Heart Of Gold

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Two weeks into the tour, I went up to Demi with a question.

"Can I get a video game?" I ask her as I went into the room in the back of the tour bus, she was busy doing something in her laptop, glasses on her nose.

Demi looks up at me and smiles. "Sure, I can tell that you're bored." I nodded.

"Yep, I don't wanna spend the next ten hours bored out of my mind." I say and she chuckles as she closes her laptop before standing up.

"Alright, I'll tell Zach to stop at a plaza. What game do you want?" She asks me as I follow her back to the lounge.

Nina was curled up in the couch, sleeping peacefully. While Nick was at the booth, guitar in hand and writing something into some notepad.

"The Last Of Us." I answer excitedly as she told Zach to pull over then turns to me.

Her eyebrows furrow in confusion. "That sounds like a apocalypse game," She says and I nod.

"It is, it's about Infected-"

"Zombies?"

"We call them Infected. And it's about this guy and girl- you know what? You just have to find out yourself," I say as Zach pulled into a plaza.

Demi grabs her purse before looking over at Nick. "Nick do you want anything?" She asks him and I look over at him.

He shakes his head, standing up. "No, but I gotta use the bathroom. I'll wake Nina up," He says and we nod so I follow Demi out of the tour bus.

I walk quickly in front of her to Game Stop.

"Is it bloody?" Demi asks me as we walk into the store.

I shrug. "I haven't played it but everyone say its a ten out of ten game, that you have to play it. I want to play it ever since it came out." I say as I walk over to the Playstation 3 games.

I skim through all the games, pointing out the ones that I thought was cool as Demi stood near me.

"Here it is," I grin as I grab it and show it to her. She grabs it from me and reads the description.

"Alright, but if you get freaked out, don't come to me at night when you'll get scared." She chuckles as I follow her to the register.

I scoff. "Like hell I will, I'm a man." I puff out my chest for effect and she laughs as she hands the game to the guy.

"You're my little man," Demi smiles at me before paying for my game and following me back to the tour bus.

I excitedly went to my Playstation 3 that I brought from home that is now hooked up to the tv in the tour bus. I put my game in and sat back on the couch with the controller in my hand, Demi sits next to me.

I waited till the game downloaded before starting to play.

We did the prologue and my jaw drop. "B-But, how could he?! That bastard! But I'm confuse, she's not the girl in the cover! What's-I don't even know." I rambled, pointing at the screen as I look at Demi.

Demi was just as confuse as me. "I have no idea what's going on." She says and I swat my hand at her before returning to my game.

Five freaking hours later, I was still playing. Demi had went sometime ago to probably take a nap or something, I don't remember.

"I can't pass this level! Why do they have to make this in the basement?! I don't want to turn the generator on! I know what's gonna happen! I keep getting killed! And it has to be in a dark basement!" I pretty much whined, then look over at Nick who was busy texting someone on his phone.