All That I Have, All That I Need

Chapter three

It was a Thursday night and I was at Chloe and Griffin's house for our weekly sleepover. I flopped down on the pull out bed that the Jones family kept in their basement, Griffin flopping down next to me followed by Chloe jumping beside me to my left so that I was in the middle of the two of them. "Got popcorn?" I asked, looking at Chloe and propping my head up on my hands. "Ughhhh, I'll go make some." she groaned, rolling off of the bed and trudging to the small kitchen. "Thank youuuuu!" I called from my spot, laughing softly to myself then sitting up to look at Griffin who was mesmerized by something on his phone, as per usual.

"Hey Griff, whatcha lookin' at?" I asked, trying to glance at his phone. He responded by tossing his phone into my lap and starting to play with a loose string on his pj pants. "WHAT THE HELL GRIFFIN OH MY GOD CHLOE GET IN HERE." I yelled, blinking my eyes furiously as if I was trying to wake myself up from what seemed like a dream. "Gosh can't a girl make some snacks without getting interrupted around here?!" Chloe chuckled, wiping her hands on a dishtowel as she walked into the room and came closer to Griffin and I. "What was all the screamin' about?" she questioned, looking at me confusedly. "FUCKINGGGG THIS," I yelled, handing the phone to her and grabbing a pillow to muffle my screams. 'WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS REAL??????" She asked excitedly, dropping her dishtowel in the process. "YES THE FUCK IT IS YOU DUMB FUCK." Griffin piped up unexpectedly. You're probably wondering what we were yelling about at this point, right? Well, Griffin had checked our band's email and it turns out that we had been invited to join Fall out Boy, Panic at the disco and some band called Twenty one Pilots on Fall out Boy's 'Save Rock and Roll' tour. All three of us had been longtime fans of Panic! and FOB so this whole thing was surreal for us.

I emailed our management the next day and all together we decided that it would be good for our band to go on this tour, good publicity and all. The tour didn't start for another three weeks so we had sometime to fix up a setlist and at least try to mentally prepare ourselves for what was gonna happen. I started packing ASAP, making sure I had enough underwear and socks n' stuff because I knew that if I didn't do it early, I'd prolly forget.

It was October 20 and Chloe, Griffin and I were at the airport and waiting for our flight to be called. Oh, did I mention that we had been invited to join for the AUSTRALIAN leg of the tour? No? Well now y'know. It was gonna be a 15 hour flight from here (Portland, OR) to Sydney in Australia and I didn't think it would be that bad at first. That was until about 7 hours in when a six year old who was sitting behind me started furiously kicking my seat as if he was trying to make a hole in the fucking seat. He eventually stopped and I finally got to sleep for about six hours until Chloe woke me up to tell me that my favourite movie, the Princess Bride was playing on the movie system. I was pretty happy about that so I decided to plug in my headphones and watch it with her. As I watched the movie, the stewardess came around with snacks and drinks, I ordered some tea for myself and a small ginger ale for Griffin so that he'd have something to drink when he woke up from his cat nap. Chloe ordered a shot of vodka, she said she just wanted to "see if airplane alcohol was any good." I let her do her thing because I was actually kinda curious to see if it was any good.

Once the plane landed, we all got our bags and wandered around until we saw a guy holding up a sign that said "imposed anathema" , the name of our band. I let out a high pitched squeal before running up to the male with Chloe and Griffin trailing behind me, "Hi! I'm Tatum and those guys are Chloe and Griffin, uh we're imposed anathema." I said, introducing all three of us and smiling at the guy. He nodded and introduced himself as Collin before leading us outside to a car that we all hopped into. The car took us to a relatively large parking lot where two massive tour buses and two little vans were parked next to each other. Collin parked the car and led us to one of the two small vans and explained that this was our van and we'd have a driver so "don't sweat it, yeah?".

I took a deep breath and looked around, it was pretty hot so I was glad that I decided to wear my loose fitted 'metallica' tank top with my comfy shorts. Griffin, Chloe and I made conversation for a few minutes until we were approached by a stubby man in a black t shirt and jeans. "Hiya! I'm Matt, tour manager. Uh, the guys from Fall out Boy wanna meet you guys so just head over to the black and red bus over there when you're ready, okay?" Matt said, pointing to the bus on the left and saying a quick goodbye before running off to do something prolly important.

The three of us made our way to the black and red bus and I stepped forward, knocking gently on the door and waiting for a response. After a minute or two, we were greeted by a fluffy haired Joe Trohman standing at the doorway. "Hey are you guys the new opening band?" he asked, pointing at the three of us with his usual 'Joe' grin on his face. "Uh, y-yeah we're imposed anathema. I'm Tatum and that's Chloe and Griffin back there." I chuckled nervously. "Well I'm Joe and it's great to meet you guys! C'mon in, we have snacks!" he replied welcomingly ushering us inside the giant bus.

We got into the tour bus and wow. Everything was so nice and the furniture looked pretty dang comfy too. I looked around and saw Pete flop down on the couch, Patrick already sitting there and eating a grilled cheese sandwich. Joe led us in to the sitting area where Pete and Pat were, "Hey, guys. Here's the new opening band! This is Tatum, and that's Chloe and that's Griffin." Joe said happily, pointing to each of us in turn. "Oooh, nice to meet you guys I'm Pete." Pete introduced himself, standing up and offering his hand for each of us to shake, all of us shaking his hand in return. " I'm Patrick." Patrick introduced himself too, smiling and making sure his mouth wasn't full when he spoke. "It's great to meet you guys, Andy's out exploring." Patrick explained to which we replied by nodding.

We hung out with the boys for awhile, getting to meet Andy later on before heading to our van and packing everything up. We all got changed into comfier clothes before getting seated in the kinda cramped van and starting our drive to the first city.

AN//This chapter is dedicated to my dude Matt, cuz he's a gr8 advice giver n' is also kinda funny and also to my squish Kyra, i know you're reading this binch don't lie..... i c u.