"Crystal, wake up it's like 1 in the afternoon. We gotta get ready for tonight."

I slowly opened my eyes to see Matt laying next to me in a pair of black skinny jeans and no shirt on. I could get used to that.

Sitting up, I ran my hands through my hair in attempt to try and neaten it a little bit.

"When did you wake up?" I asked, as I turned to see Matt standing up and going to find a shirt.

"I woke at like 12 but I thought I'd let you sleep in a bit more."

"Ah, such a gentleman."

"You know it babycakes," He replied. With that he turned around with a Metallica tank top in his hand and winked playfully at me.

I hid my blushing as best I could and stood up to go get changed. I walked out to my bunk to grab a pair of black skinny jeans with rips at the knees, and a Slipknot tank top. I grabbed everything else I needed and headed into the bathroom to get changed.

"I'm showering, bye!" I heard Moose yell from the other side of the door.

"Well hurry up!"

"Nope, snooze ya loose sunshine," Came the reply.

"I only need to get dressed!"

"Do it in front of Matt, he would love it!"

I bit back my smile and bashed my fist once on the door, earning a small yelp from Moose, then went into the back room to find Matt still in there.

"Oi you, scoot I need to get dressed and Moose is hogging the shower," Matt looked round at me and protested by sitting down on the sofa.

"And why do I have to leave for you to change?"

This time I blushed really hard and I heard Matt chuckle from opposite me.

"Aw, that's cute. I'll turn around?"

"You'll leave?" I mimicked my suggestion as he continued laughing and stood up, walking past me and lightly slapping me on my ass.

"Oi hands off, don't touch what you can't afford!" I called after him as his laughter only got worse. What was with him today? And what was that even all about?

I shook it from my head and shut the door, quickly changing then hopping into the bathroom once I saw it was free to do my makeup.

After applying some foundation, powder, eyeliner and mascara, I finished off my makeup by filling in my eyebrows and adding some clear lipgloss, then set to work on my hair.

Brushing through my hair and then pulling it all to one side, I sighed at how boring it looked now. I'd had this style for months now and my roots were starting to come back again. I decided I would just quickly pull all my hair together into a french braid that fell down the side over my shoulder. Once that was done I headed out into the bus lounge and found Padge and Jay sitting there. Perfect.

"Hey boys, what time is Soundcheck?"

"Not sure, I think it was 5pm for today, why?" Padge replied, looking up at me from his phone.

"Oh you look nice today," He added, making me smile.

"Thanks, and awesome I want you two to come to the shops with me."

"Now?" Jay chirped in.

"Yes now, come on let's go we have stuff to do!" I clapped my hands twice and they stood up, heading off to grab their jackets.

"Oh yeah, where's Matt?" I asked as Jay came back into the room.

"Uh, Moose and him went into town or something, not sure."

I nodded at his response and Padge came back ready to go. I went to grab my purse and phone and put them in my bag while the boys put their shoes on, then I joined them in the front, quickly slipping on my vans and heading out the bus with them. Padge locked the bus door, seeing as the driver wasn't around to be seen, then we set off in the direction of the shop I wanted to go to.

*****

"Crystal, why exactly are we in here?" Jay asked as I led them over to the part of the shop that sold hair dye.

I picked up a box and turned around with a smirk on my face. Padge smiled and nodded with approval, while Jay just stood with a face that said 'oh, ok then'.

"Oh yes, this is gonna be fun!" Padge spoke up before scooting off to look for some different colours.

"Woah Padge, nothing to extreme please!" I called out after him.

"Yeah Yeah, don't worry!" Was the response that came back and I laughed a little before me and Jay followed in the direction Padge had gone off in.

After about half and hour of debating and having boxes of hair dye held up next to my face, we finally settled on a colour, or colours as it were. We made our way over to the checkout before I remebered what else I had wanted to get.

I quickly excused myself and headed to find were this place sold their razor combs. I eventually found them and picked up the first one I saw, then heading back to the boys who were just about to be served.

Throwing the comb down with the hair dye, I fished my purse out of my bag and handed over the correct amount of money.

Once that was done I grabbed the bag and the three of us began our walk back to the bus, with me heading straight to the bathroom once we were back when I saw that Matt and Moose were still out.

I shut the door and tipped out the contents of the bag onto the side, opening my box of dye. Let's hope this goes right.

First step, bleach

Second step, colour number one

Third step, colour number two

Forth step, dry and straighten

Last step, razor comb

I went through my mental checklist and began the long process of giving myself a new hairstyle.

About two hours later, I looked at my new appearance in the mirror and smiled, happy with the outcome.

I now had dark brunette, almost black hair with a bright turquoise blue dip dye. I had recut a few layers here and there and neatened up my bangs a bit, making them sweep down to the right, stopping just above my eyelashes.

"Dam girl! Look at you, it looks amazing! Really brings out your eyes," I turned to see Padge standing at the door with a smile of approval on his face.

"Do you think the others will like it?" I asked, biting my lip slightly with a smile

"Matt always had a thing for brunettes," He winked, making me roll my eyes.

"That's funny, I'm just gonna take that as 'yes everyone will love it.' " I answered.

"Yes I'm sure they will, Matt and Moose just got back actually, that what I came in to tell you in the first place." I nodded as he walked off again. Why am I suddenly feeling nervous? Maybe I'm thinking way to much about what Matt would think, although it's not just Matt that I want to like it.

I took a breath in and walked out to were everyone else was, with Moose being the first to notice me.

"Woah, where the fuck did Crystal go?" He said, which caught the attention of everyone else. I looked round at the four of them, Padge and Jay stood with pleased smiles on their faces, Moose had wide eyes but a smile on his face and Matt just stared at me with a very slight smirk.

"Hell yeah! I knew it would look great!" Jay cheered. I couldn't help but laugh at his excitement.

"You knew about that?" Moose asked, pointing over at me and looking in his direction.

"Dude, we went to buy the bloody stuff with her you moron," Padge replied, patting Moose on the shoulder and walking off to the back room.

I laughed and picked up my purse, heading past the boys and slipping my vans back on.

"Yep, and now I'm off to buy food coz I'm starving. Anyone want anything?" I spoke up. With the order being 'just buy a load of crap' I headed out the bus for the second time and began my way to find another shop.

"Hey, wait up Crystal!"

I smiled at the voice, as a familiar blue eyed band member appeared next to me.

"So your hair looks uh, great... I-I really like it," He spoke up after a few seconds of silence.

"Thank you, you know Padge told me you've always had a thing for brunettes. If I had known then I would have gone brunette a lot earlier," I teased, watching as he blushed and smiled slightly.

"Well I do think brunettes are very sexy, especially when they walk around a tour bus with a black and red lace bra on before heading into the shower," He winked, referring back to last night.

This time it was my turn to blush as we arrived at the shop, with him holding the door open for me. I smiled and said thank you then headed inside with him following close after me.

We spent a while walking round the shop, deciding what to get and almost getting kicked out for being to loud or messing around to much. By the time we got to the checkout, the people behind it didn't look to happy with us as we tried not to laugh to much.

"Thank you, have a nice day!" Matt said as he handed over the money. With that he gave the person an overly exaggerated smile which made me start laughing again as they just glared at him. We grabbed the bags and Matt grabbed my hand, leading me out the shop and back to the bus.

On the walk back, I came to the realisation that we were still holding each other's hands. I blushed a little then heard Matt speak up.

"I'm not letting go until you do," He said without taking his eyes off the path infront of him. I smiled a little and looked back infront of me as we walked in comfortable silence for the rest of the walk.

"Do you want some superglue for those hands?" Was our greeting as we stepped back into the bus and put the bags down on the table. I rolled my eyes at Moose and threw a pack of beer at him, which he caught, causing his face to light up.

"Yo, we haven't had a piss up yet, we should make tonight the first one!" He suggested, turning everyone's attention to him.

"And apart from the support bands, who would we invite?" Matt asked as though Moose hadn't thought it through.

"Well, what we do is we park the three buses close to each other, so you can go in and out of whichever one you want, then if any fans are over 18, we let them join us! We've easily fitted about 20 or 30 people in this bus before so imagine how big tonight will be with three buses!" He explained. I nodded in agreement, it was a pretty good plan and I needed a night to get shit faced drunk, it had been to long since the time.

"Alright, seems like a plan. Just make sure you do know that they're 18+?" Padge agreed. Moose nodded and set the pack of beer down, opening it up and dishing one out to each of us.

"Hey guys, don't get too comfy, Soundcheck is in about 15 minutes," we heard a voice say. We looked round to see Jack, a member of one of the support acts standing there.

"Oh shit yeah, we should probably head over now then," Jay said. We all got up and walked out, making our way into the venue where the second band, Broken Souls, were just finishing up their Soundcheck. We Are Legion, Jacks band, had already done their Soundcheck and where stood around watching Broken Souls.

"Hey dudes, listen up! We having a party on the bus tonight, you guys up for joining in?" Matt asked, getting the attention of the other bands who agreed in excitement.

"Awesome, in that case we're gonna be using all three buses and we're gonna invite a load of fans to join in too, so make sure you have enough alcohol," Matt explained.

"Oh trust me, we will," Nathan, the singer for Broken Souls replied. Matt smiled in reply then headed to do Soundcheck with the others.

Once Soundcheck was complete, we all headed off to do our own thing until it was show time. We Are Legion played their set first, with Broken Souls following and finally of course Bullet For My Valentine. Matt decided that he was Ok now to go out and play, so I ended up standing side stage watching them.

After the concert was finished, everyone headed back to their buses to get neatened up for tonight. After watching the amusing scene of Moose and Jay fighting over who was to get in the shower first, I went into the back room to see if I had anything a bit nicer to wear.

"Hey stranger," I heard as I looked up from my suitcases to see Matt walking in with a black bag.

"Hey, this might seem random but do you think you could help me pick something to wear?" I asked as he smiled and held up the bag.

"I knew you'd want something to wear so have no fear, your saviour is here!"

"Ok that was cheesy, and I swear if that's something you brought for me earlier then-"

"Then you will wear it because I know you will love it... Hopefully," He cut me off by handing me the bag.

I took it and looked inside, my eyes widening at what was in it. I pulled out a black shirt made from stretchy material that hung low on the chest area, revealing a white bandeau attached to it. With that there was a new pair of white skinny jeans along with a pair of high heel boots that were black with studs on the back.

"Oh my god Matt where did you get this! You didn't need to get me anything!" I exclaimed, looking up at the grinning man before me.

"Exactly, I didn't need to, but I wanted to. And it'll look extra perfect on you now that you surprised us with a new change of hair colour," He answered back, taking a step closer to me.

"Thank you, it really is amazing," I said, looking up at him.

"You're welcome, I just hope it all fits Ok," He replied. I pulled him into a hug and he hugged back a little tighter.

"You know, with everything you've gone through, it should be me treating you and making you happy, not the other way round," I pointed out as we broke the hug.

"I know, but maybe it makes me happy seeing that you're happy," He said back, kissing me on my forehead then heading off without another word, leaving me to get changed.

I smiled and set everything out on the bed to the side of the room and began to undress out of my current out fit. I quickly sprayed some deodrant and body spray then slipped on my new jeans and top. They fitted perfectly, with the shirt bringing out my hips and chest a bit more, and the jeans hugging my legs perfectly. I smiled and added the shoes which also fit me well. Once I had done that, I touched up on my makeup and quickly ran the straighteners through my hair and sprayed over it with a bit of hairspray.

Happy with my appearance, I made my way out to the front of the bus were the boys were finishing getting ready. They all had black jeans and neater shirts on, Jay being the one to have on a black button up shirt. Moose and Padge stuck with wearing band T-shirts and Matt was wearing a plain white T-shirt with a black fake leather, sleeveless hoodie.

"I told you she'd look hotter than she already does, Matt" Moose spoke, referring to me as they all turned to look at me.

"Phwar, dam girl!" Jay whistled, making me laugh. The others grinned in approval and Matt winked at me, proud of himself for the outfit choice.

"Thanks, you lot don't look to bad yourselves," I replied, earning thank yous from them all.

A few moments passed with us all setting out drinks and cups and me going to sort out the music, when people started to arrive at the bus. The other buses were filling up with people pretty quickly and you could hear the music from the both of them along with ours.

Tonight was going to be a good night.