Vampires and girls
Fate decided to sneak up on me again. As I had predicted as soon as we hit the stage the clouds opened and rain poured down over the crowd and us like there was no end to it. We had to wait during the worst weather and then wear white rain dresses on stage. How sexy! Kevin was singing " Singing in the rain," doing some theatre...after all he is a ballroom dancer. This had the fans screaming. I think that we didn't do our best performance, but hey what do you expect when you are as wet as a drowned cat?
I don't know if it is from using my vocals in the wet or just that I feel a bit crummy but my throat is itching. You know like when you wanna take an dishbrush and the then stick it down your throat, pulling it up and down several times. Nasty huh? but you get my point. To add to the itching there is a strange feeling in my nose, the same feeling like when something tickles you. Either I am allergic to something or a cold is starting to set in. I can only guess which option it is.
We are back in the van going to the "house on the hill" as we have named the hotel that is about to be our home for the upcoming hours. I am cold, tired and a bit hungry and right now all I wanna do is jump on a plane and go back to Florida. The sunshine state is tempting me and I long for a swim in the ocean, going out with our boat, just relaxing. Far away from the rain and the hectic schedule we are living right now.
" We really sucked," Kevin stated critically and I can swear that he was looking at me while uttering those comments.
" They seem to like it," Howie said, as he ran his hand through his wet curly hair. D's hair gets even more curly when it's wet and now he looks like a poodle. I love dogs! I really do and I have two pugs at home and my mom and dad have several dogs too. The more I am thinking of them the more homesick I get.
With a sigh I look outside.
Brian picks up, as always, that something is wrong. " Nick what is it?" he asks as I look away.
" Nothing." I really wanna come up with something better to say, but I don't.
This line doesn't cut it and Brian continue, " Come on, Nick. I can tell that something is bothering you." There is a slight cough in the van, and it's coming from Donna's direction. It's like she is reminding me that we have an agreement and that I better not rat.
" No, I'm just tired," I try not to sound too whiny since Kev is in a bad mood. If there is something that Kevin dislikes it's when we are sounding as sucky as we did tonight.
" I know..me too," Brian massage his temples and this action doesn't go unnoticed from his cousin. Instantly Kev is there questioning about B's health.
" You guys wanna do something tonight?" AJ asks as he is always in for some good time. Howie who is never late when it comes to a Party says that he is in. Kevin however, who have stopped asking Brian 20 questions, says that we should stay at the hotel tonight since Johnny has announced that we will be on our way to Stuttgart tomorrow, no later than 5 am!
I nearly choke to death on my chewing gum when I hear the time being announced. " Why sooo early?" Can I help it that I sound like an old rusty door that needs oil when I am tired? " Because we have to leave then!" Kevin sounds fed up with the situation and I bet that he blames me for the bad show tonight. I'm just waiting to get chewed out by the threes crowed, Kevin, Johnny and Donna.
" We need to get some time off," Brian is talking so loud that Johnny and Donna can't ignore that comment. I can hear a snort coming from the front of the van, but silence is total. I bet that they are not responding since they can feel that we are all cranky and tired and conflict is in the air. AJ is unnaturally quiet tonight and I think that he is feeling homesick too. He longs for Amanda; even tough I know that they are calling each other each day. Bone is also making frequent trips to the bathroom recently and I don't think that he is suffering from a bladder infection.
When we are 15 minutes later parking the van there are lots of fans screaming outside off our hotel, or ghost house, as I would call it. In fact it reminds me of the scary house at Disney World. Hundreds of girls are trying to get our attention and Johnny "orders" us to stay outside and greet the fans. He however rushes inside since the rain is pouring down. I'm wet to my bones and shivering so much that my teeth are shattering and every bone in my body aches from being cold and working overtime much too long. I am so stiff when I finally get to come into the warmth that I'm having trouble walking all those freaking stairs. It's like a stairway to heaven or gateway to hell! Take your pick.
< It smells like mold in the hallway and Howie is scrunching his nose. I am too, but that is just because I am a bit allergic to mold and damp places. It makes my nose and throat itch and I feel like I wanna cough all the time. It's a bit dusk and now it feels a bit spooky. What if AJ is right? That there are ghosts! If there were a place where a ghost would live it would be a place like this, that I am sure of.
As soon as Kevin opens the door, he is the key bearer; I throw myself on the bed. Not a nice feeling since the bed is so hard that I almost bruise my ass jumping on to it. Brian has lit the light and what is meeting us is a not so nice feeling. I swear that I saw something run away on the floor and I make my statement that it's a rat. The boys start laughing at me until they discover the big whole that is in the wall. And that is not all, there are BLOODSTAINS on the green wallpaper.
" Look," I shout in disgust as I see the "bullet holes" and bloodstains that are scattered over the wall. " It's blood."
" Yeah, looks like someone has blown their brains out," AJ agrees and walk up to study our new findings. I get up from the bed and also check out the result of a brain explosion.
" It's NOT bloodstains," Kevin says calmly as he sits down on the bed. " That is rust!"
Rust??? Not a chance. Both me and AJ are not buying that crap and we state it clearly. Howie says that we have a way to vivid imagination. B is now where in sight and soon we hear and loud yell from the bathroom. " Iccckkk, there are cockroaches!"
Yuck! Now I really wanna leave this hellhole. I hate bugs, in fact we all do, but I am the only one who really admits to hating those small creeps. Once when I was little I was out in the country, at a camp and all we had was an outhouse. I refused to go since there were bugs and spiders and I didn't want to admit that I didn't dare to go in there. I ended up with a terrible stomachache and severely constipated, but it was worth it. Since then I don't go to outhouses or places like that. You never know what might be hiding in the corner.
Brian is out of the bathroom, pants down. " I am NOT going in there, A cockroach nearly bit me!" We all laugh.
" IŽll bet that the coackroach is more afraid of you." Brian glares irritated at Howie. " Yeah? And you are the one to talk!" I totally agree with Frick since Howie is squeamish about almost all things, except maybe bugs.
" Did it get a firm grip?" Bone says and I won't reveal where he was suggesting that the little bugger had bit B'rok.
" Noo!!" Brian looks offended and he starts to pull up his pants. Then he goes towards the entry door.
" Where you going?"
" Eh..down..down to the reception desk to check if there is anything to eat."
Bone looks like he isn't buying that excuse. " I told you that you better take the dump at the venue, didn't I?"
Brian looks a bit embarrassed, but follows the line pretty quickly. " Ok, yeah, I'm going down to the restroom downstairs. It will save us all some misery. You coming with me Frack?" I shake my head. Brian is a bit too old to need someone to hold his hand, beside I don't need to go and rather stay in bed.
" IŽll come with you." AJ says, " Need to water the donkey." With that the two of them are out of the picture.
I am planted on the bed, making my own throne. Its cold and I wrap myself up in the bed spread, watching as Howie starts to unfold his suitcase taking out next days clothes, folding them neatly on the rooms only chair.
" Aww shit!" I raise my eyebrow since there is not much that has Howie expressing such strong words.
" Something the matter?" Kevin seems to have picked up the same vibs as I did.
" Yes!" Howie looks like he is going through some very hard times and we both watch D' rummaging through his clothes.
" And.." I hate it when someone just says a word or two from a sentence and then leaves out the rest. It makes me ponder what the person in question is really saying, but mostly it makes me very curious.
" I have to do laundry. I don't have any clean underwear!"
Ok I am not that picky or even grossed out, but picturing D' with dirty underwear is a bit too much for me. " Aww..did you need to mention that!" I pretend to make myself gag. Howie smiles in that way that makes me wanna wipe off that smug grin. Being the nasty person that I can be I say before thinking, " Why don't you turn them inside out, that way you can use them another day and also gets an brown decoration line!"' I giggle.
" Niiiiiicccckkkk" Howie yells out and he is turning a bit green in his face. " GROSS!"
" Enough of that dirty talk," Kev says after laughing for a while. Howie is now red in his face and he has turned back to folding his clothes. Even tough I hate to admit to say this it is actually kind of nice, laying here on bed, watching the rest of the guys doing stuff. It's like in the very beginning when we sometimes got to share a room all five of us.
" Can you turn on the TV?" I ask Sweet D' and he just glares at me. Oh no, now I have pissed him off. With a sigh I slip off bed and walk over to get the controller. Figures. The controller doesn't work. A bit upset that nothing is working I throw the controller on the other bed. Turning on the TV I also find out that there is nothing interesting in German TV at all, besides everything is dubbed. Being bored, waiting for my friends to return I decide that I can try to work on an experiment that I have heard off. Connecting the Nintendo and the lap together. I've read in some magazine that you can win super power this way.
Just as I am about to start working on the "experiment" I hear some loud laughing, no more hysterical laughing coming from the hallways and before I get a chance to find out what the noise is about the door flung open and Brian comes in bent over. My first thought is that he is sick and needs help, then I see that he is laughing so much that he is crying. AJ is following behind, he isn't even smiling.p>
" Listen to this guys," he howls and even Kev stuck his head out from the small bathroom. " Huh?"
" Ha ha ha!!" AJ says a bit bored.
" AJ got chatted up by a fan.." Brian started and at once I was wondering where this story was going to take us. " And of course Bone was as polite as ever and didn't add that she was an 10 on his breast scale." Brian was laughing again so it was hard to hear what he was saying.
" I never said that,"
" Ye..yes you did when we first came down you said " Look at those BIG breasts and that ass, yummy I would do anything to grab those! SheŽs a ten pointer!" Brian was choking as he was trying to talk and tell us the story.
" I did not," AJ was doing the best to defend himself.
" Yes you were..anyway you should have seen the face that you made when that girl went into the restroom with you." Brian grinned. Now this story was finally starting to get interested.
" You did it in a stall?" My chin was about to be scraped up from the ground.
" No dumbass,"
" Well then.." Brian interrupted me, " Patience Nick..hold on..anyway where was I?"
The rest of us were waiting impatiently. B was a great teller but we really wanted to get down to the point so that we could figure out what made Brian laugh so much that he was nearly pissing his pants.
" You should have seen your look when "she" came behind you and put her arms around your waist. You had that really smug expression"
" It was your face that I was watching, Bri." This was very interesting. Bone looked like he was ready to crawl out from his skin. Suddenly Brian started to laugh really hard again. " Oh shut up! or your face is about to look even more ugly then it is right now." He was raising his fist in a threat.
B paid no attention to this and continued, " Then the girl started to stroke hrm..your.your"
" Yeah, Yeah we get the point." he ended the sentence, but this had me, Kev and D even more interested.
There was something that wasn't right here. Bone NEVER missed an opportunity to tell anyone about his conquers and now he was doing everything to hide it. There was something off! " I'm not getting it! A girl followed you into the restroom?"
" Yup and when the girl started to pull her pants down, AJ..AJ!!" Brian was howling with laughter again.
The Casanova however was not and he looked like a deer caught in the headlight. " Fuck it!"p>
" Yeah Bone IŽll guess you wanted to do that, " Brian grinned, getting a finger from the bandmate. " As she pulled down her pants AJ about freaked. I never seen anyone pull up his pants so fast and then run out from the restroom." Now Howie and Kevin was rolling with laughter too.
" I was not, I was never fooled."
Maybe the day was starting to take toll on my mind since I had a hard time catching the line. " You ran when she pulled her pants down? Why?"
" Kaos, it was a guy, you know an transvestite!"
" An Vampire? Downstairs? Cool!" Hey why am I the one that always gets to miss all the fun?
" No," Brian is trying to talk as calm as he can since AJ is threatening to break his neck. " You know an transvestite?"
" Yeah..those blood sucking things from that place..that place..what is it called? You know Nostradamus!"
" A transvestite is an guy dressed to be a girl," Kevin was taking over the explanation since AJ was starting to strangle Brian, jumping on his back.
" Finally I never thought he would catch on," Howie stated with a grin and now I felt insulted, Could I help that I am slow in my mind occasionally. Pulling the sheet over my head I block out everything. Then suddenly something hits me. " Hey Bone," I say, " Did you feel "her" breast?" I don't have to wait long before AJ is there throwing himself over me.
" Stop it, Stop it," I yell as he is hitting me hard, trying to wrestle with me. But Bone is after revenge and since he didn't have the ability to beat Brian up he went after me instead. And something tells me that I am getting it. BAD!
