The Insufferable Band-Brat & The Ice-King of a Band Manager butt heads way too often for their own good. No one can find a way to control Archie, nor can anyone find a way to melt the icy walls the band's manager has put up around himself. Think they can find a way to get a long and maybe even help each other with thier persistant problem of idiocy and icyness?
Your guess is as good as ours...

The Insufferable Band-Brat;;

Name: Archie
Age: 23
Appearance:
Personality: Bratty, out of control, jerk-ish

The Frozen Manager

Name: Cain Grimm

Age: 20

Personality: when around others he is cold and harsh. Not giving a care if he hurts someone feelings.

When alone he is shy and worrisome, easy to scare.

Archie lay upside down on the couch, his feet on the hotel wall and his guitar laying on his chest as he strummed it lightly. It wasn't connected to the amp, which was still in the equipment van, but he was bored and writing a new song with the others and thought he needed to add some flare to the guitar solo.

The others, Joey the bass player, Kris the drummer and Adam the secondary guitarist were spread across the room as well. Joey and Adam were playing cards and Kris was in the fridge. When he decided to just grab a soda, Kris snagged two and walked over to Archie and set the second soda on the floor next to his head, "For you, oh-devoted-one." he laughed. Archie made a face at him and kept going on the guitar, "Well, some of us have to do work. We can't all fake it like you can, little drummer boy." he smirked. Kris rolled his eyes and opened his soda.

Archie took the guitar off his chest and set it on the other side of the arm of the couch, then back rolled off the couch and onto his feet, "Dudes, we need to get out of this hotel." he said, grabbing Kris' open soda that he hadn't had the oppertunity to sip yet, with a smirk.

Kris punched his arm and rolled his eyes, grabbing the unopened one from the floor. "We've been stuck in this hotel daaaaaaays," Kris complained, "Archie's right, we need to get out!"

Joey piped up then, "We can't. Cain said we're not supposed to leave until he figures out the new tour schedule, and until then, we're not to leave so we don't get eaten by rabid fangirls, remember?"

Archie spoke up again, "Since when have I ever listened to Cain telling us to stay put?" he said with a smirk, "We're rock stars, we're supposed to party.

Adam finally jumped into the conversation, "One of these days, Cain's going to kill you Archie, and we're not going to do a damn thing to stop it."
Joey seconded that, and Kris added, "I won't either, but that'll be for the sheer joy of not having to do it myself." he laughed.

"You're in or you're out!" Archie said, "I'm goin' either way! Once Cain gets here, briefs us on what a jerk I am and what we have to do and goes off to do his buisnessy stuff, I'm gone!"

Cain sighed as he finally got to the bands room. He has a long chain with a coller on it in his hands. He entered the room and tossed the chain at Adam. "Put this on Archie when I leave so he does not follow. And your gig is tonight as the grand candy rock stadium. Everything else will be across the world, any questions?" He asked in his normal cold tone that sent chills down a person spin if they did not know him.

He glared at the only problem that he could never get rid of, "you should be like the rest and listen to me." He said taking a deep breath trying to keep calm.


((Holy hell, sorry but this is what your only going to be able to get out of me at the moment.))

Archie looked at the chain, then to Cain, "If that's from your personal collection for your private buisness, I'll pass." he put on a horrified face. Where the heck would you find one of those so readily, other than a sex shop? The answer was pretty obvious.... You wouldn't. It sort of made Archie laugh that Cain would have something like that, since he was so obviously unable to have a relationship.

"Ooh! Ooh! I do have one crucial, crucial question!" Archie said, raising his hand and waving it in the air rapidly, "At Grand Candy, will there be peanut butter cups?!" he asked in the most serious tone he possibly could. While peanut butter cups were no laughing matter to Archie, he did get a kick out of driving Cain up the wall.

Joey and Adam shook their heads, knowing one of these days Cain was just going to get fed up and do something completely outrageous; whereas, Kris was trying not to laugh, whilest not understanding how the others couldn't find that as funny as he, and Archie, did.

Before Cain could butt in with another jerk-remark, Archie added to Cain's last comment, "Awh, but if I were like the others, you wouldn't love me so much for being different!" he said, sarcastically with a hint of loathing dripping in his voice.

((Uh... no problem? Why so serious and why the "holy hell"? O_________o ))

Cain sighed lightly ignoring every single word, since he thought it would be better then choking the most popular one. "Well I'll be going, to make sure the stage is set up. I want all of you to be there three hours ahead of time for sound check. And the consert starts at nine." He said as he started to leave the room, his cell rang. He looked at the number and sighed lightly, "I told her not to call when I'm at work. Though it is a sweet gesture" he muttered as he left the room closing the door and answering his cell.

((I was just shocked))

Archie and Kris exchanged glances and ran full-tilt for the door, pressing their ears against it to see if they could hear who was on the other line, or at least what Cain was saying. When they realized Cain was too far away to hear now, the back up, staring at the door, and slowly looked at each other.

Joey shook his head and Adam was far too interested to ignore it, "What'd you hear?"

Kris sighed, "Nothing. The man walks like a cheetah runs." he shook his head.

Archie half laughed as he turned towards the others, "It was probably his mother anyway." he walked back to the couch and sat down normal, throwing his head back and closing his eyes, "So, Adam, wanna put that thing on my neck now?" he picked his head up and looked at Adam and raised his eyebrows suggestively, "I'll even call you 'Papi'." he winked.
Adam threw the chain and collar at him, rolled his eyes and walked away. Joey went back to pick up the cards that were on the table. Kris, was back in the fridge.

Archie knew better than to skip a gig, but when six rolled around, he wasn't in the mood for a sound check right then. He procrastinated as long as he could before Joey, the always overly responsible one, threw a fit at him. They all threw their equipment in the van, jumped in the car and headed to the stadium. The driver had the BMW today, and let them off at the backstage entrance. While the others all headed where the were supposed to, Archie wandered off to check things out on his own. They hadn't played this place before, and he wanted to know where things were, you know, should they need to hide... from fangirls... or Cain...

Cain sighed since he was on the phone with his girlfriend when the band came in. "Sorry sweetie, they guys came in. Yet the idiotic buffoon is no where to be seen. I'll talk to you when sound check is over, bye." He said blushing lightly at what the girl said on the other side of the line before hanging up. He took a breath and calmed down, "which way did you see him last?"

The others turned around, not having seen Archie gone off. "He walked in with us!" Joey said, annoyed the other had snuck off without anyone seeing. Joey was angry now, he was angry at Arhie for running off, probably to piss of Cain, and at himself for not keeping a closer eye on him.


As Archie wandered, he met various members of the stage crew, chatted a bit and wandered on. He was entertained by the colors everywhere. He could see why the word 'candy' was included in its name. Archie, after not too long, had the stadium's basic blueprint in his head- and a bunch of places to hide from Cain. When he was satisfied, he headed back to where they were supposed to be for the sound check, but slowly.

"Joey calm down, we all know it takes hours to get you out of a rampage and you need to be doing sound check now." Cain said to the three before he left looking for the idiot, glad no one heard him taking to her girlfriend. "Where the bloody hell is he? I'm going to teach him a lesson for not listening to me this time." He growled, not happy at all.

Joey sighed and nodded, then took another deep breath, "Alright..." he said and nodded to the other guys, who followed them into sound check.

As Archie rounded the corner, he ducked back behind it quickly- Cain was coming. Archie snickered and headed down the narrow passage between the two concrete walls he was near, which he could barely fit through. With any luck, Cain would keep walking and pass Archie, who couldn't be seen unless you walked up and peeked into the passaeg, for it was not well lit. He snicked quietly, so he wasn't heard as he popped out the other side, then walked to where sound check should be.