Everything was spinning; the lights, my head, the contents in my stomach. My thoughts were flying everywhere and I began to feel sick. I grabbed my sides hoping not to throw my guts up. Mixed emotions were floating through the air. Every breath I took, I found something to be happy/complain about. All this mixed with a soundtrack of velvet vanilla crème and the sudden shrieks of excitement from Alex.

“Surprise!!!” Alex yelped throwing her hands in the air.

                                                             Alex’s pov

Lissa looked at me with large eyes and a mouth swung open to match.

“v…v…veg…v…veg…gas?!?!” she managed to spit out.

“Yes! Wait…are you mad?” she said nothing but just looked at the beautiful lights and scenery around her. She looked like a child in a candy store, but so did I… After about twenty minutes of driving around, we approached a big crème colored house. It had large circular windows all over. It also had five bedrooms in which we didn’t need. But hey, I’m not complaining! I looked up at Alyssa and could see the tears build up in her bright green eyes. Oh no.

“Welcome home?” I stated nervous as to what her response would be. She just kept her gaze on it the whole time.

“You hate it don’t you?” I asked disappointed.

“No…no I love it…its…magni…fantastical! I’m just trying to soak it all in now...” she said with a smirk.

                                                Alyssa’s pov

Alex just laughed as I parked the car and tried to wake up Natalie.

“I’ll get her you just take your sexy ass upstairs” Alex teased. Walking up the beautiful stone steps, I thought about how abnormally magnificent my friends are and how fortunate I am to have them. What would I do without them? I’d probably still be in New Jersey taking the same shit from Shaun. He’s really the reason I’m here; to start a new life.

“Damn I’m surprised how hot it is at this time of night!” Natalie stated halfway stumbling behind me. Uhh I’ve had enough surprises for one day. I fiddled with the house key that Alex gave me and finally, I got the glass door to open. I walked in with two of my suitcases in both of my hands and flipped the light switch on with my shoulder. There I stood in awe again until Alex laughed

“Your eyes are going to fall out of their sockets if you do that again!” I giggled and walked around, giving myself a tour of the downstairs.

“No furniture. No TV’s. No appliances. I can’t wait to help decorate when Adam gets here tomorrow!”  Nat said. A smile crept up on my face just from hearing his name. I hadn’t seen him ever since he played a show in New Jersey last year. But, we’ve been really close ever since high school.

“AHHHHHHH!” I yelped as a very loud ringer had corrupted my thinking, and may I add, scared the hell out of me! As mad as I was, I flung the phone open, but then sweetly smiled as I recognized his voice.

“Missy?” Adam asked.

“Oh hey Adam! I can’t wait to see you tomorrow make sure and wake me up as soon as you get here…even if I do bite and growl.” I laughed

“Uh yeah, that’s why I called: I don’t think I can make it by tomorrow or any time soon actually.” I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. My smile reversed before I knew it.

“…and why is that…?” I asked trying not to show any emotion in my voice. But, I couldn’t hide it.

“I’m too busy for you. Oh wait, that came out wrong. I’m just too busy to see you” the sadness and anger rose up in me.

“Bu…b…but…wha…” I stuttered trying to put a sentence together.

“Oh don’t get mad, I got you a flower…it’s like yellow or some shit. Yeah, but I fed-ex’d it to you. It should be there by now”

“Adam you’re an ass!” I help my composure enough to reply.

“I know, but what can you do?” that was the last thing he said before he hung up. I dropped the phone and started to cry on the ground. Behind my sobs, I heard the doorbell ring and the thought about the flower just made me cry even more. I waited for Alex or Natalie to come downstairs and answer the door but naturally, to make things worse, they didn’t. As forcefully as ever, I charged to the door. I cant believe he’d do this to me. I swung the door open and without warning, got tackled to the ground.

“I work for fed sex and I’m here to deliver something to you.” I heard a sarcastically sexy man’s voice say. I wiped my tears with my shoulder (yes it comes in handy when I can’t use my hands) and seen the infamous Adam Lazzara smile shining down upon me.

“Lissa you mumble so much in your sleep. I felt like feeding you to a vicious man eating liger last night!” I faintly heard. I shot my head up to see Natalie and Alex laughing coffee-in-hand at me. I sat up and noticed that my blanket was where my pillow was suppose to be and my pillow was where my blanket was suppose to be.

“Dude I think you did.” Alex laughed at the sight. I just rubbed my eyes and sighed when I seen it was only 8 O’clock. I decided that instead of complaining, I would just call him. So, I grabbed my coffee and walked to the bathroom while punching the didgets into my phone.

Hello? I asked as I heard some movement in the background.

Oh my god Lissa I’m so happy you called. I can’t wait until you get down here!

Well someone’s a ray of freaking sunlight! I can’t wait until I get down there either. But one question?

Yes missylissy?

Haha, um, where is this place that I shall call my home?

That’s for me to know and for you to…soon find out. And anyways Missy, this is the first time that I get to say this; I know something you don’t know I know something you d-

And the last time I laughed at his singing

Haha grumpy well I’ve got to go. Fred wants to practice a new song

Man it’s what, 8 O’clock? You must be really nervous about all of this!

Well it is our first headlining tour and it starts next week so yeah…           he trailed off

Okay well I love you good luck with the singing and the mic swinging

Nice rhyming I love you tell Natalie to be careful driving and stuff.

Okay I will bye

Bye Missy

I hung up and heard the door close. Just then, my phone went off. I received a text message that read

Hurry up Lissa. We want to get there by tomorrow morning. Xxoo Natt

She has to be joking! Uhhhh. I ran BACK to the bathroom, put on god-only-knows-what, grabbed some flipped flops, my cell phone, my coffee, and ran to the car.

“Wow someone looks gorgeous this morning! Jump in.” Natalie teased at what I decided to wrap around my body this morning

“Thanks Natalie you’re really kind.” I replied with a grin.

“But you love me more! Anywho…crank up the tunes!!!” Alex said dancing from side to side while bobbing her head. “What cd’s do we have?” I asked not directly to anyone.

“Um, let’s see here. We have TBS, My Chem, and…All American Rejects?” Natalie suggested but soon after, we all agreed…

“Adam!” we said in unison. She put it in and we listened to half of the album so far, singing each song from beginning to finish. It was soothing to hear Adams voice. He’s so talented in everything he does. Damn, I miss that boy so much! I mean come on; he’s been there for me ever since the beginning of high school. He’s my best friend in the world but sometimes I think that we worry too much about eachother. I put my arm on the side of the door laying my head on it gently as I closed my eyes.

                                                  Natalie’s pov

“Anyone hungry?” I half-teased at the fact that it was now 11 O’clock pm and we only had one meal today. Silence. With no reply, I looked through the rear view mirror at the now sleeping Alex and Lissa.

“Uh just great…” I murmured to myself and took a deep breath in while looking at the stars in the corner of my eye. Just then, it popped into my head; the cd that the boy gave me was still in my purse. So, being the bored person I was, I dug through my bad until I seen a shiny cd with Panic! 1392 jwalkrox written on it. I plopped it in the player and turned on track number one. Wow these dudes aren’t that bad. I actually really like the feel of their music. Too bad there were only three songs on the cd. I replayed them over and over again until I found myself singing bits and pieces of it.

After an hour or so, I decided that I was too tired to keep driving but I didn’t want to stop off because the house was only about 35 miles away and I wanted to get there…I hate road trips. So, I pulled over and gently shook the girl’s arms until they woke up. After explaining myself, Alyssa agreed to drive saying that if Alex was put behind the wheel, within two minutes, our car and a tree would be having sex.  

                                                           Alyssa’s pov

“Dude, I don’t even know where were going remember?” I asked still a little bit grumpy that I had to wake up. But I have to admit, I did have one long ass nap!

“Owww!” I complained as I got hit in the head by a crumbled up piece of paper. Opening it up, I realized that it was directions to “home” as I should soon call it. I had to laugh at how messy Natalie’s handwriting was. I pressed the play button on the player and found that it wasn’t Adam’s voice or matt, Eddie, Fred, or marks instrumental talent I was listening to. Wow this dude has an overly deep sexy voice. Haha oh man, I bet if he was a male stripper, his name would be Velvet Vanilla Crème…damn it, my brain is still asleep. Maybe now I should concentrate on the road now that I realize my life is at stake. After about two hours of getting lost mistaking Nat’s b’s for d’s, m’s for n’s, and g’s for qs’, Alex woke up. She nervously assured me that we were about 10 minutes away so; I sat back and relaxed in my chair until I noticed an up-incoming sign that read “welcome to Las Vegas”.