capone cower in fear, and yet this one series of movies made me feel like I was about to run off crying. It was messed up, I know.
Micheal killed the fourth kid, and I ended up running to the bathroom and locking myself in. I slid down the door, and hit the floor. I heard Andy heave himself off the couch, and walk across the bus. He knocked on the door twice.
"Tidal, can I come in?" His voice sounded muffled. I opened the door, and let him in the very tiny space. I closed the door as soon as he got in though.
"Tidal, it was just a movie. And, we could've watched something else if you had just asked." He sat on the floor across from me.
"I hate those movies." He chuckled, scooted over to sit beside me, and put his arm around my shoulders. I leaned my head on his own shoulder, and sighed heavily.
"It's okay. I won't let anybody hurt you." I looked up at him as he looked down at me.
"Thanks, that's really sweet. You know what? I think that you're just a big softie on the inside." I said, poking his chest.
"Yup, that's me, Mister Softie. Speaking of softies, do you want to go out and get some ice cream?" I thought for a minute and decided that it would probably do me good.
"Sure, let me get my bag." Again, I retrieved my bag, and again we walked out of the bus together, but this time we didn't have a car, so we just wandered around until we found an ice cream place.
"Uh, chocolate ice cream cone, please." Andy ordered. I looked up at the menu thing, ignoring the extremely funny way the overly perky sales girl was looking at Andy.
It was like she was trying to flirt with him using only her eyes, but the really funny thing about it was that he wasn't even paying attention to her! He was trying to help me decide from the many toppings that they had! I didn't even get any toppings.
"Okay, I'll have a vanilla ice cream cone. Thanks." We payed and she fixed our ice cream with a scowl on her face.
We decided to take our ice cream to go, so we could see some of the sites. As soon as we left the ice cream place I busted out laughing.
"What's so funny?" He asked, cluelessly.
"Did you not see the way that girl was looking at you?" I asked in between fits of laughter.
"Noooo, how was she looking at me?" He asked, one eyebrow raised.
"It was like she was trying to flirt with you using her eyes. It was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time!" He shook his head, chuckling.
"Well, I didn't notice. She's not even my type. And, I have my eyes on this one girl..." He trailed off, and, noticing the look of curiousity on my face, licked his ice cream nervously.
"Who is it? Do I know her? What does she look like? Is she nice, smart, and is she an actress or a singer or something?" I asked excitedly.
"Not telling, you know her better than you think, she has black hair, and lots of eyeliner. Yes, she's nice, she is smart, and she does sing." I scanned my memories, trying to figure out who it might be.
"Is it Kailee? She has a good voice, but Ash is going to be mad when he finds out." He was giving me an incredulous look, so I stopped.
"No, it's not Kailee. She's awesome and all, but she's just a friend, and Ash would probably be sentenced to jail for life because of all of the illegal things he would do to me. But, are you that clueless?" He was close to laughter.
"Okay, it's not Kailee. What does her name start with? Please, just tell me!" He thought for a minute.
"Okay, her name has an A in it. I'll allow you to ask me five questions about her, and if you don't guess who it is by the last question then you're out of luck." He licked his ice cream again nervously.
"What's her favorite band? Where is she from? Is she in a band? How old is she? What color eyes does she have?" He thought for a minute.
"She has lots of favorite bands, somewhere in the South, yes, she is in a band, she's nineteen, and blue eyes." He was looking at me weirdly. Then, it finally occured to me who he was describing.
"Me? You like me?" I was stunned; I never thought that Andy would go for someone like me. But, hey, I'm not complaining.
"Yes you. I'm surprised it took you that long to figure it out though. But, I'll understand if you don't feel the same way, I just wanted you to know. If you don't, I don't want this to affect our friendship, I just-" I grabbed his free hand, which was flailing around.
"I do feel the same, Andy. I know we've only known each other two days, but it feels like forever. And, I just realized how cheesy that sounded, but it's true. You're amazing, and I feel really embarrased so I'm just going to shut up now." He was smiling bigger than I had ever seen him smile.
"I don't want you to ever feel embarrased in front of me. So, would you, Tidal whatever your last name is, like to be my, Andy Biersack's, official girlfriend?" He asked rather formally.
"Why yes, I would. Who knew that something good would happen in Vegas?" He shrugged, and entwined our fingers.
He smiled, looked down at his ice cream, and then, quite suddenly, pushed his cone onto my nose, and started laughing. My mouth was gaping, but I quickly recovered and started laughing, too. I got revenge after he pulled the cone off my nose by sticking my cone on his nose. Pretty soon, our faces were covered in ice cream. We walked into the nearest place, laughing, so we could find a bathroom, and get cleaned up.
Strangely, the place we walked into was one of those places that had Open-Mic Night. Right then, some guy was up there, singing Seven Nation Army. He had a guitarist, drummer, and bassist just like us. He even had the little hand motions down. I must admit, he was pretty good. After the song was over, he started talking.
"Hey, everybody. Hope you enjoyed the song. That was a cover of Seven Nation Army by My Pain Of Heart. Yeah, their lead singer is... RIGHT THERE!" He yelled, pointing at the back toward me. Everyone looked back. Some other guy walked up and took the microphone from the still pointing guy.
"That's Tidal, lead singer of My Pain Of Heart. How would you like to come up and sing something for us?" Everybody took up a chant, wanting me to go up there. I looked to Andy, and he nodded. I walked up on stage and grabbed the mic.
"Hey, everybody, I'm Tidal. So, you guys want me to sing something?" They all nodded vigorously.
"Okay... Wait a minute, the lead singer of Black Veil Brides is here too. Andy get up here!" He laughed, and walked up on stage with me, grabbing a mic along the way.
"Hey, everybody, I'm Andy Six. You want me to sing something, too?" They nodded again.
"What do you want to sing?" I asked, covering the mic.
"Do you know Sweet Child Of Mine by Guns and Roses?" He mimicked me.
"Of course. You ready?" He nodded, and told the band what song we wanted to sing. We sang it as naturally as if we had done it a million times before.
(Tidal
Andy
Both)
He's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see his face
he takes me away to that special place
And if I stare too long
I'd probably break down and cry
woah oh oh
Sweet child o' mine
woah oh oh oh
Sweet love of mine
She's got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by
woah oh oh
Sweet child o' mine
woah oh oh oh
Sweet love of mine
woah oh oh oh
Sweet child o' mine
woah oh oh
Sweet love of mine
Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Sweet child o' mine
o Where do we go now
ah ah aiai ai ai
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go now
where do we go
where do we go now
now now now now now now now
sweet child
sweet child of mine
"Hope you enjoyed the song! And, MPOH is working on a new song, so look out for that. Bye!" They applauded as Andy and I hopped off stage. The guy who sang came up to us with a notepad and pen. He eyed mine and Andy's hands, which were entwined, warily.
"Hi, can I have your autograph? I love My Pain Of Heart." I nodded, and he handed me the pad.
"Who do I sign to?"
"Derrick; I loved the performance. Not to be nosy or anything, but are you two dating?" I looked down at our hands, and then at Andy, who nodded.
"Yeah, we are. Just started going out today." Derrick looked a little disappointed, but brightened when he read the autograph.
It said: Hey, Derrick! That cover of Seven Nation Army was awesome; you probably do it about as good as I do, if not better. Keep on rocking, and I hope I see you at a concert soon! Love, Tidal.
"Really?" He squeaked.
"Uh huh, you can go far. Just don't get a big head, okay?"
"Yeah, and I'm going to your concert in Salt Lake City.
"That's great, maybe you'll be able to meet the rest of the band there. Bye, nice meeting you." And, with that, we walked out of the little place, and into the hustle and bustle of Las Vegas.
"Okay, that guy had a definite crush on you!" Andy said laughing.
"So, lots of girls have crushes on you." He was still laughing.
"Yeah, but it was hilarious how obvious he made it!" I had just realized that we were headed back to the general direction of the buses.
"You're so mean! Let him have his crushes. I think that it's really sweet that he likes me so much." He stopped laughing a little bit.
"Yeah, I guess. But, let's talk about something different. Like how are we going to tell the rest of the bands that we're going out?" That was a good question.
"I say that we just let them figure it out on their own. They're smart, they should be able to see it fairly quick."
"Okay, my wonderful, new girlfriend. What else could we talk about?" I almost giggled when he said wonderful, new girlfriend, but I supressed it.
"I don't know my amazing, new boyfriend. We could talk about... I don't really know." We lapsed into comfortable silence until we got to the buses. We walked back onto MPOH's bus to find it still empty.
"How late do you think they're going to stay out?" Andy inquired. I looked at the clock and saw that it was ten-thirty.
"Several more hours. It'll probably be around one in the morning before they come back, at a minimum. I'm surprised that Kailee didn't stay, she's normally so shy and quiet."
"Ash probably convinced her to go. Why is Kailee so quiet and unopen? She hardly talks to us."
"Well, we've all been hurt in the past, but Kailee was by far hurt the most. We've been her best friends forever, but at the beginning of high school she started to become really secretive and it was a while before she told us what was going on. She developed some trust issues over the years." I explained, sitting down on the couch, Andy right beside me.
"What happened?" He asked quietly.
"It's really not my place to tell you. But, if you want to know what happened to the rest of us I can tell you." I stated.
"Sure, start with you, so I can know if I need to plan any murders." I laughed.
"Over-protective boyfriend instincts kicking in already, huh? Well, I've had two boyfriends before. The first one broke up with me for another girl, and the second one didn't even have the decency to break up with me before he started dating the school skank." I said bitterly.
"I'm sorry, that's really cruel." I nodded.
"Yeah, then she broke up with him, and he tried to convince me to go out with him again, but I told him no. I guess that's what you get for dating a jock."
"I'm so sorry. Do I need to start planning his murder?" He asked jokingly.
"Oh, you don't need to worry about that. Mor, Kailee, and Ronny already took care of him. They might not have killed him, but when they were done I'm sure that he wished they did." He laughed, and wrapped his arms around me in a comforting hug.
"And, then, there were all the bullies that I had. There were all the death threats that I got, and so forth. Normal stuff." He tightened his arms a little, because little tears had started to form in my eyes.
"It's okay. Things like that have happened to me, too." I nodded, burying my head in his neck.
"Kailee and I have been hurt the worst, but I've always felt horrible for crying about my crap when Kailee's dealt with so much more." The tears had actually started to fall.
Talking about it had just brought all of those painful memories back to the surface, and it was the last thing that I wanted to do. I also felt kind of guilty because I was soaking his shirt with my tears, but he didn't seem to mind.
"It's okay to cry about things. Sometimes you just have to let it all out." He started stroking my hair.
"Thanks, Andy. Would it be too soon to tell you that you're the best boyfriend that I've ever had? They didn't know what to do when I cried." I attempted to make myself feel a little better.
"No, it's not too soon. I feel the same way. I don't care if you cry, I just want to kill the thing who made you cry after I make sure that you're fine." I laughed a little bit, and straightened up, wiping my face.
There was eyeliner mixed in with my tears.
"Crap, hold on." I got up, and went to the bathroom, but Andy followed anyways. I washed my face off, removing all of the eyeliner and tear tracks on my face, not even bothering to put more on.
"You look great without makeup." Andy commented from the doorway.
"I'm sure you would, too. Will I ever see you without it?" He considered it for a minute, and then came to stand beside me. He washed all of his eyeliner off, leaving no trace of it.
"Well, do I look great?" He asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, you do..." I couldn't really think of anything else to say, so I just studied his face as he was studying mine.
"What do you wanna do now?" I broke the silence.
"I want to check out some of your music videos." He said after a while. I laughed, but went back to the main part of the bus, and pulled out my laptop. Andy sat down beside me again.
I pulled up YouTube, and got on our channel. We had three music videos for Holiday, Seven Nation Army, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I clicked on the music video for Holiday, and watched as we started playing the song. When the actual words started, it had the band in a convertable, me driving and singing around LA. Everyone else was in the car, talking excitedly. We were all wearing matching sunglasses which I found funny.
My favorite part was when I was yelling out stuff like 'Bombs away is your PUNISHMENT!' I liked it because I was standing up in the car, and everytime I yelled the last word in the sayings we banged the air. It was one of our better videos. Next, we looked at the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams. It started out with us in a car, then we all got out, and started walking.
We walked down a dark and empty street. Eventually, we came to a part where we weren't on the street, but that part only lasted for about ten seconds. I always enjoyed that video. Lastly was Seven Nation Army. It just had us in a room, prancing around, doing our thing. It was pretty good, too.
"My favorite was Holiday." Andy said after we watched the last video completely.
"Thanks, now I want to check out some of your videos." He shrugged as I looked up BVB. There was a music video for Knives and Pens, so I clicked on that.
I laughed when the blood poured on Andy, and he made that face, but I didn't ask him about it until the video ended.
"What was up with that face? You looked like you had just eaten four lemons at once!" I exclaimed.
"I don't know! I'm sure you made a couple of weird faces before." He defended himself. I was still laughing. I clicked on a link to Perfect Weapon.
I watched intently as it started.
"You know, you really should stop doing that. It's bad for you." I said when it showed him smoking a cigarette.
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before." I shook my head, but continued watching the video. It was really good, too.
"That's a really good song. Nice screaming by the way." He laughed.
"Thanks, I do my best to scream. Are you a screamer?" He asked curiously.
"A little bit. Why?"
"We should do a song swap-up at our next concert. You sing one of our songs and we sing one of yours." He suggested.
"Sure, what song do you have in mind?"
"How about Never Give In, and we can sing Seven Nation Army?"
"It's a deal. I let the band know first thing in the morning." He nodded.
"Good, so will I. I will try to find my place in the Diary of Jane." He sang.
"Never give in, never back down, never give in. I can dig it." I said in my weird way of talking.
"Well, if you're done being all hippie chick, what are we going to do now? We still have a couple of hours to kill."
"I should make another Vlog. I haven't updated in forever." I pulled out my camera, while he just nodded. I turned it on.
"Hey, everybody, Tidal here. Right here beside me, I have Andy Six, the lead singer of BVB as most of you probably know. We just want to update on some things from the tour. We did our first show two days ago, and our next show is in Salt Lake City." I thought for a minute.
"Andy, would you like to say something?" He thought, too.
"Uhhh, didn't you say earlier that MPOH is working on a new song?"
"Yeah, we are. Mor is working hard on it, with help from the rest of us, of course. I actually started on my first song. Not exactly sure how good it's going to be, but you'll find out soon enough. Should we tell them about, you know?" I asked quietly. I don't even know why.
"Sure. Um, we've heard rumors that me and Tidal were dating, but they aren't true. Well, they weren't true until tonight, when I finally got up the guts to ask her out. Before we even started going out, Morana started on a couple name for us. What was it?" He asked, looking over to me.
"Um, they were Tandy or Andidal. Personally, I like Tandy better, but that's just me."
"Yeah, it's a lot easier to say than the other one. What else has happened?"
"Oh, um, earlier tonight we shoved ice cream in each other's faces, so we stopped by this karaoke place that was right in the middle of Open-Mic Night, and this guy was up there singing Seven Nation Army. He saw us in the back, and me and Andy ended up singing Sweet Child Of Mine by Guns and Roses. We were pretty good, weren't we?"
"We killed it! And, you should have seen the way that guy was looking at Tidal. It was hilarious, and when he found out that we were dating, he looked like someone had just killed his dog. It was hilarious." I elbowed him in the ribs, causing him to grunt.
"Don't be mean. I thought that he was really sweet. He's coming to our concert in Salt Lake City, as I hope that a lot of you are. Well, it's been great talking to you guys, but we have to go now. You can post your questions in a comment and I'll probably answer them in the next Vlog, so ask away. Bye, I love you guys! Say bye, Andy."
"Bye, Andy! I'm just kidding, bye, guys." And, with that, I turned the camera off. I hooked the camera up to the computer, loaded the video onto it, and posted it on YouTube.
"Well, that was an interesting video." He stated. I nodded in agreement.
I looked over at the clock again, and saw that it was eleven forty-five. I was starting to get a little tired, which was proved by me yawing. Andy looked over.
"Hey, are you tired?"
"A little bit, but I think that I'll be able to..." I slumped on his chest as everything went black.