Until The End Of Time
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Four days into the tour and everything had been going great. Erica, Zeke and Chad had been doing really well and meeting/making new fans. They had formed great friendships with the other two bands as well.
Erica was currently in the upstairs lounge of her bus on the phone to Jaime when Zac came in and joined her on the couch. She had her phone on speaker as she was trying to do her hair at the same time; she wasn’t the best at multitasking.
“Is that Jaime?” Zac asked
“It is me” Jaime called through the phone, “How are you doing man?”
“I’m good, I actually just came to ask Erica a question and since you’re on the phone I can ask you too” Zac started
“Shoot” Jaime and Erica both said at the same time.
“First off, that was weird. Second of all, I noticed you weren’t singing the song that Jaime’s on and that’s one of my favourites on the record so I was wondering, if I sang Jaime’s part would you play it for the rest of the tour, if that’s okay with you too Jaime?” Zac and Erica both had huge grins on their faces.
“Dude, you want to sing with me?” Erica was shocked and Zac nodded to confirm her assumption.
“Well hell yeah you can. What do you say pumpkin?”
“Only if you don’t sing it better than me because if you do everyone will only ever want to hear your version” He joked.
“I promise to sing your part worse than you” Zac messed and then gave Erica a high five before going downstairs on the bus.
“OMG, how crazy is that?” Erica gushed into the phone that was now being held against her ear.
“So amazing, I hope you’re not making new best friends over there without me. I don’t know how I’d react to you getting a new pumpkin” Jaime fake cried into the phone which caused Erica to laugh a little
“I would never replace you sweetie, I do have to go though, I have sound check in 5”
“Okay talk to you later, love you have fun” Erica said her goodbyes and then hung up the phone and made her way inside the venue.
“Hey guys, you are fucking killing it tonight!” Erica shouted into the microphone which caused a loud cheer from the crowd, they had been getting such a warm reception at these shows.
“Okay, tonight we’re going to play a song we haven’t done live yet. How do you guys feel about that?” Another cheer erupted
“Okay, good. We’re going to need help from a friend of ours. He goes by the name Zac Eisenstien, come out here dude”
The crowd roared as Zac walked on stage and picked up the spare microphone and Chad counted them in with his drumsticks.
The song went amazingly well and the fans loved it. Erica hugged Zac before he left the stage and Anonymous… finished their set.
The three bands decided to hit up the 'party bus' as they all stopped over at a truck stop for the night, traffic would be too much so they decided to park up for the night. There were shots, pictures, games, dancing all sorts of fun. Erica was on the phone to Mike for about half an hour; he too was in the middle of a party in Canada. The more they talked, the more they missed each other but they knew it would only be a couple of weeks before they got to see one another again.
-In Canada a few days later-
“Hey guys I was just thinking, we should surprise Erica on the last day of her tour. She still thinks we’re doing that small tour in the UK but now that’s cancelled we should surprise her” Jaime suggested to the rest of the band that were all sat in the front lounge, eating pizza and watching Fight Club.
“That’s a great idea” Mike practically shouted.
“I agree” Vic and Tony said at the same time “I miss her so much, it’s weird we’ve been spending so much time with her for the last year and now we’re not near her” Tony wiped an imaginary tear from his cheek
“How do you think I feel” Mike joked.
“I can’t even imagine” Tony nudged his arm, knowing how sexually frustrated Mike had been lately.
The boys had been having a lot of fun on tour. They were out with Miss May I and A Day To Remember; two bands that they were good friends with and had toured with before.
Mike had been hit on by slutty groupies that had made it back to their bus but denied every single one of them. The girls always tried it on with Mike because they know he’s in a relationship and for some reason, slutty fan girls always want to be the ones to ruin a relationship of a band member, well some of them do anyway.
Mike has been nothing but faithful to Erica and she was the same. He would never dream of hurting her, especially since he made a promise; well two actually, the first to Erica’s father and the second to her, with the promise ring. Mike never broke a promise, no matter how big or small.
Jeremy, Mike and Jaime were all outside the bus talking about random things when Jeremy asked Jaime about the wedding and honeymoon. Jeremy wasn’t able to attend the wedding due to being out of the country and he was gutted he missed it.
“Dude, it was the best day of my life” Jaime gushed, he’s always been the hopeless romantic type.
“Aw, I’m glad you had fun. Where did you go on your honeymoon again?”
“Mike and Erica got us a holiday to Fiji, dude it was so fucking amazing. It was beautiful and I didn’t want to leave”
“Aw man, I would love to go to Fiji” Jeremy started “Hey Mike, I think you and Erica should get me a holiday to Fiji for my Christmas present” The front man of ADTR joked.
“We’ll see, depends how nice you are to me for the rest of the tour” Mike laughed and headed back on the bus to pee.
“I have to admit, I haven’t seen him much since he and Erica got together but damn she has changed him. I haven’t seen him even innocently flirt with anyone since this tour started. He must really fucking love her” Jeremy told Jaime.
“He really does. They’re perfect for each other. They’ve only been together just over a year but they’re that couple that you just know is going to be together till they’re old and wrinkly telling stories from when they first met to a load of grandchildren. Well everyone else grandchildren, since neither of them want kids.” Jaime smiled at the thought because he imagined that he would be sat alongside them with Jess and his own grandchildren. Gosh, for a bunch of bad ass dudes they tend to be quite soppy and romantic a lot of the time.
A few more days had passed; the PTV boys had been on tour for 2 and a half weeks while AITG? Had been on tour for two weeks the days were going by fast since everyone was having so much fun. Jaime and Mike had already organised their plan to surprise Erica with every other person on her tour.
Erica was currently sat in her bunk thinking over why she gave up music in the first place. It brought a tear to her eye to think back about the times that she would write songs about her family and the struggles she went through when she was younger. She stopped making music because everything she wrote or everything she played would be too painful for her; But since she wrote and recorded this record and is now playing it to people that actually want to hear it, she wishes she had listened to everyone all along and done this a long time ago. However, had she done that her life may not have turned into what it is now and Erica may not have the friends and boyfriend she has now. She may never have taken up tattooing and encountered so many amazing experiences as she had. She hated how clichéd it sounds but the thought that ‘everything happens for a reason’ was running through her head. She was so against sayings like that but when thinking about everything in her life, it was the only thing that fit when trying to explain it.
She silently cried in her bunk for a while when she got a text from Mike; it was a picture of him pulling a pouty face saying ‘Missing you like crazy… can’t wait to see you soon. I love you to the end of time xx’
Erica smiled at her screen for a while and the tears subsided. She couldn’t explain how Mike did it but, even when he wasn’t physically there, he had the ability to make her feel better. She looked into her front camera and made sure it wasn’t evident that she had been crying and sent him a similar picture of herself back to him, along with pretty much the same caption.
They spent the rest of the night sending cute text messages to one another and shared a quick phone call before they both fell asleep. That was how Erica loved falling asleep; if she couldn’t be in Mike’s arms then she would make sure they had been having a conversation beforehand. The phone call between Erica and Mike was short and sweet, the last part of the conversation went as follows:
M: E, as soon as we all get home from tour we have to go to Harry Potter world. It’s been too long since we last went, please?
E: Of course we’re going, you know I’m not gonna turn that down.
M: That’s my girl. It’s getting late so I’m going to let you get some sleep, rock star. Love you.
E: Oh please, you’re the rock star but I am pretty tired so night handsome. Love you too
They ended their conversation; both of them excited for their upcoming venture to HP World and went to sleep. Tour really does take a shit load of energy out of you which is odd because it also makes you super pumped. Erica knew she would be expecting a crazy adrenaline crash when she gets home.
-OFF DAY-
“Erica get your lazy ass up” Parker shouted as he shook Erica awake.
Everyone was spending the day at the beach. They had packed picnics, alcohol, a soccer ball, a Frisbee and all sorts of other things that you would take to a beach. A lot of them had rented surf boards and Erica decided she would show the guys a thing or two about how to surf. She learnt when she was younger when her father took her to Newquay, Cornwall on holiday a few times.
Erica was the only female on tour, none of the other bands even had a merch girl; they all had guys. Erica wasn’t exactly treated like a girl though, since you know how much of one of the lads she is, all the guys acted like that with her and that’s why they all got on so well.
When they got to the beach Erica pulled off one of Mike’s shirts that she had packed, to reveal her very amazing figure, covered in tattoos and a few faint scars from her past that you wouldn’t be able to see unless you really stared at her skin. All the men practically drooled over her, other than Zeke. You see Zeke was more into men that women. It wasn't even as if her bikini was that revealing. I guess they just hadn't got much action lately.
The three bands decided to have a volleyball tournament; they all got into groups of 4 and flipped a coin to see which bands would start first. TSSF went against AITG? First and it was a damn good match. Erica and Frankie were a lot better than the twins but they came out on top in the end. Erica couldn’t help but shove it in Parker’s face since he was so sure that his team would win the first round. They ended up having a water fight with some of the water guns that Man Overboard had bought with them.
Erica chased Parker all around the beach until Kelen caught her from behind, helping Parker carry her to the water front. They threw her in and when she came back up she shouted a string of curse words before realising that there was kids around and she would have to tone it down a notch.
Many pictures were taken that day, some were really nice ones and some were just plain hilarious. Man Overboard ended up winning the entire Volleyball tournament in the end.
It was about 6pm and the sun was beginning to set and someone pulled out a few disposable barbeques. Everyone stayed out on the beach, sitting on blankets that they took with them, passing around bottles of alcohol and sharing stories. This was the best day of the tour so far and they didn’t even have a show. Zac had bought out his acoustic guitar though and there were a few songs around the bonfire that they had built.
Erica’s phone rang with the Imperial March, she was such a nerd and it showed in so many ways, it was Mike calling.
“Ooh, is that lover-boy?” Chad joked causing a laugh from a few people as Erica nodded and walked over to a tree, sat under it and answered the phone. She sat talking to Mike about everything both of them had been doing today for about 45 minutes. Mike had told Erica how some fans had bought him some Nimbus 2000 style drum sticks and Erica couldn’t wait to see them, they sounded so cool. Mike had put a picture on his instagram and Erica checked it out. They were indeed cool as fuck.
When the phone call ended Erica returned to the bonfire party that was happening, most people there were getting pretty drunk by now and within another half an hour they had all made their way back to the buses. They got on the road as soon as everyone was on their bus and had all their things sorted out.
Erica called shotgun on the shower first and the twins groaned because Erica liked to spend quite a bit of time in the shower; most of the time she just stood there singing to herself and chilling out, because she loved the feeling of the warm water hitting her skin. Tonight was no exception.
All persons on this tour went to bed happy that night; there is no doubt about it.
Erica was currently in the upstairs lounge of her bus on the phone to Jaime when Zac came in and joined her on the couch. She had her phone on speaker as she was trying to do her hair at the same time; she wasn’t the best at multitasking.
“Is that Jaime?” Zac asked
“It is me” Jaime called through the phone, “How are you doing man?”
“I’m good, I actually just came to ask Erica a question and since you’re on the phone I can ask you too” Zac started
“Shoot” Jaime and Erica both said at the same time.
“First off, that was weird. Second of all, I noticed you weren’t singing the song that Jaime’s on and that’s one of my favourites on the record so I was wondering, if I sang Jaime’s part would you play it for the rest of the tour, if that’s okay with you too Jaime?” Zac and Erica both had huge grins on their faces.
“Dude, you want to sing with me?” Erica was shocked and Zac nodded to confirm her assumption.
“Well hell yeah you can. What do you say pumpkin?”
“Only if you don’t sing it better than me because if you do everyone will only ever want to hear your version” He joked.
“I promise to sing your part worse than you” Zac messed and then gave Erica a high five before going downstairs on the bus.
“OMG, how crazy is that?” Erica gushed into the phone that was now being held against her ear.
“So amazing, I hope you’re not making new best friends over there without me. I don’t know how I’d react to you getting a new pumpkin” Jaime fake cried into the phone which caused Erica to laugh a little
“I would never replace you sweetie, I do have to go though, I have sound check in 5”
“Okay talk to you later, love you have fun” Erica said her goodbyes and then hung up the phone and made her way inside the venue.
“Hey guys, you are fucking killing it tonight!” Erica shouted into the microphone which caused a loud cheer from the crowd, they had been getting such a warm reception at these shows.
“Okay, tonight we’re going to play a song we haven’t done live yet. How do you guys feel about that?” Another cheer erupted
“Okay, good. We’re going to need help from a friend of ours. He goes by the name Zac Eisenstien, come out here dude”
The crowd roared as Zac walked on stage and picked up the spare microphone and Chad counted them in with his drumsticks.
The song went amazingly well and the fans loved it. Erica hugged Zac before he left the stage and Anonymous… finished their set.
The three bands decided to hit up the 'party bus' as they all stopped over at a truck stop for the night, traffic would be too much so they decided to park up for the night. There were shots, pictures, games, dancing all sorts of fun. Erica was on the phone to Mike for about half an hour; he too was in the middle of a party in Canada. The more they talked, the more they missed each other but they knew it would only be a couple of weeks before they got to see one another again.
-In Canada a few days later-
“Hey guys I was just thinking, we should surprise Erica on the last day of her tour. She still thinks we’re doing that small tour in the UK but now that’s cancelled we should surprise her” Jaime suggested to the rest of the band that were all sat in the front lounge, eating pizza and watching Fight Club.
“That’s a great idea” Mike practically shouted.
“I agree” Vic and Tony said at the same time “I miss her so much, it’s weird we’ve been spending so much time with her for the last year and now we’re not near her” Tony wiped an imaginary tear from his cheek
“How do you think I feel” Mike joked.
“I can’t even imagine” Tony nudged his arm, knowing how sexually frustrated Mike had been lately.
The boys had been having a lot of fun on tour. They were out with Miss May I and A Day To Remember; two bands that they were good friends with and had toured with before.
Mike had been hit on by slutty groupies that had made it back to their bus but denied every single one of them. The girls always tried it on with Mike because they know he’s in a relationship and for some reason, slutty fan girls always want to be the ones to ruin a relationship of a band member, well some of them do anyway.
Mike has been nothing but faithful to Erica and she was the same. He would never dream of hurting her, especially since he made a promise; well two actually, the first to Erica’s father and the second to her, with the promise ring. Mike never broke a promise, no matter how big or small.
Jeremy, Mike and Jaime were all outside the bus talking about random things when Jeremy asked Jaime about the wedding and honeymoon. Jeremy wasn’t able to attend the wedding due to being out of the country and he was gutted he missed it.
“Dude, it was the best day of my life” Jaime gushed, he’s always been the hopeless romantic type.
“Aw, I’m glad you had fun. Where did you go on your honeymoon again?”
“Mike and Erica got us a holiday to Fiji, dude it was so fucking amazing. It was beautiful and I didn’t want to leave”
“Aw man, I would love to go to Fiji” Jeremy started “Hey Mike, I think you and Erica should get me a holiday to Fiji for my Christmas present” The front man of ADTR joked.
“We’ll see, depends how nice you are to me for the rest of the tour” Mike laughed and headed back on the bus to pee.
“I have to admit, I haven’t seen him much since he and Erica got together but damn she has changed him. I haven’t seen him even innocently flirt with anyone since this tour started. He must really fucking love her” Jeremy told Jaime.
“He really does. They’re perfect for each other. They’ve only been together just over a year but they’re that couple that you just know is going to be together till they’re old and wrinkly telling stories from when they first met to a load of grandchildren. Well everyone else grandchildren, since neither of them want kids.” Jaime smiled at the thought because he imagined that he would be sat alongside them with Jess and his own grandchildren. Gosh, for a bunch of bad ass dudes they tend to be quite soppy and romantic a lot of the time.
A few more days had passed; the PTV boys had been on tour for 2 and a half weeks while AITG? Had been on tour for two weeks the days were going by fast since everyone was having so much fun. Jaime and Mike had already organised their plan to surprise Erica with every other person on her tour.
Erica was currently sat in her bunk thinking over why she gave up music in the first place. It brought a tear to her eye to think back about the times that she would write songs about her family and the struggles she went through when she was younger. She stopped making music because everything she wrote or everything she played would be too painful for her; But since she wrote and recorded this record and is now playing it to people that actually want to hear it, she wishes she had listened to everyone all along and done this a long time ago. However, had she done that her life may not have turned into what it is now and Erica may not have the friends and boyfriend she has now. She may never have taken up tattooing and encountered so many amazing experiences as she had. She hated how clichéd it sounds but the thought that ‘everything happens for a reason’ was running through her head. She was so against sayings like that but when thinking about everything in her life, it was the only thing that fit when trying to explain it.
She silently cried in her bunk for a while when she got a text from Mike; it was a picture of him pulling a pouty face saying ‘Missing you like crazy… can’t wait to see you soon. I love you to the end of time xx’
Erica smiled at her screen for a while and the tears subsided. She couldn’t explain how Mike did it but, even when he wasn’t physically there, he had the ability to make her feel better. She looked into her front camera and made sure it wasn’t evident that she had been crying and sent him a similar picture of herself back to him, along with pretty much the same caption.
They spent the rest of the night sending cute text messages to one another and shared a quick phone call before they both fell asleep. That was how Erica loved falling asleep; if she couldn’t be in Mike’s arms then she would make sure they had been having a conversation beforehand. The phone call between Erica and Mike was short and sweet, the last part of the conversation went as follows:
M: E, as soon as we all get home from tour we have to go to Harry Potter world. It’s been too long since we last went, please?
E: Of course we’re going, you know I’m not gonna turn that down.
M: That’s my girl. It’s getting late so I’m going to let you get some sleep, rock star. Love you.
E: Oh please, you’re the rock star but I am pretty tired so night handsome. Love you too
They ended their conversation; both of them excited for their upcoming venture to HP World and went to sleep. Tour really does take a shit load of energy out of you which is odd because it also makes you super pumped. Erica knew she would be expecting a crazy adrenaline crash when she gets home.
-OFF DAY-
“Erica get your lazy ass up” Parker shouted as he shook Erica awake.
Everyone was spending the day at the beach. They had packed picnics, alcohol, a soccer ball, a Frisbee and all sorts of other things that you would take to a beach. A lot of them had rented surf boards and Erica decided she would show the guys a thing or two about how to surf. She learnt when she was younger when her father took her to Newquay, Cornwall on holiday a few times.
Erica was the only female on tour, none of the other bands even had a merch girl; they all had guys. Erica wasn’t exactly treated like a girl though, since you know how much of one of the lads she is, all the guys acted like that with her and that’s why they all got on so well.
When they got to the beach Erica pulled off one of Mike’s shirts that she had packed, to reveal her very amazing figure, covered in tattoos and a few faint scars from her past that you wouldn’t be able to see unless you really stared at her skin. All the men practically drooled over her, other than Zeke. You see Zeke was more into men that women. It wasn't even as if her bikini was that revealing. I guess they just hadn't got much action lately.
The three bands decided to have a volleyball tournament; they all got into groups of 4 and flipped a coin to see which bands would start first. TSSF went against AITG? First and it was a damn good match. Erica and Frankie were a lot better than the twins but they came out on top in the end. Erica couldn’t help but shove it in Parker’s face since he was so sure that his team would win the first round. They ended up having a water fight with some of the water guns that Man Overboard had bought with them.
Erica chased Parker all around the beach until Kelen caught her from behind, helping Parker carry her to the water front. They threw her in and when she came back up she shouted a string of curse words before realising that there was kids around and she would have to tone it down a notch.
Many pictures were taken that day, some were really nice ones and some were just plain hilarious. Man Overboard ended up winning the entire Volleyball tournament in the end.
It was about 6pm and the sun was beginning to set and someone pulled out a few disposable barbeques. Everyone stayed out on the beach, sitting on blankets that they took with them, passing around bottles of alcohol and sharing stories. This was the best day of the tour so far and they didn’t even have a show. Zac had bought out his acoustic guitar though and there were a few songs around the bonfire that they had built.
Erica’s phone rang with the Imperial March, she was such a nerd and it showed in so many ways, it was Mike calling.
“Ooh, is that lover-boy?” Chad joked causing a laugh from a few people as Erica nodded and walked over to a tree, sat under it and answered the phone. She sat talking to Mike about everything both of them had been doing today for about 45 minutes. Mike had told Erica how some fans had bought him some Nimbus 2000 style drum sticks and Erica couldn’t wait to see them, they sounded so cool. Mike had put a picture on his instagram and Erica checked it out. They were indeed cool as fuck.
When the phone call ended Erica returned to the bonfire party that was happening, most people there were getting pretty drunk by now and within another half an hour they had all made their way back to the buses. They got on the road as soon as everyone was on their bus and had all their things sorted out.
Erica called shotgun on the shower first and the twins groaned because Erica liked to spend quite a bit of time in the shower; most of the time she just stood there singing to herself and chilling out, because she loved the feeling of the warm water hitting her skin. Tonight was no exception.
All persons on this tour went to bed happy that night; there is no doubt about it.
Notes
I like this chapter, I hope you guys do tooLet me know what you think.
Sorry if my updates are a bit crappy at the minute, I know what I want to write and I know how I want it to come across but sometimes it's a lot more difficult than I thought.
Thanks for the support though guys <3
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8/13/13