"You're the only one! You're the only one"
My voice fades out as I end the last line of the song. I grab my water bottle turning around and taking a sip as our tour manager Matt come's onto the stage.
"That was a great run through guys, I want you to bring that energy back with you tonight during the show can you do that?"
We nod our heads and he claps his hands together once more before rushing us off the stage.
"Alright time for hair and makeup! Has someone shown y'all to your dressing room yet?"
At the shake of my head he proceeds to turn on his heel and motion for us to follow him down the hall. "Okay so at each venue ya'll's dressing room will be the one in the middle, it's easier to have the rooms in the order that you go onstage so that everybody knows where to find everybody. This is Syler's room," he say's while pointing to the first door on the right. "This one is your's, and Organized Chaos is the next one. All the other rooms in use are along this hall as well, hair and makeup will come to you along with wardrobe. Anything else you need you will find in one of the remaining rooms. The crew will set up and take down the stage before and after each performance so you don't have to worry about your instruments, if you want one of them on the bus you will need to get it from one of the roadies before we leave. Any questions?"
Mikey raises his hand as if he is in a classroom. "Uh when do we eat?"
"Look kid you don't have to raise your hand, and there are snacks in the room and someone will be along with dinner later tonight once you get off stage it should be here. There will be another buffet backstage around four if you get hungry around then as well. Alright kids I'll leave y'all to it then. Let me know if y'all need anything!"
With that he walks back the way we came. The guys are just standing around looking at each other so I push past Cam and walk into the dressing room. The room itself is kinda small but nice enough, there are two couches facing a tv and on the far wall is a line of mirrors with a counter underneath and chairs in front of it kind of like at a hair salon. Another wall has a smaller table with a bunch of snacks on it as well as some bottled water and soda cans.
"Thank God! Food!" Mikey runs right past me headed for the food table once more and I can only think about how this scene looks the same as when we first walked backstage.
"Are you ever full dude? I don't know how you stay in shape with how much you eat." Kyle says coming into the room. I move out of the doorway allowing the rest of my band mates into the room and sit on the smaller couch.
"Hey that's rude! I haven't eaten in a whole hour and a half!" Mikey pouts his lips while making puppy dog eyes at Kyle while his hands ruffle through the bags of chips.
"Because an hour and a half is so long." Logan laughs out coming to sit next to me.
"Ya'll are just jealous because I can't eat as much as I want and y'all can't without having to go work it off at the gym." Mikey throws back sticking his tongue out before bringing his focus back to the food.
As Cam's shutting the door it swings back open nearly hitting him in the face and a flurry of people rush in. All carrying bags of some sort.
A young looking woman with a blonde bob comes straight for Logan and I pulling a younger woman with wavy brown locks behind her. "Hi guys! My name is Allison and this is Jade, we are going to take you two over to the those mirrors and get started on ya'll's hair, alright?"
Instead of waiting for an answer she pulls me up letting go of Jade who grabs Logan and pushes us into chairs in front of the mirror wall.
Looking around I notice the other guy's were also pulled into chairs and are getting their own beauty treatments. I try not to laugh when I see a man putting what looks like some kind of cover up on Kyle's scowling face but I quickly loose it when Mikey's stylist takes his chips from him and proceeds to shush his protests.
After two hours of being poked and prodded I have a full face of make up including black and gray smoky eyes and a dark red lip. My long black hair is curled in ringlets down my back and I am wearing a green crop top, gray ripped skinny jeans, and three inch black stilettos.
The guys all look great as well. Cam is wearing dark wash jeans with a black sleeveless shirt that say's Nirvana and a red bandana around his left wrist. He is currently beating his drumsticks against the counter waiting for us to be called to stage. Kyle is dressed in dark wash jeans, a white sleeveless shirt and his hair has been expertly styled to look as though he just rolled out of bed. Currently he is leaning against the wall with his arms crossed across his chest and his eyes closed.
Over on the couch Logan is listening to his headphones and playing air guitar in his dark wash jeans and red sleeveless shirt. And lastly Mikey who is back to stuffing his face wearing dark wash jeans and an orange sleeveless shirt with a yellow smiley face who is missing an eye on it.
Looking around I'm guessing our theme for the night is dark and sleeveless. Fifteen minutes after we finish getting ready we are called backstage where we watch Syler finish their set.
"Okay the lights will go off as soon as Syler is finished and the roadies will reset the stage with ya'll's instruments. It will only take a few minutes and once that's done y'all head out there and bring the same energy ya'll brought earlier in rehearsal." Matt doesn't wait for our reply instead he heads over to talk to some of the crew.
"Ya'll ready for this? This is a bigger crowd than we have ever played in front of." Leave it to Cam to point out the obvious. I look into each of my friends eyes seeing the pride and determination there. "Yea we're most definitely ready."
Once the lights on stage turn off the guys immediately surround me. They gather into a group hug with me in the middle of it all. This is our pre show ritual. We group hug for a few minutes in silence while thinking all of our hopes and dreams for the show before locking up the nerves and heading out onstage.
"Two seconds Thrasher!" Somebody calls.
We break away from our hug and fall in line with Cam in the lead and myself at the rear we head onto the stage.
"Hello Dallas! How's everybody doing tonight?" I ask into the microphone and the crowd answers with cheers of excitement. "My names Carson, I'm hear tonight with my boys!" I turn watching as each of my friends introduce themselves.
"Hey guys I'm Kyle!"
"What's up I'm Logan!"
"I'm Cam!"
"I'm still hungry!"
"Shut up Mikey!" We all say in unison as the crowd laughs.
"I'm Mikey! And I want a cheeseburger."
Laughing I roll my eyes before turning back to my microphone. "We're Thrasher and we are here to rock your faces off! If you know this song feel free to sing along!"
We open the set with our most popular song. We have been in this band for the past two years and although we have a few hundred fans it is nothing close to the millions of fans Organized Chaos has. This is our first performance to a crowd this size and it is exhilarating.
Cam starts us out on the drums with Kyle coming in on bass the same time as Logan and I on our guitars. While Mikey makes his grand entrance on the keyboard.
"Tell her a story, tell her the honest truth.
You treat her better, make sure to see it through."
As I start to sing I can't help but feel prideful as I hear some voices in the audience sing it with me.
"Don't be just everything she wants, be everything she needs. When she says she loves you, tell her you love her too."
The guy's voices join mine
"Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh"
Their voices cut off allowing my voice to surround the theater.
"Give her a reason, reason to love all you do. She'll tell you secrets you'll tell her secrets too. She'll tell you all her hopes and dreams you'll tell them too. When she says she loves you tell her you love her too, tell her you love her too. "
Logan dances over to me joining me at my mic as Kyle joins Mickey at his and together we sing the chorus.
"But don't you run away run away when you get tired, cause this will slip away slip away and start a fire that can never be put out, oh hurry time is running out, but don't you run away run away before you tell her you love her
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh"
Logan and Kyle go back to their previous positions on stage. And Logan picks up the next verse.
"When she says she needs you, tell her you need her too, you tell her clearly speak what your heart wants you to, tell her she's lovely always tell her the truth, when she says she loves you tell her you love her too."
I join Mickey this time as Kyle joins Logan at his mic and together the five of us finish off the song.
"But don't you run away run away when you get tired, cause this will slip away slip away and start a fire that can never be put out, oh hurry time is running out, but don't you run away run away before you tell her you love her. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh"
The crowed screams and I can't help but smile, being on stage and getting your music out there and having people love it is the absolute best feeling in the world.
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A/N
Hi I hope you are liking my story so far, I have an idea of where I want it to go but no clue as to what will happen in the rest of it. Hopefully this won't suck lol.
The song I used in this chapter is not mine and I do not own any of the rights to it. It is Tell her you love her by Echo Smith.
I am hoping to come back and put original songs in here at some point but for right now it will just be actual songs by actual artists.
If you are enjoying this so far please comment and vote!
~K