Reiko smiled as she returned the hug to Akemi-chan. "I know I am early but I didn't want to be late. I am glad to see you though! Did you have a hard time leaving this morning or where you excited as I was?" Reiko shifted her attention to the other member of the band who was walking up to them. "I would say that one of theknuckleheads is here now." She laughed as she gave Jin a slight bow then a warm smile. " Konnichiwa Jin-Kun" Reiko gave him a slight hug then went back to standing with her luggage. "I have no idea where Akira-Kun. I believe he will be here soon enough." Reiko looked at the two smiling. "Are you ready for this trip? It fells weird leaving my brother here all by himself. But I think this experience will be good for all of us."

"If she doesn't come we'll have to improvise again, I just hope she comes when we leave for America." She said remembering the last time Lexi had to leave, that was the day she got engaged in the first place, MariKat was stuck singing while playing guitar. It wasn't a disaster but Lexi was definately better on guitar, MariKat was more of just acoustic no electric for her.

Akira felt Kouta had enough and messed up his hair while getting up. "Time to go squirt" Akira told his younger brother and started to dissasemble his drums. Kouta went grabbed the helmets, and followed Akira outside. While he was putting the drums and its accessories in the side car, Kouta put his helmet on and got on the bike. "Time to take you home, think I kept them waiting long enough" Akira started the bike and revved the enginge before going home.

Taking off his shoes and slipping on his slippers he went up stairs to grab his luggage he had packed the night before. "I'll keep in touch!" Akira called out, then went downstairs to hug everyone. "I get your room!" Kouta runs upstairs. Akira just laughed on his way out. Akira went next door to see if his neighbor would take him to the airport in his truck. "Thanks, owe you one." Akira told him, and put his luggage, bike (no side car), drums, etc. in the back.

"Thanks man." Akira waved his neighbor off and went to find the people who put your luggage on the plane. Once he found them he looked for the plane he was suspose to get on. "Oh, hey guys!" He yelled across the port, running towards them.

Akemi smiled at Jin and hugged him as well, standing up. "Hey, Akira!" She yelled, running towards him. She stopped when they met, and threw her arms around him. "I missed you, kid." She said, smiling. She brushed her reddish hair back behind her ear, pulling away, her hands on his shoulders still. "You got taller again," she pouted, walking him back to the spot where Reiko and she had been sitting.

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Aarani got up and moved over to Rosie, pulling her chair the inches forward that she'd scooted back. "You stay there." He said, going back to his drumset. "Now. My aunt kicked me out. I texted you, Ina and Cierra about seeing if I could stay over for a while. You didn't text back, but Ina did." He said, hoping she'd understand. "I doubt Ina'll be screaming my name if you're wondering." He said calmly. "Now. Where's Cierra? That little nut." He said, kicking at his foot pedal.

Ina noticed a change in the atmosphere of the room when after her comment. She looked at Rosie and bit her lip, she knew that the other girl had a crush on him. Then again, who didn't? "Yeah he is. His aunt finally kicked him out. He sent a text out earlier asking for a place to stay," Ina said quickly, trying to make the situation better. She didn't want Rosie to think there was something between them, after all Ina didn't think that Aarani thought of her that way. Anyways, Ina valued her friendship with Rosie too much to hurt her that way.

[ Err, Where's Early? ]

(( I dunno~ ))

{Sorry. I'm back. :/ I just had a mid-life crisis, of sorts - I have finally shaken my PeterPan syndrome and have decided to grow up. I'll still roleplay, this is just an issue me and the real world have been fighting with for quite some time.}

Rosie laughed. "Uh, Aar... No offense, but aren't we leaving for America soon?" She was really relieved that she hadn't lost him yet. But why? Shouldn't she be waiting to move on with her life? What made Aar so special, anyway? She'd dated enough guys, but she always ended up hung up on him. Maybe it's because I can't have him, she thought absentmindedly.

"Missed you too, you need to stop hiding from me." He grinned as he hugged her. "Oh? Are you sure you just didn't shrink?" He followed Akemi to Jin and Reiko. "Hope I didn't keep you guys waiting that long, I got the tickets." Akira pulled three tickets out of his pocket and held them out for them to take and look at them. "What have you guys been up to lately?"

"Well, America, here we come," said Jin with a smaller smile ",I hope my english is good enough for this." Taking the plane ticket from Akira with a thanks, Jin looked down at the information on the slip of paper and reshouldered his guitar. "Do you guys want to go sit now?" Jin asked with a gesture to four empty chairs near the windows.

((it's a short post..sorry))

Akemi smiled. "Shattup, Akira." She said with a playful punch to his arm. She grinned at Jin. "Well, hopefully it is. We can always get one of those books for you, the uh, English dictionary thing." She said to him, scratching her head. She squealed and took her ticket from Akira, jumping in place. "I can't believe it.. We're actually going!" She said, closing her eyes and plopping back on the chairs, a foot on her luggage.

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Aarani smiled. "Maybe so, but when we return, well, I'm going to need somewhere to stay, isn't that right?" He said to Rosie. "God, where's Cierra when we need her? She probably has the tickets." He said, knowing he'd forgotten to check his mail. "Maybe I should check my mail," he said with a sigh.

((Recap? I gotta go to bed soon >.< or else I would read it.))

[[We're all in the studio, nothing major happened yet. Make Cierra wake up and check her mail for the tickets, and mosy on down to the studio. XD]]

Reiko took one of the tickets from Akira giving him a slight smile. She took a seat in one of the chairs near the window then looked to Jin and laughed. She hadn't thought about that before now. She wished had thought about it though. She could have practiced her English before hand. "It is to late to worry about that now Jin-san. Besides you have all of us to help if your English isn't that good!" Reiko smiled at Jin as she gave him a playful wink. "Besides the girls will be to busy looking at you to care what you are saying. You might have competition from Akira for their attention. So you better make sure that you stand out more than Akira." Reiko turned and looked at Akira smiling. "Nothing really, what have you been up to? Akemi isn't short she is just travel size!"

Akira just grinned, then looked to Jin. "Well we can always help you out or-- you can just learn from those books Kem-chan is talking about." Akira took a seat next to Akemi, you can always count on Akemi to the energetic one of the group. He pulled out his ticket to look at it, and read it. Akira smiled and looked up to both Reiko and Jin, "Haha good one, travel sized... I haven't been doing much, just hanging out with Kouta." He put the ticket back in his pocket and took out his drum sticks from the little bag he had carried on board. Looking out the window he could tell the plane was getting ready for lift off. "You guys ready for the long flight?"

He was leaning forwards, head tilted slightly as his chin rested gently against the palms of his hands, his elbows on his lap. For a moment he pretended to look outraged though when Fitch said he’d laugh.
“Don’t be so insulting! I’d never laugh at you...Unless you did something stupid that’s funny.” He teased before looking surprised a little. Sander had heard of a couple of the people mentioned, even listened to a few songs, but he hadn’t ever thought of doing something by them. “Looks like some of our fans have very good taste.” He answered cheerfully, laughing softly when he saw Fitch’s blush.

“Ansiosos poco Bella? We can start now if you want” He answered. Pausing for a moment, he reached up into the air, stretching a little before grinning. It was still almost unbelievable for him that they were really doing this.

((What he says is: Little Eager Bella?))

The blonde then looked at Sanders and nodded with a small wink. Of course he had meant no harm by his laughter. Of course he was just a giddy person. Fitch nodded and smiled at Bella. "3Oh!3 is quite interesting. I really enjoy them surprisingly... and yeah I guess they do." He grinned at Sanders when he commented on the selection of their fans. Softly he began strumming an All Time Low song, Remembering Sunday." Then he looked up at Sanders then looked in between Bella, Tony and Sanders nodding. "Obviously, I'm ready to begin whenever you guys are." He said with a grin as he continued playing the song slowly mouthing the words. Fitch's fingers moved effortlessly along the neck of the guitar as he looked as down at his fingers.

"Hey hey hey! Stop that!" Michael yelled, glaring at the drummer for a moment, "We get it, you're good but you can quit making the rest of look bad." He wasn't lying when he said that Jacob was good, better yet... Their drummer was talented and they were really lucky to have him in their group. MJ respected him; however, there were a few times that Jacob had managed to annoy him with his solo playing and sometimes over doing it whenever they were practicing. Micheal then turned to Tanya, "Where's the pamphlet? Or the envelope? It has the event schedule, right?"

He then waited for a few moments, before plucking in a new notes; letting his guitar cry for a couple of seconds before adding in some harder ones and began rocking it hard. He then began to bob his head lightly along with his rhythm and practically fell into his own playing.

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Bella merely flashed the singer an innocent smile as she shrugged, "Maybe~" She answered before she fell into a small giggle fit, "But~ Don't I have the right to be? I mean, look at us! It's literally us against the world!" Well, it was quite a literal approach to put into their accomplishment as a band. She then turned her attention to her bass for a moment before returning her attention back to her band mates, "Well, I'll go warm up a bit then and just say so when everyone's ready to start our day~"

{Waiting for Cierra... Sorry, but I'm going to be very busy this week - Just got back to school after being sick for a week, so I've got a fair amount of catching up to do. If I'm holding anyone up, please just puppet me along and bring me with you. Thanks!}

"Didn't Linnea set it in the other room?" She questioned, looking out the doorway. "Ah, whatever. I know it isn't for a while. I mean, at least we're in the same country. They've got people flying in from just about everywhere. This thing's getting a lot of press, like we all don't already know." Tanya said, referring to the swarms of paparazzi that had tracked down the members of Engel.

As Michael had started playing, her fingers automatically began to move as well. At this point it was second nature. The tune was heavy and dark, but kept up with Michael's faster beat. This happened often between the two guitar players- they'd even duked it out in solo battles onstage, during Linnea's breaks. It was all lighthearted and fun, of course, but it had sparked a lot of rumors about rivalries and hatred between the two. They'd died down now, since the band was going to the contest, but it was a bit ridiculous in Tanya's mind.

"I apologize, Michael." Came the voice of Sticks, ice-cold and calm. "If you did not want a beat, all you had to do was say so." Unlike Tanya, Sticks' and MJ's tensions were beyond boiling. Often when Sticks played a beat that was complicated, MJ became annoyed at him and expressed it verbally. In turn, Sticks would stop playing as he was right now and just cross his arms, leaning on his drumset silently, watching the two play. He respected MJ as a songwriter and a musician, but not as a person; and he suspected MJ felt the same way toward him. The tension was getting so that Sticks knew something was going to happen--and as such, Sticks would make a tough decision nearly instantly while watching MJ with cold eyes. He decided to not tell everybody right this moment, but wait until an opportune time.

Tanya stopped playing as she noticed Sticks glaring at MJ. The tension between the two had always been palpable, especially lately. "Hey, easy boys." She said, trying to defuse the situation. "Let's just get back to practice, all right? Linnea, you got anything you wanna sing?"

[these posts wont be big at all.. –is not reading lot tonight- sorries <3]

Linnea could not help but to laugh softly at the little thing going on between the boys. When MJ mentioned about the schedule and things she smiled and then walked out of the room. She looked at the tickets and then into the envelope as well, she soon found another paper and a pamphlet thing. Walking back, she skipped slightly as she entered. Turning to Tanya as she asked her what song she anted to sing, Linnea smiled and shook her head. “Surprises are always fun.” Sticking her tongue out she then leaned back up against the wall as she looked at the papers in her hands.



Tony is somewhat out of it, the ideas running through her head, her band members’ words seemed to be flowing together, molding as one. Shaking her head, she snapped out of it to hear the word practicing. “I’m go.” Walking back to the booth she sat down, she had already warmed up, before everyone had arrived and now she was ready to play. Playing a few little beats she just wanted to get a rhythm going.



[okay either get on a plane today or tomorrow [in the rp], just depends on how far away you are from Texas.. if you really far away then I would suggest getting on the plane soonish, but truthfully I really don't care XP just excited for all the bands to meet up]

((i don't know how to join in......can some one help me please i read the whole thing and i still can't figure out where my band mates are at))

{@Ameika: What band are you in? Try to find some of the people who play your band members and PM them!}