~I Don't Care About My Guilty Pleasure For You~

I was running for the Mayday Parade stage as fast as I could, I really wanted to see them play and I knew if I didn’t run faster I’d miss more of the set than I already had. I ran into backstage and bumped into a girl standing back there already. I smiled apologetically as Derek started singing Miserable At Best. “I love this song” I said softly to myself. It was one of my favorite songs, even though it was quite sad. “Me too” she said, grinning and watching Derek. Her eyes sparkled when she looked at him and I giggled.

“Do you know him?” I asked. “Well I guess you could say that…he’s my husband.” I blushed and smiled, hugging the girl tightly. “That’s wonderful, congratulations!” “Thanks!” she said, hugging me back. “I’m Devin by the way.” “Phoebe, nice to meet you. I’m uh…I’m the merch girl for The Academy Is…” We laughed and stopped talking; I guess we both kind of wanted to enjoy the song.

“Hey Devin!” Derek said happily, pulling her into his arms and kissing her cheek gently. “Hey Derek” she replied, smiling and blushing a bit. “Derek, this is Phoebe.” “Hi” I said, waving and smiling at him and the other Mayday Parade guys. “I have to get back to my tent; I’ll see you guys later!”

I smiled and turned away from the stage, heading back to the merch tent when someone jumped on my back and knocked me to the ground. “Hello Alex.” “Hi Phoebe!” he said brightly as he sat on my back. “Can you PLEASE get off my back, you’re sort of hurting me.” “But I just wanted to say hi!” “Yes, well knocking me to the ground isn’t really the best way to do that, maybe next time we could just stick with a wave.” He got off of me and helped me up, dusting me off gently and smiling innocently.

“Don’t give me that look Alex, I see right through your innocent charm!” I yelled, turning away from him and stomping off. “Ah, but can you resist it?” he said as he walked up next to me. “Alex how many times to I have to tell you to leave Phoebe alone?” Zack said, walking up in between Alex and I. “Zack!” I said happily, hugging him sideways and smiling. “Hey Phoebe” he said, hugging me back. “How do I make it leave me alone?” “I think you’re gonna have a hard time with that, Alex has decided that he’s going to win you over somehow.” “HA yeah right, what makes him think he can do that?” Zack laughed and raised an eyebrow at me. “Oh, he has his ways.”

I waved bye to Zack and walked back onto the TAI tour bus, ready for a long nap. I woke up four hours later to see Michael’s face smiling down at me. “Hey Michael” I mumbled, opening my eyes and waving sleepily. “Hi Phoebe, there’s a party tonight and we were all wondering if you wanted to go!” I sighed and got up, changed into purple shorts and a blue t-shirt, then walked off the bus with Michael and Sisky, apparently everyone else was already there.

Nate tackled me as soon as I walked in and I laughed, hugging him tightly as he kissed my cheek gently. “Hi Nate” I said, smiling and standing up with him. “Hi sweetie.” He pulled on my hand gently and I followed him to the bar. “Have something to drink Phoebe, you haven’t had any fun this whole tour and you deserve it!” I bit my lip and debated back and forth in my head, eventually deciding that since I had Nate with me I’d be fine. “Sure, I’ll drink tonight” I said with a smile.

I pulled a blue piece of paper out of the hat and help it up, saying “OKAY, WHO’S BLUE?!” We were playing seven minutes in heaven drunk, which probably wasn’t the best idea. But so far it had been hilarious; all guys had to go in the closet together because there were only five or six girls at the party. “I’M BLUE!” yelled an extraordinarily drunk Alex Gaskarth. I giggled and he grabbed my hand and pulled me into the closet with him, shutting the door behind us and smiling as the lock clicked.

“You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to do this for…” he said, running his thumb gently across my chin. Then his lips pressed against mine and he pushed me up against the wall. And being far too intoxicated, I kissed him back, putting my arms around his neck and smiling into the kiss. We broke apart and breathed, Alex’s hands low on my waist. “I lu’ you” Alex slurred, grinning stupidly and kissing me again. “I HATE you!” I giggled, shaking my head and smiling as Alex’s lips moved to my neck. “I hate you so much Alex Gaskarth, you’re really annoying and I hate your GUTS.”

He laughed and kissed my lips again, pushing himself closer to me. “You don’t mean that.” “Nope.” And the door flung open, everyone staring at us in surprise until Jack Barakat yelled “YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” and Alex kissed me again after he saw that Nate wasn’t outside. And much to my surprise, all thoughts of Nate drifted to those of Alex…God was I drunk.