Eleven

After Mir's Uncle Cosmin showed up to take her dad to Romania to be punished, things got so peaceful at home I went crazy. I would get so hyper and bunce off the walls, Mir would yell at me to calm down. I'd plaster a big oof grin and just keep causing mayhem. But then things changed for the band. The people that cared about us at Interscope left and we were abandoned. So we left them and we were sitting unsigned. The four of us went into the studio and we started writing and recording a new album. With being unsigned during this meant we'd write what we want to hear instead of what a record label might want. A bonus was that I'd get to be with Mir a lot more during the recording process since we weren't traveling to producers like we did with Dirty Work.
"Hey what's on your mind Jack," Mir asked when I walked into our house after I was at Alex's.
"Just please don't panic about what I'm going to tell you," I took a seat next to her on the couch.
"Jack' what's wrong," she sounded worried.
"We left Interscope. All Time Low is unsigned right now. Meaning that we're not touring until we sign somewhere," I told her.
"So I'm temporarly laid off," she looked worried. My pay and her pay from the label was vital for us to keep our house and both of our cars.
"We're going to go to studio and record an album. Then we're going to look around and see where we want to sign to. We have enough money saved to last us a while. We'll be fine," I knew that we had plenty of money in our account to keep our house and the cars, but I knew she was worried still.
"Let's hope you guys get signed soon," she was always the worry wart between us. She was always look to the future to amek sure we'd be happy. Which we always were at the end of the day.

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"Hey how was your recording session," Mir asked when I got into our room at the studio.
"It was really long and my caluses have caluses. I had to do a lot of tracking and retracking to line up with what Alex recorded for the rythum," I plopped down on the bed behind her and rested my chin on her shoulder.
"My poor baby," she cooed as she massaged my fretting hand. Her soft hands worked miracles for my rough hands after long recording sessions.

After a couple months of working in studio to get a demo of our next album down so we could show it around to different labels, the four of us guys had in mind only one place that we new loved our band was there when we started. It was a no brainer when we picked to resign with Hopeless. It was like coming home.
"Hey Mir I've got good news," I said as I came in with a bag of goodies for us.
"What's that babe," she asked.
"We're back on Hopeless Records. We just signed the papers. You and I are going to make money again. Our first tour under Hopeless is Warped Tour. We leave for the airport to the bus in late June. But I need your help with something," I put the bag on the couch.
"And what's that," she asked, curious.
"Can you do my skunk patch again," I pulled out the hair dye box.
"Over course. but what else is in the bag," she asked.
"I have some of the bubbly. I also have a second dye box for you to do your hair. I also have this," I pulled out a jewlery box and opened it to reveal necklace I got her since I was celebrating getting resigned that she'd need a new necklace to wear while we went out on tour or to parties.
"It's so beautiful Jack," she beamed. I took the necklace out of the box as she pulled her hair up out of the way. I put it on her and sealed it with a kiss.
"Read the engraving on the back," I told her.
"To the girl with the bright blues eyes that stole my heart. You will always be mine. I love you Mirela Crina Lupei. Love, Jack Bassam Barakat," she also added the date to the reading, the day we first kissed six years ago.
"Who's the bestest boyfriend in the world," I bragged.
"I don't need to answer that," she replied and kissed me.

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We were packing together for Warped. I noticed that she had added a lot of her bikini collection to one suitcase, and all of her summer clothes in another. I had taken her shopping to get shorts for the tour and I got her a pair of All Time Low booty shorts and some of the summer ine tanks from Glamour as well as some of my Jagk line shirts too. I packed too many shoes but I needed some sneakers to go with my collection of clothes. I was stoked to be on tour and to be working with Mir. Even though we've been very serious in our relationship, she still does the PA job for us and she's told me that she lives for it. I love having her on tour, I never get girlfriend withdrawals like Rian and Alex get.
"Ready," I asked her after I got my bags downstairs.
"Yeah," she grabbed her purse and carry on back pack as I took her luggage downstairs to the door.

We got to the bus the next morning, Zack was weight lifting outside the band bus and the crew was packing our gear into the trailer hitched to the crew bus. Mir was staying on the band bus with the four of us and Matt. Lucky for us, Warped was scheduled so off days were full moons.
"About time you two got here," Zack jokingly whined.
"If you weren't so big, I'd punch you," Mir playfully sneered at him, he returned her sneer.
"Jack I've missed you," Alex ran and tackled me to the concrete of the parking lot.
"Alex I missed you too buddy," I cheered.
"What about me Alex," she asked.
"What about you," he said, "I'm just kidding. Come here!"
"That's what I thought bitch," she ran and jumped onto the pile, hugging Alex tightly.

We got to our first venue and we were the first band there, but the day before we were supposed to be there. So the four of us took advantage of it and did our sound check and practiced the songs we picked for our very brief 30 minute set. Mir was busy at work, organizing our stuff on and off the bus. She was going to the store with Matt to get us our food and booze stock. She was also getting herself things she had forgotten to pack. She even went and got me a stock of monster too (I drive her crazy when I'm high on energy drinks).
"So what's the first sign going on your guitar man," Alex asked as I was putting it on my guitar.
"Nice boobs," I replied with a straight face. Mir had just walked in and she was just wearing a black bikini top and matching black denim dukes.
"Glad you noticed," she smirked as she walked by.
"Dude that was timed perfect. She is too good," Alex was laughing at how Mir handled the situation. I was laughing too because it was just too funny how she had walked when I said nice boobs. God I love my girlfriend.

Notes

Jack chapters are so much fun. I'm doing more of them after how I ended this one. Warped Tour will be fun to write. I wish had gone this past summer when ATL headlined it. But no, my mom wouldn't take me since it was music she didn't like, there were no seats, it was at the Palace of Auburn Hills when it came to me Michigan, and it was like 90 that day. But I will try to be faithful to Warped through footage I find on youtube.

Oh and Oh_Clumsy_Words, I have a snow day today (I hate snow but I love it when it cancels classes). So I will try to reach Fourteen today before I have to get off of my desktop and go mobile. Which means I have until 5:30 EST to get there. Otherwise, Straight is getting into my hands and is being layed on repeat on my laptop.

I love everyone,
ToxicxDancefloor