Making of Self titled album.
October 20 2007

Candy's POV

I watched as the smoke left my mouth as I blew it out. The cigarette calming any stress I had at the moment.

"Those are going to kill you one day, little sis." Jimmy said stepping out of the studio, a mountain dew in his hand.

"Like you haven't done worse." I scolded my older bother as he stood next to me looking out towards the busy traffic.
"Yeah, but I'm older and much more wise than you are." Jimmy said looking down at me. I glared at him.
"We're one year apart dipshit and if I can recall you were the one gave me my first beer" I said looking at him with a smile.
"Whatever, but we got to get back in there. Matt is going to flip shit if he finds out I'm not in there." Jimmy said opening the door.
"Well, maybe you should stop messing around and stop being an asshole." I said bluntly looking over at him. I watched as he narrowed his eyes at me.
"Oh shit.." I yelled running away from hims as he chased me. I ran into our recording room jumping behind Johnny.
"You have got to be kidding me right? Out of everyone in here you run behind dipshit?!" Jimmy said laughing hystarically.
"Hey! I would protect her!" Johnny said getting all defensive of the fact Jimmy is picking on him for being short.
"With what?! You're 'Beer' and 'Wine' tattoos?!" Brian yelled from the other side of the room. That made everyone burts out laughing.
"Awe come on guys stop busting Johnny's balls." Matt said between laughs.
"What balls?!" I choked out as I continuted to laugh hystarically.
"I hate you all." Jonny mumbled plopping down next to a giggling Val.
Everyone calmed down from picking on Johnny and Jimmy was currently recording some vocals with Matt. I was sitting with Val discussing what to get for lunch when all of a sudden someone plopped onto Val and I. I groaned as I moved to see who it was.
"Really Zack?!" I asked trying to push him off. Val and I having no luck.
"Oh sorry. Didn't see you there." He said not moving.
"Dude. Get off my girlfriend. You're going to crush her." Matt said walking out of the recording booth with Jimmy and hitting Zack on the head as he sat on the armrest of the couch. Zack moved himself upright so he was now sitting next to me.
"You're lucky big ole Chris guy didn't walk in." Brian said talking about my current boyfriend.
"Shut the fuck up Haner." I mumbled kicking him as he walked by.
"I'm not scared of that douche." Zacky said earning a high five from Jimmy as he plopped next to Zack.
"I'm right here." I said glaring at them.
"Yeah, I know." Zack said with a smirk.
"Dude he's a total Douche McBurger!" Jimmy said. "He freaked out on me beacause I spilt some water on his 'fancy french shoes'." he added with air quotes.
I knew that the guys were right about Chris and how he can be a douche sometimes, but it's not that easy to end it with him.
I sighed as I looked up at Zacky. Everyone else broke off into there own conversations as Val decided she'd go order a sheet pizza for lunch.
"You okay?" He asked moving a peice of hair out of my face. Zack and I have always been close. I've always been close with all the guys. I grew up with them. Only being one year apart from Jimmy and having no friends in school. We all just kind of clicked.
"Yeah I'm fine. Just a little stressed. We're almost done with the album and that means tour and that means a lot to handle." I admitted. I might of been over reacting a bit, but we did just finish a world wide tour for 'City of Evil' in January.
"I bet once you get on that stage again everything will be fine." He said putting his arm over my shoulders.
"Yeah you're probably right." I mumbled picking at my jeans.
"Damn I'm pretty excited for tour!" Johnny yelled
"Yeah this album is sick!" Matt said as Val walked in with the Pizza.
"When are we leaving?" I asked standing up to get myself a slice of pizza.
"Well we just finished the album and Nick said that's going to be realeased to the public on the 27th and tour starts the 29th." Matt said.
"I'm so pumped. The kids fucking loved 'Critical Acclaim' and 'Almost Easy' I think they're really going to like the rest of the album." Brian said stuffing his face.
"Yeah, I agree." I said. "Hey Brian, Is Michelle coming with us?" I asked Brian talking about his girlfriend and Val's twin sister.
"Yeah she is actually." Brian said with a smile.
"Sweet Leana's going too." Jimmy added.
"I declare a girls day!" Val yelled suddenly.
"I second that!" I yelled just as loud as she did. We both looked at eachother and started laughing. I finished my pizza and threw away my plate when I got a text.
"Is Douche McBurger going?" Zack asked as I sat back down next to him.
"Yeah I think so." I said grabbing my phone from my pocket. I flipped it open to see it was a messege from Chris.
*I'm here. Coming up now. -Chris* I read.
"Shit. No more calling him a 'Douche McBurger' He's on his way up now." I said quickly getting up and grabbing my hoodie and throwing it on over my tanktop as everyone groaned.
"Shut up." I mumbled to them as Chris walked in. His brown shaggy hair was swooped to the side and he was wearing a North Face jacket with a pair of jeans and sneakers.
"Hey babe." He said walking up to me. I stood so he could kiss my cheek. I was going to sit back down in my seat next inbetween Val and Zack, but he grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the couch across form the one I was sitting on.
"So uh Chris." Matt cleared his throat. "Are you going on tour with us? We got to let our manager know how many people we're bringing with us by the end of the week."
Chris squeezed my hand. "Yeah I'll be joining you guys." he said
Matt nodded his head and muttered a 'cool'. I looked around to see everyone not bothering to talk to eachother. Just messing on their phones or picking at their nails.
"Is this what you guys do all day? Seems like a waist of time." Chris broke the silence by his remark.
"Only when you're here, pal." Zack said to Chris as a joke. Everyone else knowing that it was actually the truth.
I watched as Chris's jaw clenched and him and Zacky stared at eachother.
"I think we should go." Chris said standing up looking at me.
"Well we actually just finished the album so we were thinking about going back to Matt's and hanging out." I said gesturing towards the guys.
"Fine." Chris said harshly. Then leaving the room.
Everyone stayed silent until Jimmy spoke.
"Douche McBurger Deluxe" he said referring to Chris. Everyone burst out laughing once more. I groaned and shoved my face into a pillow.
"This is going to be a long tour." I mumbled.

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