Would You Trade That Heart Of Gold For A Minute In My Skin?

UBER SORRY. I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY WITH EVERYTHING. GAH. FML. I hope you enjoy this. :

I hope you're doing fine
I hope you've found the time
To chase that dream
I wanna see you shine
You were always on my mind
And my heart's on my sleeve
You know what I mean

I Don't Wish You Were Dead Anymore: Bowling For Soup

2 years later

*Grace POV*

My alarm buzzed right in my ear as I slammed it off. I groaned. I hated waking up any time of the day. It just seemed wrong for my body to even get out of bed these days. Most likely because of my hectic job. Or just trying to jungle everything at once. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. I was happy, for once. I sighed and sat, running my fingers through my hair. I could feel it sticking out at all angles. I probably looked like a member of the hair bear bunch or some shit. I sighed and dragged it back into a ponytail.

"Grace! You up!?" My roommate yelled from the kitchen of our two bed roomed apartment. "Yeah, two freaking seconds." I moaned in return as I heard her laugh. I kicked the blankets off me and walked into the lounge where Liana was sat, in her boyfriend's shirt, eating pop tarts. "There better be more where that came from." I threatened. She smiled and went back to the TV. I raided the cupboards and found no pop tarts. "Bitch." I hissed; just quiet enough for her not to hear.

So I poured myself my sugary cereal and went to join her. Not without stealing one of the pop tarts on her plate of course. "What the hell?!" She yelled, with her mouth full. I stuck my tongue out at her and took a bite out of her pop tart before putting it back onto her plate. "Just to annoy you my dear." I answered, swallowing the bite. She laughed and threw a pillow at me. We were both laughing insanely until the phone rang. "Hey Greg, what's up?" I asked, picking up the phone. "Hey Gracie. You ready for this photoshoot today?" I swallowed my food and nodded. "Sure am. Me and Liana are gonna be there in about, thirty minutes?"

"Great. Great. They're nice guys. Maria just interviewed 'em. I think you're gonna love them." I smiled. "Okay Greg, thanks!" I said, quickly hanging up. "That man still thinks he's cupid after like, a year." I sighed, pouring the rest of my breakfast into the sink. "He did you set you up real nice though babe." Liana replied, chucking her plate and coffee mug into the sink. "You helped, I mean, you and Kyle were already dating." She smiled. She does stupidly widely whenever the world 'Kyle' is mentioned in any sentence.

Her boyfriend is the drummer of Forever The Sickest Kids. They've been dating for about, what, two years. There is an age gap but not like, a huge one. No, my boyfriend isn't in Forever The Sickest Kids. I did go on one date with Kent, and then we decided to be friends. My boyfriend's in a different band, smaller, which is great. I met him at a Forever The Sickest Kids show in Virginia, which me and Liana were photographers, for Greg's magazine. Small talk after the show led to a few drinks which led to a kiss. He was coming up to LA for a few days after the gig, so we met up for a few dates and we just hit it off. He was a great guy, and I wouldn't replace him with anyone. I mean anyone. I smiled as I checked my phone and found one new text message from him. 'I'll call you later. I can't wait to see you again soon. Love A xo' "That him?" I nodded and put my phone away.

"We better get ready for this shoot." I sighed, nudging her. "We need to know what this band is like to get an idea for this shoot." Liana sighed. "Kelly said they were pretty stupid. Like, not unintelligent stupid. Like, silly stupid." I chuckled. "Immature, you mean? Like, penis jokes?" Liana nodded. I sighed. I had enough with other bands. Liana laughed out loud. She gets enough of them too. "Let's get ready then?" Liana asked, grabbing her Panic at the Disco shirt from the laundry. I nodded, grabbing my blink 182 shirt from the ironing.

*Alex POV*

Photographers are annoying enough without them being late. Given, only five minutes late, but still. "Alex, stop being a fucking pussy and get over here." Jack yelled across the empty room. I chuckled and jogged across to their table. "Looking out that window ain't gonna make them come quicker." Zack pointed out. "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID." Rian yelled. We all laughed. Sex jokes equal win in this crowd. I stole a sip of Zack's Starbucks when I saw two girls run into the room. "We're so sorry we're late!" The brunette yelled, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. I smiled at her. "It's cool." She smiled and her friend joined her. She stared at me for a minute.

"Grace. Stop staring." The brunette hissed. I chuckled. "I'm Liana and this is my partner Gracie. As in like, business and picture taking." I nodded, shaking her hand. Gracie stayed back but smiled warmly at me. "Okay, time to take pictures? Your make-up and hair is all one so yeah, over there please guys!" Liana yelped excitedly. We all went to the plain white back drop and stood around. "Right, so if we have Alex? Is that right?" I nodded, chuckling to myself. "Okay, if you stand in the centre. With..." Okay, she was struggling with Zack's name. "My name's..."

"Zack." Her friend said. Liana looked over at her. "His name's Zack, he plays bass. He's Rian, the drummer, Jack plays guitar and Alex..." She gulped. "He sings and plays guitar." I smiled at her, but she didn't smile back. "Thanks. I do know you're music, I really do, it's just, you know, so many bands so little time." I nodded and looked over at... Gracie, her name was? She was too busy with a smaller camera.

"Okay, pose for me." Liana said, smiling widely and getting behind her big ass camera.

*Grace POV*

Oh fuck. Oh fuck. Oh fuck. Oh fuck. Fuck my fucking life with a huge stick.

Okay. Seriously one of the best gigs of my life. If you ever get the chance to see All Time Low. Or The Audition. Or The Friday Night Boys. Go. Just go. I mean it.

Okay. Where do I start?

We got to the Cardiff Solus at 11.30am. With a small group of two in front of us. Friends joined them though throughout the day. FML. And not even ffriends jumped in front.Dicks. Anyways, we had to queue until 7pm. So yeah, long time. AND IT WAS FUCKING COLD. Worth it though. So yeah, the queue wasn't really interesting, I was very bored and cold.

Anyways, we got inside and we got ourselves at the side of the stage, right where Jack would be when All Time Low came on. No crushing really either, which was an added bonus. We waited for about ten minutes, and the lights dimmed, bringing on The  Friday Night Boys. They launched almost straight into Suicide Sunday. Which, can I say, I went insane too. I pretty much screaming at them their whole set. xD After Suicide Sunday, it was Permanent Heartbreak AND Mike who was standing right in front of me was mouthing the lyrics to our corner, but I was signing and yelling the lyrics at him. He did laugh at me because I was just jumping all the time, when no one else was. Next was That's What She Said and I laughd so hard when Mike, during the lyrics If she brings you in her room, and you close the door. You'll be right where every guy has gone before. Was doing that thing where stick your finger into a hole you made with your other hand. It was quite funny. Then, we had Stupid Love Letter. Before they played it, Andrew was like "We just made a video for this song..." I yelled, so loudly. "STUPID LOVE LETTER!!" And Mike heard me, pointed at me and said into his mike "Yeah!" And Andrew looked over at me. xD Next was, Molly Makeout, I WENT SO INSANE. I was kinda expecting Alex to come out and sing his part, but he did not. Still, great fun live. (Y) Next was High School. After Molly Makeout had finished, Andrew's jeans were falling down so we all yelled for him to play with his pants  down, and he fucking did it. My god. I cried. It was just so funny. And sexy, but that's not what I was crying about. Then, lastly, they ended with Stuttering which is just such a fun song. Me and friends were pretty much the only  people in the WHOLE crowd singing along. And, since Mike had seen me before, yelling the lyrics back at him, he threw a guitar pick. (Y)

That's now a necklace. ^^

Then, The Audition came on. Freaking incredable. Poor Danny had a sprained ankle due to an accidennt at the Birmingham show. He slipped on a puddle and got knocked out. Brave guy. Anyways, they opened with My Temperature's Rising which was freaking incredable live. Much prefer it. They then played You've Made Us Conscious and it was cool to hear them perform their older stuff as well as their newer stuff. It really, truely was. Then, Danny and Seth decided to chat to us about how they treated each other. Danny: I treat Seth like my son! Seth: You treat your son like shit and call him an asshole? Danny: If I had a son, I'd treat him like you Seth.  Seth: You'd kick the shit outta him. Pretty much that. Then, they played Love With A Motive which got me so hyper. And after that, we had Danny playing acoustic guitar on Los Angeles which was beautiful. Warm Me Up and The Way You Move followed  (which shocked me because I didn't think they'd play that xD). (Y) Seriously amazing set.

ALL TIME LOW ALL TIME LOW ALL TIME LOW

Um, yeah. xD Anyways, twenty minutes later, we were screaming. Matt come on and did some stuff, including making sure that their were inflatable penises on the speakers. I kid you not.

See, I do not kid you.

Anyways, so we saw Rian sneak on and the light went down. Everyone went mad as Ryan (From Runner Runner, filling in for Zack), Alex then Jack (FANGIRLMOMENT) ran on and immeadatly started off their set with Lost In Stereo. Bloody incredable live. I lost my voice pretty much after that one song. Then they launched into Six Feet Under The Stars and everyone pretty much was screaming. I showed Jack a sign I made him. It said 'JACK! SHOW US YOUR CLOCK!' Basically, it was a joke about the Poppin Champagne video. It's meant to mean his penis but he didn't get it and just showed us his wrist, which had no watch on. xD Anyways, they then started talking randomly. JACK'S VOICE IS SO HIGH PITCHED. I NEARLY CRIED WITH LAUGHTER. HE NEEDS TO EAT TOO.

Alex: Wales is such a goddamned lovely place. Fucking love you guys godammit. Thanks for coming tonight.

Jack: THIS IS LIKE OUR THIRD TIME IN YOUR CITY.

Alex: Yes. Hey Buddy (this was to someone in the crowd). You guys happy to be here? Yeah, somewhere along the way on this trip through Europe, the UK, Ireland and Wales and all sorts of places. I somehow managed to contract a cold. *Jack says something which I cannot understand* I have reason to believe it is the swine flu.

Jack: YEAH!

Alex: So, if anyone would like to commit to coming up here and contracting the swine flu.

Jack: You have to suck it out of a hose.

Alex: Yeah, you have to be blindfolded and suck it out of a hose.

Jack: That's the only way to do it.

Alex: And by that, I mean my hose is my penis.

Fangirl heaven.

Then they launched into Jasey Rae and I almost cried. No, I did cry. I couldn't believe I was hearing one of my favourite songs live. I went so insane. Then they went into Poppin' Champagne. And everyone was so hyper and dancing and just having an amazing time. My god, I just wanted to dance so much. And I did and most likely looked like a complete idiot.It was just too much fun. Then, more random talking.

Jack: I've never made out with a girl from Wales. There's a sign up sheet at our merch table , top 100 girls that sign up, I get to make-out with them. The top 10, I get to touch their boobs.

Alex: No.

Jack: No?

Alex: No. *Then we have some random talking with Rian, but it's like, only half the conversation because Rian had no mike.* So, this might be a little shitty but it's a Sunday. And in America on Sunday's rather than going to church I watch Football and drink alot of beer.

Jack: American Football though.

Alex: Yeah, yeah. American  Football. Our team, in our hometown of Batimore is in a very close fucking game with tthe Patriots of New England. It's pretty fucking close right now.

Jack: IT'S NEW ENGLAND NOT OLD ENGLAND.

Alex: And it's possible we might have just won a game so I wanted to share that with you. LET'S A GET A 'LET'S GO RAVENS' CHANT GOING. *And it worked until...*

Jack: Ohley, ohley, ohley, ohley, ohley, ohley.

Alex: This song is about the beer I enjoy drinking.

So, they went into Stella which I lost my glasses too, but since we were at the and the barriers were pretty crappy and and a hole in them, my friend Jess managed to grab themn for me. But it was still fun and so incredable.Then. MORRE TALKINGGGGG.

Jack: You guys having fun?

Ryan from Runner Runner: I am!

Alex: The Raven's lost.

Jack: GODAMMIT!

Ale: It was close. We fought the good fight.

Jack: Hey who is this guy? On stage with us.*pointing to Ryan*

Alex: Oh shit. Hey, who the fuck are you?

Jack: What have you done with Zack?

Ryan: I've taken Zack and replaced him with an uglier, weaker man.

Alex: I'm gonna need another guitar Danny. Wherever you are. I just gave our assistant tour manager concusion. Hey! So, this is Ryan, he plays in a band called Runner Runner. Zack had to fly home for a wedding. This handsome man is filling in.

Ryan: THEY FLEW IN THE SMALL GUNS.

Alex: You have a gun?

Jack: EVERYONE DOWN. THIS MAN HAS A GUN. *Jack then ducks*

Alex: I'm kidding.

Ryan: It's just a pistol.

Alex: I'm messing with you. Where the fuck? Where the fuck is my fill in guitarist?

Jack: Andrew's not gonna come up.

Alex: That little shithead. What happened?

Jack: Hey, let's a get a chant going...

Alex: What a douchebag. Usually, Andrew from the Friday Night Boys plays this song with us but he's not here today.

Jack: Where did he go?

Alex: Where the fuck is he? What a dick.

Jack: Let's kick him off the tour.

Alex: They're done. They're done. We have one show left to play on this tour and they're not playing. Fuck them. SO. THIS SONG IS ABOUT WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO TO YOU AFTER THE SHOW IF THAT'S OKAY. I THINK. WE'RE GONNA HAVE A RELATIONSHIP. I'M GONNA MAKE-OUT WITH YOU ALL. AND I'M GONNA SHIT ALL OVER YOUR HEART.

Therefore, they played Break Your Little Heart. That was just amazing, the guitar part is one of my favourites of All Time Low and it was just energetic. Everyone was dancing and having fun (apart from the guy behind me who seemed to be pratically bumming me because he wanted to be close to Jack :|). I honestly nearly passed out from dancing to much. Next up was Remembering Sunday you could hear the fan girls just slience. Thank fuck. But, just before the song. Alex, couldn't help himself...

Alex: You all the seem the kinds of people who have fantasic genataila. Am I right?    Hey man, what's going on dude? (again, to someone in the crowd) How are you?  Thanks.  You guys are like, quiet, eeriely quiet. I'm afraid of you Cardiff. I feel like I'm at a libary, not a show.  *I did yell Fuck You. In response. But, you know. In a loving way.* You need you guys to prove to me right now you have big, fantasic singing voices. Can you do that? This songs called Remembering Sunday.

I did cry. No, I sobbed. My tears were just pouring down my face. This song makes me cry on CD, but live, my god. I couldn't sing along because of my tears. However, Rian started playing the drum with an inflatable penis which made me brust out laughing. The only bit of talking I didn't get on film was when they were talking about that they could only succed in Cardiff if their testicles go up their body. And Ryan decided he would admit he only had one testicle. Very funny.  (Y) However, I got the ending-ish of it. Jack made this sighing noise, almost a grunt, so he got us all to do it and Alex decided to trust the air.

Jack: RIAN. Why do you have a huge dick in your hands? Not that that's anything werid but why now? In front of everyone?

Alex: I think there's a kick-drum microphone inside the penis.

Jack: Why do you have a dick in your hand man? Come on, THERE ARE KIDS HERE.

Rian then throws the dick into the crowd.

Alex: Have our dick.

Jack: YOU DID NOT THROW A DICK INTO THE CROWD RIAN.

Alex: Have our big inflatable penis. She's gonna eat it.

Jack then gets the tech guy to hit the crowd with some lights and tells this guy to start a huge circle pit. And if he failed, Jackwas gonna kill him.

Jack: When we start this song, we need people inside it. We can't just have a circle with no one inside it.

Alex: We can't just have a widdespread circle pit with no one inside of it. HAHAHA. DID YOU SEE WHAT I WAS DOING. I MADE IT SOUND LIKE WAS TALKING ABOUT A VAGINIA.

Then they  launched into Coffee Shop Soundtrack which is one of my favourite ATL songs. I went so insane and everyone thought was actually mad. I was dancing, crying, yeling with a strained voice and screaming all at the same time. They played it so well and all the kids who knew all their older stuff where so happy. Then, their set list said that they shoudl play Let It Roll but they didn't have time so they skipped straight to Weightless and I must say it's so much better live. Everyone in the crowd started dancing and yelling the lyrics back at them. They played amazingly and it was one of my favourite performances of the night. Then they went off.

Everyone started chanting for them to come back on, and they did for their encore. They played Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't) and evryone was jumping everywhere, I got majorly crush and my ribs are now bruised. But, nothing could stop my fun and everyone was so happy. Then they played, of course, Dear Maria, Count Me In and that got everyone off their feet for the last time. Then, Alex got Seth from The Audition to play his guitar for him and he came over to our side and everyone grabbed his hand. I managed to grab his wrist as everyone was reaching for him. It fucking hurt. I was falling over and Alex was actually trying to properly grab my hand to help but this douchebag behind me grabbed it before me but Alex was looking at me, giving me looks to make sure I was okay. I nodded, still singing at him. Jack by this time had given his guitar to Mike so he could crowd surf in the middle of crowd. Everyone was demented by the time ATL got off stage.

It toook an age to get merch but I got three shirts and a FNB wristband. 2 ATL shirts and 1 FNB shir. BUT. SOMEONE WHEN I WAS STUFFING EVERYTHING INTO MY BAG STOLE MY FNB SHIRT. BITCH. I met Vinny Vegas which pretty much made  my night until I went outside. This is the merch I bought.

I pretty much adore them both. <3 I did have a FNB shirt that said CAN YOU C ME IN THE ICU. Before it got stolen. However, I ordered another FNB shirt from FBR. The gradient one. <3. But I managed to get a FNB wristband.

 It says Permanent </3 FNB. Permanent Heartbreak <3<3<3<3.

Okay. So I go outside the Friday Night Boys are there signing stuff. I run up to Mike and yell. "DUDE. I GOT YOUR PICK!" He high-fived me and I think he reconignsed. I hugged him so hard then some kid stole him. My friend Laura askeddhim to sign her shirt, so he stole my red sharpie then signed like, 3 other people's stuff before saying. "This is your sharpie right?" I nodded and he gave it back to me. I asked if I could have a picture with him, and I did.

Don't ask about his face. I don't even know.


Then he signed the sign I made for them to sign. It say's CARDIFF <3'S THE FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS so, he did. Then, I saw Andrew, started and allost hyperventalated before finding the gummy worms I got him. I ran up to him and yelled "I bought you gummy worms because I know you love them Andrew." He took him, smiled and laughed, gave them a weird look before saying. "Awh, thanks." Then he hugged me, WITHOUT ME ASKING. Then he was like "What does that say?" He was pointing to sign I had them. "It says Cardiff loves The Friday Night Boys. Because we do." Then he said. "OH MAN. THAT'S AWESOME." So, I asked him to sign it, and he did.

Yay! I love Andrew's signature. So, then I had a picture with Andrew and he hugged me so hard. I hoonestly felt like he was going to like, abduct me or something (not that I would have complained). In this picture, I realise I look so bad. But, we are wearing the same hat! I almost spazzed out when I realised.

CAN ANDREW PLEASE JUST TAKE ME BACK WITH HIM? PLEASE.

LOL. I didn't have enough time to run up to the other memebers because we had to leave. But, meeting Andrew and Vinny pretty much made my life. <3<3<3<3

Go se ATL and FNB on the Glamour Kills tour. Anyone who sees ATL will have an amazing time. Trust me.

As a leaving present, here's Andrew, with his pants down, performing High School.

Curtiousy of Laura. <3

Love Gracie xo