I woke up the next morning to someone’s loud shouts. “Wake up!” I would hear over and over again. My eyes slowly fluttered open to see the guys standing by the open door. They all had the biggest smiles on their face, and were whispering something to each other. When I started to get up I felt arms grave me and pull me out the door. I was on someone’s shoulder. I heard loud yells and realized we were all on someone’s shoulder.
Iris was on CC, Scar was on Jinxx, and Anna was being held by both Ashley and Jake, which only means that I was on Andy. The guys began running around and jumping with us on their shoulders. On a few occasions they would run into each other and slam our butts together.

“CC that hurt! Put me down!” Iris would scream.

“Jinxx you loser! Let me go damn it!” Scar yelled.

“Ashley! Jake! I swear you sons of bitches better put me down right now if you value your life!” Anna threatened.

“Andy! Please, put me down. I am not stable for this right now!” I whined.

All I could hear was Andy’s laughter, he did put me down while everyone else still screamed.

“I hate you!” I said punching his arms, which probably hurt me more than him.

“No, you love me.” he laughed and patted my head.

For some reason, I got this weird feeling in my stomach when he said that. I just rolled my eyes at him and crosses my arms. I stood there and watch my bands misery. They continued to yell and suffer; I couldn’t help but laugh. I was staring at them when I felt someone take my hand; I looked up and Andy was pulling me inside the venue.

“C’mon lets go exploring.” he laughed.

I followed close behind, my hand still in Andy’s. The venue was still dark since no one was here yet. All the lights were off but a few here and there. It was creepy and if I were here alone I would have been scared, but somehow Andy made me feel safe. We somehow found the stage; I froze. I looked out to where the audience was going to be and the place was huge! Andy felt me stop and looked back at me.

“I don’t think I can do this Andy.” I whispered.

“Hey, I know you can. You’re a great singer and a beautiful women. You don’t need to be afraid of anything.” Andy crept closer to me, he let go of my hand and put his arm around me, then held my hand with his free arm. “I know you’ll be amazing.” he whispered right into my ear. It gave me chills; why was Andy making this effect on me all of a sudden? He would always be like this and I never flinched.

“When you look out into the audience, imagine yourself in their shoes. Look into their eyes, sometimes you see joy, excitement, love, but sometimes you see pain. When you see that you need to let go of all your fears and sing to that one person. Show them they have nothing to fear, I promise you when you do that, it’s as if its only you two in the whole venue.” He told me, looking out to the floor. “One more thing, I’ll be right behind the stage. I’ll be here for you.” I nodded my head. That did make me feel a lot better, and it also got me very excited for tonight.

“I thought you were going to tell me to imagine everyone in their underwear.” I laughed.

“That doesn’t work, cause then you picture yourself too.” he laughed with me.

His laugh made my whole body shake. His chest was right against my arm. I could feel his skin from the low white v-neck he was wearing; I could feel the thin material of his shirt. The best feeling though, was the feeling of his heart beat. My body took over and I wrapped my arms around his torso.

“Thank you Andy, for everything.” I told him.

His arms found their way around my neck pressing me against his chest. I could now more clearly hear his heartbeat, feel his warmth. His heart beat every second, and in that moment I realized that I really liked Andy. I wanted to stay in this position forever, never let him go. I had opened my eyes and realized that I loved this man. I looked up at him; his face was serious staring straight ahead, at nothing. He looked lost in thought, he would wrinkle his eyebrows then relax them and hold me tighter. We probably stood like that for five minutes, until Andy looked down at me and caught me looking at him.
He smiled at me and I smiled back. Our eyes were locked and I gazed at his gorgeous blue eyes. I then took in detail every part of his face. His bone structure was so masculine, his eyes blue as the ocean, his eyebrows messy but cute, his nose piercing suited him. I tried everything to not look at the last part of his face, but I couldn’t help myself. Those pink lips looked so soft, his piercing looked fun to play with, his bottom lip looked perfect to bite. I quickly looked back at his eyes, that were now scanning my face, he also seemed to be looking at my lips.
My first instinct was to slightly part them, though I knew I shouldn’t be doing this. I continued to stare at his lips that were now also slightly parted. His bottom lip curled out which made me want to bite it more, but only caused me to bite my own lip. That’s when it started happening, Andy’s head was slowly lowering, and my feet were making me rise. As he got closer my eyes got smaller and smaller. Just when my eyes were closed and I felt his cold lip ring, we heard a door being thrown open and the lights flickered on.
We both jumped away from each other and looked around, no one was here with us yet, but I could hear Anna’s loud voice yelling foul things at someone. They soon stormed on the stage too, but all froze and looked at us.

“There you guys are! We’ve been looking everywhere for you!” Scar said. “How long have you been in here?” she asked us.

“Uh, ten minutes, maybe.” I stuttered.

“What were you guys doing?” Anna asked.

“Just looking around, helping her calm her nerves.” Andy quickly answered.

They all gave us a look and shrugged before walking away. Iris however, kept staring at us. She gracefully walked past us and smiled at us both, then nodded. My cheeks flushed red and I looked down. Once she was gone I looked back at Andy who was also slightly red.

“I’m just going now…”

“Yea same here…” we said together.

We went our separate was into our dressing rooms. As soon as I walked in all the girls were minding their own businesses. They didn’t look up when I came in and kept doing there own thing. Anna was doing her hair, Scar was doing her makeup, and Iris was picking out her cloths. I decided on starting with my makeup too and I joined Scar. Scar’s makeup was usually simple, mine however was not. I liked the heavy black eye makeup. I put black glittery all around my eyes, lots of eyeliner, and huge eye lashes with black lips. My hair was always wavy with straight bangs. I wore a black lace corset with leather shorts. I put black, ripped tights on and my crazy high heeled boots.

“Literally Black! You girls ready?” we heard someone outside our door ask.

“Three more minutes.” Anna yelled.

Anna was wearing black shorts and a studded bra. She had to wear converse so she could hit her drums easier. Her makeup was also like mine, black all around her eyes and only she had red lipstick. Her blonde hair was curled and teased somewhat. Iris wore black skinny jeans and leather jacket, her makeup was simple too. Her long black hair was straight to her waste. Scar wore black shorts, with a black studded bra and red leather jacket with red pumps. Her red hair was curled down.

“We’re ready why did you say we weren’t?” Iris asked.

“Because we need a pre-show ritual.” Anna said. “Everyone take a cigarette.”

“But I don’t smoke.” Iris said.

“Oh right. Ok then, take shot?” she asked.

“I don’t drink…” Iris whispered.

“Oh my god, what do you do?” Anna screamed.

“Girls we need you now!” someone yelled.

“Ok we can come up with a ritual later.” I said.

We walked out the door and got walked to the side of the stage. However the guys ran out of their dressing room to wish us luck. They were halfway ready and still all shirtless.

“Good luck ladies! Looking hot!” they all said.

“Thanks boys.” we all said.

“You guys should be shirtless more often, I love it!” Scar yelled.

We all laughed and we started walking again.

“Crystal!” I heard Andy scream.

He came running to me and wrapped is arms around me, “Good luck.” he smiled. “Remember what I told you.” he said and walked back. I smiled and thanked him when he turned around.

“Literally Black!” we heard cheers outside.

“Are you girls ready?” the stage manager said. We all nodded.

“Alright Anna go.” they gave her her drumsticks and she ran out, everyone got louder.

“Iris, Scar go!” they handed them their instruments and ran out, everyone yelled even louder.

They handed me my guitar and the manager nodded, I ran out into the stage and the crowd went crazy. I walked up to the microphone with a smile on my face when it got a little less noisy I yelled. “Hello Houston!” which made everyone scream again.

“We are Literally Black. Couple of girls from L.A. Who’s ready to rock?” I yelled, everyone went crazy and I began to sing.