The First Punch

“Axl where are you going? We can’t just leave Gibson here!!” Tony yelled to me.
“You guys can stay here with him I just have to straighten Mike out and get whatever is up his ass corrected.” I yelled back. I must've looked close to killing someone because he ran over to me and grabbed my arm so I couldn’t walk away.
“Seriously Axl though, you can’t go alone. He could beat the living shit out of you..” Tony said concerned and was slowly raising his voice. I pulled out of his grip.
“I need to go and talk to Mike.. Why don’t you just stay with Gibson and help him?” I asked not looking into his eyes for a fear of disappointing him.
“Axl I’m coming with you. Ray, Vic, Jaime, and Lian can stay with him. I just need to make sure that you will be okay.” I nodded and turned around to walk towards the PTV bus. Tony caught up to me and walked by my sight. I was nervously playing with my hands and Tony took hold of my right hand. “Axl It’ll be okay.” I stopped walking and we exchanged a kiss.
When we started to walk again I could see the bus. But outside of it by the door was a guy he looked about 19 years old. As we got closer I saw him standing in front of the key pad.
“Bloody fucking hell cunt bag arse hat fucking wanker…” The guy was mumbling.
“Uhm can I help you at all?” Tony asked the guy.
“I’m Les Paul. Yeah laugh at my name.. My parents were huge guitar fans and they had a sense of humour… But Gibson Paul is my twin and Mike beat the shit out of him.. So I’ve come to give him a beating. What’s the fucking code?” He said rather impatiently but everyone got impatient when they were dealing with Mike. Tony walked up to the key pad and punched in the code. “Cheers mate.” Les nodded his head and went onto the bus.
Tony and I followed him onto the bus. We watched as Mike quickly stood up and started yelling at Les.
“Oh look who’s fucking here! Les! Named after a fucking guitar! Come to defend your brother? He deserved the shit I gave him!” Les went forward to Mike and swung at his face. In one swift move he hit Mike in the jaw and Mike flew to the side. Les wasn't that big of a guy but he sure could fight when he was pissed.
"Why the fuck are you messing around with my brother?! Huh?! Fucking punk.." Les walked over to Mike who was now holding his hand over his jaw. Mike spat at Les which just made Les go even more crazy. Les got closer to him and smacked the other side of his face.
"Is that all you fucking got?" Mike punched Les in the face quickly and kicked his shin. Les quickly fell to the ground. Mike stood over him, threatening him. He put his shoe on Les's back. Tony ran over to Mike.
"Mike cut the shit!" Tony said grabbing Mikes arm. Mike yanked his arm back.
“No..no no fuck you Tony. You’ve always had it in your mind to take Alex from me. Always calling her Axl and being there for her.. It wasn’t fair she loved you while she was with me! I could tell! Things just weren’t the same for us for a long time!” Mike said slowly raising his voice. You could see tears forming in his eyes.
“Are you fucking kidding me?! Of course she would love someone, anyone, that’s not you! You beat her so much! And you were always walking all over her. You drank too much, smoked too much, and you fucked so many other girls. Most of them groupies from our tours or really any girl that would be willing to get with you! Of course nothing was the same for a while! How could anything be the same when someone as nice to you as Axl get beaten by you almost every fucking day?! You are unbelievable… she loved you at first but when you started drinking a lot and hooking up with other girls.. She just didn’t see the great Mike Fuentes she had seen when she was 19. You have to let go of her and accept the fact that you’ll never have the privilege of Axl being in your life.. Mike you did this to yourself.” Tony said continuing to calm down his voice as he talked to Mike. But you could see tears running down Mikes face. He plopped himself down on the couch and put his head in his hands.
“I’m just a fuck up.. why am I still in this band I’m just a fucking fuck up. Why would you want me as a drummer?! Everyone in this band hates me!” Mike mumbled into his hands. I walked to Les who was laying in the fetal position, I kneeled down and put my hand on his back. He flinched at my touch. Tony walked over and sat next to Mike who was now sobbing in his hands. I’ve never seen him break from his tough guy image.
“Les its okay. Let’s go to the bathroom and clean you up.” I whispered and he nodded. I helped him up and we walked to the bathroom. His nose was bloody and the blood was running down his face and into his mouth. I wet a towel and wiped up the blood from under his nose and his mouth.
“I have no clue why Mike even did that to Gibson.” Les huffed as he took the towel and held it under his nose. I nodded and peeked my head out of the door. I saw Mike still sitting there sobbing and Tony on his phone texting someone. He was probably texting Vic or Jaime to come and help Mike. All of a sudden the bus door opened and Vic came running in.
“Mike.. whiskey hands… what’s the matter?” Vic asked sitting down next to Mike. and starting to rub his back.
“I’m a fuck up.. that is the matter.” Mike looked over to Vic with puffy eyes and a tear soaked face. He then leaned his head back and took deep breaths.
“Mike, you are not a fuck up. I mean you’ve fucked up but your whole life hasn’t gone to shit. When I used to self-harm you helped me so much. If I cut too deep you would help me and you had my back. Even though you have done some pretty bad things in your life, you’ll always be my brother and I do care about you. You just have to get over the fact that Alex was the first girl you loved and you broke her and her heart and that resulted in your heart getting broken. I know it’s hard but you can do it..” Mike lifted his head up and smiled weakly at Vic.
“Thanks for being here for me. I just feel like no one likes me anymore.” Mike shrugged, wiping his face.
“Well a lot of people may not like you but that is because of your past decisions man. These are the consequences.. You’ll just have to deal with them.. That’s really the only advice I can give.. And if you don’t want to be here, like in the band, anymore then no one can stop you.. If you want to you should do it.. No one can stop you.” Vic said. I could only see the side of his face but I could see he looked pained to be saying that to Mike. I couldn’t believe he was saying that to him. This band was practically all Mike and Vic’s idea then they just got together Tony and Jaime. I couldn’t believe. Was Mike actually going to leave the band? You could see Mike thinking..
“And what if I stay? I’ll just have Tony and Alex hating me oh and tons of other bands..” Mike asked.
“I don’t know Mikey. Maybe just ignore them.. But what you did to Alex is really bad so I don’t think anyone would leave the past behind.” Vic said looking at the ground not wanting to see Mike when he told him his answer.
“I think I’m gonna-“ Mike was cut off as Lian, Jaime, and Ray bursted onto the bus.
“What the fuck!! You asshole!! You no good fucker!!” Lian ran over to Mike. She swiftly slapped him and he just sat there. “What not going to react?! Or fight back?! What the f-“ Lian slowed down as she saw that Mikes face looked like he had been crying. Mike nodded.
“I deserved that..” He continued to nod.
I put my head back into the bathroom and Les was staring at me to confirm that he had heard right.
“Mike’s leaving?” He whispered to me.
“I don’t know let’s go out there.” I said walking out of the room. As we made our way to where the guys and girls were they all looked at Les and I with wide eyes as to see if we heard. I nodded.
“What were you going to say Mike? About the band?” Tony asked Mike. Mike turned very anxious.
“Uhm… oh yeah… I think that the best thing for the well being of this band and the well being of my sanity is if I leave the band after Warped Tour ends.” Jaime gasps and so does Ray. Lian stands there and looks stunned. While Vic nods and Tony nods too. Les and I just stood there looking at everyone. We all knew this was going to happen..
“Who’s gonna replace you?” Ray asked quietly.
“I know this really cool Mexican guy he plays drums and he’s the same age as us. Any one who went to our school might know him. He was really not social and he and I used to play drums together. I was always so pissed because he was better than me. He was just in a band called The Day It Ends but he left because everyone was so mean to him. He won an award for best drummer when he was 22. He’s way nicer than me so you’ll all get along.” You could see Mike getting very… i don’t know the word.. choked.. maybe. But he was lowering his voice as he continued to talk.
“We went to school with him? Who is he?” Ray questioned. She is a year older and so is Vic so they know more people than we do but I might know him.
“Uh his name is Lukas but everyone called him Luke.”
“Oh my god! Luke as in Lukas David Rios?! I had the biggest crush on him..” Ray bursted out. We all laughed at her and she turned bright red.
“Yep he’s the one..” He looked pained…
“So we have 6 weeks left… It’s gonna be so different without you here bro…” Vic swallowed hard.
“Yeah but you won’t have to deal with my shit anymore… 6 weeks then Luke can take over. He’s better than me in more than just one way.. What time is bus call?” Mike asked.
“Uhm… 6…” Jaime answered still shocked at what had just happened.
“Okay.. I.. uh think I’m going to go.” Mike half smiled and got out of the bus quickly.
“Oh my god.. What just happened?” Jaime said confused.
“He wanted to better the band… I’m sure Luke will be great too.” Tony said. I can’t believe that this just happened.. He’s actually gonna leave when the tour is over… How will the fans take it?
“Uhm does anyone know where K-“ Jaime was cut off by Lian and I rushing.
“Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to..” Lian and I said simultaneously. Everyones faces were straight.
“Where’s Gibson?” Les asked trying to break the awkward silence.
“In your bus being taken care of by Jodie and Aideen.” Ray said.
“Oh okay. Thanks for everything you guys! I’ll chat with you guys later. Bai!” Les waved and walked off of our bus and he left the towel in the sink.
“Uhm.. Wow okay.. Uhm what do you guys want to do for the rest of the day?” Vic asked.
“Well we left our boards where we found Gibson so we should probably go get those…” Jaime stated. Everyone nodded and we all walked off of the bus. As we made our way back to the spot where we found Gibson we heard laughing coming from near where the Mums The Word bus was. As we got closer we saw the concrete strip that was by the bus that led out to the main road. On that strip was Oli, Matt N., Matt K., Austin, Alan, and Ryan from MIW. They were riding our boards and the rest of their bands members were standing near them with some more members of other bands. They were all fighting on who would get a chance next. Chris M. looked to the side to see us.
“Oh shit it’s the Mexicans!!!” He yelled and everyone started laughing. No one stopped riding the boards. We laughed too. We got closer to them and were standing with all of the other band members.
“Who boards are these anyway?” Oli asked trying to do a wheelie, but failing miserably. He flew off the board and fell to the ground.
“Let me show you how to actually use a longboard. Seeing that this is mine..” I walked over to my board and got on it. Lian then walked over to Ryan and told him that it was her board. He nicely got off and she smirked.
“Hey Cavella you gonna teach me how to do cool tricks?!” Matt yelled. I laughed and looked to Lian.
“Slides?” I asked and she smiled and nodded. We picked up the boards and walked up the small road to the top of the small incline that it had. We didn’t have to do a lot to impress these guys. So we put down the boards put our foot on top and pushed off. As we were going down we pulled a slide or two and and all the guys oohed and awed. At one point I think I heard someone say that they thought it was hot. As we got closer to the guys I went right to Tony, hopped off the board, and kissed his swiftly on the lips. When I pulled away Tony smiled. He leant down to my ear and whispered. I nodded. I got off the board and joined hands with Tony.
“Where the fuck you going Cavella?!” Matt yelled.
“It’s a secret you bloody wanker!” I laughed and yelled back in my shitty impression of him. To the bus we walked as the guys and girls continued to longboard. Where are we going do you ask? Now, that is a secret you probably know the answer to.. ;)

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