It's been a week till the show. The past 2 weeks we played guitar mostly, whether it was alone or together. There was always a guitar or base being played. If not we were watching TV, eating, going on walks, or smoking. We talked and laughed about everything. We told secrets to each other and told each other about how we grew up. He punched a few holes in a wall when I was finished explaining my parents and sister and how they treated me. I didn't tell him everything, just the basics. We ruff housed and chased each other. There was a lot of picking on each other and throwing stuff at each other. I can't remember a time when I laughed as much as I have the past 2 weeks. My brother and Heather called all the time. Sodo even ended up getting Matty's number. They texted a looot. Sodo promised the best friend spot was still Swiss. I ended up ordering another tattoo gun and hair dye that should arrive today.
"Hey Ves! Your shits here!" Sodo yells from down stairs and I quickly get up from my bed running down stairs. "You, your coming with me!" I say grabbing the two boxes. Sodo laughs and sits down on the couch. "No, no, no, you too." I say walking into the downstairs bathroom. The bathroom has gray brick looking tiled walls and the same dark hard wood flooring. The shower has a tub in it and a black and red marble shower curtain. "What are we doing in here?" He says smirking. I open the smaller box pulling out a black and silver hair dye, and a bleach set hair dye. "You my good sir, are helping. My brother usually helps get the back of my head, I suck at it cause I can't see what I'm doing." I say taking gloves out. "Hey Alexa! Play Rats by Ghost!" Sodo says and grabs a pair of gloves and I giggle. We share the same favorite Ghost song. I open the black dye and Sodo watches as I bleach my hair. He helps get the back of my head and it feels like he's massaging my head, and we sing along to the songs that play. He looks at me confused as I bleach half of my eyebrows. "The fuck are you doin?" He asks. "Trust the process." I say focusing to get them even. I put a plastic cap on my head and set a timer for 30 minutes and turn to Sodo smiling. He looks down at me and smiles back. We go sit on his couch and play on our phones until my timer goes off. "Shower or rinse it off in the sink?" I ask and he tells me to follow him with his arm walking to the kitchen. He has one of those pull out hoses in the kitchen sink. We both have to kneel on chairs to rinse my hair off in the sink. I wash my eyebrows cause I don't want him to get soap in my eyes.
'Square Hammer' comes on as I rap my hair in a towel and I start dancing awkwardly singing alone to it and Sodo laughs. He spins me around and we both dance till the song is over. When the song ends we are very close to each other laughing. He brings a hand up to mess with my gauges. I have black plug in with a red pentagram in them. He smiles and rests his hand on my neck. He stand there for a second staring at each other. I smile as I sing "you will never walk alone, you can always reach me." As 'Call Me Little Sunshine' plays and he laughs and backs up. I love his smile, it's contagious. I laugh and go upstairs to that bathroom grabbing his hair dryer. I come down stairs and sit on the downstairs bathroom counter drying and brushing my hair. "Your gonna break my countertops if you keep sitting on them." Sodo says jokingly "Ouch! That's your way of saying I'm fat?" I laugh as I brush my now completely dry hair it's almost white now, my hair has always taken any color or bleach well. He laughs and shakes his head. "Now what?" He says petting the back of my head. I jump down and grab the dyes smiling and shaking them slowly side to side. "Now, the fun part." I say.
I have already cleaned up the bleach stuff so there's no need to worry about working around it. We put on another pair of gloves and I start with the black. I go from my roots to about an inch into my hair. It takes Sodo to get the back but when he shows me a picture it's perfect. "Okay. I usually start from the tips and work my way down and get a nice gradient from one color to the next." I say putting the silver in my hair. He watches me closely to see what he needs to do in the back. When I'm done it takes him even longer to get the silver in. We end up needing to eventually sit on the floor. When he says we are done we don't move. We just stay on the floor and do our own thing. He's behind me and I feel his legs touch me as he leans back against the wall, I text the gitls and Rain the whole time. We sit there for about 2 hours till I remember I still have dye in my hair. "Oh fuck. I need to rinse this." I say getting up. He smiles and leaves the bathroom shutting the door. "Shower it is I guess." I say and strip careful not to touch my hair as I take my shirt off.
I climb into the shower and wash my hair with the purple shampoo I got the other day till all the color is out of my hair. I leave the conditioner in for a while to give the silver a somewhat purple hew. I rinse my hair and step out of the bathroom. I decided against blow drying my hair it's been through enough today. I remember I didn't have clean clothes so I cracked the door and yell at Sodo. "Hey! Cover your eyes or go to the closet or something!" I yell before closing the door. I wrap the towel around me and crack the door again before peaking out. He has his black pentagram blanket over his head and I bolt upstairs as fast as I can holding the towel tight to me.
Coming back down in new clothes I sit next to him and take the blanket off his head. "I really like that." He says running a hand through my still wet hair. I smile and sit criss-crossed on the couch. I take his blanket and wrap it around me cause I can, and cause I'm cold. "I ordered Chinese." He says and I nod. I send a picture to the group chat I have on snap with everyone with a caption that says "what y'all think?" Sodo sent a picture of me on my phone next "I helped 😀" and I laugh and type "yes you did." "It took forever." he sends again.
Cirrus- Looks good babe!
Mountain- wait you're already in Linköping?
Swiss- She's staying with him till after the show there.
Sunshine- she flew with Papa and Sodo.
Mountain- how did I not know?
Sodo- Cause you never check the group chat.
Cumulus- neither do you.
Rain- it looks really pretty Vesta!!
Papa- I think it looks really good cara!
I lean back against the couch and Sodo goes to the door to grab the food. "Teriyaki chicken for the lady." He says putting my food down. "Thank you So." I say smiling. He turns on Scream and we sit in the couch and watch it till we both fall asleep.
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SODO POV
I wake up with a pair of legs on mine. I look to the other end of the couch and see Vesta. Smile softly and stair at her. She looks so peaceful when she sleeps. I remember back to The Ritual when we met her. Her smallest surprised me. I'm short, but compared to me she's tiny. Even smaller than Cumulus. At first everyone thought she was a young girl. I could tell by her curves she was older, even under the ghoul costume. He shocked me with her request about the picks. I still have it. I have it in my room on my wall, above all my other favorite picks. It's the only pick I won't throw at someone. Seeing her in that practice room without her mask my breath was taken away. Her beauty is incomparable. I kept my distance till I couldn't anymore. Even after Sunshine gave her my number we didn't really at all until she joined the band. When we rushed to pick her up something in me was worried about her. When she came through those doors of the airport it was like I was seeing her for the first time. I wanted to hug her, but I didn't. During practice when she played my part I was proud even though I didn't really show it. She messed me up during our first show. The way she pretended to lick up my neck made me lose all my blood in all but one area. When she fell asleep on me in my bed during that movie night I didn't let anyone try to wake her to go back to her own room. I wanted to stay just the way we were forever. When I woke up next to her I regret turning away. I should have grabbed her and cuddled her until someone physically dragged me off her. When I asked her to stay with me I should have kissed her. I could feel how bothered she was. It was cute seeing her that nervous. She's a strong woman, she's got this fire to her. This light. It's like a drug, something I want to get high on and never come down. Being close to and smelling that sweet vanilla coconut sent on her has turned into my favorite scent. Dancing with her yesterday I felt like I was dreaming. I should have kissed her then too. We've been getting closer, and day by day I fall deeper into her spell. Why don't you just tell her how you feel? Because dum ass she might take it like I'm creepy and obsessed. But if anyone else touched you the way you dream about you'd burn them to ash. Shut the fuck up.
I shake my head and sigh. I carefully get up and go to the kitchen and grab a beer. "Satan give me strength with this girl. What the fuck is she doing to me." I whisper under my breath. I look over at her and decide to go to my room to play my guitar and change.
VESTA/JAXSON
I wake up alone. I still have Sodo's blanket. I look around downstairs and don't see him. I decided to go up to my room and change. When I reach the top of the stairs Sodo's door is cracked open. I peak in there not opening the door and see him taking his shirt off. I quickly turn around and head into my room I can feel my face getting redder by the second. He's the only man who's had this effect on me. Like in the history of ever.
Around noon Sodo knocks on my door. I open it for him and let him walk in. "Have you eaten yet?" He asks. "Um, not yet why?" I say. "Good. Get ur shoes and hoodie on. I'm taking you somewhere." He says and walks out. What the fuck? Okay. I put my shoes on and grab my 'im hoeless' hoodie and find him by the door waiting for me. "Ready?" He asks opening the door. "Yep." I say and grab my keys off the key hook. "Nope, not taking ur car." He says, there's already a can waiting outside. "Where are we going?" I ask. "Surprise." He says and we hop in. "You have the directions." He says to the man in the driver seat.
We ended up at this restaurant. Papa is outside with his wife and kids. "Hate to break it to you baby, but I've already met Papa." I say smirking. He winks and we both get out. "Vesta!" Boel his wife says happily coming up to hug me. His twins Morris and Minou come in for a group hug. They are twins at the age of 10 and they are the cutest. (I can only find their ages at 10 in 2019) they guys I say giggling. "You're right this is a great surprise." I say holding the twins a little longer looking up at Sodo. "Oh, we aren't done tiny one." Papa says and I get confused. We walk into the restaurant and I freeze. I put my hand over my mouth trying not to cry. In the middle of the restaurant stands Matty and Heather. I slowly walk up to them and Heather is the first one to grab me. We hug for a long time and she cries. I still try my hardest not to cry. My body is shaking at my will power. When she lets go Matty is the next one to pull me into a hug. "Hey Jaxxy." He says hugging me tightly. "Hey Matty." I say quietly. "Thought you could escape seeing us for a long time?" He says and I laugh. "Not this early that's for sure." I say laughing. A few years escape and I wipe them away quickly. "Wait, I thought your name was Vesta!" Morris says. "Ya!" Minou says. "It is, but I also go by Jaxson." I say smiling looking down at the girls. Sodo and Papa look at me smiling and I hug them both. "You guys are assholes." I mumble into Sodo's shoulder and he laughs. "Come on." Sodo says as we go to take our seats at a table. I'm walking behind the group with Heather and Boel. The twins in front of us and the men in front of them. "So, that long haired one is the one I have to worry about huh?" Heather says, Boel and I laugh. "We are friends Heather." I say sweetly and she scoffs smiling. "You don't see the way he looks at you dear." She whispers.
When we sit down I'm between Sodo and Heather. Matty is next to Sodo and an empty chair. The twins or next to Papa and Boel next to him, they are on the other side of the table. "How long are you guys staying?" I ask to Heather. "Two days my dear. Your parents are gone right now, and we have to be home before they get back." She says and I frown. "I know, I wish we could stay longer but we can't." Matty says. "I don't want to be the reason she loses her job." He says again. "Then I will enjoy it while it lasts." I say.
After dinner we all go to Papa's to drink and talk. Matty gets his head smacked a few times by me and Heather for comments and his language. I end up having to run to the bathroom to pee 3 times to avoid peed pants. The twins and Boel head to bed around 9, leaving Papa, Sodo, Matty, Heather, and I down stairs. "Are you two gonna be at the show?" I ask Heather answers. "No my love, Mathew will be but I'm gonna find me some fine Swedish ass." Says say and Matty and I stare at her wide eyed and Papa and Sodo laugh hysterically. "Shut your mouth my children, you'll catch flies." She says taking a drink of her water. "Mother! I thought premarital sex was a big no!" I say laughing. "It doesn't count if you've been married once." She says. Her husband and her divorced when I was 10. "So what are you saying. Is. If I get married than devor-' Matty starts getting cut off my Heather. "Oh please boy. Remember I take your bedroom trash can out. Only one of you decided to listen to my advice and it wasn't you, party boy. She may act that way up on stage but she's as innocent as a new born baby." She said to Matty making everyone laugh. We talk and laugh for a few more hours till Heather gets tired. Matty takes them back to the hotel and to her room so she can sleep. Sodo and I leave not long after. When we get back to his place it's 2 am going to our rooms and falling asleep.
I dream of Heather and Matty. How it was when we were kids. How Heather always took care of us, putting bandages on our skinned knees. Or holding me till I cry myself to sleep after my father yelled at me. How she would make sure we are every meal, waking us up for school. Being there after we got off the bus. She was more our mother than our birth mother ever was. It's like a picture show in my head of all the memories I have with her. I dreamt of the scolding I got when she saw my first tattoo. The hug she gave me after telling me she loved me. I dream of how Matty picked me up after I fell off my bike when I was trying to learn how to ride it. How we drew on each other's face when we found markers. How he kicked a guy's ass at one of his parties for hitting on me. How he got my ass out of so much trouble growing up saying it was him who did all the things I did. how he hugged me when I got my heart broken in sophomore year. I dreamt of their laughs. I dreamt of how they told me to chase my dreams, and hold on tight never to let go. I woke up the next morning with tears in my eyes. They are the reason I'm here right now. The reason I do this. They were the biggest inspirations in my life. They are my family. My brother and my adopted mother. The only ones who loved me my whole life. I don't get up right away. Inside I just lay in bed letting the tears fall silently. I smile the whole time thinking of how thankful I am for them.
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Next one is the Linköping show.
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