It was our last day of freedom before the first show in Manchester, which meant sightseeing was on the agenda for today. Myself and Andy headed downstairs to join the others for breakfast (after taking forever to get ready might I add), I was met with narrowed eyes from Adam as I took a seat across from him. Looking around, I noticed a few glances from each of the band members sitting at the table as well. Eep.

I reached out and grabbed a slice of toast and started spreading some butter on it, feeling incredibly awkward. I looked up and seen Adam was still staring.

“Do I have something on my face?” I asked, raising an eyebrow and taking a bite out of my toast.

“I heard things, scary things,” said Adam, sipping coffee.

I blushed. “Yeah, I sort of guessed that would happen.”

”Like wow, has it really been that long since you guys fucked?”

”Adam!”

Some of the guys started sniggering at the table, making my face go even redder. Andy chuckled, not a bit embarrassed by all this.

“I regret nothing,” said Andy, gulping down some coffee.

“If it’s any consolation, I didn’t hear anything,” said CC, chewing bacon.

“Dude, that’s because you were out cold!” Ashley laughed. He nudged Andy and winked. “Must have been some night then.”

“You could say that,” said Andy, smirking.

I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me right now.

“I didn’t think I’d feel as embarrassed as this,” I said, sinking down my seat.

“Awww, Eris,” said Adam, getting up from his seat and running over to me. He pulled my out of my seat and picked me up, much to my annoyance.

“You’re just a great fluff ball, we’ll love you no matter what - distubring noises and all!” said Adam, holding me close.

“Adam, please put me down, my coffee awaits me,” I said, legs dangling as Adam was a whole feet and two inches taller than me.

He did as he was told and put me down, ruffling my hair a few times just to annoy me before sitting back down.

“Sooo,” CC began, putting down his fork. “What do you guys wanna do today? Seeing as our first show doesn’t start till tomorrow, we’ve all the time today to just do whatever we want.”

“Sightseeing of course! I’m sure Manchester has plenty of interesting things to go see,” I said, fixing my hair.

“Sounds like a plan to me!” said Ashley, downing the last drop of his coffee.

“Totally, Josh said he’d have our tour buses sorted by six today so we’ve plenty of time to just wander around and see whatever,” said Andy, wrapping his arm around me.


That gave us eight hours to do as we pleased, so of course we ended up visiting the Manchester Museum, much to Jamie’s dismay - he usually wasn’t one for museums. Though this time he became transfixed by the Ancient Worlds section, you can thank his fascination with mummies for that. I spent a long time in the Ancient Worlds section too mind you, staring at the recreation of Tutankhamun’s tomb behind the shiney glass it lay in. I was staring at it so intensely I wasn’t even aware of Wednesday sneaking up on me.

“Boo!” he shouted, jumping up beside me, causing me to gasp in shock - thankfully stopping myself from screaming the place down.

“For fuck’s sake Wednesday, you scared the shit out of me!”

”Just be happy you didn’t scream, could have woken up the dead,” Wednesday grinned, pointing to the tomb.

“Ugh, don’t be a dick,” I said, walking over to the statues. Only to be startled, once again, by Adam jumping out from behind them, yelling at me. This time I yelped.

“Adam!” I snarled, slapping his arm. He and Wednesday almost fell about laughing.

“I’m sorry, Eris, but you should have seen your face!” said Adam, snorting with laughter.

“You guys are gonna get us kicked out, stop being so stupid,” I said, sighing. But I couldn’t help but smirk.

Andy appeared by my side, he’d been in the other room looking at some Greek artifacts.

“What’s going on here?” He asked, raising an eyebrow at Wednesday.

“Nothing,” said Wednesday and Adam in unison.


“Oh, just Wednesday and Adam being jerks as usual,” I said, shaking my head at them.

That didn’t stop them trying to annoy me as much as possible throughout our museum visit, it wasn’t until I’d clocked them both one on the head that they decided to stop. Well, Wednesday did, Adam still tried. But with great caution. After we’d had enough of the Museum, we decided to explore the city a bit, taking in how different it looks in comparison to our hometown back in the USA - everything had its’ own unique feel to it here, nothing like LA that’s for sure. I was intrigued! The guys from Murderdolls and Black Veil Brides had already seen Manchester, been there done that kind of thing, so it wasn’t really as much of a big deal to them. They were certainly amused by our enthusiasm, that’s for sure.

But no place was complete without us checking out the bars, and Satan’s Hollow was recommended on the list of clubs we had to see - just for how interesting the place looked inside. We definitely felt we were dressed to be in such a place anyway, apparently it was also a venue. Not one we were gonna be playing in, unfortunately. Tomorrow we were gonna be playing in Manchester Club Academy, Andy had pointed it out to me while we were exploring the city, needless to say I was very excited. But also very nervous. Which is why I was thankful we were in a bar where I could drown out my anxiety with some good ole whiskey, but it also meant being in a public bar I had to watch Andy and his band get stopped for pictures by some very delighted fans, I didn’t mind of course - it’s not like I didn’t always get Andy to myself. I just felt a little awkward. I chugged down my drink to try and relax myself, until Wednesday sauntered up next to me.

“Kinda annoying having your boyfriend snatched away by fans, huh?” he teased, sipping his own drink.

“Eh, you get used to it. They’re allowed to spend time with him, I already see enough of him as it is,” I shrugged, chugging more.

“Sounds a little harsh,” said Wednesday, raising an eyebrow.

I almost choked. “I didn’t mean it like that, just that it’s not like I don’t get to see him often, fans can have their time with him all they want y’know?”

Wednesday laughed at my expression. “I’m just messing with you, I know you’re totally cool with all of this. Plus, I think you’ve got a few fans of your own waiting to meet you,” said Wednesday, nodding towards a small group of girls and guys pointing at me and muttering happily.
I smiled and waved at them, signalling for them to come over. They picked up on this and walked over to me, asking for photos and excitedly chatting away to me about tomorrow’s show. It felt good talking to them, and knowing that people actually liked us here. I knew we had fans in the UK, but it never really stuck with me that there could be people outside our small town that enjoyed the stuff we put out. Even when we moved to LA to record more music.

All of it still felt so surreal.

Glancing over I could see Adam was getting his fair share of attention, happily flirting away with a couple of attractive girls in tight skirts practically hanging off of his arm. I can only imagine what it’s gonna be like on the road, thank God I remembered to pack my iPod.

We were at the bar for quite a while until it was time to head back to the hotel to meet up with Josh to get our tour buses sorted. He was standing outside the hotel with another man, who we soon found out was the Murderdolls tour manager with their bus just waiting around the corner for them. Josh was BVB’s tour manager, we happened to be on friendly terms with him as well so that resulted in him agreeing to be our tour manager as well for this tour, for now. Which was incredibly kind of him, he’d even brought along some extra roadies he knew from this city to help us out on tour. He waved at us as we approached him.

“’Sup guys, I can see you already checked out the bars here,” said Josh, smelling the alcohol off of us.

“What can we say? You can’t just not visit a bar when you’re in a differrent country,” said Ashley, throwing on his shades.

“That’s true, anyway - I’m sure you’re dying to see what your bus is like,” said Josh, nodding at me and my band.

“Absolutely! Show me!!” I said, enthusiastically, causing Josh to laugh.

“C’mon, it’s just around here,” he said, guiding us all around the corner where the ‘Dolls had just ventured off to. We stopped just in front of three large buses, all of them with the word Crossland printed on the side of them.

“She’s beautiful,” I whispered, mouth open.

“Then head on in and check her out!” said Josh, unlocking the door and letting us on.

We looked around in awe at the bus, it was nothing like the van we used back in the states, this had everything. TVs, fridge, proper seating lounge, cabinets, seats with tables, and the bunks themselves looked very comfortable! I snagged the bottom bunk and lay sprawled over it, taking in how roomy it was.

Adam laughed at me. “Think they’ll be any room for Andy in there when you guys want some ‘alone’ time?”

“Possibly, we’ll just have to find out - Andy! C’mon over here a second,” I called out.

“What’s up?” Andy asked, looking down at me.

“Here, come see if you can fit in here with me,” I said, scooching over to one side.

Andy chuckled and got inside next to me, he just about fit and it was still comfy with the two of us inside.

“Looks like we fit, guess I’m never leaving,” said Andy, smirking and putting an arm around me.

I snuggled up to him. “That’s fine by me.”

”Ugh, please warn us if you guys start going at it at any point in time,” said Hannah, grimacing.

We just laughed at her. “We’ll try to, but I can’t guarantee anything.” I said, winking at Andy.

“Plus I’m sure you and Markus will be getting your own bit of action soon enough,” Adam teased,

Hannah blushed bright red and rewarded Adam with a punch to arm, causing him to almost fall over.

“Agh! Jeez, I was only messing around,” said Adam, rubbing his throbbing arm.

“Well, I hate to cut this tour bus moment short but I’m gonna be stealing your vocalist for the rest of the evening,” said Andy, pulling me out of the bunk with him.

Adam narrowed his eyes, still rubbing his arm. “What? Didn’t get enough fun last night?” Adam teased.

Andy smirked. “Maybe, possibly, we’ll find out soon enough if this night tops last night’s antics,” said Andy, winking at me.

I grinned. “Sorry Adam, still it’s the first day of the tour tomorrow - gotta have our alone time while it lasts!”

”I think I’m sleeping on the bus tonight, I don’t wanna be hearing any of tonight’s alone time!” said Hannah, disappearing into her bunk with her favorite book, causing us to laugh.

“Well, see ya in the morning then guys!” I said, waving at them all before heading out of the tour bus and towards the hotel once again.

We spotted the ‘Dolls chilling outside beside their bus, they spotted us and waved.

“Off to have your last bit of alone time?” Roman asked, grinning.

“You betcha!” I replied, sticking my tongue out.

“Have fun, lovebirds!” said Racci, making kissing sounds and causing us to laugh in response.

Once we’d disappeared into the hotel Joey looked up at Wednesday with a sly smirk on his face. Wednesday raised his eyebrow, a cigarette held between his fingers.

“What?” he asked, taking a drag from it.

“Must suck not being able to get a piece of that anymore,” Joey teased.

“Oh, shut up!” said Wednesday, nudging Joey. The rest laughed at his reaction.

It was just a joke, and Wednesday knew that, but there was some truth to it annoyingly enough. Wednesday did catch himself thinking that quite a few times, even moreso lately that they’ve met up once again. He didn’t have time to think about it much before, what with being busy with his own projects and music, they didn’t even see each other much. If at all. Wednesday never gave it much thought up until now, and it irritated him that he’d began thinking that way of all times.

This tour was going to be interesting, he could feel it.

Notes

This is all the chapters I have written so far but I'm currently working on chapter 4 so it shouldn't be too long until that's up!

Enjoy~