Through the Lens

A week later in the tour and we were now in Munich, Germany. Since England, things had gotten better with the whole Mike drama. Tony and I had gotten closer, Jaime was busy being drunk most of the time with Mike and Vic was Vic. He turned out to be the person I could talk to at crazy hours in the middle of the night, which we did, very frequently. We would stay up late and gossip and prank the rest of the guys and usually got pranked back twice as hard. I have never had so many water balloons dumped on me from a hotel room window by my own boyfriend and his friends. Things were going well and I was happy.

I laid on my bed in my hotel room on my laptop going through the photos I had taken at the show the day before. It was midday and we had today off to do whatever we wanted. Later tonight there was a tour party at a local club that everyone was pretty excited for.

I scrolled through the hundreds of photos I had taken last night. I had to narrow it down to the 50 best. Not to sound full of myself or anything, but that was going to be hard to do considering most of these were amazing.

As I laid there on my stomach, I propped myself up with my elbows on the bed just staring at my screen for a good minute.

"50..." I said to myself as I dragged the last photo into the folder of pictures that would eventually get published.

I closed my laptop and was done editing for today. Just at that same moment, there was a light knock at my door.

"Coming!" I called as I got up and rushed to to door. I unlocked it and opened it to be greeted by Vic.

"Hey, Rax. Wanna go get some lunch?" He asked leaning against the door frame.

I took my phone out of my pocket and looked at the lock screen. "But it's 4:14pm. A little late for lunch." I chuckled.

Vic laughed as well. "Okay. Linner then. Everyone's going before the party tonight."

"Stuff ourselves before we all get wasted. Sure, I'm in." I smirked a bit and raised my hand up to him for a high five.

"Be ready in 10 minutes!" He high fived me and quickly ran off towards his room. He was up to something.

He was lucky I didn't take too long to get ready. I closed the door behind myself and walked to the little closet by the door. I opened it and looked for something to wear. I was still in my pajamas, so I felt like dressing up just a little. There was a mix between dresses, cute clothes, casual things and jackets.

I reached in and picked up a dark blue off the shoulder shirt that looked nice. I'd probably just wear it with jeans. I wasn't much into wearing skirts.

Within about 10 minutes, I was ready. I had lightly curled my hair and put on light eye makeup. I looked at myself in the long mirror in the bathroom to make sure I looked okay.

I heard a notification from my phone on the bed. I walked over and picked it up to see a text from Vic. 'We're all ready when you are.'

With that, I walked out of my room and down the hall to the boys room. I got to the door and knocked lightly. Only a couple seconds passed and then I could hear the door unlock and Tony stood on the other side to greet me.

"Hey you..." He whispered as he leaned in to kiss my cheek.

"Hey there, Tony." I couldn't help blushing in front of him, as usual.

Jaime popped up from behind Tony and slapped him on his back.

"Uh, hey Jaime." Tony grunted slightly.

Jaime waved to me and called Vic and Mike from the room, letting them know we were all ready.

The place we were going to eat was downstairs in the hotel. It was a popular choice for food considering we were in the middle of a very touristy section of the city. They had everything you could possibly imagine.

We got a table for 5 as we got there. I sat next to Tony and Mike as we looked at our menus. I wasn't a very picky eater and so many things on the menu looked good, I didn't know what to get.

Tony had decided he was going to get a salmon dish. I decided on pasta and also told Tony I would be stealing some of his salmon.

We sat at the table and talked for a little bit after the waitress took our orders and asked us if we wanted anything to drink. We ended up getting a bottle of wine for the table which was nice. It had a sweet taste to it.

"I'm pretty excited for the party later. What time are we going to head there?" I asked, taking a sip of wine from my glass.

"I think around 7:00 we'll head over. It's like... next door." Mike answered.

I nodded in return. That was convenient.

About 10 minutes later, our food arrived all at the same time. We all dug in and joked around as we continued to talk and eat. I had gotten fettuccine Alfredo, which they gave me a huge portion of. Tony got his salmon that had a rice dish on the side.

Vic told us that he invited a few friends to join us tonight at the party since they were in the city as well. He also told us that all drinks at the club were already paid for. Unlimited alcohol? I wasn't sure if it sounded like a brilliant idea or we would all be dead by morning.

We finished eating and it was already 6:15pm. Half of us couldn't move after over stuffing ourselves. We decided to head upstairs to our rooms and begin to get ready for the party. Jaime basically waddled back up to their room.

I decided to keep my hair the same as well as my makeup. My clothes needed changing. I looked through my closet once again. I wanted to wear something cute for Tony. Yes, I wanted to impress that man. We hadn't really gone out on any dates since we had gotten together. All of us had been busy with the tour. Any time that was spent with Tony was also spent with the other guys.

I picked out a black and purple patterned shirt which had a low back that revealed my back tattoo. The image of a dragon with angel wings went all the way up from my shoulders down to my lower back.

Most of my tattoos were able to be covered easily, so not many people knew I had them. A few on my legs and a few small ones on my arms, but most were on my torso.

I got changed and switched out my jeans for black shorts. I put on some short black boots and I was ready.

We decided we would meet downstairs in the lobby at 7pm. It was funny that the boys took longer to get ready than I did most of the time.

I made my way downstairs to the elaborate lobby. It was almost like a Vegas casino. Very bright and lots of gold paint.

Tonight was going to be fun and I was excited to meet Vic's friends. It had been a long time since I had actually went to a club. Last time was a couple months ago and I don't remember half of the night considering the amount of alcohol I had consumed.

"Rax!" I heard a familiar voice call from behind me.

I turned to see Tony and the guys all walking to me as they got off from the elevator.

Tony almost stopped dead in his tracks for a moment as he saw me. If this were a cartoon, his jaw would be on the floor. His eyes looked me up and down for a moment in awe. It felt like that moment the first time I went to their hotel room in San Diego before the tour. He looked amazed.

I smiled as I took a few steps towards him. His arms were around me in an instant for a hug.

"You look so gorgeous, Raxella..." Tony whispered into my ear, running his fingertips down my back softly.

"Hey now, no having sex in the middle of the hotel lobby!" Vic joked as he walked passed us and pat Tony and I on the head.

We finally made our way out of the hotel and headed towards the club which was quite literally right next door. Things seemed quiet from the outside, but we all knew that we were going to be carrying Mike out of those doors later.

We all walked in through the front and realized something was a little off. It was dark, quiet and not a person in sight. We all looked at each other, completely confused.

"Uh... do we have the right place?" Mike asked as he looked around.

"I'm pretty sure..." Jaime answered, but still unsure himself.

Out of nowhere, the lights came up and shouting was heard.

"SURPRISE!!!"

Notes

Surprise! :D