``Waiting for the Go

[cera]

Cera tilted her head to the side as she thought for a moment. "I could always feel you up when we get board of skating?" she offered. "Oh course, that would be awkward when the whole 'what'd you guys do for fun today?' question comes up on the bus." Besides, Cera had this thing about sleeping with band members. Sleeping with members of other bands was one thing, sleeping with members of your own band was a whole other. It made things waaayy more complicated than they should be and just wasn't what Cera needed. Besides, she didn't even know if Hol swung that way, or even half way that way. Cera almost doubted it, the girls just seemed too straight... she did have nice breast though.

Giving a small hop of sudden excitement as they left the crappy store, she clapped her hands together. "You can go in the nude! That way you can't end up on the worst dressed list, because you're not dressed. And it'll surely impress near everyone... or repulse some. Like that queer, Freddie something-or-another." Cera started laughing at herself, mainly because the sudden burst of energy that had overcome her. She really didn't know where it can come from. Maybe she was too tired? She fell into laughing fits a lot when she was too tired, and at the moment, she was laughing too hard to actually walk. So instead, she shuffled off to the side and bent down holding onto her stomach. If she didn't attract attention before, she probably was now. After a moment, choking back another giggle-fit, she wiped tears from her eyes. Managing to stand again, she apologized for the sudden laughter. "Sorry, I don't know what came over me. I think it was because I had literally pictured Freddie puking all over his pink tux because he unwillingly saw a woman naked." Cera clamped both hands over her mouth to keep herself from laughing. Yeah, she needed a nap.

[`Holland Petrov]

Holly didn't swing that way, not really. She supposed if she got really drunk she could maybe end up with another girl but she wouldn't be doing it otherwise. Though she giggled and grinned at Cera's suggestion. "Sure, yeah. That works." she teased. And like Cera she didn't think the idea of getting involved with her band members. And again, she didn't mind sleeping with other bands members. She thought that was just fine and dandy in her book. Though she didn't make a habit of doing that either. Which she found a shame since she is woman with womans needs and those guys were always around the same place as her. And Holly was rather pleased with her, rather large, breasts, thank you very much. And she'd be glad to hear that others enjoyed them too.

Hol stared at the other girl, walking with her still. "I am so not going to go naked!" she squealed. She let go of Cera when she started howling. "And I love how you find the image of me naked, hilarious." she said, though she doubted that Cera was still listening by then. She stood at the side, blushing and watching her bandmate cackle. She even reached back in to her bag and pulled on her sunglasses again. So much for low key, huh. Though she could guess what had brought this on, she personally found everything hilarious when she was deprived of sleep. Though usually that was after an entire night without sleep. "How long have you been awake?" she asked Cera, prodding her shoulder a few times as the girl leaned on the wall for support.

Though right then she was looking around for someplace that would sell coffee now, wondering if boosting Ceras caffeine level would help any. Though as she seen it, it could go either way. She'd either level Cera out or she'd make her worse. But Hol wondered whether she could get any worse. Especially now people were looking at them curiously, including a group of teenage boys who were narrowing their eyes and trying to work out if the hysterical girl was the drummer from the band or not. Though they couldn't tell about Hol since she was now, looking around and trying to pretend this wasn't really happening - witnessing her drummer laughing her head off outside a gap store. But it was and she was going to have to deal with it. Which meant she was tugging on Ceras arm, "Come on, coffee time!" she said and smirked to herself.

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[cera]

Cera couldn't answer her question, it was really a matter of how many bottles of 'five hour energy' drinks she had empty in her bunk. So instead, she held up her finger and looked in her purse. She pulled out two bottles. "At least since yesterday morning," she confirmed. Cera had a weird habit of having nightmares when she was jet lagged, so when she was jet lagged, she tried her damnest not to sleep. Which often resulted in lots of energy drinks, a bottle of caffeine pills, and she couldn't tell you how many frozen coffee drinks. She finally removed her hands from her mouth. "I'll be fine. Hysteria only lasts a few moments," that made her sound like an out right physco which at the moment, most people seemed to be looking at her like she was.

When Cera noticed the group of teenage boys, she couldn't resist it, she just had to. "Hey cuties," she blew them a kiss and gave them a small wave before she was quickly pulled away by Holly. Okay, so she really was back in her right mind, but she let Hol pull her along, just in case something else might happen to set her off, besides if she played it right, Hol might be the one to buy the coffee. She really wanted coffee now, and that would probably help keep her from another 'hysteria' fit until she was able to get back to the bus and actually get about twelve hours of sleep. Which, in a way, kind of sucked. She still wanted to help Holly pick out a dress for the Grammies, but she would probably be of better service once she got some sleep. More sleep, less energy drinks. It's what her dad used to tell her the first year she was working as a studio drummer. She had listened up until joining the tour. Then it became less sleep, more drinking. Which was sad.

But Cera's main focus, even after joining the tour, had been drumming. It was really the only thing she knew anymore. Sure, she could skateboard, but there really wasn't any money in being able to guide a board around on a flat surface. Nope, drummer was all she had. Suddenly feeling sentimental, she wrapped her arm around Holly's arm and rested her head on Hol's shoulder (probably making her look like a drunk). "What are your plans after the tour? And like, if the band ever broke up. Which would be really sad." Cera had never put much thought into after. She was too busy living in the now.

[`Holland Petrov]

Holly nodded to the other girls reply. "I guessed that. Oh my god, Cera." she said and grinned, rolling her eyes and biting her lip as her gold coloured eyes scanned the mall again, trying to seek out the nearest coffee shop. Eventually her gaze landed on one and she nodded once to herself. Bingo. She didn't like it when she had to survive on rockstar. She saved that for when they were playing a show, it gave her that little extra buzz. Which could be achieved through alcohol, though it was generally frowned on when you started drinking before taking to the stage. Plus she usually wore high heels and getting drunk and prancing around on stage in six inch heels doesn't usually work. That was usually when she would fall in to the crowd.

Hols eyebrows raised in to her hairline when she heard, and seen, Cera and what she'd done to the boys, all of who looked extremely pleased with that. Even more so when they realised it was both Holly and Cera. "Cera! They're like.. younger than me! You will so be arrested." she said and smirked, tugging the girl away now. And if they were younger than Hol it was saying something, the girl was barely nineteen. She tugged Cera through the mall now. "Come on. I'll buy you a quadruple shot of espresso or something." she grinned, now just walking with the older girl to the nearest starbucks. Leading the way in to the, thankfully, not too crowded coffee shop. She didn't mind if they didn't get the chance to go a super shopping spree for Hols grammy outfit. They'd get her something eventually. And so for now she moved with Cera to the counter, ordering her own caramel coffee .. thing and whatever Cera wanted.

She paused as she thought about the question. "Hmm." she started, though then had to pay for the coffees, taking her own and leading Cera to a table before answering the question. "I don't know. I mean, there isn't much I'm good at." she admitted, sitting down and dumping her bag, removing her sunglasses again. "I guess what I'd do, if the band broke up, is cry. Then I don't know, maybe try going solo? Or starting a new one? I've never thought about it." she said and sipped her drink. She frowned momentarily, she preferred living for the present and dealing with things as they happened. "What about you?" she asked back.

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[cera]

Cera had to laugh. "So what? Jail bate can be hot. You've seen Zadyr from 'Who Killed Marilyn?', right? I'd bang him in a heart beat. 'Cept I think he's gay," Cera had to stop and think about that one. Zadyr was either gay or just kept to himself. Oh well, he made an interesting friend and party goer. If the two ever got drunk enough together and ended up doing anything, she wouldn't mind, not in the least. "Besides, weren't we just saying something about the thrill of secrecy or some bull crap like that?" she was pretty sure they had. Then again, they had been implying crew and band members, not random kids in the shopping mall. And honestly, Cera had no intention of going to jail over a couple under aged teens who by some miracle recognized them.

Cera had never been a fan of star bucks, but since it was Holly's treat, she wouldn't whine. Instead, she ordered a double shot mocha espresso (or some crap like that) with extra sugar. With her coffee in hand she followed Holly over to the small table and sat down. Taking a small sip, she found her drink to be too hot and burnt the tip of her tongue, so she pulled off the lid and let it sit there to cool down. "I've never thought about it either. But when you do, you come to realize not everything is forever. Which sucks, but I mean, it's fun so you have to make the best of it.." She finally was able to take a full drink from her coffee, almost instantly feeling the caffeine flow through her and getting her back to her starting point. "If the band did break up, I'd probably cry, but go back to be a studio drummer. But it's hard to say if we will break up. I mean, not after this tour anyway. We were together before, I bet we'll be together long after too. Who knows, maybe we'll last longer than any of the other bands on tour with us and make it to round two of Pyromania?" Cera wasn't normally such an optimist, but it made her feel better to think that that was a possibility, and she hoped it would happen.

[`Holland Petrov]

"Jail bait can be hot, true, but older guys are waaay hotter." she grinned and shrugged. Wondering if she should let Cera in on her secret.. Eh. She'd save it for another time. "And yeah, secrecy is good when you're off banging the guys from the crew or whoever, but there would be no secrecy with the public." she grinned. We all know what happens when 'famous' people got with the the 'not famous' they ended up as front cover stories when the guy, or girl, sold the story for twenty five bucks. Holly did not like that idea one little bit. And had worried briefly about her exboyfriend selling her out, telling her secrets to the press. But thankfully he did not, he had more class than that. Plus they didn't exactly end on his terms so.. But Holly didn't think of any of that, just sipped her own drink again.

"I know they say nothing is forever but I like to think we can go the distance. I mean, most bands break up because the members end up hating each other and shit, but we seem solid enough, don't we?" she said and raised her eyebrows in thought. She herself thought they all got on pretty well, there were occasional arguments but those usually happened when the band were tired and cranky and it was usually over moving each others stuff on the bus. But they never seemed to fall out for real. After they all got their rest it was fine and things seemed to go back to normal. She stirred her drink thoughtfully. "I think we can make it to round two. I believe we can." she said after a moment, looking back up at the other girl and nodding. She was an optimist most of the time actually. Preferring to look on the bright side of things rather than thinking the worst. "And even if we do eventually part ways I don't think it's going to be for a while yet." she said and nodded again before sipping at her cold coffee.

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[cera]

After sitting there in silence, thinking about older men, she shook her head completely disagreeing. "Older men are perverts. I'm constantly told I look sixteen and then asked if I'm single. It's like 'eww, you'd only go out with me if I was sixteen?'. So see, everyone likes a little jail bate." She nodded as if to confirm this. Cera had a personal rule, no one three years older than her, and no one four inches shorter than her. The height thing was more for the fact that she found it such a turn off her her having to bend and kiss the guy. That was his job. Plus, she hated standing to a guy without heels on and towering over him. She'd undderstand it if she were wearing heels, but when she wasn't, that was just sad.

"i think we're solid enough. I'm pretty sure we'll last a lot longer than a lot of bands. It's still just the thought though, you know? It's an overly sad thought, that'll probably end up making me depressed if I keep thinking about it. So topic change!" She took a long drink of her coffee, her eye's wandering. "Oh! Gossip. Okay, so I've heard something about there being this little fight between Lars and Luke over some reporter chick, or some bullshit like that. Have you heard anything about it? I've checked all the gossip sites, but for a reporter being involved, they've kept it awefully quiet." She'd actually just heard something from a roadie passing by that Luke was the reason Lars had thrown up all over the stage in London. Something about Luke messing with Lar's head. But she had also heard about the two of them in a little tift over a media member following the tour. Normally, Cera didn't like gossip, but she couldn't help it, she needed to get her mind off band break-up's and it was the first thing that popped up.

[`Holland Petrov]

"I didn't mean like.. guys who are forty! I just meant, a bit older. Cause the guy I like is older than me, by, oh a few, uh, years." she said and nodded then grinned, shrugging. "And I've never been with a guy who is younger than me." she said then thought for a moment. "Except that roadie. I think he was younger than me, I'm not sure.." she said distractedly and sipped through her straw again. Holland didn't exactly have rules when it came to dating. The only things she didn't want were guys who were really short, though she's tiny herself so it wasn't so bad, guys who were old enough to be her dad or pretty boys who could outshine her. No one wants a boyfriend that can make them look ugly.

She nodded along a bit as Cera spoke. She thought it was sad too, though she wasn't about to let it get her down, that just wasn't her style. She jumped slightly at Cera's exclamation then raised her eyebrows as the girl went on. She had heard whispers and rumours but she wasn't really sure what to believe or what was going on. "I heard that, yeah. But I don't know what to believe or not. To be honest, I never pinned them as guys who would fight over a girl, really. But I did overhear some roadies talking and they were saying some crap about how they thought what happened in London was intentional." she said and shrugged. "But I don't know. I mean, it's all just gossip right?" she said and bit her lip before taking a sip of her iced drink once more, though not taking the straw from lips straight away, distracted before bumping back down on to earth. "What do you think?" she asked Cera and made a face. She'd heard all the gossip and whispers and all the other bullshit that circulated through the crew on tour but she'd never really given it a second thought until now. It made her wonder what would happen if they were rumours about you, or your band or, well, anyone. Is this what happened? The stories would circulate through the crew until the whole tour knew your secrets? It was a disconcerting notion and not something Hol wanted to test any time soon.

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[cera]

"If they're old enough to be your poppy, you had better find someone else, because most likely you're just a gold digger." That seemed to be true in most cases. It seemed like nearly everyone who married a man old enough to be their father (or in same cases grandfather) was only after the money. The ones who did it for love... eww, what the hell were they thinking? "I'll only sleep with a guy if they're three years up or down from my own age, with the few rare exceptions."

She downed the rest of her coffee.

She listened to Holly, trying to place all the different rumors that she'd heard together. "They seem more like the type to silently terrorize each other. Like, I can't see either of them getting physically violent with each other. If it is over a chick, that's pretty lame, and she'd pretty shitty, because you know she had to of caused part of it. And I heard London was intentional too. Like I said, they seem more like the type to murder each other from a distance. But London sucked, because we were on stage next." They had to wait even longer while they cleaned the stage up. But Cera couldn't put too much blame on Lars. She'd been dehydrated to the point of puking before too.

Cera played around with her cup, before she started laughing again. Only this time is was the 'hysterical-fall-to-the-floor-and-die' kind, it was just a short chuckle. "This is sad too, you know. All the gossip that flies around the tour site. I mean, it makes me want to know what people say about all of us. I mean, I don't really care what they say about me personally, but I care about the band as a whole. For me personally, I'm will to do some crazy shut just to get a rumor going." She'd done it once before, wasn't nothing big, but it was still fun the way people stared at her for a while afterward until they realized gossip couldn't always be believed and went onto the next juicy piece.

[`Holland Petrov]

Holly made a face. "Nah. Not a gold digger. I'm not exactly lacking funds right now. And the thought of being with a guy who was all.. old and wrinkly makes me want to puke red, white and blue." she said and made a face. "I won't date guys who are super old or much younger than me. But this guys is only, I dunno, five or six years older." she said and blushed deeply, sipping her drink again. It would take her a while to finish that coffee so there would be yet another starbucks container in the trash on the bus. Or stuck down the side of Hols bunk. Though that wasn't the worst thing you could find stuck in there.

She agreed with Cera about the violence. "Yeah, plus I doubt you'd want to get straight out physical with the guy who does the tour or the guys who's in the band on the tour. You know? Especially with all the press. It would be plastered all over Freddies, and everyone elses, websites and then everyone would be in deep shit." she said and sighed, playing with her straw. "If this is really all about a girl then that is beyond lame." she nodded. "Especially if this girl is letting this go on around her, I mean. If it was me and I'd ended up causing such a massive explosion of hatred with these guys, so much so they want the other dead, I would not be sticking around to date either of them." she said and made a face. Though of course, she was still unsure of what really happened but so what.

"Oh, yeah I know. I'm kind concerned one day it will be some big ass rumour about our band that ends up being the talk of the tour." she said and shrugged. She hadn't exactly endured any real gossip about her or anything like that and for that she was thankful. And even more so that she hadn't heard any chinese whispers about her band either.

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[cera]

Cera tilted her head to the side. "Five year's isn't too bad. I'd draw the line at ten. But tell me, do I at least get to know who the new mystery man is?" She asked curiously, with a little pout on her lips. Holly had gotten her curious with the sudden talk of liking someone. Cera herself had several crushes, but there wasn't any that she would actually act on, but from the sounds of it, Holly had taken a little more than just a little liking to whoever it was she kept talking about. Plus, Cera liked to pry into others peoples business, it kept her busy.

"Oh my god. The press would be all over it, and then the cops or some bullshit would investigate, and the your would probably be shut down. No, I think if there is a fight going on, they're smart enough to keep it to themselves or else everyone would be ruined. Hell, we'd be ruined just for being associated with a crooked tour!" She wasn't sure she should go so far as to call it a crooked tour, seeing as for all they knew it was just rumors still. She actually hoped that rumors were all they were. She'd hate for a couple of guys to go at it over a chick. "If I was in her possession and had a couple guys fighting over me, I'd smack them both and tell them I wasn't worth it." Cera giggled to herself a little. "But guys are jealous, overbearing creatures to begin with, so she had to of done something to set them off." Now she knew she was just coming up with her own little story line on what probably wasn't even happening. Maybe she should become a writer over a being a drummer.

"Well, if people do start something about our band, I swear it wasn't me ahead of time," Cera held up the cub scout sign or something like that, even though she knew she was getting it wrong. She prayed that she'd never do anything to cause the band harm.

[`Holland Petrov]

Holly blushed and shrugged slightly to the question. "Just.. he's a guy from the tour. I probably shouldn't say who. I mean, I doubt anything will happen." she said and rolled her eyes at herself. It wasn't that it was some huge secret, she just didn't know if it was clever to tell anyone she had a crush on one of the guys who helped with the tour. She doubted it would be. Especially if that news ever reached the roadies - and thus circulated the tour like the wild fire gossip turned in to.

She nodded along as Cera spoke. "Yeah. There would be super hell to pay if that happened. And I'd hate for us to get dragged down with them." she said and made a face, fiddling with her straw again. "Especially since if that happened I'd have to go kick some ass." she teased and grinned. She smirked when Cera explained what she'd do and nodded a bit. "Yeah. I'd do the same I guess. I don't know." she sighed and sipped her coffee again. "Are guys really like that? I mean, I've never really dated a guy who was the over bearing, jealous type." she said and half shrugged, looking up and sighing.

She laughed at the cub scout gesture and rolled her eyes. "Don't worry. I won't blame you if I suddenly heard the roadies talking about the band in a bad way." she grinned. "I'll just assume it was another band." she smirked. Holly too hoped she'd never make the mistake of putting the band in an awkward situation. And she'd try and make sure it never happened. Like she'd always try and make sure she never let slip anything about her band mates that could be harmful.

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