"Okay, so explain this to me once more," Matt groaned as he watched his younger cousin pace their backstage dressing room frantically. He watched as Tony ran around the room in circles, his mohawk flopping softly in the overhead breeze. Air-conditioning, thank christ for it. "Dude, slow the fuck down!" he repeated. "What the fuck has you so wound up?"
Tony didn't cease his movement, he simply uttered, "She's here!"
"Who's here?" Matt questioned, amusement evident on his pierced bottom lip. "Who the fuck is here?"
"SHE'S HERE!" Tony repeated, this time in a near shout. "SHE'S FUCKING HERE!"
Matt finally gave up on the situation and burst into confused laughter. Tony was acting like a total lunatic and there was no solid reason why: hell, he didn't even get this excited when they'd gone to their first strip club years before and met that pornstar...What was her name? Fuck if he could remember.
"That's right," Tony was rambling endlessly, nonsensically. "She's fucking here and I have nothing to wear and I'm losing my voice and the show's going to be a total and utter wash of a nightmare and she's going to see it and she's just going to hate me forever and how will I live with myself if she thinks I'm-"
"BREATHE!" Matt screamed, snapping his cousin to silence. "You're going to have an embolism."
Tony nodded and lit up a cigarette. "Breathe," he stated, as if it was a question. "Yes, I can do that. Breathe."
"What the fuck?" Matt repeated for the umpteenth time. "What the fuck, man?"
Tony tapped his foot as he took a long drag on his cigarette. "I told you, dude, SHE'S HERE!"
Matt shook his head and tried not to tear his own hair out from the roots. "I got that part. Who the FUCK is SHE?"
Tony shook his head and grinned. "You don't fucking know?"
"NO!" Matt screamed. "If I fucking knew, we wouldn't be having this utterly pointless conversations that's going in endless circles. WHO THE FUCK IS HERE?"
Tony exhaled a large plume of smoke, then smirked. "You don't know, huh?"
Matt tried not to blow an equally large plume of steam out his ears.
"Aria Giovanni," Tony finally offered softly.
Matt's eyes went wide.
"The porn star," Tony added, matter-of-factly. "You know, the hottest fucking woman alive?"
"I know who she is," Matt sighed, running a hand up through his short hair. "Where is she?"
"Why?" Tony challenged. "She's mine, dude!"
Matt shook his head slowly, then grinned. "Oh Tony, you're such an amateur!"
* * *
"This is my bunk," Matt smiled enthusiastically as he pointed to various compartments of the bus. "That's my favorite blanket. It's Sponge Bob, my mom made it for me and-"
"He's a tool," Tony grinned, pushing Matt away from the tall brunette. "This is my bunk, as you can see it's a much nicer bunk. Roomier, definitely cleaner than Matthew's little bunk of doom down there."
The young woman laughed at this, and then laughed harder at Matt's disgusted expression.
"Fuck off," he groaned, crossing his arms over his chest. "Actually, what Anthony here is omitting from his tour of the bus is the fact that he's had Herpes twelve times in the past ten days."