Party Gone Wrong Part 2

Mike and Chester then said with an excitement tone in their voices “We’re flying off to LA!”

Claudia, Antigoni, Janv and Eva found themselves looking around unable to believe they were actually going to LA, with LP! Suddenly they started jumping around from their excitement and Chester said “Calm down girls, I know it sounds cool but seriously you need to calm down”. Claudia replied to him saying “Calm down? How could we? What’s happening is a dream coming true!”

Before anyone replied Phoenix told everyone that the plans had changed and they had to leave for LA the next night because the upcoming week they’re having a concert for KROQ’s locals only show. That meant that the guys had to head back to their hotel to pack and so did Claudia, Janv, Antigoni and Eva.

The next day LP went for some sight-seeing around town while the girls met at Eva’s house so that they could pack together. They were very excited and couldn’t believe this was actually happening. They were flying to LA the same night. As they were imagining what was going to happen while they were in LA, Janv told ‘em she had a similar dream a few months back. The rest of girls wanted to hear it so they begged Janv to tell them the dream. She began by saying that LP offered her and her friends a trip to LA so that they can see the studio. The next thing she remembers was sitting right next to Joe in the plane, while both of them were asleep. Mike and Chester thought that was cute and took a picture of them sleeping. Then Janv said “I wish this was true!” and Claudia replied “Aw don’t worry. Who knows what’s going to happen in that plane!” After that the girls continued packing .Time passed by fast and it was around 8pm... The girls left to go to the airport where they were going to meet with LP. It was a rainy summer night, just perfect for a long 15hour flight.

As they got to the airport and walked in, they saw Brad waving to ‘em. They headed towards him but he was alone. When they asked him where the other guys were he said they’re waiting for them at the plane. Antigoni gave the girls the weird look implying she didn’t understand. Neither did the 3 other girls. Then Claudia asked Brad: “Ehm sorry Brad but what do you mean they’re waiting? Isn’t the plane leaving at 10pm?” Brad replied “Yeah it does, only that we forgot to mention we’re flying with Chester’s private plane”. The moment he said it Eva thought out loud and said “This is definitely going to be the awesomest week of our lives!!!”

Brad helped the girls carry their luggage to the plane. When they got inside they were amazed by the luxury. Big, comfortable leather seats, a 4 person table and a mini bar. Chester welcomed the girls to the plane and before he even got the chance to say anything else Joe pointed at Janv’s t-shirt and said “Look! We’re wearing the same t-shirt! We’re like twins!” Dave and Rob tried to hold their tears from laughing while Mike was in his own world. The flight attendant asked everyone to close their cells and fasten their seatbelts. The plane was ready for take off. Claudia and Eva found themselves a seat right next to Mike, while Janv sat next to her “twin bro” Joe. Brad called Antigoni over to sit next to him and Dave. Now everyone was on their seats ready for take off.

3, 2, 1... The plane has taken off!!! Claudia and Antigoni can’t hide their excitement. They’re shouting “We are so going to LA!” Suddenly the plane starts to shake and as Claudia is staring out the little window Chester assures everyone that these are just air blocks. A few minutes later the pilot announces that it might be a shaky flight because of the bad weather but assures everyone that it’s completely safe because they’re flying above the clouds, above the thunderstorm.

The flight is now in a normal rate and it seems like most of the people are asleep. Janv’s head seems to be resting on Joe’s shoulder and he’s trying not to move so he won’t wake her up. Chester has fallen asleep and Brad, Phoenix and Antigoni are the only ones talking. Mike gets his computer out and asks Claudia and Eva if they don’t mind if he’ll update his blog. With one voice the 2 girls say to him “No it’s ok”, and they lean over him, as he is sitting between them, to see the magic behind his blog posts.

Meanwhile Antigoni seems to be having a pretty interesting conversation with Brad about music and they found out that they actually like almost the same style of music. Phoenix has fallen asleep and so have Claudia and Eva. Mike tries to put his computer away without waking the girls up and checks his watch. (Mike to himself) *ok we still got like 14 hours of flight so I’ll take a nap* and so he does. The pilot lowers the lights inside the cabin so that everyone can rest. Antigoni yawns and gets herself comfortable in order to sleep and Brad puts his headphones on, closes his eyes and goes to sleep too.

You can only hear the sound of the plane and music coming from Brad’s headphones. The flight attendant makes sure everyone’s comfortable and finds herself resting at the back of the plane. Everyone is now sleeping…resting for an upcoming week full of awesomeness, concerts, studio and a lot more.

Almost 3 hours have passed and suddenly Joe starts screaming in his sleep. Everyone wakes up and goes to check on him. He’s talking about loosing his froggy and then finding it dead in an alley! Suddenly he screams again and scares Brad off. He runs to the pilot and accidentally falls over the wheel. The plane dives and everyone is terrified. The pilot manages to get the plane straight again while Phoenix yells at Brad “Well done dude! Thank you for scaring everyone off.” Brad feels sorry and excuses himself. Meanwhile Mike is trying to calm Joe down and explain him that none of this was real and Eva is searching for Joe’s froggy doll. Phoenix and Chester are talking bullshit and Antigoni, Janv and Claudia are staring at Mike’s ass. His boxers are visible from his pants because he has kneeled down to help Joe. Claudia calls Eva and she runs immediately. “Look!” says Claudia as she points at Mike. “Holy Shinoda!!!” she says. After a couple of minutes Brad asks if someone has seen Rob. Chester and Dave stop arguing, Mike gets up and then Antigoni says “Oh there you are Bourdie! We thought we lost you. Where were you?” Rob replies “Relax guys, I wanted to get my laptop so I asked the flight attendant to take me down, where our luggage is”

With Joe having realized all of it was just a nightmare, the chaos stopped. Claudia, Janv and Antigoni are chatting with Chester about his tattoos and the story that hides behind each one. Brad is listening to music again on his big “in the end” headphones Mike designed for him, Phi is sleeping and Joe and Rob are playing backgammon.

Eva goes back to her seat and takes her iPhone out in order to listen to music. Mike sees it and asks her “Hey is that your iPhone?”
Eva: Yeap it is
Mike: Cool, do you mind if I check out your music library?
Eva: Be my guest! (connects her iPhone to Mike’s laptop)
Mike: Ok, let’s see….You got some pretty dope tracks in here. We actually like the same music. I never thought someone would listen to the stuff I do.
Eva: Why? (scrolls down the music list)
Mike: I don’t know…I guess because this stuff is so old and a kid at your age wouldn’t even know about.
Eva: You’ll be surprised! (punches Mike in the back, like bros do)
Mike: Ha! I gotcha ya! You have the whole album of Get Busy Committee in here. (looks surprised)
Eva: Yes I like them a lot! You were right when you said that someone’s life is incomplete if they haven’t heard this album. The guys totally rock!”
Mike: Ok then, I’ll tell you what. Listen up: As you probably know I’m really close with these guys and they invited me to their concert this Friday…”
Eva: (interrupts him) And you’re telling me this because you want to make me jealous?”
Mike: No no! In fact I’m asking if you want to come with me
Eva: (in a tone full of excitement) If? If? Dude!!! Of course I want to come with you! Thank you so much!
Mike: Nice, it’s a deal then. But promise me you won’t tell anyone else. It’ll be our little secret ok? (blinks his eye)
Eva: Sure sure! Thanks a lot bro!
And they continue chatting as they realized they have a lot in common, not just in music but art too.

Suddenly Chester laughs out loud and says “Guys! Stop tickling me!” and continues laughing…Claudia nods her head to Antigoni and Janv and tells them “Let’s take him down!!!” *evil laugh* Then the girls start tickling Chester even harder and Janv grabs a sharpie, which is on the table, and starts writing on Chester’s back. Rob and Joe are cracking up and Mike says “Great idea! Let’s all paint on Chester” and grabs another sharpie.

Janv drew a little froggy holding the letter J and tells Chester this is the way you’ll remember me, the girl with the Hahn t-shirt. Then Antigoni writes her name with graffiti style so that Chester can remember her as the “cool” girl. Last but not least Claudia decides to make him a heart with the initials of all of them in it and says to him “This is the way I want you to remember us. The 4 girls that threw the dopest parties ever for their amazing friends, you!”

Chester: Aw C, that’s so sweet. Thank you guys! And you know what? (points at Mike) Dude, remember when I told you I wanted to get a new tattoo? I think this is it.
Mike: Awesome! Should I make that little skullie you wanted me to the other day too?
Chester: Sure go ahead
Mike: (draws the skullie) There you go. Now you just have to get those inked.
Chester: I will as soon as we get home, promise
Antigoni: Are you seriously getting those inked? (looks surprised)
Chester: Yeah why not? Besides I want to have something from our biggest fans.
Claudia: Aw Chaz, you don’t need to do that…you know we’ll be there (points at Chester’s heart) forever.
Janv: You know, Claudia is right. I feel bad now because we kinda made you have those inked.
Chester: No guys! I want to have them inked! I really do, believe me! Mike knows.
Mike: Yeah! He’s been talking about this new tattoo idea for ages. You girls gave him the chance to have it.
Janv: Ok then, I’m glad you like them.

Suddenly Joe pops in the conversation and says with a sad face “Aw what? Chester is the only one getting tattoos here? What about me?”
Antigoni: ” Aw Joey…here you go. (grabs the sharpie Mike is holding and draws a heart on Joe’s hand)
Joe: Cool, thanks! I’m not getting it inked though…Do you guys promise me to draw me something on a piece of paper before you leave?
Claudia: We definitely will!
Rob: Ok now that we’re all fine with the tattoos and all, I want to make a special announcement. Sort of, at least.

Everyone gathers near Rob, except from Phoenix and Eva. They are both sleeping and nobody wants to wake them up. After all Rob can tell them what he wants later.
Brad: Ok dude, TALK! I hope I didn’t take off my headphones for nothing. I want to hear what you have to say.
Rob: I didn’t tell you this earlier because you would get way too excited. Since we’re arriving in LA in like the next couple of hours and it’s going to be dark already, I’ve booked a table at “Planet Hollywood” for dinner. A little present for you girls, because I think it’s the best way to start your stay in LA.
Janv: Planet Hollywood, like for real????
Antigoni: Yeah Rob are you serious?
Rob: Hell yeah I am!
Claudia: Awesome awesome AWESOME!!!
Mike: Haha, this week is going to be amazing with you guys.
Chester: Yes it sure will.
Brad: That’s what you wanted to tell us? LOL dude, I knew it already!
Rob: How? (Suprises)
Brad: I overheard you talking on the phone and booking the table, but I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to ruin the surprise.
Rob: Thanks for not mentioning anything.


Antigoni calls Janv and Claudia and tells them to look out the window. Street lights, cars driving by and buildings can be seen from above the plane. They are now flying over Texas. That means they are really close to LA.
Mike: Come on girls; go back to your seats.
Claudia: But I want to see this!
Antigoni: Yeah please, just let us see it.
Mike: You’ll have plenty of time to see everything tomorrow don’t worry, just go back to your seats.
Chester: Yeah go ahead…We want to do something with Mike here.
Claudia: Hmm ok (sits down)
Chester: Ready Mike?
Mike: Hold on…I need to make some adjustments.
Antigoni: What the hell are you guys up to?
Chester: Wait and see! (helps Mike connect the camera to his laptop)
Mike: Ok, we’re ready to roll!

Mike and Chester carefully walk up to Dave, who’s sleeping peacefully. Mike holds the camera and starts shooting Dave as he sleeps. Chester is trying not to laugh and the girls are watching. Mike approaches Dave’s face with the camera and shoots a big vein that’s on his forehead. “This is the “Phoenix vein”, that vein appears every time Phoenix sleeps in planes. It’s a masterpiece, don’t you think?” Mike says, making fun of Dave. The 3 girls are cracking up and as Chester and Mike are walking back to their seats after shooting this one time only thing, Mike trips and the camera fells on Phoenix’s face and wakes him up.
Phoenix: You just ruined my sleep, dorks!
Chester: Dude, that was awesome! You should have seen your vein, Priceless.
Mike: You know what’s the best thing? We got it all on camera!

Mike saves the footage on his laptop in order to give it to Fiore. He may find it useful for an LPTV episode or something. After that, Rob, Brad and Joe go back to their seats. Chester asks Mike if they should wake Eva up, after all they’re really close to LA. The moment he said it, the flight attendant asks everyone to fasten their seatbelts and straighten up their seats. Mike, instead of sitting, goes to wake Eva up. He smoothly taps her on the shoulder, so he won’t scare her, and tells her it’s time to wake up. She opens her eyes and asks where they are and then Antigoni tells her in Greek that they arrived in LA!!! Mike goes back on his seat to get ready for landing.

Not a minute later, the captain announced they will be landing in LAX soon. He informed everyone that the weather is nice and there’s a slight chance of raining later that night. Each one of the girls had taken a spot next to a window to admire the awesomeness of LA from above. The view was sick! Big high ways lighting up, lots of cars driving…They even managed to see China Town! Antigoni with a ton of excitement said “There it is! I can see the airport!” and pointed out the little window. Then Mike looked Chester and told him “We’re home dude”.

Someone may wonder why Mike said that to Chester, but being a member of a famous rock band has its disadvantages. Being away from home for touring is really difficult because you leave behind the people you love: family, friends, everyone. Thank God though, Linkin Park are a family. They’re all buddies and this way they feel they’re not alone when they’re away from their own families.

And….Touchdown!!!! The plane landed in LAX. The girls couldn’t believe their eyes! Their dream came true. It was already 9pm and the guys rushed to take their luggage and head to the parking lot. When they got there they had to figure out a way to go to Planet Hollywood without being pulled over because of the amount of people in one car. They decided to split up. Rob took all 4 girls with his car and Mike and the others went with his. On their way to the restaurant, the 4 girls couldn’t believe their eyes! Everything seemed so different from their countries. It was like being in paradise. Eva, as she was looking out the car’s window, said a big “WOW” and the other girls nodded their heads to show her they agree. Then Rob replied back by saying “You’ve seen nothing yet, guys! Wait till tomorrow to be surprised”.

A few minutes later Rob said to himself “Oh boy, here we go” and Claudia asked him what’s wrong. “We’re here but we have a parking situation apparently” Rob replied. Antigoni laughed and said “Yeah seems like that’s the only common thing between all the countries and the US”. After wandering around for a couple of minutes they finally found a parking spot. Apparently though, the other guys weren’t anywhere near so Rob called Mike on his cell.

Mike: Yeah, Mike here.
Rob: Dude, where are you?
Mike: What do you mean? We just walked in Planet Hollywood and we’re waiting for you guys.
Claudia: (grabs the phone from Rob) Yo Mike, C here.
Mike: Hey…everything’s ok?
Claudia: Yeah yeah I just need to tell you this.
Mike: Can’t it wait 2 minutes?
Claudia: No! Listen!
Mike: Ok ok.
Claudia: Please do us all a favor and don’t eat all the cookies until we get there.
Mike: Hahahaha! No don’t worry, I’m waiting for you.
Claudia: Cool, cya in a bit. (hangs up)
Janv: I can’t believe you told him that! Brilliant!
Rob: Come on guys, lets move because I think he won’t hold himself for too long.
Antigoni: Hahaha! Ok let’s go.

Meanwhile, the guys had already sat on their table and they are waiting for the rest. Dave and Joe are trying to make Mike eat a cookie as they see he can’t restrain himself anymore. Brad and Joe are with Mike’s side and they’re telling him to stop thinking about the cookies.
Brad: You seriously need to stop doing that!
Mike: Why? You know much I love cookies guys.
Joe: Dude, they’re just cookies. You can have cookies whenever you want.
Mike: There! You said it! Whenever. I want them NOW!
Chester: Oh little cookie is crying. Little cookie wants to get inside Mike’s mouth.
Dave: Hahahaha dude! Look he’s melting.
Mike: Enough with this crap! I’m not eating a cookie until the guys get here.
Chester: (continues messing around with Mike) Aww little cookie is sad now.

Rob and the girls are right outside the restaurant staring at it and Rob is trying to make them get in.
Rob: Girls, stop staring! Let’s get inside.
Eva: I’m in heaven. *hallucinates*
Rob: No you’re not. This is real. Come on!
And they walk in. Brad sees them and waves at them so they can see him. Claudia shouts “Oh there they are!” and walks towards their table.
“You finally found the way huh?” Dave said ironically. Everyone laughed in a weird way and then Claudia gave clearance to Mike to eat the cookies. Time passed by and everyone seemed to be having an amazing time despite being tired from the long flight. The guys asked the girls to share with them their little stories on how they got familiar with LP and their music. Each girl described in a few words their story and the guys listened carefully. Antigoni started first

“I started listening to you guys in 2004 and the first song I heard was Somewhere I Belong. I liked it a lot and I did a little bit of research about you and your story till then. Then I decided to buy all your records till that time to know some more about your music. That was the big hit. I totally loved every song, every lyric! Your music sounded so awesome in my ears. After a couple of years Minutes to Midnight was released and I admit that was the album that made me fell for you guys even more. I also started listening to Fort Minor and now in 2009, Dead By Sunrise. Finally though, my dream came true when I got the chance to see you live. I was on both concerts you did in Greece and I have to say they were awesome!!! The only thing that’s left to do is join the LPU…I’m not sure when that’s going to happen though, hopefully soon. That’s pretty much it.”

After Antigoni’s story, Claudia continued with hers:

“In late 2000-early 2001, my cousin Donatas came to my house one day. He had a lot of CD's with him with all sorts of bands, starting from Limp Bizkit ending with Bon Jovi. At the time I was only 5 years old, so at first I did not understand what he was planning to do. We were both listening to music. He was telling me about the bands, their formation, ect. Suddenly we came across Linkin Park’s "Hybrid Theory". The cover art amazed me; I had never seen anything like that sketch before. It looked simple but yet so great. My cousin asked me, if I had ever heard of "Linkin Park". I replied "no". Just when my cousin was ready to put on the CD, a video showed up on MTV. It was Linkin Park's One Step Closer. My cousin's first reaction was: "That's Linkin Park!!!", me: "Wow!!!" What amazed me first was the very beginning of the video. I felt frightened but I really wanted to see what the big fuss was about. I thought that Chester was this "crazy/weird blond guy who has a devilish voice", I thought Mike was like "a dragon" with the hair, Joe's face kind of made me smile, I thought that Brad and Rob were the only ones who were normal in that "party of hell". After the song was over, I did not know how to react but saying "it was amazing". My cousin said he can play the CD itself. After a couple of hours, even though I did not understand the lyrics at the time, I really really enjoyed the album. My cousin explained what they mean, and I was amazed. I really was.

Though only in 2001-2002 could I sing the lyrics and say each band member’s name. Soon it became an addiction to me.
In 2006, when I got a computer and when my English knowledge was considered "decent" I started doing some LP Street Team work. I am still a member of it today. In 2003 I was so close to attending a Projekt Revolution show, but I couldn't because I was only 8 years old back then. But in 2008 I finally saw you guys live, and I'll never forget that day. You have really become a part of me, without you I wouldn't be myself. Life wouldn't be life....”

Now it was Janv’s turn to tell her story:

“It was February of 2007 andThere was a farewell bash in my old high school for the seniors. Kids organized & performed everything from dances to songs to stand-up comedy acts. But, one performance stood out and would remain in everyone’s memory for a long, long time. A group of 6 boys from my grade grabbed various instruments, went on stage & pretended to play ‘In The End’ by you guys, a band I had never heard of since I wasn’t into English music (until then). One boy, Himanshu, lip-synced to the rap of the song by you Mike, and he did it so well that people congratulated him for it for a very long time. I liked the song so much that I couldn’t get it out of my head for hours. I finally reached home and searched for information about the song, artist, and so on. I watched it on youtube multiple times, and finally downloaded it (illegally; I bought it later) and learnt the lyrics within 2 days of listening to it for the very first time and that’s when my obsession with you begun.

A few months later, in August to be exact, it was Sports time in school. The guys were playing handball when all of a sudden, Himanshu, he guy who lip-synced Mike’s rap some months ago, collapsed and fainted. I saw him being carried to the reception area and assured my friends that he’ll be all right and maybe it was just a migraine attack or something like that. I couldn’t have been more wrong. He died couple of minutes later while on his way to the hospital. It was later found to be a rare respiratory disease that nobody knew he had.
The next day, school seemed like a cemetery. Everybody, including teachers, cried their hearts out. The Principal let us have a day of mourning because nobody was in a state to concentrate on anything. As a tribute to Himanshu, the rest of the fake ‘LP’ sang ‘In The End’ on the school speaker system. Even those who had stopped crying started all over again. Since then, that song was a strict no-no in school because it brought back memories of a deceased friend.
Till this day, I am grateful to Himanshu & his buddies for performing that song on stage. If it weren’t for them, I probably never would have heard of you guys or your awesome songs. Even today, every time I hear ‘In The End’ playing, a tiny part of me whispers ‘R.I.P Himanshu.’”

Mike: Oh my God. I’m so sorry to hear that.
Chester: It’s tragic.
Janv: Please guys don’t be, besides we’re telling you the stories so you know how we became your fans, not ruin the atmosphere or something.
Brad: Yeah Janv is right. Let’s hear Eva’s story now.
And so Eva started recounting her story:

“It all started back in ’99. My dad was just getting familiar with the internet, since it was just discovered, and he was doing a research on various artists. He came across with your site and thought to listen to your songs. No need to say he loved them of course and he started following you. A couple years later Hybrid Theory was released and he was one of the first who bought it. I was really young that time, like 6-7 years old, so I was listening to whatever my dad was listening. I basically grew up listening to your music. Years passed and it was March 25th 2003, my name’s day and Meteora’s release date. My dad bought me Meteora as a gift and I rushed to listen to it. Needless to say how amazed I was by the music. It sounded so powerful, full of passion and energy; simply huge! When I first heard Numb though, I felt this song was written for me because I used to be like the girl on the video. I had a few friends, and I wasn’t as cool as the others kids to hang out with them. At times I tried to change, be like everyone else in order to fit in but the moment I heard the song I realised I had to me! That’s why I think the line “I’m tired of being what you want me to be” represents who I was back then. Since then everything changed in my life in a better way and I owe it to you! The only thing left was to see you guys live. Finally that day arrived. I couldn’t be more excited about it. My dream came true….”

Dave: Ok, WOW! Your stories guys are amazing!
Joe: I agree…Our fans are definitely the best in the world!
Mike: And the most loyal ones.
Eva: You got that right.

After they told their stories, everyone stopped talking and fell to deep thought. Each story was so unique that made the guys realise how important the fans, and their stories, are to them and how important THEY are to the fans. Then Mike broke the silence and said it was pretty late so they should get home. His comment made Claudia wonder where their hotel was. Mike though assured her that everything is scheduled and she doesn’t need to worry about that.

A while later, after getting the cheque, they went to the cars. Mike and Chester transferred the girls’ luggage into Mike’s car and then Dave, Brad, Joe and Chester boarded Rob’s car. Antigoni asked why they switched cars and Mike replied to her that he’s driving them to their hotel.

Half an hour later, Mike pulled over at a house and that made Janv ask him “Is that our hotel? Cause it looks like a house to me.” and he replied “That’s my house actually”. Then Claudia with a rather exciting tone in her voice asked him “What are we doing here? I thought you were driving us to the hotel”. “Yes, that is your hotel” Mike replied with a big smile on his face and he started to get the luggage out of the car.
Eva: I don’t get it. Why this?
Mike: Because…
Antigoni: (interrupts him) We don’t want to be any trouble, why did you do this?
Mike: Relax guys; we have empty rooms in the house so I figured it’d be better to stay here. Besides Anna was the one who insisted on it.
Janv: Anna? Oh my God! I want to meet her so bad!
Claudia: *thinks* That also means that we’re going to see Otis?
Mike: Yeah you’re going to meet my little man. Promise though you won’t tease him all the time. (laughs)

Mike takes out his keys and unlocks the house’s door. Anna runs towards the door to welcome her lovely husband and the girls and help them get the luggage inside. Before everyone says a word, she asks them to be as quite as possible because it’s really late and little Otis is sleeping upstairs. The 4 girls with one voice tell her how nice it is to meet her and thank her for letting them stay in their house.
Anna: It’s our pleasure to have you girls here. Make yourself at home.
Mike: We should show the girls their rooms. It’s late and they might want to rest.
Anna: Absolutely, yeah. I thought to split you guys in two rooms so that you can be together.
Antigoni: Wow, thank you so much.
Anna: No need to thank me dear, it’s my pleasure. Now come on, let’s go upstairs.

Anna and the girls went upstairs to their rooms and Mike went to kiss his son goodnight. The girls decided that it’d be better if Antigoni and Eva stayed in one room, because they were both Greek and can communicate in their language and Claudia and Janv, could stay in the other room next door. Anna made sure the girls were comfortable and went downstairs again to see Mike.
The day was coming to an end and the girls decided to go to sleep because there was a long day waiting for them the next day. So did Mike, being tired from the trip and the awesome parties, he had to get some rest for tomorrow.

Its 7am in the morning and Mike has already waken up. He’s sitting in the kitchen making breakfast for everyone. Anna walks in and kisses him saying “Good morning” and tells him that Otis will probably wake up in a while so she’ll make him his milk. A few minutes later they hear Otis crying from the baby monitor. Mike runs upstairs to get him, so he won’t wake up the girls from his crying. He holds him tight and as he takes him downstairs to Anna he tells him not to cry because daddy’s here. Anna passes the milk to Mike and he carefully gives it to Otis.
Anna: Aw look at you!
Mike: What?
Anna: It’s so cute…Otis looks so much like you.
Mike: Yeah he does, that’s my boy!

A couple of hours later, Mike went to wake up the girls. He first went to Janv and Claudia’s room. He gently tapped their shoulders and opened the curtains. Then he walked to the room next door and did the same in order to wake Antigoni and Eva up. As he saw nobody was getting out of bed, he shouted “I’m leaving for the studio in an hour. Whoever wants to come, better be ready soon!” That made the girls jump out of their beds like cats jumping around when they’re wet. Mike laughed so hard seeing that and said “Haha, I knew that could made you wake up.” and went downstairs again. Eva being sleepy she made a comment “You may don’t like to sleep Mike, but I do” and went to sleep again. Antigoni started pulling the shits off of her and told her “Come on! Wake up! We’re going to the studio today!”. As she said it Eva popped out of bed. “Oh yeah studio. I didn’t get that memo”. Meanwhile Claudia and Janv were already ready and went downstairs to have breakfast.
Anna: Good morning girls. Did you sleep well?
Janv: Yes! Thank you.
Mike: Where are Antigoni and Eva?
Claudia: They’re coming in a bit.

Not 5 minutes later, everyone was in the dining room having breakfast. As they were talking, Anna reminded Mike to get home early from the studio because they had to make preparations.
Janv: Preparations for what?
Anna: Honey! You didn’t tell them?
Mike: (eats a cookie) Oh I totally forgot! Sorry…It’s barbeque night tonight.
Antigoni: Really? Wow!!!
Eva: Awesome!
Mike: You know what’s awesome?
Claudia: What?
Anna: The guys are coming too, with their families.
Janv: Joey?
Mike: Yeah Joe too.
Claudia: And Chester, with Talinda? And Tyler?
Mike: Yeah he’ll bring Tyler too. He likes playing with Otis.
Antigoni: It’s going to be a blast!
Anna: Yes, and I may need your help tonight girls.
Eva: For sure, whatever you need.
Mike: Ok leave that for now. We better get going. We must be in the studio in an hour. Let’s go.

Mike and the girls got in the car and drove to the studio. As they were in the highway on their way to North Hollywood, where the studio was, the girls were quit quite in the car. All of them were looking out the car’s windows enjoying the view. LA seemed so big to their eyes as they weren’t used at that kind of magnificence and awesomeness.

When they arrived at the studio and walked in the front door, the first thing they noticed was a big Hybrid Theory frame hanging on the wall. Mike told them that Jay, the studio owner, put it up there to honor and thank them for choosing his studio. Then Mike took the lead and walked in a big hallway with frames of famous artists hanging on the walls. He stopped in front of a door that has a sign on it saying “Studio 1”. He asked the girls to sign their names on a big agenda right next to the door. “What’s that?” Claudia asked Mike. “Every visitor has to sign in here. Even our own family members. It’s just the policy.” Mike replied.

When they walked in the actual studio, a wide room with 2 big sofas, an Xbox set, a big pool table and a small kitchen appeared right in front of the girls’ eyes. “This is where we chill when we’re tired or we want to take a break” Chester said as he walked in that mini living room from the control room. “Good morning dude” Mike said and high fived with Chester. “You still got the Christmas lights on?” Janv said with a tone of excitement and run into the control room. The other girls followed her in and found Brad editing some stuff on the computer. “Yo!” he said to welcome them. Then Mike and Chaz walked in and had a little conversation with the other guys to discuss what they had to do that day. Phoenix had the greatest idea of all. He suggested to start searching for tittles for the new album and since the girls were there, they could help them with their ideas. Besides 10 brains are better than 6. They all went to sit in the living room because the control room was way too small for 10 people to sit in and discuss such an important matter. Everyone got comfortable in the sofas and started shooting different ideas. Joe and Brad were writing them down in a piece of paper and Mike was keeping a file in his computer in case they lost the paper in the studio chaos.

About half an hour later, they had approximately 5-7 possible album titles. Rob though asked each of the girls to tell them a title.
Eva: How could we possible think of a title? We don’t even know how the album sounds like.
Antogoni: I agree. It’s pretty hard to think one right now.
Joe: Come on! Just a title, you can rely your idea on how you think the album might sound like.
Chester: Seriously guys, I don’t know what’s harder: Making a record or trying to name it.
Mike: Yes I agree. I believe though it’s harder naming it because we guys disagree on almost everything. (laughs)
A few minutes passed and one of the girls had the courage to speak up first and express her opinion on the album title.
Eva: Ok, it may be a stupid title but that’s what I came up with. Try not to laugh ok? I think the album’s title could be “Energy, Soul, Passion” because I believe that these 3 words represent who you guys are. You’re full of energy, you make music according to your feelings and you are totally passionate about what you do. So I think these 3 words could make an album title and since I can’t visualise how the sound of the new record will be, that’s all I have.
Brad: Cool, I like that. (writes it down)
Claudia: Ehm ok. I can think about the album just being…ground breaking, something to rock the world for originality so I’d say “Linkin Park” because I think that the title says it all!
Phoenix: Nice guys. Keep going!
Mike: You have some pretty good ideas!
Chester: Yeah way better than ours! (laughs)
Antigoni: “Unrevealed Past”. That’s what I’d suggest.
Janv: And I’d say “Paradigm” would be a nice album title because you guys have caused a paradigm shift in the music industry.
Joe: Wow! Seems like we’ve got some pretty nice stuff in here. Mike did you write down all of them?
Mike: Yes don’t worry I did. It’s all in here.
Chester: This “thinking of an album title” thing got me a bit sleepy. Mike are you in for a pool game?
Mike: Hell yeah I am! I’ll kick your beautiful, bitten by a spider, ass!
Eva: I have to see this! (laughs)

Then Mike and Chester started playing pool as the rest of the guys and the 4 girls were watching the match carefully. Chester was the lucky one to start playing first. He has already hit the 6 balls on the table and Mike is thinking how he can beat him. Chester loses his 7th hit so the ball passes to Mike.
Mike: I’ll tell you what. It’s a tie if I can get all 6 balls in.
Chester: Ok, let’s go.
Mike: (thinks loudly) *I have to get all 6 in…so how do I do this?*
Chester: In one shot!
And everyone started laughing at Chester’s remarkable comment. Mike started hitting them all and he had already got 5 of them in. One more was left to tie the game! Everyone, including Chester, was trying to encourage him by saying “You can do it!!!”. Then Mike looked carefully at the pool table and took the shot. It was a really bad ass corner shot. Pretty difficult to get the ball in. Unfortunately though the ball stopped right before the hole.
Mike: Aw man!
Chester: We’ll call it a tie. It was a valiant effort.
Mike walks to that side of the table where the ball stopped before the hole and blows it into to the hole. He then shouts full excitement “Tiiiieeee!!!” and high fives with Chester.

“So this is how you spend your day in the studio: playing pool and messing around with each other. That’s why it takes so long for the album to come out” Claudia said laughing. “She’s just kidding. We know how hard you work guys.” Antogini replied. “Yeah and you’re about to witness some of the awesomeness that’s happening in the studio” Rob said and everyone walked in the control room. Mike sat in front of the computer with Brad and Chester right next to him and Dave, Rob and Joe went into the recording room. They started jamming on their instruments playing whatever came to their minds. It actually sounded amazing! The girls were just sitting in a small couch behind the control board nodding their heads and tapping their feet to the ground, following the music. A few minutes later, Mike started backing up the computer and the rest of the guys started to leave one by one. Besides there’s was a barbeque being held later the same night at Mike’s house and they had to go get ready. Mike assured the girls that he’ll be done with the backing up in a couple of minutes and then they could head back home.

About an hour and a half later Mike and the girls got back home. Anna had already started the preparations. She had watered all the plants at the backyard and made some room for everyone to chill. All that was left to do was take out the dishes and the plastic cups and clean the grill. The girls helped her carry outside the dinnerware set and Mike cleaned the grill. Then everyone got upstairs to change and the girls took Otis with them in order to let mommy get ready without having to take care of Otis. Not later than 9pm the guests started to come. Brad and his wife were the first. Then Rob, Joe and Dave followed and last were Chester with Talinda and Tyler. The minute they walked in the house Tyler rushed to go play with Otis. “Hey Tyler, won’t you give a kiss to uncle Mike?” Chester told him. Then Tyler went to kiss Mike who was outside sitting with everyone and told him “Thank you uncle Mike for inviting us come to your party” and he gave him a big kiss.

Everyone seemed to be having an amazing time. Phoenix had taken over the grill and the rest of the boys were either talking about basketball or bullshit. The girls were sitting with Anna, Talinda and Elisa talking about whatever came to their minds while Otis, Tyler and Jonah, Brad’s son, were playing right next to them with Jasper, Mike and Anna’s dog. A couple of minutes later Mike brought out a big bottle of champagne.
Mike: I think we need to celebrate the completion of the new record and these girls for still being our friends even with everything we’ve done to them. I know the parties and all were crazy but that’s just us. This is who we are and we’re not going to change that.
Eva: If you dare to change, I’ll come to change you back with my own hands I’m telling you!
Antigoni: We like you just the way you are guys.
Chester: Give me that bottle!!! (grabs the champagne from Mike’s hands)
Rob: Cover yourselves! Chester is not good at opening champagne bottles!
Talinda: The kids! We need to get the kids inside!

BOOM!!!!!!!! Chester opened the bottle of champagne and filled everyone’s glasses.
Joe: That was one of your best Chester.
Brad: Yes, it truly was.
Chester: Thanks guys. Now let’s enjoy this beautiful night.
Mike: To us and our awesome friends! *cheers*.
The night went smoothly and everyone had a great time.

The next morning, Mike and the girls met with Chester downtown to give the girls a small tour around “The City of Angels”. Mike and Chester decided to go the girls to their favourite place. Mike took the lead and took them to Little Tokyo. Little Tokyo is a Japanese American district in the LA area and it means a lot to Mike and his family as he is half Japanese and his family actually lived the chaos in WWII. One of the coolest and most important museums there is The Japanese National American Museum, in which Mike also did his Glorious Excess shows. The guys took a small walk around Little Tokyo and then headed to The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Chester’s favourite place. It is located downtown LA and what Chester finds amazing about it, is the construction. It is a huge building with weird shapes that curve around and the whole exterior is made of stainless steel and highly polished mirror-panels. That’s what actually makes it so extraordinary. “So guys, where would like to go now?” Mike asked. “I don’t know about you but I’m dying to see the Hollywood Walk Of Fame” Antigoni said. “Yes!!! I agree lets go there!!!” Janv and Claudia shouted. “Ok, let’s go then” Chester replied.

As they reached Sunset Boulevard, the girls started acting like crazy. They walked down the whole street and the girls went over almost every of the stars on the pavement. So many famous people had left their marks there starting from the ‘60s till today. It was simply awesome. On their way back home, the passed by LA’s City Hall, a tall, white building located downtown and of course The Staples Center! “Oh look! This is where we kicked the Suns’ ass” Mike said laughing at Chester. “Hell yeah! Go Lakers!!!” Eva started shouting. “Oh God! I can’t believe you are one of them too, damn! I thought I had you on my side.” Chester and replied. “Sorry dude but seems like we all the support the Lakers here” Claudia added.

A couple of hours later, after they all had lunch at Mike’s house, Chester and Mike went to his home studio to go through some of the new songs and make some changes. The girls went with them to learn some secrets about producing music and maybe even have the chance to listen to some of the new stuff the guys had been working on. They sat on a big comfy couch behind the big computer screen that was hanging on the wall. All kinds of instruments were in there. Guitars, basses, a drum set and a bunch of different kind of keyboards. All of them knew Mike’s passion about piano anyways. Also, some of Mike’s art was hanging on the walls including a big painting by Futura, one of Mike’s favourite artists. Chester and Mike started working on a song that needed a couple of changes and Janv had the greatest idea ever! She had Eva draw Mike and Chester as they were working. She actually started doing it and couldn’t help herself but laughing. It was so funny drawing them under their noses. Meanwhile, Antigoni, Claudia and Janv had taken over Mike’s iPad and iPhone and were playing “8 Bit Rebellion”.

Chester: Hey, what are you writing? (looks at Eva)
Eva: Ehm…Nothing! (tries to cover the piece of the paper)
Chester: Come on! Let me see! (sits next to her) … Wow! This is fucking awesome! You’re really good at this! And Mike’s back looks awesome.
Mike: My back? What about my back?
Chester: You have to see this dude.
Eva: No please don’t show it to him! It’s not good!
Mike: (takes the piece of paper and gives it a careful look) Seriously, you drew this? It’s amazing! Claudia was right; you are a hell of a painter.
Eva: Thanks I guess.
Mike: I didn’t have the time to ask you back at Janv’s place when we were painting her bathroom, tell me: which are your favourite artists?
Eva: You mean besides you and Joe huh?
Mike: Yes. (cracks up and blushes)
Eva: I really like a Greek painter, his name is Alexandros Vasmoulakis and he tends to draw on building mostly.
Mike: Yeah I know him…his work is pretty dope.
Eva: Who else? (thinks)… Ron English, Gary Baseman, Alex Pardee, Delta and some others.
Mike: Nice, seems like you know a lot.
Eva: Yeah right. I can’t even draw right!
Mike: No, that’s not true. You can draw pretty well. I saw it on Janv’s bathroom wall. You can work your magic. (blinks his eye)

Meanwhile, the three other girls had already finished “8 Bit Rebellion” on both the iPad and iPhone. They were talking with Chester about tomorrow’s concert. He was telling them what’s the plan. They would go over to NRG and then leave all together for KROQ’s concert. He also told the girls not to worry about the tickets and all and Mike suddenly popped in the conversation saying that they have made a special room backstage for them to watch the concert from there. “Dude, I need to get going. Tal is waiting for me to have dinner. Besides it’s getting pretty late” Chester said. “Yeah sure, we’ll see you tomorrow at the studio.” Mike replied and walked Chester out.

“Can you girls do me a favour?” Anna asked. “Can you watch Otis for a while? I need to take a bath”. And so the girls sat around Otis in the living room and started playing with him like they were little kids. Meanwhile Mike was making dinner for everyone. A special home made pizza recipe. The whole house had this bacon smell and made everyone hungry. Before they sat for dinner, it was bed time for Otis so Mike took him upstairs. Then they all enjoyed a nice Shinodalicious style dinner. The girls wanted to leave the couple alone so they said good night and went to their rooms. After putting their pyjamas on, they gathered to Claudia and Janv’s room to hang out for a while. One thing led to another and they started playing pillow fight!
Antigoni: Eat that! (throws pillow)
Claudia: Haha I’m coming to get you!!!
Janv: No you won’t!
Eva: Guyyyys! In your faces!!! (throws a super big pillow on all 3 of them)
Claudia: Oh you won’t get away that easily!
Antigoni: Let’s go! Everyone throw a pillow on Eva!
And the real fight began! They were jumping around the room, up and down the beds throwing pillows at each other. At some point they all just laid on the beds, being tired from the pillow fight, and chatted themselves to sleep.

The first two days in LA had already passed. Studio awesomeness with lots of work like trying to name the new record, a pretty exciting and funny pool game and some of the magic that lies behind the band called Linkin Park. An amazing tour around the City Of Angels by Chester and Mike and a whole afternoon in Mike’s home studio, playing “8 Bit Rebellion” and trying to draw them while working. That was only a small taste of what was about to happen the next days. The girls couldn’t imagine what was coming.


The next morning the girls went out shopping with Anna in Beverly Hills and left the boys alone at home. Besides what could go wrong? Mike can take care of Otis and a dog right? After a long day of shopping therapy the girls decided to take break and have a bite at a small café there. Meanwhile Mike was working on his Alice in Wonderland painting in the house’s basement, where his art studio is, and Otis was right to next him playing with his toy cars. Suddenly Mike started screaming at his dog “No no!!! Don’t eat that! That’s not food!” but it was too late. Jasper had already eaten half of Mike’s acrylic paints. As Otis was playing he started laughing at his daddy because he was trying to clean the colour off the flour while blaming himself for leaving the paints there. “Oh you’re laughing?” Mike said to Otis and cuddled him. He then started tickling him as he was holding him. “Hahaha…See? We don’t need mommy to have fun, do we?” he told him again laughing. Then Otis with his little cute voice replied “Yeeea…Iove you daddy” and kissed Mike.

A while later the girls returned back home to get ready to leave with Mike and go to the studio. “Would it be ironic if I wear my LP t-shirt?” Claudia asked the girls. “Ehm no, why would it?” Janv said. “I don’t know…because we are with the guys…” Claudia replied. “Yeah but that doesn’t mean we can’t support our favourite band from backstage. Besides we are going to be jumping up and down right?” Antigoni said with a tone of excitement. “Hell yeah we will” Eva replied and putted on her LPU9 t-shirt. Suddenly the girls heard Mike calling them from downstairs “Girls come on, we’re going to be late!”. The minute the girls went downstairs, all wearing their awesome LP t-shirts and bracelets, Mike said “Nice, that’s the spirit! I love your t-shirts guys”.

On their way to the studio Mike told the girls to call Chester and tell him that they might be a little late because of the traffic.
Claudia: (calls Chester) Hey Chester!
Chester: Hey C, what’s up?
Claudia: Nothing, Mike wanted us to call you, because we may be a little late.
Antigoni: (grabs the phone from Claudia) Chester, is Joe there yet?
Chester: Yeah he is, why? Do you want me to put him through?
Antigoni: No it’s ok. Just tell him not to forget his froggy.
Janv: (grabs phone from Antigoni) Yeah we don’t want the “froggy is lost” incident to happen again.
Chester: Oh yeah I remember; first it was at your house and then the plane. I’ll keep it in mind. Cya in a while.

When they arrived at the studio, they saw Brad waving at them. As soon as Mike parked his car, they rushed into the mini vans because they were supposed to be at the venue in half an hour. Mike, Chester, Phoenix, Antigoni and Eva were in the first van and the rest were in the second one. On their way to the concert area, Antigoni asked Chester if he took care of the “froggy” problem. Meanwhile in the other van, Joe started acting like crazy. “Where’s froggy???? Tell me you didn’t miss it again guys!”. “Seriously now Joe, you need to calm down, remember what happened the last time you lost him right?” Janv tried to chill him. “Oh no!” Brad said suddenly. “What’s wrong dude?” Brad asked. “We forgot to change the bags. These are not our bags. These are Mike, Chester and Dave’s stuff”. “Oh no! That means that froggy is in the other van!”….

At the same time, in van number one, Mike started acting weird. “I can’t fucking find my laptop” and he continued searching. “Look carefully dude, it’s there with our bags.” Chester told him. “Oh shit!!!” Mike said after a couple of minutes searching. “These are not our bags!”. “What do you mean not YOUR bags?” Antigoni asked. “Tell please we didn’t get in the wrong van” Eva thought out loud. “Apparently we did” Mike replied. “And I told you to take care of the froggy problem Chester. Now Joe must be freaking out!” Antigoni said to Chester. Meanwhile, back at van number two, Rob called Dave on the phone to tell him about the froggy situation.
Phoenix: Hey dude! Thank God you called!
Rob: Yeah I know…the bags!
Phoenix: Is Joe ok?
Brad: Brad here. We wouldn’t be calling if Joe was ok!
Phoenix: Hey Brad. Yeah I know sorry.
Claudia: Pass Chester the phone Phi.
Chester: What’s up C.?
Claudia: Please you need to watch out for froggy next time. We almost lost Joe here.
Chester: I know I’m sorry…
Claudia: It’s ok…He’s calm now. Janv is sitting with him.
Chester: Thank God. Anyways…
Claudia: Cya at the venue in a while. (hangs up)

When they got to the venue, a huge line of kids was waiting backstage for the concert to start. The guys rushed to the dressing rooms for their pre-show ritual.
Eva: So guys, what’s your pre-show ritual?
Mike: I just drink coffee. A strong cup of coffee to keep me full of energy for the show.
Rob: I just like playing with my drumsticks.
Before any of the other guys replied, Jim the tech engineer, interrupted them and told them it was time for the meet and greet. The guys decided that Joe and Phoenix would do that meet and greet and headed off to a room down the hall where the kids were waiting.

Meanwhile Chester seemed to be having fun and making the girls laugh so hard. He was playing “Unicorns and Lollipops” on an acoustic guitar. Mike and Brad were cranking up and Rob was trying to follow the rhythm with the drumsticks while tapping the coffee table. “You like unicorns and I like lollipops oh yeah…you like unicorns and I like lollipops oh yeah, oh yeah…” Chester was singing. Time passed by fast and a while later Joe and Dave were back from the meet and greet. It was time to start getting ready to hot the stage. Jim, the tech guy, had the guys wear their in ear monitors and asked the girls not to go on stage just yet. They had to wear some themselves because the sound on stage is freaking loud. When they were done, they walked to the stage. The guys had made sure there was a perfect spot for the girls to sit and enjoy the show from there. Before they went out on stage, as they always do, the guys hugged each other and prepared their selves to go out and rock!!!

First song on the setlist was One Step Closer. The moment the intro started the girls could see the excitement of the fans. LP ran to the stage jumping up and down. By the time they got to the part where Chester is screaming out loud “Shut up when I’m talking to you”, the girls could see the moshpits forming from backstage. Everyone was screaming and jumping. Second song was Lying From You. Mike seemed to be enjoying it so much. His rapping is absolutely awesome. A few more songs followed including From The Inside, Somewhere I Belong, No More Sorrow and Given Up. Before the next song started, Mike took a moment to say “You guys sound freaking loud tonight! Keep it up!”. Then he started rapping the verse of Petrified over the intro to Points Of Authority. He also rapped the first verse of A Place For My Head over the outro.

The lights went out for a couple of seconds in order for the crew to take Mike’s keyboard on stage. The girls were witnessing everything! The whole action that was happening backstage. It was pretty intense. A few minutes later Leave Out All The Rest and Shadow Of The Day were played. Before the next song started, Chester said “We want to dedicate this next song to our amazing friends who are here with us today…” (the spotlight shined backstage where the girls were sitting) …and thank them for everything. You guys are awesome.” And Mike started playing Numb. The girls went crazy. They couldn’t believe he actually said that! That brought tears to their eyes and made them sit back and enjoy this beautiful song as much as possible. After Numb, all lights went off except one. The only visible person on stage was Mike. He started playing a piano melody. Even the guys admitted that this is their favourite part of the concert. Mike’s playing is amazing. It was so magical. He then started playing the piano intro of Breaking The Habit and then the studio version started. After that, they played Little Things and took a 3 minutes break before the hit the stage again.

During this short break the only thing the guys did was wipe off their sweat from their face and drink tons of water! Mike asked everyone to sing along with Chester on this song, In The End. Then Crawling and Bleed It Out were played. During Bleed It Out it was like a huge party. Everyone was singing along dancing around. Even the girls backstage were singing the “oeo” part with Chester and of course the amazing drum solo of Rob got everyone super excited. A quick guitar switch after the song made Brad hit his lip. Fortunately it wasn’t anything serious. Joe started messing around with his turntables and Mike started playing the intro of New Divide on his synthesizer. The crowd went crazy including the girls. Janv especially was so happy. It was her first Linkin Park concert ever. New Divide ended with an extended guitar outro by Brad accompanied with a bass tone by Phoenix. Then, Joe started playing some gunshots and sirens while messing around and What I’ve Done began. An amazing song with a deep meaning, really hard to play live, especially for Mike who has to play both the keyboard and a guitar part. After taking a quick breath, Mike said “This is our last song. If you want to rock with us, this is your last chance. Lets Go!!!”. The girls started jumping up and down backstage and so did the crowd. Faint was the last song. In the part where Chester screams out loud “No, hear me out now…” everyone went crazy. The biggest moshpits were created. Everyone’s adrenaline has reached the highest point. After an amazing and extended outro, the band as always, chilled for another 5-7 minutes on stage throwing picks, drumsticks and water bottles on the crowd and thanking them for being awesome.

When they finished, they left the stage in a hurry and rushed to the busses. The girls were already there waiting for them.
Janv: That was awesome!!!! You guys nailed it!
Brad: Thanks. It was your first one right?
Janv: Yes and it was the best! No doubt.
Rob: I messed up the drum solo though.
Claudia: No you didn’t. It was awesome.
Rob: I actually missed a note. But you guys couldn’t tell.
Brad: Rob is always worried about any mistakes.
Rob: Dude, I am because it’s a mistake.
Brad: Yeah dude, but they can’t even understand it. We cover it up.
Rob: Yes, true but…
Janv: No but! (interrupts him). You were simply awesome. End of discussion.

Meanwhile, in the other van, everything is so quite. Antigoni and Eva have fallen asleep, Mike is messing around with his iPhone and Dave is resting. They’re arriving back at the studio where they left the cars and Mike wants to wake up the girls. He puts on one of his favourite songs and approaches his iPhone to the girls. Antigoni suddenly opens her eyes and starts shouting “GBC GBC”. Mike has hidden his iPhone. Eva wakes up from Antigoni’s screams and tries to understand what happened.
Antigoni: Can’t you hear it?
Eva: Yes, music. It’s Get Busy.
Mike: I didn’t know you’d be that crazy with the song.
Antigoni: Are you kidding me? The guys rock!!!
Eva: He knows it.
Mike: Yeah they do. Wait till Friday, surprise coming.
Eva: Oh yes. I know!
Antigoni: Know what? TELL ME!!! (pokes Eva)
Mike: Don’t tell her. It’s a secret.
And so Mike and Eva left Antigoni wondering what they were talking about.

The next day, they all met at the studio again to discuss on the album artwork and throw some ideas on what to do about Hybrid Theory’s 10th anniversary. They all sat at the comfy couches and started wondering about what they could do for the anniversary. They wanted to do something special for the LPU and something general for every LP fan. The main idea was doing a 6members chat on the LPU, something that hadn’t happened before, and organising a contest with the prize being a signed Hybrid Theory placket. Other than that, Joe had talked with Fiore about releasing a special 20 minutes LPTV episode with the best moments of the band in Hybrid Theory time. The footage was never seen before neither in old LPTV episodes nor at Frat Party At The Pancake Festival.

Time was passing by fast and Mike and Joe were already late at the album artwork conference. Dave suggested splitting up in groups so they can cover more issues. Mike asked Eva to join him and Joe at he conference because he thought she could help them with ideas. The rest of the guys could stay at the studio and continue working on the songs. Chester though disagreed and had a brilliant idea. He said he and Anigoni could go and get some lunch, since it was already late, and the rest of them could continue doing what they were doing. And so it happened. The guys stayed at the studio to work, Mike, Joe and Eva went to discuss about the album artwork and Chester and Antigoni went to get lunch.

Rob went into the recording room to record some drums while Phoenix was showing the girls how to play the bass. He showed them the right way to hold the bass and some basic notes. As they were trying to do what Phoenix had showed them, Rob was drummin’ so freaking awesome that Brad decided to record it. Meanwhile, a couple of rooms away, Mike, Joe, Eva and a bunch of other guys were trying to figure out the album cover. A guy named James, who happens to do all the photoshoots of LP, suggested having a particular picture of the six of them facing at each other as the cover. Joe disagreed and suggested adding another picture with the LP logo on it surrounding by weird things Mike had drawn.

At the same time Chester and Antigoni were outside a pizza place near the studio. When they walked in, a guy at the counters shouted at Chester and told him that his order was ready. Chester explained to Antigoni that the guy knows what they’re eating because they are ordering food from here all the time. As the guy passed the pizza to Chester, a lady fell over him causing the pizza to land on Chester’s t-shirt.
Lady: Oh I’m so sorry! I was in a hurry that didn’t see you.
Chester: It’s ok mam, just watch were you’re going next time.
Antigoni: Are you ok? Your t-shirt is covered with tomato sauce.
Chester: Let’s get out of here. We’ll figure out what we’ll eat for lunch.
When they got back to the car, he took off his full of tomato sauce t-shirt and stayed shirtless until they got to the studio.
Antigoni: OMG! Your tattoos are amazing! I want one too!
Chester: Haha thanks. And see that? It’s the drawings you guys did on me on the plane. I had them inked last night before the concert.
Antigoni: Wow! They look pretty good. I’m glad you like them.
Chester: How could I not like them? They’re awesome! Now come on, lets go back to the studio. I’ve a feeling the guys are hungry and must figure out what we’ll eat.
Antigoni: We can have MacDonald’s. Is there a story nearby?
Chester: Why didn’t I think of that earlier? Brilliant idea! Lets go!

Back at the studio, Claudia had taken over one of Phoenix’s bass and she was trying to play it. Janv on the other hand, was over one of Joe’s turntables and she was trying to figure out how they work. She started pushing different buttons and suddenly gunshots were heard. Brad popped out of his chair and asked Rob to stop because something was wrong. Claudia and Phoenix walked in the room Janv was and asked her what happened.
Janv: I’m sorry. I was just pressing these buttons.
Phoenix: Isn’t it amazing? I wish Joe could show me how this thing works.
Claudia: Haha why? So you can make weird noises all the time?
Brad: (walks in the room terrified) Are you guys ok? We heard something like a gunshot.
Janv: That would be me messing around with Joe’s equipment.
Rob: I’ve an idea. Why don’t you continue messing with these, Phoenix and Claudia can jam on the bass, Brad on guitar and I’ll try to keep up on the drums.
Claudia: You mean like do a little jam session?
Rob: Yeah!
Phoenix: I’m in for sure!
Brad: Lets do it! (grabs the Hybrid Theory PRS)

As the guys were having fun jamming on the instruments, the artwork conference was almost finished and they were all discussing about some minor details. Chester and Antigoni were on their way back to the studio as they had already stopped by MacDonald’s to grab lunch.
Chester: We’re back!!! (he shouted as he walked in the studio)
Janv: It was about time! I’m so hungry!
Claudia: Me too. Lets eat.
Antigoni: No wait! We should call Mike, Eva and Joe.
Brad: I’m sure they’ll be done in a few so we can wait a little more.
Rob: I hope they will.

A few minutes later Joe, Eva and Mike walked in and informed the rest of the guys that the album cover is almost done and it’s great! Then they all sat and enjoyed a beautiful meal. It was already 5pm when they had lunch. They didn’t realize how fast time passed by because when you’re in a studio you loose track of hours. You’re closed in a small area and you can’t understand how the day progresses.
Joe: Would it be ok if we came at around 11am tomorrow Mike?
Brad: Oh yeah I meant to ask the same question too.
Mike: Yeah guys its fine.
Eva: What are they talking about? (looks at Chester)
Chester: We’re gathering at Mike’s house tomorrow morning to review the songs.
Claudia: That must be awesome.
Chester: It sounds this way but believe me it’s not.
Antigoni: Why?
Chester: Because we always disagree on everything. (laughs)
Janv: Aww…I’m sure despite all that you get at the point you want to get.
Chester: That’s true.

The next morning they all gathered at Mike’s house to review the songs and discuss about the promotion of the new record. All the tracks sounded ground-breaking and they were ready to be sent at the Warner Bros for review. A more serious matter seemed to be bugging the guys though.
Brad: We need to find a way to tell our fans the album is almost ready.
Antigoni: You can start by announcing tour dates.
Rob: Yeah only that we don’t know exactly where we’re touring at this point.
Claudia: Then why don’t you just make a post saying the album is almost ready and all that?
Chester: We could, but it’s too cheap. The fans need something more.
Eva: What then?
Mike: I’ve the perfect idea!
Janv: Lets hear it.
Mike: We can make a couple of puzzles for the fans to solve and each answer of each puzzle will be a clue for the album.
Phoenix: Ok…explain how we’re going to do that.
Mike: Well for starters we’ll have a weird black and white encrypted message appear to them. They will need to look closely at each frame to get the clue for the next message.
Joe: Hold on there genius! This may not be easy for everyone.
Claudia: Yeah some people may not be able to solve this kind of stuff your mind can solve.
Mike: Maybe, maybe not. But these messages will motivate our fans to work together in the message boards to get the right solution. Believe me it’ll be worth it.
Brad: Ok lets say we do it. What next?
Mike: The first message will contain the words “More messages coming soon” at the last frame.
Antigoni: What’s the point? That is not a clue for the album.
Mike: Listen listen! Then we’ll give them a binary code that consists of zeros and ones. They will have to encrypt it to get the result.
Eva: Oh hold on! That sounds way too complicated.
Mike: Well it’s not. There are a lot of sites that convert binary codes to texts. But here’s the best part. The text will be in different languages and they will have to translate it and put it in the right order to get the solution.
Chester: Now that you mention it, it sounds fun and yeah they could work together to figure it out.
Janv: So lets say they got the result and all…what’s next?
Mike: Oh wait! The result is going to be a sentence that will re-direct them to the saying “A thousand suns”.
Eva: What’s that supposed to mean?
Rob: Ha! You’ll need to figure it out.
Joe: Ah nice. I see your point Mike.
Brad: Yes! Lets do it.
Claudia: A thousand suns? You got me thinking now guys!
Mike: See? That’s what I’m talking about. We’ll let them make assumptions and we’ll keep hooking them up with secret messages till they get where we want them to get.
Phoenix: Ok lets make it happen.
Antigoni: And what if they can’t figure it out?
Mike: I’ll be there to give away some hints, don’t worry.
Janv: If you say so. I trust you.
Time passed by and the guys left. Now Mike and Eva had to tell the other girls about the big secret they were talking about the other day. Mike started by saying “I know you guys like GBC as much as I do so I figured we can go to a concert together.” … “Yeah that was the big secret. We’re going to GBC’s concert tonight!!!!!” Eva added with a tone of excitement. Antigoni couldn’t believe it at first! She was so happy she was going to finally see GBC perform live after the blood sweat and tears she and Eva put through to try to bring them in Greece. Janv and Claudia were as excited as everyone else. They couldn’t wait for that night. It was going to be epic.

As soon as they reached the Viper Room, downtown LA, Mike warned them that they were kinda early because they were invited to the pre-show party backstage. That made the girls even more excited and they were all looking forward to meet the guys. When they got backstage Antigoni pointed at Ryu and said “Wow! Ryu is huge!”. “Yeah he is bigger than what he looks in the pics” Eva added. Claudia and Janc saw DjCheapshot at the back and run towards him to greet him, while Mike and the other 2 girls headed where Ryu was.

Ryu: Yo my man Mike! Glad you made it.
Mike: What’s up dude?
Ryu: Good, u?
Mike: Couldn’t be better. I brought a couple of guests with me. I’d like you to meet two of your biggest fans Antigoni and Eva. (points at them)
Eva: You can’t believe how nice it is to finally meet you!
Antigoni: Me too! I feel like I’m in heaven.
Ryu: Do I know you guys from somewhere? You both look so familiar.
Mike: Maybe you know ‘em from facebook or twitter.
Eva: Yes! You do! I’m the one who contacted MTV Greece and asked them to book you for a concert in Greece and Antigoni helped me.
Antigoni: Yes! Do you remember now?
Eva: Please say you do!!! We also talk about the Lakers at times.
Ryu: Of course!!! Our two most valuable fans! Thanks for the support guys.
Mike: Seriously? You’ve been talking about the Lakers? I didn’t know you guys were fans.
Ryu: Are you serious dude? Eva woke up at 4am to watch each game! That’s dedication!
Eva: Proud to be one. (smiles widely)
Antigoni: So, I hope you’re going to play a lot of songs tonight.
Ryu: Don’t worry we got it covered. It’s going to be a blast for sure.
Mike: I’m glad you guys get along so good. I’m going to check what Claudia and Janv are doing.
Ruy: I’ll take the girls to go greet the rest of the guys.

At the same time Janv and Claudia were over Cheashot’s turntables messing around with them. Janv was trying to figure out where was the gunshot button. She seemed to like it so much for a reason. A while later Mike went there too to say hi to his buddy.
Mike: What’s up bro?
Cheapshot: Great dude! What’s up with you?
Mike: Just here with the girls getting ready to enjoy the show.
Cheapshot: I bet you’re having an awesome time together.
Mike: Yeah we do! They’re great.
Janv: Hey I saw Apathy…I’m going to say hi ok?
Mike: Ok, just don’t get lost guys!
Claudia: I’m going with her. Nice to see you Cheap. And thanks for letting us mess with your turntables.

By the time the girls strolled around to greet everyone from the band and have a little chat with them, it was time to go get a nice spot at the arena because the show was about to begin. Mike was already there and he had found themselves a really good spot. Not really far from the stage with great optical space for the girls and him to enjoy the show as much as possible.

Not a long later the show began. The crowd was going crazy and so did they. It was really exciting for them to see their second favourite band in the world live. After the first few songs GBC took a small break and to everyone’s surprise Ryu actually took advantage of it and said “We want to thank our very special friends who are here today to support us. Mike, dude thanks a lot for your help it means a lot. Eva, Antigoni thanks for everything you’ve done for us we really appreciate it. Last but not least, Claudia and Janv you guys are awesome. Keep doing your thing”.
Eva: Oh my God!!! Did he actually say that? (freaks out)
Claudia: He did!!!! (joins Eva)
Antigoni: Did you, tell him to say that Mike?
Mike: No I swear! I didn’t know. I am as surprised as you are.
Janv: That’s simply awesome.

After singing almost all the tracks on their album including “I Don’t Care About You”, “Uzi Does It” and “Say Whaaat” they sang a brand new song which title is kind of inappropriate. By the end of the show they girls didn’t stop jumping up and down for not even a single second. They enjoyed the show so much. Later, they returned back to Mike’s house to rest because it was a long and tiring day full of excitement.

Back at the house, despite being really late, the girls had gathered at Janv and Claudia’s room to chill for a while. Antigoni though was sitting by herself in the room next door so the girls decided to go get her. They knocked the door and walked in. Antigoni was sitting in bed looking at some pictures.
Claudia: Hey what are you doing here all alone?
Antigoni: I’m looking at the pictures we took with the guys. I can’t believe tomorrow is our last day here. (gives the girls the sad face)
Janv: Yeah I know, I don’t want to it to be over either. We’re having the time of our lives right now.
Claudia: It’s a dream coming true. I hope it never ended.
Eva: Come on guys! Get your shit together! I know it’s our last day but we must enjoy it as much as possible and not be sad it’s ending.
Antigoni: How could we not be sad?
Claudia: Yeah it’s…
Eva: We can save the tears and all for Sunday when we’ll be at the airport waving the guys goodbye. All we need to do now is focus!
Janv: Yeah I agree! It’s our last day and we have to spend it as fun as possible.

The girls fell to deep thought and starting looking at the pictures. Some of them were actually really funny like the one with Mike jumping with a snowboard from Janv’s staircase or the one with Phoenix running around like crazy at Janv’s backyard right after he defeated Brad. Some others were full of emotions like the one at Janv’s place right after everyone apologized to each other for what they’ve done. That group-hug photo was everyone’s favourite one. There were others too! The one with Joe and Janv sleeping on the plane, Claudia drawing on Chester’s back, Antigoni and Eva sleeping while Mike was blogging as quite as possible so he wouldn’t wake them up, Mike and Eva painting Janv’s bathroom walls and of course the priceless picture of Mike trying to steal Rob’s cookie at the Planet Hollywood! Amazing moments…moments that will be engraved in the girls’ hearts forever.

Claudia: Can I say something random, to break the ice?
Eva: What is it?
Claudia: Have you thought what we’ll give to LP before we go?
Antigoni: Excellent question. It has to be something unique and special.
Janv: I’ve an idea. We should write a letter to them for starters, thanking them for all they’ve done and stuff like that.
Claudia: Yeap, that’s what I thought too but what else can we give them?
Eva: How about if I drew a picture of all 10 of us, the amazing “Unbreakable people”?
Antigoni: Yeah! And they can have it framed!
Janv: Can you do it? I mean it’s already 2am and tomorrow we’ll be hanging with them so they might see it.
Eva: I’ll do my best to finish it tonight.
Claudia: Great! And we must steal some time tomorrow to write the letter so we can leave it at the studio for the guys to find on Monday.
Antigoni: Tomorrow at noon, before lunch.
Janv: And don’t forget! We promised Joe to draw him something like we did for Chester.
Eva: Yeah Joe knows we’ll do that so we can do it tomorrow at the studio or wherever we meet with the guys.
Claudia: Yes. So, we have our plan. Let’s make it happen. (hi-fives with the girls)
Antigoni: Oh and one last thing. We can make them a collage with the pictures we took together.
Janv: Awesome idea!!! Let’s do that too.
Eva: Great. So you guys finish the collage tonight and I’ll do my best on the drawing.

And so the girls started making the collage while Eva was working on the drawing. It was already 3am when they started making the presents and by 5am the collage was ready and the drawing was almost done. An hour and a half later, Eva found herself yawing so hard! She was feeling so sleepy but at last, the drawing was complete. She headed to bed to rest as much as possible in order not to feel sleepy all day long.

The next morning, Mike got worried because the girls were still sleeping and it was time to leave for the studio. He got upstairs and found all 4 of them sleeping in Eva and Antigonin’s room. He gently tried to wake them up without scaring them. Janv opened her eyes and said good morning with a weak voice. Mike nodded to Claudia who had just opened her eyes as well and said “You guys look dead tired! Didn’t you sleep well last night?”. “We had some issues.” Antigoni replied as she was waking up. “Issues?” Mike wondered. “None of your business dude” Eva said and half-opened her eyes. “Hm! You girls are hiding something…Anyways, get ready! We have to go to the studio” Mike said and left the room.

An hour and a half later they finally got to the studio. “You finally found the way huh?” Joe said ironically the moment they walked into the control room. “Sorry we overslept” Claudia replied feeling guilty. “Dude! You woke them up? Don’t you know sleeping is awesome?” Rob tried to defend the girls as he and Brad enjoy sleeping really much. “Someone who’s logical finally” Antigoni said excited. Then Mike took his place in front of the boards as Chester walked in the vocal booth to record some vocals. Phoenix and Brad were sitting in the control room next to Mike messing with the guitar, while Joe and Rob we’re trying to edit some stuff on Mike’s laptop. The girls grabbed this opportunity and went to the mini lounge of the studio to write the letter while everyone was busy.
Janv: How should we write it?
Antigoni: Each of us can write a little something about this amazing experience.
Claudia: Yeah, it’d be more personal this way.
Eva: Ok let’s do it and then we’ll paint those we promised to Joe.
Antigoni: Oh and don’t forget. We must hide the letter somewhere in here in order for them to find it later.
Janv: Yeah we will.

About an hour later Brad came in the lounge and said “There you are. We’ve been looking for you. What are you doing here?”. “We’re just talking, what happened?” Antigoni asked. “Nothing” Brad nodded and asked the girls to come in the control room. They sat in a small sofa behind the boards and Mike started playing a song on the computer. It was an instrumental and sounded more electronic than the other tracks they’ve done in the past. Claudia asked if this is a song of the new album and Chester told them it’s just a song they never finished, a song that never made it through. After a while, to everyone’s surprise Mike said it’s time to go home. The guys tried to look as convincing as they could to the girls’ eyes and asked him why he’s leaving so early, because he’s the one that usually leaves the studio last, but deep inside they knew what they had to do.

Mike took the girls home and left the guys behind and the studio to prepare the place for the surprise party they had been organising for the girls under their noses. They filled the recording room with all kinds of different colored balloons, added more Christmas lights to the control room and hanged a big piece of paper in the mini lounge that said “We’ll miss you”. Then they got in touch with Jay, the studio owner, telling him not to forget about the party that night and to be at the studio at 8pm in order to let them in. After everything was in order, they guys left and went home to rest a little bit and get ready for the party.

Back at Mike’s place, the girls were playing with Otis in his room while Mike and Anna were discussing how they’re going to tell the girls that they had to go to the studio the same night.
Mike: We need to find something to tell them to get them there.
Anna: How about telling you have a brilliant idea about a song and you and the guys are meeting at the studio?
Mike: That’s not going to work. I came up with an idea late at night and had everyone go to the studio late at night just for it? I could wait for tomorrow plus you’re coming too so they’d ask why you’re coming too.
Anna: True. Tell them we’re having dinner outside tonight. That way they won’t assume anything.
Mike: Right!!! That’s what we’re going to do. Thanks dear. (kisses Anna)

After having this conversation with Anna and solving the problem, Mike went upstairs to check on Otis and announce the girls they’re going to “dinner”.
Mike: Hey are you guys having fun?
Claudia: Your son is so cute and smart.
Antigoni: Just like his daddy!
Mike: Come on now, you make me blush.
Eva: It’s the truth.
Mike: Ok, leave Otis for a minute; I’ve an announcement to make.
Janv: Let’s hear it.
Mike: It’s your last night here so the guys and I are taking you out to dinner tonight.
Claudia: Thanks! But you shouldn’t. I feel bad.
Antigoni: Me too. You’ve done so much for us and what did we do? Nothing.
Mike: Wait a minute. You’ve done a lot already and we appreciate it.
Eva: Yeah, like what?
Mike: The parties, the fun we had together and most important of all you’re our top four fans!
Janv: Ok I won’t say otherwise but seriously you didn’t need to do that.
Mike: We felt like it so we’re doing it. Be ready by 7pm ok?

So the girls started getting ready for the dinner and Mike went downstairs to call the guys and ask them if everything is set up. He called Brad and he assured him that the studio is ready for the party and warned him not to be worried if he doesn’t see them anywhere because they will be hiding at the recording room.

It was around 7.30pm when Mike parked his car outside the studio. The girls didn’t know why they were here but acted like nothing was wrong. They thought Mike must have forgotten something and dropped by to get it before going for dinner. Mike walked in the studio alone to check everything and see if the guys were in their places. A big shock for the girls was about to happen. A few minutes later Mike returned to the car and asked Anna and the girls to come inside to help him find something he lost that morning because he couldn’t find it himself. They all walked in the control room and while Mike and Anna were pretending to be searching, Mike asked the girls to enter the recording room and search there to help them.

The lights were out and when all four of them walked in, Claudia turned them on. To their surprise the room was filled with multicoloured balloons. That would make their searching even harder. As they were walking down the keyboards, Mike who was standing behind them, gave the signal to the guys and they popped out of the balloons saying “SURPRISE!!!” The girls couldn’t believe what was happening. They were scared out of death at first but couldn’t hide their excitement.
Antigoni: You can’t imagine how happy I am right now.
Janv: That’s the coolest “dinner” we ever had!
Eva: I can’t believe you did this for us!
Claudia: Thank you so much! It means a lot.
“Yeah it’s our pleasure.” Rob replied and turned on the stereo. “Let’s have fun!!” Chester started shouting as soon as the music started playing.

An hour had already passed and everyone seemed to be having a great time. Anna and Talinda were sitting in one of the couches talking about various things. Mike was over the table with the snacks grabbing a bite and suddenly he heard Antigoni screaming because a huge trampoline was set up in the small backyard of the studio. No one could believe it so they run towards her. The moment he saw it Chester got onto it and started jumping around saying how awesome it is. Claudia and Eva looked and each other and joined Chester. Rob and Joe were still inside messing around and Phoenix was standing next to Mike watching the guys jump around. “I wonder who thought about putting this giant trampoline here. Idiot” he said. “Wasn’t it your idea Dave?” Mike recalled. “Oh, yeah it was indeed. Brilliant idea I have to say.” He tried to cover himself up.

Janv was hanging with Joe inside and were talking about SURU and stuff like that. A few minutes later, Mike walked in and told everyone to go outside and admire the guys jumping around. Joe was so amazed that he had an idea. He grabbed Rob’s drumsticks and a couple of tennis balls that were left inside. He then started throwing the balls at Chester who was trying to avoid them.
Rob: What the hell? Dude! Those are my drumsticks!
Joe: Oh yeah take them; I don’t need them after all.
Mike: Seriously, what’s that? “Basetennis”?
Phoenix: (craps up) Hahaha, that was hilarious dude! I thought I was the only one who came up with the best jokes ever.

“Watch out!!!!” Eva started yelling. Chester, while trying to throw the tennis ball back at Joe, accidentally smashed a window. Anna and Talinda who were still inside, run outside to see what was going on.
Claudia: That doesn’t look good.
Antigoni: Why can’t you stop breaking things all the time? (laughs out loud)
Phoenix: He can’t stop breaking things because it’s been a long time since he broke something on his body, so he needs to break stuff all the time.
Rob: Dude…
Phoenix: Do not interrupt me when I’m talking wisely.
Rob: But…
Phoenix: There’s not but! Now listen…
Mike: Oh fuck!!!
Phoenix: What now?!?!?
Mike: Apparently the ball after breaking the window it continued its route and broke one of my keyboards’ feet! Chester you’re a dead man!
Eva: I’ll help you fix it, come on.

Chester got off the trampoline feeling guilty. Phoenix was still making those cold jokes and Antigoni and Claudia were just staring at the whole situation with Rob. Screams were heard from inside the studio. Brad and Janv were chasing froggy in the control room while Joe was sitting in the middle of the room with a bucket full of water to save him.
Janv: You need to train froggy Joe.
Brad: Yes I agree, you have to! You can’t just leave him running around like that.
Joe: Sorry guys. (sad face)
Janv: What happened happened. Now, let’s catch him!
And they began trying to capture froggy. They put all their efforts into it and finally after 15 minutes they managed to catch him.

Meanwhile Mike was trying to somehow steer his keyboard and not let it fall because of the broken foot. Eva helped him move a small but heavy piece of equipment and put it in replacement of the keyboard’s foot. As soon as they were done with it, Mike started playing it to see if any of the strings were broken. Eva was sitting back watching him play. It sounded amazingly awesome. A few minutes later, after Mike was sure nothing else was broken, Chester walked in and apologized to him.
Chester: I’m sorry man. I didn’t mean it.
Mike: It’s ok dude. I know it was an accident.
Chester: So, no heart feelings?
Mike: Yeah, we’re cool! We’re bros after all. (smiles widely and hi-fives with Chaz)

By the time all of these happened, it was already 3am. Everyone was now in the lounge either playing pool, chatting or playing Halo on Xbox. Anna, Talinda and the 4 girls were just sitting on the sofas observing around. You could see in the girls’ eyes a small sign of sadness. They knew a few hours were only left for them to spend with their heroes, with the people they appreciate and admire the most in this world. Brad approached them and sat down on the floor and told them not to worry about anything. “Everything nice has to end sometime” he said and smiled. Eva crossed her arms and fell to deep thought, almost tried to hide the tears coming from her eyes. Antigoni couldn’t help it. She hugged Brad and told him she wants to stay in touch with him if possible. She doesn’t want to miss her buddy, her imaginary husband, as she likes to call him. (always in a good way, not like she wants to marry him or something)

After that, Brad tried calming her down and promised to stay in touch with all of them. The rest of the guys started coming towards them, sat down next to Brad and tried to cheer the girls up. Anna and Talinda decided to leave them alone for a while and went outside. Joe cuddled Janv and told her not to worry because he’ll never forget his twin sister. Chester assured Claudia they can always do this again and if they ever throw a big party like the ones the girls did, they are all definitely invited. Eva was still trying to hold her tears as she was starring at the floor, looking no one in the face. Mike grabbed her arm and gave her a big hug. He promised to make an art piece with her sometime and have it framed on his wall. She laughed at told him “I not even half good as you are. How are we supposed to do a collabo piece? “Aw come on, don’t say that. I saw what you can do and you’re pretty good.” Mike replied.

About half an hour later, the girls had finally calmed down. One by one, the guys started going back to their homes and assured the girls that they’ll be at the airport to say goodbye the following day. Then Mike and Anna took the girls and returned home. It was already 6am when they arrived and the girls’ flight was at noon so they started packing and preparing to leave for the airport. Despite being dead tired from the party, they still had some energy left for their last hours in LA. They made sure they hadn’t forgotten anything at Mike’s house and then they talked about how awesome it was being together with LP and spending a whole week with them.

It was already 10am when they arrived at the airport. After giving their luggage to the check in areas, they went to meet the rest of the guys. They sat in a coffee shop near the girls’ boarding exits. Claudia, Antigoni and Eva were to Germany first, where they had to switch planes, and Janv was flying straight back to India. It was the perfect opportunity for them to give Joe the drawing they promised to him and thank them for everything.
Joe: Hey that’s so sweet! I’ll have it framed.
Janv: I’m glad you like it.
Rob: You know, it’s been really awesome hanging with you guys. I hope we can do it again some day.
Chester: Hell yeah we are! We love our hardcore fans!
Antigoni: I’ll be waiting for that day to come.
Phoenix: So….

“The boarding of the Olympic Air flight 713 for Germany has begun. Also, the boarding of the India Airlines flight 459 for Mumbai has started as well. All passengers may now come to the boarding exits” an announcement was heard from the airport’s speakers. Everyone hugged each other and hi-fived, waved goodbye and promised to meet again in the future. As soon as the girls had boarded their planes, the guys left the airport and went back to the studio to continue working on the album.

About 2 hours later, Janv was thinking how awesome it was and was wondering if the guys had found the letter she and the other girls had written. In the other plane to Germany, Antigoni, Eva and Claudia were wondering the exact same thing. Back at the studio, Mike called everyone to the control room and told them he had found an envelop with the band’s name on it. Chester had his doubts at first and suggested giving it to management to open it. Joe had a different opinion. He said it was left here for a reason so they should open it. Everyone agreed.

“Dear Linkin Park,
This is Antigoni, Claudia, Janv and Eva speaking. When you first told us to come with you in LA we couldn’t believe it. It was a dream finally coming true and we thank you for that. But, the real excitement was because we were actually going to spend that week in LA with you; You took us to the studio, showed us how the magical music you create is made, toured us around LA and most important of all showed us how true friends are. So we decided to give you this as a gift: you will find a collage of the pictures we took together and a drawing of us Eva did. We hope you like them, thanks for everything you’ve done.

Claudia
All I wanted to say is this: thank you guys. These past few days were the best of my whole life. It was crazy, it was fun... It's a big shame we have to get back home. It sucks actually, because I want for every single day of my life to be like that... thank you guys again for everything. Someday we will all see each other again, I hope.

Antigoni
This experience was awesome and unique for me. I realised that you guys except from musicians you’re human beings that laugh and have fun. Thanks for everything… And dear Chaz, stay away from any kind of drinks! (LOL)

Janv
Linkin Park was always much more than just a band for me. You guys have inspired me to try things (rap, guitar) I would never have thought of on my own. Listening to your songs helped me follow the voice of my heart. You gave me the courage to tell the world "this is how I am whether you like it or not". And now, after having such a great time with you guys, I know my heroes much better. I thank you all of from the bottom of my heart for everything!

Eva
I could never imagine spending a single day with the people I admire the most but not only I did spent a whole week with them, we became friends as well. Yes, I’m talking about you guys! Thank you for everything you’ve done. It was an experience of a lifetime that will always be engraved in my heart. I do hope we can do this again some day. Thank you for being here for us and keep doing your thing. You know you rock the world with your music because your music is so deep and meaningful. Thank you again for making me who I am and for making feel I’m not alone. “

THE END

Technical problems with the Wordpress version of LPSFF

As many of you know, http://lpstoriesfromfans.whuatever.info disappeared, and it doesn't have neither of the posts that were published, so we're moving back here, until further notice.

Here's the full part 1 of "Party Gone Wrong"






Prolog

“Life never stops just because you had a tough time….” Chester said when he opened up the studio door.
Chester Bennington came to the studio where he and the guys were still in the process of recording his band’s 4th studio album

“Good morning sleepy head!!!!! You’re so late today.” Mike said as soon as Chester entered the recording booth.
“I have a freaking headache…” Chester said.
“From what?” Mike replied. “Maybe an Ustream chat with the fans will make you feel better?”
“Your surprise chats are getting kind of predictable Mike” Mike responded to Chester’s question.
“What do you mean by that? I NEVER tell anyone when exactly I’ll do a surprise video chat.” Mike said it like he knew that he was super right.
“But now, some people are even doing mathematical calculations, when will you go online” Chester said.
“Like who is doing that?” Mike was surprised.
“My son.” Chester said.
“WHAT?! Dude, why he does that?” Mike said. “Uncle Shinoda, can talk with him anytime.”
“He has a friend…somewhere in England, who’s a big fan of us. He missed all of the chats, and since Jaime loves maths and is good at them…” Chester said.
“No mathematical stuff can predict my moves” Mike stood up from his chair and started walking around.
“Do you remember… when we went to those fan parties?” Chester suddenly asked Mike breaking the silence.
“Oh my holy drumset!!!” Rob said. “It was all so crazy and I always got wasted during them.”
“I can’t deny that it was fun but don’t you think we were acting unfair towards the fans and by the way to our families too?” Mike said.
“Dude, you’re the one who hosts those freaking surprise video chats. Don’t you think that it’s unfair to all of those worldwide fans?” Chester tried to corner up Mike.
“Oh yeah, now you’re saying I should do a 24 hour-not-so-surprise chat?” Mike replied.
“Well no, but….” Chester didn’t know what to add.
“You do realize that we’re trying to get the both of us cornered but nothing decent is happening because of the lack of arguments?” Mike said.
“I love good parties, you do too.” Chester said something as soon as he got out of the recording booth “I need some water fast…” Chester took a glass of water which was hold by Phoenix.

“HEY!!!” Phoenix said.
“I’ll buy you beer later.” Chester responded.
“Of course but I don’t get wasted like you do Chester.” Mike said right after he finished fixing his laptop.
“I did not get drunk the last time because I had to drive Claudia back home to her country….Lithuania.” Chester said.
“I thought that you were ought to the same stuff as you used to do during the Ozzfest, you know?” Joe stormed in to the conversation.
“Hell no. She was just awfully tired and she had school on Monday so I just took the task of not drinking and driving her home, across Europe. And yes, Talinda still doesn’t know.” Chester was on “defence”
“That was that freaking party, where C_Curiosa fucking shaved my poor beard…I feel so nude without it.” Mike said while he was touching his chin and this whole face for that matter.
“Get used to it. Have you already forgotten what it is like not having a beard?” Chaz said.
“Sadly…Yes, I have. “ Mike replied looking in a small mirror. “My poor beard…”
“I loved all of those parties.” Joe said. “I got to trash my sweetheart Janhavi’s place, and Catarina’s dope crib.”
“Sweetheart? Oh Joey when will you stop being a womanizer?” Phoenix said. “I loved to get drunk with Brad and Catarina there. I think Catarina’s house rocked. I got to run around and kick the bass.”
“I second that except I think Catarina’s house was doper.” Joe replied.
“Of course it is, but you broke a lot of furniture in Catarina’s house.” Phoenix smiled and glanced to Joe.
“Yeah, I loved it how you got crazy Joey. No one messes with you and your froggie.” Mike said it right after he walked over to the window looking down on his car. “By the way, what ever happened between you and Claudia?”
“We went to JanV’s room where we played “Halo”. Claudia beat me 20 times, then we watched a movie called “Dude, where’s my car?” We played some poker. I took my revenge on her. And we were talking in between the things we did… It was actually the first time I’ve ever been this close to a fan before. We both have a lot of things in common, we both love Depeche Mode since we were kids, she’s nuts for tattoos, I am too, we both have similar religious views, she’s actually too mature for her age. She’s like a sister to me. Recently, Claudia started playing the guitar, I thought her some tricks, we gossiped about you, Mike. That’s right.”
“Shut the hell up!! My beard was awesome! I looked so macho with it.” Mike interrupted.
“Anyway…” Chester gave Mike a look that said that he was lying. “Claudia, was so nice by helping us with the equipment when we did those shows”
“Aha, she did a better job than you and Joe combined and multiplied by a 1000” Mike said.
Phoenix grabbed Mike by his arm.
“Shut up for a second. I know that Joe and Chester are lame equipment bringers” Phoenix said.
“HEY!!!!! WTF?!” Joe interrupted with a crazy late reaction.
“Go to sleep Joey.” Rob and Phi told him to get back to sleep because he was already half sleeping.
“…but Mikey come on, Chester’s getting to the best part” Phoenix said.
“If you two ladies, would let me finish…I sang Claudia “Leave Out All The Rest” as she was sleepy as almost sleeping upon my shoulder. It was so great…I felt like taking a snooze myself until you mister Phoenix pants had to scream: “POLICE!!!” for like 30 minutes. “ Chester gave an angry look on Phoenix.
“I warned you guys at least. But yeah, I ruined your romance.” Phi said.
“Mike, I give you permission to dismiss Phoenix.” Chester said.
“Not going to happen. Continue.” Mike said.
“What about Michaela, and Chazella?” Chester said silently to Mike.
“Phoenix leave him alone. NOW.” Mike suddenly changed his mind.
“Oh, okay.” Phoenix poked Mike. “Dude, WTF was about Michaela and Chazella again?” Phoenix asked Mike.
“Later Dave, later.” Mike responded even more quiet.
“Threatened by the situation, me and Claudia jumped out the window and sprinted to my car and we took off. I left a note.” Chester looked at Mike’s eyes.
“And I was doing a fashion show for the ladies” Mike said looking at Chester’s shirt.
“Hey Mike refresh my memory, what was I doing then? “ Joe asked.
“You were with Janhavi the whole time, don’t you remember? On both parties.” Brad came back from the recording booth because there was a small technical difficulty.
“Oh yeah, the karate session…” Joe started remembering.
Suddenly Chester’s phone rang. Somebody was calling him.
“Hello? Chester is speaking.” Chester said,
“Hey Chester, how are you doing?” Claudia said.
“Hey C, what’s up, did Chester harm you while he was driving you home from the last party?” Mike said right after he stole the telephone from Chester. Needless to say Chester was confused.
“I would remember that, but he was just making me laugh along the way with his jokes.” Claudia said “Mike, how are you doing?”
“My head is sore and I’m running away from Chazy here” Mike said while running around. “What about you dear? How are you and the other doing?”
“I haven’t talked with them yet but I’m assuming they are as busy with school as I am. I called you guys not just to check on you guys. We’re having another party at Janhavi’s place. Would you all like to come? If that’s not much of a big problem?” Claudia asked quietly.
“Of course, we’ll come.” Chester said as soon as he got his phone back from Mike. “Same time?”
“Yeah, and we’ll have Eva with us, this time.” Claudia replied.
“AWESOME!!!!!!! I love her artwork of my artwork.” Mike said
“I guess you should get going, because today is Friday already. I will get there in about 10 hours I think” Claudia said.
“Are you on the plane?” Rob asked.
“Boarding it. So will you guys really come? I miss you all so freaking much” she said.
“We will come don’t you worry, have a safe flight. We’ll board our plane soon.” Chaz said.
“Thanks guys. You have no idea how much it means to me. I love you all so much.” Claudia said.
“We love you too, we love our hardcore supporters. See you there.” Mike said.
“Talk to you later.” Then the conversation ended.
“OMFG, are you serious?” Joe squeaked.
“I guess so. I mean, it’s gonna be fun and we’ll find out their opinion about stuff.” Mike said.
“Let’s get going will be back soon, I think. “ Chester said.
“When?” Brad asked.
“I don’t know, we’ll see. We should tell the crew that we’re going there. And go ahead packing.” Chester said.


Minutes To Showtime


Linkin Park have boarded their private plane to India, their luggage has been loaded up. All it took was for the pilot to show up. He showed up 13 minutes later. Phoenix was bitching about the pilot named Alex for showing up late. Brad was with his headphones all the time. Joe’s knees were shaking, he was ready to pass out, Chester had a lot of Tattoo magazines with him, Mike had a big notebook with him, he was writing something, and Rob…. Well, Rob…. Rob was talking on the phone with his mom.

5 minutes later the guys have put their seat belts on. The plane had lifted off the ground. It was a bumpy ride. The pilot was singing some pop songs. Phoenix was bitching about his voice, and the quality of the flight “Either you stop singing, or you navigate through the clouds better” he said. The pilot every time had replied: “Yes, ma’am.” Fortunately, Phoenix only heard the “yes” part all the time.

“What are you writing Mike?” Chester asked Mike looking over his left shoulder.
“Memories….” Mike replied.
“Mike, dude, don’t please, don’t….” Chester said.
“WHAT?” Mike started giggling.
“Don’t be like a girl, dude, you’re too manly for that stuff.” Chester took the notebook away from Mike.
“Excuse me, that’s not a diary, I’m just writing some funny stuff when we were on tour….back in the old days….” Mike gasped.
“Don’t make me cry Mike….” Chester said when he gave back the notebook.
“Chester was staring at me after I have come back to the studio with a big bowl of ice cream. It was January and Chester was freezing his ass off. I got yelled on for bringing in a cold wave of sweetness. I got chased later. Chester was running around. Brad came in to the studio all of a sudden, I accidentally dumped the bowl on his hair. It was funny, my sides were hurting from all of the laughter. Chester said: “High five”, but he still was shaking like a leaf.
-Mike, January 22nd, 2001.” Chester has read

“Remember that? Awesome times….” Mike replied.
“Can I read some more?” Chester said.
“Be my guest.” Mike turned up to page 25, and started reading:
“The recording session for Meteora went by really cool, but later on when I got back to my bed I had nightmares. I dreamt that blackbirds were following me to a hospital. The blackbirds were telling for me to get married as soon as possible, or else I’ll get attacked by mean groupies. I felt like a dork for dreaming this, but then the next day Joseph, bleh, I mean Remy, have told me that I must do it, or else those blackbirds will follow me. Honestly, I think I was drunk then. Well, anyway I gave Chester a new guitar for his 26th birthday. Phoenix got jealous. He threw the cake at my face. Not cool. I got angry, but then somebody dumped a bucket of water on me. Turns out it was my brother Jason. And I thought it was Chester’s birthday….not mine.
-Mike, feeling dreadful, March 21st, 2002
P.S. I think that I was downright dumb for renting out like 10 chick flicks. Epic fail, I was really drunk. “

“Have I said how much I love you as a friend for that guitar?” Chester said.
“Every day until June.” Mike replied.
“This one is great…” Chester turned the other page.
“Which one…. oh no, Chester!!!!!” Mike yelled.
“I’ll read it anyway.” Chester said.

“Anna was angry on me for acting like a douchebag a week after our honeymoon. I mean, I didn’t even come home because I was so busy with the crew. My head was already going to explode then she had to complain. Screw those blackbirds, I loved being a bachelor more. But I have to respect her…marrying a guy like me is…well, she deserves an award for it, baring my midnight lurks around the house, and me not even coming back home. I’d be surprise if she won’t file me for divorce…in let’s say three years. I mean, I love her. She’s smart, beautiful, nice, caring, wonderful, hot, ect…but I am too much of a dork to understand that. I LOVE YOU, ANNA. No matter what, but I hope you love me as well. Despite my habits, and…work.
-Mikey Pooh, May 31st, 2003”
“Mikey Pooh, somebody shoot me, my sides hurt like hell” Chester said while he was laughing.
“Oh Chester don’t take everything you read seriously…” Mike replied.
“Oh this one is sweet!!!!!” Chester squeaked.

“Fuck, fuck, FUCK!!!!! Major headache from all of the sweets I ate today. I had to take my chances though, it’s not every day you get a lot of chocolate from Switzerland…so sweet and tasty, with nuts and…I think I’ll go eat some more. Will worry about the headache tomorrow. And I have to meet this guy named Chester tomorrow. They say his voice is awesome…we need a good vocalist. Then I can be the greatest emcee that ever lived. Take that, Slim Shady. But I will never be as great as 2Pac, rest in peaces bro.
-Mike, February 28th, 1999”

Mike and Chester were already laughing out loud. Which had woken Phoenix up.

“Say, what are you two doing? The pilot has finally shut his mouth now you two have to laugh out of….what’s this?” Phoenix got up from his seat and asked.
“That’s Mike’s diary.” Chester replied.
“You wish, it’s just a little something that I’m writing to honor the past.” Mike said.
“A diary.” Chester added.
“Hey Chester, where’s your phone by the way?” Mike said.
“It’s with Rob…. In Rob’s bag I think. I’ll be back.” Chester said it like he was impersonating a Terminator.
“Give me that.” Phoenix said.
“Okay, one more person to read….what’s the difference…” Mike said when he passed the notebook to Phoenix.

“I can’t say that I love sleeping on the job but a person needs sleep. Of course, I don’t sleep on the job as much as Phoenix does.

Me and Brad decided to give him a make over he’ll never forget. Chester brought Samantha’s purse. No offence to Sammy, but she has a big, big arsenal of beauty products. Like she’s ready for almost everything. (We found a lot of birth control pills too. Joe thought they were candy. Good thing, he spitted them out really quick or else…I don’t know whether my computer would have survived.)

So we took a little bit *cough* I mean, a lot of eye-liner, a tone of lip stick, loads of perfume, and about 30 minutes later, Phoenix was so pretty. Prettier, than all of those girls from my art school. Even though, Phoenix is a dude, and those girls are…girls who normally put pounds of make up on their faces. Phoenix looked more natural than all of those girls combined. ( don’t hate those girls, but they’re so fake that it grosses me out. One was even begging me to “bring her to the backstage for a one-on-one time” as soon as she heard I was doing gigs with the band. )

I was trying to hold my laughter IN not OUT, but I guess I wasn’t born to keep it in for too long. Good thing, Chester pushed me out of the room as soon as he saw that “I was losing it” I have to say, he handled those minutes better than anyone else.

Dave woke up about 4 hours later (or was it 7 hours). He was walking around the rooms (we were all in my house, by the way), and he didn’t even noticed that his skin was being moisturized, and his water proof mascara was a bit messy that it ended up on his cheeks. He noticed nothing for 5 whole days. I mean, WTF is that dude blind or what. Or he didn’t even took a shower once, which kind of explained the funky smell.

Anyway, he’ll find out soon and I’ll be screwed. All of us will be. Especially when he finds out we took pictures…
-Mike, April 2nd, 2004”

“Phoenix but you looked so cute”-Mike started defending himself.
“I know right? I look cute anyways.” Phoenix replied.
“You think so much like me.” Mike said and he hugged Phoenix.
“But you do realize that you’re going to give me the pictures, right?” Phoenix said
“Ammm, yeah, sure thing.” Mike said.
Phoenix went back to his seat to chill. Mike took a pen and started writing again:

“I felt like I was going to faint at any time. Not because of the bumpy ride. I felt like I was in deep shit when he asked me about the pictures, I left them in my bedroom behind the picture. (Remind me to burn this notebook when I get back)
-Mike, May 21st, 2010”

Chester came back to his seat. Mike had to “occupy” the restroom for awhile. Chester grabbed the notebook.

“Let’s see” he said “I should write something too…” and Chester took a pen.

“I don’t get it why you had to write it all but thanks for reminding me those awesome moments. Thanks, Mike. Really, I hope, you won’t get angry for me writing here.
-The Chemist aka Chester, May 21st, 2010 (10 minutes after the last entry of yours)”

And Chester took his phone which he got back from Rob and started texting his wife.

Some time later Mike got back. Everybody else except him and Chester were taking a snooze.

“Dude, are you sleeping?” Mike whispered to Chester who was looking through the little window.
“No, I can’t.” Chester said.
“Why should we do now?” Mike said.
“Kill time by arm bending. I’ll start. Give me your long arm.” Chester said.
“Long…what do you mean by that.” Mike said.
“Your limbs are longer that mine.” Chester replied.
“You’re talking bullshit.” Mike started giggling, then his eyes started watering from the laughter. “I’m okay”.
“That headache is killing me…” Chester said.
“Go, here’s some aspirin.” Mike passes Chester a bottle of water and a pill.
“Thanks, you’re the man.” Chester poked Mike with his elbow.

“What’s wrong Chester seriously? Your face says that it’s not the headache’s fault.” Mike said.
“I feel like we’ll never get through with those parties. It’s like a damned circle of craziness” Chester said.
“But interacting with fans who are so dedicated is just great, you know?” Mike replied taping Chaz’s shoulder. “It will not be for long…”
“But I feel like we’re taking things way too seriously…”
“I have to agree on that” Mike said when he was feeling sleepy. “Good night”
“Mike?” Chester said.
But it was too late, Mike was sleeping, not long after that Chester was sleepy as well.

Meanwhile somewhere in Kaunas, Lithuania Claudia was hurrying to the airport on 6 am local time. She felt like she was getting late for the flight to Mumbai, India, but she was having a tough time even feeling her limbs because Claudia was no morning person at all. She, and a couple of her friends she met online were going to fly off to India where Linkin Park should go, and be part of a fan party. Lots of people would ask that it’s bullshit and LP isn’t coming but….they were. The truth can be weird.

“I just hope, I did not leave my phone in home, just in case my parents would call… and they don’t know that I’m going…” Claudia thought to herself.

When she entered the airport itself, she saw a familiar face. Turns out it was her friend Robert, and he was with this girl… Claudia accidentally overheard that the girl with his friend was pregnant but Claudia did not want to cry or get angry, because she once loved her friend not as just a friend… Claudia went up to give her luggage she was bringing and the person in charge for letting people through asked for her ticket, she gave the ticket but tears were gathering in her eyes. So she left as soon as possible to board the plane and forget what she had seen.

10 minutes later she was already in her seat playing with her iPod Touch searching for something that would take her mind off everything.

All of a sudden a newly wed couple sat near her and worse enough they were cuddling. Claudia felt like the whole world was ought to finish her off. “Why can they do whatever they want?” she asked herself as she took a glass of water and poured the water on the man’s head. The woman had screamed “bitch” to Claudia but she ignored her screams and said: “But you think being selfish is forgivable?” then the couple had left their seats thus making Claudia feel slightly better. Some people were even clapping for her because the couple which was sitting next to her were going a little over-board with the kissing and cuddling and who knows what they might have done 5 minutes later.

At the same time, somewhere in Athens, Greece an airport was as full of people as in Lithuania. “I hope, I won’t get lost in this crowd” Eva thought as she was walking around the airport. “It would be so awesome to see Mike…once again. And talk to him, and…I must be dreaming.” About 15 minutes later Eva finally got to her seat in the plane which was supposedly flying off to Mumbai, India in less than 10 minutes. She sat down and started looking around herself.

“Excuse me, do you know when exactly will this plane set down in India?” a girl named Antigoni walked over to Eva and asked her in Greek.
“I don’t know exactly. Maybe in about 8 hours or so.” Eva replied. “By the way, do I know you from somewhere?”
“I don’t know, I’m flying off to a party of a friend of mine. What about you?!” Antigoni asked. “By the way, my name’s Antigoni.”
“Eva, nice to meet you, and I’m flying off to a party as well. To Mumbai.”
“Aha, that’s weird, I’m going there as well… It’s actually my second party to a place which is very far away.” Antigoni said.
“Strange coincidences….but it’s going to be my first time… Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Eva said.
“You’re EvoOba from LPN and Twitter?” Antigoni said.
“Yes, but I did not mean that…” Eva started giggling.
“What did you mean?” Antigoni started laughing out loud.
“Think about it. We’re both going to Mumbai, to our friend’s house for a party, and…” Eva said
“Linkin Park are coming too!!!! Yay!!!” Antigoni shouted thus making the other plane passengers scared.
“Okay, now I’m certain we’re going to the same place, the same party. But I still can’t believe that we’re actually going to India, for our favorite band, and for our buddies we met over the web. Crazy, don’t you think?” Eva said when she made Antigoni sit down and be calm for a second. “We aren’t there yet.” She said.
“I know, I know, by we’re going to see them!!!!” Antigoni felt more excited.
“We can just imagine how Claudia’s feeling right now. She told me she’ll fly off by herself. And she’ll try to give the guys directions if by any chance they’d get lost, but I doubt it she’ll make it before them… Mike has showed pictures of their private plane and I was simply amazed.” Eva said to Antigoni while she was looking through the illuminator. “But this plane isn’t too bad itself, look how fast it’s going…”
“Yeah, but it’s shaking too much” Antigoni said as she melt right into her seat. “Claudia must make it there before the guys or else…”
“Nothing really… but it would be more fun if all of us would get the house ready for the party.” Eva replied.
“Hmmm, I’m sleepy.” Antigoni said.
“Then go to sleep. We’ll fly over Iran soon, so…” Eva replied quietly.
“What…?” Antigoni said half asleep.
“Nothing.” Eva glanced at her friend. She quickly put on her headphones and started listening to Get Busy Committe’s newest tracks thinking to herself that it would be amazing if Mike would invite her to one of GBC’s shows he’s attending soon.

Meanwhile back in the plane in which Claudia was snoring, people were cheering like retards. Not because they were flying above Russia. The reason was….

“Michael Jackson will live forever!!!!!” one person sitting in front of Claudia yelled as soon as he saw Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” video on the TV screen, therefore making all passengers jumpy and hyper.
“Good thing, it’s not Britney this time” Claudia nodded to that person but barely said anything out loud.

Claudia got from her seat and started doing a lame dance routine which was supposedly the all awesome “moonwalk”. She actually liked the song but she wanted to shut the people up by changing the channel…or to be specific break the thing.

As soon as Claudia got close to the TV a flight attendant came to her asking her to sit down because the plane was experiencing some problems with the wind. Claudia said she wanted to watch some music which was orientated to a wider audience. The flight attendant laughed out of her and repeated what she had said before.

“Then what’s coming up on the playlist?” Claudia asked.
“Nirvana is coming up I think.” The attendant replied.
“Now, we’re talking.” Claudia said.
“Now will you get back to your seat?” the flight attendant said.
“Come on, the problem can’t be with the wind….what’s the REAL problem?” Claudia started being suspicious.
“We’ll soon fly across Iraq and other places where bombing is often so…” she replied.
“WTF? Dumb flying direction I should say. Can’t we fly all over Russia then fly to India from China’s side? It would be slightly safer.” Claudia responded.
“Enphasis on the “slight” part. We want to make sure the passengers are safe. So please sweetie, get back.” The flight attendant wasn’t giving up.

Just as soon as Claudia was getting back to her seat the flight became ruff and she accidentally tripped and fell to the ground. “Crap…I’m OK!!!” She said but she knew something had crunched. A minute later she got back to her seat. But the plane was doing weird diving moves because an unexpected cloud of dust appeared. Though, everybody in the plane were just having fun… like idiots. It all got to the point where people understood that they were in a party not a plane.

“Let’s see…I have some more hours left of this agony. I just hope the pilot won’t crack under pressure. I’d love to live…” Claudia said to herself and hour later. Then she saw this woman with very dark hair who was carrying her purse going to the pilot’s cockpit.
“Excuse me, I wouldn’t go through there…” Claudia said.
“Why….oh I see” That woman said.
“That puddle looks like a mixture of vodka, drool, and something else…” Claudia felt nauseous. “An USM could be too. An unidentified smelling mixture.”
“We must end this mess…let’s go to the pilot to see if he’s alright atleast.” The woman said. “Oh and my name’s Anna.”
“Claudia. Nice to meet you.” Claudia replied as she was trying to avoid a drunken man. “Take that!!” she kicked him back to his seat.

Anna and Claudia have entered the pilot’s cabin successfully after 10 minutes just to see that he’s sweating like a pig and has huge headphones on him.
“Mister!!!!!” Claudia yelled. “He’s not answering.”
“Huh?” the pilot turned back to see what’s going on.
“It’s hell here!!! People are getting crazy and…” Ana was saying until she was interrupted by a scream from the business class.
“You see?!” Claudia added. “How much hours are left until we reach India?”
“One hour. We’re flying over Pakistan now.” The pilot said.
“Damn it.” Claudia said.
“Don’t worry, maybe it can’t get worse…” Anna tried to bring hope.
“Can you please make this thing go faster?!” Claudia completely lost hope as soon as she heard someone walking there like a zombie.
“Will do…” the pilot said as soon as he took off his headphones. “I’d advise you two to get back to your seats.”

Soon enough Anna and Claudia went back to their seats, but Claudia wasn’t too sure. “He’s mocking us I tell you.”
“What do we have to lose?” Anna asked and glanced at her new friend.
“Lives. But we must take this risk.” Suddenly Claudia was interrupted by the pilot’s words that they’re landing in Mumbai’s airport in less than 30 minutes. “It’s time…” Claudia said as she looked at some people who were still partying it out.

Meanwhile in Linkin Park’s private plane….

“Goodbye Thailand!!!” Brad said as he realized that they’re getting further away from Thailand and flying towards India.
“Yes, goodbye friends!!!” Phoenix said.
“But you two know that we’re going to fly across the whole country of India, because Mumbai is like in the west?” Rob interrupted
“Yeah, at least I know…tell me again, why we couldn’t have flied over Europe?” Phoenix asked Brad and Rob.
“It’s cheaper?” Brad said.
“It’s faster?” Rob said.
“It’s more stupid.” Phoenix answered his own question.

“For crying out loud…” Joe said as he was holding a paper bag in his hands which were sweaty and shaking. “This is why I HATE travelling by plane…oh, my aching body, oh my aching spirit….oh, my everything…”
“Joey, just breathe. Breathe in and out. Slowly… And please, if you’re going to puke, do it IN the bag, not NEAR the bag” Rob was trying to calm his friend down but his eyes were not on him.
“Say, why are Mike and Chester so quiet?” Phoenix said when he stood up from his seat and started walking carefully to Mike and Chester’s seats. “Awww, the cuties are taking a snooze”

Brad, Rob got up from their seats and went to Phoenix who was simply numb just of the sight of Mike and Chester sleeping. Joe was in sick-land, so he was just holding the bag and put his head on a big fluffy pillow. “Guys, please take a picture for Mr. Hahn here… and for froggy. I can’t move out of here” Joe said.

Chester had put his head on Mike’s chest, while Mike has his arm around Chester. Both were snoring, but it sounded cute.
“They look so cute when they’re sleeping…” Phoenix said after a 2 second pause.
“Like angels…” Brad added.
“I feel freaking jealous…” then Phoenix added.
“Hey guys…” Joe said like he was in deep trouble.
“What Joe? You made a mess out of your seat, and ours while you’re at it?” Rob asked not expecting an answer.
“No…” Joe rolled his eyes. “Just saying we’re flying over Bangladesh now…India isn’t too far away from us.”
“I hope, the stupid pilot won’t fly closer to the Himalayas…” Phoenix said.
“We shouldn’t unless we’re flying to Tibet or Nepal.” Brad responded feeling like a geography encyclopedia.
“So why is this plane shaking a bit?” Rob asked.
“Fuck,the pilot, I don’t know.” Phoenix said. “Ask him.” Phoenix’s head started going more and more sweaty with every word that came out of his mouth.
“W-what happened?” Mike said as soon as he opened up his eyes. “Are we there yet, my head is sort of dizzy and… awww, Chester looks too sweet for me to bare” Mike started shaking Chester to wake him up.
“DUDE!!!! I had the best dream ever, I dreamed we both were... in this awesome field… with lakes of chocolate near us, and our families were there… I slept like a baby. Your chest is actually comfortable…” Chester rubbed his eyes and looked at the rest of his bandmates who were in shock.
“GUYS!!! WE’RE GOING DOWN!!!!!!!!” Brad yelled all of a sudden scaring the rest of the guys.
“Shit…” Chester said quietly as soon as he rolled off his seat onto the ground. “I’m alright” he added.
“Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Just kidding.” Brad said.
“I hate you with the passion Brad!” Chester said.
“We have a couple more hours apparently…” Mike told the guys when he looked at the little window. “But we should start getting ready. Anybody wants some coffee or Red Bull?”

3 hours later, in Mumbai’s airport…

“We’re finally here. I can’t believe it.” Eva said.
“I am breathing Indian air…I can’t believe it either.” Antigoni said.

Then, a girl named Janhavi walked over to the two girls with a wide smile across her face. But she accidentally bumped into the girls “Sorry” she said. “Wait, you look familiar”
“Hey JanV, I’m Eva and this is Antigoni.” Eva replied to Janhavi.
“Hello!” Antigoni said. “You’re the famous JanV, right?”
“The one and only! Just kidding…How about we go to my house, before LP come?” Janhavi nodded and pointed out to some people. “There’s a taxi. We should go, and please, don’t try to say “Linkin Park” loudly. India is going crazy for them lately…” Janhavi said silently as she grabbed Antigoni’s bags. “What did you pack?!”
“Just the basic things to survive being in a far away country…” she replied. Then somebody in a crowd was listening to Linkin Park’s Blackbirds really loudly and singing the lyrics. One man asked that girl who was singing, what was she listening to. The girl replied it was Linkin Park…At that moment all signs of silence have died. People started running towards that girl, and unlucky for the girls – they were near that other poor girl who said “Linkin Park” a little too loudly. Antigoni, Eva and Janhavi started running for their lives towards the taxi which was standing there, like a light at the end of a tunnel. It started raining. Heavy rain drops were falling to the ground…the humidity was unbareable…

The girls were safe and sound in the taxi car 5 minutes later and they were driving west from the airport. “We’ll be there, in 10 minutes” Janhavi said as she was trying not to pay attention to the humidity inside of the car.

“I’m telling you people, it’s not my fault!” Claudia shouted at some offcers in the airport right after she started running from the plane which had just landed. “The people got a little crazy with the yelling part so… I wasn’t doing anything, I swear on that cow over there!!!”
“Looks like you mean it….just to be sure let’s go to the office, we have some more questions…” the officers said as they grabbed Claudia’s arm.

“We’re not blaming you for anything…” one officer said.
“Yeah…” Claudia nodded feeling like a criminal which was ready to be deported back.
“Who caused the whole mess?” one of them asked.
“I don’t know. All I know, somebody has installed an HD TV in the business class from the first class section. And then some people had records with them.” Claudia responded looking towards the end of the round table she was sitting to.
“What do you think has let them drink alcohol? It couldn’t have been their flight agents, now could it?” one man was walking around the table holding a bottle of beer he found on the plane.
“They don’t even know about it, I’m sure.” Claudia looked at that man.
“What about the pilot? Was he having a “great time”?” he responded right back.
“He was wearing huge headphones…turns out he had migrene the past few days, he told me so after the plane landed… It looked like he was trying to hold in the fear of being around the passengers. He definitely did not had a “great time” as you entitled it.” Claudia stood up from the chair. “I must go now.”
“And why were you flying to here?” the officers partner walked up Claudia with her passport in his hand.
“To visit friends. My parents know.” Claudia said looking at her passport then at the officer.
“Do we need to test your saying through a lie detector?” one of the officers said.
“No.” Claudia said. “Don’t be alarmed. I’m just here for people I really know.”
“And did you know, that somebody on the plane had bad intentions for the rest of the passengers? Like a terrorist act?” the main officer nodded and turned on the lights brighter. Claudia had to close her eyes because the light was too bright.
“No. Absolutely nothing.” Claudia responded.
“Did you know all of the passengers except for you and the flight attendants were not Lithuanian citizens?” the same officer asked another monotonic question.
“I might have guessed that everyone were speaking in different languages and therefore not understand my sayings to them” Claudia suddenly stood up again and started walking around the table. “I think I really should get going” she said as she looked through the window and she saw Linkin Park going out of their plane.

“Last question and you’ll get your belongings and passport back.” The other officer took the table lamp from his partner and lighted it on Claudia. “Do you personally know a certain Michael Kenji Shinoda?” Claudia was feeling traped in between two walls. “Yes” she nodded walking closer to the officer who was holding the lamp.
“Is he your relative?” the officer asked.
“No, he’s just a friend…” Claudia started rolling her eyes because she was lying.
“Well tell Michael that you’re alright and…” the officer became silent all of a sudden.
“Yeah, I’m listening…” Claudia glanced at the officer.
“That his plan failed. That’s all. Have a nice time in Mumbai.” The officer gave Claudia her stuff and passport back and told her to get lost rudely.

“Thanks, for this awesome waste of time, you idiots” Claudia thought to herself. “And what Mike do exactly?!” then she grabbed her luggage and went outside in the rain. The sky was completely dark and the rain drops were going more and more heavy by the minute. After agonizing moments of searching she finally got to the bus that was driving to Janhavi’s home.

In Janhavi’s home the girls were already going crazy with cleaning.

“We must move the expensive and fragile stuff away from the living room” Eva said. “By the way, I love the interior.And this couch is superb!!!”
“Thanks honey, my mom has an awesome taste for furniture…Ammm, you know what I mean” Janhavi started laughing out loud.
“Ha-ha-ha-ha! I do!!!” Eva said.
“This party will be without doubt the best ever in the history of parties, hell yeah!!!!” Antigoni shouted as she brought the speakers from the basement.
“And where are the guys already? They couldn’t have got lost now, could they?” Janhavi went to door and opened it. “Where are they?”
“More of a matter is, where’s Claudia? She must have gotten here earlier.” Eva said as she looked at her phone.
“Maybe she’s with the guys…” Antigoni added.
“I should call her..” Janhavi said when she closed the door.
“I hope nothing bad happened to the seven of them” Antigoni started going paranoid.
“SHUT UP MIKE!!! I TELL YOU!!!” the girls heard a familiar voice behind the door.
The three girls opened the door…and there were the guys, and Chester had already opened up his mouth therefore giving the guys’ whereabouts away easily.

“Welcome Linkin Park!!!” Janhavi said. “Or should I say, welcome back!”
“Hell yeah!!!! Where’s the party!!!!!???!” Joe shouted. Apparently, he wasn’t car sick while he and the guys were driving over here.
“Joe!!!!” Janhavi said to Joe as she hugged him. “I miss you!” Joe hugged her right back.
“Mike!!!!” Eva acted the same as Janhavi except that she was more calm and she tried to pull off a smile like Mike does.
“Nice to see you again Eva” Mike nodded like a gentleman. “Me and Chester should change because we’re so wet and I wouldn’t want for you to get wet” Mike started giggling.
“Now, seriously Joe’s right. Enough of these ceremonies. Let’s get the party started!!!” Chester said as soon as he gently pushed Phoenix in the house from the porche.


When It All Began

Rob quickly ran upstairs with a saying that he’ll be right back. He started going crazy with the lights upstairs.

Mike and Chester looked at each other. “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Chester asked Mike. “Let’s switch shirts!!!” Mike replied.

“I wanna get f-ing drunk and forget that idiotic pilot and everything!” Phoenix shouted.

Claudia was right outside the house walking towards the house which was filled with a lot of noise. She knew it was really the house she was supposed to be 30 minutes ago.
“I miss that crazy noises…” Claudia thought as she rang the door bell. No one answered. She tried again. Nothing again. Then Mike opened the door with a wide smile on his face. “Hey Claudia, get right in, it’s raining like in a rain forest…” he said.
“Hey Shinizzle…you’re wearing Chester’s shirt?!” Claudia glanced at Mike taking her jacket off.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about…” Mike said trying to be a fool but he’s no fool.
“Are you drunk already?” Claudia asked.
“Hell no, I just thought how would I look with Chester’s shirt. That’s all.” Mike started telling her what he has planned.
“Okay…but you look handsome anyways. Anna is very lucky” Claudia said.
“I guess so…” Mike said as soon as he and Claudia started laughing. “Let’s go to the living room”
“WTF was that?!” Claudia heard a weird noise coming from upstairs.
“That’s just Rob playing with his drumset” Mike responded as he looked at the stairs.

Chester had come to both of them with a big cake.

“Dude! What did you do to your hair?” Mike asked.
“You forgot already? I dyed my hair blond as you can see” Chester replied as he put the cake down on the table in the living room
“You look awesome Chester!” Claudia said. “But I need to go to the bathroom. My clothes are a mess”
“I’ll go with you!” Mike said as he walked upstairs with her

“How could I ever made this kind of mess just out of rain…. Seriously… what the hell is wrong with rain here…” Claudia said as she loked at the mirror.
“That’s why me and the Chemist here changed shirts…” Mike started giggling.
“You can go now…” Claudia said.
“No.” Mike responded.
“Get out!” Claudia wasn’t giving up.
“Normally you’d act differently. What’s wrong?” Mike came up closer.
“You know what’s wrong…” Claudia turned her back on Mike and looked through the door. “You really know…”
“I don’t know. You must tell me what’s wrong with you” Mike took a step to Claudia but she took a step further away from him. “You’re scaring me…” Mike added.
“It’s just that…” Claudia took her passport from her bag. “Look at this application the Indian assholes at the airport gave me” then Claudia passed Mike some papers.
“Alright, let’s see…blah, blah, that’s formal…” Mike started mumbling as he started reading.
“Read what’s said on page 5, on the bottom” Claudia pointed out to the papers.
“Okay…” Mike said.

“Michael Kenji Shinoda is presumed responsible for the madness in flight 22A from Lithuania. Claudia M. a witness of the flight says, she knows nothing about who exactly started up the mess, but he didn’t deny that Mr. M. Shinoda was a friend. But during the whole time of questioning, Claudia M. was weirdly calm, as in she was ready for the questioning about her friend. Though, we think that she knows Mr. Micahel Shinoda not as a friend.

By the time, she (Claudia M.) flies back to her home country, we’re going to take a DNA sample to check if she and Michael S. are relatives. All of this is going to be done due to the fact that Michael Shinoda looks like he’s from Paskistan and looks like a dangerous fellow, even without the beard. Never mind the fact that he’s from USA. Claudia M. from a first look, looks only like a distant relative but we can’t be too sure”

“Idiots, for crying out loud…” Mike started nerviously laughing. “They really did the questioning?”
“They did. I tried to keep it cool, but I felt all wrong, it was not my fault” Claudia took a step closer to Mike. “It’s not my fault, it’s not your fault either”
“We know that, but they assume I’m the one responsible and you’re my partner in crime. Sounds stupid, though” Mike said looking at Claudia. “They have zero proof. Nothing. They can bite on a monkey’s ass. They’re just god damn gold diggers. They know, I am famous, and they found you…”
“Sorry, for saying that I know you…” Claudia said as she looked at a corner of the bathroom. “I really must be stupid”
“No, you’re not. They probably assumed that because a) you look like you’re from Northern lands with your skin and all, no offence.” Mike started naming reasons why the officers thought he and Claudia were behing all of the trouble.
“I’ll take that as a compliment coming from you, Mike” Claudia looked at Mike’s new haircut.
“Thanks, and b) I can guarantee that 60 % of people from here think that Lithuania is a country somewhere either in Africa, or somewhere near Moslem countries, or a province of Spain. Again, no offence dear, I’m just saying. And well, they thought that I was a terrorist when they saw me with my old awesome beard in the local news” Mike was in deep thinking when he told her that.
“I feel too overwhelmed by everything lately, so even the smallest things can crack me up like a sissie” Claudia said as she walked up to Mike with tears in her eyes feeling said than ever. “I’m sorry…”
“Don’t cry” Mike said when he walked to her and hugged her tightly. “You know, it’s not your fault in any ways possible”
“Even seeing everyone betraying me… Seeing people who I thought are my friends…” Claudia began to cry.
“It’s their fault…” Mike said quietly to Clauida as he looked to the window. “A resemblance between us, those people are downright stupid. And they can’t judge by a person from his or hers appearance. And they don’t even know us enough… Some kind of mess” he thought.
“I just wish all of that would end now, you know?” Claudia said to Mike.
“Yeah…” Mike nodded.
“I can’t take all of that mess anymore…You listening?” Claudia asked Mike.
“Yes, darling, I understand…” Mike tried to be awfully sweet.
“Thanks for just being here, and for making me feel better.” Claudia said silently.
“You’re not alone, it just may seem that you’re all alone when nobody’s paying attention living their life, taking care of their own problems, which unnecesserally have to be serious ones. That’s just life, but then you start searching for something or someone to make you happy, and for…” Mike suddenly gets interrupted with Claudia’s words.
“…for 9 whole years now, you do that. Thanks Mike, for everything, and…” Claudia said but then she gets interrupted with Mike’s sayings. “…and for always showing an example and doing an influence. Ha, well maybe we have something in common after all” Mike added giggling away. “Haha, I can see a smile on your face already” Mike said as he looked at the mirror and saw his and Claudia’s reflection.
“Indeed” Claudia replied.
“You must really like me, no matter my personality and all of those lost opportunities because of me” Mike said taping Claudia’s shoulder. Claudia touched Mike’s hand back and looked back at him. “If only he wasn’t married… Maybe in real life it could work out in a way more better than this.” Claudia thought. “She reminds me of this girl I once met… “ Mike thought. Both of them sighed.
“What shall we do know?” Claudia asked Mike looking at his eyes.
“Enjoy the silence. Enjoy the time together.” Mike replied right back.
“Or try to have some fun, it’s a party after all…” Claudia walked away from Mike to the sink.
“What are you doing?” Mike was surprised. “Seriously, don’t do that, we’re already both soaked as it is!”
“Just a little something to cool the both of us down.” Claudia said as she got her hands wet from the water.
“Stop that!!!! I’m warning you. You’ll mess up my hair!!!! But what the heck, I’m already messy but still stop it!!!” Mike shouted as he was walking backwards from Claudia in circles.
“Come here Mike, I have a little something for you…” Claudia said quietly like a diva.
“You’re crazy, I swear to God!” Mike started laughing along as he was running away from her.
“Take that!” Claudia found a water gun on the floor. Mike was trying to dodge the water by jumping.
“I’ll open up this door, and run out!” Mike started threatening Claudia.
“So what? I’ll catch you!” Claudia responded.

After 15 minutes of that game, both were tired.

“Peace?” Mike said trying to dry himself up with a towel
“Yes” Claudia nodded.

Suddenly Eva came in to the bathroom.

“Holy Shinoda!!! Claudia! So you came without telling others?” Eva said as she came in. “What happened in here?” she started laughing as she came up close to Mike and Claudia.
“Hey Eva…where were you all?” Claudia asked
“We were busy in the kitchen, sorry about that” Eva said.
“Me and Mike here, were cleaning up a little because he suggested we all repaint the walls because they look very old and deserve a spice up. Am I right Mike?” Claudia said as she looked at him. “Right, Mike? Remember you saying that Janhavi deserves a special memory of us being with her, in a party?”
“That’s right. We just need to wait until everything gets dry in here, and we’ll grab some paint I’ve brought. Eva, you’ll have to help me on this one.” Mike said as he threw the towel back in the laundry basket. “I’m not cleaning that one up, Claudia”
“That’s not my fault, that looks like…Chester made a mess while he was dying his hair.” Claudia pointed out to the ground near the sink.
“Holy what the hell, I thought he was just dying his hair not the ground” Eva laughed.
“That’s why he stopped dying his hair 5 years ago.” Mike explained.
“I’ll go get the paint from downstrairs in a minute” Claudia said as she walked out from the bathroom right after she hugged Eva because she sees her the first time.
“Don’t take too long” Mike said. “The paint is in a box, in the living room near…just ask Phoenix, he knows where I put my stuff better than me”
“If I won’t come back in 5 minutes, you two can presume I’m having fun by sitting in the living room and trying to stop a pillow fight…” Claudia said.
“WHAT?!” Mike glanced at his watch.
“Forget it!” Claudia replied and went to the living room.
“I can’t believe you want for me to help you with the painting” Eva said still being in shock.
“You have talent, you can help out with this idea I had today. I’m thinking of doing a third art excibition. Not a sequel to Glorious Excess. Something fresh, something new, something like…” Mike said
“A party of different colors uniting therefore forming us in a way?” Eva said the first thing that came to mind.
“We could do that…if you want to skip out on all the fun down there” Mike looked at the ground trying to hear the music being played on the first floor. “Or there…” Mike looked at the door right in front of the bathroom where new drum solos were being played. “Or right there…” Mike pointed out to the window of bathroom to a neighbor’s house.
“That doesn’t look like fun to me…” Eva said. “They’ll get angry with us soon.”
“They won’t even notice us being gone while Chester entertains them.” Mike said.
“I wasn’t talking about our buddies in the house.” Eva said.
“Do you think I meant them, either? I was talking about the neighbors doing the exact same thing in their house. They’re having a little party.” Mike came up to the window and opened it. “Take a look for yourself”
“Where did they find that trampoline?” Eva was surprised.
“I don’t know, but atleast that dude over there is having a blast…” Mike glanced at a guy who was jumping around like a maniac.
“I think by 10 pm, we’ll get an angry call from somebody for the noise” Eva said.
“They’re cool with that I think. Plus, Chester said he has some plans of putting on a show right here, on the yard.” Mike looked at Eva. “He’s keeping his promise”
“Then, what’s up with “SHUT UP, MIKE” stuff?” Eva started laughing out loud.
“Yeah that… I was talking about how we supposedly went to the wrong house because we already have come to like 3 houses before coming to here. And just Chester was a little angry with the weather” Mike said.
“But why to you?” Eva was still laughing.
“He loves to yell at me, or mention my name” Mike started laughing away.
“Hello guys, here’s the box with paint.” Claudia came back with a big box with spray paint, oil paint, markers, pencils, crayons, erasers, brushes.
“Thanks, you can join too.” Eva said to Claudia. “It’ll be much more fun and we’ll get it done faster!”
“I should let the pros handle this. I’m not as great as you two. Plus, I have to make sure anybody won’t tear this place down. I assume some of the guests are drunk” Claudia said to Mike and Eva. “I’ll come in a bit later. I must change anyways because I’ll catch a cold eventually, I’ll cough germs on all corners of the house. See you two later” Claudia said as she went to a room which was completely empty to change into her pyjamas.

“Better get to work then…” Mike said silently. “I’ll start from that side, and you’ll start with that side. Just paint anything you like but keep in mind the theme of this work. An artwork about people having fun, or you can do a co-theme of my previous artwork. You see this can be a “timeline” of what I’ve already done in the past.” Mike told Eva what to do.
“But…but…Mike…” Eva was confused. “What if…”
“Follow your heart and your imagination. I won’t blame you if you’ll do something I’m not expecting” Mike said.
“Really? Thank you so much Mike. But you’re going to help me a little.” Eva said as she grabbed a brush.
“With pleasure” Mike replied.

Downstairs, in the living room the party animals were already having fun without Mike, Eva and Claudia.

“So, when I entered the plane these people were looking at me like I was crazy…” Antigoni was talking.
“Oh my God Antigoni, you’re just like me when I was young…” Joe replied holding a bottle of water and sitting on the couch.
“Joe, you don’t say?” Janhavi replied to Joe.
“Yeah, I’m a very different sided man since the day I first saw this cruel world” Joe laughed.
“Come to think about “different sided men”, where the hell is Mike?” Brad interrupted as he was eating popcorn away like a vaccum cleaner.
“Where’s Claudia and Eva? And did Claudia even come yet?” Phoenix was confused.

Slowly and carefully Claudia was walking towards the living room trying not to get noticed by them. She was already in her pajamas. “Now, or never…” she thought as she jumped onto the couch therefore scaring Chester who was sitting right near.
“Holy fuck, you scared me to the death!!!” Chester said as he screamed and threw his popcorn to the air. It was raining popcorn.
“Sorry man, so what’s up with everybody. Sorry again for being late!” Claudia felt guilty for showing up to everyone about 1,5 hours late.
“ Hey Claudia!!! We should apologize for not seeing you walk in earlier, right Brad?” Antigoni looked at Brad who was still eating.
“Popping popcorn is a very serious thing to do” Brad responded. “Sorry, Claudia, want some popcorn before I eat them all?”
“No, thanks Brad. I just want to chill for a bit. Mike and Eva are busy doing a surprise for you all”
“A SURPRISE?!” Janhavi’s jaw dropped. “What are they doing?!”
“You’ll see, and it’s permanent.” Claudia responded.
“That doesn’t sound good…” Chester interrupted looking at a magazine. “We should play a party game to welcome Eva and Mike back! What do you all think?” Chester threw the magazine behind the couch. “Bleh, girl stuff…” he added. “Don’t read that magazine Joe or else…”
“Or else what?!” Joe said as he was walking to that magazine.
“Froggy will not be pleased.” Chester said then he started an evil laugh.
“No…” Joe squeaked. “Where’s Froggy anyways? Froggy, where are you, my precious?!”
“And you didn’t notice that Rob’s gone too?” Phoenix said as he picked up a bottle of old beer.
“Rob, where’s Froggy?! Where are you as well?! Rob? Froggy? Guys!?” Joe stood up from the chair and went to search for both of them.
“Joe, calm down, or else I’ll hit you with the pillow” Chester said. “Don’t even try going to the basement, it’s DARK there, you’ll hurt yourself”
“I must find him, like he was in the plane” Joe replied.
“He was, I mean it was?” Brad asked.
“Yes, I saw my buddy there”
“Don’t you think, he’s on the plane now…” Phoenix said but then Chester poked him.
“Don’t tempt him…” Chester said to him.
“Well, anyway Joe we didn’t see Froggy anywhere…” Antigoni said. “Care for some cake?”
“You’re so heartless, I can’t eat without Froggy!” Joe said. “Come on, people work with me!!!”
“Joe, as much as I would say that you’re crazy I’ll go with you” Janhavi suddenly agreed with Joe. “Claudia, you’re coming with us”
“Hell no, I’m not. I haven’t even eaten today. I’ll catch up in an hour with you guys.” Claudia replied eating spaghetti with delicious sauce.
“Claudia!” Janhavi said. “Please…”
“Sorry, my brain is shut down, stomach wants to get some work” Claudia said eating away.
“I’ll tell Mike to bring you a souvenir from the plane…Come on…” Janhavi said.
“Like what? I’m not going.” Claudia replied.
“A pillow…” Janhavi said as she grabbed a pillow from the couch.
“False” Claudia said.
“A pen? A suitcase? A shirt?” Janhavi wasn’t giving up.
“Hell no, no, and maybe, but no!” Claudia replied.
“Aha! A maybe!” Chester interrupted.
“Hey you’re not doing anything, go help them out!” Claudia said to Chester.
“I’m…I’m reading…” Chester rolled his eyes as he grabbed a random magazine from the coffee table. “Oh, a magazine about… make up?! Hell no!” Chester said. “Okay, I’ll go if you go a bit later.”
“I’ll go, I’ll go.” Claudia said.
“I’ll watch over Brad and Phoenix over here guys…They’re starting to act weird…” Antigoni looked at Brad and Phoenix over her own shoulder.

“So, what will it be Bradford – boxing or wrestling?” Phoenix suddenly asked Brad who was watching TV. He was watching a soap opera.
“Neither. I’m searching for the news…” Brad said.
“I wasn’t talking about television.” Phoenix said. “You took my beer”
“That’s not yours…” Brad said and then he looked at the clock.
“This is war dude.” Phoenix started laughing when he took the bottle out of Brad’s hands.
“This is a chill out party, so chill Dave…” Brad wasn’t ready to give him up the beer.
“I can’t chill with you staring at me like an innocent puppy! Stop that!” Phoenix almost yelled.
“Come on, Dave…CHILL.” Brad wasn’t giving up.
“I’ll be chill after you’ll prove that you have the upper hand by boxing now!” Phoenix started laughing again.
“Aha, boxing with pillows?!” Brad said.
“Try me!” Phoenix said as he grabbed a pillow.
“Oh no…” Brad jumped out from the couch and went out running towards the kitchen. Antigoni ran after them.
“Guys, come on…” Antigoni said.
“You’ll watch us, especially him if he cheats or crosses this line!” Brad said.
“Talk about yourself!” Phoenix said as he threw the pillow to Brad.

Back, upstairs where Eva and Mike were painting the bathroom walls.

“10 minutes then it’s break time” Mike said as he brushed the sweat off from his forehead.
“For how long have we been painting?” Eva asked Mike.
“I guess about an hour or an hour and a half” Mike replied.
“And we’ve already done like ½ of the wall already…” Eva said.
“That’s because we’re starting off from the most simple details” Mike said.

Joe started running though the rooms of the second floor like crazy.
“That’s Joe, I think, what’s he doing?” Eva said as she heard a strong noise of Joe running “Is it about Froggy?”
“Let’s see…” Mike said when he opened the door. “Oh my Goodness…”
“Mike? What’s happening there?” Eva was surprised.
“God help us if he doesn’t find Froggy…” Mike replied.
Mike and Eva saw Joe carrying a bowl filled with water across Janhavi’s room.
“Froggy?” Joe said.
“I’m assuming he hasn’t thought about searching the plane” Mike said quietly.
“I agree…” Eva nodded. “How about we go to him…”
“Good idea” Mike said as he put the brushes down.
Mike and Eva walked out of the bathroom and went to Janhavi’s room. Eva opened and closed the door.

“What a mess…” Chester said as he picked up cookie pieces scattered all around the floor.
“This can’t mean anything good.” Janhavi said as she opened the door.
“Chester!!!! When did you dye your hair?” Mike saw Chetser walking into the room as well.
“What the, Michael, we’re trying to stop Joe from doing something stupid, and all you can talk about is my hair?!” Chester shouted.
“Middle age crisis sucks…” Mike said.
“And you got your beard shaved at the tender age of 33! Mike, snap out of it!” Chester said.
“Look sorry!” Mike replied.
“Hey, what’s happening?” Claudia entered the room.
“Look behind you!” Mike shouted.
“Heads up!!!” Joe shouted trying to hold Froggy in his hands.
“Joe, you’re crazy!!!!” Claudia shouted as she dived to the ground.

Joe had fallen to the ground making a big noise that was heard probably in the whole block if not further. Mike started walking around in circles, Chester had a late reaction to take a step away from Joe, therefore making him fall down as well. Janhavi ran to Joe. Claudia tried to make Joe stand up fast, but he was just too heavy for her to move. Eva wanted to start giggling at Mike walking in circles, but she knew it wasn’t the timing.

Silence started coming into the room, even Rob stopped drumming in the garage for a minute. It was broken down when Joe suddenly stood up from the ground, and went out of the room without telling anyone. Janhavi and Eva ran out behind him, Claudia started looking around for Joe’s Froggy until Chester said he and Mike will handle it.

“This sucks!!!” Mike said as he picked up a newspaper off the ground.
“Joe is drunk. Drunk like a hobo.” Chester said as he looked through the window. “Oh the sun is going down…”
“He can’t be drunk, when you’re drunk you start seeing things, and Froggy was really here…” Mike said.
“What are you saying?” Chester said to Mike after he lifted his eyebrows.
“Oh nothing, wait until we get back home, I have an idea for Hybrid Theory’s release date anniversary.” Mike said. “And for our new album”
“Like what exactly?” Chester looked around.
“Eh, wait for when we come back home. I’m still putting pieces together in my mind, because the idea sounds crazy and fans will hate me after that” Mike said.
“They’re not going to hate you…” Chester said.
“Want to bet something on that?” Mike glanced at Chester who was holding two bottles of beer.
“I can bet on my shoes.” Chester said.
“A bet it is, I’ll bet the DCs I’m wearing right now for you.” Mike added.
“How about we’d bet on other things too.” Chester said.
“Like what else?” Mike said. “You’re not getting money from me dude. Do more work at the studio” Mike started laughing.
“Nothing, let’s just try to chill. Joe must be doing better. It’s a party after all. Here you go” Chester passed a bottle of beer to Mike.
“It’ll help us relax a bit, because I just had an idea for a competition.” Chester opened up the bottle and nodded.
“I’m afraid to ask…” Mike replied
“A slalom down the stairs with snowboards.” Chester said as he started drinking beer.
“What the hell? You’re crazy…” Mike said.
“You’re scared that I’ll beat you…” Chester came up closer to Mike, and pushed him aside.
“I’m telling you that you’re taking the “partying” part a little too far. Who the hell goes down the stairs with a snowboard while drinking beer? It’s dumb.” Mike said.
“I’ll just go alone then…” Chester said.
“And let you break your bones? I don’t think so. I’ll have to watch over you, because you’ve also once told me, you suck at skiing and snowboarding.” Mike said.
“You’ll go down too? I’ll give you a snowboard, I saw two in this room” Chester said.
“I’ll show you how the professionals do it” Mike replied.
“Ha, professionals…” Chester started laughing as he passed a snowboard to Mike. Chester was feeling a bit dizzy.
“If you want it this way, then let’s rumble dude.” Mike decided to be part of Chester’s challenge.

When Mike and Chester were getting the snowboards, Joe was still feeling not like himself and this time it was really noticeable: Joe knew that Froggy wasn’t in the living room, but he still was searching.

“Joe, stop it!!!” Eva shouted as she saw Joe under the table with gloves.
“What the…” Claudia added. “Hey Eva, what was in my drink that I’m seeing Joe in that possition, under the table?”
“Something was wrong with his drink…” Eva turned around to the corner where Joe had pushed the coach to see some traces of Froggy. (In fact, there wasn’t but you try convincing that to a man who loves his Froggy that much.)
“We should turn the TV off, no one’s watching it anyways…” Janv grabbed the remote control but she accidentally turned on the Discovery channel. Joe reacted to that like a panther waiting for a chance in grabbing that little unsuspecting baby buffalo. Eva and Claudia glanced at him. He was close to drooling, if it was a cooking show, but it was a show about amphibians. “Hey Joe, you’re not the party animal, we get it, but can you please try to relax and chill?” Janhavi said to Joe who was staring at her.
“Alright, I can. He’s not here anyways…” Joe gasped.
“I think this is a small victory of ours” Janv said.

“Wait until I can my hands on you, Brad! You’ll be jumping around like Froggy!!!” Phoenix yelled as he was chasing Brad all around the kitchen. Antigoni was the referee.
“Hey guys this is boxing, I’d like to remind you…Not long distance running with obstacles…” Antigoni said as she climbed up the table to avoid getting hit by Phoenix’s pillow which was suppodedly his main tool in “boxing”. But it looked like boxing in Phoenix style.

“Oh my God…” Janv sighed as she jumped up to Joe to cover up his ears.
“They know where froggy is!!!” Joe stood up and ran to the kitchen but instead he hit the wall and fell down to the floor with stars in his eyes.
“Someone get some water, quick!!!!” Janv shouted.
“I’m on it!” Claudia said as she ran quickly towards the kitchen.
“JOE, ARE YOU ALRIGHT?! WAKE UP!!!!” Eva and Janv shouted.
“We must call an ambulance, it’s possible he’s highly entoxicated.” Eva said.
“I think he was just clumbsy, and he’s conseous…” Janv replied.

“Phoenix, Brad, Antigoni it’s time to panic!!!! Poor Joey hit his head again, need something to put on his head – ice, or atleast water! Cold water!!! I mean, come on stop fighting for a second!” Claudia ran up to Antigoni and told her to make them stop.
Claudia was in a circle of pillows and fluff. It looked like a real-life ring.
“Guys! Take a break, Joe needs help right away!” Antigoni pulled out her whistle and started blowing.
“I’ll see you in round 5, bro.” Phoenix said as he stroked his head.
“Let’s get some water for ourselves and Joey…Poor Joey” Brad said.
Claudia and Brad took some water and went back to the living room.

“I don’t know, maybe shaking him will help? Or…” Eva started thinking of ideas to wake him up.
“I volunteer into anything to help Joseph out!!!” Janhavi said.
“JOE!!!!!!!” suddenly Mike screamed as he was going down the stairs with a snowboard. He was trying not to fall off of it, and he managed to pull off a couple of tricks as he jumped off the last 4-5 steps to do a 360. It was a success. But no one was looking at him at the moment. Joe was “over-shinning” Mike.

“Why isn’t anyone looking…” Mike thought to himself. “I almost did a stair-dive to the ground… No sympathy at all.” Mike looked behind him. “Okay, Chester is coming here, and judging by the way how he’s walking…I have about 6 minutes to check on Joe, and stop Chester from hurting himself, or worse…No, Chester will be alright. He’s Chester Charles Bennington, for crying out loud.” Mike walked to the living room with fear in his big, cute, dark eyes.
“We won’t wake him up, if we just try to slap him on his round face.” Eva said.
“No…we’ll need something that’s more effective.” Mike came up trying to fight his emotions.
“Like what Mike?” Eva said. “Hey, you’re done with the painting that soon?” Eva said quietly to him.
“Eh, not yet. I had to satisfy Chester’s need in competing with yours truly.” Mike said even more silently.
“What did you do?” Eva wondered.
“I jumped off the main stairs with a snowboard…” Mike coughed. “But we should take care of Joe now, let’s forget about me”
“Mike, he’s not moving…” Janhavi said.
“Bad news guys…” Claudia suddenly came back to the room with water. “The “F” creature, Joe’s one true love, is out on the loose in the kitchen. Brad’s trying to hold him, but he stepped on a skateboard, and he’s afraid to get down from it. Joe’s buddy is still on the loose, and Phoenix is panicing.”
“What the hell?” Mike was surprised. “Anyway, I need someone to take care of Chester too. He’s a rookie at snowboarding, and stair-diving for that matter.”
“I’ll help…” Claudia said as she gave JanV the glass of water.
“Okay, Joe, sorry but…” JanV spilled the water onto Joe’s face, but she was supposed to make him drink that.”
“NO!!! Please, don’t annihilate me, Mr. Prime…” Joe opened up his eyes. It seemed like he was dreaming of Optimus Prime.
“Thank god, he’s awake. I was ready to call the ambulance” Antigoni said.
“Now, we must go to Chester.” Mike said as he nodded to Claudia.
“Is he really that drunk, or lousy at extreme sports?” Claudia asked.
“A bit of both I should say.” Mike said.
“I’ll come too, I can’t stand the thought of Chester possibly hurting himself” Eva said.
“Me and Antigoni will nurse Joe back to health” JanV said. “Come on, Joey, let’s get back to the living room”
“W-wait. Hold on, what about Brad?” Claudia said.
“I think we won’t have to worry about him.” Phoenix said as he came up to everyone.
“Hmmm, talk in English, bro.” Joe glanced at Phoenix.
“I’ll try to help him, despite the fact that he losed to me…in 4 rounds already.” Phoenix said.

Claudia went back to the stairs with Mike and Eva.

“The silence gives me the creeps. Who knows what he’s done to himself while I was out…” Mike said.

Everyone from the living room started shouting: “Watch out!”.

The three of them turned around to see that Chester had all snowboarding gear on, the gloves, the goggles, the boots, the pants on. And was standing on the snowboard. Mike pushed Eva and Claudia aside from the stairs all of a sudden. The moment when Brad was on a skateboard and was quickly going towards Mike wasn’t what anyone expected. Brad had another bowl in which Froggie was in. During the micro seconds, when Brad bumped into Mike, the bowl ended up on Mike head, and Froggie was on top of the bowl and Mike’s head. Mike was wet once again, Brad reacted randomly weird to the situation, Eva ran to Mike, Claudia quickly grabbed a towel and ran after Eva, Phoenix yelled to Brad that it’s time for a round 5, Antigoni and JanV were taking care of Joe, Rob was still headbanging and thinking of new drum solos in the garage…

But that didn’t stop Chester, he started going downstairs with the snowboard, yelling how great this is. Mike had still the bowl on his head, he was all alone, he heard everyone’s voices until Chester fell down onto Mike, after a bad attempt to jump off the stairs with a snowboard. Brad was the closest to both of them, but Phoenix grabbed Brad by his arm and told him it’s time to rumble for another round.

Mike wasn’t breathing, as if he was kind of unconseous for a second.

Eva and Claudia took Chester off of Mike. Eva sat down beside Mike and started stroking his hair and touching his face. Claudia wanted to cry, but she helped Chester up.

Suddenly Phoenix started running around the rooms without his shirt, screaming: “I win”. Brad was nowhere to be found. Assuming he was deeply crushed Brad has hidden near the piano.

“Mike!!! Why didn’t you move?” Chester came closer to Mike.

Mike wasn’t moving.

“Mike…?” Eva said.

Mike still wasn’t moving.

“MIKE!!!” Claudia shouted.

Mike wasn’t moving.

“Oh my God…” Claudia said quietly.

Chester got down on his knees and looked at Mike. Mike suddenly woke up, grabbed Chester by his shirt feeling angry.
“It is your freaking fault. This “relax” plan only brought bad things!!!!” Mike shouted.
“You agreed!!!!!!” Chester replied hiccupping from the beer.
“Break it up you two!!!” Claudia said as she grabbed Chester as she tried to push him away from angry Mike. Eva did the same to Mike.
“Come on guys, you are friends. Apologize to each other now!” Eva said.
“I need to be all by myself now” Mike said as he went to the living room to get his laptop. He thought about blogging which definitely takes his mind of things.
“My fingers feel broken though…” Chester said.
“We must make them apologize to each other.” Eva said.
“Agreed. We must make them” Claudia agreed.

Mike was sitting on a sofa, with his laptop, typing in studio updates, later on to be posted on his blog. Joe was lying next to him. Janhavi and Antigoni were discussing how could all that happened. Claudia had Froggy in her hands, Eva was talking to Chester. Phoenix was still running around outside like crazy. Brad was near the piano behind it. Rob was headbanging in the garage.

“I’ll go get Phi, you go get Brad Antigoni. Who’ll get Rob?” Claudia said.
“I’ll go to him. He’s been so isolated from us. What could’ve happened to him?” Eva was wondering.
“I have no idea…” Joe coughed. JanV looked at Joe, but Joe was too lazy to look back.
“You’ll have to stay here.” Eva told Chester.
Chester sat down next to Mike who was blogging away. But Mike was giving him the cold shoulder.

“Come on, Brad, get out of there!!!” Antigoni came to Brad who was shaking in fear under a piano.
“Is it safe to come out?” Brad asked Antigoni.
“Well, I think so. Phoenix is busy outside” Antigoni said.
“Are you sure? What is he doing?” Brad was still in “knock down”.
“I think, he’s shirtless, and he’s running around the yard screaming that he’s victorious.” Antigoni looked through the window. “Yeah, he’s right there. I hope he doesn’t do anything stupid.”
“I fear he’ll definitely do something on the lines of insane. He’s too cought up with emotions and beer only makes the effect stronger” Brad said.

In JanV’s front yard Phoenix was running in circles, holding his shirt like a victory flag. He was screaming some sort of victory song, that he had written with Mike back on tour in 2003. Phoenix was jumping over flowers, skipping on the grass, jumping around, knocking down trash cans. There were a couple of people outside their houses in the neighbourhood. But Phoenix ignored them, like only he knows. The people were confused, annoyed, and frustrated by Phoenix’s singing, his moves, and possibly everything in between all that Dave was doing.

2 minutes later it started raining. Claudia came out from the house with a hoodie on, and started looking for Phoenix. Phoenix was walking in the rain, behind the trees. No one really knows what he was doing behind them but him, and the trees, of course knew.

“Hey Dave! We need for you to get back to the house, to apologize. Come on” Claudia shouted but she didn’t know where he was exactly. She accidentally saw Phoenix near some bushes, and repeated herself. Phoenix looked around with a face expression that said: “What the hell?”.

“I need to chill. And these trees look so chilling. It’s so hot out here. And I won!” Phoenix said.
“But we need you back now, so come here! Mike and Chester had an…accident. You and Brad had a stupid fight…” Claudia said.
“He had my beer in his hands…” Phoenix interrupted.
“And Joe with Rob had a ridiculous discussion about transformers, and them in the popular culture. Joe was pretty offensive in that department.” Claudia continued.

Phoenix started running around again for no appearent reason.

“What’s wrong?” Claudia asked.
“I stepped on a piece of glass. It hurts, god damn it.” Phoenix started moaning.
“I’ll help you go back to the house…and why you’re bare foot?” Claudia said.
“I won against Brad in pillow boxing.” Phoenix responded.
“Alright…” Claudia gasped.

Claudia and Phoenix went back to the house, while the sun has already got down hours ago, but people were still standing outside. Maybe they thought that the house was filled with weird foreigners.

Eva was at the garage, where Rob was banging the drumset.

“Rob, why have you hidden here all by yourself?” Eva said as she turned on the lights.
“I cought the inspiration for new drum patterns for the new album, that I thought I really try to show you guys later. I’m really sorry that I missed the party so far…” Rob answered.
“It’s OK, the party isn’t over, but we need all of you guys together to apologize.” Eva said.
“If you’re going to mention me and Joe in one sentence, then I was too stubborn with my opinion that transformers are getting a little overrated.” Rob was explaning himself.
“Well, that’s really a weird reason not to talk to each other, even though Joe’s pretty offensive when it comes to his beloved stuff” Eva said. “How are the ideas coming?”
“Pretty great, I should say. But I need Mike’s stamp of approval. And everyone’s as well.” Rob said putting down his headphones.
“Come on Rob. They all must be waiting for us.” Eva nodded.


Mike has finished blogging for a second to rub his eyes which were tired somehow. Chester was staring at Mike but not saying anything. Joe was moaning quietly how bad he missed Froggy. (Joe had Froggy in his arms) Brad was sitting around exploring the room without moving. Phoenix was drinking water and putting a plaster on his foot. Antigoni was playing around with her phone. Janhavi was feeling frightened by the thought that she’s going to clean the whole mess not just in the house, or the yard, but she didn’t know what Mike and Eva were painting in the bathroom. Claudia was talking on the phone in the other room with one of her friends. After that conversation she was feeling more depressed as she ever was. She came back and sat down near Mike and Chester. She looked at Mike and told him to put his freaking computer down, because the sound of Mike typing in weird words was kind of annoying. Mike was ignoring Chester’s face by all means.

Rob and Eva came to the living room and sat down as well.
“So, the reason why we all brought you guys together, was the fact that you all had serious and not so serious conflicts. Let me remind you, that you all have been friends for a decade now, so you should not let little things get away in your friendship.” Eva said slowly.
“I’m slow to react to that.” Joe yawned as he stroked Froggy.
“Jesus Christ…” Brad said.
“You’re Jewish dude.” Phoenix said.
“Let’s just try to understand each other more, Eva is right.” Mike put the laptop down.
“You’re both right.” Chester said. “We need to work all together. I know we’re irritating each other at times, but lots of people have that problem and manage to pull it off”.
“You’re all are right. Who have spoken.” Brad said.
“I’m sorry for everything that I’ve done to you all. The pain and the nerve recking.” Phoenix said.
“I second that.” Joe said as he squaked.
“Group hug everyone!” Rob said.
Everyone stood up and started hugging each other except for JanV. Antigoni took a camera and took pictures, Claudia was close to crying when she saw Chester and Mike hugging each other and saying sorry, Brad tapping Phoenix’s shoulder, and Rob holding Joe because Joe was going to fall down. It was priceless.

“Enough of the crying, what is this, a funeral? LET’S GET DRUNK!!” Janhavi said.
“YOU GET DRUNK, we take a group picture.” Claudia said and Eva nodded.
“So, Robert…” Antigoni said as she hugged him. “You know, you’re going to redeem yourself somehow because you missed the fun!”
“Wait a second guys…it’s 11:58 pm. How about we greet the midnight outside with singing?” Mike suggested.
“And risk draggin’ attention towards us…I…Don’t…” Brad was saying as Claudia poked him.
“It’s midnight for crying out loud. We won’t be loud, right?” Janhavi looked at Mike.
“Well no.” Mike smiled.



Surprises, one after the other


The 10 of the “unbreakable people” (Joe figured out that “term”) went out outside, it had just stopped raining. It was a full moon outside, and only some random clouds were left in the sky.
“This is why I love the night. So beautiful.” Chester was saying.
“…until it rains again….” Phoenix added.
“I think that this mess won’t be cleaning itself, now will it Phi?” Janhavi said.
“Until you guys start bashing Phoenix for this incredible mess, how about a short concert for you?” Chester said.
“You said you were kidding me before. Liar, liar, pants on fire…” Joe said.
“So much for quietness but go for it!” Janhavi said.
“Well that pig-like man in the distance isn’t too thrilled seeing us…” Claudia pointed at a fat policeman who was driving in a car. It reminded her of the weird accident at the airport.
“Oh shit, the cops.” Brad started shaking.
“How can you tell he’s not thrilled?” Mike asked Claudia.
“I can feel angriness from a distance.” Claudia said. “Let’s just do it indoors, the noise won’t be as freaking loud as it would be here.”

Everyone quickly went to the garage where Linkin Park have stored their instruments when the arrived here. In 15 minutes all the stuff has been in the living room (surprisingly there was enough space for a small crowd)

“So, everything is set, Chester go grab the microphone, Brad your guitar is there, Rob stop eating, Joe don’t faint, I know it’s hot. Phoenix you’re an example to them, you’re ready!” Mike was telling everyone their “roles”
”I had my bass over here. Not in the garage.” Phoenix said.

In 15 minutes everything was finished and the guys started playing some of their old songs, back from the beginning of their career.
“I’d like to dedicate this whole show to our wonderful fans Claudia, Antigoni, Eva, and JanV, and to the 2010 FIFA World Cup! GO USA!” Chester screamed like a rocker.
“Football….what a sport. Messi will beat everyone, and that dummy Ronaldo….” Mike thought but he didn’t say anything.
While Chester was singing, Mike was deep in thought. But he didn’t let anyone notice that.
“Okay, it’s still loud, but what the heck, screw those other people in the neighborhood.” Claudia thought as she was singing along.
“Mike is acting strange…” Eva thought.

Janhavi wanted to do a mosh pit, but there wasn’t enough space plus, it was only a short session of old songs being played. In her house.

About an hour later, after the old demo songs, and Hybrid Theory EP songs playing, the girls realized that they just heard the very first LP songs being played exclusively for them and even though it wasn’t a real show, more like a small session, the guys promised to take the girls to a real Linkin Park show really soon.

It was 2 am. Everyone were having fun by playing party games. Altough Joe wasn’t too excited by playing games that involved him getting blindfolded and getting spinned around but he liked it. Mike was laughing away like he never was. Chester was dreaming about a new tattoo and this whole experience. Phoenix and Rob were chatting with the girls, Brad was bringing in some snacks from the kitchen.

“Holy Shinoda!!!!” Eva suddenly yelled.
“I’m not that holy, but what happened?” Mike looked at Eva and threw a pillow towards Chester who was sleeping.
“The painting!!!!” Eva stood up from the floor and ran to the bathroom.
“Oh shit…” Mike gasped as he ran after her.
“I can’t believe we forgot about it.” Eva said as she grabbed a brush and continued the painting.
“We have to finish this though, it’s almost done. Now we just need to paint the 10 of us. How about in an 8-Bit matter?” Mike suggested.
“Yeah, that would be great, JanV’s parents won’t be too shocked.” Eva said.
“WHAT? Her parents?” Mike’s jaw dropped.
“You didn’t know?!” Eva dropped the brush out of her hands.
“Nah, I’m just messing with you. I know.” Mike started giggling.
“You sure scared me.” Eva said.
“I just hope we will not wake them up. Hey, is it true that Claudia is an insomniac when she’s excited?” Mike said.
“I don’t think so, why did you asked that?” Eva said.

Claudia came to the bathroom rubbing her eyes. “Ignore me, I’m just going to brush my teeth”
“It’s 3 am. Go to bed!” Mike started laughing.
“Oh shut up, you need more sleep than I do.” Claudia looked at Mike who was obviously exhausted but he was still putting the finishing touches on the painting.
“We’re almost done anyways…” Eva said.
“I’ll go to sleep now, everyone’s sleeping already, so don’t take long. Good night guys.” Claudia came up to Mike and Eva and hugged them.
“Good night, don’t let the bed bugs bite” Both mike and Eva said.
“Oh and P.S. this painting will rock this world like this party!” Claudia said as she waved to Mike and Eva.
“Hell yeah!” Eva added, Mike just nodded.

At around 4:30 in the morning…

“I think we’re done…what do you think Mike?” Eva said as she dropped a brush to the ground.
“Oh my sweetness…” Mike said.

The painting was basically a combination of Mike’s previous artwork, the 10 of the main characters in this story, and some pretty cool sights of India.

“My freaking back hurts…” Mike said as he stood up and told Eva to leave the painting and go to sleep.
“I’m tired too…” Eva was walking slowly behind Mike.
The two of them got back down to where everyone was sleeping. And lied down on the piles of fluff and pillows in the middle of the living room.


At midday, Chester accidentally bumped his head to Rob’s head as he was sleeping. It woke everyone up.

“Good morning…” Janhavi said as she started cleaning the living room, she was the first one to awake.
“Do we have to clean up?” Claudia said as she started going to the kitchen.
“My head, my poor head…” Joe said.
“I agree to Joe and Claudia…” Phoenix said. “We need breakfast.”
“Guys, what if my parents see this mess?” Janhavi said.
“They’ll be proud of us…” Brad said as he looked around. “Not everyone can make messes like this! Well atleast we won’t take too long…”
“I have so many ideas for the album! Guys, we need to get back to the studio ASAP!!!” Mike screamed with a voice that was kinda sleepy.
“Mike, you only dreamt unicorns…” Chester said as he was eating a toast in the kitchen.
“Chester, I can’t steal your pets away from you…” Mike said.
“OUR pets.” Chester added.
“I dreamt a thousand suns, a catalyst…” Mike started talking. “The Matrix…”
Everyone were in shock by Mike’s face that was saying that they all must take action.
“If you’re going to pull tricks on us, don’t even think about it. We must celebrate my birthday!” Antigoni said.
“Of course, we’ll go to Athens, because I know that it’ll be fun.” Eva said.
“Screw Lithuania!” Claudia sneezed.
“Bless you.” Chester said.
“But first, Eva why didn’t you remind me, I want to show you all something.” Mike said as he threw banana peels into a trash can.

Everyone followed Mike to the bathroom and everyone were quickly amazed by the artwork brought by Mike and Eva.
“IT’S SO AWESOME!!!” Antigoni yelled.
“My parents will LOVE it!!!” JanV said.
Chester, Brad, Phoenix, Rob and Joe were singing Blackbirds all together because the painting reminded them of 8-Bit Rebellion.
Eva and Mike were being flattered by their exceptional talent for the next couple of hours while everyone was cleaning the house Until Mike poked Chester and nodded to him assuming they had to say something important.

“So, we have a little present for you guys…” Mike smiled the usual smile like he always does…

“We are going to invite you guys, to Los Angeles, to our studio, while we’re recording our new album!” Chester shouted continuing with what Mike was trying to say….