Fuentes Next

Everything is happening now. All of the things I did are finally paying off. I can't even put into words how I'm feeling right now. You slave away for hours. You work every day and every night. You play at low rate, grimy bars. You put your music out there. You put your heart and soul into the band. You even put your body in there too if it'll get you signed. You get yourself a drug addiction in the process. And when you see it all paying off you can't put how you feel into words. It's magical.
Everyone is sat in my sitting room. We're waiting for our 'bus'. I guess it's more like an older, shittier version of a bus. It's not high tech like Pierce The Veil's. We don't have a shower. But we have comfortable-ish bunks. If we were touring on our own I know we'd be stuck with a van probably. We're doing a promotion tour.
Fay is outside smoking with James. V is talking to Matt and Paris on the couch. Paris is our official merch girl now. We also got some real management which means I'm not as stressed. We have an actual team now. No more dragging ourselves to set up when we should be warming up. Our tech might not be the best. When I say that I mean that they're people we know that also play some instruments. It means we only have to pay them the bare minimum. We also have a tour manager. His name is Ethan and he's twenty five.
All of our tech and team are either in the kitchen or in the sitting room.
"Effy," Dad called me over. He was in the hall with Mike who was here to see me off.
"What?" I asked them.
"It's here." he sighed.
"Really?" I asked excitedly. I was biting down onto my lip. "Guys!" I called. I went to grab my things and everyone went outside. Fay and James started to carry everything to the bus along with Matt and our tech.
"Got everything?!" Ethan called to everyone.
"Yes!" I yelled back.
"Can we go?" V huffed.
"In the bus." Ethan said. People started to file in. I stayed behind and Ethan nodded at me to talk to Dad tend Mike.
"Can I have a hug?" I asked. Mike laughed and opened his arms. I walked into them and he squeezed me tightly and swung me around.
"I'll miss you, kid." he told me.
"I'll miss you too." I told him.
"If you need me just phone me. Not just about tour, but for... Anything." he said and gave me a pointed look. He's still only one of two people that know about the whole pregnancy scare. He doesn't even know about the abortion, only Alysha does. "If you'd rather talk to a chick, phone Alysha."
"I will." I agreed. He let me go and I went to Dad. I threw my arms around him and he held me tightly. I hugged him and he squeezed me.
"You need to be careful." he whispered in my ear.
"I'll be okay." I told him.
"You sure you don't want to just come on tour with me?" he half joked.
"Nope." I laughed.
"It was worth a try," he chuckled. "Now Effy, it's going to be really hard. Don't take anyone's crawl, okay? People will try and talk down to you because you're not a guy. Even more so because they're two girls in the band. It's new. People don't like that."
"It's okay," I told him. "I have my guys to back me up."
"I know you do." he kissed my head. "If you want to come back home you can. If you ever need me then I swear I'm there. I'll get on a plane and come to wherever you are."
"Promise?" I asked.
"I promise." he smiled. I reached up to kiss his cheek and pulled away. Mike bent down so I could kiss his cheek and he poked me in the arm.
"Don't take anybody's shit!" Mike told me.
"I won't." I grinned. "Bye." I smiled widely. I jogged over to the bus and got inside. I waved to them and they waved back before the door was closed.
I looked around as the bus started to move. This is all so weird. Ethan was in the front lounge with Fay and Matt's guitar techs - Seth and Ben. My tech - Oliver was in the tiny kitchen with James and V's techs - Jake and Will.
I walked through to the bunks and found everyone arguing. I rolled my eyes and walked in the middle of everyone. "We've been on here ten minutes, guys. Can you not." I groaned.
"I haven't done anything." Fay held his hands up defensively.
"Then what's going on?" I asked.
"The tech were in here first with me so they already grabbed their bunks. I took the top one and got you the one below me like you asked at the band meeting last week." he explained.
"Yeah, what's the problem?"
"The problem is that James being the complete dick he is told Paris he's going to be wanking off to her snores. She's above him so now she's refusing to stay there. V offered but then James decided to tell her he likes the idea of her being on top. Matt's offered now but V is still trying to make him say sorry." Fay explained.
"Fucking hell are we in the playground," I rolled my eyes. "Shut up!" I screamed. Everyone stopped and turned to look at me. "What the fuck guys? We had this sorted."
"Yeah, but she said-" James tried but I glared at him.
"James you're there," I said and pointed to a bunk. "Matt go on top of him," I instructed. "Paris go under V. Everyone happy?" I sighed.
"Yeah, thanks Ef." Paris smiled.
"Now let's try and do tonight without me killing you, James." I said and he stuck his tongue out at me.

Notes

Hey! So this was the first chapter. What did you think? Are you happy? What will happen when they're on they're own? Will Effy stop taking the pills now she's kind of reached her dreams? Will they get along well with the tech? Will anyone gather the courage to actually murder James?

Theres also something I need your help on! I know I've done a collab with some people on this site. But I've got an (if I do say so myself) amazing idea! I normally wouldn't do this but I want to write a story. It's more like a project. It's going to involve a lot of people. My idea is that there is a pretty horrible event and from that event it starts to effect people lives. It'll be told from the point of view of seven different people, that's why I need so many of you! Each person will write one chapter (or more if it goes well) and will pretty much have free rein. I'll just give you a small paragraph about how it's affecting that person and maybe a few ideas that I had about what could happen to them. I really need you guys so if you're interested then please message me! Mike, Tony, two female other characters and either Vic or Jaime (I forget which one is taken) are up for grabs! So message me for more details! :)