The morning sun rose late, and Pete blinked his eyes open. "I wish we could stay in this hotel room forever," Pete whispered as he rolled over to face his bedmate. He remembered feeling Carlos's arms wrapped around him as they slept last night, but Carlos had rolled over onto his other side at some point during the evening. Now it was Pete's turn to return the favour: he snaked his limbs around Carlos's waist.
"Mmm," Carlos sighed as he returned to consciousness. His eyelids flickered open for a brief second before closing again. "That feels nice, but we've got a train to catch and a show to play." He breathed out, deep in thought. "How awesome would it be to live in a place like this forever? This bed is amazing, there's room service and a minibar, and a pool, and ..."
Pete introduced facts. "Yeah, but it'd be snowing for like half the year."
Carlos's eyes finally snapped open. "Fuck that shit. Besides, imagine what this place would feel like if we were the only people in it? It'd be like 'The Shining'."
Pete smirked. "Who gets to hold the baseball bat?"
Carlos rolled over to face Pete, reaching his hands down towards his crotch. He gripped Pete's cock with his painted black nails. "It's your bat, but I get to hold it."
Pete moaned as he felt Carlos's hands stroking him hard. "We need to get up," he whispered, "and like you said, we've got a train to catch."
The only sound Carlos heard was Pete's stilted, irregular breath. Pete's eyes closed in bliss as he felt his frontman's fingers work their magic on his dick. One hand stroked his shaft and teased the tip while the other cupped his balls, squeezing them lightly and lovingly, occasionally teasing the opening of his hungry asshole.
"Fuck, Carlos," he moaned.
Carlos picked up the pace. "Better cum soon, Pete, like you said, we've got a train to catch," Carlos cheekily reminded him.
He stuck his middle finger inside Pete's boipussy. Pete arched his back as his balls tightened and drew upwards into his body. He grunted as Carlos found his prostate. He drenched his bedmate's hand.
Carlos ate Pete's load for breakfast. "Muy bien," he said as he licked his fingers clean. He kissed his bedmate on the cheek.
Pete rolled onto his back and stared at the ceiling in post-orgasmic bliss, feeling his wet cock begin to deflate. He wanted to live like this forever. As far as today went, he wanted to lie in bed until he fell asleep again, but there was work to be done. With a sigh, he threw the bedclothes back and got up. The bed in their hotel room was so beautifully perfect he wanted to take it home with him.
They dressed, collected their shit and headed downstairs for breakfast before checking out at reception. Carlos ordered the scrambled eggs again, this time asking for some extra chilli. He got it, but it came as a side dish on a separate plate. He frowned in frustration as he chopped the raw chilli into tiny segments with a knife, knowing his eggs were losing temperature fast. The final result was a weak, pale imitation of Mexican scrambled eggs.
Pete brought two strong coffees back from the buffet and landed them on the table. He returned to the buffet to collect his own breakfast: grilled tomatoes, hash browns, and a croissant.
"Last day," Pete said in between mouthfuls.
"Mmm." Even though the eggs weren't up to Carlos's high Mexican standards of cuisine, he was still hungry as fuck. He looked up at Pete and noticed a trace of sadness in his face. He rested his fork on his plate. "This tour has been a fucking blast so far. It's a shame it's gonna end soon. One more show to go."
"Yeah, I know," Pete replied. "But I'm so glad we did this. And if this week has been a taste of the life we want, I want more. I don't want to be a solicitor. I want to be an international rock god."
"A-fuckin'-men to that," Carlos agreed, reaching his feet out to touch Pete's under the table. They shared a meaningful smile before returning to their food and coffees.
They talked about their week in Canada. They loved the people they'd met up north, but the climate sucked.
Pete's knife and fork clattered down onto his empty plate. "OK, dude," he said, "it's time to leave this beautiful castle. Thank you so much for checking us in here, I've had such a great time with you, but we need to get going."
Carlos agreed. He threw back the final mouthful of his coffee before standing up. "I'll check us out at the front desk. Can you get us an uber to the train station? Meet you outside in five minutes."
Pete nodded. His fingertips danced across the screen of his cellphone, and within minutes, a car had been summoned for them. Pete watched the black line on his screen tracing the driver's path to pick them up.
Carlos was still at reception when Pete stepped outside. Snow landed on his head and at his feet. He shivered a little.
Their uber arrived and Pete threw his bag into the trunk. He climbed onto the back seat, mainly to escape the cold. The driver was about to pull away when Pete explained they were waiting on another passenger.
"Cold out, eh?" said the driver.
"Yeah," replied Pete, trying to fight off frostbite. He loved the idea of touring the world, but why did it have to be so cold?
"You're not from Canada, eh?"
"Atlanta, Georgia," Pete replied.
Just as Pete began to dread a conversation where every statement was a question with 'eh?' at the end of it, Carlos charged out of the building and climbed into the back seat, throwing his bag between himself and his drummer.
"This is your other rider, eh?"
"Yeah," said Pete, "he is. We're good to go. Thanks."
Carlos took off his mittens, breathing frost, before buckling his seat belt. The car pulled away into traffic. "Fuck, dude," he asked Pete rhetorically, "why is this place so cold?"
Pete reached across the back seat to hold Carlos's cold hand. "One more night," he said.
Immediately, the mental jukebox buried deep within each of their brains began playing the Phil Collins song of the same name.
A few seconds passed before Carlos spoke. "You thinking of the same song I'm thinking of?"
"Phil Collins?"
"Yeah," Carlos replied. "Right now, I'm hearing a dull drum machine in my head, plus the whiny voice of some bald English cunt."
"And a tenor sax solo that should never have been allowed out of its elevator."
"I fucking hate you for triggering me with this song, Pete."
Pete smiled, and gripped Carlos's hand tighter.
The car sped through the suburbs before traversing an industrial area. They arrived at Gare D'Ottawa around 11am and found the rest of their travelling party. Their roadies had loaded their gear on board, but that was hours ago. They looked like dead men walking, desperate for sleep.
The train was preparing to depart, and they had just enough time to purchase a strong coffee each from a vendor on the concourse. They showed their tickets and boarded their first-class carriage.
Passengers were allocated to berths of two. The roadies were in one berth, and the bass player and other guitarist were in a second. Carlos and Pete shared their own separate berth.
The train pulled out of the station on time.
"How long is the journey, Carlos?"