|June 2014|

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Exactly one week later, June 9th to be exact, I started to feel that David and Shayley was keeping something from me.

It started when I began wandering the venue and I saw a giant Monster Energy bus. At first, I was so confused as to why there would be a ME bus here, but as soon as I began walking to it,Shayley appeared out of nowhere and directed me to the opposite direction.

I never saw that bus again.

Until this very moment, actually.

Adrian said to go get an extra tenet from the ME bus. Which wasn’t that hard since there was only one ME bus here.

My palms were sweaty and my heart was pounding because for some oddly reason, this bus felt familiar. I’ve seen this somewhere before. I just don’t know where.

I stared at its big door, just debating whether or not to knock or just open. Adrian said that they would be expecting me, which gave away that it’s a band who owns this bus.

As I reach my out to open the door, the green claw marks caught my attention.

“Why does this-holy……” I stared at the letters under the claw marks.

I put my music on shuffled and walked out the bus and searched for the black tour bus with the green Monster Energy claw marks and the giant Of Mice & Men sign painted on the front and sign. A song that I loved dearly began to play and I drowned myself in Danny’s screaming in Dear Insanity. Man do I want to meet Asking Alexandria. It took five minutes, but I found the black tour bus. By then, a new song had popped up.

Sharewithme by Dayshell.

Hmmm.

I knocked on the door and two seconds later, a ginger snatched my wrist and pulled me into a huge hug.

“Hey, when’s that merch chick coming?” the voice rang.

“I dunno, I’m going to go find Adrian.” The other voice rang. Both voices sent shivers down my body.

The door swung open and I still remained frozen. His brown eyes, their brown eyes met mine. It all made since why I saw him a week ago.

I couldn’t move. I was frozen and suddenly, I realized, how the hell am I supposed to be better after this accounterment? This will ruin my chances of ever getting home before Warped is over.

Why would David keep such a big secret away from me? Someone who had a major part in my life. Someone who was still staring at me.

My words got stuck in my throat. They wouldn’t have made sense anyway.

I don’t know how long we stood there, but slowly, I regained my senses and I blinked.

“How-you-what-why-I-we-Austin?” the buzzing of my phone brought me out of my trance. I looked at the Twitter notification and I don’t know what made me shit my pants faster.

Of Mice & Men bring the heat on this Summer at Warped Tour 2014 and it’s Twentieth Anniversary.

No wonder David wouldn’t let me see the set list.

Of Mice & Men are booked for the whole tour.

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Night rolled around and I’m still in the same spot. Lying in David’s bunk, hugging the guitar close to my chest.

I’m just so furious and fucking pissed off at David. How could you keep such a big secret from me?! if you were going to at least keep it a secretive secret, you should’ve told Adrian!

How did he expect to pretend that his used-to-be best friend isn’t on tour with him? And that it wasn’t his sisters’ ex-boyfriend slash father of her dead baby!

And that was the moment.

I sat straight up and stop plucking the guitar and reach under the mattress and pull out my song book. Although I didn’t think I was going to write in it, I was so wrong.

Maybe this summer won’t be a total bust after all

After all, everybody dies, but not everyone lives.

I put the pen to the paper:

If you are a cliffhanger ending, I'm the one that doesn't know anything.

Notes

Finally, *sighs* she runs into Austin. Bout damn time too. Another update coming up.