Acting Like A Guy

Today is Valentine’s Day which means loner day for me and Alan. Everyone’s girlfriends/wives/fiancés or whatever else have flown in to spend the day with their loved one. Austin is abandoning me and Alan’s loner day because he’s gotten himself a lunch date with some girl he’d met this morning at Starbucks. Lee, the guitarist from the headlining band is joining our loner day because his girlfriend couldn’t get time off work to fly out here. It’s weird just talking about girlfriends because I’ve never had one, for obvious reasons. When the guys ask me I either turn an old boyfriend into a girl or try to remember one of Alex’s girlfriend’s. Me, Alan and Lee have decided just to spend the day in the venue like we’d normally do. A couple of crew member’s hang with us and we just play drinking game’s without the alcohol.

“This sucks” Alan huffed while lying on the floor that will soon have hundreds of fans; screaming, jumping, crying, falling and moshing. “I’m going out to hang with our fans” He said getting off the floor.

“Yeah me too” Lee muttered getting off an amp that will be used later. “Alex, come take pictures of it” I nodded and followed behind the guys with my camera.

Already outside there were about 30 fans waiting to get inside the venue. When the two guys approached the small group of people, mostly girls, some screamed and went crazy excited, others just acted normal. I took pictures of the boys with every single one of the kids, a couple of the girls cried when they met either Alan and/or Lee. It was something really weird to experience, whenever they do meet and greets, I’m always doing something else meaning I don’t go, so this is so strange. One girl stood out for me, she had big curly hair and was really skinny. When I took a picture of her and Lee I noticed some cuts and scars on her arms.

“Hug the girl, man and tell her everything will be alright” I whispered in Alan’s ear before he went to get a picture with her. He looked at me strange and pointed to her wrists discreetly, he nodded and hugged her. I took a couple photos of that, and then we went inside because we had seen everyone.

“Well that wasted an hour and a half, everyone should be back soon” Lee said, I love Lee’s accent. Anything he says just sounds so funny, he sounds like the bald guy Karl on the Ricky Gervais Show.

“We won’t be so lonely anymore” Alan yelled really loudly and hugged a nearby pillar. I shoved him as I walked past and muttered ‘loser’ under my breath.

Instead of doing what we’re supposed to do, we just went onto me and Alan’s bus and broke out the Mario Kart game. It was Alan’s turn to be Donkey Kong so I took Browser and Lee took Wario, we all took motorbikes instead of cars and raced about.

“That date sucked, I wish I’d stayed here with you guys” Austin groaned walking onto the bus with lipstick on his cheek. “She turned out to be one of those crazy fans, she jumped me in the bathroom” we paused the game just to laugh at Austin.

“Nice lipstick, it’s just your colour” I mumbled out from laughing, Austin threw a pillow at me then went to the bathroom. “And that’s why you don’t go on a date with strangers” Alan and Lee just laughed and we un paused the game.

“Did you guys just stay and play that game all day?” Austin asked once he had cleaned himself up and joined us on the floor.

“Nah, we met some fan and played non-alcoholic drinking games” Alan answered as Lee closed the game down. We had to start setting up now.

“That sound way more fun that what I had to endure, that girl was pretty but crazy” We stood up, I grabbed my stuff and we went back inside the venue. Lee just hung out with us in our dressing room, I sat at a table editing the photos from the somewhat meet and greet earlier while Austin went into detail about what happened on his date from hell.

I excused myself a while later because my mom decided to phone me. I talked to her about the tour just updating her and she told me about her job, the kids and her man. She’s super excited because I said I’d meet him the first of April, the second day back from tour. She said that his daughter’s family is coming along with Ace and Alisa so it’s one big family dinner. I cut the call short because a familiar pair of eyes met mine.

“Ali Dallas?” Hannah questioned quietly walking up to me, busted.

“Hey” I smiled, she realised it was me and pulled me into a tight hug. “Come on, we need to talk” I said pulling her into the ladies toilet.

“I haven’t seen you in 14 years, what are you doing here?” She exclaimed really happily. Hannah use to be me and Alex’s best friend in England, we grew up next door neighbour until we had to move away and we never saw Hannah again.

“Can you keep a huge secret for me?” I asked hopping up on one of the sinks, not in the sink just on the wood around it.

“Of course I can” She smiled and fixed her bangs a little.

“Okay I’m the photographer for the support act but I’m pretending to be Alex. Nobody would hire me being just Ali so Alex told me to be him and I got a job within the week. I just want to prove that anything a guy can do, so can a woman” she had an amused smirk on her face.

“That’s the best thing ever! I got really confused when Oli told me a guy called Alexander Dallas was the photographer because I thought of you two straight away. You were always the photographer and he was the cooker” Hannah and I sat in the bathroom for just under an hour sort of catching up over what we had missed.

She told me that she was engaged to Oli, the singer for the lead band and is in the middle of opening up her own tattoo shop. She’s doing what she always wanted to, I’m doing what I always wanted to do and now we’re back together. She also phoned Alex and screamed down the phone at him for ten minutes, it was amusing but all too soon it had to end. Hannah promised to keep my secret as long as I keep in touch with her so we exchanged numbers and left the bathroom.

That night was probably the best night yet for me, Hannah walked about with me while I took pictures and we just told people the truth except I was still Alex in the stories. I got a lot of photos of both bands; I just decided that I would take pictures of the headliners just to spend more time with Hannah. At the end, as usual, I collapsed in my bunk, exhausted just like every other night. Best Valentine’s day ever.

Notes

Outfit of the day :) - http://www.polyvore.com/love_day/set?id=111538040
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