*Megan*
A month has passed since graduation, and still it is so surreal to me. The fact that I'm out of school, and considered to be an adult. But let's not forget the other surreal thing, I'm going to be having in baby in just under 7 months. I'm already 10 weeks along, and it seems to be coming by so fast. Thankfully, Doomerz won't be able to hurt me anymore because he recently moved to Washington state.
It is July, and the boys have been on the Warped Tour for the last month. They offered for me to go with them, and I couldn't help but agree to it. To make it even better, I got to meet most of their crew since they all were on the bus with us. I already knew Flyzik, but I got to meet Matt who goes by his last name Colussy, Danny, Alex who goes by Grieco, their merch guy Vinny, Evan and Ian.
Right now we're between states, and just chilling on the bus doing whatever we feel like. At some point, I put on my Ipod but I play it aloud, forcing the others to listen to it. One of the first songs to come on is Caraphernelia by Pierce The Veil, except for its an acoustic version. I sit there and fiddle with my phone as I listen to the song, and the part comes up, "What if I can't forget you? I'll burn your name into my throat, I'll be the fire that'll catch you and what's so good about picking up the pieces? None of the colors light up anymore of this hole." When it comes up, I sing along which is very natural for me to do.
"Wow." Danny says in shock as he's warming up a hot pocket.
"What?" I ask looking at him confused, yet smiling.
"Your voice is amazing." He answers. "Guys come check out Megan's voice!" Oh god, this is going to be embarrassing. Just then, they all come running from the back lounge and jump onto the couches staring at me.
"Megan, show them your voice!" Danny yells.
"I don't know. I personally hate it." I respond.
"Oh come on babe, if Danny says your voice is good, it has to be great." Jack tells me.
"Fine." I sigh. I wait for the right moment to jump into song. As Caraphernelia ends, Dear Maria, Count Me In by the boys themselves comes onto my ipod. Well, here it goes. As I start to sing, I realize no words are coming out. "I can't do it."
"Yes you can, come on, I want to hear your voice." Alex begs.
"What if you guys don't like my voice?" I ask them nervously.
"We will! Trust me. If Danny did, we will too." Rian answers. I go back and forth contemplating it, and notice the song is coming soon to an end. Then the lyric comes up, "Take a breath, don't it sound so easy? I've never had a doubt now I'm going crazy, watching from the floor." I have it perfectly planned when I'm going to start singing.
As the bridge ends, the last chorus comes up and I instantly sing along "I've got your picture, I'm coming with you. Dear Maria, count me in. There's a story at the bottom of this bottle and I'm the pen."
"Babe, your voice is beautiful!" Jack yells jumping up and running at me and hugging me. "Why were you so scared?"
"I don't know. I thought you guys would hate it." I laugh nervously.
"No, just wow. I'm speechless." Zack says. Just then Alex gasps.
"I have an idea!" He yells out of nowhere. "Why don't you sing Dear Maria with us for the rest of the tour?"
"Oh, I don't know. Just because you guys like my voice, doesn't mean the fans will." I say nervously.
"Well, think about it and let us know." He responds. "We would love for you to do it!" Wow that would be so surreal. The fact that I can perform with the boys is something that definitely doesn't happen a lot. As much as I don't like the idea of showing my voice to a whole crowd of people, I can't pass it up.
"You know what?" I say. "I'll do it." I smile at them and they all run up to me and hug me.
"Great! I'm so excited to perform it with you!" Alex yells giving me a kiss on the cheek, causing me to laugh nervously.
"Woah, slow down." Jack laughs. "That's my girl you're kissing." We continue to laugh and enjoy ourselves as we pull up to next venue and go to sleep to get some rest for the long day we have tomorrow.