When we got to their dressing room everybody looked up. I felt a little bit misplaced but it was soon gone when they all smiled and introduced themselves.
"Hi, you must be Mairin?" the first one said. He had dark hair, a big beard and was just as tall as Austin and Ian. He was dressed in a black tee, skinny jeans and had a flannel shirt on that made him look like a lumberjack.
"You can call me Rin" I said and smiled.
"I’m Tyler" he continued hand shook my hand. The next one to come forward was a bit short, around only about 5’9. He was asian and looked like one of those typical pop singers from Japan. I stared at him when he gave me a flashing white smile. His skin was pale, he had dyed dark orange hair and was dressed in a pink tank and black skinny jeans. The only thing that made him look a little bit harder was the tattoo on the back of his hand. Like Alex Gaskarth he had a rose.
"I’m Ryuzaki, but you can call me Zack" he said and I shook his hand as well. The next one was not as tall as Tyler and Ian but around 6’1. He had tattooed arms, was really skinny and had a beautiful smile. His eyes was green brown and his skin a light brown. His hair was a messy and in the color most people would describe at oat. He had a beanie on, a big white el rey tank and black skinny jeans.
"Eduardo, but you can call me Ed" he said and smiled.
"Rin" I said and he smiled even more. The last one was 6’1 as well and had tattoos all over his arms and chest as well. His hair was brown and curly and his eyes looked like ice.
"I’m William, but you can call me Spot" he said and I looked at him.
"Spot?" I asked and they all laughed a little.
"I used to be the mascot at my old high school, a dog… and people started to call me Spot" he said and shook his head by the memory.
"Spot then" I said and laughed a little.
"So you know Of Mice and Men?" Zack asked.
"I’m Tino’s younger cousin" I explained and looked at the backstage pass.
"But you look nothing alike" Spot said and looked surprised.
"Nah, they have familiar shapes on their mouths and the same dark hair" Tyler said. He was the first one to say that, and I nodded. It was the truth.
"You don’t look like a hardcore girl" Spot said and looked at me.
"Well I’m not, or… I am now I guess since I’ve really started to enjoy the music, but before this I was a queen of Manhattan and lived to party, fuck and drink as much as I could" I said and laughed a little.
"Dear God… let me guess, rich bastard?" Zack said and stared at me.
"My dad owns a few companies" I shrugged.
"Princess Rin" Spot teased and bowed before me. We all laughed and I shook my head.

I was standing in the back, waiting for El Rey to go on and finally they did.
"We’re El Rey and we’re here to fuck some shit up" Ian teased and the music started. I closed my eyes and listened. Tyler and Ed on guitar, Spot on bass and Zack on drums. And Ian on vocals. He had a nice unclean vocals and it sounded pretty good. But the surprise came when he did clean. From having such a bright unclean to going to a very mysterious, dark clean voice. I loved it and it made me shiver. In pleasure of course.
"I imagine you in the sky sometimes, flying free and being independent. Living your life like it was meant to be, a life without me" he sang and I shivered again. They finished their sets and they actually managed to get one wall of death and one really big pit. I was impressed.
"They actually sounded pretty good" Tino said beside me and I jumped a little.
"I like his voice" I said and nodded.
"What are you going to do about Ian then?" he asked.
"I don’t know, should I do something?" I asked and swallowed.
"Well it’s up to you… To be honest I thought you had a thing for Austin" he said and looked at me. I looked at him and I blushed a little.
"How did you..?" I asked.
"Know? Well… I actually saw him kiss you the other day in Manhattan, I was going back for a second time to the bus when he kissed you" he shrugged. I swallowed and nodded.
"I have a thing for Austin, but I don’t know what he think about me… And I don’t want to be toyed with" I said.
"Well I guess you have a lot of trouble coming up then" Tino said.
"What do you mean?" I asked and the first thing that came to my mind was Alice. Was there something going on there?
"Because El Rey have been appointed to come with us for the rest of the tour, so you will have to deal with them both for the remaining three weeks" Tino said and gave me a small grin. I stared at him and let out a small sigh. I was going to have to deal with them both…

- - -

I was sitting in the lounge, just staring out into air and wondering what I was going to do. Austin was nice and I really liked him, but now Ian came out of nowhere and he really did interest me as well. They both caught my interest. And that made everything so… Fucked up. I was used to having it easy. And this was not easy. Not at all.
"Hey" someone said and I jumped a little, getting back from my thoughts. It was Austin and he looked at me, with a half smile.
"Hey" I said and made room for him on the couch where I was reclining. He sat down and looked at me, and I could see that he was going to ask something. And that he did.
"So… Ian? Is that serious?" he asked.
"Seriously Austin?" I answered back.
"What? I want to know" he said and shrugged a little.
"I’ve known about him for a day and I’ve only met the guy for a few hours" I said and looked at him.
"But he gave you his number, and he seems to be interested in you" he said. I looked at him and now I understood… he was jealous.
"You’re jealous" I whispered. Austin looked at me.
"No… No I’m… Yeah" he confessed.
"Austin, for the moment you don’t have anything to be jealous of" I said.
"For the moment? So there might be something in the future?" he asked.
"Well El Rey is coming on tour with us, and you never know what will happen" I shrugged and Austin looked at me. Then he pushed me down on the couch and he hovered over me, looking me in the eyes.
"I guess I have to prepare for a little fight then" he whispered. He then roughly kissed me and I got a little bit surprised, but I kissed him back.
"If you play your cards right you don’t even have to fight" I whispered when he parted his lips from mine. He looked at me, thinking.
"Challenge accepted" he whispered and kissed me again.