The past two months have gone by in a blink of an eye, and it's scaring the shit out of me. It seems like just yesterday I was playing for Vic, Jaime and Tony for the first time in years. But now, we're leaving for the Collide With The Sky tour. I barely remember the process of learning the songs, don't get me wrong, I know what I'm doing, just the last two months have been a repetitive blur. But they've also been the best two months I've had in awhile, it's like I'm on a roller coaster only going up.

Things with me and Tony have been getting better with each passing day, all of the things we thought would happen haven't happened yet. I'm still feeling perfectly sane, infact I feel better than I have in awhile. And Tony, well as far as I know he's doing good too, I know for a fact he hasn't relapsed in his cutting, and I pray to god that he'd come to me if he was feeling low. I feel like all the time we spent apart makes us more passionate about the third chance we got. We're both stronger than we were six years ago, maybe this time we actually have a chance at making it for the long run, for real.

I sighed and did my best to sit up in bed without waking the sleeping man attached to my side. It was a rather difficult task, but I succeeded nonetheless. I chuckled to myself as I looked down at him, his hair was sticking out in every possible direction and his mouth hung open limply, it was pretty fucking adorable. I looked over at the alarm clock, 5:55, we had to get up at 6, so at least I hadn't lost that much sleep. I contemplated on whether I should wake Tony up, or just let the alarm do it.

I decided on the latter, wanting to savor this moment for as long as possible. I've learned not to take anything for granted, you never know how long you have with someone, so make the best of what time you have with them.

Once the alarm did go off, Tony rolled around uncomfortably and groaned something along the lines of, "Too early..."

I chuckled and rubbed his shoulder, "Come on babe, we leave today."

He yawned and stretched a little bit before sitting up, "I guess we do. Are you excited?"

"Yeah," I shrugged, "More nervous than anything though, there are going to be so many people..."

"Hey now," Tony said, gently, "Don't be nervous, you're going to be perfect."

"But, what if the fans don't like me?" I questioned, starting to get upset, "What if they want Matt back?"

"First of all, you're so much better than Matt was," he said, causing me to roll my eyes, "Seriously! I know for a fact I'm not the only one that thinks that way!"

"Whatever Tone," I said, shaking my head, "Let's just get up and go."

I tried to get out of bed, but he grabbed my hand and pulled me back, "Nope, I just wanna stay here with you all day!"

I sighed amusedly and shook my head, "Really Turtle?" I asked, "It's my first tour and you just want to stay home, how supportive."

"Fine," he pouted, releasing my hand, "But we're cuddling on the bus."

"Obviously," I stated as I climbed out of bed.

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I ran my fingers through my hair, tugging on the ends as I pace back and forth. Nerves filled my gut as I listened to the sound of Kellin's band, Sleeping With Sirens, in the background. The other bands on tour had already played, and we're next. I'm so nervous I can't even see straight, I knew there were going to be a lot of people, but this is insanely scary.

"Mike, calm down," Vic said, putting his hand on my shoulder to stop me from pacing, "You're going to fine!"

"So many people Vic," I said, trying to take deep breaths to stop myself from hyperventilating.

"I know," Vic said smiling, "It's insane. You're going to love it!"

I bit my lip and continued to take deep breaths as Sleeping With Sirens ran offstage, "It's all you guys!" Kellin yelled gleefully, causing my heart to stop beating.

Tony came up beside me and gave me a big hug, "You're going to be brilliant," he whispered, before kissing the area right above my ear.

He released me from the hug and pulled me over to Vic and Jaime, where we did our preshow chant before running onstage.

"What the fuck is up?" Vic yelled into the mic, causing to crowd to scream, "Before we get started, I want to introduce you guys to our new drummer and my baby brother, Mike Fuentes!"

The crowd screamed even louder, causing me to grin widely. I raised my drum sticks up to the sky before counting off the first song.

Notes

I HAVE A CHAPTER AND AN EPILOGUE LEFT! HOLY SHIT, THIS STORY, JUST HOLY SHIT. I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST GOT THE IDEA FOR SKIN AND BONES AND NOW HOLY SHIT! I'll stop yelling now. I think since this has been such a long process, I'm going to do a detailed author's note with a Q&A at the end. So if you have any questions you want to ask me about anything, just message me them. :D

We're not going to talk about my two day absence from life, kay?

FOR SOME REASON I CAN'T STOP WITH FAULT IN OUR STARS REFERENCES! It's probably because I reread it yesterday, in one marathon sitting...

I decided I'm going to move some of my stuff over to wattpad. http://www.wattpad.com/user/xMareBear14x So you could be awesome and go follow me over there, I'm going to start the Jalex feels coaster a couple of days after I finish this.

Title Cred: Mayday Parade