Through the Lens

Tony and I arrived back to the venue a couple minutes later and were greeted by Mike standing outside the door to backstage smoking a cigarette. He looked up to see us and blew the smoke out of his mouth with his cigarette between his fingers. He looked a bit shocked to see us holding hands.

"Uh... um..." Mike stammered, looking between Tony and I as we stood in front of him.

"Sup, Mike? Cat got your tongue?" Tony joked a little.

"Just a bit. Not exactly what I expected to see." Mike raised an eyebrow at me. "... and you two are soaked."

I blushed, realizing everyone was about to find out about Tony and I.

The sound of Jaime's voice was heard as he came running through the back door with his pants around his ankles, screaming.

"Christ sake, Jaime-" Mike started to say as he was quickly interrupted by more of Jaime's screaming.

Jaime stopped dead in his tracks and saw me there holding hands with Tony. Awkwardly he pulled his pants up and then began running back inside screaming. "Vic! Vic!"

"Oh boy..." Tony sighed as he face palmed himself with his free hand.

Mike shrugged and took another drag from his cigarette, inhaling the smoke and then exhaling. A beeping ringtone came from Mike's pocket. He sighed and flung his cigarette to the wet ground and stepped on it to put it out, taking his phone from his pocket. He shook his head and waved to Tony and I as he walked away and answering the call he was receiving.

Through the door, Jaime came running out holding Vic's arm, basically dragging him behind. Jaime pointed to us and Vic stood there for a moment wondering what all the commotion was about but when it finally hit him, he smiled wide.

"Fucking finally. God damn." Vic laughed, running up to give us a big bear hug. Jaime joined as well. Luckily his pants were on this time.

As the two let us go, Vic looked around seeing the cigarette butt that Mike had extinguished just moments before. "Where's Mike?"

"He had a call and walked around the corner to take it." Tony answered.

Vic shook his head. "Probably his girlfriend. She's been bitching at him since we left for the tour."

"Really? About what?" I asked, not really knowing if it was my place to ask.

"She keeps saying 'maybe you'll meet someone better than me in Europe' and keeps asking if he's brought anyone back to the hotel yet. She's even started texting us all to make sure he behaves." Jaime answered, crossing his arms over his chest.

"She sounds a little insecure..." I whispered.

"Yup. She needs more reassurance than a middle schooler." Tony said as Vic and Jaime laughed at him.

I hadn't known that all of that had been happening with Mike in the passed few days. It must have been putting a lot of stress on him. It was early on in the tour and I couldn't imagine him dealing with it much longer.

We all went back inside the venue to make sure all of the gear was packed up. I put my camera away in its case that I had left out earlier. The guys made their way back to the tour bus and I went with. We were still waiting on Mike who hadn't come back yet.

Vic and I sat next to each other on a couch in the bus as Tony pulled out some beers from the mini fridge for us. He handed me and Vic one.

"We can drink on the bus?" I asked, unsure if it was even legal to do so.

Vic laughed. "We can. Don't know if we should be, but we do it anyways." He opened the can and immediately took a swig from it.

I shrugged and opened my can as well, sipping at it lightly.

Jaime joined us on the couch as we all sat around drinking our beers and talking about random things. Tony sat next to me with his arm over my shoulder. We decided to get into a 'who could drink their beer faster' contest, which immediately ended up with all of us chugging our beers. Jaime had won, crushing the can under his foot, extremely proud of himself.

About 10 minutes later, the bus door swung open. Mike walked in not looking very happy.

"Sup, bro." Vic said as he stood up to welcome Mike to the 'party'.

"Fuck you." Mike snapped.

We all stopped and stared at him as he stomped his way to the back of the bus where the beds were and slammed the door behind him.

Vic and Jaime exchanged looks and Tony just shook his head.

It was going to be a long tour.

Notes

Tony and Rax are happy, but Mike seems to be having his own relationship issues to deal with. Stay tuned for more! <3