We've Got the Party With Us ((Carson and Ezzie))

[Casey Allen G5]

Casey and Ezzie headed to the bus locked arm in arm. Casey couldn’t help but giggle and they both eyed each other before running to the bus for the very first time. This was going to be awesome! The bus was a normal size for a bus but Casey was well aware that wizards had prepared this tour so this bus was bound to be huge inside. Everyone who would enter the bus were wizards. If anyone else tried to they would simply be locked out. The bus was edgy white and black with a cool design of stripes. It read Girl’s Just Wanna Have Fun Tour Starring-Eden Sweden, Ezzie, Mendez, and London Star. Casey grinned. She wished she could just erase London’s name but she couldn’t. London was the newest addition to Casey’s label, Scene. They decided that London was going to be the opening act for Eden and there was nothing Casey could do about that. But she did ask Ezzie to come as well. Ezzie didn’t belong to the same label, but their labels got along and agreed to it. Casey smiled. At least she had her best-friend to keep her sane this summer and her boyfriend..kinda. Not really. Casey would have to be Eden all the time to keep her secret from Carson and London and hopefully, she could handle it.

“Oh my God!” Casey squealed as they entered the bus. It was huge! Usually, they would have to have three buses to fit this many people on it but not for this tour. It had been magically enhanced to the size of a massive one story house. There was a huge kitchen, living room, game room, several massive bathrooms, dining room, and everyone’s bedrooms and some spares. This was insane! Casey looked to Ezzie, squealed and ran to find her room. “This is crazy!” Casey said as she found the door to her room. The door itself was painted with a huge mural of a sunset. And read Eden in light pink. It was beautiful and that was just the door! Casey opened it and found a rather large bedroom that had a center wall with a matching sunset and the others were painted yellow. It was amazing. She smiled and jumped onto her pink sparkly bed-spread. She giggled once more and then noticed a door in the middle of one of the side walls. It wasn’t her closet door. She opened and squealed as she walked into Ezzie’s room. “Awesome!” She shrieked as she walked over to her best-friend while taking a look around. “C’mon lets go find the others!” She called running out of the room.

Casey ran her fingers through her fake blond hair as she searched for members of her band. “Hey Eedie!” The bass player Mo called as he ran over to her. “Hey!” Casey grinned as she hugged him tightly. Like the other band members, Mo knew. Actually the only two people who didn’t know her little secret was Carson and London and they weren’t about to find out. The other boys all came up and Casey hugged them tightly. The only two she didn’t spot were the drummer, Kaden and then Carson. “Hey where’s...Kaden!” She screeched as she ran and jumped into his arms. Kaden was like a big brother to Casey. “Hey!” He grinned brightly and held her for a moment before letting her down. Casey looked over and shoulder and spotted Ezzie. “Hey guys, member Ezzie? Ezz this is Mo, Hunter, Davy, Ty, and Kaden.” She grinned poking Kaden in the shoulder. “Hey now.” He joked. “Where’s Carson?” Casey asked as she took in a sharp breath of air. Casey eyed Ezzie. “Your little secret boy-toy will be here in like five minutes.” Casey poked Kaden again. “He can’t find out, okay. To him on this tour, I am Eden Sweden and nothing more so keep your mouths closed.” She said eyeing each of the boys. “This is stupid.” Hunter sang-song as he walked to find his room. “I heard that!” She called.

Minutes later, Carson still hadn’t arrived and neither had London, but Casey wasn’t too concerned. She sat on the couch in the living room with her guitar in her hands. “I have to wonder if this wave's too big to ride. Commit or not commit in such a crazy tide.” She sang and played and then looked to Kaden. “Watcha think?” He smiled. “I think it’s different from the usual stuff your dad writes.” Casey nodded. “I’ve been thinking about taking a new direction.” She waited for his response. “Well, I like it.” He smiled. Casey smiled and nodded. “Whatcha think, Ez?” Casey asked her best friend who was sitting on a chair across from her. But, right when Ezzie was about to answer the door to the bus opened and London Star appeared. Casey had to hold herself from rolling her eyes. “Hey London.” She said with a fake brightness. “Eden.” London said dully. “You know Ezzie?” Eden asked as she introduced her friend to London. “Sad girl with a black tee-shirt and an electric guitar, yea I do.” She rolled her eyes. Casey eyed Ezzie and then looked back to London. London wasn’t very tall but her ego replaced that. She had long brown hair with a bright red under layer that looked tacky in Casey’s opinion. She wore a tight frayed denim mini skirt and a black and pink tank top with sculls on it. In her hands was a small white fluffy dog that was kind of cute, but Casey felt bad for it. “Welcome.” Kaden said trying to be nice. “I’m Kaden, that’s Mo, Ty, Davy, and Hunter. Carson’s on his way.” London just looked around and ignored him. She finally looked at Kaden. “Uh-huh.” She said in between smacking her gum. Casey raised an eye-brow and looked to Ezzie again. “I’m gonna go find my room. Oh and no one, I mean no one, is allowed to enter. Okay? Okay.” She said storming off. Casey strummed a note on her guitar. “Wow, that was fun.” She said sarcastically. “Oh yea.” Kaden said before laughing for a second. Casey shook her head and eyed the door waiting for Carson to arrive.

[Esmeralda Mendez]

The tour was finally here. Ezzie couldn’t believe it was finally here. The school year was over, recording was done, and her first record ever was going to hit stores the day after she got back from the tour. All she had to do now was sit back, relax, and have a great time. Plus, TJ was on tour as well, and they’d surely be meeting up in a few places. Of course, Ezzie wouldn’t tell Carson where she was going whenever she would go out to meet him, since he’d probably insist on following her or something stupid like that. She sighed happily, lugging her suitcase onto the tour bus. She figured the place would be bigger, considering how many people Ezzie knew would be on the tour with them. Ezzie smirked as she took a look at the door. “Haha. That door is pretty small, Case. I wonder how London’s oversized head is going to fit through? Hopefully if we’re lucky it’ll get stuck and we can just take off anyway.” Ezzie couldn’t help laughing as she entered the tour bus. She couldn’t help it. Ezzie always did have a sickly twisted sense of humor.

Ezzie was stunned at the size of the inside of the tour bus. She’d never seen this kind of spell done before. She was still pretty new with this kind of stuff, even though she’d been going to Hogwarts since she was at least eleven. She followed Casey excitedly into the giant tour bus, imagining how much fun they were sure to have while on this tour. She simply couldn’t wait to hit the stage and start performing. She’d never been on tour before. Ezzie had only been discovered and signed onto a label last summer. In fact, it would be the anniversary of Ezzie and Ethan meeting in about a week. They’d probably be in Paris by then. Ethan had always told Ezzie how much he loved his last few holidays to Paris. If only he knew how much traveling his parents did now. He probably knew. In fact, Ezzie was sure he was watching down on her at this very moment, just like he always was.

She smiled softly, almost blinded by the flashy décor of Casey; or rather, Eden’s room. Ezzie would have to get used to this. Normally when Ezzie went to concerts and stuff with Eden, she only had to pretend for one evening or one day. This would be months of keeping Casey’s secret for her. She had to be extra careful not to accidentally call her Casey or mention anything only Casey would know, like an inside joke or something. She needed to be on her toes, especially with London Star hanging around. She could have sworn she saw London having a chat with Holly Sinclair just the other day outside of one of their last rehersals for the tour, and Ezzie was willing to bet everything in her Gringotts vault that the sleazy reporter had bribed the young star into finding out some information about Ezzie or Eden while on tour.

After checking out their rooms, Ezzie and Casey walked outside to where all the band members. Eden Sweden knew these guys as her family. Ezzie didn’t really know them too well yet, but it was about time before these guys were her big brothers as well. She smiled as they were all introduced. They all seemed like pretty awesome guys, and Casey talked about them a lot. “Yeah, I think we’ve met already. Hi guys.” She said with a welcoming and friendly smile. She wouldn’t be surprised if the boys didn’t recognize her. Last time they met Ezzie was probably going through that rough patch of hers. She probably wasn’t nearly as friendly as she was now. But even during her rough patch, not even Ezzie could be as rude as the girl who had just walked in the tour bus: London. Ezzie didn’t bother with the fake smile like the others. She glared coldly at the girl, already forming a strong dislike for her.

Ezzie’s patience for this girl was beginning to dwindle and it wouldn’t be much longer before she wanted to bash her pretty little face in. Her attitude was terrible. So, Ezzie was going to put a stop to that right away. The second she walked out, Ezzie decided to follow her into her bedroom. If Casey knew her best friend well enough, which she probably did, then she would have probably expected this to happen. She grabbed her wand out of her pocket and blasted the door open. “Listen little girl. You have an attitude problem that ends here, you understand me? I’m not putting up with your crap during this tour like everyone else does. Because I am not everyone else as you’ve probably noticed. So, my name is Ezzie, not the sad girl with an electric guitar or whatever your smart mouth said. So, if you don’t want to go home bald and ugly, then I suggest you get your attitude straight. Because you mess with me or anyone on this bus, you had better hide yourself safely, because no one, I repeat no one pisses me off and gets away with it. Understood?” Ezzie arched her eyebrow, wondering what London would attempt to say next.

((Wasn’t sure if I was allowed to god mode London, so I guess you can include her reply in your next post. I’ll post Carson after that. =] ))

[Casey Allen G5]

Tour! Tour! Casey was so excited and it hadn’t even officially begun yet. Both Casey and Ezzie had worked so hard. Casey was ready for their first show. But that was twenty-four hours a way which seemed like a lifetime to Casey. She was almost too hyper to think. It reminded her of the Casey before Ethan’s death. Yes, she was still the same person but she felt different. She felt more mature even if it was just a little bit. It didn’t matter. The past was the past and Casey was ready to move forward. Casey smiled sweetly. She wanted to see Carson. It had been a couple of weeks since they said their goodbyes. Casey knew that she wasn’t his girlfriend on this tour and she couldn’t give him a kiss on the cheek or tell him how much she cared about him. But she could look at him and be near him and that would have to be enough. But Casey had plenty of things to take her mind off of telling him the truth. Yep. She had concerts to play and songs to write and London’s to avoid. That would distract her, right? Possibly.

Casey turned to meet Ezzie’s gaze when London entered. She half-expected Ezzie to go slap and her in the face. London deserved it, but Ezzie refrained. Casey sighed a sigh of relief at that. Casey wondered how long it would take for Ezzie to snap. Oh know. Well not very long it seemed. The boy’s watched in disbelief and couldn’t help but chuckle at Ezzie’s words. Casey eyed the two girls hoping that London would just give up and go away as quickly as possible. London simply stared at her purple fingernails and rubbed them casually as if she wasn’t paying Ezzie any attention. Yep, this tour would certainly be interesting. When Ezzie was finished, London finally looked back up to her. Her face seemed as if it didn’t have a care in the world. “Fine.” She said simply. “Ezzie. Happy now?” She asked sarcastically. London rolled her eyes and began to turn away, but looked back. “Oh and btw.” She said suddenly, her brown eye’s landing on Ezzie’s. “No one messes with me with out regretting it. Remember that.” She said looking directly at Ezzie. She then looked at all the boys and then Eden. “Remember that.” She said before walking down the hall, her ugly heals clumping along the whole way. Casey heard the door slam and shook her head.

“Wow.” Casey responded to it all. All the boys save for Kaden burst out laughing. Kaden shook his head as he plopped onto the couch besides Casey. “Please don’t kill her. At lost not until the final night, okay?” Casey joked. She then rolled her eyes as she looked in the direction that London left to. “I can’t believe her.” She sighed. The boys continued to laugh just like boys of their age did. “Well, if you do cat fight, let me know.” Mo laughed and the other three did as well. Casey shook her head. “Boys.” She said loudly. “Hey now.” Hunter joked as they four headed to the other side of the room to play a muggle video game. Casey sighed and looked to Ezzie. “I mean it. I know she’s horrible, but you don’t need any drama. So just..I dunno avoid her and she’ll get bored.” “Or!..” Davy called. “Or we could dye her hair or put her on the roof in her sleep.” “Guys..” Casey began to protest. She sighed and resisted. “Oh whatever. Go for it.” Kaden looked at the boys. “Don’t listen to Ede, she’s delusional. Resist gentlemen.” They laughed and went back to their game. Kaden was like the father of the band. Mo was the oldest but Kaden was defiantly more mature. The other three went to Hogwarts with Casey and bugged her to death half the time. But Casey loved them all the same.

“Out of the fire and into the fire again. You make me want to forget and start all over. Here I come straight out of my mind or worse another chance to get burned and start all over. I’m gonna start all over.” Casey said along with the guitar. She had quickly taught Kaden the part and he was playing it for her. Casey smiled. Kaden was so talented. He original going to be Eden’s guitarist, but the needed a drummer more. Kaden could sing play drums, guitar, and bass. He was like a big brother to Casey really. She would always look up to him. “Fantastic and romantic, all a big surprise.” The door to the bus was open, but Casey did her best to ignore it. She looked to Ezzie and then back to the door. “You’ve got the warning hesitation pushed aside..” Casey stopped singing abruptly. The shagging brown hair, the beautiful eyes, and perfect smile. She knew them all well. Carson. And she couldn’t even give him a kiss as she wanted to. Casey looked to Kaden. He patted her hand as he realized that she suddenly out of nowhere wanted to cry. “Hang in.” He whispered to her. Casey nodded and faked a smile. “Hey Carson. Ready for this?” She asked pointing around them, speaking of the tour. She sighed as she managed to hold in the tears. This was going to be harder than she thought.

[Carson McGreggor H6]

“Julie! Jules! Are you sure you haven’t seen my guitar?” Carson called out from across the room. All morning, Carson had been freaking out all morning looking for everything he needed for the tour. He knew this was going to end up happening. Carson always had the habit of rushing things. No matter what the event was, he always found that in the end, he’d be freaking out to have everything ready just like her was now. This time, he was missing the most important of all the things he would ever need for the tour this summer. He couldn’t believe he’d almost forgotten it. Carson had been halfway out the door, expecting Julie to follow when he turned around to find her eyebrow raised and her arms crossed as if waiting for Carson to do something. ”Aren’t you missing something? Like oh, I don’t know…your guitar?” Carson’s head still hurt a bit from smacking himself in the forehead after realizing he’d almost left without his guitar. Even now he was still looking for the damned thing. He couldn’t find it anywhere. He’d checked his room, Julie’s room, the sitting room, and even the bathroom for his guitar, but it seemed that the instrument was nowhere to be found…almost as if it had disappeared into thin air. J

Julie had tried to help, before she had gotten a phone call from some guy who was one of her student’s parents. Normally, Carson would have been curious of what made this guy so interesting, for Carson had never seen his older sister so excited over answering the phone to talk to a parent. Julie almost ripped Carson’s arm off in an attempt to get to the phone before he did. But Carson had no time to worry about who Julie was interested in at the moment, for his tour bus was scheduled to leave in less than an hour. If they were to use magical transportation to get over there, time wouldn’t have been a problem. But like always, Julie had a small fear (that she tried to pass off as a strong dislike) of using magical forms of transportation, So Carson would be arriving to the bus in Julie’s old forest green truck.

Julie looked over her shoulder to see Carson checking under the lid of the washing machine and covered her hand over the speaker of the phone as she yelled back. “I already told you, I haven’t seen the thing anywhere! Did you check the studio?” Julie called out, before apologizing to that guy and continuing with her talk. And that’s when the realization came to Carson. He’d left it in the studio! Carson smacked his forehead once more and dashed into the studio where he saw his guitar safely in its case sitting on top of Julie’s desk, where he’d left it the night before. Carson hadn’t thought to check there because he never normally brought his guitar into the studio because of the mess or damage it could suffer from, but since yesterday was his last night, he’d decided to play his guitar for Julie’s junior class. And so, Carson grabbed his guitar and his suitcase and ran for the kitchen where Julie was still sitting. She looked up and smiled at him. “Hey listen Jason, I’ve got to run. I’ll see you tomorrow?” There was a pause as Carson raised his eyebrow. “Great. See you then.” Julie then gave Carson an innocent look as they both walked downstairs to the car parked outside. “So who’s Jason? How come I’ve never heard of him?” Carson asked suspiciously as Julie started the car. “He’s just a parent Carson, calm down. My personal life isn’t something you should be worried about, at least not now anyway. You’re going away for the entire summer! I’m going to miss you so much. And I bet your little girlfriend is too? Why isn’t she coming on the tour again? Isn’t she best friends with that Ezzie girl?” Julie asked as she applied lipstick into the mirror at a red light. Carson sighed. He’d had a really long phone call with Casey last night about how much he was going to miss her while on this tour. But Casey had explained that she simply couldn’t. Her father had fallen ill and she and her older brother had to stay home to care for him.

“Well yeah, she was going to go, but her dad got really sick and she just had to stay and take care of him. It really sucks though.” Carson said, running his fingers through his fuzzy curly brown hair. (which he’d forgotten to brush this morning) Julie smiled at him through the rearview mirror. “Well you were on the phone with her all last night, I think that should hold the girl for the entire summer. But that’s sweet that she’s taking care of her daddy. She seems like a really nice girl for you, Car. You know, just before you told me about her, I remember telling Vi it was just a matter of time…I knew you couldn’t resist but follow Ethan’s example for long…gosh, I miss that kid.” Carson couldn’t help but laugh as he blushed slightly about Julie’s comment about Casey. “Yeah, we all do.” Carson said solemnly. “But how did you know I was on the phone with Casey last night?” Carson asked suspiciously making Julie chuckle. “We have thin walls Carson. Vi’s bedroom is on the other side of your room. She heard you guys last night. She said you two were absolutely adorable.” Julie said with another chuckle. “Well that’s not creepy at all..” Carson muttered sarcastically. “Well, hopefully you won’t have to worry about that from now on. We’re here.” Julie said as she nodded her head toward the parked bus. Carson smiled. “I promise to call everyday.” Carson said with a smile as he grabbed his stuff. “You’d better. Now go have fun. And don’t get into too much trouble, kid.” Julie said with a wink. Carson smiled and walked onto the bus. He grinned at everyone, including Eden who smiled and asked Carson a question. “Well, I sure hope so. Hey guys. Hey Ezzie.” He said, setting his bags down on the floor beside him. “Sorry I’m late…I had a bit of…guitar trouble.” He said awkwardly again, taking a seat next to Ezzie. “So when’s our first show?”

“Tomorrow night, I think.” Ezzie said, looking like she was about to punch something. “So Carson, have you met our lovely friend London yet?” Ezzie muttered sarcastically through extremely gritted teeth. Carson furrowed his brow in confusion. “No, why? Is something wrong?” Carson glanced at the other band members.

[Casey Allen G5]

Casey’s heart beat hard when Carson entered the room. She couldn’t concentrate. Casey stared blankly at Kaden’s guitar. So much for her new song. She was too distracted to write anymore. Casey finally looked up to Carson. Great. It was going to be like this for the whole tour. Why couldn’t she just tell him and get it over with? She wanted to but she couldn’t. Casey wouldn’t know what to say or do. She would be like a lifeless corpse. Casey would have to live with lies she created. To think, Eden Sweden was like a life saver at first. Casey as free to live a some-what normal life with her rock star gig on the side. It was what she always wanted. She really had the best of both worlds, but now she was beginning to think that her double life wasn’t so sweet. In fact, it was more like a prison than anything. Casey just wanted it to end. But it was too late, wasn’t it? This was her life now and she had to take it or leave it. And Casey wasn’t about to let it all go.

Kaden strummed the remainder of Casey’s new song and smiled at her. “Start all over?” He asked making sure it was the title of the song. She nodded shyly. “Yea, like it?” She asked. He nodded. For years, Bradley wrote Eden’s songs and he still did, but lately Casey wanted to try to write her own. And she was good at it. But she was still nervous about her own music. Would people like it? Would they be fine with the fact that Eden Sweden was leaning more toward the pop rock side? It made her nervous, but she had to deal with it. “Perfect.” He smiled. Casey smiled. Kaden’s opinion was important to her. He was a big brother to her. In fact, he was better than Joel and Joel knew it. Casey eyed Carson after a minute. It was weird to look at him. She just wanted to give him a hug and laugh with him, but she couldn’t. And it was all her fault.

Eden laughed when Ezzie brought up London. Carson looked a bit confused and Casey smiled sweetly. “She’s just a bit…umm, what’s the word?” Of there were several. Eden glanced to Kaden and then back at Carson. “She’s a brat. “ The others nodded. “She can’t stand me, defiantly can’t stand Casey and so far she hates all the guys.” Mo nodded fiercely. “But who knows, maybe she’ll take a liking to you Carson.” Casey hoped not. She didn’t want them to talk at all, but she couldn’t do anything about that. Eden eyed Ezzie. “Ez, a little revenge might be called for after she treated you.” Casey smiled mischievously. “Just a thought.” She laughed. Kaden eyed her and then Ezzie. “Place nice darlings. You don’t know what she’s capable of. But she better know that if she messes with you two, she messes with all of us.” Kaden looked around at the other guys who nodded. “Yea maybe I need to sleep in Eden’s room just in case London decides to break in.” Davy suggested grinning. Ty nodded. “I call Ezzie’s room!” He said playfully. Casey rolled her eyes and then look to Ezzie. “Nice try.” Eden then began flipping through a magazine to avoid staring at Carson. Oh well. This tour would defiantly be interesting.

((The End. Ha. Well for this post anyways.))