*Aleah's POV*

"What about what I want, Ali?! Doesn't that matter?" Tony yelled. He was pissed to say the least.

"Listen, Tony… I love you – I really do – but we got into this relationship so fast… I just don't think we can continue like we didn't both sleep with other people last night! Remember how this started out? We were just going to be living together, platonically. That's what needs to happen. I'm sorry."

"Fuck…" he groaned, shoving his face into a pillow while I sobbed into my hands. "You know what? I was doing just fine on my own unt-"

"Tony, please stop. I won't let you leave with nowhere to go."

"Don't use my words back at me!" He yelled, no longer making an effort to hide the waterfalls that had become of his cheeks. I gave him a questioning look, and he calmed down a lot before finally answering. "That's the same thing I said to you after we found out about each others' scars…"

"That wasn't be using your words against you, that was two people that love each other having the same feelings."

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*Lindsay's POV*

"Michael Christofer Fuentes, slow the fuck down!" I yelled as Mike who was getting ready to call his parents who were still away on vacation. "You can't just call Vivian and tell her I'm pregnant and that your moving out! I mean, I would love to live with you, baby, but you need to understand that you are going entirely too fast! I have to tell Cara, I have to pay an early termination fee for my lease, I have to help Cara find somewhere to go when we get a place together, and you're only seventeen, you have no idea if your parents will even allow you to move out! Besides, your mom hates me! Not that I blame her, I'm just some nineteen – going on twenty – year-old that's in a band for a living and dating her seventeen year old son!"

"You could just live here then!" He exclaimed with far too much enthusiasm and completely ignoring the last part of what I said.

"Mikey, baby, please calm down. Your stress is going to scare Boo." I said softly, rubbing my still-flat tummy.

"If our child is a boy, he's gonna have some serious gender disorders from you calling him that." Mike chuckled, finally calming down a bit.

"It's just till we find out if I've got a boy or a girl in here!" I giggled back at Mike, who was now on his knees mumbling into my belly.

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*Aleah's POV*

"Tony, hang on a sec, my phone is ringing." I said suddenly.

"Hey Aleah! Great news, your boys made it! They can start recording an EP in the studio ASAP and we'll get it out there! One more thing, both bands are playing Warped Tour!!! I already paid for your busses. Uncle Bobby also wants to know if you can do a last-minute show tonight?"

I was finally able to respond, once I found my voice. "Uhh I'll call them and find out then call Bobby."

"Alright, Hun," My dad responded. "I'll talk to you soon. I love you."

"Love you too, dad." I hung up the phone and looked at Tony. "You better call Vic."

"What?" He questioned.

"You guys made the label." I gave him a small, but sincere and proud smile. "And both bands made Warped. I'm so happy for you."

"Oh my god, that's amazing!" Tony yelled breathlessly. A moment later, he pulled me into a tight hug. His body felt so perfect against mine and I hated every second of loving it.

"I'm so proud of you guys, I knew you'd make it!" I praised into the crook of his neck. He pulled away to look into my eyes then before I knew it, those lips were touching mine again.

"Tony…" I huffed once he moed to my neck. "Tony stop!" I finally got my brain back on track and pushed his chest away from me. "I can't do this…" I got up and quickly fled his room.

"Hello?" Mel greeted me happily as she picked up the phone.

"Hey, my uncle wants to know if we can do a last minute show tonight?"

"I'm free. You call Lin and I'll call Ben?"

"Works for me. Thanks Melly, love you!" I sang as I hung up the phone.

To: Mrs. Lindsay WhiskeyHands
Hey Uncle Bobby wants 2 kno if we can play a last min show tnite?

From: Mrs. Lindsay WhiskeyHands
I'm free. Needa get away from Mike anyway.

To: Mrs. Lindsay WhiskeyHands
What's wrong?? Did you tell him?

From: Mrs. Lindsay WhiskeyHands
Yeah and he's going crazy with the planning. He wants to move in tgthr ASAP. Kinda scary.

To: Mrs. Lindsay WhiskeyHands
Only cuz he loves you. Anyway, meet at my place when u finish getting ready
From: Mrs. Lindsay WhiskeyHands
Got it. Thanks for everything Leah. Ly.

To: Mrs. Lindsay WhiskeyHands
Ly2 cya soon

From: Melly Boo<3
Ben's on his way 2 ur place to warm up. Jaime & I will be there as soon as I finish getting ready.

Great, I thought, I'll be the only one without a date.

To: Melly Boo<3
Great, cya then

"Bobby's bar, how can I help ya?" My uncle greeted me as he answered the phone at the bar.

"How about a better greeting for your favorite niece?" I chuckled at him.

"Aleah! What's the word on getting COI and PTV in here tonight?"

"Well Curse is in, but I'm not so sure about Pierce. I'll have Vic call you when they figure their shit out."

"Sounds good. Can you all be here in two hours, like 4:00 PM?"

"Curse of Ignorance will be there. Love you Uncle Bobby."

"Same to you, Kiddo." He responded before hanging up the phone.

I headed over to Tony's room to ask him about the show, knocking on the door once I reached it.

"I'm on the phone, Aleah! Go away." Tony snapped. Aleah? Ouch. I thought to myself.

"Fine!" I yelled back brokenly. "I just won't tell you about the gig I lined up for PTV tonight!" Tears were streaming out my face by the end and I stomped back to my room. Once I reached my destination, I pulled my acoustic guitar – signed by Derek Sanders – off the wall and sat down on my bed with it. We were doing a Punk Goes Pop style cover of a Taylor Swift song that night and I wanted to get it perfect.

"Hey," Tony called from the other side of my door as he knocked gently. "I'm sorry for yelling earlier… I'm just really frustrated."

"Come in." I mumbled, setting my guitar on the bed next to me.

"Ali, I was thinking and if you don't want me to stay here-"

"No, Tony, please don't say that. I really don't want you to leave."

"But, you don't want a relationship." he stated sadly.

"I just think that the way we jumped into it headfirst was dangerous. We hardly know anything about each other!"

"I know that your birthday is May 21st." He smirked.

"Yeah, and yours is February 25th, but that's not what I mean. We never just got to know each other. It was all so instant. We have all the same friends, so of course I want us to still be close."

"So are we like just friends and seeing other people, or just on a break…?" Tony questioned cautiously.

"Well if you're that eager to see Cara again, then nobody's stopping you. I'm going to go do my makeup." I said blandly before stomping off into my bathroom.

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An hour later, the girls and Ben were all at my place and I had just finished getting ready. "Well someone looks smokin." Ben complimented me with a smirk as I entered the jam room.

"Not in a million years." I chuckled at him. We practiced through our set, then gave the boys a chance to do theirs. Soon enough, we were off to the bar. In the van that the bands shared, Mike and Lin shared the news of her pregnancy.

"There's my favorite kids!" Uncle Bobby yelled as we walked through the door. "Pierce, you're opening, then Curse will go on after. Looking around the bar, I actually saw quite a few familiar faces, as well as some younger ones. It felt good to be attracting an audience. And then I noticed one pair of faces that really stuck out.

"Aleah!" My best friend in the entire universe yelled as she jumped up from a booth to greet me, followed our other friend Nikki.

"Ashley, Nikki!" I yelled back as they approached. "What brings you all the way from Chino?!" I questioned.

"We have some teacher meetings or whatever-the-fuck we have off for tomorrow, and your COI Official Instagram said you were playing here tonight so the two of us just HAD to come see you!" Nikki responded in all his amazing hotness. I always found him attractive, but we never got together because I was still with Mike the year he and I went to Warped together. "You look… Amazing by the way." He grinned at me.

"Shut up Nikki, she's taken." Ash giggled, gesturing to Tony as she recognized him from pictures.

"You shut up!" I whisper-shouted as I slapped her arm playfully. Everyone was standing and talking to Bobby, not paying much attention to me. "We broke up."

"So you are single?" Nikki wiggled his eyebrows at me.

"Oh hush, Nikki Gonzales!" I laughed and pulled them both into a group hug. "I gotta go backstage and set up, but can I sit with you while PTV does their set?" I asked.

"Duh, bitch!" Ash responded in unison.

With that, I followed everyone else backstage. "That was fast." Vic grumbled in my ear as he passed me. Choosing to ignore him, I finished getting tuned and set up, then went out to sit with Ash and Nikki.

"So Ms. Costello told me you too Dorks were starting a band, too?" I asked Nikki as I got in the booth next to him, across from Ashley. He responded to my presence quickly by snaking his arm around my waist.

"You bet! They're so lucky to have me, considering I'm the best looking guitar player in the history of the world." He laughed cockily. I gasped aloud and pointed to myself. "Best looking male guitar player." He rephrased, taking a not-so-subtle glance at my cleavage.

"That was sick!" Ash squealed, pulling her hip length red and black hair up to her face as she did so.

"Stop having such perfect hair, Ash!" I yelled playfully, attempting to change the subject. She giggled. "So how long are you guys staying? We have teacher meetings tomorrow too, so you guys could stay over." I said happily.

"I call the master bedroom!" Nikki yelled like a child.

"That would be mine." I giggled.

"Even better." He smirked at me and gave my waist a squeeze.

"SHHHH!" Ash tried to silence us as PTV came on to the stage. They opened with Fast Times At Clairemont High, which made me a bit emotional. Other than that, their set was just as impressive as the last time. Soon enough, it was my turn.

"See you after the show, guys!" I smiled proudly, giving Nikki a quick kiss on the cheek as I got up.

"Great set you guys!" I beamed, hugging only Mike and Jaime, since the other two were mad at me. The girls and Ben had been chatting and watching side-stage, so they were already back there.

"Ready?" Ben grinned, looking around at us.

"Always." Mel smirked. She was the most excited when I told everyone about Warped on the way to Bobby's.

We ran out onto the stage. "Hey, how are we doin' tonight?" I yelled happily into the mic. I was answered with a chorus of cheers. "Looks like we got a younger crowd in here than last time, is anyone super excited to see us?!" I asked, being answered with more cheers, and an extremely loud whistle from Nikki and Ash.

I noticed Tony with the guys a small distance away from the source of the whistle. He had been glaring at Nikki since he put his arm around me. "Awesome!" Lin yelled into her mic.

"So, how many people are familiar with Punk Goes Pop?" Applause. "How many like Taylor Swift?" I asked. There was obviously much less applause. "That's alright, we don't like her either!" I yelled, causing the crowd to chuckle. "We're gonna do a cover, but I promise it's way cooler!" Applause.

It's strange to think the songs we used to sing
The smiles, the flowers, everything is gone
Yesterday I found out about you
Even now just looking at you feels wrong

You say that you'd take it all back, given one chance
It was a moment of weakness when you said yes

You should've said no, you should've gone home
You should've thought twice 'fore you let it all go
You should've known that word
'Bout what you did with her'd get back to me
And I should've been there in the back of your mind
I shouldn't be asking myself why
You shouldn't be begging for forgiveness at my feet
You should've said no, baby and you might still have me

You can see that I've been crying
And baby you know all the right things to say
But do you honestly expect me to believe

We could ever be the same? I allowed my eyes to rest on Tony as I sang that line, then moved on quickly after.

You say that the past is the past, you need one chance
It was a moment of weakness and you said yes

You should've said no, you should've gone home
You should've thought twice 'fore you let it all go
You should've known that word
'Bout what you did with her'd get back to me
And I should've been there in the back of your mind
I shouldn't be asking myself why
You shouldn't be begging for forgiveness at my feet
You should've said no, baby and you might still have me

I can't resist before you go tell me this
Was it worth it? Was she worth this? I didn't just rest my eyes on Tony during these lines, I stared him right in the eye, making it painfully obvious that I was dying for an answer. He looked away from me with an angry look, and I decided then that I would have no regrets about going after Nikki.

No, no, no, no, no, no

You should've said no, you should've gone home
You should've thought twice 'fore you let it all go
You should've known that word
'Bout what you did with her get back to me
And I should've been there in the back of your mind
I shouldn't be asking myself why
You shouldn't be begging for forgiveness at my feet
You should've said no, baby and you might still have me.

---

We finished up our set, and we all ran offstage after bidding the audience farewell. "Hey, Aleah," my uncle called from the doorway leading backstage. "Some 'Nikki' kid wants to come back and see you?"

"Yeah, that's fine!" I responded with a smile. The guys from Pierce The Veil all rushed in along with Nikki, who (to my surprise) was not accompanied by Ash. "Where's Ashley?" I asked, getting closer to him than a friendly distance.

"She stayed at the table to watch our keys and wallets and stuff…" It was clearly a lie.

"Nikki, what are you not telling me?" I asked him nervously.

"She hung back so I could talk to you." He answered, biting his pierced lip.

"About wha-" I was interrupted with a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Mel with Jaime uncasing her.

"We having a party or what?!" She asked excitedly. She thinks that it's required to have a party after every performance.

"I'm game if it's alright with Tony." I answered quietly.

"Fine with me." He said, looking at me with a look that screamed anger, but also a bit of sadness.

"Cool." I smiled. "I have two friends in town that are staying with us tonight, so you guys go to the liquor store, and I'll go drive with them." I smiled at them, and saw Mike approach us with a huge smile.

"Nikki, it's been forever, man!" Mike yelled, giving him the bro-shake-hug thing.

"Yeah, too long!" Nikki smiled politely, but he seemed frustrated that he didn't get to tell me whatever was on his mind.

"How's Ash?" Mike asked as he pulled away.

"You know I'm not into her like that, but she's still hot, man." Nikki laughed. Mike grinned very subtly, then Lin came up behind him and cleared her throat loudly.

"Oh, shit sorry." Mike laughed. "Nick, this is my girlfriend Lindsay, and this," he cupped both his hands on her tummy, "is our WhiskeyBaby!" His proud smile was so big, and it made me so happy to see them as a little family already.

"I told you that if you call my child that one more time, I'm not letting you touch my belly anymore!" Lin yelled, playfully slapping him.

"Get used to it babe!" He responded, kissing her nose. "Anyway, this is Nikki. Aleah and I met him and his friend Ash at warped a few years ago. They live up in Chino Hills."

"Nice to meet you." Lin smiled at him warmly

"You too." He smiled back at her, his white teeth a stark contrast to his deeply tanned skin.

"ALRIGHT!" Mel yelled to get the attention of everyone backstage. "Everyone who's coming with us to the liquor store and to Leah and Tony's house we're going out to the van now!"

"Get me a bottle of JD?" I asked Mike before they left.

"You got it, kiddo." He responded with a wink.

With that, they left. Nikki and I stood alone backstage. "We should probably get back to Ashley." He said sadly.

"Nikki, wait." I said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "What did you want to talk to me about?"

"Well… Never mind. If you're still living with your ex, it would just be too complicated."

"Nikki Gonzales, please tell me what the hell your talking about!" I yelled with a chuckle.

"Well, New Years Day is also on Warped-"

"That's great, I'm so proud of you!"

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*Nikki's POV*

"That's great, I'm so proud of you!" Aleah boasted as the launched her tiny figure against me, wrapping her arms around my neck.

"Well, that wasn't what I wanted to tell you." I said nervously. She responded with a curious look, telling me to continue. "We're going to be seeing each other a lot on tour… so I was just wondering if you wanted to see each other, like maybe go out?" I asked her. I was so nervous. I'd liked Aleah since we met, but she was with Mike at the time.

"Is the Nikki Misery, AKA best looking male guitarist, asking me to be his girlfriend?" she asked me with an adorable grin on her face.

"That depends… would you say yes if he was?" I asked, trying to play it cool despite my nerves. Before I knew it, her lips were on mine, making a soft clink sound as our lip rings bumped each other. It was not a deep kiss, but it was sweet and the emotion was definitely there.

Notes

WOAH SUPER LONG UPDATE!!!!! im actually feelin really good about this chapter. plz dont hate more for Aleah moving on /.\ this just kinda had to happen in my mind, and who better to bring in than NYD? anyway, lemme kno wut you think<3

QOTD: What do you think it meant when Tony looked away from Aleah during the song?

{Title Credit To: Mayday Parade}