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Another show just done, kalan run to the back stage, left behind all
the screamings clappings in the audience.
Now he started to feel so weak, hungry, yes, he has not yet eat any
thing since lunchtime. Wow, what a big lunch, But now it is 10 past 30! all his
stomach are empty, he rapidly throw his pizza into microwave, while
heating undergoing, he relaxed himself in a hot shower back stage.
Before he finished shower, his cell phone ring crazy, he dry up
himself quickly, it was his manager, she called kalan from the bus,
all in a panic ¡° hi, kalan, I had bad news for you, there are big
crowd of fans stick out side¡± ¡° oh, yes? ¡°kalan not very
surprised.It has been like that after every show ¡° Would you like me just hide you in side of one of the big luggage in stead? Sweetie? ¡° ¡° No, thanks¡± kalan hanged up
the phone. He started to eat his delicious pizza, and drink 7 up in the same time, while cell phone ring again, this time is Derek, ¡° kalan, what a heck! There are crazy girl every where for you!¡± kalan chuckle to the phone, Derek voice continue yelling out of phone ¡° Just give you some warning, buddy, I am already in bus, see you¡± Mike is over hearing beside kalan, started to poke fun at kalan, "hi, kalan, could you please share some of the love from your girls to me? i want the most beautiful ones." " behavior yourself, Mike, you are married, i am single!" Mike is not such easy to be settled, he attacked back " Hi, even thou you are single, you only need love from one, no need so many, you soon will messy up yourself, do you?" kalan laugh, and throw his dirty socks to Mike, Mike escaped from that hit, and run awayKalan finally finished his pizza now, feel heavy to move his body from the couch he sit, he is scared about went out to the cold now, thinking about all the fans out there standing and waiting for him. ¡° Whats wrong with me?¡± he asked himself, ¡° why I got so much love from ppl?¡± He looked himself from the mirror, a skinny boy, staring at him inside the mirror. ¡° Am I really sexy? ¡° he feel confused himself. Whatever I do, no matter what I look like, ppl just love >it, isn¡¯t it bizarre? Ok, too much for me to figure it out one night. Let it go for now. > >Now it¡¯s the time had to go, kalan is the last one left backstage except his body guard. He wish he could become invisible and fly in to his bus without being noticed sometime, but no way for real. His body guard gave his the final signal, it 45 mins after the show, kalan hold his marker in his hand, following his body guard towards the door.
Part 2.
kalan feel the frozen cold all the sudden when the door is open, All his smile frozen too When he saw nobody outside except one fan with red sign on her arm, and a big speaker in hand. The sign wrote: K space maker. "What happened?" Kalan asked himself, "where are my people gone?" The lady replied: " kalan, I have made your way clean now, pleace enjoy your privacy time!"
Kalan was all at lost, he turned to the space maker lady, " what did you do to my people who are waiting for me?" " Nothing, i just yelling all loudly to them with my speaker, let them get out from here, leave the space for you." Then she pointed out in the darkness, they were over there, , they were stremely happy being there."
Kalan looked towards the direction as space maker pointed, he saw all his fans shaky and quiet watching him about 10 meter away at another side of parking lot. He wave hands to his people, they wave back quietly, some tears sheld out there, but all the sudden frozen as they drop on to the frozen ground.
" thanks" kalan said to the space maker," May i borrow your speaker for a second?" " sure" lady said
Kalan took up the speaker, started calling his people in the darkness
hi, sorry let every one waiting for me so long in cold, i really dont deserve so much love from all of you guys! please come to me, i will do my little thing for every one"
after he finished last sentense, he drop the speaker to the space maker lady with a sweet smile, and walked towards to his fans, while in the same time his fans running towards to him
his thin figure finally merged into the crowd in the middle of the parking lot, he hug each of his fans, no exception, without asking permission all kalan ladies feel heavenly. LOL
well, it must be a very good exercise for kalan, as he hug each one firmly with his both arms and all his strength trained from ranch work. it was his mom's fault that he didnt have any winter cloth with him on tour. Mrs. porter never thought his son spend those "exercises time" every night from concert to tour bus.
The last hug ended up with a 7 years old girl, she was soooo small, kalan had to hold her up in his arms, and she started to cry in kalan's arms. kalan was upset, looking down at her pretty face, soften kiss her at her hair, " are you all right? " the little girl still shaky, kalan hold her longer gently, and wipe off tears from her face which turned to red in cold like a little apple.
"whats wrong, dear? " the little cutie answered " i am so cold almost frozen while i am waiting for you, but i wish it was you that being frozen instead of me, " kalan felt ashamed" sorry, i should be the one frozen, dear" little girl smiled, " oh, yes? if that happened, you could stop at 19, and waiting for me grown up, to be your girl friend? "
the crowd laugh, kalan laugh, and so does the little girl.
a screaming of a lady came from behind, christina!!! thats the girl's mom
whats happened ?
Part 3.
When kalan heard that little girl want to be his gf by frozen him till she grow up, He cant help laughing, and kissing her again at her cheek.
The girl's face flush and her eyes shining brighten
The crowd laughs at both of them,
A screaming of a lady came from behind, Christina!!!
Kalan and the little girl both lift face up, looking at the lady, a flashlight on, that¡¯s the girl's mom took a photo for both of them. It was kalan's turn feel embarrassed. He put down the little girl, smile to her mom.
Then came the moment that kalan had to leave, The motor already started, before kalan jump onto his bus, he turned back wave to his fans again, his fans waved back. Door shut up, the bus moved kalan away from ppl's sight
In the bump bus, what waiting for kalan is the complain from his entire band fellow.
Mike shout out, "ok, ok, finally he is back, guys, we shall all feel happy, at least he is still in good shape! "
" You know what! " Derek talked a loudly" last time if not my rescue, he almost become a squashed pumpkin"
" Come on, guys" kalan said to all with a cat like smile " to express my sincerely apologize, please enjoy delicious clodhoppers".
While he said so, he pick up a bag of clodhoppers from his brown paper box beside the bus front door, which full of gifts from his fans, including tons of junk, like clodhopper.
Mike pretended vomit towards kalan¡¯s face,
Derek without turning his eyes even kalan put clodhopper under his nose.
" I know you are the second after me who loves it, " kalan laugh a loudly
" Yes, but no more please, thanks" Derek replied.
"Ok, ok, I will eat them all by myself, if my "apology" not acceptable." kalan sat down in his seat, and started to eat and eat, one after one, without stop. Soon he fell asleep with a huge bag of clodhopper in his arms.
Dennis sigh slightly, "let the boy sleep, he is too tired.
Charlie gently removed the clodhopper bag away from kalan's arms, added the last sentence " I am glad he is not allergic to nuts because all his fans are a bit nuts"
Every one kept quiet in the Bus.
While a huge sound was heard, everyone was thrown out of their seat as the bus stop in all the sudden. Kalan awake up in a shock
whats happened?
Part 4.
While every one kept quiet in the Bus, a huge sound was heard, everyone was thrown out of their seat as the bus stop in all the sudden. Kalan awake up in a shock
whats happened? Kalan looked around, every one looked to one another eyes in eyes.
" Guys, sorry!!!" thats the bus driver yelling all aloud" some one hit our bus in front left side, I couldn¡¯t avoid it. I had to check the damage now."
Every one jumped out of the bus, it was a tractor that hit the bus. The driver apparently fallen asleep for a shot moment while hit into the bus. The best part is no one injured, the worst part is the bus had to be towed for repair.
The band fellows end up nowhere in the middle of the road at night. They spot a small village near by. So the manager decided to lead the crew towards the village, while their rescue was coming on the way.
It was a very small village, 3-5 houses only; they were farmers and very friendly host the crew to their homes for sleep overnight. Oddly there is no electricity but candles for light up as they were old order Mennonite. Neither less to say there was none TV, telephone, or car. So none one know kalan or his band. They just treat them as part of their mission in disaster relief.
Kalan was lead to a harm house of an old couple. They were very gently making his bed in their grand son's sleep room. The boy, is about 10, very exciting to see his new guest.
He lead kalan for a bath, showed kalan home made soap, home made towel, and how to use the hot water can which heat up by sun during the day from the roof top. Then he closed the door, left kalan alone with a candle on stand.
Kalan looked around while take his bath; the room was really neat and cozy, smell so good. He feels surreal like in a dream.
Wow, ppl can make out a pretty good life without modern techniques! He thought in his mind, ¡° isnt it cool living nature and simple that this? ¡°
Soon he lie himself in wood bed made by hand, no paint on top of the wood, the smell of the wood overflowing the room. Kalan stretched himself for a big yawn, covered by hand making cotton wadded quilt, he could almost smell sunshine of the day, soon fallen sound sweet sleep.
He dreamed a nice dream, in his dream, he was a super man, he hold his ex-girl friend Christy, they fly to the highest sky break through the clouds, they laugh all aloud, like bell ring...
Bell rang and rang; it was the morning bell rang in the village, calling for worship and pray, a new day started with sunrise.
The boy got up without too much sleep, as his new guest snored too much and too aloud. He didnt want to wake up kalan, sneaking to the kitchen for breakfast.
"Grandma, good morning" the boy said
" Good morning, Mark, how is everything?"
" Ok, grandma, is he homeless?" boy asked
" Don¡¯t know, dear, why?" grandma asked
" He looked so tired, weary and skinny, like without eating for long time, and his cloth all in wrinkle, seems no one take care of him at all. Look at his hair, so messy and long, he must be away from home at least months" The boy chatted with his grandma about his impression to his new guest.
Grandma sigh slightly and shook her head" now a day, young man want to walk on their own way! There is nothing we can do about it! But we gona feed him well before he wandering away from our house."
What we are gona to prepare for him, grandma?" the boy asked,
" En, let me figure out, ok, sweetie, " As they talking, a slight sound was heard behind, someone was sobbing
Who was it?
Part 5.
Kalan woke up when the morning sunshine shed on his face through the windowpane. He remembered the dream he had with Christy, the feeling of touching her body, as smooth as celluloid. He bite his lips while try hard to control over the current rushing through his flesh.
Kalan was that type of man cherishing old acquaintances. He was still missing his girlfriend when lonely. But he didn’t want to see her die down while he was overwhelming with this crazy career.
Kalan got out of the sleeping room and shoveled his shoe towards the kitchen, and happened overheard the conversation between grandma and Mark.
All the sudden, he feel sour in his nose, he is really missing home, tears swarmed out his eyes, he heard himself started sobbing and then found himself buried his head on grandma’s shoulder.
Grandma thought kalan was really a homeless poor boy, She hugged kalan and stroked gently at his back “my child, you are at home now! Don’t cry, don’t cry” the door was opened, and grandpa came back home. “ Good morning! How is everything, do you have a good sleep? Kalan?” Kalan lift up his head from grandma, quickly wipe off his tears, with a smile he replied, “ Good morning sir, I am very well, thanks.”
Four of them sat around the table, the breakfast was way much more than a regular one, and it was beefsteak with smash potatoes and sauce, plus pumpkin Pie, and cornmeal soup. Thanks grandma for her gracious, kalan cant wait to finish everything in his dish.
The boy Mark cant hold long with his curiosity, he asked kalan, “ Why you left home, may I ask?” Kalan burst to laugh, “ I left home for having fun!”
Grandma surprised “Do you enjoy your life this way so far?”
Kalan replied” I think so, but I am not homeless, grandma, I am a musician on my first cross country tour “
Grandmas laugh aloud “ good on you, my child”
“ But why you crying? Then’ the young boy asked
“ I don’t know” kalan answered, “ I guess I m just happy to feel at home.” Kalan is not likely to open up himself to strangers as usual.
Grandpa picked up the topic “ so, young man, how is your concerts goes?”
Kalan answered, “ it is good so far, if not too hecktic, I really enjoy it”
“ How many concerts you had for the tour?” Mark asked
“ 40 something” kalan replied
“Wow, that’s a lot”. Mark yelling out “no wonder why……” the boy stopped in the middle of his sentence
What he wants to say?
Part 6
The little boy Mark stopped at the middle of his sentence, looking at kalan straightforward.
Kalan thought some thing wrong upon his face, he felt shy and bend his head to the floor.
Mark say sorry to kalan
¡± excused me, sir, may I ask you a question?¡± ¡° Sure¡± kalan said.
¡° Do you feel bored to repeat 40 times the same show?¡±
kalan laugh at Mark, then he replied ¡° both yes and no ¡°
¡° what do you mean ¡° mark confused.
¡° yes, I had to repeat almost the same show, but each time the audience is not the same. When I am up on to the stage, it is the great joy for me to feed off that audience.¡±
Kalan¡¯s eyes light up like talking about his lover in dream. ¡° I can do that all day long, year around without paying me.¡± His blue eye seems totally dreamy when he turned to Grandma:¡± maybe Kingdom of God just like one of those, imaging one day we were all in heaven, forever and forever worship Him and singing¡±
Grandma laugh with tears out, ¡° my child, you made me day, God bless you¡±
Grandpa was speechless for the enthusiastic of kalan, he excused from the table and sat behind the piano, He started to play music. Kalan was surprised with the music.
¡° oh, my child, ¡° grandpa explained to kalan, ¡° my husband used to be a famous musician in Russian, we moved here 20 years before, no one knows his fame in this country.¡±
¡° Oh yes?¡± kalan shocked.
With the sentimental melody, grandpa sang with his bass voice:
Don¡¯t ask me where I come from
I am an alien and stranger to this earth
I was looking for my own dream
Where angles sing, olive tree evergreen
The song touched Kalan, he was singing along with grandpa
The song still linger in kalan¡¯s mind when the renewal tour bus took him and his band crew away from the small village,
kalan was pressed up against the window, and waved to them, grandma, grandpa and mark, a fantastic plan was forming in kalan¡¯s mind
whats up?
Part 7.
As kalan said farewell to the small village from Bus, a fantastic thoughts was forming in kalan¡¯s mind. He took out a piece of napkin and wrote down the melody and lyrics of a new song.
¡° Where is my violin, where is my violin¡± he shout aloud and jump up and down on the Bus, he couldn¡¯t located where was his stuff.
¡° Here you are, sir¡± Mike handed the violin to kalan that fell down to Mike¡¯s bunk with a satirical tune along with violin were kalan's shoe, socks, books, CDs, clodhoppers, all kinds of makeup box
¡° Thanks Mike¡± kalna grab his violin only, started to play and sing the new song he just finished, song went low key at first:
Don¡¯t ask me where I come from
I am an alien on earth,
Left home far away
I was looking for my dream
Where birds singing
Olive tree evergreen
Don¡¯t ask me where I come from
I am weary and thirsty
Thousand miles journey left behind
I was Looking for my way home
An empty luggage carried along
Which was the only thing belongs to me
Empty I came, Empty I left,
Waving my hands for fare well
To the sunset once more
Without holding a piece of clouds
In my hands, in my hands
The band crew on Bus all astonished by the song kalna sang. The next concert the new song was performed by kalan, which became the highlight of that show.
After the show kalan and his crew headed to their hotel with Bus. As the bus closed to the hotel, they were still chatting about the show they just did, and comments on the new song kalan just performed. Then they found the strange scene in front of the hotel
Whats up? To be continued
Part 8.
As the tour bus approaching the hotel, kalan and his crew found something happened in the street in front of hotel.
Hurdle blocking the street and yellow warning line taping around the front door of hotel. There were several Police cars, and a truck from local TV station parking in front of the hotel. Watching from distance, kalan and his crew stay inside the bus waiting for update, until their road director decided to park the bus to a commercial central temporarily. No information available by the time they left the spot.
It wasn¡¯t a big city at north area, if one used to live in Toronto; he will found it is pretty boring. The only entertaining place they found was a nightclub located in the commercial central. So kalan¡¯s crew found a happy place to waste some time together. As they sat down around a table, service bring bottles of beer and finger food, they couldnt help to notice the club was full and soon they fixed their eyeballs to TV screen as they were everywhere around the club.
It was the hotel that on the TV screen, the announcer from local TV news reported the event happened in the hotel. He said:
As every one noticed kalan porter is coming to our city today. There will be a big kalan concert tomorrow in the city north theatre. Many people from outside come to our city for this kalan concert, which bring pressure to the city security and transportation. This afternoon police had to evacuate the city hotel as many people stay in the hotel involved in to a group fighting. No one injured, after investigation, police found out those people are kalan porter¡¯s fans came to our city for tomorrow¡¯s concert. A group of decent kalan fans tried to teach other groupie fans the appropriate way of loving kalan, which trigger the group fighting in the end¡
Buzz started in Kalan¡¯s ear as he heard that from TV. He hided his face between his legs, almost want to escape under the table. All kalan¡¯s crew shocked by the TV news at this moment
Then the TV announcer continued:
It took a long time for the hotel to clean up the messy after police quiet down the fighting. As tons of tomatoes had been used in the group fighting, just wonder how could fans get that from the hotel storage room? This is comedy new for Friday eve. I wish kalan¡¯s band enjoy our warm welcome in front of TV screen somewhere in our city right now.¡±
Every one around the table stare at each other for a second then burst into hysterical laugh, poor kalan laughed his buttock off as he fell from the chair and slipped down the table. Derek laughed so bad that his tear came out; Mike couldn¡¯t hold on the shit out of him, other crewmember all ended up having cramp in the stomach. Derek tried to pull out kalan under the table, ¡°hi, buddy, come out, come out , that¡¯s only a joke¡±
Mike still laughed ¡° hi, kalan, there is good after all, you fans wont put you to ashamed, I know that, I know ¡ ¡° before he could finish his sentence he had to run to the washroom for a fix.
Under the help of Derek, kalan finally could manage sit well on his chair, still burst into laugh from time to time. Kalan¡¯s laugh was caught the attention from some one. And slowly that person moved behind kalan, tapped at his shoulder, kalan turned around, jumping up from his chair, who is it?
To be continued
Part 9.
While Kalan was laughing, a person slowly moved behind kalan, tapped at his shoulder, kalan turned around, jumping up from his chair and shout out ¡° hi, Melissa¡± it was an old friend of kalan who come from his home church at Medicine Hat.
Kalan jump to Melissa, give her a big hug, Melissa chuckled as she hug back.
Kalan asked, ¡° So, how come you were here, Melissa?¡±
Melissa laughed ¡° hi, Richard, I¡¯ve never seen you back church since last summer. You don¡¯t know that I moved to Toronto for my college last fall.¡±
¡° Oh, really, you know it was insane!.¡± Kalan said with a shaky voice.¡± I was thinking it would be cool to get a free trip to Toronto! Well, I got the trip to Toronto and since then it has been a non-stop whirlwind of excitement. ¡±
¡° I know¡± malissa said, I have been reading your Journals, and I get to know many fans from your forum at kalanporter. Com.¡±
Kalan gave her an evil smile: ¡° really? Can something good out off there?¡±
¡° Yes! Trust me! They are the best fans.¡± Then Melissa turned and pointed to a group of girls sitting at a table down the hall. ¡° Look, here they are, some of my friends from forum, we drove 7 hours together in a van to your concert here¡±. ¡° wow! cant believe you!¡± kalan yelled
Girls wave their hands wildly to kalan, kalan flushed and lowered his head to ground, then he said to melissa ¡° lets say hi to your friends.¡±
¡° Great! ¡° Melissa led Kalan towards his friends¡¯ table.
Melissa was very happy to introduce her friends to kalan one by one,
¡°this is Alaina, from Oshawa, OT ¡°
Alanina shaky while said hi to kalan, ¡°I met you at vaughan mills.¡±
¡° Yes, I remembered you said to me, you love me, LOL¡± kalan smiled, and give her a firm hug, squeeze out few tears on a happy face
¡°kalan, look at your Chinese nut, from Toronto¡± Melissa introduce Andrea to kalan, she is so shy to ask for a hug, you know ¡° Melissa just teasing Andrea.
¡° hi, Andrea¡± Kalan see through her heart, give her a hug regardless. ¡° I think I met you before somewhere?!¡±
Andrea felt easy now ¡° yes, at Edmonton hall, the day your CD released I happened to visit my aunt there. ¡°
¡° yes, that¡¯s happened to be your birthday, I now remembered¡± kalan joking.¡± I wish I could sing a happy birth day song for you and my CD, LOL¡± ¡°You had given me the best birthday gift ever¡± Andrea replied.
¡° hi, kalan, Did you notice those montages made from your show on RHT?¡± Melissa asked ¡° yes, I do¡± kalan replied, ¡° so this is the girl who made them, Caitlin, the future film editor, !!!¡± ¡° hi, kalan¡± Caitlin is pretty calm and quiet. ¡° Wow, thanks ¡° kalan hold her hands, speechless for her astonished beauty in person, his eyes hook to her, and mumbling, ¡°You are really awesome¡± he said.
Caitlin withdrew her hands from kalan with a reserved manner. ¡° you are very welcome, kalan¡± It was the first time she met kalan, She feel so weird in front of kalan, both a stranger and a man of her dream.
¡° you know who caught your drumstick after Ottawa show? ¡° Melissa point to a lively girl named Diana
¡° hi, kalan¡± Diana said her feet almost off the floor for happyness
¡° hi, Diana, you know I especially aimed at you, LOL ¡° kalan twinkle his eyes
Diana wring her hands and stamp her feet with anxious ¡° its too bad my mom broke the drumstick and my brother ripped the autograph, and they made me dong cleaning for one week, no TV and computer, no Phone, cuz I left my family in cold waiting for me extra 2 hours while I hung with you.¡±
¡°Oh, I am so sorry, Diana¡± kalan Hug her for comfort ¡° let me think what I can do to compensate for you¡± then he give her a soft kiss at her cheek. Diana melts away. With both arms hanging on kalan¡¯s neck, Diana simply
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