This Is The Story Of The Wild One.

(Fast foward time: On the plane)
(July 24, 2011)

We were now all on the plane which was something pretty new to me. I had only been on a plane once and I remember how much I hated it.
I was sat in the middle of Andy and Ashley, which wasn't really my first choice but Andy took the window seat before I had the chance to and Ashley claimed the isle. So I was stuck in between them both.

"How long is this flight?" I asked Andy who was starring out the window.
"Uhm.. About 6 hours." He replied not taking his eyes from the window.
I mentally groaned. 6. Fucking. Hours. I rolled my eyes and turned my attention to the back of the seat in front of me. I couldn't help but notice how unbelievably boring the pattern on the seats are. In fact I wouldn't even call it a pattern it was just 3 different shades of blue that looked like it was splodged onto the chair.

"So have you ever flown before?" Ashley asked me as the Flight Attended was going through what to do if the plane crashes.
"Nope." I lied, putting on my seatbelt and trying to get somewhat comfy. The most comfy position I could find was criss-crossing my legs so that is how I sat.
"Do you know what to expect?" Ashley said, asking me another question. Bloody hell, I think I know a little bit about planes.
I had to physically bite down on my tongue to not give a sarcastic answer.
"I think I'll be ok." Was all I said.
I saw out the corner of my eye that Ash was eyeing me funny, but I took no notice.

"This plane is ready to take off, can all passengers please have their seatbelts fastened and seats forward. Hope you have a good flight."
With that the plane suddenly lurched forward and before I knew it the plane was off the ground and was going up, up, up further into the clouds. Then without a warning there was a loud clank and the plane was no longer going up, I guess we were just going forwards at this point. I wasn't to sure since my stomach was doing backflips, my heart was pounding and my breathing was very fast so I couldn't really tell. But what I did know was that I was going to have a panic attack and I could feel it.

I noticed that Ashley and Andy had undone their seatbelts, so I put the straightest face I could and undid my seatbelt. Without a word I was up and out of my seat, trying my best to look calm I stumbled over to the little bathroom a few rows in front of the seats. Once I was in the tiny bathroom and made sure the door was locked and then I began to really panic.
I could feel my heart pounding away, my breathing was beyond my control as my chest kept feeling like it was getting tighter and tighter. My knees very suddenly buckled, leaving me to sit on the ground.
I sat there for a while, hugging my knees, panicking until I remembered the old trick I used to do when I got panic attacks in public. I leaned against the wall, shut my eyes tight and bit down on my knuckles as hard as I possibly could. It was a weird thing to do, I know, but it's what worked and I didn't have a lot of options. The pain I got from biting on my knuckles seemed to take my mind off the fact that I was panicking, it didn't work all the time but I was lucky and it work this time. It didn't take too long for me to calm down enough to stand again. I looked into the tiny mirror on the wall and whispered to myself:
"Don't be such a fucking pussy. You can do this. Let's go. Just make it through the fucking flight. It's all you have to do."

I was about to open the door again but I heard someone knock on the door and say "Max? Are you okay?", Ashley. I sighed heavily to myself, opened the door and walked straight past him growling, "Fucking amazing."
I walked back to my seat, Andy didn't notice me when I sat down since he had his nose in a magazine named 'Kerrang!', it looked like there were 5 clowns on the front cover. I had to hold myself from snorting as I knew exactly who it was on the front cover. I also caught a glance of out the window and my stomach started flipping again, but I just started biting down on my knuckles again to avoid another panic attack.

I guess I zoned out or something because the next thing I knew there's a hand being waved in my face.
"What?" I asked, snapping back into reality.
"Max you've been staring at the chair in front for about 15 minutes and haven't been responding to anything." Ashley said, staring at me like I had 15 heads.
"So..?" I muttered, not looking at Ash in the eye.
"So.. Are you ok?" Andy asked from beside me.
"I'm fine." I said, looking back at the chair in front of me.
"Your knuckles might say otherwise." I heard Andy say under his breath.
I look down at my now slightly bloody knuckles that had teeth marks in certain areas.
"Oh well." I shrugged.

No one said anything after that.

After another boring 15 minuets later I noticed a packet of kids crayons laying right by my feet. I reached down and picked them up, earning looks from both Andy and Ashley. I again ignored them and flipped down the white tray in front of me that you are supposed to set your food on.
I began to draw a zombie on the tray which was pretty hard considering the only colours you get in the pack were blue, green and red, also they were shit quality to begin with.
I only managed to draw about half of the zombie before Andy fell asleep and somehow his head made it's way to my shoulder. My arms weren't long enough to reach the tray without leaning forward and Andy's head was practically pinning me down, also if I moved his face would end up in my crotch which I don't really want.
How fantastic, I'm stuck for 4-5 more hours with a someone's head on me with nothing to do.

I looked over at Ashley who laughing quietly.
"Help me.." I frowned.
"I have a notepad and some pencils if you wan-"
"Yes. Please..." I answered not even letting him finish his sentence. I was stupid and put my bag on the conveyor belt instead of keeping it and taking it on the plane with me.
He flashed me a smile before standing up and reached for his bag in the over-head bit. He brought his bag down into his seat and fished out a sketchpad and some pencils, passing them to me he set his bag back into the self that ran throughout the whole plane. He then sat back down in his seat.
"Thank you." I whispered opening the sketchpad and taking a pencil. I decided I would be nice to Ash and Andy for the plane ride but the second I get to that house I'm going to see how far I can possibly push Ashley and anyone else I'll be living with.

I started sketching a cameo type mirror that had 2 roses, one on the top left hand side and one on the bottom right hand side.
About half way through the second rose, I looked up at Ashley and asked:
"Hey were did you get these pencils from?"
"Dunno, the dollar store? I think." He said in reply.
"Mm I can tell."
I continued with the second rose, shading it in and everything. Once I was finished with the cameo I sat there for a moment and thought about what could go inside.
After a little while later of thinking I finally decided to draw an older looking women, but drawn Tim Burton style. The women had stretched ears and multiple tattoos, but on the bottom I drew a banner and inside the banner I wrote 'No Regrets'

It took me an hour to finish the drawing, when I did finish it I just set the notepad on the tray in front of me and had to chuck the pencil on the tray as again I couldn't reach it without leaning forwards and Andy was still asleep on my shoulder and I did not want his head in my crotch.

"Hey Max?" Ashley asked not to long after I finished my drawing.
"Yeah?"
"Do you want something to eat or drink?"
"Uhh.. Water."
"Okay, wake Andy up and ask him if he wants something."
I turned to Andy and got an evil smirk. I cupped my hands around his ear and shouted "ANDY GET UP THE PLANE IS CRASHING!" and he shot up so fast that he hit his head on the window.
"Oww, Max did you really have to do that?" He whined.
"Yes you've been using me as a human pillow for the past 2 hours."
"Well sorry, no need to do that though. Jesus." Andy grumbled rubbing the part of his head that he hit.
"Anyway, you want anything man?" Ashley asked from behind me.
"Yeah, a jack and coke and maybe some ice for my head." He replied glaring at me.
"Well don't fucking use me as a pillow then." I said as I raised my hands in defence.
"Still." Andy muttered while unlocking his phone and doing whatever he does on there. Ashley called over a blonde women and ordered water for me, jack and coke for Andy and a diet soda for himself. Somehow while ordering all that he managed to get the girls number.

I swear if I wasn't putting on a nice act Andy and Ashley would have probably of thrown me out of the plane by now. Well that or they would have thrown themselves out of the plane. But the second the sun goes down I'm going to be the Wild Child I am. You can bet that tonight I will be out tagging as many places as I can and also see if there's a place I can get alcohol and cigarettes since there was no way I could get on a plane with them in my bag, sadly. Maybe I can even get my hands on some marijuana if I'm lucky.

I didn't realise I zoned out again until yet another hand was waved in front of my face.
"It's not normal to zone out like that for that long.." I heard Andy say.
"No definitely not. You sure you're okay Max? What were you thinking about?" Ashley asked.
Well what the fuck am I supposed to say, oh you know just thinking about marijuana, you know where I can get some?
"Uhm.. Nothing just tired." I said unconvincingly. I was an awful lire.
"Uhhhuh... You sure?" Both of them were now staring at me.
"Y-Yeah." I nodded, finally looking Ashley in the eye.

Fuck. They were my exact eyes. I get my eyes from my mother which is why I cover them most of the time with coloured contacts, but how did Ashley get the same eye colour as me? Through photos I've see my aunt (who was my mother's sister) had green eyes and her husband had blue. It didn't make sense as to how he got brown eyes.

I guess I was staring at him because the next thing he said was:
"Is there something on my face?"
I shook my head in reply and moved myself so I was looking straight in front. There was no wonder on why I had been zoning in and out so much, I actually was tired since I hadn't slept properly the whole week. Me and dad spend the whole week together (aside from the night I spent with my friends), night and everything so neither of us slept much. The only reason why I could function right now is because I had a few coffees before I left New York but the energy I got from it was starting to wear off..

"How longer till we're in LA?" I asked no one in particular.
"3 hours. Why?" Andy replied.
"Just wondering." I sighed, taking a sip of the water that the blonde chick gave me earlier.
"Do you not have anything to do?" Ash questioned.
"Like what?"
"I dunno like a phone to play on or some music to listen to?"
"Ash look at where I lived. Do you really think dad could afford music or one of those iPhone thingys?" I said, narrowing my eyes at him.
"Well no but.." He trailed off.
"But?"
"You never know." Ashley shrugged, "Does that mean you don't know any bands or anything?"
"Well let's see.. The last time I actually heard music was when I went to the supermarket.. Also the only album I ever remember listening to when I was young was American Idiot by some band.. I think they were called Green Day? Or something.."
"Ever heard of Kiss?" Andy asked from behind me.
"Nope."
"Misfits?"
"No.."
"Led Ze-" I cut him off.
"I told you Andy. The ONLY album or band I remember listening to is Greenday when I was a kid."
"Right. Here," Andy said shoving his phone and some earphones in my face, "You need to learn my friend. Listen to whatever you want, okay?"
I raised an eyebrow at him and looked down at the expensive looking phone in my hand. I had no idea what to do with it as I have never had a smart phone before, let alone use one. My dad had a Nokia phone but that's completely different to a smart phone.
"Uhmm.. Andy.. I have never used a smart phone before.. so I uh don't actually know how work it." I confessed.
Andy gave me a shocked look before taking the phone and earphones out of my hands and started doing what ever you do to turn on and work a phone. A moment later Andy handed me back the earphones and told me to put them in, so I did. He then started to show me how to work the phone and stuff. Like turn it on and off, how to play the music and some other things to that nature. Once he was done explaining he left me to it. I scrolled through all of Andy's music and some of it looked pretty shit not going to lie. I did find the American Idiot album though, so I put that on and listened to it until I dozed off.

A very loud, low pitched scream pierced through my dreams. I opened one eye and saw Andy holding his phone turning the volume up to the music I was listening to with an evil grin. I opened both eyes and raised an eyebrow at him. When Andy saw me the grin was wiped right off his face.
"How did that not make you jump?.." Andy whined.
"I don't startle very easy." I said as I took both the earphones out.
"Revenge." He mumbled.
"Well that's not the same, you used me as a human pillow. I was doing no harm to you."
"Then how come he can use you as a pillow." Andy pouted pointing to Ashley who I only just realised had his head on my shoulder.
I groaned and elbowed Ash in the stomach. He made a weird sound before getting off me and started holding his stomach.
"Why the fuck did you feel the need to do that?" He croaked.
"Do I look like a fucking pillow to you?" I snapped.
"No.."
"Then don't use me as one."
Ashley opened his mouth and was about to say something but the Flight Attendant interrupted him by announcing we were about to land. I buckled up my seatbelt as I felt the plane starting to descend..

Notes

YAY I FOUND THE GODDAMN FILE.
Whoo \(^3^)/
Hope you enjoyed my shitty old writing:')

Never Give In, Never Back Down and We'll Brave This Storm.
xxx
~FlareOfTheDevil