Hopeless • Corey Taylor •

• Chapter Two •

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I'm going to be updating every two to three days hopefully, since I know how annoying it is to be waiting a long time but I hope that you are enjoying it so far 😊
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Corey's POV

"I'm so fucking tired!" I yelled as we began to board the tour bus once again. Sid laughed as clown just shook his head. "Stop staying up so late then, dum ass !" He yelled at me.

"Hey! It's not my fault I couldn't sleep!" I yelled back whilst glaring at Chris.

Chris held his hands up in surrender. "Don't blame me, it was Sid who kept playing music all night long!" Sid then narrowed his eyes. "I'm sorry. I was the one who was making all the noise last night wasn't I, Jim?" He said sarcastically, as Jim rolled his eyes. "Sure whatever.." Jim mumbled as he looked down at his phone once more. Craig then just shook his head whilst going to lie down on his bunk at the back of the bus.

We then sat in silence until someone spoke up..

"Anyways.." Mick said awkwardly. "Tonight's our very last show guys!" He said trying to sound positive, but everyone just blanked him. I decided to go chill out on my bunk to get some rest until we got to the venue. I lay down and shut my eyes, listening to the slight hum of the traffic outside, before slowly falling unconscious.

An hour later..

"Hey Corey, we're here man!" Sid yelled from the front of the bus as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes. "I'm coming!" I shouted back as I jumped down from my bunk and made my way off the bus.

We all walked round, making our way to the back of the venue, only to notice the mass crowd build up at the front doors.

"It's gonna be a big show tonight, huh?" Chris said tiredly. I nodded, slowly following behind him, still staring at the huge crowd outside.

We all parted our separate ways inorder to get ready for the show. I decided to go get changed whilst everyone else was doing their own thing. We still had an hour before the opening act started, so the whole timing thing wasn't too bad, I could still sit down for a minute before the show starts.

After I finished getting changed and had got my mask on, I looked at myself in the mirror and nodded, before going out of the building to have a cig before the show.

It had started to get dark outside now, the moon had started to appear up above my head. Since I was looking up, I didn't notice that Chris had appeared next to me.

"Hey man, ..." Chris poked my shoulder.

I jumped in fright.

"Wha.. Oh.. Hey Chris... Don't do that too me man! I almost shit one!" I yelled.

Chris just stood their laughing hysterically for a moment before speaking up. "I'm sorry man, anyway, I came up here to let you know that we're going on in, like, ten minutes".

"Oh, right, okay..." I nodded slightly and followed him down to where the rest of the guys where. We all huddled round in a circle and Mick spoke up. "Guys, remember, this is our last show, so let's make it a good one, yeh?"

"HELL YEAH!" Clown screamed.

We all just stared at him.

"Just because you guys are all tired and cranky doesn't mean we can't have a good time, does it?" He mumbled. We all just mumbled back in agreement.

"Christ, you would have thought that someone had died with the way you guys are all acting, right now!" Clown said loudly above the roar of the crowd.

Paul.

After clown had said that, I just froze. I mean, yeh, it had been a while since Paul had left us. But for some reason it all came back and hit me at once. I felt even more deflated than I did before and I just stared at the stairs that went up to the stage. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Chris.

"Hey man, I know what your thinking, he shouldn't have said that. But it's okay. Paul would want you to do your best right now and that's all you can do." He said before patting me on the shoulder and running up on stage. Not long after I then decided to run up there too and began with the show.

Two hours later...

"That show was fucking awesome, right guys?" Sid screamed.

Everyone else yelled in agreement whilst I just nodded my head silently. "How about we go out to celebrate? There's a restaurant a few blocks down from here?" Mick said cheerfully. Once again, everyone yelled in agreement at the sound of food and we all parted our ways to get changed into our normal clothes and pack away before boarding the tour bus once more for the last time of this year.

I stared out the window watching the other cars pass by with the occasional 'are you okay?' from everyone, until we pulled up in a car park infront of Pizza Hut.

We slowly got off the bus and made our way into the place before taking our seats and taking a look at the menu.

"I'm going to go get a drink first, does anyone want one?" I asked and they all said they were going to wait until they ordered. "Suit yourselves.." I then stood up and walked over to the bar. As I looked around waiting for my drink, I noticed that the place was pretty empty. There were a few family's and maybe a few others, but it wasn't packed or anything.

I picked up my drink and turned around before I walked into someone and knocked my drink all over them.
"What the actual fuck?!?"