Nichole closes the door behind Erica, laughing quietly at Erica's attempt to greet her with food in her mouth. Even when Nichole was upset with Erica, she still found her absolutely adorable. She turns back to Erica, both of them feeling a little awkward around each other. "Should I just say what I'm thinking, or do you have anything you want to say...?" she asks, not sure how to begin this. Her normal reaction would be to just jump right into her side of the argument, but she was trying her best to be adult about these situations with Erica from now on.

Nichole nods as she listens, happy to hear Erica address the very things that Nichole wanted for them to talk about. It was nice to see that the two were on the same page, for once. Also, it made what Nichole had to say much shorter. "You haven't been rotten," she says back, sitting down on her bed and motioning for Erica to sit with her. "I think you've just been attempting to be helpful while still trying to have your own feelings, and it's just not working out all that well for you..." She laughs a little and sighs. "I wasn't agreeing with her. I mean, of course I don't agree with what you did. And then to announce to the world that Kai had been cheating on Faith... I agree with that even less. But I don't think you're childish. Faith was upset and drunk. We both know that it's useless to disagree with an upset, drunk person. I was just saving my breath." She gives Erica a small, sad smile, hoping that she'd understand where she was coming from as much as she understood where Erica was coming from.

"I don't agree with Faith on you being childish, but I also don't agree with how you reacted to everything going on. That's all I meant," Nichole explains, resting to head on top of Erica's. "It was public knowledge that Kai was cheating on Faith to everybody but Faith. She was... so clueless the entire time. I don't think anybody is proud of the whole cheating situation - except for maybe Honor." She sighs, running her fingers through Erica's hair. "I don't know what Faith is feeling right now. She's just really upset by the whole situation. You know, you plan your life with somebody, and then it all blows up in your face. We both know how that feels."

Nichole tenses up a little bit when she hears that Erica is going to be going over to Honor's later in the week. "Why do you want to go over there anyway?" she asks, shaking her head. "We both know what's going to happen when you go there. Why not just let the cycle end now?"

Nichole appreciates seeing Erica take Faith's side in this situation. Even if Nichole wasn't very close with Faith, she was sure she would do the same. Erica and Nichole being on the same page with an issue was rare, but very satisfying when it happened. "I hope you're right, then," Nichole says back when Erica says that she expects she and Honor will go separate ways after this last confrontation. "She definitely has a way of drawing you back into her circle of friends, and then hurting you again. I just don't want to see you upset."

Nichole brings her legs up on the bed and sits with them crossed. "I know you hate cutting people loose. But at the risk of sounding horribly hypocritical, you need to cut loose the people that are you causing you more pain than happiness." She kisses the top of her head. "Of course. I hate arguing with you, but I hate it even more when we're not face-to-face."

"Well, whatever's done is done. People make a mess," Nichole says back in her very Jewish way of making an adage about situations. She beams at Erica when Erica says that they ' have what we want.' She knew that being with Erica was exactly what she wanted, but she had been waiting to make sure that Erica shared the same thought. They were together, yet distant, which seemed right at first, but after months, it had started to wear on Nichole. It was nice to finally hear that Erica wanted exactly what Nichole did. Nichole hugs Erica close to her and sighs. "Erica, when I'm gone, you'll stay with the kids, right? Including mine?" she asks softly, knowing that it was a big step to ask Erica to watch her kids without Nichole around - not only for Nichole as a mother, but for Erica and Nichole's relationship as well.

The band quickly sets up giving them time to hang out before the show. They hang out behind the stage socializing with the other bands. This would be the last time they'd be on tour for a while so they were going to live this show up. They were permitted a longer set than usual and they were debuting two new songs. They are given the okay to go on stage so the four huddle and Erica gives a speech. "Alright guys, this is our last show at Warped Tour. We have a longer set tonight, so live this up as much as possible. Let's kill it tonight. Hands in the center everyone. Let's do this, one two three, Police Code!"

The band runs onto the stage and Erica runs to the microphone. "Albuquerque, New mother fucking Mexico! Get your feet moving!" The crowd cheers loudly and the band goes into Winter Formal and the crowd begins to circle pit. Erica starts head banging as she screams the lyrics. The song ends shortly.

"Hey, how many of you want to here a new song?" The crowd cheers loudly and chants
"New song! New song! New song!"
"Alright, it's called King of Summer. It's about summer." The band goes into the song and Jenny jumps onto a speaker near the crowd. The crowd reaches for her and she ruffles someone's hair. Erica jumps onto the bass drum and starts singing the chorus and does a backflip off as the song ends. The crowd cheers loudly as they settle down from the mosh pit.

"We've never played that one live, it'll probably go on an album eventually. So we have another new song." The crowd cheers wildly. "We don't have a name for it so it has a tentative name called Lose the Booze. It's about assholes bringing drinks to all ages venues that don't allow beer." The band goes into a fast punk song with the only verse being "Lose The Booze." Erica stage dives but someone falls down which causes all the people crowd surfing her to fall down like dominoes. They all get helped up and Erica starts moshing with them until the song ends. She crowd surfs back onto the stage.

The band almost immediately goes into their song "Yes." The band stages moshing into each other on stage causing Jared to fall over during his guitar solo. He stays on the ground and Erica helps him up and she climbs onto his shoulders and begins singing again. At the end of the song, she flips off.

"Thank you guys, I have one more song to sing for you guys. It's a cover, sing along if you know the words." The band goes into a cover of Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedy's. Erica jumps back into the mosh pit as she sings. Somebody gets thrown into her which causes her to get punched in the face and make her nose start bleeding. She crowd surfs back up to the stage and continues the song leaving her microphone and her part of the stage bloody. "Ow, that fucking hurt. I'm done singing so give it up for Jared Sandoval." The crowd cheers for him.

"Hey guys. This next song is about friends I had growing up. A lot of them either failed, quit hanging out with me, or dropped out and ran away from home. This song is for them. I look at you guys and wonder if any of them are in the crowd. I've had a lot of time to think during tour and I realized something. Every last one of you here has the potential to do something great. A lot of you skate, or draw, or play music. Whatever your hobby or your passion is, never give up on it. The road is hard but you'll get to a paved road eventually. I want all of you to donate some money to one of the charities here so some people who don't have what we have can experience life better.

Some of these charities are for cancer, some are for suicidal teenagers, others are for homeless kids. All of these kids have the potential to do something great and I can tell you this now, I've donated to pretty much all of them just so these kids can have another opportunity to be great. All of you can make a difference. It doesn't have to be a charity. I can be buying groceries for an old man who has to make the decision of medicine or food. It can be anything. And that is the meaning to our song and if you agree with me give me a mother fucking amen!"

The crowd responds with a deafening "Amen!"
Jared grins "One more time!"
"Amen!"
The band goes into the song and the crowd begins to mosh intensely as they play the song. Jared jumps onto the drumset and plays a guitar solo in Rodger's face. Jared jumps off and runs to the microphone to sing the last chorus.

The crowd cheers wildly "Thank you guys so much. We're so glad to have shared the experience of Warped Tour with all of you. We have had a fucking blast and I hope you guys have a blast tonight. The rest of the bands rule so stick around. This is our last song." The band goes into Just Say No and the crowd erupts with excitement. By the end of the song they're so tired that it has turned into a slow mosh. Erica piggy backs Jared and they run into the mosh pit. Before the song ends they run back onstage and Jared picks up his guitar and sends it flying through Rodger's bass drum's head and he puts all this weight on the guitar's neck and slides his shoe up and down it making a harsh feedback. He picks it up and rips the strings off of it with his hand which cuts it up causing his hand to bleed badly. He waves to the crowd as they walk off stage.

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