Bulletproof Love

*2 WEEKS LATER*

Emily’s POV:

I rolled over in my bunk to find Tony missing; he crashed in here last night because I had a nightmare. It’s hard to be on warped tour and have a boyfriend, especially when he plays a show every day, and gets bombarded by fans wherever we go. It didn’t matter though, I was enjoying every second of this. I heard some loud coughing and then a door slamming shut which I assumed belonged to the bathroom. I crawled out of my tiny bunk and found everyone in the front lounge with worried faces.

“Guys, who died?” I asked.

“Mike is really sick and he hasn’t stopped throwing up” Vic explained.

“Are you sure he didn’t just have a few too many drinks” I laughed, nobody laughed though. “Oh
wait you’re serious?”

“Em this means that if we can’t find a drummer we can’t play.” Said Tony, I nodded.

“Can’t Gabe fill in for him?” I asked directing the question towards Kellin.

“He totally would if we weren’t playing at the same time” these poor boys were truly out of ideas. I started to head back to my bunk when Jaime started talking, he is always so loud.

“Wait Em!” I turned wondering what he was going to say. “Didn’t you say that Mike taught you drums!” Oh my god, this can’t be happening.

“Well he did but that was years ago. Plus I’m not even that good!” I laughed hoping for no more questions.

“Em, you’re almost better than me!”

“Oh thank you Mike” I said rolling my eyes.

“Emily do it!” Tony yelled.

“But guys, I don’t even know what you’re going to play tonight!”

“Shut up! Stop making excuses you’re playing. Here’s a copy of the set list” Vic said pushing me towards the back lounge.

“Come on Em, we go on it 20!” Jaime yelled through the locked door to the lounge.

“Coming!” I shouted back. We walked down to the unicorn stage and I stood backstage fiddling with the drum sticks Mike had given me.

“Two minutes!” the stage manager yelled. We huddled into our circle and did our chant.

“Let’s do this!” Vic said as he came over to hug me. “You are going to do awesome” he
whispered. I waited for my que and when the drum tech waved I ran out to the drums I would call my own until Mike could do his job. Vic ran out last.

“How are we doing today Pittsburg!” he yelled, the crowd went crazy. We started with ‘Bulletproof Love’ I sang backup for most songs the whole set. “Now as some of you can tell, that isn’t Mike!” Vic said pointing to me. “That’s our sister Emily! She will be filling in for Mike because he got sick!” he explained, I stood up from my seat and waved. Unexpectedly the crowd screamed louder than I had ever heard. I couldn’t help but smile; this was something I could get used to.

As we ran off Jaime grabbed me and pulled me into a tight bear hug. “You did so good! I hope Mike gets sick more!” I laughed and then walked over to Tony.

“If one day you’re a famous drummer, please promise me you won’t forget about me” he said with a look of true concern on his face.

“I promise” I said as I held up my pinky. We pinky promised and then I gave him a kiss.
That night there was a huge party thrown. Everyone congratulated me and told me I was really good. Mike was stuck in the back lounge for most of the night, so once I was done talking to people I joined him.

“This has got to be killing you” I laughed.

“Tell me about it!” he nodded.

“Don’t replace me Em” he whispered.

“I couldn’t even if I wanted to” I laughed and then hugged him. We turned on ‘Wayne’s world’ and watched it until we fell asleep.

Notes

So much foreshadowing in this chapter guys.