Chapter 15
Worst Day Ever
"Come on just a few shots."
"No." Madison replied as she looked around the club.
"Come on we need to start a band ritual." Shane said as she waved the shot glass around.
"What? Getting shit faced before a show?" Madison asked cocking an eyebrow.
Shane shrugged and said, "Sure why not?"
"No." Madison replied shaking her head.
"If I get all the others to would you?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because."
"Come on."
"Shane this is peer pressure I’m not good in these situations."
Shane started laughing as Jake and Tony walked over to them. "Hey guys."
"Hey." They replied in unison.
"Me and Madison here were talking about starting a band ritual, taking a few shots before a show." Shane said as she looked at the other guys.
"I’m all for it." Jake said grinning.
"Ditto."
"What?" Madison asked as she looked at all three of them.
"Yeah, Madison said she’d only do it if you guys did." Shane said grinning at Madison.
Madison glared at him as she took the shot glass from him. "I hate you." She said with clenched teeth.
Shane smirked at her as he got three more shot glasses filled with tequila and handed them to Jake and Tony. "Here’s to Y5 and our new album."
"Right on." Tony said as he quickly drank the shot and demanded another.
"Come on Madison." Shane said as they looked at her standing there staring at the glass. "We’ve already done one you have to do one."
Madison glared at all three of them as she slowly lifted the glass to her lips and let the hot liquid quickly run down her throat. She made a disgusted face as she swallowed it. "Gross." She said as Shane got her another one.
"We’ll start with two." He said handing her another.
"No, I can’t do another one. It’s disgusting." She said put her hands up in the air.
"Come on."
She sighed and grabbed the glass out of Shane’s hand and quickly took the next shot. "Great now I feel like I’m going to throw up." She said as she sat down.
"Good girl." Jake said grinning at her.
She flipped him off as she leaned back in the bar stool.
"Come on you guys, you have to sound check." John shouted as he walked over to them clapping his hands annoyingly.
"Enough with the clapping John." Tony said as he walked passed him.
"Madison."
Madison looked at John.
"So you have a new boyfriend that I don’t know about?" He asked putting his hands on his hips.
"No." She replied shaking her head, as she started to feel the effects of the alcohol.
"That’s not what I’ve been hearing."
"I know what you’ve been hearing and frankly I don’t think it’s your business." She retorted as she jumped down off the stool and walked over to the stage joining the others.
"Do you guys know what I think we should do?" Tony asked as he looked at Madison and the other guys.
"What?" Madison asked putting her hands on her hips.
Tony looked at her oddly and said, "We should start doing some cover songs."
"Why?" Madison asked as she put her guitar over her shoulder.
"Because it would be cool to play some of our favorite songs?"
"How about ‘I want it That Way’?" Madison suggested grinning.
"No!" Jake said from behind Madison.
"I was thinking like some Good Charlotte or MXPX." Tony replied.
"No, I want ‘I want it That Way’." Madison said as she began to play random notes on the guitar.
"Maybe it was a bad idea to give her the tequila. She’s being a little pissy." Shane whispered to Jake.
Jake nodded and turned back around.
"Seriously, we could do a punk version of it." Madison said as she looked over at Tony.
Tony started shaking his head. "You know what forget I said anything."
"Fine." Madison said as she sighed heavily.
"Yep definitely shouldn’t have given her the tequila." Shane said to Jake as he turned around laughing.
"Are they seriously arguing about this?"
Shane just nodded as he continued to laugh at their bickering.
"Why wouldn’t you want to do that song?" Madison asked curiously.
"What?"
"You like Nick, why not all of them?"
"What are you talking about?"
Madison looked at him weird and asked, "What are you talking about?"
"You know let’s just do our sound check."
"Fine." Madison retorted mockingly.
"You think they’re having trouble in paradise?" Jake asked Shane cocking an eyebrow.
Shane shrugged as he started to play the song.
"You’re such a fucking drama queen." Madison yelled at Tony as they entered the dressing room with Shane following behind them.
"Am not!" Tony yelled back putting his hands on his hips.
"So I think the show went fairly well." Shane said as he sat down and started flipping through a Cosmo magazine.
"What?" Madison snapped looking at Shane.
"Well besides you and Tony bickering back and forth and Jake somehow breaking his foot, it went well. Right?" He looked between them hopeful.
Tony sighed dramatically and then flopped down in a chair across the room.
"Why are you two arguing anyway?" Shane asked curiously.
"Well- you see-." Madison started to say something but stopped.
"Because-." Tony started to say then stopped and shrugged.
Shane started laughing. "You two are freaks, you are arguing about stupid shit and you don’t even know why."
"There’s a reason." Madison said pointing at Shane.
"Oh really what is it?"
"Uh…"
"See, you two are freaks." Shane replied laughing.
"Oh shut up Shane." Tony snapped and Shane stopped laughing.
"God, my head hurts. You guys so suck for making me drink that damn tequila." Madison said as she sat down putting her head in her hands.
"Damn lightweights it’s pathetic." Shane said shaking his head.
"So you are leaving early?"
"Yeah, Jake broke his foot."
Nick started laughing and asked, "How did he do that?"
"Not quite sure."
"So what are you going to do until your release party?"
"Um… I think we have some appearances and shit. I don’t know really. I’m just happy to be coming home. I might go see my family, I don’t know though they are pissed at me."
"Why?"
"Because I’m disobeying God’s plan or some shit like that. They think it’s wrong that I’m in a so-called secular band. You should have heard my mom when she saw the pictures of me and you, she went crazy."
"You’re parents strict?"
"Strict is an understatement."
"That bad huh?"
"You have no idea." Madison replied laughing.
"So when are you guys leaving?"
"Uh… I think after like two or three of the major talk shows we were going to do and then one show. John said we had to at least do a majority of the stuff, so Jake is just going to have to suck it up and take it like a man." Madison said as she looked up to see Tony walk into her room. "Hey I have to go, bye." She said quickly and hung up the phone.
"Hey." Tony said softly as he sat down next to her.
"Hi."
"Stop it."
"What?"
"Acting like you’re mad at me."
Madison sighed dramatically. "Fine."
"So when we get back to the states we are so going to an all day spa." Tony said as he giggled a little and clapped his hands lightly.
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah, we are going to transform you into a sex goddess."
"What?" Madison asked wide eyed.
"Yeah, you need to take some chances and we’re starting with your appearance. And then we’ll move on to, Mr. Carter." Tony said nearly jumping out of his skin he was so excited.